Committee come to order, house bill 1124. May postpone proceedings on measure matter adopting amendment on which recorded vote is ordered. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. First item House Resolution 737 condemning and censuring commissioner of Internal Revenue service, the clerk will designate the resolution. House resolution 737. Condemning and censure John Koskinen international revenue. Issued a subpoena to John Koskinen. Ask it read and be opened at any time. Without objection, so order. Now recognize myself for five minutes to explain resolution. Complying with subpoena is mandatory, not optional. Truthfully testifying before congress is also mandatory. When a senior official doesnt fulfill core duties of compliance with subpoena and testifying truthfully to congress, there must be repercussions. House resolution 737 as introduced is a necessary repercussion for irs commissioner John Koskinen. His conduct deserves condemnation and censur
With great aplum and not even worry aplomb and not even worry about it this doesnt save us the 340 billion which is what we ought to do, what this amendment does is say, dont spend it on further constructing his useless well, not useless but totally expensive facility, dont waste the money on this boondoggle. And we can spend the money on maybe what the department of energy thinks we ought to do, to dilute and dispose. Or maybe build a fast reactor, which weve had in the past and which russia is using to dispose of their plutonium. Theyre Generating Energy and doing so while getting rid of their unused plutonium. So why dont we just accept this amendment and eliminate thE Construction clause, keep the 340 million in South Carolina so they can be happy, maybe they can spend it on something that might actually work. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman eserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Im in opposition and yield mysel
When you view documents that have been cleaned out, purged out of the training material for the f. B. I. For the state department for the f. B. I. , for the state department, for the defense department, for intelligence, for department of defense, its no wonder f. B. I. Agents cannot discern that tsarnaev had been radicalized even though russia told us twice and still this administration could they had so miseducated d underelingted our and undereducated our agents, they didnt know what to ask. How do you establish somebody had been radicalized. My tear friend, philip haney, one of the original members of Homeland Security, probably was a record the number of people that he put together the information to show their terrorist ties he got a commendation for it. But when he started showing there were ties to people with this administration were having with no with known terrorist they deleted thousands of pages of entries of what he has done. When he filed an i. G. Report, they came afte
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Justine underhill, yahoo finance. Now that the fed has started the process of raising rates, various fed officials have said, including ben bernanke, that the fed could go cash flow negative in this scenario as capital losses are taken on the portfolio bond. Do you still see this happening, and when might this happen . Youre talking about our income going negative . Conceivable, in a scenario where growth and inflation will really surprised us to the upside. We would have to raise shortterm Interest Rates so rates we would be paying on reserves would exceed what were on the portfolio. Bout 2en, we have a trillion in liabilities, namely currency, on which we pay no interest, so this does require an extreme scenario with very rapid increases and shortterm Interest Rates. It is conceivable, but quite unlikely, that it could happen. But, you know, if it were to happen, we would have an economy that would be doing very well. This is probably an economy that everybody would feel very well,d,