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Jjj jjj Arianna Bennett welcome to face the state, im Arianna Bennett thank you for joining us. Well theres no doubt the Elderly Population in the United States is growing. Thats a mix of longer Life Expectancy and a generation of aging baby boomers. Now when that happens it puts a strain on social services meant to help the elderly but it also means a bigger portion of our population in retirement and living alone. Now mary brock the executive director of seniors in service is here to talk about the ways to engage and help the seniors here locally. Mary, thank you so much for coming on the sh...

Problem. How do you respond to that sentence . Ill start with mr. Horowitz. I can only speak from experience and what ive heard from other igs, which is we have faced road blocks in several of our reviews, untimely access. Where we have gotten it, it has taken a fair amount of time. I think the other igs have had their experiences. I know from conversations with fellow igs, while they havent had lawyers come forward and say we cant legally give it to you, theyve had issues with getting materials in a timely manner. That is a very significant issue for us. So when it says, almost uniformly succ...

Feel differently about the effectiveness of the office of Inspector General. Attorney general cole asked the office of Legal Council to issue a formal opinion resolving this dispute. I hope the Principle Deputy assistant attorney general Karl Thompson and his team would adhere to the plain text of the statute and to our obvious intent and grant the Inspector General unfettered access to every document in the departments position. If the office of Legal Counsel find ambiguity to hold in place any of them on the Inspector Generals access to information, the house judiciary should be the first to...

I recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Cartwright. Thank you, mr. Their man. Thank you for the inspectors appearing today. As the committee has previously highlighted, the offices of inspectors general are essential to the efficiency of our federal government. They help hold agencies accountable identifying misconduct in programs and by personnel. They can highlight the whole amount of waste, fraud and abuse guaranteeing that american taxpayers get the most bang for their buck. The position of i. G. Is a difficult position to hold, and i. G. S are tasked with investigating alleged ab...

A sort of a blatant coverup of sexual abuse cases that some might embarrass the agency. I guess you expose yourself when you send people to foreign lands, or on any mission to any locals, or foreign nationals taking advantage of american personnel. But i think how prevalent is the case of problems with peace corps workers being involved in these instances . Usually its a Host Country National involved in the assaults. From what we gathered, the information we gathered, its usually volunteer in about 47 of the case. How many . 4 . Thats very embarrassing, i would imagine to the agency. You know...