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Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but critically important. I think its also important to stop and recognize where things are going right fr...

Noted in my testimony in 2013 as a result of spending and Information Technology the Information Technology business, modernization problem for the irs was taken of the highrisk list having been there for 14 years. It was proven in the i t area that if we have the funding we can make significant progress. Is great for the i t area but other areas need to be addressed and 25 years is far too long. Time to put some teeth into it. I now recognize the gentleman from florida for five minutes. Commissioner koskinen, a year ago the senior irs leaders and learned lois lerners hard drive had crashed. T...

Proffered interpretation to see if those substantive effects are compatible with the statute as a whole and to see which interpretation is more consistent with the design and object of the statutory structure. As i said, that was a Supreme Court case. Those of you listening in the audience who are not familiar with recent Supreme Court cases might want to reject that reasoning as being maybe one of the liberal justices. It might have been our friend Justice Briar for a 54 majority with some purposebased argument. But no, that was Justice Scalia talking about his version of strict text chul int...

Establish by the state is not used anywhere else in the statute except in provisions that are serving that purpose. Now, in terms of why would congress do this because this is the question. Why would congress think to do Something Like this . The condition achievement of goals on state cooperation. They did that on medicaid. They offered a lot of inducement on medicaid. Because congress cant come comen dear, everyone knew that congress could make states a really good offer but it had to be an offer. The state that refused to accept the Medicaid Expansion as the statute was written would leave ...

Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to re...