senator lankford: up to hhs? because there are 300,000 people that do not have citizenship this point. that is over there? mr. koskinen: yes. senator lankford the law prohibits employers from reimbursing or providing financial employers -- sorry, to employees -- to help them pay for and individually purchased plan. so someone says they are going to go on the general market. the employer will provide them some sort of amount. in the past, small businesses would say, i cannot afford a policy. but i will find a way to help you do that. my understanding is that not -- is not legal anymore. are you aware what the tax policy is? mr. koskinen: it is my understanding that is a tax policy. that is a policy set by the treasury department in response to statutory language. senator lankford: does the irs carry out the penalty part of the? mr. koskinen: once someone has decided what the policy is, the tax administration is our responsibility. to the extent rules are set, we are responsible for administering them. so the penal

senator lankford: that is not up to you? 300,000 people received that advanced payment or don't have advanced documentation and that's over there. let me ask another issue on this. the law itself with the affordable care act. the law prohibits the providing to employees to help them pay for an individually purchased plan for the smaller businesses and individuals. someone says they are going to go out onto the general market and the employers is going to provide them a tax-free amount. small businesses would say, i can't afford the policy. my understanding is that is not legal. are you aware of what the tax policy is? commissioner koskinen: it's not a policy of the i.r.s. but a policy set by the treasury department. lanchinglamping would the i.r.s. have to carry that out? commissioner koskinen: once somebody has decided either in the statute or policy under the statute, the tax administration is our responsibility. to the extent that once the rules are set we are responsible for administering so the penalties and tax payment

james lankford successfully ran for his seat, but in doing so it vacated oklahoma's fifth district. i could see a path to get there and i thought i don't want to look back on my life thinking maybe i could've helped my country and did not try. i thought win or lose, i will try. the people of oklahoma sent me here. it has been a real honor. host: you come from a long military tradition -- the army in particular. talk about that and why you decided to begin your career in the military. rep. russell: my ancestors go all the way back to the revolution serving in uniform. my sixth and seventh great-grandfathers were captured in 1780 by the british and were imprisoned in detroit until the treaty of paris. they were eventually released. nearly every major war since that time on one side of the family or the other. i always wanted to be a soldier. most of my family were not career soldiers, but they did serve. my brother served eight years in the navy. my dad served in 1953. it was something in our family it was always an interest, a topic of discussion with relatives. anyone that knew me a

senator lankford: what's next? secretary burwell: there are constraints that have been put on the congress and our ability to go forward. there is contracting. we have had challenges to the contracting. we need to get through those challenges and go through the regular process and need to get it back up and running and need to put in place and implement the administrative changes changes like if it is not resolved within 0 days. we have done them administratively but not being able to act on them fully as we like. only on part b. the other thing that it does interact. there are a number of changes. if the case does not go forward, there will be nothing paid. we tried to fix some of the incentive issues that were causing problems. it is related to the backlog issue and the place where we believe we need some help from the congress and have had these conversations across a number of committees are in that backlog process. senator lankford: putting that in place to make sure you have contracting and contractors doing

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there they plan to visit republican senator ted cruz of texas florida's marco rubio senator james lankford of oklahoma and congressman jim jordan from ohio. >> it's outrageous, absolutely outrageous, that four lawmakers from the states of texas oklahoma, florida, and ohio would dare come to try to legislate for the people of the district of columbia. we won't have it. we won't stand for it. >> those activists also launched a social media campaign targeting supporters of d.c. equality in the lawmakers' home states. >>> more than 100 students are on strike today from paying back their student loans. consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here to explain. >> so it's being calmed a debt strike. current and former students from corinthian colleges across the country refusing to pay student loans because they say their degrees are worthless. the consumer financial protection bureau and at least two state attorneys general have filed lawsuits against corinthian colleges which operates a number of colleges. the suit claim corinthian allegedly inflated graduation and job placement rates and dealt in a

james lankford successfully ran for his seat, but in doing so it vacated oklahoma's fifth district. i looked at it. i could see a path to get there, and i thought i don't want to look back on my life thinking that maybe i could've helped my country and did not try. so i thought win or lose, i will try. the people of oklahoma sent me here. so it has been a real honor. host: you come from a long military tradition -- the army in particular. talk a little bit about that and also why you decided to begin your career in the military. rep. russell: my ancestors go all the way back to the revolution serving in uniform. my sixth and seventh great-grandfathers were captured in 1780 by the british and were imprisoned in detroit until the treaty of paris. they were eventually released. nearly every major war since that time, on one side of the family or the other. i always wanted to be a soldier. most of my family were not career soldiers, but they did serve. my brother served eight years in the navy. my dad served in 1953. it was something that in our family, it was always an interest, a topi

back two days readings program, which i'm glad senator lankford asked the questions he did to get information on that. i know i have one clipping in front of me now where you all put out a list of 56 missouri school in another people should be aware of under heightened cache monitoring. that is a trailing indicator. they are all two years old and a number of things that would indicate baby that is like i call these ratings may not be all that good. sweet briar had the perfect score before they announced they were not going to be in business next year. they had a three-point euro. harvard dropped to 2.3 during the recession. i think a lot of these ratings are going to have the same kinds of problems. tom, you look like you would like to respond to that. >> i would say virginia -- [inaudible] but they did decide to close on the road. some of those management regulations are minor things that put out several different categories, sunday school student complete added on time. it wasn't a major problem for then. it was just some in the lookout for. >> at the major problem like the ratings will be

i know senator lankford asked about the service or loan organizations and mr. secretary u. sad you would be looking not be competing contracts in september and the numbers the volumes you will allocate. i would just urge you to look at the day job many of those service organizations are doing. we have one in new hampshire that does great work. i would rather support them as a not-for-profit and support the for-profit organizations that are doing that kind of work. >> i appreciate that. we have to show amateur x. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you on a senator. a few more questions. maybe more than a couple of them i will go to senator murray and chairman cochran them back to senator shaheen if she has any more to us. >> mr. secretary come u.s. for level funding in impact aid in a budget that basically asks for 6% increases in total. i think we had a vote on this during the budget voting and overwhelmingly at the congress suggested the goal of the impact aid programs and other programs where we have replaced the money that would be there if this was a privat

james lankford successfully ran for his seat, but in doing so it vacated oklahoma's fifth district. i looked at it. i could see a path to get there and i thought i don't want to look back on my life thinking maybe i could've helped my country and did not try. i thought win or lose, i will try. the people of oklahoma sent me here. it has been a real honor. host: you come from a long military tradition -- the army in particular. talk about that and why you decided to begin your career in the military. rep. russell: my ancestors go all the way back to the revolution serving in uniform. my sixth and seventh great-grandfathers were captured in 1780 by the british and were imprisoned in detroit until the treaty of paris. they were eventually released. nearly every major war since that time on one side of the family or the other. i always wanted to be a soldier. most of my family were not career soldiers, but they did serve. my brother served eight years in the navy. my dad served in 1953. it was something in our family it was always an interest, a topic of discussion with relatives. anyon

i introduced this bill in the last congress with senator lankford's predecessor senator coburn.the bill advanced through the senate's homeland security and government affairs committee by voice vote but was blocked on the senate floor. i hope that in this congress we can finally make this commonsense legislation law. thank you very much, mr. president. i yield. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president i ask consent for five minutes in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: thank you mr. president. mr. president, i believe that we in congress should be working together to grow the economy from the middle out not from the top down, and we should make sure that our government is working for all of our families, not just the wealthiest few. an important part of this is making sure that workers have access to a safe and healthy workplace and the basic protection of earning a living without fearing for their safety. mr. president, that effort takes on special meaning today. april 28, to

and i'm pleased to be joined in this effort by senator heitkamp heitkamp senator hoeven, senator lankford and hopefully others as this discussion progresses. iran's government is largely dependent on its exports of oil for its revenue source. it sends oil to countries such as china japan india south korea, and the sanctions that have been imposed have really hurt. they have -- they have hurt iran's economy. they have really been what has brought iran to the table here. the sanctions that have been in place have cost the government in tehran some $40 billion in lost export revenues in 2014 alone, and this is according to the treasury department. but under the sanctions regime and the joint plan of action, countries are still able to purchase iranian oil and i don't think a lot of folks understand that. they say okay, the sanctions are in place so iran can't be driving -- deriving any forest their oil exports. but in fact countries are able to purchase iranian oil up to 1.1 million barrels per day and no surprise, countries have purchased up to that limit nearly every month since the j.p.a.