as you mentioned mr. olson most of our municipalities and most of these treatment plants are struggling with the funding that they have got now. again like i said hopefully we can work together. thank you mr. chairman. >> once again i want to thank all seven of our witnesses. as senator boxer pointed out we really do want to work if you to figure out how it can be helpful. we are obviously, our first priority is to do all we can to prevent these types of episodes from happening again in our country and i think we have learned from what happened in west virginia and have taken steps of the private sector level as well as the governmental levels. we also push want to make sure that we have knowledge that we know the information out there. lastly when a company fails to perform they should be held accountable. we are very concerned about the business aspect of this company and the steps it has taken to avoid its responsibility as senator boxer pointed out and has been pointed out by many of you here. i hope that w

mr. olson who is an advocate for the folks doesn't really have a clue. how many of disease operations are out there waiting to cause havoc frankly. and as was pointed out by the chairman if there hadn't been a smell to this we still might not know so the manchin bill would say every state, you make an assessment, we will help you. let's have a plan for inspection carried out by the state for emergency plans, standards of these tanks which mr. weaver was eloquent about how that was taken in his industry and you have a road operator like this who absolutely -- they are cowards. and running away and leading the people is an outrage conlan absolute outrage. people are frustrated. people are upset and always turn to the government, why don't you do more? how about having some corporate responsibility, making sure that you as a a good corporate citizen ensure the safety of the people, not hold a press conference to say i have to go now. i have to go now, i can't really talk to you and file for bankruptcy. it is a violation of basic human decency what they did.

mr. olson is an advocate and does not have a clue of how many of these freedom industry operations are out there waiting to cause havoc. spill --had not been a smell to this, we still may not know. the bill would say that every state, you make an assessment and we will help you. let us have a plan for inspections that are carried out by the state. .hese are for emergency plans that is taken very seriously in his industry. you've got a road operator like this who absolutely -- they are cowards. they are running away and leaving the people and that is an absolute outrage. people are frustrated. people are upset and they always turn to the government. how about having some corporate responsibility? how about making sure that you as a good corporate citizen ensure the safety of the people? not have a press conference and say you have to go now? and then file for bankruptcy? basic humanation of decency, what they did. we have to protect the people. that is our job. to the chairman. am grateful to th

while i have more of a statement, i would like to yield to mr. olson the remainder of the time. >> thank you mr. chairman and into the witnesses for coming. as you all know, the data breaches are a very serious matter. and let's remember on this issue that regardless of the three ventures taken to protect the data, the bad guys are always trying to find new ways to grab that data. we have the right 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year, 366 on leap year. as you see they can access the data in less time it takes to swipe a credit card. it's a tough battle. but it's a battle that we have to fight. a battle that we have to win. as you say in houston is not an option. with that i yield back to before the discussion. >> thank you mr. chairman. i welcome the very distinguished panel. the issue of that data security has been prominent in the public debate dating back to at least 2,005 with 160,000 records acquired by the hackers in the choice point to data breach. over the last eight years, 660 million records have been made public through the vari

welcome, mr. olson. i appreciate the service of both of you, the testimony, but when the yield to the ranking member for any opening statement he would like to make. >> i want to welcome you both here. an interesting conversation with the commissioner. and what the recommendations are and things are falling into place or not? and from you, miss olson and how we can better serve the public and bring down the fear everyone has of the irs and we thank you and look forward to your testimony. >> let me start by asking both of you a question. i am sorry. i will let my guess you to make the opening statement. got carried away. please, take your time and tell us, mr. george, will you begin? >> ranking member, thank you for the opportunity to discuss significant challenges facing the internal revenue service. let me start with providing quality customer service which is the first step to achieving taxpayer compliance. we have seen a decline in the irs's ability to provide a significant level of customer service i

mr. olson. i would like to know what your assessment is of the threat to the olympic games and whether you believe our athletes will be safe. i would like director call me -- comey to respond to the level of cooperation between the russians and the fbi with respect to security at the olympic games. >> thank you very much. let me say i appreciate your leadership and your focus on terrorism and the leadership of the entire committee. if i may say, i agree with director clapper's assessment of the situation in syria. as you made out in your statement, the accommodation of a permissive environment and extremist groups in the number of foreign fighters combined to make syria a place that we are concerned about. the potential for terrorist attacks emanating from syria to the west. with respect to your question, we are focused on the so chelan picks and we have seen in up take in the threat reporting regarding sochi. this is what we expected given where the olympics are located. there are a number of e

i would like to yield to mr. olsonat this time. >> thank you to our witnesses for coming this morning. on the data breaches, it is a very serious matter. regardless of security measures taken to protect data, the bad guys are always trying to find new ways to grab that data. now that we have seen that bad guys can access data in less time than it takes to swipe a credit card. tonight, we have to fight. we have to win. as we say in houston, failure is not an option. i look forward to this discussion. >> mr. lance. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i welcome this very distinguished panel. data security has been prominent in public debate dating back to at least 2005. 160,000 records were acquired by hackers in the choice point data breach. for the last eight years, 660 million records have been made public through various data breaches. data breaches occur not only in commercial settings, but also hospitals, financial institutions, banks and insurance companies. there is no doubt that every american can be at risk of a data br

i would like to yield to mr. olson the reminder of the time. >> plch, thank you to our witness who are -- plch, thank you to your witnesses who are here this morning. let's remember the process issue that regardless of security measures taken to protect data, the bad guys are always trying, always trying to find new ways to grab that data. a ave the right 24 hours day, seven day as weerks 365 days a week. 366 in a leap year. in less time it takes to swipe a credit card. it's a tough battle. but it's a battle we have to fight and a battle we have to win. s they say in houston, pay oris not an option. i look forward to discussion. thank you very much. >> anybody else? mr. lance? >> thank you, plch. d -- thank you, mr. chairman panel.elcome the 160 records were acquired by hackers in the choice point data breach. over the last eight years 660 million records have been made public through data breaches. ata breaches occur not only in commercial settings but in hospitals and insurance companies. there is no doubt that every

on what recommendations you have and whether things are falling into place or not, and from you mrs. olsonn how we can better serve the public and wring down some of that fear everybody has of the i.r.s. so we thank you, and we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you. let me start by asking both of you all a question. i'm sorry. i would like to ask you to make your opening statements. i got carried away. mr. serrano was so brief. i got confused. but please, take your time. mr. george, will you begin? >> thank you, chairman crenshaw. ranking member serrano and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the significant challenges currently facing the internal revenue service. let me start with the topic of providing quality customer service. we have seen a decline in the i.r.s.'s ability to provide a sufficient level of customer service in each of the chance that taxpayers use, including telephone, walk-in and correspondence. many taxpayers use the telephone to contact the i.r.s. . meeting demand with reduced staffing continues to be a struggle, resulting in l

the chair recognizes the texas gentleman, mr. olson. for five minutes. madam speaker, on the americans' national debt, president obama is very different than senator obama. senator barack obama on the 2006, oor, march 16, quote, the fact that we are here today to debate raising america's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. it's a sign that the u.s. government can't pay its own bills. it's a sign we depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. over the past five years our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. that is trillion with a t. that will is money we have borrowed from the social security trust fund, borrowed from china and japan, borrowed from american taxpayers. numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. some may wonder why they matter. here's why. this year the federal government will spend $220 billion on interest. end quote. senator obama later explained, quote, that is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we'll spe

i would like to you -- to yield to mr. olson at this time. >> thank you to our witnesses for coming this morning. breaches, it is a very serious matter. of security measures taken to protect data, the bad guys are always trying to find new ways to grab that data. now that we have seen that bad guys can access data in less time than it takes to swipe a credit card. tonight, we have to fight. we have to win. , failure is houston not an option. i look forward to this discussion. >> mr. lance. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i welcome this very distinguished panel. data security has been prominent in public debate dating back to at least 2005. by,000 records were acquired hackers in the chase point a data breach. for the last eight years, 660 million records have been made public through various data reaches. -- data breaches. ina breaches occur not only commercial settings, but also hospitals, financial institutions, banks and insurance companies. there is no doubt that every american can be at risk of a data breach. since our last dat

olson step up and take that one. >> i agree. >> commissioner wynns. >> thank you. thank you mr. golden. first of all i think it kind of goes without saying but we should make sure all of the members of the board of education get a copy of this as well as maybe on the website or just as part of our public outreach. there are a lot of people interested in this subject so i think this very cogent and clear summarizing visual presentation would be helpful to us in our -- and maybe we make sure that all of the members of the grand juries opine -- no, i thank you for the work that has been done. i think actually one of the most interesting things is to see the status of things that were on our surplus property list because as mr. golden said the process is so long and complex and somber some we need to do that to have the discussion, have things on the surplus property list and go through the committee process, et cetera, et cetera, and even at at time at slow to no growth in our population to see just within a few years the educational uses of these properties should give us pause to think a

mr. chairman, and i think the director of national intelligence, general clapper, fbidirector john brennan, director, and matt olson, thank you. it is important for us to say what the intelligence community is doing. they continue to provide policy makers with the vital information necessary for the interest of america as well is to protect and defend it. it did so amongst a men's -- immense challenges abroad and at home. this past year, the intelligence community has had to work amidst the worst leaks of classified information or country's history. make no mistake -- when we hand over our classified information, our adversaries and enemies adjust accordingly. we know that this has happened already as a result of these leaks will stop terrorist networks like al qaeda and foreign countries are changing their tactics to avoid our detection. we must protect americans. we must not forget that its authorities and capabilities are in place to keep our country and our citizens safe will stop while the intelligence community has followed the law, it is clear that the public has lost confidence in these programs and we have

olson, we're advocates for the taxpayer. and when we see the money being misspent or spent on the wrong priorities, as mr. yoder said, it might be nice to simplify the tax code. if you got it really simple, you wouldn't even need the irs anymore. you'd have a fair tax, as they say. but i don't know whether it's harder to appropriate more money to the irs or to simplify the tax code. neither one of them is very easy. but we're, actually, working on both of them. but that, i just want to make those comments. do you have any final questions or comments? >> no tax is good tax. actually, i have three questions that i'm going to briefly put into one question. one is about you, how does the taxpayers make their way to you? is how can we better make taxpayers ware of your existence? because you have a lot to offer, and yet the advocate is not seen on a daily basis or heard from except maybe before congress. that's one. secondly, i understand that you started your career with the earned income tax credit. so could you tell us a little bit about that ram? because that -- that program? because that takes a lot of gr

mr. reeves, was threatened. >> reporter: retired police captain reeves was emotional in court. he's pleading not guilty to second-degree murder saying he shot 43-year-old chad olsonbysitter on the telephone. >> the gentleman confronted my husband several times, which my husband ignored, ignored, ignored, and it got to a point where my husband spoke up and that's when -- >> he was shot. >> he was shot. >> reporter: reeves says he fired after seeing an unknown object thrown his way. witnesses say the only thing thrown was popcorn and reeves knew it. >> i then hear someone say, either i'll teach you or show you to throw popcorn at me. i then saw the flash from the muzzle of the gun. >> reporter: one shot, one death. still, so many questions. steve osunsami, abc news, new york. >>> the stock market had its best day this year. nearly erasing the steep losses from early this week. the dow jumped nearly 200 points. the nasdaq was up 45. investors will be watching the january job numbers, which come out later this morning. experts predict the unemployment rate will tick down to 6.6%. >>> and it was an emotional departure as jay leno hosted his final "tonight show." befor

mr. george is a right of a witness was subcommittee, and we appreciate his careful and costs of oversight. we have not heard in some time for ms. olson, so we are especially eager to your former. as a matter of housekeeping and going to be following a five minute rule for the members. i don't plan on cutting in the woody off in the middle of their sentence, but if everybody can keep their questions and comments and get to that part of the program to five minutes that will give us a chance to hear from anybody and have maybe more than one round of questions. and going to recognize the members in order of seniority, those that were here when the gavel went down. for the latecomers we will recognize them based upon their arrival and will go back and forth between the parties. i think most of you know the 2014 appropriations cycle tested higher endurance. it was only asked to go after the fiscal year started and we and the government shut down of the budget committee came to an agreement on the discretionary spending. once we had that agreement enacted we've rolled up our sleeves, went to work quickly and got a bipartisan on the bulls ap

olson. his wife was shot and was there for the bail hearing. >> you will learn from the witnesses they'll testify that it the no time did mr olsen threat ep, strike or touch mr reeves in this case, judge. >> the judge says he'll allow surveillance video from inside the theatre to be shape in court. reeves has been held in a court since the shooting. the bail hearing is expected to resume on friday. >> concerns over attacks on the u.s. power grid. the power station was a target of terrorism. a stiper attack on gas and electric in april, that knocked out transformers could have been a pre-trial rup. the fbi says there's no proof of that. a team that killed them would be send to rehab instead of gaol. attorneys argued his parents coddled him. the lawyers called it affluenza, outraging the families of his victims. critics say it shows how justice treats rich kids differently. >> an alabama mother kicked out of court for breastfeeding had three months old. she was waiting for a child support hearing when her infant got hungry. when she started to breastfeed he was ordered out of the court room. but mums have an a local right to breastfeed. . >> i will