please welcome douglas shulman.hank you for that very nice and gracious introduction. it is a pleasure to be here. before i start, i want to thank one person, that is my wife, susan anderson. being the irs commissioner i consider one of the best jobs in the world. i am not sure of being the wife of the ira's commissioner -- of the irs commissioner is. i also want to welcome a number of the cedar executives from the irs who are here. -- senior executives from the irs who are here. i have done a number of states and the public and private sectors. i work with as talented a group of executives as you will find in any business, anti- government, and the nonprofit, anywhere in the world. my hat off to the colleagues that are here. it is good to be here. in the spring, it is good to see cherry blossoms those of you who live in d.c.. it is good not to see snow this time of year. one of the things when you walk around, probably under way here, you notice a lot of tourists going to museums and to the mall. you also see among

please welcome douglas shulman this morning. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. for that nice and gracious introduction. it is a pleasure to be here. before i start, i want to thank one person and one group of people. the one person that i want to thank is my wife, susan anderson. being the irs commissioner, i consider one the best jobs in the world. i'm not sure being the wife of the irs commissioner is. so very appreciative of everything the family does. susan is here with me today. i also want to welcome a number of the senior executives from the irs are here, my colleagues who make the tax system work every day. i would just say i've done a number of stints in both the private and public sector, and right now, i work with as talented of group of executives as you will find in any business and any government, nonprofit, anywhere in the world. my hats off to the colleagues that are here as well. so it's good to be here in the spring to address the national press club. it's good to see cherry blossoms, those of you who live in d.c., it's good not to see snow thi

following that, irs commissioner douglas shulman will talk about his role in collecting tax revenue. another chance to watch that discussion on u.s. relations -- race relations. >> tuesday, in discussion on the federal oversight of car safety standards with former administrator of that nhtsa. the president and ceo of the alliance of automobile manufacturers. yours can call in or tweet their questions -- viewers can call in or tweet their questions. >> c-span, our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online. you can connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube. signup for our e-mails at c- span.org. >> several experts in nuclear security talk about president obama's trip to prague to sign a nuclear arms reduction treaty. they also discussed next week's nuclear security summit here in washington. this was posted at the csis and it is about 55 minutes. >> you'll find an example of our critical questions. this is sharon squassoni's critical questions on the nuclear security summit. this will also be a website. i would like to introduce my colleagues -- dr. a

another chance to watch irs commissioner doug shulman. tuesday, a discussion of federal oversight of car safety standards with the former commissioner of the highway safety commission. also, the ceo of alliance of automobile manufacturers. viewers can call in or tweet their questions. wednesday, live from the white house, first lady michelle obama, who has made fighting childhood obesity one of her priorities will sit down with one of our c-span student cameron winners. his documentary was one of many submitted on the topic of childhood obesity. joining in the conversation will be other film makers from around the country. that is live wednesday at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. now a discussion on u.s. race relations with martin luther king iii. when i fall and michael lomax region -- gwen eiffel and michael lomax. this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> before we get started, i want to thank the knight foundation for generously underwriting then-senator barack obama stood on this very stage and delivered one of the most important speeche

at 1:00 p.m., will be live from the national press club as douglas shulman talks about his role in overseeing more than $2 trillion in taxes. we will have live coverage of a discussion on the free market systems in today's global economy. it is hosted by the american enterprise institute. >> if you have a process where its six years to get an answer, and you are bogged down in the courts, it does not make the agency effective. >> tom tauke calling on the government to take a fresh look, tonight, and c-span2. >> until our live discussion about president obama's upcoming discussion, we have more from "washington journal." inspector general of the homeland security back in the bush administration. here to talk to us about these new screening procedures for folks coming in to the united states announced on friday by the administration, what changes? guest: as you know, in the immediate aftermath of the christmas day bombings there was a blanket targeting really of those with passports from 14 countries of concern, countries that have been linked to terrorism -- yemen, saudi arabia, pakistan, now

douglas shulman spoke at the national press club for an hour. >> good afternoon. and welcome to the national press club. my i'm the president of the national press club. we're the w

and when i think of a threat i think of somebody actually saying, you know, you, doug shulman, and i'm going to do something to you. what there's been is increased chatter on the internet that has an antigovernment sentiment. and sometimes the issue of taxes has gotten swept into it. and there's a lot of difference people not liking taxes and the tax system and people having issues with the government. and people actually -- it being a safety issue for my employees. i take the safety of every single irs employee incredibly seriously. we have always had and the event in austin, you know, was both a reminder and a heightened awareness about making sure that our physical security programs are as strong as they can be. we also need to make sure people just are aware. and awareness training is out there. we need to know what these threats are. but there has not been, you know, any sort of scaled-up actual specific threats against irs employees. i think a lot of the reporting is just more general around some of the, you know, antigovernment rhetoric that you hear out there. >> irs section 61

commissioner shulman walked through the service and disclosed -- and disclosures provided by the i.r.stax preparation season he described outreach on many levels to help businesses comply with the convoluted tax system they face as american job creators. while the i.r.s. can conduct outreach and facilitate voluntary complinals with tax laws, it's congress' duty to hear the calls of american small business for more streamlined tax regulations. the outreach and disclosure by the i.r.s. is helpful, however, i would prefer to see it become less necessary. if america's small business owners were not spending so much valuable time deciphering codes and regulations, they could be growing their businesses to earn prolvets, create jobs, and lead america back to prosperity, just as they have always done through past recession. -- recessions. less time spent complying with the tax code would increase tax revenue by allowing small businesses to focus more time on running their businesses. meanwhile saving the i.r.s. time and money in outreach and instruction on their intricate rules and requiremen

and so shulman helps him out. he gives them his kind of illinois education. >> we are going to bring all of you into the conversation and just a minute but just a few more questions. what are the things that is very interesting exercises to look at the early writings for the early speeches of a presidency and in this case barack obama left a particular gift with the columns that he wrote in a small newspaper on the southside and i want to ask you about one in particular which is the column he wrote after 9/11. which is so revealing and his worldview and his view of america also but just sort of a confidence expressed at that time when many people sort of almost had an instinctive reach toward patriotism. >> michelle is referring to a column, a more or less daily column that obama would write for the hyde park paper, the local paper in hyde park, the herald. and, most of the columns were here is why i am for a health care program or i am working on racial profiling bill or whatever, and they are fairly, they are f

agrees with it, that there has to be some kind of ongoing review mechanism to put in place to be shulmanues to be a danger. it is something we are still working through an interagency and frankly working with senator graham as well. my hope would be that we would have something that we will be able to share and put in place more importantly in a relatively short period of time but this is something that has been focused on. >> let me just repeat the 9/11 commission's recommendation that the united states engage its friends and develop a common coalition approach to detention and the capture of terrorist. i guess my point is to internally developed a review process. we don't put some light on it. we don't engage in international community and if we don't engage the international community how we are going to deal with detainees in the future? this is not going to end anytime soon and we are apprehending people today and we still yet have a real international accord as to how these detainees should be handled, should we have another geneva type convention to deal with this. i think we are

agrees with it, that there has to be some kind of ongoing review mechanism to put in place to be shulmanto be a danger. it is something we are still working through an interagency and frankly working with senator graham as well. my hope would be that we would have something that we will be able to share and put in place more importantly in a relatively short period of time but this is something that has been focused on. >> let me just repeat the 9/11 commission's recommendation that the united states engage its friends and develop a common coalition approach to detention and the capture of terrorist. i guess my point is to internally developed a review process. we don't put some light on it. we don't engage in international community and if we don't engage the international community how we are going to deal with detainees in the future? this is not going to end anytime soon and we are apprehending people today and we still yet have a real should we have another geneva- tight convention to deal with this? i think we're looking forward to broader recommendations than trying to deal with t

agrees with it, that there has to be some kind of ongoing review mechanism to put in place to be shulmanto be a danger. it is something we are still working through an interagency and frankly working with senator graham as well. my hope would be that we would have something that we will be able to share and put in place more importantly in a relatively short period of time but this is something that has been focused on. >> let me just repeat the 9/11 commission's recommendation that the united states engage its friends and develop a common coalition approach to detention and the capture of terrorist. i guess my point is to internally developed a review process. we don't put some light on it. we don't engage in international community and if we don't engage the international community how we are going to deal with detainees in the future? this is not going to end anytime soon and we are apprehending people today and we still yet have a real international accord as to how these detainees should be handled, should we have another geneva type convention to deal with this. i think we are look

starts going south into the state with an old political hand from the state legislature named dan shulmanand he has been visiting and he starts to see that white people at vfw's in the southern counties, who are culturally may be closer to the southern states that they are a lot closer to then chicago, aren't dismissing me. i'm getting a friendly reception here. i translate, and so when he decides to run for senate, it is not as if he wins the southern part of the state but he does alright and he does very well clearly in liberal suburbs like evan sent. he sweeps the black vote, and he gets a little lucky. he gets a little lucky, wait for it, to more sex scandals. as you remember blair hull who was certainly the richest candidate if not the most skilled, goes down in flames with his divorce records and they are not an edifying spectacle. [laughter] .. gone off to fund a really good school on the south side, he has now done well and now he's going to do good and very handsome. and his divorce records are open to and they involved a french sex club and, you know, we are on c-span so we don'