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Problems at the Internal Revenue Service: Closing the Tax Gap and Preventing Identity Theft

10:00am on Thursday, April 19, 2012 in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
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Oversight Advances Information Security Enhancements and Federal Workforce Reforms

Chairman Issa: “FISMA reform is the result of a bipartisan collaborative effort with public and private sector partners to solve our nation’s information security crisis,” said Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. “Congress understands that some of our country’s greatest security threats come from cyber attacks. FISMA had become a compliance activity, even at times when compliance appeared to supersede security. ”
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Issa Releases DATA Act Amendments on Madison

H.R. 2146, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), will implement strong reporting standards, allowing fractured and ineffective reporting systems to be streamlined, providing useful information to policymakers, agency managers, and the American people.
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Full Committee Business Meeting
Hearing
The SEC’s Aversion to Cost-Benefit Analysis

10:00am on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
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Issa Statement on Retirement of Congressman Edolphus “Ed” Towns

Issa: “For 30 years, Ed Towns has fought on behalf of taxpayers with a singular mix of Bed-Stuy toughness and grace. His decades of work exposing waste, fraud and mismanagement of taxpayer dollarsserves as a model for the positive change accountable government can deliver for citizens. I’ve witnessed some of the countless lives Ed has touched while accompanying him to field hearings in Brooklyn, and his tireless advocacy for his constituents and country will be greatly missed.”
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Addressing GSA’s Culture of Wasteful Spending

1:30pm on Monday, April 16, 2012 in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building The details that have come to light about a General Services Administration Conference held in Las Vegas have raised serious questions in the minds of the American people about how government is using their tax dollars. What has come to light surrounding GSA’s activities should give pause to anyone who has opposed cutting government size and spending.   Wasteful spending is a problem that transcends ...
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E-mail Shreds Claim that Obama Administration’s April Maneuvers Were a Quick Response to Facts of Scandal

Top Obama Administration GSA Official Worried Last Summer about How Facts of Scandal would be Portrayed in the Media.
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Exposed: Obama Administration Fibbing About GSA Convention Spending Before They Took Office

GSA Numbers on Western Region Conference (WRC) Spending Contradict Numbers of Obama Administration’s ‘Blame Bush’ Defense, Claims of a Trend
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Issa Statement on the Resignation of Census Bureau Director Groves

Chairman Darrell Issa: “Director Groves took on the mission of accomplishing the Constitutionally mandated decennial census after years of botched planning and a political crisis that had derailed a Cabinet secretary’s nomination. His tenure is proof that appointing good people makes a big difference, and I urge the President to look for another servant of Robert’s caliber when naming his replacement.”