John Koskinen
John Koskinen
John Andrew Koskinenis an American businessman and public official. He served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Freddie Mac from September 2008 to December 2011, retiring from the Board in February 2012. On December 20, 2013, Koskinen was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to head the Internal Revenue Serviceas Commissioner of Internal Revenue. On December 23, 2013, Koskinen was sworn in as the 48th IRS Commissioner after being nominated by President Obama...
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I think that means that the chances of some unknown or unmanageable catastrophe happening around the world are minimized significantly.
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Let me put to rest the rumor that missiles are going to be flying everywhere by accident.
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If anything important happens, obviously we'll talk with the president as well. But at this point, we've agreed that my personal reports will be to the vice president over that weekend.
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We've made it look too easy in many ways because it has been the success it has. Maybe we did our job too well.
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Information and the exchange of information is a critical part of being able to remediate Y2K problems worldwide.
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The federal government will be ready for the Year 2000.
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And then, of course, the world will open for business on Monday, and that's when we'll test software systems and information processing systems.
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A third of the schools are still working to get those systems done.
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As you can imagine, when you have a problem like that you don't talk about it until you get it fixed. We don't want to give our enemies anymore information than they need.
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This fund will help us rebuild the soccer infrastructure of the Gulf area. We are designing a streamlined grant application process so we can provide as much support to rebuild the game as money will allow.
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I don't think there is any way to deal with determining the nature of the threat, protecting against it and having appropriate mechanisms in place without an effective renewal of those partnerships or networks across the economy.