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...
cases emergency manual mean means people shut system
It doesn't mean the system is going to shut down, but in a lot of cases it means people are going to have to go to manual processes, which may slow, to some extent, emergency response.
country enter everybody hard moment pause people sure
We will not have champagne, but we will try to make sure people can at least take a moment to pause while we enter the new millennium. Everybody will be working hard to see how the country is making the transition.
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We think the basic infrastructure in the country is going to be in very good shape, banking, finance, telecommunications, electric power, air and rail transportation.
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We think the adequacy of health care will be fine. You'll get good treatment wherever you go.
easy job maybe success ways
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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That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.
actual countries declare early far impact systems victory
It is far too early to declare victory. We have a lot of systems and a lot of countries to go through yet before we'll see what the actual impact has been of the transition.
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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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If they didn't fix the systems, they would not be functioning. Somebody said we did it too well, we made it look too easy. Maybe that's right. Maybe we should have had a control group over here failing.
diplomatic goals great meeting normal people time
One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.
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Some communities and some companies still are deciding that they're going to wait and see (what happens when January 1, 2000 arrives) and we think that's a high risk roll of the dice.
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We will encourage communities to bring in principals from hospitals, emergency response services the local banking communities and other services and to engage with the public in a dialogue about what to expect. My goal is to have the public know as much about this issue as I know.
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The only way we got to the point where Y2k became an afterthought was through the network we created.
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We hope to encourage companies in both of our countries to share whatever technical information they can with counterpart companies in those countries.