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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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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A third of the schools are still working to get those systems done.
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I think by the time we get to Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll fold up our tents until we see how the world does on Leap Day on February 29.
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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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I think that means that the chances of some unknown or unmanageable catastrophe happening around the world are minimized significantly.
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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.
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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 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.