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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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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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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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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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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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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Some of the procrastinators haven't been heard from. I think it will be another few days before we can see definitively.
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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.
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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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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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The federal government will be ready for the Year 2000.
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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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That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.