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Ron Johnson

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Ron Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin, a position he has held since January 3, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Johnson has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, healthcare reform, and government accountability during his tenure in the Senate. He has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the federal deficit and has often emphasized the need for economic growth through private sector initiatives.

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Mar 10, 2014

Does the government have enough resources? Do they have manpower? Do they have the requisite skills of the people in the position to, with transparency, with tracking process, really understand what the issues and be in the position that…

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Mar 10, 2014

But in the end, it would be the Department of Energy.

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Mar 10, 2014

This is kind of harkening back to the hearing we had back in June, but just refresh my memory.

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Mar 10, 2014

What is the plus? I mean, what do you expect above your costs?

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Mar 10, 2014

What I am saying is in business the idea of a safety culture is not new, not by any stretch of the imagination.

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Mar 10, 2014

So you would make a recommendation, but DOE in the end has control of the process.

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Mar 5, 2014

Count me amongst them, in the sense that only 2 weeks ago Russia had the President of the Ukraine essentially under their thumb both economically and politically.

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Mar 5, 2014

I want to make sure we do everything within our ability through the trans-Atlantic relationship to expel Russian troops out of Crimea.

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Feb 26, 2014

I fought for this appropriation as an appropriator and a chair of this committee and am pleased with its allocation.

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Feb 25, 2014

OK. I may be going to the Foreign Relations hearing on treaties later on.

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Feb 25, 2014

So if U.S. investors have invested about $12 billion into Swiss banks, I mean, obviously that is a pretty small portion of the Swiss banking assets held, right?

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Feb 25, 2014

When I asked a question earlier about how were you able to determine compliance, you talked about clients were signing waivers, they were filling out W-9s. What prevents you from having every client sign those waivers?

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Feb 25, 2014

I think you mentioned that some clients and some Swiss bankers were involved in some of these fraudulent transactions.

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Feb 25, 2014

I am no lawyer, so can you talk to me a little bit about what types of criminal charges would you try to bring, and what are the impediments?

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Feb 25, 2014

So the 238 accounts were determined fraudulent.

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Feb 25, 2014

Historically, let us go back. People around the world have deposited money into Swiss banks as a real safe haven.

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Feb 25, 2014

But that is going to require us to actually have knowledge that there may be some fraudulent activity occurring, correct or not?

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Feb 25, 2014

Well, I have no further questions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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Feb 25, 2014

I just want to state the obvious.

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Feb 25, 2014

I want to understand a little bit about what is so different about the 230 accounts where we actually received the names versus the other 22,000.

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Feb 25, 2014

OK. In the morning hearing, what I was trying to establish was kind of the obvious in terms of, why does Switzerland have this very huge banking sector and is there value there?

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Feb 25, 2014

So then what complicates that? Now we start talking about shell corporations.

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Feb 25, 2014

I agree, and that makes an awful lot of sense.

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Feb 25, 2014

I mean, what is the primary problem with that treaty?

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