Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 124, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Page: 11 of 13
thirteen pages : ill.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Page 11A
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
www. dailytribune. net
Archivist: IRS didn’t follow law with lost emails
the agency didn’t “follow” the
Tuesday.
■
committee hearing.
the loss of records that are month, Ferriero said.
cess.
White House counsel Jenni- and other political groups. In
gone missing.
g{Fwe
O’Connor disagreed. “I’m emails. To the contrary, he ably destroyed.
NOTICE OF RATE CHANGE REQUEST
Ps
Patrol, Immigrations and DPS and each of the agen-
The Genuine. The Original.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Overhead Door Company of Mt. Pleasant
A
Guaranty
i
&
Rep. Hughes visits Rio Grande
Valley to survey border security
used as human shields by
these heartless drug lords.’
er member who is a former
prosecutor and the proper
term to describe O’Connor is
Thursday, June 26th, 10 a.m. -1 p.m.
in the lobby of
Guaranty Bond Bank- Mt. Pleasant
Refreshments will be served.
political groups before the
2010 and 2012 elections.
By EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The In-
OUR NEW OFFICE HOURS:
Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
903-572-9063 or 1-800-444-6843
A DIVISION OF OVERHEAD DOOR CO. OF TYLER/LONGVIEW
In Mt. Pleasant Contact Keith Garner
PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW LOCATION:
119 E. 11th St. - Mt. Pleasant, Tx 75455
The Old Millhouse Plumbing Supply Building
N
T
Please join us in congratulating
Mary Ann Munsinger
for her years of service with
Guaranty Bond Bank
and service to our community
with a retirement reception.
H
20
SWEPCO requests that the Commission approve a TCRF that would result in an increase
in revenues of $14,729,466 per annum, an increase of 5.01 percent in overall annualized revenue.
SWEPCO has proposed that its requested rate change become effective 35 days after the filing of the
Statement of Intent and Application. The proposed effective date is subject to suspension and exten-
sion by actions that may be taken by the Commission.
All customers in SWEPCO’s Texas retail rate classes will be affected by this change. The
impact of the rate change on various customer classes will vary from the overall impact described in
this notice.
Persons with questions or who want more infonnation on SWEPCO’s Statement of Intent
and Application may contact SWEPCO at 428 Travis Street, Shreveport, Louisiana 71101, or call
toll-free at (888) 216-3523 during nonnal business hours. A complete copy of the Statement of In-
tent and Application and related filings is available for inspection at the address listed in the previous
sentence.
The Commission has assigned Docket No. 42448 to this proceeding. Persons who wish to
intervene in or comment upon these proceedings should notify the Commission as soon as possible,
as an intervention deadline will be imposed. A request to intervene or for further infonnation should
be mailed to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326.
Further infonnation may also be obtained by calling the Public Utility Commission at (512) 936-
7120 or (888) 782-8477. Hearing- and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may
contact the Commission at (512) 936-7136. A request for intervention or for further infonnation
should refer to Docket No. 42448. Unless otherwise ordered by the presiding officer, motions to
intervene will be due 45 days from the date SWEPCO filed its Statement of Intent and Application
with the Commission.
Saturday, June 28th
11:00 AM at the Farm
$90 - For reservations and info:
903.645.3232
www.GreerFarm.com
Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO or Company) publishes this notice that
on May 7, 2014, it filed its Statement of Intent and Application for Authority to Implement a Trans-
mission Cost Recovery Factor (TCRF) with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT or the
Commission) in Docket No. 42448. The filing was made in accordance with the Public Utility
Regulatory Act (PURA) § 36.209 and Commission Substantive Rule 25.239. The TCRF will recover
SWEPCO’s reasonable and necessary costs for transmission infrastructure improvements, as well as
changes in wholesale transmission charges under a tariff approved by the Federal Energy Regula-
tory Commission (FERC). In this application, the time period for SWEPCO’s transmission capital
investments, to be recovered through the TCRF, is December 31, 2011 through February 28, 2014.
SWEPCO also seeks to recover through the TCRF approved transmission charges that are not other-
wise being recovered through current rates.
This notice is being published in accordance with PURA § 36.103 and Commission Proce-
dural Rule 22.51(a)(1).
STATEMENT OF INTENT TO CHANGE RATES
GREER
JFARRA/
“Any agency is required to tion, or removal from federal get to the truth over the IRS’
notify us when they realize custody,” he said. “When an close scrutiny of conserva-
they have a problem,” David agency becomes aware of an tive groups and the agency’s
Ferriero, archivist of the U.S. incident of unauthorized de- recent revelation that it lost
during a House Oversight struction, they must report emails related to that probe.
ness.”
destruction, deletion, altera- tion is not helping Congress
“They’ve not only not ful-
Archives ly cooperated, they haven’t
Farm to Fork
\UU//Cooking Class
— । Berries, Filet Mignon & More!
-
WD
Ohio, said. “Lois Lerner re-
in June 2011, former IRS and Records Administra- done a damn thing to help us
executive Lois Lerner’s com- tion did not learn about the get to the truth of what re-
puter crashed, resulting in lost records until earlier this ally happened,” Boehner, of
Customs Enforcement, Hi-
dalgo County Sheriff Eddie
Guerra, Pharr Police Chief
Ruben Villescas, Hidalgo
County Constable Larry
Gallardo, and many offi-
cers from various agencies.
“We learned a lot. The
drug cartels are respon-
sible for bringing these re-
cord numbers of children to
the border, with the goal of
overwhelming the system
and making it easier for
the cartels to do their evil
and heartless acts. These
drug lords take money
from folks in Mexico, prom-
ising safe passage into the
US. Then, if they make it
across, these same crimi-
nals in many cases hold
cies we met with can
y
gj,
and Government Reform the incident to us.”
to see if there is evidence policy of backing up emails
that anyone outside the IRS on computer tapes, but the
was involved. tapes were recycled every
Koskinen said there was six months, Koskinen said.
no evidence that Lerner in- He said Lerner’s hard drive
tentionally destroyed the was recycled and presum-
The National
MINEOLA - Represen- their clients hostage and put more officers and
tative Bryan Hughes (R- extort money from their more resources into this
Mineola) Tuesday issued relatives in the US. This fight. They can aggres-
the following statement on is in addition to home in- sively go after the drug
his recent tour along the vasions and other violence cartels right on the border,
Y
•
R
service, A
with a capital 8
7
failed to report the loss of sponsible for preventing the a “non-cooperative witness.”
records belonging to a senior unauthorized disposition of House Speaker John Boeh-
IRS executive, the nation’s federal records, including ner, a Republican, on Tuesday
top archivist told Congress their unlawful or accidental said the Obama administra-
In a rare evening hearing fer O’Connor to testify about May, the House voted to hold lost documents on Lerner’s
before the same committee her time at the IRS from May Lerner in contempt of Con- computer, even sending it to
Monday, IRS Commissioner to November 2013. While at gress. Congressional investi- the agency’s forensic lab.
John Koskinen said that he the IRS, O’Connor helped the gators want Lerner’s emails In 2011, the IRS had a
Pressed by a congressman, definitely not hostile,” she said the IRS went to great The IRS was able to gen-
Tuesday, Ferriero would not said. lengths trying to retrieve erate 24,000 Lerner emails
sought in investigations into Tuesday’s was the third fuses to tell us the truth, and
the agency targeting conser- hearing held since it was then all of sudden, ‘Oh my
vative groups seeking tax- disclosed on June 13 that goodness, we lose two years’
exempt status. At the time, some of Lerner’s emails were worth emails.’Listen, I grew
the agency tried to recover missing due to a hard drive up in a bar, this doesn’t pass
the records, but without sue- failure. Lerner has refused the straight face test.”
border and meetings with
federal, state, and county
leaders regarding border
security:
“On Saturday I joined
DPS Director Steve Mc-
Craw and a group of my
House colleagues and
friends from County and
National governments on
the Rio Grande River. We
met with leaders from the
Texas DPS, US Border
to answer questions, citing Lerner headed the division
state that the IRS broke the Later in the hearing, Issa
law. He would only say that said he consulted with anoth-
has seen no evidence any- agency gather documents re-
one committed a crime when lated to the congressional in-
the agency lost emails that vestigation.
might shed light on the tar- On Tuesday, Issa called
geting of tea party and other O’Connor a “hostile wit-
I V)
w
fo 5
(41 8
A
sir
Republicans have ques- her Fifth Amendment right that processes applications ~ ....
tioned the timing of the hard not to incriminate herself. for tax-exempt status. The
drive crash, suggesting key Monday night, commit- Oversight Committee is in- ap Photo/j. Scott Applewhite
records sought in the inves- tee chairman Darrell Issa, vestigating the handling of Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen testifies under subpoena before
tigation have conveniently of California, subpoenaed applications from tea party the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers continue their probe of whether tea party
Mt. Pleasant
100 W Arkansas-903.572.9881 - gnty.com
Guaranty Bond Bank, N.A. Member FDIC
i 2
i
they per- starting on the Rio Grande
petuate. River. By concentrating
“So the more force there, we can
surge is a decrease the number of il-
big part of legal border crossings and
the solu- increase the cartels’ cost of
tion. With doing business.
the extra “So we can make the bor-
$1.3M per der safer for the folks living
week that there, decrease the num-
the Texas ber of illegal border cross-
has just ings, and stop the pipeline
approved, of helpless children being
ternal Revenue Service did law.
not follow the law when it “Federal agencies are re-
Hughes
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary. Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 124, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 25, 2014, newspaper, June 25, 2014; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1428473/m1/11/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.