COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

TED STEVENS, Alaska, Chairman

WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR., Delaware
WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine
FRED THOMPSON, Tennessee
THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi
JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona
BOB SMITH, New Hampshire
HANK BROWN, Colorado

JOHN GLENN, Ohio

SAM NUNN, Georgia

CARL LEVIN, Michigan

DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas

JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN, Connecticut
DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii

BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota

Albert L. McDermott, Staff Director
Christine Schabacker, Counsel
Mark Forman, Professional Staff
Leonard Weiss, Minority Staff Director
Michal Sue Prosser, Chief Clerk

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Stephen S. Street, Alaska Business Development Center, Anchorage, Alaska..

Susan D. Anderson, Executive Director, Lower Yukon Economic Development

Council, Anchorage, Alaska.....

Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and Information

Management Division, U.S. General Accounting Office; accompanied by

Rona B. Stillman, Chief Scientist for Computers and Telecommunications;

Gregory M. Holloway, Director, Government-Wide Audits; and Lynda D.

Willis, Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, General Government

Division

Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; ac- -

companied by Michael P. Dolan, Deputy Commissioner; Judy Van Alfen,

Associate Commissioner for Modernization; Jim Donelson, Chief, Taxpayer

Service, and Acting Chief Compliance Officer; and Tony Musick, Chief

Financial Officer ........

Robert P. Clagett, Chairman, Committee on Continued Review of the Tax

Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue Service, National Research

Council; accompanied by C.A. Irvine, Member, Committee on Continued

Review of the Tax Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue Service,

National Research Council.....

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1996

Lynda D. Willis, Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, General

Government Division, U.S. General Accounting Office; accompanied by

Rona B. Stillman, Chief Scientist, Office of Computers and Telecommuni-

cations, Accounting and Information Management Division

Michael P. Dolan, Deputy Commissioner of Revenue, Internal Revenue Serv-

ice; accompanied by Judy Van Alfen, Associate Commissioner for Mod-

ernization; and Jim Donelson, Chief, Taxpayer Service and Acting Chief

Compliance Officer

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Valerie Lau, Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Gregory M. Holloway, Director, Government-Wide Audits, Accounting and

Information Management Division, U.S. General Accounting Office; accom-

panied by Dianne Guensberg, Assistant Director, Government-Wide Audits,

and Eleanor Long, Audit Manager, Government-Wide Audits

Anthony Musick, Chief Financial Officer, Internal Revenue Service

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1996

Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and Information
Management Division, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.;
accompanied by Rona B. Stillman, Chief Scientist, Office of Computers
and Telecommunications, Accounting and Information Division; and Lynda
D. Willis, Associate Director for Tax Policy and Administration
Michael P. Dolan, Deputy Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; accom-
panied by Arthur Gross, Chief Information Officer, IRS; and David Mader,
Chief of Management and Administration

Robert P. Clagett, Chairman, Committee on Continued Review of the Tax
Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue Service, National Research
Council

John Gioia, President and Chief Executive Officer, Robbins-Gioia, Inc.
Robert M. Tobias, National President, National Treasury Employees Union ....
Steve Herrington, President, Chapter 27, National Treasury Employees
Union, Columbus, Ohio

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