Coburn: Treasury keeps stalling congressional request for full listing of conference costs

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Washington Examiner:

The Treasury Department has yet to provide Congress with a full list of employee conferences and their costs, despite repeated requests from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

Treasury officials say they're being delayed because of multiple requests from different congressional committees, admitting “confusion,” but Coburn isn’t buying it.

“This ‘dog ate my homework’ response does not excuse the department from its responsibility to respond fully to all reasonable requests from Congress,” Coburn wrote to Treasury Tuesday. “In fact, a response such as this raises questions about whether the department takes any congressional inquiries [as] seriously as it should.”

Coburn’s latest letter is his third request for Treasury to provide information about conferences sponsored not only by Treasury, but also the 11 bureaus it oversees, including the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Mint and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

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