iag my colleagues to do the sam. it's past time that i yield the floor. >> thank you mr. president. i rise to speak on the nomination of judge ketanji brown jackson to serve as associate justice on the supreme court of the united states. the if confirmedee later this wk judge ketanji brown jackson will be the first black woman on the united states supreme court in its 2 233 year history. yesterday morningee i had the privilege of being with her and we discussed heard judicial methodology as well as her stories and her past in the law. rising up to overcome so many barriers judge jackson's story and her family story is truly an american story. the story of hard work, sacrifice and the story of commitment to excellence. judge jackson's academic credentials are impressive graduating from harvard college and harvard law school with honors from both college and law school. her run paralleled professionalism in the breadth of her legal experience equals or exceeds that of any nominee in recent history. she has worked in private practice, she's worked as an assistant public defender federa

the iag will also lead the way in growing efforts with nations which share our understanding of the iranian threat. president trump is making iran strategy a true multinational undertaking and the iran action group will be key to further progress in that regard. i'm also announcing brian hook will lead the iran action group with a formal title of special representative for iran. brian has served as the director of policy planning here since february of 2017, and he's worked tirelessly to enact president trump's foreign policy priorities across multiple domains. brian's diplomatic expertise and broad experience with iran policy makes him an outstanding choice to lead the state department iran action group. since the president's decision to withdraw from the iran deal, brian has played an important role in shaping our strategy of maximum diplomatic and economic pressure. we are going to continue to rely on him and his team to lead our efforts to counter the iran regime's activity, to support iranian voices and to galvanize international support for our efforts. with that, i would like to intr

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i want to try to get a sense of how you see the authority of the special iag and so here is one example. i've heard from a lot of problems getting the payment most americans were supposed to receive. minnesotans are calling my office as saying that came and went to the phone bank or a bank account that doesn't exist or people are getting payments based on their 2018 tax information even though they filed the 19 return. some payments were going to dead people. folks don't know how to return them and this strikes me in the kindest way that is mismanagement that an inspector general should be looking into. but when i've asked about these problems, but they've told us is that the constituents should just wait until next year when they filed their return into these issues could be resolved by then but these are folks that are needing that money to pay rent or they could get evicted. my question is if you are confirmed and they would charge you with examining the management can you believe that he would have jurisdiction over looking at how these payments have been made? >> if it gives me the

up in our communities and seeing, not seeing myself reflected in leadership, even from a young age, iagcan remember not feelig good about that and not feeling that that was right answer even from a young age i just kinda felt like i was boundary pressure without it i think i just got a certain point in my adult life especially around the time ofhi having a child, spatil and daughter, that i thought it's beyond feeling a certain way and now we need to act and push and do things so that we, our children can look at us as grandmothers and feel the same inspiration and sort of play that role pics i think really especially having a daughter just was a major turning point for me because like i can't look at her and thinking thu should be excluded from anything. i think for me that new motherhood was definitely a critical turning point for me. thank you. [inaudible question] that's a really loaded question. so i don't, i don't know. iw don't -- i haven't been in virginia public school system for a while, but i can say from my experience, not a lot. i don't think that we were ever mentioned aft

as you know, today, we're gathered to mark and congratulate, if i may say, hank, on his book, "the iag story," and the book, i think, really underpins what hank is about. in fact, i like very much henry kissinger's inscription in the back talking about your being truly a major figure in the american business in the 20th century, someone who is principle, strongly committed, and does not waiver on one's principles in o time of crisis. i think this story really undergirds and sub stanuates that. the book is not only a chronicle of his personal story starting with his departure of being an army officer in the korean war, and his entry into the insurance industry with continental casualty company, but then going on to become the head of and ceo of a, -- aig, bringing it to what became, literally, thee largest insurance company in the world with almost over a trillion dollar worth of assets. there's a personal side, but there's also the other side of the story, which is a very instructive one, and one in which we're going to probe with you, especially today. that is the substance side of th

and go only face real police on the streets in front of institution has my respect even if iag do disagreethere was a place aspect that recess like atmosphere columbia the building was taken over. you know you've also eclipse or students saying they needed what was that, facing humanitarian aid because they were not getting their meals that they paid for rated the cafeteria and he really. and if you think that's the crime that you think that it is, get out of your backyard's mentally don't that is all the different i don't mean is different in vietnam or when i was in college south africa is the issue in people and camped they demanded divestment some of the got arrested and some of them got sanctioned academic sanctions this basically when they did there's actually an important part of the world wide effort to bring pressure to bear upon south africa. in the way of governors to change and ultimately, is survived in one itself i think these are one think that it's a legitimate form and inform apprentice i agree with the president leslie who wrote an op-ed in the new york times is that this

. >> that means something -- tree iage according to volatility.it >> it means that you were not providing adequate resources where they were needed. >> ernestine warner is in charge of the residential mortgage group. her job is to inform me when she needs resources and what those resources are. this e-mail is for doing her job. what i am doing is now trying to address that request. to that is what she says in the interim. i am looking to move the entire associates class over. i understand we're talking february to august. in the interim, she is asking for help with the head of the group. i am also shifting people from other areas. this is an addition to the data area and the deal side, if there was the luxury of people on -- available. to go out and higher, you're looking at at least a six month learning curve, such that she needs the help now. i had to address this situation at that time by shifting people over and by making sure that we can help now. it i think you get the resources -- did she get the resources that cheated when she needed them?

of all the iag we have jurisdiction to look at all u.s. programs and projects in afghanistan regardless of their funding source and which agency is actually cannot think those programs. we are statutorily unique in that fashion since we are the only federal oversight agency that can look holistic late at the wolf government effort in afghanistan, which means we are not constrained by agency stovepipes. i am pleased to say that there has been great interest in her lessons learned reports out today to in today's report is really no different. while we were finalizing the report, the department of state and defense, along with usaid were finalizing their own stabilization assistance review or sar andreas sigar on their work. it was recently approved and is well aligned with the sigar report we are releasing today. but before i go any further, i think we have to ask the question, what is stabilization? it is one of those terms that is rarely if ever precisely defined. but definitions have buried the u.s. agency and even within a particular age

to show signs of staffing shortages. >> i agree with the numbers that the iag put out. those are accurate. it does fatigue for the workforce if you're working six-day workweeks and ten hour days. it's not something we should rely on for a normal part of our daily operation. >> i now turn to mr. milani. >> thank you mr. chairman and happy birthday to our colleague, mr. larson proves that the aviation subcommittee is the secret to staying forever young. mr. rinaldi, i appreciate the kind words on the bipartisan legislation that my colleague have introduced to address some of the issues you been addressing this morning. hr 5292 known as the air traffic hiring improvement act, you have done a better job in your testimony than i could have outlining the legislation, but i would love to ask you about a couple of issues that are covered by our bipartisan legislation as i'm sure they may as well. let me also say thank you to your members. if not for the extraordinary work that they do day in and day out that ensure million of us who travel every year and every week in many case

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on the office of the iag, the letterhead of the intelligence community. >> yes. the icig didn't make me aware so this is the first time i'm aware of this program. something you said if i may respond -- >> let me read the conclusion. the deficiencies and free prize old protection policies procedureslu and standards in te evaluated agencies are causing a failure to provide protections for individuals making the protected disclosures. in the context of the document, protected disclosures refer to legally sanctioned revelations of alleged wrongdoing by intelligence employees to their superiors or others and that government designated to receive the information. the document states, and i quote, a complainant alleging reprisal for making a protected disclosure has a minimal chance to make a complaint process and add adjudicated in a timely and complete manner. then it says in response to the damaging leaks, president obama issued presidential policy directive 19, parts of which were enacted into law establishing procedures under which the whistleblowers to report wast

anchored in those partnerships between the employer, the teacher and the preparer whether that's a legacy iag or any other kind of preparer. if you asked the teachers about the professional learning 60-80% of teachers will say you could've saved your money you could have saved your money because you did not involve me, my needs in the design experience of what you're going to teach me. it's the same lesson with our kids. we don't ask them how to teach him and we don't ask our teachers how to invest in their own professional learning so that contextualized model that you described anchored in a partnership for will need a real demand is something that we all need to pay attention to. >> thank you, ken. i would like to ask elizabeth and andrew from your experiences how have you been able to find the kind of teachers that you needed for your models and approaches and what are your challenges? >> well, the evidence about teacher effectiveness is critical. the teacher is the most part part of the puzzle we are all talking. be of high quality teacher in every classroom kids learn and that is not th

but to begin let me be clear, throughout my testimony iag am t talking about the men and women in government who conduct themselves with integrity and patriotism. but at the outset it is important to recognize corrupt individuals within federal agencies that i am talking about are not acting alone. they operate as vital partners of the left wing political movement that includes most members of the mainstream media, big tech social media giants, global institutions and foundations for democratic party operatives and elected officials press the twitter files revealed these actors work in concert to defeat their political components and promoteel left-wg ideology and government control over ourur lives. my eyes began open to this reality with the disclosure of how the obama administration weaponize the irs to harass tea party groups by denying them tax-exempt status for my personal knowledge inexperience with agency corruption began in 2015 when i became chairman of the senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs. my first investigation ultimately revealedwh extensive editing

in the united states gives first priority to derivatives, those risky securities that brought down iag and required a bailout of $150 billion. we say those are the most important things in our society. moremore important than paying s or anything else, derivatives. of course, the consequence of that is that resources move into derivatives and making our economy more up stable. at the other extreme, in the bankruptcy law, we say that student debt cannot be discharged even in bankruptcy even if the school does not deliver on education they promised. they say satisfaction guaranteed and your money back. is this, owned by wall street, tried to exploit the least educated students and said you won't get your money back no matter what we give you, and your student loan is around your neck the rest of the life. another example that should be deeply disturbing is the way the financial sector moved in predatory lending and abusive credit card practice, a whole set of things of that kind which effectively move money from the bottom to the top so that explains the money at the top and little money

kiribati leadership, working on those alternatives from infrastructure to other areas across board, iageti and across board in pacific, we have to be active and bring alternatives to the table. we think our strategy is designed to do that. >> i appreciate that. in terms of diplomatic present, if we're not to the ground we're not in the game. . can you give a brief update on how we have expanding our diplomatic present in the region and what more we need. >> we have identified 4 country in which we want to establish new embassies, successfully done so in salomon islands and tonga, we will be in vanuatu and will below kiribati and need parliamentary approval for that, in two new embassies we have opened we opened quickly and now moving to build out thatpó staff. build out the permanent facilities in which our staff will be there and working on personnel side. to get open quickly, we had to find temporary duty personnel to you know boots on the ground and%j plant your flag, now following up with full time staff and hope to be nominating lbassor no substitute for presence, i am confident we

second, the community recommends iag's have the ability to the testimony of those subject to the oversight. this was included in the bill that passed the committee into the housandthe house in the las. our work can be substantially hammered by the inability to compel the testimony of witnesses who have information that cannot be obtained by other means. while this wasn't included in the bill that became law, we are encouraged by the committees continued constipation and bipartisan support for the testimony supports. removal requires congressional l notification and at least 30 days providing a crucial safeguard to protect our independence. the safeguard can be defeated in ig is placed on a paid or unpaid status effectively silencing them without notifying congress. the community supports additional legislative protections to ensure such personnel actions involving vig are not abused. finally, legislative reform has the potential to make the program is significant tool to recover fraudulent expenditures for the benefit of the taxpayers. >> >> in 2015 to students were killed that different d

i wanted to ask briefly about retention and hiring in 2019 with iag issued regulations to help you recruit and retain tso's including approving surveys for those leaving. could you share how that progress is coming and how the pandemic is affected your ability to implement the recommendations that the ig gave. >> again, thank you for the question and we fully support the ig commendations and we warn learned a lot by talking with our workforce. when you look over the last four years and when you look at attrition over the last two years really we have seen improvement because 4% better during this pandemic in 2019 and if you look at the employee engagement it is the key indicators of part of a federal employee viewpoint survey and we seen almost a 12-point improvement in the last four years. when we talk to the workforce what we typically hear is the importance of pay which is really, again, the appreciation of the subcommittee for supporting a number of our key tso pain initiatives like tso service and it gave 32000 employees for the last two weeks a pay raise. model officer, these are rec

as and ig, no iag should be doing policy. with a front row seat to how those dollars are being spent, do you think it is a good use of your tax dollars to be spent on the taliban located in afghanistan? >> i don't think that's a good use. a certain percentage it probably is going to the taliban. we know that. what percentage is acceptable? if they took our weapons and killed americans, what percentage, how much of that dollar should go to delavan? >> i wouldn't set a dollar amountwhy we are sending a warning to others that the money may be going up. you could get a taliban ngo that is helping women's rights which is trying to get money for the government. up until now we have not documented any money -- >> you're not going to document it because you are not there. my time is expired. >> the gentleman's time is expired. i now recognize mr. jackson for five minutes. >> thank you very much. doctor mccormick. thank you for your time today. and for your transparency. can i ask you one question. is there a particular reason why the

we each bring unique abilities to these efforts the sba and iag agents have tremendous expertise and issues. the labor ig has that with unemployment insurance. and itit is critical that we do that we have ig offices to have agents volunteer and contribute to this effort and we have had a great partnership with the department that is a critical part of their task force as well. we are all committed to make sure we use every single available to all to not only hold individuals and entities accountable for fried and wrongdoing that to have every single penny for the taxpayers that is our responsibility and our goal. >> thank you there is bipartisan legislation considered by the house to extend the statuteon of limitations on the paycheck protection program. would it be helpful for congress to extend the statute of limitations on pandemic relief fried so doj can hold those who have committed fraud accountable? >> thank you for the question. not only would, it be helpful but essential. with the amount of relief provided the amount of potential fraud there is an incredible volume of cases

and our partnership with national domestic fairness consortium, the centerboard homeland defense and iag partners such as the consortium in somerset kentucky. we provide courses ranging from online introductory level highly specialized hands-on training for medical and other disciplines including the only federally chartered weapons of mass instruction training in the nation. as risks and threats continue to evolve, we must adapt our programs to meet those most pressing needs . in the continued to prepare for complex for native terrorist attacks working with state and local jurisdictions the fbi and private sector partners to assist communities through a series of counterterrorism awareness workshops where participants from multiple disciplines discuss and analyze capabilities required to respond to an attack involving a coordinated assault against multiple targets to work through scenarios identify gaps in the current plan and capabilities in developed mitigation strategies. today we delivered 23 workshops with participation from more than 5000 responders and officialsmost recently in s

parties intent, the candidates intent on mess the platform goals, the messaging goals of each day iage love. >> when people say this election is one ffoorr the history booksn you to folks ensure that isn't the case. thank you for talking to c-span. >> back live to the renaissance hotel in cleveland waiting for the start of the new york delegation breakfast. i should get underway around 9:40 a.m. eastern life comes on c-span bring you coverage of all the speeches. last night ted cruz of smoke and as the crowd chanted and/or strong, senator cruz congratulated donald trump but stop short of giving his endorsement or donald trump after the speech tweeted wow, ted cruz got booed off the stage. didn't honor the pledge i saw his speech two hours early on that i can speak anyway. no big deal. here's last night's speech from senator ted cruz. >> please welcome united statese senator ted cruz of texas. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. [applause]k you, >> thank you, and god bless each and everyone of you. heidi and i are so honored to join you here in cleveland where lebron james just led an i

about this kate page appearance is equally consistent with the campaign theme that's exactly happen iageo look no different than our page the jues split. >> can ine more question i'm sorry. justice came up with private hotline example to seek really interes had notht was thought of it before. i understoodou to say the response the government rushes to your as a result of getting a communication would be official action. but i am not clear as to the blocking thatld occur by the official from people they did not like with respect to aag that was designated as this is the opportunity to calor government help. i am creating aacooke so people can have atrght through hotline to government the person i guess it's think is is a private page so i canlo latinos i do not wan a latinos on this page. was that a problem is that state acon or not state action? >> if that's a i is i'd say at y 's not a private citizen can have that exacte page is a page to get you access to government. >> if they dldn't that implicate all the cases we talk abat we thinkbo whether or not a private citizen is actually act

the iag reported. it goes behind the perimeter. >> the list is a very sort of broad list of entities, some of which is verified into some of which is not verified. the no-fly list no fly list of the subsection of that list the six >> of the larger list. >> that is going to be correct where there is accessed access and how quickly can not be corrected or that record can be tied. just to be altered as a follow-up? >> i'm sorry i don't. >> we will follow up and find out the speed on that. what we are basically trying to detect the two things neither explosive or revenues. we do those in place to detect the explosives because the metal detectors don't. now the weapons are getting through. he went -- within the simple solution be either the views -- the frontal and side view as well as putting metal detector on the other side. that would be a relatively simple solution that would increase the rate of of protection is that not true quick >> i would assume it would be for the weapons. >> okay. then with explo

for years and now they tell you we don't have enough so i will provide questions regarding this and iag hope you can read that. >> i will provide answers for the record. >> the gentleman from california. >> i want to spend my time asking about something that ispr at the core of the most work and that is a question of get fema disaster relief and who doesn't. let me first say i am a believer of the agency and one of the great things are federal government does to make sure fema disaster relief devastates communities the matter where they are and no matter their politics and i want to commend yourth dedication and i represet the north bay so i have seen firsthand what is this different that disaster relief can make but i have also seen what happens when there is a devastating natural disaster that doesn't quite trigger the disaster leave and i have seen how that can be. a less affluent community as well and we have an equity problem when it comes to this mechanism. we leave a lot of less affluent communities behind and with the climate crisis, we really need to tackle this problem not to

and although they are great organizations, we have historically documented and the aid iag has agreed with us over time period we go back to life the first time i i spoke i thk before congress talking about the limited access we have two the books and records and information from the u.n. and the world bank and the world food organization, et cetera. so we really need to focus on getting access because these are international organizations and if you go back to i think the statute passed in 1945, we give them special authorities and we also in essence immunized them from normal oversight that aid would do or state would do if there was an organization here in the united states. so one of the things we are nervous about is because of the situation, this is what i talk about this situation is a bad situation. there are no good answers. there's no good alternatives. because we cannot deal directly with the taliban, because we don't recognize the taliban, as we can send american contractors in their and american employees and state aid, we are over reliant i think on international organiz

when we informed the board with that procedure as a last administration i didn't realize there was iag recommendation we found and i read it and we made the changes. >> and specifically are they notified in advance and consulted throughout the process with the rationale for their move based on clear criteria how the reassignments benefit the agency? the one we follow our procedures and the board to my knowledge every policy procedure regulation and transparency by the letter of the law. >> you and i have talked a lot about the development there and we appreciate the delay of the lease that was scheduled for march. there is still too many questions around resource protection for the 5000 acres documented cultural sites in the sam on base and i am glad to hear that blm will work together with the park service on the resource management plan amendment. i urge you to continue a full suite of alternatives including a no action alternative i also understand the march lease sale is on the block again in december and i strongly urge you to not lose the head unless the plan amendment has been s

through it, principles to keep in mind and i a t and institution of higher education general settings, iag on campus housing settings, behaviors that reduce red, sub points under all of these, multiple subpoints under all of these maintain healthy environments and let see, what else do we have here? so many -- maintaining healthy operations, room layout, water system supplies, subpoints, subpoint, subpoint, you go through this endless document and not a mention of testing. the cdc guideline preparing for when someone gets sick, and this subpoint, there is not a single mention of testing in the document that the cdc currently asked to give to universities. i get it that our universities don't need a mandate, test everybody or test one sixth of students but universities don't have cdcs or nih and they need guidance. if you will give the university guidance about how to make sure the water system is safe or how to limit the size of activities or what to do when a student at six it seems like he would give them some guidance, some recommendations about testing protocols. mr. tear, you laid out

"caleb's crossing" is a work of the imagination and iag have people that would characters of my own inventionghter of the english settlers minister, intellectually curious, she longed for learning and expenses outside the bounds of what is considered godly. when she encounters caleb she's drawn into his world just as she brings him into hers. the results are profound for both of them. as the father strike to convert them, she draws caleb into the englishh world. to createe the story i delved in archives and took part in an archaeological dig in harvard yard with the indian college in which caleb lived is just now being excavated. i relied on the work of historian. i studied thehe writings and artifacts of the earliest english settlers on the vineyard. this is a story about learning and love relief and magic that draws on ideas particular to its time but it is infused with a passionate emotions, desires and ambitions shared by human beings of every era. it is about brave openhearted spirits who risked everything in the search for knowledge at a time that is superstitious and intolerant. >> hos

and when frankly it is going to be making sure we get not only the iag eight and the men and all thethings there but also getting build back better done which is also those of the consumer pulse in those other supports we need to make sure electric vehicles are available to all. >> thank you. when i am pulling my horse trailer or somebody with their rv across my district and across america and trucks are long hauling it across our country, it's going to be critical that we really understand completely what this greed is going to look like and what the charging stations are going to have to be at how this all works together. as of right now i don't know that. i think we're moving in a direction that is going to bring about tremendous amount of technological change to get us where we need to be, but we do have to be careful as we move forward. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you. well stated. now the gentleman from indiana, mr. baird, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i appreciate all the witnesses being here today to talk about this import

you know, the court starts off by saying that vi is now one of 16 states which prohibit and punish iages on the basis of racial classifications. and when you look at the structure of tha it looks in terms of -- you know, you can't dohing that is inconsistent with your own characteristics. it's sort of the same thing. so it's interesting to me that we now have this different argument, and i wonder whether virginia could have gotten away with what they did here t making a classification argument this case.at tennessee is in general prelogar: yes. i think that's exactly right, that there is absolutely a parallel between any law that says you can't act inconsistent with a pteed characteristic. and in all other contexts, the urhas recognized that as a facial classification based on that characteristic. and tennessee even concedes the point when it comes to dress codes and to seeking profession inconsistent with sex. but i think one heway to look at this, justice jackson, is that, to me, it would be a remarkable proposition for this court to say that a statute that on its face says you can't h

inspector general's plan and what is the cordage with this state department usaid and otherat relevant iag and to protect the american taxpayer? >> thank you very much for the question. we are actively engaged on an ongoingg basis the state oig u.. deal aig and all of our partners in ensuring conference of oversight over all aspects of the system to ukraine. my office the dod oig is primarily responsible for security assistance and we have as we speak approximately 20 ongoing planned audits and evaluations that cover every aspect of that security assistance including the broad range i mentioned in my statement. working with our partners to make sure there aren't s any cas with regard to the different types of assistance being provided and we are reporting out transparently the oversight time dimension and we will continue. we have a report coming at the beginning of april on the nda that will provide an update on the move will continue to update the jsoc so everyone's informed. it's up to us to ensure there is appropriate oversight across-the-board with a taxpayer properly anda equipment i

>> so the iag a, specifically says the fcc has to provide technical assistance. it requires to work with the fcc and so it's only 150 people. i think we think we could really help them provide technical assistance and ntia intern has to write technical assistance to the states, and the carriers that get money from the states. i see the sort of like a virtuous relationship and i hope will get the opportunity, i know will get the opportunity to make sure that these unserved areas are served in that world providers who need help -- it's a copycat of process. it's multi-grant process that we confide them the assistance they need. >> one last question. we talked about how you were chair of the 911 caucus and we have still work to be done on upgrading our 911 systems. could you very, very briefly talk about how you think we could modernize the systems? i know we will ask you in writing, mr. davidson. >> what's most important is that we don't have a digital divide in 9/11. 9/11. we have to have the resources to make sure the people in rural areas and people no income ar

i also highlights looking at the iag, and we talked about this today come in arkansas w, and at 90% obligated on the 1.25 billion even though i would say far less than 50% of it has been spent, and it's a moving target because unseating they are suddenly the_hhs suddenly reimbursed and now we don't need to spend the money so it's been a bit of a moving target for our governors as well. i also want to add in the record in addition to about $150 billion that went after the states like a small state that arkansas got 1.25 billion, there is another almost 500 billion that was also advanced to the state for healthcare, education, unemployment assistance and the like. so to me, we have advanced almost $750 billion out of the states and a variety of ways and again i would urge on behalf of the governors, flexibility. and i think that islam is the most important things we can do. i would ask each governor let's start with governor kelly, tell me what your rainy day fund balance is today if i could get that number. >> [inaudible] thank you,ha congressman. new mexico has some interesting titles for the

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and the iag, although there was less than a report that was disturbing, it was mostly the charges come its findings never found that she did anything improper. and you yourself have said it's a matter of my style and i want to change it. so let's move on from here. i'm happy to: senator barrasso. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, do you think these other commissioners have a lower that you do? >> all commissioners, different ideas of what safety is that it gets to a question of can affect how safe is safe enough. my voting record shows that i tend to be -- at about the right word is here, perhaps conservative when it comes to safety decisions on the fence than i am willing to perhaps require more of licensees and that very issue to issue. it's hard to say that generically there is a way to categorize it. some situations i take more restrictive on licensees is probably the best way to put it. >> i'm looking at the letter he sent eight days ago to bill daley, white house chief of staff. unfortunately you say all too often when faced with tough policy calls, a majority of this cur

. >> iag pet parents group's paret roundtables and i know it's an educator parents are critical to the success of their children. they are the best partners and that's what i'm fightingpi for full-service community setting gage prince and the american rescue plan -- >> mr. secretary noted a nerve herere so the answer is yes thee was additional information as part of the conversation. my follow-up is did you or any department personnel send a copy or a summary of the letter on september 21? that's an easy yes or no answer. >> i don't recall getting any letters. >> enwere you made aware of the set number 22nd discussion between the white house and i options. >> noty that i'm aware. of. i'm having commission on that. to make your staff was madepe aware of the letter on. >> i will have my staff get act to on what information we receive. let's focus on the budget to help our families. >> we do have an outstanding freedom of information act request requesting all information about medication. if there's no problem providing this to congress why is not the department provided this request? >>