it isn't you that goes into the ground eda. let me ask you if there is -- to people compete for this little bit of money militant to what some people like the gsa or for that matter the transnet folks had? you had 147 million country. you have cities in the united states, my own city, for example, has 12% unemployment. that's typical of big cities in the united states. uni geared toward the big cities, but you're certainly geared towards the most depressed areas of the country. was there any -- is there any correlation between the unemployment rate and the localities that one these contracts and the contract with success in winning a contract? in other words, can you tell me that the hardest hit areas in fact argue about this entire amount of obligated funds? >> i can't say that absolutely in terms of the projects that were funded were in the -- the >> no, you see that is really not my question. all of your projects come from hard-hit areas. >> correct. >> you can go to some states and find the price is. or example, pennsylvaa

i've got first questions for the eda and double the from the vetoed the eda allocated all of its moneynd have less than ever about the else. i think it is worth noting that eda -- mr. fernandes, i don't like the gsa which has control of the funds and co to the ground itself eda a hastert work through the states. you're talking about state projects aren't you? >> more

my own agencies, eda, gsa, the smithsonian, a number of federal agencies, precisely because they knowy am i holding them accountable, but the full chairman chairman is looking at them just as hard, have proceeded in ways i found satisfactory. and if you continuously done, not only with those who come to these hearings note that this money has been put to good use as the press focuses on how you are putting facts and figures he for a public it will be impossible to underestimate what the stimulus money making for a committee has done for the american people. i thank you again, mr. chairman. >> again, i repeat my appreciation, admiration for your persistence in holding the accountability series, which have served to spur on the federal agencies to stay on course, ontrack or be shown to the public for failing to do their job. in the first series of hurrying, first three months of hearings have shown great inconsistencies among the states and federal agencies. but after the information was made public and report to members and calls than to say federal agencies, they all got on board. and

eda of the young people returned home from the united states because now they can kunkel -- they can earn a living wage back home and can control their own coffee. it's a co-op, they don't have to sell it to the big companies. this is a small model. to me in the research i did this was the most optimistic thing that you're helping people to stay home because most of them want to stay home and help them earn a living. unfortunately that doesn't seem the direction we are looking at. we are looking more at spending several billion dollars so far as what we spend on border enforcement and i think we are probably right to continue in that direction. >> david? >> margaret was the care if i will be the state so we will just kind of jump into all the different dynamics with everything. talking about migration and talking about migration north from mexico, one part about that i think it's difficult as americans to understand there's a lot of internal dynamics of migration that take place inside mexico. the population of the border on the mexican side has doubled since nafta in 1994. coming no

our most recent devastation both earthquake in chile recently and then also the one in haiti -- eda right now has a death toll of about 300,000 yet the 1918 fluke between 50 to 100 million lives. so what i've always been interested in is showing how these epidemics at one time in history or very much like these natural disasters. compared to the 1918 flu the disease i write about in this book seems mild even though it did affect and killed almost 1 million people about 5 million people worldwide came down with. and i'm going to do a short reading tonight from the prolonged because it really explains how i first learned of this forgotten epidemic and why i chose to write a book about it. the prologue is entitled inside. my grandmother was 16 when she fell asleep. what she remembered most from those weeks was the witness and emptiness, not like snow or fresh paint caused by the complete lack of anything else. the same way fall can consume everything in its path. she also felt cool like the summer nights when she slept with a bowl of ice in front of the famine. everything seemed cold and vac

we are generally the first stop if it is a largely on eda related issue or there is a requirement topond quickly. so, and our budgeting we actually set aside about 20% of our budget every year for that emerging enemy technique or capability gap it appears we did donner anticipate. i received my prairies from the secretary of defense and he has just shifted mind recently on becoming the director of afghanistan surge so we have appropriately signed our funding towards meeting the capability caps the task of a central command. >> how do you measure the effectiveness of what you do? and it's hard i know because we are certainly not going to stop the threat no matter how we do it but how do you measure with or not a given idea and give an amount of money spent on that idea worked or didn't? >> let me take that in just a second. i want to conclude by reminding you that we do provide monthly reports if not more frequent to the oversight committees to ensure there is absolute transparency of the money and i'm very confident that we can account for. this is a very difficult challenge to stop

we are generally the first stop if it is a largely on eda related issue or there is a requirement toly. so, and our budgeting we actually set aside about 20% of our budget every year for that emerging enemy technique or capability gap it appears we did donner anticipate. i received my prairies from the secretary of defense and he has just shifted mind recently on becoming the director of afghanistan surge so we have appropriately signed our funding towards meeting the capability caps the task of a central command. >> how do you measure the effectiveness of what you do? and it's hard i know because we are certainly not going to stop the threat no matter how we do it but how do you measure with or not a given idea and give an amount of money spent on that idea worked or didn't? >> let me take that in just a second. i want to conclude by reminding you that we do provide monthly reports if not more frequent to the oversight committees to ensure there is absolute transparency of the money and i'm very confident that we can account for. this is a very difficult challenge to stop pushing me