mr. gardner of colorado. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 385, the gentleman from colorado, mr. gardner, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from colorado. mr. gardner: i rise today in support of this amendment to the water resources reform and development act and i express my intention to withdraw this amendment at the end of my statement. this amendment authorizes the secretary acting through the chief of engineers to designate a team to serve as the office of water storage. the office is tasked with coordinating every agency involved in water storage permits, the e.p.a., the bureau of reclamation and the department of interior. once initial applications are submitted, the office must upon notification of the governor, approve or deny a permit within 365 days. the amendment does not circumvent environmental laws but merely sets a time frame for a decision to move forward and the congressional budget office stated that this amendment contains no direct spending. the amendment would seek to streamline infrastructure, particular

mr. gardner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, secretary sebelius for being here. here's my letter. this is the letter that my family got cancelling our insurance. we chose to have our own private policy back in colorado so we could be in the same boat as every one of my constituents. yet, my insurance policy has been canceled. the white house website says, if you like your health plan you have, you can keep it. did i hear it wrong? >> again, sir, i don't know how long you've had your policy or -- >> why aren't you losing your insurance? >> pardon me? >> why aren't you losing your health insurance? >> because i'm part of the federal employees -- >> why aren't you in the exchange? you're in charge of this law, correct? why aren't you in the exchange? >> because i'm part of the federal employee health benefits plan. >> why won't you go into the exchange? you're part of this law. you're literally in charge of this law. should you be any different than all of the other americans out there who are losing their health insurance today? >> i'm part of the 95% with affordab

mr. gardner? >> thank you for being here. here's my letter. this is the letter my family got canceling our insurance. we chose to have our own private policy back in colorado so we could be in the same boat as everyone of my constituents. and yet my insurance policy has been canceled. the white house website says if you like your health plan you have, you can keep it. did i hear it wrong? >> again, sir, i don't know how long you've had your policy -- >> why aren't you losing your insurance? >> pardon me. >> why aren't you losing your health insurance? >> because i'm part of the federal employees -- >> you're in charge of this law, correct, why aren't you in the exchange? >> because i'm part of the federal employee health benefit plan. >> why won't you go into the exchange? you're a part of this law, literally in charge of this law. should you be any different than the americans out there losing their health insurance? >> i'm part of the 95% with affordable eligible health care coverage. >> most americans aren't available to them. why will you

mr. gardner. >> thank you for being here. here is my letter.amily got canceling our insurance. we chose to have our own private policy in colorado so we could be in the same boat -- cheryl: monitoring the testimony in front of the house energy and commerce committee with kathleen sebelius health and human services secretary and she was entering questions from a democrat from florida but right now we would like to bring in mississippi republican, member of the same committee congressman harper. thank you for being here. your questions to kathleen sebelius earlier, we produce documents to her from cd-i that you obtained, she has not seen the document. correct me if i am wrong the company said they wanted a review board and the company specifically said here are challenges. >> yes. this was on october 11th. c g i is responsible for the web site rollout and acknowledging problems and they might need a review board and part of that would be to decide what could be fixed by technical issues, what should be fixed by political issues which was rather s

mr. gardner. >> thank you mr. chairman and to the witnesses as well for joining us today and talking about this important issue. i take this personally. this is a very serious issue. thousands of my constituents and millions of americans. the president made a simple promise to all of our country. he said two things. if you like your health care plan coming to get to keep your health care plan, period and this will lower the cost of health care. but you know what, in august my wife and i got a letter that said our health insurance plan had been canceled. we decided to not join the federal and we e. health benefits program. we got our own insurance program because i wanted to be in the same boat as my constituents in colorado it despite the president's promise to me to thousands and millions of americans, those insurance plans are being cancelled. they are being told the have to buy insurance through a website that doesn't work. the denial of this is incredible. it's like trying to watch the three stooges and hd and

mr. gardner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you to the witnesses as well for joining us today and talking about this very important issue. i take this personally. this is a very serious issue for me. thousands of my constituents, millions of americans. the president made a simple promise to all of our country. he said two chings. if you like your health care plan, you'll get to keep your health care plan. period. and this will lower the cost of health care. but you know what? in august my wife and i, we got leart that said our health insurance plan had been canceled. we decided to not join the federal employee health benefits plan. we got our own private insurance plan because i wanted to be in the same boat as my constituents in colorado. and yet despite the president preems to me, to thousands of coloradans, to millions of americans, those insurance plans are being canceled. and they're being told they have to buy insurance through a website that doesn't work. the denial of this debacle is incredible. it's like tryi

mr. ahmet uzumcu talking to the bbc. with me is security correspondent frank gardner. areasked about some changing hands in syria by the day. this is uncharted territory for his organization, the organization for prevention of chemical weapons. in the 16 years since it was created, it never had to do it in a war zone. that is a difficult thing. we have seen in the past people basically dismantling libya and iraqi's chemical weapons capabilities but in syria there is a full-scale civil war raging. that is why it is a real dilemma . in order to get this whole job done by the very tight deadlines -- in other words, getting all the production facilities destroyed or disposed of or neutralized by the end of this month, only two weeks away, and all the chemical weapons disposed of by the middle of next year, you sort of need some kind of authority in charge to make that happen. something the rebel don't want. what they want to see is the collapse of the assad regime, which most of the western world considers was responsible for the atrocity august 21. but if that regime coll