the i.g. just mentioned in terms of i.t. governance and leadership as well as i.t. architecture, agility, data and cyber security, were all strong components of this i.t. plan and the i.g. regular parts of the plan and the i.g. recognized that. >> i only have five minutes and i can't let you just ramble on with all of these things. let me ask you, how if he recognized that, would he still characterize it as significant deficiencies. ms. archuleta: as we were instituting the improvements we were making, he was at the same time conducting his audit. his audit was conducted in the summer of 2014 when we were beginning to implement our strategic plan. the i.g. has continued to work with us and we have taken his recommendations very seriously. >> you have taken them seriously. have you implemented all of them? yes or no? just yes or no. ms. archuleta: we have many of them. >> have you implemented all of those? ms. archuleta: as i said, sir, i have implemented many of them and continue to work -- >>

the i.g. and last time we had a major i.g. project you apparently did not notify him of the project. do you have a reasonable for that or explanation for that? >> i don't -- i'm not aware of a requirement. i could certainly be corrected but i'm not aware of a requirement to notify the i.g. of every project we take on. certainly we included in our budget request for 2016, we talked through this project and documented it in that arena. we also discussed on a couple of occasions with the i.g. this project because they have an interconnection with our systems. and we actually host some of their systems. so they have to come along with us in this project if we're going to continue to provide those services. >> okay. an undertaking of this size, maybe it's not something you normally tell the i.g. about but you would not have felt the necessity to notify them what's going on here? >> sir it's just based on my experience that if i am -- no sir, i would not normally advise the i.g. of a project that we

the i.g.nd last time we had a major i.g. project you apparently did not notify him of the project. do you have a reasonable for that or explanation for that? >> i don't -- i'm not aware of a requirement. i could certainly be corrected but i'm not aware of a requirement to notify the i.g. of every project we take on. certainly we included in our budget request for 2016, we talked through this project and documented it in that arena. we also discussed on a couple of occasions with the i.g. this project because they have an interconnection with our systems. and we actually host some of their systems. so they have to come along with us in this project if we're going to continue to provide those services. >> okay. an undertaking of this size, maybe it's not something you normally tell the i.g. about but you would not have felt the necessity to notify them what's going on here? >> sir it's just based on my experience that if i am -- no sir, i would not normally advise the i.g. of a project that we'r

he has -- the i.g. has continued to work with us and we've taken his recommendations very seriously. >> you have taken them seriously. have you implemented all of them? yes or no? yes or no. >> we have implemented many of them. >> have you implemented all of those? >> as i said sir, we've implemented many of them. >> so you will implement all of them. >> we're looking at each of them seriously. >> not implemented. can you assure the federal workers you are going to implement all of the recommendations that the i.g. recommended to you yes or no. >> we are working very closely with the i.g. to -- >> i'll take that as a no. so let me go on further then. because i'm very concerned that here we have not even notified most of the federal employees that have -- we've known about it. they continue to not be notified and yet here you are saying that you have different priorities. because when chairman chaifetz asked why did you not shut it down you said opm has a number of other responsibilities is that correct.

the i.g. just mentioned in terms of i.t. governance and leadership as well as i.t. architecture agility, data and cyber security, were all strong come opponents of this i.t. plan and the i.g. regular parts of the plan and the i.g. recognized that. >> i only have five minutes and i can't let you just ramble on with all of these things. let me ask you how if he recognized that, would he still characterize it as significant deficient sis? ms. archuleta: as we were instituting the improvements we were making, he was at the same time conducting his audit. his audit was conducted in the summer of 2014 when we were beginning to implement our strategic plan. the i.g. has continued to work with us and we have taken his recommendations very seriously. >> you have taken them seriously. have you implemented all of them? yes or no? just yes or no. ms. archuleta: we have many of them. >> have you implemented all of those? ms. archuleta: as i said sir, i have implemented many of them and continue to work --

in the i.g. report late today, it says quote tsa concurs with all six tsa recommendation of i.g.uch of a consolation, neil, but the i.g. report does say that the multi layer process for vetting agents was, quote, mostly mostly effective. >> doug thank you very much. >>> all right. the republican senator says you don't know the half of it. he wants the president to talk about all the tsa failures. senator, you are privy to a lot of that information. i guess you're tempted to share it you can't right now, because it is you know classified. why is it important that it be declassified? what do you think we'd glean from that and why do you think we should learn about it? >> i think the president has a moral obligation to come clean with the american people about the fact that washington is not doing its job. obviously, we don't want to do anything or declassify any details that would give the terrorists a road map to the particular vulnerability. but the problems that we face are much worse than the public understands. and i think the president has an obligation to come clean and lead

the i.g. found that tsa does not have access to all the data it may need to thoroughly check an aviation worker's potential ties to terrorism. however, what is even more alarming is that a memo was sent to the tsa administrator last year noting the need for additional information and tsa has dealt yet to resolve this gap. a year later. the report also found that airports do not match the expiration date of an employee's credentials to the expiration of their legal work authorization in the united states. again, while tsa stated they are working to resolve these issues by the end of the calendar year it raises serious concerns that this gap exists in the first place. therefore, i have sponsored hr-2750. which i introduced last week. along with chairman mccall and raking member rice and congressman payne to close these security gaps and ensure the safety of the transportation networks. the reality is, in this post-9/11 world, that the terrorist threat is metastasizing, and we as a nation must re

and the i.g. report found severe deficiencies in nhtsa's ability to effectively collect and analyze safety data as well as conduct investigations. the agency lacks proper protocols and procedures and staff apparently are inadequately trained to do their job. we need accountability. and i look forward, doctor, to hearing how you intend to respond to this report that's now been put in the record and how you continue to modernize the agentcy. finally, i look forward to hearing from the representatives takata. yesterday, the staff issued a report detailing its initial findings in a month's long investigation of takata. for years it's obvious that takata did not put safety first. it appears that takata knew or should have known as early as 2001, that's 14 years ago that there were serious safety and quality lapses in its airbag production process. and you'd think that they would have stepped up their safety efforts at these plants after discovering those issues. no, and by the way there are eight peopl

we sit here and we've got an i.g. who we believe in and trust. the i.g. is saying that you need to take his advice and what you're doing is not going to get us there. as a matter of fact, may harm us. am i right, mr. mcfarland? >> that's correct. >> so you put us in a kind of difficult situation. we've now been given notice as members of congress that we're headed down this path by somebody who we rely on. you disagree with them, but then you expect us to be supportive of you. no, no, no, no, listen to me. that's a problem. because now you put us in a kind of bad position. that means that if this happens again, problems get worse, then people say, well, wait a minute, chaffetz cummings, you all were sitting there. you heard what the i.g. said. i mean, why did you let this go on? that's the position we find ourselves in. and so i don't care whether you like each other or not. that doesn't matter to me. a lot of people get along. the question is, it sounds like you are refusing -- no, no, answer me now. i'm going to give you a chance. -- to do what he's ask

the i.g. and independent review of d.h.s.'s vetting processes deem t.s.a.'s vetting to be effective. t.s.a. has made key enhancement to aviation worker vetting through projects that began in 2012. these include the ability for airports to upload immigration and identity documents to conduct moreau bust identity verification and immigration checks, and implementing system logic to insect inaccurate information. we'll continue to work on improvements in this area. airport operators are responsible for reviewing f.b.i. criminal history records and ultimately making a determination about granting badges to workers that provide secure access to our nation's airports. according to t.s.a.'s requirements. an airport operator may not issue a badge if t.s.a. deems the individual to be ineligible. airports represent a critical layer of security by making risk based decisions using t.s.a. provided information and locally derived information for the final decision. t.s.a. recognizes the value of conducting

the i.g. and independent review of d.h.s.'s vetting processes deem t.s.a.'s vetting to be effective. t.s.a. has made key enhancement to aviation worker vetting through projects that began in 2012. these include the ability for airports to upload immigration and identity documents to conduct more bust identity verification and immigration checks, and implementing system logic to inject inaccurate information. we'll continue to work on improvements in this area. airport operators are responsible for reviewing f.b.i. criminal history records and ultimately making a determination about granting badges to workers that provide secure access to our nation's airports. according to t.s.a.'s requirements. an airport operator may not issue a badge if t.s.a. deems the individual to be ineligible. airports represent a critical layer of security by making risk based decisions using t.s.a. provided information and locally derived information for the final decision. t.s.a. recognizes the value of conducting m

the i.g. said that there was a culture of complacency in rooting out views of fraud or punishing those who committed. case in point, in november 2013 and may 2013 management was made aware of two separate employees viewing and downloading pornography at work while on the clock. it took until this last march for them to issue notices of proposed removal. one employee was allowed to retire and the other remains on paid administrative leave. the epa has been warned multiple times about taking more severe and timely discipline action. >>> they should have seen this coming. psychic readings at a party have led to the suspension of two veterans affairs officials in philadelphia. an inspector general's investigation found employees were inappropriately convinced to pay for readings done by the wife of an employee. the party was hosted by assistant director who the va i.g. said quote, misused her position for the private gain of a subordinate and his spouse. gary hodge, whose wife earned the money, di

. >> here's how the i.g. at this hearing explained it. this is roth i.g.atabase largest identity and data environment. tsa by law didn't have access to some of the codes. we were able to in the course of our audit run 900,000 names against the tide database. as we sit now, i think we have some comfort in understanding what that environment looks like. in other words, the 73 individuals we believe is the sort of sum entirety of what was missed. >> basically, charles, this is not giving a comfort to anybody hearing all of these details. >> look any system that puts steve hayes on the terror watch list can't be all bad. but the fact that they have to discover that there are what 73 employees in airports who were missed because as we just heard we didn't have some of the codes is really awful. look a lot of this is simply bureaucratic incompetence which you get in large government agencies. but a part of this is claire mccaskill said the issue is the whole thing is time versus safety which is absolutely right. and everybody who goes through the airport knows t

but i was shocked when i read this i.g. report, how bad it was. i knew it was bad when the acting director before you didn't even know you had subpoena power. we discovered that in a previous hearing. so we're watching mr. careful mr. rosekind the kind of work you do immediately. and i disagree with my colleague. time not about to give you more money until i see meaningful progress on reforming the internal progressies in this organization. you can't throw money into this agency until you see it run like it is supposed to. thank you mr. scovel it is not fair to blame you i think you are trying to get the place shaped up and we have a long way to go and i think we should do a follow up every four to six months to see how they are doing on the. >> g. list because i think the driving public deserves so much better from the cop on the beat. thank you. >> thank you, center cloeb uchar. >> i think it is important to follow up and see something happen on the follow up like takata did after that. after we saw that takata were susceptible to recall after h

. >> here's how the i.g. at this hearing explained it. this is roth i.g.eport. >> there is sort of the large list with the database largest identity and data environment. tsa by law didn't have access to some of the codes. we were able to in the course of our audit run 900,000 names against the tide database. as we sit now, i think we have some comfort in understanding what that environment looks like. in other words, the 73 individuals we believe is the sort of sum entirety of what was missed. >> basically, charles, this is not giving a comfort to anybody hearing all of these details. >> look any system that puts steve hayes on the terror watch list can't be all bad. but the fact that they have to discover that there are what 73 employees in airports who were missed because as we just heard we didn't have some of the codes is really awful. look a lot of this is simply bureaucratic incompetence which you get in large government agencies. but a part of this is claire mccaskill said the issue is the whole thing is time versus safety which is absolutely right

the i.g.d that there was a culture of complacency in rooting out views of fraud or punishing those who committed. case in point, in november 2013 and may 2013 management was made aware of two separate employees viewing and downloading pornography at work while on the clock. it took until this last march for them to issue notices of proposed removal. one employee was allowed to retire and the other remains on paid administrative leave. the epa has been warned multiple times about taking more severe and timely discipline action. >>> they should have seen this coming. psychic readings at a party have led to the suspension of two veterans affairs officials in philadelphia. an inspector general's investigation found employees were inappropriately convinced to pay for readings done by the wife of an employee. the party was hosted by assistant director who the va i.g. said quote, misused her position for the private gain of a subordinate and his spouse. gary hodge, whose wife earned the money, did no

i was alarmed by the i.g.'s allegations about mismanagement of the modernization projects to date, and hope that opm's representatives will speak to these assertions directly here today. last, i just wanted to emphasize, i think we need to prevent another round of sequestration. opm's fy '16 budget request includes a $32 million increase over last year's level. virtually all of which would address i.t. infrastructure improvements. sequestration could critically threaten those investments and the livelihoods of our employees. while some of these cuts might be weathered in the short-term they can have serious long-term impacts. and i think we need to work together to ensure federal agencies are prepared to protect -- prepared as best they can be to protect against cyber threats. the federal government is at constant threat of cyber attacks. it successfully wards off millions of attempted attacks a year. and i think we need to work together to protect the nation's economic and national security interests by coming

the i.g. only ntrecently upgraded to significant deficiency. 201 in november 2014 over 65% of all systems operated by opm reside on two of the systems without valid authorization. sitting on two systems, no valid authorization, 65% of the information. clear . y disregards data security for so long, that is negligent. the fact that the agency that did this is responsible for maintaining highly sensitive information for all -- for almost all federal employees it in mind opinion is egregious. other agencies also suffered breaches. the latest clever hack comes on the heels of other government agencies, the state department the internal revenue department and even the white house. and at the same time, the government is spending more on information technology. last year, we the american people spent almost $80 billion on information technology and it stinks, it does not work. $80 billion later, and the person in charge of security the person in charge of making sure that there is authentication of

i was alarmed by the i.g.'legations about mismanagement of the modernization projects to date and hope that opm's representatives will speak to these assertions directly here today. last, i just wanted to emphasize, i think we need to prevent another round of sequestration. opm's fy '16 budget request includes a $32 million increase over last year's level. virtually all of which would address i.t. infrastructure improvements. sequestration could critically threaten those investments and the livelihoods of our employees. while some of these cuts might be weathered in the short-term they can have serious long-term impacts. and i think we need to work together to ensure federal agencies are prepared to protect against cyber threats. the federal government is at constant threat of cyber attacks. it successfully wards off millions of attempted attacks a year. and i think we need to work together to protect the nation's economic and national security interests by coming together to deal with these vital cyber securit

and just to give you an idea of the scope we're dealing with here, the i.g.eported the government doled out almost $2.8 billion in subsidies or tax credits to insurers in just the first four months of 2014 back when obama care launched. >> the administration takes very seriously the mandate that we have to both be good stewards of taxpayer dollars but also make sure that those citizens across the country who qualified for subsidies that make their health care more affordable that they get that tax credit. >> reporter: meanwhile, the hhs is also weighing in on this. communications director megan smith saying "we are committed to continuing to improve our processes and will work with the inspector general to implement their recommendations." now, we are also told tonight, doug that the site review is ongoing. and as for that back end fix? they say it is in the works. back to you. >> kevin corke, thank you, kevin. >>> the administration is announcing $4 billion from major foundations and institutional investors on new clean initiatives. vice president joe biden

i.g.laint and confirmed it was not classified but still i'm under investigation. a terrible irony a horrible irony, is that my security clearance was suspended on january 15th the day after warren weinstein was killed. he were the only effort trying to free all of the civilian hostages in pakistan and the fbi succeeded in ending our efforts the day after a u.s. drone strike killed warren weinstein. am i right? is the system broken? layers upon layers of bureaucracy hit the extent of the failure from our leaders. i believe we all failed the commander-in-chief by not getting critical advice to him. i feel we failed the secretary of defense who never knew the extent of the interagency dysfunction but now i'm considered a whistleblowers for raising these issues. there has been no transparency to the army investigation of my protected communications with representative hunter. the army would not even confirm why i was being investigated for the last five months until this week and they only did

what i'm looking for is their reaction to the i.g.'s report, and what i heard today was ownership of the lapses. i'm fairly confident that the new straiter of tsa is going to get on this very quickly, and i doubt we'll be talking about it the next time there is this kind of investigation. >> woodruff: so if one is to ask you: what's the main thing tsa needs to do differently going forward, what would you say? >> i think the main thing is reducing the set of things they're looking for, making sure that they have a focused mission, looking for the guns and bombs and stepping back from some of the things like knives and other small objects that really don't pose a threat to bringing down the plane. >> jack riley, vice president of the rand corporation, we thank you very much for talking with us. >> thank you. >> wooduff: former speaker of the u.s. house of representatives dennis hastert today pleaded not guilty to charges that he paid out millions of dollars in hush money and lied about it to the f.b.i. this was hastert's first public app

my nickname is i.g. they've been calling me that for probably about ten years now. we have black members in the insane, but more white than black. it's more white people. we're -- g.d.s are more our black branch, you know, right there, as far as we are. we're just a branch off of them. brothers with a struggle, you know? we struggle to survive together, and, you know, we're here for each other. me, personally, i don't have too many problems. i haven't that words with nobody since i've been transferred here. it's been more or less peaceful for me. you know, i hang out with a little bit of everybody. a lot of blacks, a lot of whites. you know, i meet in the middle with everybody. >> gerald ritchie, a member of the white supremacist gang, the saxon knights, doesn't believe such harmony between blacks and whites is possible. >> we're two different beings from head to the toe, from root to crown. and we're not compatible. we are not compatible. the only time a white dude is compatible with a black dude in a cell if, a, he's a fag, or, b, he wants to be black. that's the

archuleta: i appreciate the record by i.g. rep. chaffetz: he had a very serious recommendation to shut down the system. that is how bad it was and you said no. ms. archuleta: i would like to turn that over to my -- rep. chaffetz: no, i would like you to answer that question. we recommend that the o.p.m. director consider shutting it down. your response was -- the response back to the office of -- from the office of chief information officer, the i.t. program manager also work with the issos to ensure that systems maintain current -- basically you said no. the inspector general was right. your systems were vulnerable. the data was not encrypted. it could be compromised. they were right last year. they recommended so bad that you shut it down and you didn't. and i want to know why. ms. archuleta: there are many responsibilities we have with our data. and to shut down the system, we need to consider all of the responsibilities we have with the use of our systems. rep. chaffetz: you made a conscious decision knowing it was vulnerable,

and so what did the i.g. do? drove out to west virginia, where they have the warehouse with all the backup tapes, where what did they find? the lois lerner emails on the backup tapesment they were there the whole time. so now they've pulled thousands and thousands of lois lerner emails and these are emails that are in many cases different than the emails that the i.r.s. begrunlingly produced to congress and to the american people. so this is a major, major issue . of course the targeting, but then the length that the i.r.s. has gone to stimy congress' investigation. just this week in federal court, they're fighting jish watch. they don't want to turn -- judicial watch. they don't want to turn over even these new emails that the treasury inspector general for tax administration provided to the i.r.s. they're saying, well, we can't turn them over to you now in the course of the litigation, we're not going to turn them over to congress because we need to check to see whether there are any duplicates from the emails

the i.g. raised questions about why they opened a sole source contract without going through the process of full and complete competition. a fact i would like to enter into the record without objection this -- this article from the washington post. this is may 13th. defense firm that employed drunk high contractors in afghanistan may have wasted $135 million in taxpayer dollars. these are the recipients of a sole source contract to help clean up this mess. they were formerly known as george science and now imperittous and now maybe this is the right decision. but when it is a sole source contract, it does beg a lot of questions. to doubt we need to move fast, but this organization has had a lot of problems in the past and it begs a lot of questions. in addition to data security problem, we have a data management problem. it is unclear why so much background information related to security clearances was readily available on the opm system to be hacked. it is unclear why there is a need for sf

that's always been my frustration when you sometimes get recommendations from the i.g., there's lip service but never follow-through and one year turns into two years and three years and in the case of the work of this agency, these are people's lives at stake. and we need to have a robust regularity that is also able to help us in the industry in the auto industry in this country, to move to even more dramatic safety improvements with some of the v2v and v2i technologies coming back. i look forward to working with you gentlemen, thank you. >> senator peters thank you. mr. rosekind, looks like you and i have going to have a one-on-one conversation. mr. scovel, it's not because i don't appreciate your work. and i do appreciate both witnesses being here. and i will i don't think i'll complete the questioning. we'll have more members back. if not, we'll hopefully go back to recess before they do. i want to talk about this gap in consumer protection that others are talking about and last saturday i dropped

this is directly from the i.g. report here. your engineering and finance departments cannot explain this. can you? >> what we saw was in that particular report in 2012 was that they were looking for us to have come to congress to specifically ask for ptc service. we identified what it would cost to beat this requirement. it's about the safety of that and not about the dollars of that. >> i'm reading the report here and it said transportation official stated his departments purposely omitted ptc installation costs for amtrak's five-year plan and annual budget requests. that's concerning for us. thank you for being here. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'm going to try to make my comments brief since i'm separating him and each one you have all for lunch. you guys and gal have been most generous with your time. i appreciate it. what i think is important in the wake of any sad day or tragedy is to go in and do the investigation. we don't overreact in ways that would make the system less sustainable

since the inspector general act was passed into law, the i.g. community has saved taxpayers billions of dollars and uncovered countless examples of wrongdoing in the federal government. the inspector generals community has done good work. the committee has noted the good work of the o.i.g. notes, the o.i.g.'s efforts have resulted in valuable studies. these studies have been in a number of areas including food and beverage service, capital plan, overtime, and fraud. i commend the committee for the work they've done. this amendment is in line with the high value the committee places on the thorough work of the o.i.g. and will ensure additional accountability and transparency with the act. there's a need to reform and improve amtrak. a valuable first step in that report is projecting the valuable information that the o.i.g. is qualified to produce. give the o.i.g. the resources they need to identify the waste fraud and abuse in a government agency so desperately needing reform. with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman

camus you testified that the i.g.'s office did not begin reviewing the circumstances surrounding miss learner's lost e-mails until june 16th, 2014. do you recall that testimony? >> yes, sir, i do. >> and now that the investigation is essentially complete, does the time line we just discussed still hold true? >> as far as our investigation goes it would still hold true. >> mr. camus did the investigation reveal any evidence that miss learner's saw three years into the future and knew you would one day investigate the loss of her e-mails. >> the investigation did not show that. >> all right. i yield back. >> gentlemen we want to thank you for your work and the work of the inspector general's office. good people working hard and looking at an awful lot of paperwork and we look forward to your final report and do report back how we rely on this body as an institution and a committee and with that this committee will stand adjourned. >>> the supreme court upheld the federal insurance subsidies on the affordable care act. at

k and one to the i.g. for an answer in writing, please. senator: it is great to see you both. we appreciate your presence today. we appreciate your service to our country. i want to start off by going back to commissioner koskinen: in talking about what the i.r.s. is doing in reaching out to those citizens those taxpayers whose information may have been compromised and try to help them in time of uncertainty and a time of concern and owrry. -- and worry. a lot of us use the golden rule to guide us in our lives. treat other people the way we want to be treated. tommy how the i.r.s. is using -- tell me how the i.r.s. is using the golden rule to reach out to people whose information may have been put at risk? commissioner koskinen: the investigation is still going on by ourselves, by the inspector general, but as soon as we knew there had been inappropriate access and data had been released, our first concern was taxpayers. we regret that this attack took place. we understand that it is such a matter e-- it is a traumatic event. we deal with the victims of identity fraud virtuall

watching g÷ continuously what the internal institutions are doing rather than just reacting when the cia i.gteps down because of problems or so forth. i this that i level of external accountability all inf'ñ overseeers is incredil important. >> alex? >> we are watching you. >> i want to know what barbara thinks. >> i agree with that. i this i that the closest thing there is to a magic wand is?p public discussion. are as much public awareness on the level of policy as we can create is good. then, the public, which is really4ql'áe channeled through organizations that developfo$Ñ expertise and contacts and attention and so on, they can really pay attention to what, hopefully, are their allies within government and what those people are doing and hold them to account and hold their feet to the fire. the other thing that i would say is that we need to not allow the executive to substitute legality for virtue. i think that's really, really important. we need to -- when somebody stands up and says i don't know why you are 6etá it was legal. you need to stand up and say, you didn't answer my questio

this is directly from the i.g. report here. they could not explain the critical critical omission, can you? >> what we saw in the report in 2012, they were looking for us to have come to congress to specifically ask for ptc service. that was not what we operated with with congress. it was a block grant of capital projects. we identified -- i identified as soon as i got over there what it was going to cost for us to meet this requirement by december of 2015, and it was about the safety of that, not about the dollars of that. >> okay. i'm reading the report here, and further, transportation official stated that his department's purposely omitted installation costs on host railroad lines from the five-year plan in annual budget requests and cited the belief including costs in the budget weaken the negotiating position with the host railroads et cetera. that -- that's concerning to us but i appreciate the job you do. thank you for being here and thank you to all the witnesses. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you. >> t

we should take a good, hard look at what the executive does with i.g.'s and whisle blowers and if we are shutting down people concerns and with moral questions about what our policies are. and if they are looking and can't come and say we are torturing people overseas they just destroyed these tapes, they shouldn't do that, then we're in real trouble. because when you're spending 50 -- 70-80 billion dollars including the military money over 107,000 staff people in the intelligence field and plus the folks out there -- the contractor and building this multi-billion dollar facility again in the state of utah to suck in all of this information they gather, somebody who has questions shouldn't have to travel to russia to let it all out. we should figure out a way to make these people not pariahs but folks who are doing their jobs. so i think -- and i'm not a waive and a political idiot, so i know some of the second church committee isn't the easiest thing to get done or to have a presidential commission. but i hope that this -- if this president doesn't do i

seymour, let me ask you, the i.g.'s flash audit indicated that the estimated cost for two fadzphases, only two phases of your infrastructure improvement project is going to be $93 million. is that correct? >> yes, sir. we put together the plan with a very robust inter-agency team and had that reviewed by a number of experts. >> $93 million? >> yes, sir. >> i'm sorry. i don't mean to be dramatic but $93 million? >> that covers both securing our legacy architecture, the one we have today, putting as many -- >> the one that was originally developed in 1959? >> our net -- not all of it was developed that long ago. >> if any of it was developed -- >> so our network was designed, you know, about a decade ago. so we are trying to shore that up, provide as much security around that network as we can, that's part of what the money is going to. the other part of the money is going towards building a more modern and more securable network that we will transition to. >> okay. it's my understanding that despite the decades we've be

in the past there was a point at which the cia had an internal i.g.after the iran contra, there was a push toward making that position a statutory one which is presidentially appointed. when you are not reporting to the nsa but to the president, that might create more of an opportunity for that position to review itself in a staunch independent fashion. the privacy and civil liberties skroefr oversight has done some wonderful work. when we think about capacity, this institution has one full full-time person, four and a budget just a little over $3 million. thinking about that in comparison to the $50 billion of help needed in this community, we are still talking about a very striking mismatch between the review and what is being reviewed. >> so resources. one final point where i think there is something to be done. i think it is incredibly important when there ir statutory mandates for i.g.s to conduct reviewing or to assign them, an on going in reviewing individual rights because many i.g.s don't see that as something within this gambit, some say, fr

the i.g.'s findings were unacceptable. t.s.a. can and must do better. but it is not all on them. we can help. the. the presiding officer: has heard me -- the presiding officer has heard me talk about home depot. mr. carper: we have an obligation to do that. one of the ways we can help them do their jobs better is by voting in support of the president's nominee for t.s.a. administration admiral peter neffenger. he served in the coast guard since 1982. assuming the position of vice commandant in may of 2014, throughout his nearly 34 year career in the u.s. coast guard he displayed exceptional leadership skills and the will to confront big challenges. these qualities will be very important if he's confirmed. i hope he will be as our next t.s.a. administrator. let me take a moment to share with my colleagues a few things that i've learned about the admiral during this nominating process. first, admiral neffenger has a clear vision for t.s.a. he said the agency must strive to be an intelligence driven, risk based counterintelligence agency. more importantly he's committed to addressin

this is directly from the i.g. report here. your engineering and finance departments cannot explain this. can you? mr. boardman: what we saw was in that particular report in 2012 was that they were looking for us to have come to congress to specifically ask for ptc service. that was not what we operated with with congress. it was almost like a block grant of capital projects. we identified what it would cost to meet this requirement by december of 2015. it's about the safety of that and not about the dollars of that. representative: i'm reading the report here and it said transportation official stated his departments purposely omitted ptc installation costs for amtrak's five-year plan and annual budget requests. he cited his believe that including the costs we can amtrak's negotiating position with host rail lines. that's concerning for us. i appreciate the job you do. thank you for being here. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you. representative: thank you. i'm going to try to make my comments brief since i'm sep

place because it was so weak and toothless they basically gave lip service to it according to their own i.g the cost-benefit analysis mirrors, in most instances, president obama's executive order from january 2011, that required all nonindependent agencies to conduct cost-benefit analysis in a transparent manner to enable to get to better rules in that regard. with that, mr. chairman, i'd yield two minutes to the gentleman from north carolina -- excuse me -- california, mr. lamalfa. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank chairman conaway for recognizing me today. i want to rise in support of commodity end-user relief act. independentened users such as our ranchers, farmers manufacturers and public utilities, face risks that they have no control over on a daily basis. for years now they have used tools available to manage risks like the changing interest rates, such as a farmer who uses futures contracts to establish a guaranteed price to offset the risk of a decrease in crop value before harvest or a grai

these wasteful occurrences continue to happen and who are the repeat offenders when you look at these i.g. reports. let me give you some examples, mr. chairman. department of defense, $38.2 billion that has been identified. this is one of the reasons that republicans are pushing to audit the d.o.d. and hold people accountable for the wasteful spending. health and human services, $10.3 billion. we found that $2 billion -- $2 billion went toward the obamacare website which still is barely working. department of agriculture $9.2 billion. social security administration $9.1 billion. department of energy $7.7 billion. and by the way, solyndra, which a green tech -- a green energy firm filed for bankruptcy in september 2011, after they got $536 million taxpayer dollars. so the list goes on and on. and what we are going to do and i commend chairman price for pushing forward to hold some hearings with these inspector generals, with these departments to drill down on the total number of reports and to hold them accountable for not taking an action and looking for ways that we as members of congres

in addition to the inspect or general, the i.g. report in november of 2014, in december, the following month of 2014, the general accounting office, the g.a.o., issued a report highly critical of i.t. management at o.p.m. the of report of the report identified best practices that o.p.m. should implement to improve i.t. management. the report found that quoth o.m.m.'s efforts to modernization processing has been plagued by management weaknesses another indication that o.p.m. needed to address i.t. weakness which is critical to ensuring agencywide security. so my takeaway from this morning's hearing is all the warning signs were there. o.p.m. was aware of the persistent issues, they knew about breaches to their contractors, the agency knew they were a target, yet the only evidence that o.p.m. did anything was a plan that was written in the first 100 days of the new director's tenure at o. p.m. planning is important but execution matters a lot more. we still need lots of answers as to what o.p.m. did following those original breaches

mallorcas who recently an i.g.ecial favors for political operator -- operatives allegedly the governor of virginia. allegedly the brother of our former secretary of state. what the american people will not stand for, mr. speaker is a double standard. if political favors are going to be given out, the people who give them out should be held accountable. i appreciate the gentleman from north carolina his leadership, because not only is his service on oversight and government reform designed to make sure we get to the truth of it, but he is unrelenting in his willingness to go after those who live by a double standard. so with that, mr. speaker, i yield back and i thank the gentleman from north carolina. >> thank you congressman meadows. appreciate your words tonight. mr. walker: a lot of interest these days in the growing list of candidates that we have running for the 2016 presidential election. one of the things that drove me to make a decision on running for congress to begin with is the great abuses that we have