i served in both the bush and obama administrations did i consider myself to be non-partisan. the issues i've worked on across my career have been very non-partisan. all about better government management, reducing fraud, reducing the error and improper payments, improving the way the government manages its real-estate. just very nuts and bolts. i think the ranking member 11 referred to me as a technocrat. i've developed an expertise in public-sector management over a 16 year career as a civil servant. most recently, in my role at the omb, i developed a reputation and experience tackling some of the government's toughest challenges. for example, back in 2009, 2010, i was the administration lead on implementing the recovery act which was a very large and complex wall that involved a lot of different technical complexities that needed to be done, and i was the point guard for it and developed a reputation of doing it effectively. more recently i've been involved in helping the government prepare for the government shut down, helping us deal with a sequester. these are tough publ

serving in leadership positions those with bush in the obama administration i consider myself to be non-partisan and across my career has been non-partisan better government manage reducing fraud and improper payments and the wave of government manages real estate the way that the ranking member referred to me as a technocrat and i have developed expertise in public sector management. most recently with my role at the olin b. i developed a reputation and experience to tackle the toughest challenges in 2010 i you implemented the recovery act that was the largest of a complex plot that involves technical complexities and i was the point* guard to do it effectively. more recently i have been involved to help the government prepare for a shutdown, dealing with the sequester dealing with sector challenges and i could distinguish myself to the leadership as someone that could handle a situation like this effectively. when you combine those factors when i was presented with this opportunity i said i will do this because will have a guiding principle i will work to find the right answer with the best in

when we are going through a huge scandal when we found out that the irs, which is supposed to be a non- partisanrganization, have been targeting conservatives and republicans because of directions from washington, which ultimately will or will not lead back to president obama but no one can deny the fact that president obama has gotten in front of the press and said that the tea partiers are terrorist. there is a real war on republican conservatives. it is really unfair. >> let me get your response on the front page of "the wall street journal weakened addition," the lead with -- weekend edition," they lead with -- in defending this he says the court had a hand in congress as well. --se are simply claims caller: these are simply claims. he is going after conservative reporters. when osama bin laden's rate was -- ed -- raid was leaked president obama uses this as an excuse for any issue. if there is no debate he will institute an executive order. the public gets nowhere. host: we are going to leave it there and move on to fill in kansas on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. host: you

system needs to be augmented and it needs to be a non-political neutral agency that collects tax receive knew. >> i-- revenue. >> it has to be less partisan and people -- we shouldn't have to wait for elijah cummings to release the transcripts so we can understand what's going on. >> one thing after another. thank you.ñr >>> well, an agreement on a dashboarder surge giving a boost to the chain, chances of passing immigration reform in the senate, but will the plan fly in the house? we asked a key congressman from a border state if he is satisfied. >>> plus, definitely taking -- hopeful signs for a dying girl who won her right to get adult lungs. what her doctors are saying after she spent days in a coma. . where we are seeing deadly floods and misery for tens of thousands of folks. we have an update. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. it has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from gre

be not a scandal. i'm going to obama right now. give me c2 here, the obama clip where he's preempt actively apologizing if you've got the i.r.s. operating in anything less than a neutral and non-partisan then that is outrageous contrary to our traditions and people have to be held accountable and it's got to be fixed. cenk: but my god man why didn't you look into it first? look, this is outrageous, unacceptable. once he says that, doesn't the whole country go i guess it must be true. >> absolutety. i'm curious what they were look forego. what did the i.r.s. think they were going to find by targeting progressive or right wing groups. the president giving apology and not standing up for his own people there were five high level firings not just the one main guy. cenk: right. >> you see that he doesn't have confidence in the people that are under him. cenk: that's why i was saying there's no way he's going after the right wing. when the right wing attacks under a bus, under a bus those five guys at the i.r.s. for no reason under a bus. that guy is going to be like i will now target the right wing group of the tea party in conceivable. we found out last week that the guy in charge of the

be better prepared for terrorist attacks and disasters. during this time, gao has been there providing objective, non- partisan oversight. what we have found is often not encouraging. they have struggled to effectively manage grant programs. it is difficult to say we have really gotten for our investment, because fema has been unable to measure how they have advanced their ability to be prepared. specifically the work has found that they lack the ability to assess how well individual grant programs are working and whether collectively these programs have helped to enhance national preparedness. for example, we found that while they have performance measures for their grant programs, they typically provide information on past activities being completed it and do not generally provide assessment of the effectiveness of the individual activities or overall grant programs. to put it another way, fema has developed output measures for individual programs but generally relaxed the ability for outcome assessment. -- but generally lacks the ability for outcomes assessment. important to an national level question. how much better

started, you know, full of hope and promise, non-partisan support, ending politically with most of the people who had supported it initially on the republican side beingorn away until mid romney, the presidential candidate, where the bill is modeled after the massachusetts plan said we have to get rid of obama care. that has been the lone mantra of the other side. 38 times it has been attempted in part or in total. listen, can we not sit down together and take the best parts of public health? there is not a republican out there who does not want to say children stay on a policy until 26, or have pre-existing conditions preventing someone from capping the cost so that people do not lose the money or go bankrupt. i know that, because i talked to them all the time, but being ideologically wed to this notion of purity that they have to get rid of a -- that they have to get rid of obama care, it has become a political mantra. eric cantor, who i give a great deal of credit to, he wanted to fix something in medicare that would have fixed 10 million people not having care, but ted cruz said -- listen, and the support of obama care is a demonstration that you