i want to thank my fellow committee senator boozman for joining me. i've heard from groups who have concerns over the current financing requirements for some important conservation easements. namely the scenario with a landowner wants to voluntarily donate and i underscore voluntarily donate part of the development value of their land to help finance an easement, but the law limits their ability to do just that. this recognizes the part be in part by granting the secretary the ability to provide a match for sensitive grasslands. i thank you for that inclusion. i think this amendment builds on your good work. et number one would give the secretary discretion to allow the private landowner to donate the land. the issue here is historically we've seen easement dollars that require nonfederal partner disproportion ally go to eastern states. many eastern states have wide tax bases to support state programs that in turn help purchase conservation easements. senate bacchus knows in the west with less population density and a lot of federal land that can't be

and senator boozman. >> thank you, madam chair.nd again, very quickly, i just want to thank the secretary for being here. and the team that he's assembled for your hard work. senator brown mentioned that there's a lot of individuals in the va that are there because they want to be and could have other opportunities. and certainly you're in that category. and you know, you've led soldiers and now you're serving veterans. so we really do appreciate it very, very much. the other thing i would say is senator isakson mentioned, i do appreciate the fact that you're very willing to work in congress and very approachable, you and your staff. so that's something that is

senator boozman has to pay attention to rights, rights, rights. he is a strong, strong advocate. we have more work to do with you. and we will. and we're grateful for your hard work. >> well, thank you, madam chair and we do appreciate and i want to echo what's been said about your hard work and the ranking members' hard work and also your patients, senator baucus alluded and many others, the phone calls, the e-mails, the grabbings on the floor and stuff. and, again, we do appreciate you and the ranking member for putting up with us ask and trying to address our needs. the other thing i think we have to recognize is your staff and the ranking member staff, but also as i look around the room and see all of our staffers sitting here with bags underneath their eyes, we really do appreciate their hard work. the nation truly has a very diverse fabric of agriculture with a variety of different risks. and writing a farm bill that serves a safety net for all crops and regions certainly is no easy task. yet the responsibility is with us, and we must embrace it to ensure that the united st

. >> senator boozman. >> in the interests of time, i'd just like to associate myself with the remarks of my colleagues. i appreciate your leadership and senator inhofe's leadership. we have our differences in the committee, but i think this is something that we're all united on and going forward and finding out exactly what's happened and you know, punish those that were involved and then also put in the safeguards so importantly so they'll this won't happen in the future. with that, i yield back. >> thank you so much. both senator inhofe and i appreciate that. now we're going to turn to the inspector general, first. is that all right? with you, mr. tangherlini? >> he all right. >> good morning, chairman boxer, ranking member inhofe, members of the committee. good morning, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. while my report details what went wrong at gsa in connection with the person region's conference, i would like to take a moment to focus on what went right. impt the system worked, the excesses of the conference were reported by my office. were reported to my office by

and we'll turn to senator boozman for his questions. do have a second panel and votes at 11:30, so we're going to move through quickly our second panel. >> thank you very much. again, we appreciate all of you being here. really appreciate you being here, sandra. it's so important that people, you know, such as yourself, you're very bright and articulate, and you really put a face, you know, instead of a number, you know? a statistic. and so we appreciate you having the, you know, the ability and the courage to come and share with us, you know? your particular problem and so that we can help you and others as we move forward. we have a guy that we're very proud of in arkansas, a guy named keith jackson who was an all-american in oklahoma, a went on and was all-pro, and he's a tremendous motivational speaker and somebody i have a loot of respect for. -- a lot of respect for. but his comment about these things that the government has the want to, but they don't have the heart. and i think there's a lot of truth in that. you know, we're des

. >> senator boozman. >> in the interests of time, i'd just like to associate myself with the remarksolleagues. i appreciate your leadership and senator inhofe's leadership. we have our differences in the committee, but i think this is something that we're all united on and going forward and finding out exactly what's happened and you know, punish those that were involved and then also put in the safeguards so importantly so they'll this won't happen in the future. with that, i yield back. >> thank you so much. both senator inhofe and i appreciate that. now we're going to turn to the inspector general, first. is that all right? with you, mr. tangherlini? >> he all right. >> good morning, chairman boxer, ranking member inhofe, members of the committee. good morning, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. while my report details what went wrong at gsa in connection with the person region's conference, i would like to take a moment to focus on what went right. impt the system worked, the excesses of the conference were reported by my office. were reported to my office by a high-

. >> well, look, montana now has a nonstop flight from newark to boozman.king company, named watt kins and shepherd, and they have a dozen big rigs with the murals. they are delivering innew york city. i rode in a truck yesterday and i went down to times square and i was giving these things away. these are mountain goats from glacier national park. cokie, this is yours. we have some huckleberry jam. >> i'll take that. >> taffy. >> that's not healthy, barnicle. >> look what we have here. montana jerky. >> wait. >> the best. >> is that red meat? >> yeah. >> let me see it. >> no, no. you can have the -- >> buffalo meat? >> you can have the tea. there you go. >> there you go. >> cokie, you can have some tea. >> i like the basket. >> we were giving these things away in times square. and people were very suspicious. when you show up and say, hi, i'm the governor of montana. would you like something of nothing? >> oh, sure you are. >> they walked on. and then there was a guy that looked like he was from montana. so i walked towards him. he was wearing a cowboy hat

. >> senator boozman. >> in the interests of time, i'd just like to associate myself with the remarks colleagues. i appreciate your leadership and senator inhofe's leadership. we have our differences in the committee, but i think this is something that we're all united on and going forward and finding out exactly what's happened and you know, punish those that were involved and then also put in the safeguards so importantly so they'll this won't happen in the future. with that, i yield back. >> thank you so much. both senator inhofe and i appreciate that. now we're going to turn to the inspector general, first. is that all right? with you, mr. tangherlini? >> he all right. >> good morning, chairman boxer, ranking member inhofe, members of the committee. good morning, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. while my report details what went wrong at gsa in connection with the person region's conference, i would like to take a moment to focus on what went right. impt the system worked, the excesses of the conference were reported by my office. were reported to my office by a hig

boozman? >> chairman neugebauer, ranking member capuano, and members of the subcommittee, my name is michael roseman and i was former chief risk officer of plymouth global group from august 2008 until janet 2011. thank you for the opportunity testified today. i hope that my comments will help you continued to build on your knowledge of events that led to the collapse of mf glob global. >> mr. roseman, i would ask you to put a microphone although closer to you. >> is that good? regarding my background, i started my professional grid as an aerospace engineer after graduating from university of delaware. as an aerospace engineer. in 1994 i received an mba from the kenan flagler business school at the university of north carolina and pacific are in financial services. i first joined sanwa financial products with response with a risk analysis function. the following year i moved to the trading team and comanage the u.s. dollar otc option portfolio for a number years before returning to risk managem

. >> senator boozman. >> in the interests of time, i'd just like to associate myself with the remarks of my colleagues. i appreciate your leadership and senator inhofe's leadership. we have our differences in the committee, but i think this is something that we're all united on and going forward and finding out exactly what's happened and you know, punish those that were involved and then also put in the safeguards so importantly so they'll this won't happen in the future. with that, i yield back. >> thank you so much. both senator inhofe and i appreciate that. now we're going to turn to the inspector general, first. is that all right? with you, mr. tangherlini? >> he all right. >> good morning, chairman boxer, ranking member inhofe, members of the committee. good morning, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. while my report details what went wrong at gsa in connection with the person region's conference, i would like to take a moment to focus on what went right. impt the system worked, the excesses of the conference were reported by my office. were reported to my office by