thank you for your support. >> hello, i am ron conaway. i am not sure jennifer was introduced prior. jennifer is the co-founder of code for america with tim o'reilly. the founder. jennifer is our hostess today and we are very thankful. i was born in san francisco, moved to the peninsula, raised my family there, moved back to san francisco eight years ago. my day job, in addition to civic activities, i am an angel investors. since 1994, i have invested over 600 companies. it is very interesting to see -- and most of these companies are in the bay area. there are about 200 companies that are active today. of those 200 companies, most of which in the bay area, over 52% of our portfolio in sv angel are in san francisco today. what is significant is, in

conaway. we proceed to mr. critz of pennsylvania. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm trying to get my arms around this. mr. lepore, you said that in the '70s at some point jurisdictional responsibility for -- is it every other national -- or any other veterans cemetery was transferred to the va? >> the army at the time managed 82 cemeteries -- or 82 national cemeteries, and under the 1973 national cemeteries act, those cemeteries transferred to the department of -- what was then just the va, now the department of veterans affair, except for two. arlington did not transfer and the soldiers and airmen's home national cemetery here in washington did not transfer. the army retained those. >> okay. is there any trouble like we're experiencing in arlington at any of these other cemeteries? >> we have not audited anybody beyond the activities at arlington, so i really can't say. i certainly have seen some press accounts, but we have not -- our audit was focused on arlington. >> prior to what was reported -- what's that? almost four years ago. had there ever been an audit

have always believed, particularly this last year as interim mayor, working with people like ron conawaynn, certainly talking with david chiu, we need to innovate our way out of a lot of these problems. you are going to hear me use that word innovation quite a bit. i think, for our city, innovating ourselves into more transparency to be more customer friendly and transparent, to be more efficient as a government, bringing more services, and meeting the economic challenges that i think are continuing to plague us, is going to be the way we succeed. today, i have two basic announcements. the first is we are forming a strategic partnership. code for america is a nonprofit that has been presenting innovative ideas to city governments, and particularly, for san francisco. i want to expose them to everything we have in terms of direct customer services, challenges we have had for many years, and to ask them to work with the strategically to create, in a competitive nature and a strategic partnership, a relationship where we can have companies and individuals and the entrepreneurs come through

but congressman conaway, we are working with the va. the interface between the two systems are required. >> if they are just scheduling, why do you need to? >> it is the system that -- we don't need to. the bottom line is we need a scheduling system but more than that we just need accountable data. so it doesn't matter what system you use they are there to schedule a service it is all about the data. >> the services are being held in arlington today. help us understand what the records look like for a particular service in the combination of the hand written records or is that electronically? what is the current state of affairs? >> i'm proud to stand for those members the committee to back to the and to arlington and actually saw the paper records and the machine. our internet scheduling branch right now doesn't have one paper record. everything is digital. all of the records. >> by understand the scheduling. but somewhere in your records you keep track of who is very aware? >> yes, sir. >> the services are being held today. and still

without further ado, i want to introduce you to one of our most preeminent angel investors, ron conaway. [applause] >> thank you and welcome. for those of you who do not know me, i am a third-generation san francisco and, for better or for worse. it was a decision my parents made in high school to move to atherton. i ended up staying there until three years ago and have been active in civic activities ever since. it is important to be involved in civic and philanthropic activities. my day job -- and i am still very active in this job -- as an angel investor investing in bay area companies when they are what we call babies. these are start-ups that have two or three people, and sv angels funds those start-ups. one of the starters -- smartest decisions i made was only to invest in internet and software. we have invested in over 600 companies, many of them in the city of san francisco. for sure, today, we have set a record for any city in the country that has rallied and united the tech community to support collective, civic action. this never happened before. we are in the perfect storm w

conaway? >> thank you, and gentlemen, thank you for being here today. appreciate that i want to make a fortuitous comment. we appreciate the continued commitment to the program because i do think those are important to leaner and more agile and all those kind of adjectives that we throw at it. but those are the tools that i think allow you to go that. following up on mr. rogers' comments, and perhaps page 7 of your summary listing army components, you list the reserve component as one unit. and maybe today or soon we can start that arduous conversation about why we have a reserve and a guard. not today, but it may make sense given the look at it. i was here in '05 and on and watched some of the struggles of converting the guard and reserve from a strategic force with a domestic mission to a tactical force that was used extensively to today down range you can't tell, unless you know the patches and understand the work chart, you can't tell the difference between a guard unit and an active duty unit. general, over the next five to ten years, will you have

intelligence and cia director david petraeus pet taking questions from members including congressman michael conaway. joining us on the phone is jeff dyer. thanks as always for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> let me begin by first asking you to take a step back and talk about one of the headlines that came up yesterday from james clapper who warned again about threat friom iran as he testified. what did you take way from that? >> the interesting thing is what he said about the alleged plot that was revealed last dwreer assassinate the saudi ambassador here in washington. at the time officials say they didn't really know how far up the chain the decision to go after the ambassador was taken. some think it was a bunch of renegade members. what came out of the hearing this week, mr. clapper said that he thought that actually the decision went right up to the top, tied to the khomeni. that's the first time anybody made that link. very dramatic attack on american soil which might have been decided by the iranian leadership. >> let me underscore that point by sharing with our audience you quote from the

no problems on 395 in towards conaway. everything running smoothly as you make your way around the beltway -- in towards conway. 51 as you make your way towards the fort mchenry. everything running smoothly on 95 in and out of cecil county. 59 miles per hour in harford county. this is the key bridge. no major delays. everything running smoothly in the outer loop. 895 checks out just fine north and southbound. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning. some light rain to start the day. nothing of any consequence. some light rain over towards annapolis. nothing going on north and west of baltimore. a wide range of temperatures. 50 at the airport. i think the temperatures will bounce around this morning. the rain will come to an end this morning. we will come back and check the forecast for super bowl weekend. here is keith mills with sports. >> good morning. we count down to the super bowl. we're still digesting an interesting state of the ravens press conference. ozzie newsome said the most pressing needs is t

conaway? >> thank you, gentlemen. and thank you for your long service and demonstrated patience this morning with being here. leon, i want to add my comments to what rob andrews said. thank you for your forward lean on the audit issue and sustaining and audit and properly resourcing that. bob hale and your team, the ripples that your comments have made and the

no problems to report in towards conaway. a nice start in howard county. 29 at 32 checking out just fine. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. for that we go to kurt kronke of the mta system. good morning. >> good morning. a few delays on the buses. light rail on schedule. metro subway also on time. mark trains operating on schedule on the penn, camden, and brunswick lines. i am kurt kronke. now back to tony pann. >> thank you. good morning. another warm day today. we have some big changes going into the weekend. we continue our series moonlighting with ava. you're down at the aquarium today. >> good morning. it has been quite a week so far. i worked behind the scenes at the national aquarium. you can imagine it was lots of fun. so many different types of animals. quite an experience. i have never been so close to a dolphin before. they are so much fun. they love playing around. they love to do in different tricks. some animals were intimidating. i didn't know that thba

no delays towards conaway. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning. the weather will turn interesting into the beginning of the weekend. it should be dry during the day today. will be about 47 or 48 today. a mix of rain and snow will move in tonight. we should wind up with one to two inches of accumulation in most areas on saturday. high temperatures in the 30's but it will feel like it is in the teens and 20's on sunday. the next truck moves in on monday and tuesday -- the next storm moves in on monday and tuesday. >> 6:37. 28 degrees on tv hill. the need to be a cool customer -- you need to be a cool customer to belly up to this bar. >> we are still taking your answers to our water cooler question of the day. do you think over-the-counter emergency contraception should be made available through a vending machine? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> keeping things cool in rochester, minnesota. the fifth annual social ice festival. they have been carving out elaborate b

conaway? >> thank you, gentlemen. and thank you for your long service and demonstrated patience this morning with being here. leon, i want to add my comments to what rob andrews said. thank you for your forward lean on the audit issue and sustaining and audit and properly resourcing that. bob hale and your team, the ripples that your comments have made and the efforts that have gone forward since october, i'm seeing them felt all down through the organization, which is where it's got to get done. so thank you for that. and i appreciate it. we still don't know yet from general allen, you said yesterday to the senate, how we're going to bring home the 23,000 that are scheduled this year. i'm just worried that your comments of the last few weeks were a little premature. i don't think anybody says it's gotten a whole lot safer in the east of afghanistan. and i understand that the glowing comments you were just making about the afghan army. concern that the fighting season in 2013 is split by ramadan, and we would have our

conaway. >> thank you mr. chairman in thanks for coming.want to hit a couple of things that have been asked and give you something more broad. with respect to the afghanistan has the i see changed or amended their analysis for the karzai government to control their country over the last couple of months that would have given rise, and i know david you said we overanalyze what leon said yesterday but that was a startling statement. did the i see changed their assessment of afghanistan and their capabilities over the last several months and if so why? >> i think it was a startling overanalysis, not necessarily a startling statement. if you go back and read what he said. sir, if i could this is exactly in line with the policy. we started back in the summer of 2011 transitioning leadership of combat operations, i isaf to afghan forces. and progressively completed by the end of 2014. >> i understand david. he said he would have all troops out by the end of 2013. >> he did not say that. he said all troops out i think withdraw forces by the end of

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conaway from texas will be addressing the chamber. i don't know if he has the statistics right in front of him, but according to testimony again before committee, 170 firms supply the canadian oil sands from texas, 170 firms supply the canadian oil sands and i yield to the gentleman from texas. . >> i thank the gentleman for allowing me to join in, i hope they won't kick me out since i'm not a member of the freshman class. i want to foe through what canada has gone through, trying to get through all the hoops that anybody doing a project of this scope has to do -- go through. they started in 2008 when they started this pipeline. the state department wouldn't be involved at all, except it crosses an international boarer. if this stayed within the united states, the state department an the president would be out of it. in april of 2010, the state department issued their draft environmental impact study. then a couple of months later in june of 2010, e.p.a. weighed in with the results of their technical review was deficient and didn't pr

mccaul, representative kay michael conaway representative charles w. dent, and representative greg harper. the committee has unanimously accepted and approved these requests. furthermore, outside counsel has discovered no evidence indicating bias or partiality on the part of former members or requiring the exclusion of any former members of the committee from serving as substitute members. however, out of an abundance of caution and for the same reasons as the current members volunteering their recusal mr. barton has recommended that no member who served on the committee in the 111th congress should serve as a substitute member in this matter. in addition, to the same reason no current committee staff who had previously worked on the matter before will be involved in further proceedings in this matter. the committee has taken these steps pursuant to house rule 11 clause 3-b-5 and committee rule 9-3. accordingly i request that -- 9-e. accordingly i request that six substitute members be appointed. these substitute members will serve the committee only f

conaway? >> thank you, gentlemen. thank you for your long service and demonstrated patience this morning with being here. leon, i want to add my comments to what rob andrews said. thank you for your forward lean on the audit issue and sustaining and audit and properly resourci that. bob hale and your team, the ripples that your comments have made and the efforts that have gone forward since october, i'm seeing them felt all down through the organization, which is where it's got to get done. so thank you for that. and i appreciate it. we still don't know yet from general allen, you said yesterday to the senate, how we're going to bring home the 23,000 that are scheduled this year. i'm just worried that your comments of the last few weeks were a little premature. i don't think anybody says it's gotten a whole lot safer in the east of afghanistan. and i understand that the glowing comments you were just making about the afghan army. concern that the fighting season in 2013 is split by ramadan, and we would have our folks