he will come craig fugate. he was a good buy president obama to service the administrator of the federal emergency management agency. and was confirmed by the united states met on may 13, 2009. prior to coming here, he served as the director of the florida division of emergency management, a position that he held for eight years rid he began his emergency management for your is a volunteer firefighter and an emergency paramedic and finally as a you lieutenant with the county fire rescue. he and his wife are from gainesville, florida. your entire written statement will appear in the record and we ask that you summarize your testimony and you are now welcomed. >> thank you. members, ranking members. i want to leave as much time for questions as i can. but i want to take on the national preparedness grant. it is not our intention to divert them away from terrorism or exclude any group or not. if anything, it is following the constitution of the. there's a lot of groups of another congress has the authority to auth

>> fema administrator craig fugate on his agency's 2015 budget request. arizona, the tucson festival of books. alan wiseman on saving the planet. followed by panels on the west-mexican border. startingay on c-span2 at noon. on american history tv, the origins of the cell phone with the motorola researcher who led the team that invented the first cell phone in 1973. sunday on c-span3. washington journal continues. host: john as the vice president of telik medications and rod at fraud at the national consumer league. they havee target -- gotten a lot of attention. you get a sense at how often these types of cyber breaches are actually occurring. guest: they happen practically everyday. have noted atey least 4000 data breaches happening. at a rate of almost one per day. practically everybody has been a victim of a data breach. not everybody knows it. host: gore the ones that are causing these breaches? guest: there is a variety of ways that a breach can happen. it can be an employee taking a laptop that they weren't supposed to. the breaches we're are most c

predecessor about the disaster relief fund over the long term, and let me give a shout-out to craig fugate, really good guy, nonpolitical person who's done a really good job working with fema. the disaster relief fund, pretty important to those of us in the northeast, wherever there's been a major disaster. your fiscal year '15 budget includes $7.8 billion in the fema disaster relief fund including $2.9 billion for the cost of disasters that have already occurred such as hurricane sandy. based on the disaster relief fund annual report, which i have a copy of here, which was submitted friday, this is what the department needs to respond to disasters during the fiscal year '14 budget based on current spend plans and what we call the ten-year averages. your monthly report, which i have, states that you'll carry over $4.6 billion into fiscal year '14. is the requirement for $7 billion for fiscal year '15, is a requirement $7 billion for fiscal year '15, or is ithigher? in other words, there are two reports both submitted by your department that seem to be somewhat in conflict. can you provide

big believer in consolidating the grants program, and i have a tremendous amount of respect for craig fugate in this regard. and he believes that we need to do this. he administers this program, and i have to -- i'm inclined to defer to his judgment on this. i understand the concerns, but, you know, any time you are engaged in grant-making, if there is a way to reduce the overhead so that the grant money is maximized in terms of getting to its maximum impact, that's a good thing. so that's why we -- that's why we come back at this. i'm pleased that this year we offered authorization language to accompany it. but that's my best understanding of the reason for the proposal. >> just one detail question about the authorization language. you propose authorization to build and sustain core capabilities identified to the national preparedness goal. now, i know you're maintaining the fire grants and the safer grants, personnel grants, as discrete programs. does this definition, though, include firefighting as one of those core capabilities? it is included now, as i understand. is that proposed to be

. >> this weekend, fema administrator craig fugate on the budget request. in the book tv, the tucson festival of books. on the order. -- border. on american history tv, the regions of the cell phone with the motorola researcher who led the team and invented the first cell phone in 1973. sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. new jersey governor chris christie holds a news conference with reporters regarding the george washington bridge closure controversy. on thursday, an internal review team hired by the christie administration to investigate the matter and released their report findings to the public. the attorney says the review shows that governor chris christie had no knowledge beforehand and played no role in the implementation of the lane closure. this is one hour. >> good afternoon. i received a report from the review team. on wednesday and thursday i reviewed the report. it was an exhaustive report that follows the mandate that i said that when we commissioned a review. toldhing was cleared -- i them to find the truth no matter where it led. turn

>> this weekend on c-span craig fugate on his agencies 2015 budget request saturday morning at 10 a.m. eastern. and of the tv from arizona at tucson festival of books. saturday starting at noon on c-span2. on american history tv the origins of the cell phone with a motorola researcher who led the team that invented the first cell phone in 1973. sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> fbi director james comey testified wednesday about his agencies reforms post-september 11th attacks. mr. conn we pointed to cybercrime and homegrown terrorism as major areas of concern to get also spoke about the missing malaysia airlines flight. frank wolf chairs this hearing. spent pleased to welcome fbi director james comey in his first appearance before the committee. and also, pleased to thank the men and women of the fbi for the great job that they have done. they really did an incredible job and on behalf of the american people, congress, i just want to thank and if you address and think and also to give my best to former director mueller. he really did, i met with him when he first came in and

. >> this weekend on c-span, fema administrator craig fugate on his budget request.aturday at 10:00. and on book tv, from arizona, the tucson festival of books. alan weisman on saving the planet. and panels on the u.s. and mexico border. that is saturday starting at noon. theon american history tv, origins of the cell phone with the motorola researcher who led the team that invented the first cell phone in 1973. >> "washington journal" continues. >> here is the cover story from christian science monitor weekly. heroin's long reach. suburbs confront the scourge. kristina lindborg is the author and joins us now from boston. when did you get interested and why did you get interested in the story? about, it wascame last november. i was covering a panel discussion. this was another news organization that has a lot of local newspapers. i was covering a panel discussion. called with all sorts of town officials. the chief of police -- different people who were using community services. they were talking about what has come to her attention. there is this problem of heroin. n

. >> fema administrator craig fugate. this morning at 10:00 eastern. tucson festival of books. allen west and saving the planet, followed by annals on the us-mexico border. later today on c-span two, starting at noon. the origins of the cell phone. with the motorola researcher who led the team that invented the first cell phone in 1973. sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span three. >> one thing that didn't become 1980's,til the late when the leading fbi scholar through some files it applied for, that was something that had taken place from 1940 to 1966, when the fbi for that unit of time have a full relationship with the american -- an in which members hundred thousand members of the american legion acted as informers for the ai in their communities and regularly filed reports with the fbi. americans had no idea that that kind of informing was taking place. there were untrained. 19 71.h 8, the group broke into a net that office and stole every document in the building. 8:00tory, sunday night at in c-span's q&a. >> the sick -- challenging the health care loss contraceptives manda