and dan tangherlini, who you probably don't know. he is the really brave person because he is the acting head of the general services administration. he was at treasury for a long time and was in charge of management there. so it's good to have him at general services administration now. but it is a rough time. it is wonderful that we are having public service recognition week because we need to be doing that in this period of time. just on the way in on npr i was hearing complaints about immigration rules -- you were being picketed yesterday, i think, secretary napolitano. you didn't even notice, but they were. >> thank you for sharing that. >> and of course stories about the airport scanners not picking up bombs. great. you know, we're stripped naked and still they're not getting our bombs. >> no, i'm going to have to respond to that later. >> secret service and the gsa the butts of presidential jokes at the white house correspondents' dinner. of course health care is never an issue. and as i recall, secretary lahood, you have a bi

hear from competing with secretary lahood, civilians, napolitano and acting administrator of gsa dan tangherlini. before we get there, however, i also want to make sure i recognize one of our colleagues here at the partnership who made all this possible and has done much more. so i said j. srw or jim seymour recognition week accused him of the partnership for nine years, and he's our director of events programs, and saluted him for all the incredible things you're done for nine years in the partnership so thank you very, very much. [applause] >> now, clearly if you pay attention to the news, the thing that you about most these days, or the avalanche of new stars with heard the in focus when you think about government on $800,000 conference at gsa, and inappropriate activities with a few secret service agents. what's been missing entirely is the positive side of the ledger. and what i hope again today will be able to do is talk over more about the positive side. when we doing that is to look at something specific achievements the federal employees are doing and one of the other programs that we r