>> braking member degette and having me today. during nine years of the -- during my years of the ftc i supported policies that promote consumer choice through abundance and competition and in lieu of regulation whenever possible. i welcome today's dialogue on the regulatory reform. 50 years ago there were only 463 pages in the fcc's portion of the code as the federal regulations. during this program americans only had a choice of three tv networks and one phone company. today over the air to become a cable tv, satellite and radio and the millions of contant suppliers and the internet offer consumers with an abundance of choices. in other words the american communications economy was far less competitive in 1961 than it is today that it operated under fewer rules. in contrast by late 1995 the portion of the sesir had grown to 2,933 pages of 4634 years earlier. as of the most recent printing of the csrl last october, it contained a mind-numbing 3,695 pages of rules. even after the congress codified the regulatory mandates with a la

that we should save the same price for the services of the state sort of friendly by the fact that degette kutz our direction. >> would you like to see congress do if anything? >> if this is to be done, i would say what they could do is set up as a sort of streamlined national sales tax, some rule that said 7,000 jurisdictions in america in some jurisdictions cotton candy is food and some as entertainment, different tax rates and a 7,000 jurisdictions have to create some central data bank that says okay these jurisdictions have every possible thing as millions of products are classified as this type of thing with this tax rate and some central database that could be interrogated by retailers, and the least that would get pass the the argument that the decision basically says it is unfairly burden some to expect mean to know what the tax rate is. so, at least congress could if they made some regular national system and provided the creation of the sort of a central database it would at least get by the arguments in quill. >> gautham nagesh. islamic have you been in contact with cementer dur

the love of her children, michael, degette, stephen, and susan was unbounded.er grandchildren were a source of constant pleasure. when we got together later in life, we talked about our hopes and dreams for her children and grandchildren and our great grandchildren. to you here who mourn loss of her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother today, ginny and i extend our most sincere sympathies and wanted to know of a deep love and respect we have for this extraordinary woman. it was my privilege to know her, thank you. [no audio] >> good afternoon, i m jeff. i am an alcoholic. betty, we are all here now. some of us here have been working toward this day for quite some time, as you know. that is what happens when you are the first family. people have to be ready, ready to honor you in just the right way. ready to remember you in just the right way. ready to describe our memories of you in just the right way. ready to pray for you and your family in just the right way. but many of us here today, i dare say perhaps most of us here today, have no recollection at a

degette overthrown in the power but the first state kept pushing for that with one exception as you know, haiti. we don't recognize the haitian republic which was the second republican the new world until for the very reasons the south had dominated the federal government to such an extent that was an impossibility to recognize the upslope regime that lincoln did but otherwise we look at these other states and now the big change comes and 1917. that's when the russian revolution in the spring you have the azar advocated. seven days later we recognize the new russian republic and president wilson is a static about the partner now and the democratic league and we are the first power in the world to recognize the new russian regime, republican regime. this is before the communist takeover. a few months later the bolsheviks overthrow the cernansky government, and you have the bolshevik regime. what happens, the united states became the first and the last major stake in the world to recognize the soviet union. 16 years, four presidencies, the last major -- i think ireland is the last to recog

reality the american families have to live with as the former with of the house i kept saying -- degette telling us what can pass in the house? they are not prepared to pass anything. jim jordan and his colleagues prepared to say what they plan to do. the vote to raise the debt limit. if we change the behavior. and cut cap and balance is the best way to change the behavior. in this the only plan there. i just spoke on the floor, and one of my good friends on the other side who spoke before me talked about what we should be talking about today which was overall tax reform. i don't believe the senate before that had a committee. this is not about what we ought to be talking about. this is not about the plans people don't have. this is about the plans people to have come and the house has passed it and the senate should follow soon and would go a long way toward the map that solves this problem. >> without the change our country is going to become green. what brought us here is the election of november, 2010. if the election were not about the size and scope of the government what was it ab

degette in mexico. who are you going to call? maybe the medical's, the only guys who can give you some sort of protection. nobody else can. at least then they are proper people and you can deal with them. you can't call the police or the army. there's nobody to call. here there's a incredible and legitimate threat. at least eliminates almost an enormous amount of inter domestic violence against women, mexican women in the united states. i think it's a little bit maybe pushing it, but i think there is something of real because you see these women and what they have -- what happens when they return to mexico, you see how the children grow up and the relationship they have with men and i think there is hope for changing these fundamental character traits, the 5i describe, which -- and i want to be clear on this in closing, which were extraordinarily productive and helpful to mexico over the past 500 years. it stands to this we've been we became a nation. it's thanks to this that somewhere in the 40's, thanks to the presidency that w

we continue to exert unprecedented pressure on the insurgency with a variety of efforts in putting degette in local police initiative which is mobilizing communities to defend themselves afghan led efforts to reintegrate former fighters nearly 1900 reintegrated in a variety of governance and develop initiatives focused on establishing the conditions to achieve long-term security. much of this progress has been unable to buy and increasingly led by the afghan national security forces conducting their own surge. they are currently on track to meet the 2011 goal of 305 troops , 3,500 trucks and substantially more and more capable afghan forces would be trained and field over the next year as well. although there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic there are challenges remaining. insurgence still maintain the full capabilities and the fighting will continue to be intense and some of the areas as the enemy seeks to recover lost territory. the transnational terrorist groups like al qaeda will seek to establish new bases and safe havens in afghanistan and pakistan and corruption and other cha

we continue to exert unprecedented pressure on the insurgency with a variety of efforts in putting degette in local police initiative which is mobilizing communities to defend themselves afghan led efforts to reintegrate former fighters nearly 1900 reintegrated in a variety of governance and develop initiatives focused on establishing the conditions to achieve long-term security. much of this progress has been unable to buy and increasingly led by the afgn national security forces conducting their own surge they are currently on track to meet the 2011 goal of 305 troops , 3,500 trucks and substantially more and more capable afghan forces would be trained and field over the next year as well. although there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic there are challenges remaining. insurgence still maintain the full capabilities and the fighting will continue to be intense and some of the areas as the enemy seeks to recover lost territory. e transnational terrorist groups like al qaeda will seek to establish new bases and safe havens in afghanistan and pakistan and corruption and other challeng

if we take off these one or two purchases degette replaced in a day and we have even more guns goingnto mexico. that was the plan. >> thank the gentleman. we now recognize for your five minutes. >> for >> was the origin of the program. who came up with this idea, where did it come from? it is based on the fact that when the strike force was initiated the idea of the program as organization -- who came up with this idea, was it you or somebody higher up the food chain? >> the idea for what, sir? >> the whole program. >> it's one investigation, sir. it's one investigation. >> well, where -- where was -- i mean, the selling of the guns, the giving of the guns in the fast and furious, where did that come from, who made the decision? >> well, sir, we have a policy that allows the transfer to pursue the targets and investigation and identify. >> there were as many as 2,000 firearms, is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> and you were allowed to for 2,000 firearms to go in the system, this fast and furious program. how were you tracking those? >> well, sir, fast and furious i apologize to the was

and nsa were focused on the threat of the attacks in yemen but were off focus on the possible the degette aqap attacks on the homeland. unfortunately that's proven to be a fatal flaw because we would is over and over again they sought to inspire and direct attacks against the homeland. again, we cannot know if or when they will do the same but the potential was there when you add up the box. in that van i want to at walz click on the ties to al qaeda. in 2008 here is that a prominent leader said about al qaeda and the relationship and al qaeda and the holy war in somalia trained in al qaeda camp to the tactics and guidelines it was done in an interview with the l.a. times and the l.a. times went on to say that for the first time lil' bo spoke about the possibility of attacking americans, saying even journalists and aid workers were not immune from attack because of the animosity toward the united states. we go through my testimony and written for my provided a number of leaders from both a dual al-shabaab and al qaeda leaders and have either expressed their open i would say the endorsemen

[applause] degette bragging rights right elena kagan went to the high school i went to which is huntercollege high school. not at the same time. but also the first latina, how big is the, that's a huge. then you have women, so data by women, valerie jared who's the senior advisor to the president and allin rosenthal in the white house and is there as a white house adviser on violence against women. that's the first time i've ever created a position like that in the white house and that is because i to the gobi is the president and vice president care about the issue of the violence against women so they have someone right there in the white house fighting for us. [applause] women obviously have unique, healthy and as you know one of the major pieces of legislation the president was able to get enacted in the affordable health care act which affected now 39 million people now have health care that didn't have it before the passage of our legislation. [applause] in the 2014 it will be illegal for insurance companies to deny women any coverage because of pre-existing illnesses or to charg

[applause] degette bragging rights right elena kagan went to the high school i went to which is hunter college high school. not at the same time. but also the first latina, how big is the, that's a huge. then you have women, so data by women, valerie jared who's the senior advisor to the president and allin rosenthal in the white house and is there as a white house adviser on violence against women. that's the first time i've ever created a position like that in the white house and that is because i to the gobi is the president and vice president care about the issue of the violence against women so they have someone right there in the white house fighting for us. [applause] women obviously have unique, healthy and as you know one of the major pieces of legislation the president was able to get enacted in the affordable health care act which affected now 39 million people now have health care that didn't have it before the passage of our legislation. [applause] in the 2014 it will be illegal for insurance companies to deny women any coverage because of pre-existing illnesses or to char

legislation to degette the fund and established the council to administer them seems to me at least to stall in congress in part because the lack of consensus among the gulf states over the scope and permissible use of the farms, and once again come allocaon among the states. as senator vtter announced some r gup will take place as a sign we will see progress on that. the oil spill commission in looking at this issue conclude it was most compelling from the natural perspectives the application of the fund is focus on the ecosystem restoration, and that we argued that the criteria should be national significance, contribution to the ecosystem resiliency and the extent to which the natural policies such as flood control the oil and distillate, agriculture, and navigation directly contributed to the environmental problems and require the restoration to thank you very much. >> thank you dr. leinen? >> thank you mr. chairn and members of the subcommittee. my name is margaret leinen, the vice chair of the gulf of mexico research initiative research board three by illsley provost for the envi

if we take off these one or two purchases degette replaced in a day and we have even more guns goingmexico. that was the plan. >> thank the gentleman. we now recognize for your five minutes. >> for >> was the origin of the program. who came up with this idea, where did it come from? it is based on the fact that when the strike force was initiated the idea of the program as organization -- who came up with this idea, was it you or somebody higher up the food chain? >> the idea for what, sir? >> the whole program. >> it's one investigation, sir. it's one investigation. >> well, where -- where was -- i mean, the selling of the guns, the giving of the guns in the fast and furious, where did that come from, who made the decision? >> well, sir, we have a policy that allows the transfer to pursue the targets and investigation and identify. >> there were as many as 2,000 firearms, is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> and you were allowed to for 2,000 firearms to go in the system, this fast and furious program. how were you tracking those? >> well, sir, fast and furious i apologize to the was of

degette and mr. stearns and put together a bipartisan bill that would make it a requirement? >> well, let me defer to commissioner kavacic because i know he wants to add something here. >> congressman barton, i quarrel with your suggestion that we do only what the gun at the head compels us to do. i was a junior case handler at the f.t.c. for the first time in 1979. and i think it's been in the d.n.a. of the agency internally, partly because of our structure, partly because we have a large team of economists to do this kind of introspective work. as long as i've known the agency. and i would emphasize that i think what would be very constructive would be two things. first is for us to have perhaps a more frequent conversation in settings like this with your staff about what we do. in 2008 and 2009, we did a comprehensive self-study of our agency. we benchmarked ourselves with 40 of our counterparts overseas. we talked extensively with our counterparts at the federal and state government and we did a substantial publicly available assessment of how we're doing. i think it woul