dingell forced into a hearing, and they asked me to come testify about camp lejeune and what happened at camp lejeune, and that was the first time that i testified, 2004. mr. --, who is no longer in - sdtupac congress, was on that committee and heard my testimony, and he said that if they ever won control of congress back and he became a chairman of a subcommittee in the energy commerce committee, he vowed that he would hold a hearing about tampa vision, and that is what happened. >> what did you offer the marine corps as an opportunity? i want to ask more about the general and his civilian colleague there, but what did you offer the marine corps when you made this documentary? >> we requested an interview multiple times, and they declined. we also asked to film on base, to film footage on the base, and they spent a day with us. they had people with us, and we were able to get footage of the base to bring back alive, but it was important to us that their perspective be represented in some way, and so we are fortunate that they were brought before congress and in front of other news ou

congressman john dingell from -- michigan, a ranking member that time, his staff saw that article inhe newspaper, and they had a hearing coming up, where the dod was trying to get more immunity from environmental organizations, and the congressman was rather angry about that, and it looked like his counterparts, the chairman, was joe barton at that time, it looked like they were going to give d.o. d.d.s. immunities, mr. -- dod these immunities. mr. dingell forced into a hearing, and they asked me to come testify about camp lejeune and what happened at camp lejeune, and that was the first time that i testified, 2004. mr. --, who is no longer in -- in stupak, who's no longer congress, was on that committee and heard my testimony, and he said that if they ever won control of congress back and he became a chairman of a subcommittee in the energy commerce committee, he vowed that he would hold a hearing about tampa vision, and that is -- about camp lejeune, and that is what happened. >> what did you offer the marine corps as an opportunity? i want to ask more about the general and his civ

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the chair recognize dingel for five minutes. >> madam chairman, thank you and i commend you for the hearing. i want to welcome my old friend secretary bryson here. mr. secretary, welcome. he has a distinguished record as a public servant and also as a very successful businessman who was entinterested in his commun and produced great things. we're delighted you're with us. it's clear to me that manufacturing and innovation are connected. and in order to equip future workers with technical skills, it's now more important that we work hard on this than ever. i have some questions i think would be useful in us understanding what the administration are doing. this will require yes or no. mr. secretary, is it correct that for every $1 of federal investment in mep, american manufacturers generate approximately $30 in new sales growth and that that growth is shown to result in close to $4 billion in new sales annually? >> yes. >> thank you, mr. secretary. now is it true that -- >> you've worked on this for a long time and i respect it enormously. yes. >> well, i don't mean to hurry you in your resp

i know that congressman dingell asked you a little about information technology. in my district in tennessee, we've got a lot of performers as well as having a lot of small business manufacturers who purchase information technology in order to try to get a competitive edge. and then it turns around that they are competing with companies that in china or russia or somewhere that have stolen that information technology. and what i want to know from you is what can you do and can the federal government do anything about the competitive harms that are caused by the theft of that information technology that drives the efficiencies and always about other u.s. intellectual project that is stolen and specifically, are you going to put any strong ip protections in trade agreements like the transpacific partnership? >> the short answer is intellectual property that we do not get compensated for, that is taken in other countries and there's no compensation and no recognition of where that initially came from is flat-out a loss to the people in our country who deserve the rig

john dingell said i think even pedophiles' could do better. when the public registers such discussed at institutions and allows his behavior to continue when it has an opportunity every two here's to change the -- every two years to change the makeup, it is a puzzle. caller: hi, peter. it has been a while. i think these millionaire t. party members will not change anything -- tea party members. i think the american people have seen what the corporate agenda is. i think they will have a difficult time going for their re-election this fall. i think they have been working against the average american citizen. they have been legislating for the !%, 2% as far as their tax policies and everything else. guest: you may be right that some may be voted out of office. the republicans got lucky. the elections coincided with the national census. congressional redistricting. most states are controlled by republican state legislators and they got to redraw the congressional maps and did so in ways that would benefit some of these republicans, including the s

i know that congressman dingell asked you a little bit about information technology.in my district in tennessee, we've got a lot of performers as well as having a lot of small business manufacturers who purchase information technology in order to try to get a competitive edge. is and then it turns around that they are competing with companies that -- in china or russia or somewhere that have stolen that information technology. and what i want to know from you is what can you do and can the federal government do anything about the competitive harms that are caused by the theft of that information technology that drives the efficiencyies, and also about other u.s. intellectual property that is stolen and specifically are you going to put in strong ip protections like the trans-pacific partnership in --? >> so the short answer is intellectual property that is, that we do not get compensated for, that is taken in other countries and there's no recognition of where that initially came from is flat out a loss to the people in our country who deserve the right to be compensa

john dingell said i think even pedophiles' could do better. when the public registers such discussed at institutions and allows his behavior to continue when it has an opportunity every two years change the makeup, it is a puzzle. caller: hi, peter. it has been a while. i think these millionaire tea party members will not change anything. i think the american people have seen what the corporate agenda is. i think they will have a difficult time going for their re-election this fall. i think they have been working against the average american citizen. they have been legislating for the !%, 2% as far as their tax policies and everything else. guest: you may be right that some may be voted out of office. the republicans got lucky. the elections coincided with the national census. congressional redistricting. most states are controlled by republican state legislators and they got to redraw the congressional maps and did so in ways that would benefit some of these republicans, including the so-called tea party freshmen. one won in a district that h

john dingell is quoted in the book saying i think pedophiles would do better. >> many say, i dislike >> they do say that. that's when public opinion started to plummet for this house. they moved in. 87 freshmen on the tea party movement but instead the government came to a virtual standstill. >> you spent a little bit of time with the freshman class, the frebman republicans. pconsidering a lot of them didnt have any kind of political experience. >> about a third of them did not. it's tippypical case. the freshman are to be seen, not heard. there was a group who celebrated their own powerlessness. they were entertainers. the. >> that's why they came in. part of their issue is people have been in too long and have been doing the same thing for too long. but their influence has been pretty impressive, especially when it comes to house speaker boehner in some instances. >> that's right. i think speaker boehner recognizes it. he has an expression that when you say follow me and you start walking and look over your shoulder and they're not following you learn you're not leading. you're tak

just like dingell has been there for 40 or something. we need to get rid of the old and in with the new and stick with the institution and stop calling people who want the institution to be the law. and stop trying to change it. and that's just -- i don't know what else to say but what's going on in michigan as far as the governor goes, he's acting like a dictator and it's wrong. host: thanks for your caller, amanda, from michigan. debbie stab gnaw is in the race for michigan this year. next is another ohio caller. this is joe from cleveland. you're on the air. hi, joe. caller: hi, c-span. thank you for c-span incidentally. i'm supporting brown because he's the solid backer of affordable health care law. i work with a number of republicans where i work and they were all against this affordable health care law. but guess what? they announced they're going to close our company and move the work to canada and tennessee and now, some of the gentlemen that were totally against the affordable health care are realizing that that's really going

congressman dingell asked you about information technology. in tennessee, we have a lot of performers as well as having a lot of small business manufacturers who purchased information technology in order to try to get a competitive edge. then it turns around that they are competing with companies in china or russia that has stolen that information technology. what i want to know from you this, what can you do and can the federal government do anything about the competitive harms that are caused by the facts of information technology that drives the deficiencies. and about other u.s. intellectual properties that is stolen and are you going to put any strong ip protections and trade agreements like the trans -pacific partnership? >> intellectual property that we don't get compensated for that is taken in other countries and there is no compensation and no recognition of where that came from is flat out lost to people in our country who deserve the right to be compensated for what they provide and with that those people would only make better pro

>> by the way, congressman john dingell said when i mentioned the low approval rating, he said, i thinkyou know, you guys were talking about presidential politics before the break. and i have little doubt that president obama's campaign will try to frame this as the do nothing congress. it's not that they were a do nothing congress. they did a lot. it's just that what they did was so far to the right of what the democratically controlled senate and president obama would sign into law that it invited a kind of paralysis. and all of this is largely the fruit of the 87 republican freshman who came into town really believes they were on a mission, on a wave of the tea party movement. there were votes and more than anything else their influence dragged the republican party further to the right than would have been possible to fashion any kind of agreement ultimately. >> were you impressed? did your impression change of these guys? a tlot of them have become cartoon characters on tv. >> i was impressed to the degree that you can't say these -- you know, some people can say they are misguided