dr. hall? >> good morning, chairman issa and ranking member cummings. members of the committee. my name is keith hall, i'm a senior research fellow at george mason. most recently i was the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics from 2008 to 2012. in my testimony, i would like to talk about the role of disseminating economic data. first of all, let me note that the bureau of labor statistics is an independent federal statistical agency, and as such it is tasked not only with collecting, compiling and producing economic data, but also with disseminating the data and explaining it to the public. there are a number of principles which any federal statistical agency follows. it's to disseminate data in both a transparent and independent manner with no bias of any type, they're also tasked with creating a level playing field for the release of data meaning that nobody has an advantage of getting the data early ahead of other people. in addition, they are, they are response responsible for th

dr. hall, you were with the department at that time. at the time these leaks occurred. >> correct. >> what can you tell us, spefrly about how that occurred and how were the leaks accidental and what circumstances allowed such accidental leaks to take place? >> as i recall, the news agency was allowed access to the room without any els technicians and they replaced a cable from the computer to the box. it turns out that cable bypassed the security on the box, so -- the company didn't mean to do that. they were trying to increase their connectivity i suppose. so since then we tried very hard to, well, we'd still -- one of my proposals to not let people in the room and mess with the equipment without a technician there. >> those leaks, were they detected at the time they occurred? >> they were not. >> you write in your testimony, thompson reuters, we have always intended to comply to the department's lockup procedure but our company after a hardware reconfiguration did inadvertently uncover a defect in the equipment that resulted in two ea

dr. hall, i'm going to begin with you. because you do see a need for reform in the lockup. but what you said earlier is of concern to me, the office of management and budget has a set of guidelines, it makes every effort to make sure that the bureau of labor statistics is independent. carl falichio, do you know who he is? >> he works for the secretary of labor. >> he is a political appointee connecticut firmed working for the secretary of labor and came up with this policy. >> yes, he is. >> okay. so they violated omb guidelines, it is being directed from the department of labor, this is in fact not the independent agency intention that you worked for so long and hard and you've been candid with us in the past, you know, it's your job to count the green jobs you're told to count. so you accurately account for the numbers. it's somebody else's decision whether they are green or not under a definition. so we've enjoyed your honesty but your honesty here says it's supposed to be one way. it clearly wasn't. isn't that correct? >> that's correct. i do think the bureau of labor s

then dr. hall, given the importance of these numbers, as i've talked about earlier, both economicically and politically, is it right that the process is being released? >> i don't. i think the most important thing that they have the responsibility for the security of the lockup room for for disseminating data with a level playing field, but don't have the authority to make changes. >> okay, thank you. i thank you, all, for being here today. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you. with that, we go to the gentleman from virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you tort panel today for being here. i want to especially welcome dr. hall from the great university george mason university in my district. delighted to have you here. maybe, dr. hall, i can begin with you. i'm looking at this -- listening to your testimony, and if i could confer from what you said, you talked about oh originally the process was established, the lockup, and the control of data, and reporters waiting at their trusty ty

you hurt h dr. hall testified that the bureau of labor statistics is an independent agency not affected by policy formation. if you accuse them of engaging in an attempt to justify government initiatives, ms. roth, did you mean to accuse the bls in engaging in vice activity of promoting certain policy? >> i would say that he is my very good friend and i do not want to accuse him of anything other than trying to do the utmost good with the data, but i think before you came in i showed this chart here, which had a definition of green jobs, environmental education and training, and public awareness. it is ludicrous to say that there are more jobs created because we are drinking out of these cops instead of plain white cups. we should be concerned with increasing employment in the united states. taxpayers spend a great deal of money. they pay a great deal of money. they should get the best value. the best value should be job creation as a whole rather than deciding which jobs are green jobs. >> madame, but y

dr. hall. >> good morning, chairman issa and ranking member cummings and members of the committee. i'm keith hall, a senior fellow at georgia mason. recently i was the commissioner of labor statistics from 2008-2012. and my testimony i would like to talk about the bureau of labor statistics and its role in disseminating economic data. first of all let me note that the bureau of labor statistics is an independent federal statistical agency. as such, it is tasked not only with collecting, compiling and producing economic data, but also with disseminating the data and explaining it to the public. there are a number of principles which any federal statistical agency follows, its disseminate data in both a transparent, independent manner with no bias of any type, there are also tasked with creating a level playing field for the release of data meaning that nobody has an advantage of getting the data early ahead of other people. in addition, they are responsible for the security of the data and that's everywhere including inside the lockup room. in fact, the bureau of labor statistics has

dr. hall testify that the bls, which he led as a president bush appointee until recently, is an independent statistical agency. not influenced by politics and disinterested in policy information, policy formation. yet you accuse bls of engaging in an attempt to justify government initiative. ms. roth, did you mean to accuse dr. hall and the bls of engaging in the biased activity of promoting certain policies? .. they pay a great deal of money, and they should get the best value should be job creation as a whole rather than dividing the jobs into green jobs. >> do you have any anecdotal avenues of where they're just been a huge -- i know down in missouri we have a certain wind farm that was created by one of -- i mean, could you point to something like that and say, there's been no jobs created? do you have any and i don't evidence? >> well, i mean, there is solyndra, a company that -- >> i ask the taliban have an additional 15 seconds. without objection. >> solyndra that receive $535 million t

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dr. keith hall is the former commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, and is currently a senior fellow at the mercadis certainly. and ms. diane furchtgott-roth is the former chief economist of the united states department of labor and a current fellow at the manhattan institute. welcome all. pursuant to our committee's rules would you please rise to take the oath. and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect they all affirmed or swore. please be seated. a couple of returning. a couple of you, it may be your first. we have members that will be coming in and out. we estimated about half an hour for your opening statements. so try to stay as close to five minutes as you can. we will have your entire opening statement, plus additional material you may wish to submit to support anything you say here today, included in the record without objection. so you only need to summarize, because for the record, all that you have submitted will be on the record. mr. moss? >

, i was so proud when i got to congress because colorado had one of the few women statues in the hall. drsaban was there. all the rest had sent guys, just about. so that was very nice that not only she had done that, but she had recognized it. dr. justina ford, an african-american woman, got her medical degree in 1899. delivered 7,000 babies. and it wasn't until 1950 that the denver medical society allowed her to join, which wasn't too pretty. nevertheless, she went on and did her job. virginia neal blue was the state treasurer. maybe many of you remember here, 1966. ruth stockton was a republican and very strong in the house. penny chennery tweety. many of you remember reva ridge. all of them were women who did incredible things. not to mention condoleezza rice, madeline albright. i think there's something in the water. but when you really start looking at the number of women who came through here, it's really quite wonderful. we also know that about one-third of our cowboys were african-americans, which was great. so we have had this in our history all along. and in the west, i think we

, i was so proud when i got to congress because colorado had one of the few women statues in the hall, dr. sabin was there. all of us that -- that was very nice that not only she had done that but recognized it. dr. ford, an african-american woman got her medical degree in 1899. delivered 7,000 babies. and it wasn't until 1950 that the denver medical society allowed her to join. but nevertheless she did her job. virginia neil blue was the state tresh trer in 1966, ruth stockton was a republican and strong in the house. many of you remember secretary in river ridge. these were women who did incredible things, not to mention condyleeza rice, madeline albright, they all were here. i think there's something in the water. when you really start looking at the number of women who came through here, that really went on. it's really quite wonderful. we also know a third of our cowboys were african-american, which was great. we have had this, this in our history all along and in the west, i think we've always been kind of proud of that, it's been more frontier where you can come and you were what y

dr. hall was very kind in saying that most of the statistics go out news wide.hey're not important enough so they go out and everybody gets them at the same time. the most important are subject to this lockup, historically, until today. let me ask you one question. if in fact the bureau of labor statistics simply started pumping this all-out through their internet, wouldn't it be worse for these critical information in because then the hedge fund with the best computer diagnosing what is exactly the same raw statistics would then make the decision on market interrupted and trade during those first few seconds? doesn't the plethora of different news organizations with different opinions reporting in a different fashion reaching different conclusions on raw data actually negate the advantage of the hedge fund because ultimately, looking at any one of these services that not guarantee him any thing -- does not give them the wrong information as much as it gives them somebody's opinion? is an 100 opinions better safeguards against radical market move than a single p

dr. keith hall is the labor statistics and currently a senior fellow at the mckay defender. and last but not least, i will work hard on this one. ms. diane furchtgott-roth. furchtgott-roth is the former chief economist department of labor and current fellow of the manhattan institute. local mall pursuant to committee's rules, which you please rise and take the oath? and raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, all truth and nothing but the truth? what the record reflect all answered in the affirmative to the best of their ability. please be seated. now, many of you are returning to testify. a couple of you and me your first. we have members who will be coming in and out. we estimated about half an hour for your opening statements, so try to stay as close to five minutes as you can. we will have your entire opening statements plus additional material you may wish to submit to support anything you say here today included in the record without objection. so you only need to summarize because for the recor

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hall, and another requested by senator bingamon. it would significantly increase electricity prices and result in heavy economic costs to the people of america. dr. holdren, do you agree that president obama's clean energy standard will result in increased electricity costs to american consumers? >> first of all, let me note that the clean energy standard is not just about wind and solar. it's about nuclear energy. it's about fossil fuel energy, with improved emission control technologies. and it's a view of this administration that we're going to need all of those in increased measure in order to provide the reliable and affordable energy to country needs, and reducing emissions, including emissions that are changing global climate. which itself -- >> dr. holdren, thank you. do you agree that the solar and wind aspects of obama's clean energy standards will increase energy costs for american consumers, as has been determined by the department of energy in their studies? >> congressman, i have not personally read that study. so i don't want to endorse or criticize its findings without having done so. but we're talking about a portfolio of energy

dr. zbigniew brzezinski, dee dee myers and nba hall of famer magic johnson. first, bill karins with an update on the weather in florida. >> good morning to you, mika a big story out there, the heat another huge story. a lot of us went to bed last night, thousands of people in colorado were evacuating. we saw one of the worst fires in colorado's history burning dozens of homes near yesterday. this is el paso county, colorado, just outside of colorado springs. only ability a mile from pikes peak and also only about a mile from the u.s. air force academy. this fire is going to burn continuing today. it won't be quite as hot but it will still be windy during the afternoon. unfortunately, a lot of people will not be able to return to their homes. this is where the fire is burning in relationships to colorado springs. colorado springs itself looks safe. as far as the forecast today, little windy this afternoon, high of 90. as far as florida is concerned the worst is over with. the rivers are cresting right now outside of jacksonville. slowly the cleanup will begin

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hall. good morning, tamron. >> good morning. a nationwide manhunt under way for the suspect of a a shooting in a new york hospital. >> reporter: dr. timothy jorden, award winning trauma surgeon. until now, known for saving lives. jackie wisniewski, a single mother with a 4-year-old son. a hospital receptionist with a dream one day of becoming a nurse. two colleagues with a personal relationship, friends recently saw signs of trouble. >> she had choke marks. i saw choke marks and bruises on her neck. she would be on the phony with me, stay on the phone with me. i think he may be coming over. >> reporter: she told her she had moved out of his home earlier in the year and wanted to make a new start. >> the scariest part, she kept saying he's going to kill me. >> reporter: police have only said jorden is a person of interest in the case. a manhunt began after witnesses reported hearing four shots and finding wisniewski dead. >> this was the target this took place, not a random act. again, he should be considered armed and dangerous. >> reporter: jorden, age 49, is well-known for volunteer community work. a product of a local hospital

hall. good morning. >> good morning. nationwide manhunt under way for the suspect of a shooting at a new york hospital. nbc's ron allen has the story. >> reporter: drtimothy jordan, award-winning trauma surgeon, until now, was known for saving lives. a single mother, jackie, with a 4-year-old son. a hospital receptionist with dreams of one day becoming a nurse. two colleagues, also with a personal relationship say friends who recently saw signs of trouble. >> she had choked mark. i saw choke marks and bruises on her neck. she would say, get on the phone with me. he might be coming over. >> reporter: ann payne said she moved out of jordan's home this year and wanted to make a fresh start. >> the most scariest of the whole thing is she said he's going to kill me. she predicted the death by his hands. >> reporter: police only said jordan is a person of interest in the case. a manhunt began wednesday morning, immediately after witnesses reported hearing four shots and then finding her dead. >> this was a targeted incident that took place, it was not a random act. but again, he should be considered armed and dangerous an at this point. >> reporter: jord