brigadier general sandra finan, u.s. of air force nuclear weapons center, former principal assistant for applications and national nuclear security administration. and the honorable gregory friedman inspector general u.s. department of energy. i want to thank the witnesses for appearing today and the time they've put into preparing the testimony. i know it is a labor, but we do appreciate it. i have a longer version of my statement but without objection i'm going to offer it for the record. hearing none it is so ordered. with the bible to turn to my friend and colleague from tennessee, mr. jim cooper for any opening comments that he may have. >> thank you, chairman rogers. i look for to working with you whenever colleagues on these important issues this year. i would just like to ask in view of the shortness of time that my opening statement be inserted in the record. >> thank you, sir. in concert with that, as you all may have been told before in the hearing, we are going to be called for votes and oh-la-la all, so we a

the dow jones now recovering all glosses that have been incurred during the finanal crisis and more. there are striking differences between today and october 2007. we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of those differences. the national debt is massively larger. the debt that was just over $9 trillion in 200. today is $16.6 trillion. as a percentage of gdp back then, it was only 30%. it has risen to nearly 75% over the past four plus years. the unemployment rate last month, 7.9%. in october 2007, unemployment rate was 4.7%. the average price of a gallon of gasoline in october 2007 was $2.75 per gallon. as you see there, now it is $3.7per gallon. the obama administration remains under considerable criticism today for overhyping the effects of the sequester and critics charging that the president playing games with some of the services being cut, such as tours of the white house. ed henry has our report. >> just in time for the spring break rush of tourists, white house officials today notified congress that they are taking the highly unusual step of canceling tours

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