>> that's correct. >> now, i was looking at the part of the gao report, and the gao made five recommendations in the report. are you aware of that? >> yes, i am. >> and what is your opinion of those recommendations? >> we agree with most of those recommendations. >> which ones don't you agree with? >> i think the only thing in the gao report that i think needs a little further clarification, not that i don't necessarily agree with it, it is the characterization of the eccentric contract and i think it was characterized as ballooning in cost when in fact i think the eccentric contract was there was initial contract before the work was completely scoped -- >> let me stop you, because that was one of their findings, but that wasn't one of their recommendations. their recommendations -- >> correct. so i agree with all of their recommendations. >> you agree with all five of the recommendations. and what steps are you taking to implement those recommendations? >> so we are doing a number of things. first of all, in the contracting front, it is very clear now who can give work to eccentric, how work

it was the gao. it was a part of the administration. >> part of the government to check out and they found something. you're right. >> at least they are taking the trouble to find out where the problems are. >> they are required by law to do that. but john the point is the only way the affordable care act can be affordable if the applicants commit fraud. that's the only way they get the subsidies. >> the founding fathers wrote the constitution with this kind of fraud in mind. they wanted governance to be local because as taxpayers we can see those doling out our taxpayer dollars if we were around them on a daily basis. when you run a national program this kind of fraud and abuse is inevitable. you know, the reality is that obamacare failed precisely because it turned the founders' vision on its head and makes governance national. >> john makes a great point. the fact is our constitution limits and divides the power of government. that is its purpose to limit and divide the power of government. this a

the gao found on 40 separate occasions that the cgi work was incorrectly approved by cms.eport, quote, new and changing requirements drove cost increases during the first year of development while the complexity of the system and rework resulted from changing cms decisions that added to costs in the second year, gerri? gerri: those people do not know how to spend money, do they? $840 million for a website that doesn't work. peter, thank you for that. >> okay, thanks. gerri: well, change the topic here, travel credit cards, they offer rewards everywhere, in fact two-thirds of americans are members of one airline or credit card points program but are they worth it? joining me now brian kelly. brian, let's drill down into this. it seems as a consumer who uses these credit cards that they offer less and less and less, am i right? >> i would actually disagree with that. the airlines are offering less and less and less but the credit card companies are offering more. just this week citi, announced their thank you program will have airline transfer programs bringing them in line

we've actually changed it to try to satisfy gao. pretty extensive sampling after the fact to see if indeed the cows are still in the barn, and the data you're seeing reflects that they are, with some exceptions. again, zero is the orchl right goal, but they are pretty small, and i'm not sure we'll get that much better. i think it is a success area for this department. >> thank you. may i ask one more question, mr. chairman? >> yes. >> i just want to ask the air force, when we're talking about -- when secretary hale talked about the 80% goal in terms of this fall, obviously we're not where we want to be with the sbr. >> always 100, but we may not -- >> where is the air force on this? because you have been the service branch that i think has had the most difficulties and challenges iflgts yes, ma'am, we certainly started behind in this effort, our financial systems modernization is -- was and remains several years behind the other departments, so we're in early stages, still relees on the 1968 accounting system, whereas the other serv

this is just a gao report. if they can't accept a gao report, what can they accept? >> if the process moves forward becomes a multi-stakeholder, who is going to be running the internet? i mean, is there such a thing? is there an internet manager out there? servers.ave multiple most of them are in the united states. there are a couple overseas. who is actually setting the rules for these servers to talk to each other? the fear is that if we don't have an international system in which everyone plays by the same rules, then you're going to have people break off and set up their own servers. that is where the tech community as a whole fear. still a great nation, a major commerce, industry flows here. i still think that it would be tough for somebody to opt out of the system without having the united states as part of their access for jobs, information sharing, and the like. i just know the arguments on both sides. i have heard them. i appreciate my colleagues, but i kind of reject the premise. guest: >> we have seen examples where countries can really slow or even stop i

i have been made aware of issues that the gao has found within their report. being an organization that always strives to continually improve, we have a new security rule which i mentioned. we will look at that rule and see if there are things we need to beef up. we as a regulatory body put regulations in place that are risk informed and performance based and we do not typically have a one rule fits all that we leave it to the licensees to. it's their responsibility to take our requirements and put their program into a place and ensure that they're complying with our regulations. now we do provide with rules guidance that will instruct licensees on how they can construct and operate their program in a manner that will comply with our regulatory requirements but we leave it to the licensee to put their program in place to document a written security plan to -- i've had to understand the security zone on some of these pictures to understand completely all the details, but i wanted to provide that short perspective. >> okay. good. is this an honor system that's i

slavitt if he had reviewed the five recommendations gao had made. do you remember hearing that? >> yes. >> and do you remember hearing mr. slavitt say that cms agrees with all five of the recommendations? do you remember hearing that? >> i remember hearing that, yes. >> so i would just, i would just, you know, sometimes i like to have both the agency witness and the gao, so that they can answer each other's issues, but i just want the record to be clear that mr. slavitt has said that they recognize this recommendation, they intend to comply with it and i think mr. chairman we should follow up and make sure that happens. thank you, i yield back the balance of my time. >> i recognize dr. burns for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair opinion. mr. woods, thank you for being here and i commend the general accountability office on great work. this has not been easy and i appreciate how difficult it's been to be here today and i appreciate your forbearance. along the lines of what miss dagette was just asking you, do you know whether or not the center for medicare and medicaid servic

the gao has indicated that there are probably too many laboratories. my first question would be to you, dr. frieden. why do we have so many laboratories, and are they all necessary? >> i dont know that there's a right number of laboratories out there. our job within cdc is to make sure we only work with dangerous pathogens where it's necessary to do that and that we do so safely. we will be taking a fresh look at everywhere we work with these pathogens internally at cdc to make sure it's kept to the minimum necessary to serve the function of responding to infectious disease outbreaks. we still have anthrax in nature and respond to events like that. we still have ebola with the largest outbreak in history now in africa. the challenges are substantial. in terms of outside laboratories, our function in the division of select agents and toxins is to ensure the laboratories that are there are operating safely. >> well it would seem one way to increase security would be to have fewer locations and fewer laboratories. you are only using the extreme case if yo

i agree with gao. i think that there's not enough information to make a decision to either back off over go up if we don't have a baseline. i also like to say that i containment laboratories are not fashion the capacity is not built for the threats we see today. they are built for the threats that we don't see coming around the corner tomorrow. >> let me switch gears and ask about the research applications, invitations from research of ranging pathogens such as the experience with university of wisconsin generating a virus summer to the 1918 influenza outbreak that killed tens of thousand, maybe hundreds of thousands worldwide, and other ways to make h5n1 avian flu virus more contagious. is this part of expansion or is this speed this is work that is funded as biodefense research and this is a prime example of a culture of hubris. this is work that should not be performed, flat and black, should not be performed. in those cases were elements of his work are deemed essential when the research informatio

>> yes. >> gao and both conducted examinations. dr. kingsbury and dr. -- ypu believe this was an appropriate response to this incident, don't you? >> yes, i do. >> yes, i do. >> we should not forget that the way the cdc conducts this is to help keep the american public safe. cdc serves a critical role for studying dangerous pathogens to finding cures and vaccines for deadly diseases. these labs are critical to our nation's response to bioterrorism threats, so i am interested in learning about how this moratorium and the lab closures are affecting critical research that these labs were conducting. dr. frieden, how did the moratorium and lab closures limit the cdc capabilities, what happens to the studies, some of which i am guessing were operating on detailed schedules, while they were being conducted in the labs? >> we are looking at the labs in detail and identifying any laboratories which need to resume transfers for individual patient care or for public health response with highest priority, and we expect that those laboratories we

>> yes. >> gao and aphis both examinations. dr, yousbury and believe this was an appropriate response to this incident, don't you? >> yes, i do. >> yes, i do. >> we should not forget that the way the cdc conducts this is to help keep the american public safe. cdc serves a critical role for studying dangerous pathogens to finding cures and vaccines for deadly diseases. these labs are critical to our nation's response to bioterrorism threats, so i am interested in learning about how this moratorium and the lab closures are affecting critical research that these labs were conducting. den, how did the moratorium and lab closures limit the cdc capabilities, what happens to the studies, some of which i am guessing were operating on detailed schedules, while they were being conducted in the labs? >> we are looking at the labs in detail and identifying any laboratories which need to resume transfers for individual patient care or for public health response with highest priority, and we expect that those laboratories we will be able to

what gao has to approve is that the fed actually reported the rule. not that the gao has to say this rule is the right rule, that it is going to work, that it makes sense, it is just that gao has to approve, that this is a policy rule the federal reserve is using. they certainly have a model of the economy. what this is requiring is at the federal reserve make that model public. that they share it with the rest of us. which to me, again, allows the rest of us to test it, to look at the assumptions, check if it makes sense or not. it does not dictate a certain type of rule, does not dictate the coefficients, the parameters. >> why force the fed chairman or chair in this case with janet congress instify at seven days? why isn't transparency enough? gao approval, and having to report to congress at least creates more transparency than today. >> it certainly does, and i get the point that do you need to drag the fed chair up. what the bill is trying to achieve is that hopefully that is a threat that never has to exercise. that the fed publishes a rule, pu

2010 gao report, new embassy compounds.'d also like to enter into the record a letter that chairman issa and myself sent on june 23rd, 2014, to secretary kerry, requesting a series of documents that we have not yet received. i'd also like to enter into the record the response from the state department dated july 3rd, which we actually received on july 8th of this year. and then the final document is the u.s. department of state bureau of overseas building operations fact sheet, cbs news, are u.s. embassies becoming too costly to build. a response to a couple news programs. i'd like to enter that fact sheet back into the record as well. >> without objection, a request is agreed to. and now i'd like to recognize the gentleman from utah for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to be clear. this is beginning of a series of hearings that i think are essential to figure out and get to the bottom of the truth of a situation that is -- thousands of americans are facing with their mission and their service overse

now we have gao numbers. $40 million for the website, including -- $840 million. including, $150 million in cost overruns for the failed site. republicans say the website was a quote, unmitigated disaster. >> the administration didn't have the expertise, couldn't meet deadlines or didn't have leadship or organization skills to manage this massive undertaking. gao given us a price tag for this boondoggle, a broken website the president promised would be easy to use as any e-commerce site cost the taxpayers nearly one billion dollars. >> reporter: gao says the misdemeanor many of the problems that the due to the obama administration changing instructions for the website and lack of effective planning or oversight practices. lawmakers are asking officials at center for medicare & medicaid services which administers obamacare if the site will be ready for the next round of open enrollment. >> certain amount of these data discrepancy problems will be a fact of life because of the fact that we have people who do have variations, high terri ageses in their income levels.

groups,,g industry have a very different take on what the gao and what it says about the banks. nichols,d now by rob the president and ceo of the financial services forum. he represents the ceos of some of the biggest banks operating in the u.s. right now. thank you for joining us. senators say there is a subsidy but the threat of too big to fail is still out there. >> we drew very different conclusions when we saw this report. we are still flipping through it and it does note any sort of funding differential is or inearing or is gone fact two thirds of the statistically significant models show it has reversed and there's presently a funding cost disadvantage for large institutions. viewve a very different than the senators that it is going to come back in a future crisis. >> why is that? we could be in crisis time again -- the idea of the government writing to the rescue is going to give those big banks and advantage now and in the future. let's we see three reasons why that is not the case. there's no political will whatsoever for bailouts as you well know. congress, not in ou

people many of whom enroll in insurance for the first time, it's a bumpy process that the gao report the people at cms. people at cms who worked awfully hard but lived through that nightmare don't want to go through that again. >> tony, bernard, great to have you both. government accountability office comes out with this report. is this going to haunt democrats coming into the midterm elections? >> this isn't a breaking news alert for anybody. there was terrible mismanagement and things could have been done better. >> it salt in the wound? >> it isn't. we have to look at what's really important. we signed up 8 million people. that's a million people more than we expected. what's the result of that? result is we're a healthier country and economy will grow and people are getting quality healthcare where minimum standards, preventive care, and the increase in cost of healthcare is starting to go down and medicare trust fund just announced that the viability of the trust fund has now been extended four years in part because obamacare. >> are you concerned for democrats that this will be

this is a gao report, 44% under operational control. you can't tell me it's secure while children are streaming across the border. i want to finish my point. crime is not worse. the only difference is we have the president of the united states and members of congress and folks in the media saying we need to get them here and turn them into citizens. that's what's creating this crisis. >> do you agree with that? >> i don't. i think he's absolutely incorrect on the law, number one. let's establish what the law is. we passed the law when we created homeland security and it said that unaccompanied minor when is they arrive in the united states, are within 72 hours to be released by the border patrol. and handed over to the refugee division. that's the law. and they are supposed to be put in the least restrictive. that happened when there were calmer times. when reasonable people sat around the table and said this is how we should treat children. look, that's not only 2002. in 2008 we passed an antitrafficking law. i got to tell you, michele

we've worked cooperatively with gao since the last reauthorization. lastly, i want to commend the outstanding work of our 400 plus employees. we live in an extremely competitive world and playing field is not level. i wish everyone played by the rules, but as our report starts out, they could not. the stakes could not be higher. we should not seed american jobs to china, russia and other countries. that's why i ask for your support with a lending cap of $500 million. i look forward to answering your questions and working with you on the reauthorization. >> welcome your testimony now. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman, ranking member waters and distinguished members of the committee. and chairman for his kind words. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you. about the oig and xm plan. >> before i continue, i would like to thank the opportunity, my family and members of the bank for their hard work. last year, testified before this committee about the need for xm bank to enhance its risk management framework. back then, we stated xm bank would m

find the gao report. i didn't find the i.g. report. are you aware of any i.g. reports >> i'm not ware but will check. >> the gao report found the state department didn't provided equate in couldn't oversight in other programs that we've looked at. i guess my question is how many in couldn't contracting officers representatives do you have for these contracts? >> i will have to get that number for you. >> i would like to know also how many contractors we have overseeing contractors on these contracts? because what we found in the past is the contractors are watching the contractors and sometimes the contractors are hired to come in to testify about the contractors overseeing the contractors. can you provide us the list of the contractor the scope of the contract as well as the oversight being conducted on each contract managed or co-managed by state, usaid in guatemala, el salvador and honduras. >> i'll take that back. >> we have no indicators the money we're spending these programs are working. and tens o

at our request, gao with government accountable office, also looked into lab safety.umber of studies, one as recently as 2013 on the problems associated with the government's fragmented piecemeal approach to these labs. no single agency has oversight over all high containment biolabs. there are no national standards for operation and we have no record of how many labs even exist. the health and human services inspector general also issued numerous reports on high containment labs and their handling of select agents. the inspector general identified issues with the treatment of select agents and the safety of the individuals working with these dangerous pathogens. the ig recommended that the centers for disease control labs improve training for individuals handling select agents improve record keeping and take appropriate measures to improve safety. the american people count on the centers for disease control to protect them, and we want to be able to assure them the cdc is conducting its research in safe and secure ways. i am supportive of dr. friesen's effort at cdc.

gao found in 2010 her agency only checked 2% of new applicants for being potential chameleons.y more is being done. >> but what we have done is created a system we call vetting. are there patterns in this company's operation that show that they actually are sharing the address with a company we've shut down before? >> reporter: so, what's the penalty for a chameleon company? >> well, there are a series of different penalties. the highest penalty is we shut them down. we say very clearly, you are not authorized to operate. >> reporter: as for the linhart family, they were able to arrange a confidential settlement with the company that hired forrest rangelof in the first place. forrest was dropped from the lawsuit. kelly linhart was one of the nearly 4,000 fatalities that happen on our roads every year, and you can see more from our special report "collision course" on investigationsinc.cnbc.com. >> eamon, it's great work. and the fact that this is a known industry practice but there hasn't been a national outcry about it suggests that's where we have to start, tamping down on so

gao report from november 2004 regarding embassy construction, an additional gao report from june of 2006 about embassy construction, the july 2010 gao report new embassy compounds. i'd also like to enter into the record a letter chairman issa and myself sent to secretary kerry requesting a series of documents that we have not yet received. i'd also like to enter into the record the response from the state department dated july 3rd, which we actually received on july 8th of this year. and then the final document is the u.s. department of state bureau of overseas building operations fact sheet cbs news, are moerndz u.s. embassies becoming too costly to build? it issued a response to a couple of news programs. i'd like to enter that fact sheet into the record as well. and ask unanimous consent to do so. >> without objection, a request is agreed to. now i'd like to recognize the gentleman from utah for an opening statement. >> thank you. i want to be clear. this is beginning of a series of hearings that i think are essential to figure out and get to the bottom of the truth of a situatio

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the plane probably crashed around gao in northern mali. >> two reconnaissance planes from a military base in neighboring niger will join in the search. france president, francois hollande, says his thoughts were with the families of those on board and everything will be done to find the plane. >>> police officers from australia will soon be heading to eastern ukraine. they'll help with the investigation into of the malaysian airli killed in the crash. >> we are ready to deploy au help secure th an international team under united nations authority. >> prime minister abbott said pro-russian separatists have prevented a thorough search of the crash site. he said 50 australian police officers are preparing for their mission. all 298 people on malaysia airlines fli lastwh shot down. but international experts assessing the remains say they've only counted about 200 bodies. they say some could remain at the crash site. >> i'm so scared about the news. i'm so sad. i feel like i want to cry. i thought if my parents are over there, i don't know what t >> we are still waiting for the exact news

did the gao have conclude -- did the gao conclude that the biggest banks are getting exquisite subsidyed too big to fail? >> they are already getting a subsidy. we know that from a different -- from different reports prior to this. know as the bigs get largerand larger, 25% just since the crisis, we also know that in times of crisis, the advantage is even bigger to the big banks, and that is particularly alarming. >> my understanding is that some of the testimony protested already -- posted already suggested that maybe the advantage has been reduced or eliminated. case,ur critics make the if there was a subsidy, it is going away? admit that there was or is a subsidy and they are arguing about the amount of it. the report says it may have gone down some with economic conditions getting much better. if we go back to the same crisis conditions of 2008, the subsidy goes up. really, there is a too big to fail subsidy or cost of funding advantage. i don't think it has been reduced significantly if you factor in the general economy. >> there have been a lot of studies looking into this issue.

president held a news conference, where he theed that he had had department of justice, the fbi, the gao, he referred to the banking and currency committee, and he said he had directed his own counsel, john dean, to investigate the watergate to determine if there was any white house involvement. as truth of the matter is, far as we know it, the evidence -- john dean has never reported to him. had never been with the president. the white house logs show that. john dean's testimony is to be affect that he didn't even know about such a report until the president's press conference. what was john dean doing in the meantime? on june 19, he was meeting with mr. mcgruder, at which meeting he was told by john mitchell they needed a fire to burn incrementing evidence. when it23, they decided was reported to them there was money involved but perhaps been laundered in mexico, that money that had gone to the greek, what they do -- the president knew about this. get a hold of the cia determined shouldn'te cia influence the fbi not to pursue that, because of covert activities. for a while, the cia agr

gao wrote that, quote, ssa has ongoing planning efforts, but they do not address the long-term nature of these management challenges, unquote. now, ms. colvin, if you are confirmed, how would you handle the modernization, information technology, and physical infrastructure? >> senator hatch, we have recognized that the agency does need to have a long-term vision. we are in the process of doing that right now. we have the national association of public administrators that were commissioned by congress to help in this process. they have submitted their report. we will use some of that report to inform decisions as finish our own planning process. we expect to have a long-term vision plan around the first of the year. we need to make sure that we've got extensive engagement with our stakeholders, with congress and advocates, and our customers, et cetera, so we're looking at making sure that all of that has been done. but we do expect to have a long-term vision document completed by the beginning of the new fiscal year. the last vision document was in fact done in 2000 when i was here, wh

findings from a new gao report that show an alarming lack of oversight in handing out subsidies. chief national correspondent. >> reporter: in an explosive report, the government accountability office says it went under cover applying for subsidies through the federal exchanges online under 12 fictitious names using invalid social security numbers or inaccurate citizenship information, 11 of the 12 were approved. >> we used fictitious identities, false information and forged documents as well as instructions from the marketplace itself to circumvent its front and back end controls. >> it is a crime to submit false information, but this undercover operation shows just how easy it is to get subsidies under the federal exchanges even with a contractor watching. >> this contractor is not required to look or detect -- look for or detect fraud and accepts documents as authentic unless they are obvious alterations. >> officials say the government doesn't have the capability to check either. republicans worry taxpayer money's in jeopardy, democrats minimize the findings. >> we cannot tol

hollande that no conclusions have been drawn and one of the black boxes is currently on its way to gao. french troops are stationed there in the town that is quickly becoming the hub of activity as officials try to figure out what happened. >> it will be the hub. it is where we expect the bodies to be taken. many will be flown unfortunately to france. many of the passengers were french. investigators will base themselves there. is extremelyit well organized and well established base with everything you could need. even forensic workers will have forss to a field hospital pulmonary investigations. i don't know where the black box will be analyzed. the investigative team is on way to do the work they need to do on the ground. this morning to at least 100 french troops are near the crash site. they traveled out in 30 vehicles. you are being supported by the human mission -- u.mn. police mission in mali. -- is unusually well-placed for the investigation. >> thank you for that update. the plane disappeared from radar thursday less than an hour after it took off from the capital as it headed

been killed and seven others injured in an apparent suicide bombing 1900 kilometers from the city of gao. brings up the total of those killed in that action. 21 people have been killed and more than 130 others injured in moscow. that is after a subway train came off the track during the morning rush hour. a massive rescue operation continued late in the afternoon as a number of people were trapped in the wreckage. it is unclear what caused that train to derail. here is our report. >> rescue workers inspect the mangled wreckage of this moscow commuter train after several carriages went off the tracks between two stations during morning rush hour. >> i was inside the train wagon, and there was a sudden sharp impact which threw me off my feet. the lights went out. >> smoke was in the air. people could not leave for a long time. we were stuck. >> the crush left -- the crash left several people dead and scores injured. more than 1,000 passengers were evacuated. those hurt were carried out on stretchers, the most serious cases airlifted to hospitals. while yet to be confirmed, a power surge is

cummings and others, one of the things that drives me on this is you have multiple gao reports and an inspector general report that says, my goodness, standard embassy designs, they're going faster and they're generally coming in under budget. we never get reports like that. and yet i look at the state department and they say, but we're going to totally scrap that, we're going a different design, different way, we're going to focus on architecture. because architecture is diplomacy. you can shake your head no but that's the video that the state department put out. that is the video put out. you're shaking your head. >> because i -- as i explained, we are committed to being on those same budgets. we're committed to that schedule. we're committed to meeting all the security requirements. i just know that we can build even better buildings, right? what we're doing is what we should be doing, what bureaucrats should be doing. we are trying to improve on a good product. as you rightly pointed out, the standard embassy design did require modifications for different -- we're taking that a st

researchers, but even the discussions within our committee meetings from the budget committee to the gao commit tee committee as we move this forward. >> i want to acknowledge the argument that i haeshd heard from one of my other colleagues about concerns around a regressive tax. a regressive tax is a tax that unfairly put on generally poor people. what's ironic is that these diseases that we're looking to solve are also regressive, meaning that it affects the same population. it's really hard and i find it very disingenuous would you say just to argument a regressive tax argument when dealing with a serious policy issue and i just want to acknowledge that my comments earlier onjust to argument a regressive tax argument when dealing with a serious policy issue and i just want to acknowledge that my comments earlier on hostile environment for many reasons, poverty, exposure to trauma, exposure to violence, poor education and that also does not exclude the over specifically targeting people to consume these sugary beverages, which data has concluded, does in fact kill people. thank you. >>

what does gao see in terms of that as i prime example how not to do it? >> we have not done a follow-up study on the system you had mentioned. one of the lessons learned is not to have too big a system's be put out there in one increment. you should implement them in smul smaller chunks at their various gates which are tried and tested before you move forward. that was one of the key elements. >> continuous improvement? >> absolutely. that was one of the elements that was lacking based on the study that we have done several years ago, they were not following best practices on cost and scheduling. that's an early indicator that there were problems. >> i'm not familiar specifically with the air force situation but i can tell you that we have done a number of audits around the implementation and continue to do audits around the implementation and it seems to me that the -- what we're trying to do is -- what the department is trying to do is there are over 140 feeder systems that connect to these erp systems. and there seems often to be a reluctance in changi

in addition to the inspector general audit, several gao reports have raised concerns about oversight of high containment labs, including those at cdc. despite the red flags, these incidents keep happening. we learned last friday scientists delivered an influenza strain that was contaminated with a very deadly flu virus. the cross-contamination was discovered may 23, but it took six weeks for this to be reported to cdc leadership. what we have here is a pattern of reoccurring issues, of complacency, and a lack of a culture of safety. this is not sound science, and this will not be tolerated. these practices put the health of the american public address. it is sloppy and inexcusable. i thank you for testifying today. i question if the corrective measures you have announced will solve the problem, and i look forward to the testimony. taking personal actions will not address problems that appear to be systemic. toneeds tod -- cdc needs ensure that procedures are followed. you said you were distressed by the delay in notification over shipment. i want to know if you have reason to believe

. >>> i reached out the agency that oversees obamacare, they are working with the gao to fix the flawshe investigation uncovered. >> service was interrupted on two san francisco muni lines after a wire fail. third and mission streets. it affected the 14 mission line and the five fulton line. one person suffered minor injuries and refused treatment. the line was fixed and no word on what caused the line the fall. >>> we're learning about a mystery man who surprised people by paying for their groceries. it was 33-year-old michael, this is a picture of him. he told the paper he had a simple reason. he wanted to turn a lousy day into a good day. he was laid off his job and spent $600 from his last paycheck. he realized he's young and fit and he can find another job and others may not be able to. that's a remarkable attitude for that young man to have. >> so many people go into clampdown mode. >>> that's really nice. >>> that's the best use of $600 i can think of. >>> we've been bothering you about this muggy weather for days. >> you have not been bothering me. >> it's been muggy and humid

and stunned by the claims in the arrest of this security service employee the president of germany mr gao chris said that and nothing is enough that if this turns out to be true well it has to be the end but we've we've seen this before we've heard these type of words before and we haven't seen anything really done about it all of what's come out following edward snowden's revelations is showing that not only is germany one of the most spied on nations by the n.s.a. also that chancellor angela merkel's private cell phone had been hacked by u.s. security services and now it seems that they had a double agent within the german security services self what we've seen though from campaign is they say they want a real reaction from the german leaders what i can only tell is on social media reaction people are absolutely incensed i mean they already have like the last face faith in their government and their elected officials it should be a strong reaction on the other hand i mean this is politics and i mean like not naive excuse me is it is not a surprise that the u.s. agents are actively saw y

find the gao report.didn't find the i.g. report. are you aware of any i.g. reports >> i'm not ware but will check. >> the gao report found the state department didn't provided equate in couldn't oversight in other programs that we've looked at. i guess my question is how many in couldn't contracting officers representatives do you have for these contracts? >> i will have to get that number for you. >> i would like to know also how many contractors we have overseeing contractors on these contracts? because what we found in the past is the contractors are watching the contractors and sometimes the contractors are hired to come in to testify about the contractors overseeing the contractors. can you provide us the list of the contractor the scope of the contract as well as the oversight being conducted on each contract managed or co-managed by state, usaid in guatemala, el salvador and honduras. >> i'll take that back. >> we have no indicators the money we're spending these programs are working. and tens of t

and this is just a gao report. if they can't accept a gao report, i mean, what can they accept? >> host: if the process moves forward and icann becomes a hullty -- multistakeholder, who's going to be running the internet? is there such a thing? is there an internet manager out there? >> guest: well, they have 34u89 billion servers and there's a couple overseas, so the question is who's actually setting the rules for these servers to talk to each other. and the fear is that if we don't have an international system in which everyone wants to play by the same rules, then you're going to have people break off and set up their own rules, servers, and then that's where the tech community as a whole fears. i think they -- we're still, you know, we're still a great nation and a major commerce industry flows here. i still think that it would be tough for someone to try to opt out of the system without having the united states as part of their access for, you know, jobs, information sharing and the like. i just know the arguments on both sides, and i've heard 'em, and i appreciate my coll

businesses also need gao $delivery on all hours, all days. a constant flow of materials on the embarcadaro. the entire length of the embarcadaro also has different needs at different locations. mobility access, delivery, range is huge everything from the cruise ships to the explore or yum, ferry building, fire station, pier 3, they all have different needs that we need to address through this project ~. the needs of the embarcadaro are sometimes in conflict. it's so popular that it can become uncomfortable and unsafe for some user, not just the cyclist who is moving into the driving lane. i know as a driver i bomb very uncomfortable when cyclists are weaving in and out. it is so popular the experience can be diminished and uncomfortable. so, some of the project goals, really the top one is to make the embarcadaro safe and comfortable for all of the roadway users including people who walk, cycle, drive, deliver freight and ride transit. we want to support the economic development and a com indicate the anticipated possibility of employment gro

departments but all recommendations that have not been closed will again, appear on the annual report to the gao. and 88 of the recommendations 13 percent were closed after cfa's two year, cycle completed and in total, the departments implemented 96 percent of the narrowly, 700 recommendations. out of the 698 recommendations, cfa issued in these two fiscal years, 10/11 and 11/12, 28 remain open across several departments in the next few slides i will give a high level summary of those recommendations and the last report status. the arts commission has one pending recommendation from cfa's audit of the street artist program and the recommendation asks the department to accept the credit card transactions from the street artist program to pay their license fees. arts commission reports that this is not technically possible, with their current website and that it has included this recommendation as part of the budget request, to be designed its website and it has not been granted. and but it is currently exploring other alternatives until they are able to fully implement a system on-line, so it set