we talked about the gao report identify challenges at the agency. one of which was the need to prioritize in the area of human capital. do you agree and what is being done about that? >> yes. i should have mentioned more to the point about your prior concern, is that at the agency what i've done is i've put together an interagency pyd wishon working group's of all the program heads are not to switch with her resource partners but what measures matter to them so they are also mining the corrected data and we can build proper evaluations to be more responsive to the management challenges that we are addressing here today. i wanted to speak to that. with respect to human capital as i mentioned, when we talk about the district offices as the congresswoman from the islands mentioned earlier, the samoa islands, i think people because of one of the best leverage actors around, they can understand we are only fewer than 2000 employees, leveraging these kind of numbers, managing federal government, procurement process, the kinds of things we do, we do levera

but yet among the findings of the gao, there has been no action taken. the law was very clear that action was to be taken within six months of the implementation of that law. so my question to you is, you know, what explains why nothing has been done on this score? do you disagree with us on what was done? and if you do, it would have been nice to know that before now, but if you do, why has nothing been done? >> first of all, let me thank you for your service. i know you're an admirable veteran and i really salute the work you've done in particularly difficult zones in our world. but let me just speak to if i haven't shown or exhibited the level of seriousness with which i take this work, i apologize. but let me just say, when i looked that up just to see the momentum, because i thought that i should stress this to you, under prior administrations, like in 2002, for example, there had been one debarment. in 2003, one. in 2004, zero. under my term, i've already completed 47 of these just to show you the momentum with which i'm approaching this work. so p

i look forward to hearing the gao's testimony and i think mr. bill scheer and his team for the continued work on our behalf. without, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you very much. we would ask committee members made opening statements prepared if they would send them for the record. and just to explain very briefly our roles here at a time limit which mr. shear is very similar with i'm sure. operate under the five minute rule where the witnesses get five is to testify. industries will give you a little bit longer than that if you need it. since there's only one witness we cannot have four. that doesn't mean we want you to take 20 minutes but if you need more time that's okay and we will ourselves to five minutes at least in the first round and then determine we think it's -- the red light will come on and we'll let you go although that further than that as i indicated. and out a brief introduction. mr. shear who is our witness, director of unnatural markets and committed investment team at the government accountability office, most of us r

today i'm looking forward hearing from gao about whether or not they believe gao is standing through commitment. it is a vital role and one that i want to ask all committee members to take part in. i look forward to hearing the gao's testimony and i -- >> just to explain very briefly our rules here in the time limits which the share is familiar with, i'm sure we operate under the five-minute rules. we will give you a little bit longer than that if you need it there's only one witness, we generally have four. you need a little more time, that's okay and we will limit ourselves to five minutes at least in the first round and then we will determine whether i think it's necessary in the second round at the appropriate time. the yellow light comes on and says it's time to wrap up and if the red light comes on we will let you go on a little more like we indicated, and we look very forward to your testimony and you're recognized for five minutes or as i say a little bit longer. >> thank you. i'll keep it under five minutes. >> thank you. >> ranking member and members of the committee, i'm p

in that gao stated it stems from the '80s and '90s. but i am doing backed they're all important and vital but i am prioritizing. there were two that were a disaster oriented. >> go want to get to have up prioritization to knock these out. and there is no more difficult industry than the information and technology industry producing 150,000 jobs per year and it is very difficult to get them into government jobs with the 2230 year-old. an avid like to have if he would put those commercials that our fantastic so i feel their pain. and then reaching out to the peace corps types and traveling to the other part of the state in the hope that you felt -- built our efforts with small business saturday. also is trying to make it attractive place to work. i just retained a fabulous producer a gentleman i partner with anybody who is willing to help me amplify that opportunity. but i also need to write the correct job description. is meant to speak to a future in what i have right now to give them opportunities to be mentored >> i know my time is e

these are just some of the long-standing issues raised in the gao analysis. when there's always room for improvement, i was heartened to hear that they have accepted most of the gao recommendation and i look forward to learning how the administrator is instituting change. i recognize as a political appointee she is in a difficult position of often having to answer for the work of her predecessors as well as the officials that often drive many agency decisions. with that, i would like to thank the administrator for being here. as always, we appreciate your participation. i think the chairman and yield back trade >> if committee members with opening statements i would ask they be submitted for the record and a brief explanation of our time rolls around here which i know you are familiar with the operate under the five-minute rule. you will be given five minutes to justify if you need more than that we will give you a little leeway since we only have one witness as yesterday, although he kept it within about three minutes, but we are not asking that you do that.

the gao made 11 recommendations regarding jpss. noaa only has implemented two of them. 12 recommendations regarding goes r and four were implemented. can you explain the gap made by the gao and the ability to respond? >> yeah. a lot of those recommendations are to address the gap. it is on the contingency planning efforts. i think a lot are in flight. they are not fully wrapped up yet. we want to see more done to address the gaps. i think the issue with this poor schedule performance and whether it's achievable for not, i think we need to be more open with our risks. we were here in february talking about missed milestones on the goes program. we didn't think they were going to hit the launch date of march 2016. and noaa had data showing poor data performance for two years. our point is you need to be open with your risks in order to hit your dates. when you're open with your risk -- and this committee has been very supportive of noaa to make sure the satellites get up there on time. we need to work on these risks and be open so we

i'd like to ask the gao and the ig to respond to that. because in your report you said there was not adequate training for the new software updates. >> i'm going to defer to the ig on that. i believe their report was more specific to that particular issue. >> okay. thank you. mr. bowman. >> yeah, during our field work in 2013 and 2014, we interviewed over 90 users of vbms. and we heard quite a few complaints about new releases. an emphasis on pushing on functionality without the end users knowing how to use that functionality. there was a lot of complaints that there was inadequate tra training for them to leverage the functionality to help process claims. >> ms. bontempo, my last question is the cost has risen from $580 million to $1.3 billion. substantial investment has been made. this congress has provided those dollars. but it's still not functionality operational after six years. i'm sure that can be argued, but there's going to be more money required. so, my question is, what's the current life cycle cost estimate for vbms? >> and i

the gao's conclusions are clear. sba needs a complete overhaul of its operations. finding a resolution to the problems will not be easy. gao has taken the first step, identifying the problems at the sba, the next steps are significantly harder meaningful solutions usually are problems that have exited for decades will not be resolved overnight. it will take the dedicated efforts of agency officials and the watchful eyes of those on this committee to write these wrongs. the committee efforts will not end with the review of this report. we will convene multiple hearings by varyios branches of that agencies. hearings may reveal other barriers to operations of the sba that will require further examination by this committee and by the gao. if the report examined today subsequent hearings and additional reports by gao continue to reveal problems that the administration will not fix the committee will not hesitate to take legislative action. the sba plays a significant role in providing assistance to america's entrepreneurs. the problems that have festered far too long mu

and speedy in shallow waters close to shore are supposed to be the free gift of the future but the gao says the navy shouldn't spend anymore money on them because it's uncertain if they have enough firepower or can even survive in combat the recent real release gao gao report says the actual legality and survivability performance of the lcs is still largely unproven through realistic testing so far twenty four lcs is have already been built or are under construction report goes on to say the vulnerability of the ships haul to the very sea conditions also remains unknown due to the dynamic nature of the waves the navy cannot rely on modeling and simulation alone to provide an accurate assessment of rough seas. now all lcs also an lcs was in the news for the wrong reasons locally last month when the navy a newly commissioned uss milwaukee had to be towed into little creek from the atlantic as engineers tried to determine why metal debris had filed the ship's propulsion system in his directive carter told the navy to take the savings from the un built lcs is in direct them toward upgradin

in preparing this report, did you find disagreement between sba and gao on what gao recommendations should be considered completed or fully implemented by the agency? >> over the past year i would say roughly since last april or may, there's been a lot more focus at sba in looking at our open recommendations. which is a long list. and it's -- we reported to this committee before. sba's track record over the years in addressing open recommendation s has not been very good. the comptroller general actually in november sent a letter to the administrator like he did to other heads of agencies, and in this case sba's implementation rate, the way we calculate that rate is around 58%. and most of the government is around 80%. so, this is -- this has been a concern of ours. we've seen some attention and movement on this. and there's been i think a push from senior management, i'd say roughly since last summer. and we've had multiple meetings at sba including senior leadership over our open recommendations. so, it's a positive sign. so, the idea was this actually represents an improvement. as you s

gao estimated that in its report that a data gap may occur earlier. more troubling is the potential data gap facing noaa's g.o.e.s.-r program. since its inception the g.o.e.s.-r program has undergone significant increases in cost and reductions in scope and as gao report indicates, noaa has yet to reverse or even halt this trend as we have seen with the most recent delay to the launch pushing a march 2016 launch date back to october 2016. this means we could be facing a long period without a backup satellite in orbit. history has shown us that backups are sometimes necessary to reduce risk to public safety and the economy. >> in 2008 and 2012 the agency was forced to use backup satellites to cover problems with operational, a solution we may once again find ourselves needing. when talking about consequences in the thought of extreme weather on the ground. however, professional and personal experience shows me allows me to discuss the impact of gap weather data on aviation weather. as a private pilot i know the importance of having accurate and timely

the gao found little evidence that deadline suits determined the substantive outcome of agency action because agency officials quote stated they have not and would not agree to settlements in a deadline suit that finalized the substantive outcome of the rule making or declare the substance of the final rule, end quote. earlier this year, a regulatory policy advocate for public citizen, also clarified during the legislative hearing on hr 712, that quote, all of the settlements scrutinized by gao pursuant to the epa's rule making authority under the clean air act, went through the public notice and comment process allowing all members of the public an opportunity to comment on the rule before it is finalized. end quote. this finding confirms that there is little evidence supporting the proposition that federal agencies engage in back room deals with proregulatory groups to circumvent the apa or substantively bind the agency in a subsequent rule making. in the evidence of collusion between federal agencies and plaintiffs, hr 712 addresses a nonexistent problem through a series of require

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committee to get involved in the operations, however, it is the reality of the gao committee that theoard of supervisors establish supply policy that promotes city transparent and accountability as city leaders are unwilling to be held accountable finding and recommendation 6 deals with the city's one thousand three hundred and 24 construction employees that are spread out over of city departments with construction authority we estimate the salary costs using the annual salary orientals to be one hundred and $20 million without benefits the list of inefficiencies that certificate of preference holders with 6 different city departments managing the same process is very long there are very few citywide standard operating procedures for managing the projects for example, rec and park did not have a written change over policy each the 6 city departments with the construction authority uses different computer systems to report the construction information the current lack of a comprehensive set of operating policies in a citywide construction management system is an is having 6 city payrol

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i to some degree take issue with certain omissions in the gao report.we are embracing its recommendations. we believe it will make our work better. >> do you believe that fraud is a pervasive problem in the asylum context? >> i believe it is something we need to do everything we can to prevent. i certainly perceive it as a risk -- >> certainly we're doing everything to prevent it, but is it a pervasive problem in the asylum context? >> again, i view it as a risk. i don't know they would view it as a "pervasive problem." >> how many asylum cases are being granted in the united states now, percentage? >> i believe it's roughly 25,000 in recent years. >> so what percentage is that was the adjudicated cases? >> i couldn't tell you specifically what percentage it is. i could certainly get that information. >> okay. based on u.s. cis internal investigations and audits, does the agency have an estimated percentage of the number of fraudulent asylum application that's are affirmatively filed each year? again, we know the cases that we found. that's why i point

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in gao's opinion, would noaa incur higher costs if they did not receive all of the requested funds forthe polar programs? >> i'm not certain. this is back to where the appropriate analysis and the tradeoff assessments needs to be given to this committee, to gao, so that we can actually answer that question. you need analysis that supports it. >> well -- to close this, and i assume this will close the hearing, i just think handing noaa another blank check to

process,are the legal either in gao or court.nytime you going g to a process like that there are some risks. go: what are the indications of thiss decision eating overturned? frank: i don't expect them totoe overturned. if they are we will decide on the basis -we will lo at the basis of which it is being sustained and en go from there. vago: why would the cost of the program be something that ought to be classified? i could undnderstand subcontractors, because that is a targeting or technology issue. why woululd that -- broadly in this inteterconnected wld, control the flow of technologies a and information thais disseminated electronically? how do you control a world where it is vital to doing this to beautiful work? frank thing i think do a pretty good job protecting it. the unclassified information is much harder. we do have things in place. the process for three years now to put somee rules into ourur contractssome standards and recently put out a new standard based on feedback. we decided tgive the mililitary more time to im

secondly, i'll have to check with gao. but the last time i checked last year, the 2005 round of brac had not yet broken even. in other words, ten years later, it still cost the taxpayer more money than it saved. people say oh, that was an unusual situation. my point is, we don't have any extra money laying around. once we give it away, especially if it's a training range or a flying range or something, we'll give it back. so we better be darn sure. if so, we'll look at it. >> cyber becoming such a major threat, this questioner wants to know how you will seek to build out cyber personnel, via legislation. >> when we go through our people reforms, as part of the reform effort i mentioned, one of the key questions that i and other members ask is, okay, what if we want to get somebody into cyber command and can we do that? do we have the authorities to do it? we're not going to match them on pay. but at least is it not an embarrassment? can we take somebody from silicon valley for a while and then they go back into the private

we asked the gao if they thought that might help improve service, their answer was no. reporting live in washington, tonight, justin gray channel 9 eyewitness news. >>> since the start of eyewitness at 4:00, a crowd of homeless people won't leave their new camp in downtown daytona beach. >> and brand new at 6:00, what happened when we confronted a county commissioner over why this is still a problem. >> plus, we are still going what else it shows regarding an officer-involved shooting in orlando. >> and what the orlando city k >>> developing at 6:00, homeless people in daytona beach, are refusing to leave a government building, that the county leaders were forced to shut down. >> you shut down an entire county office. >> i agree. >> taxpayers paying for the office we confronted a county commissioner. >>> for weekings, city and county leaders say they've been trying to find solutions to this >> and tonight, the situation

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in gao's opinion, would noaa incur higher costs if they did not receive all of the requested funds for the polar programs? >> i'm not certain. this is back to where the appropriated analysis and the tradeoff assessments needs to be given to this committee, to gao, so that we can actually answer that question. you need analysis that supports it. >> well -- to close this, and i assume this will close the hearing, i just think handing noaa another blank check to build satellites when they can't get the ones that the have off the ground, it appears a bit irresponsible, mr. chairman. and i think noaa needs to fix their systematic problems that have plagued the program for years before we throw any more money at it. i yield the balance of my time. >> i would like to thank the gentleman from alabama. it is -- it's a very challenging issue that we have -- we have delays, we have these challenges, and it seems the only answer is more money, more time, more money, more time. if we don't provide it, then we have quite frankly even bigger problems with data gaps and the inability to predict weathe

the gao report found that nearly 25 percent of the nation's bridges are considered deficient. ten percent are considered structurally deficient which means they're in poor condition. nearly 15 percent are considered functionally obsolete. which means their design is no longer up to date with today's heavy traffic patterns. >> poor conditions some way or another. we're talking about 150,000 that are de nisht some fashion. >> reporter: how could one in every four of america's bridges go unrepaired to so long? >> not a lot of money to be made by lobbyists to lobby to have bridges repaired so it does not become 3r50i ort. >> reporter: congress passed a massive transportation act this month signed into law by the president and authorizing $305 billion in spending over the next 5 years for roads and transit upgrades. it provides more flexibility for states to carry out infrastructure priorities. >> each community and each state can decide how best to use those resources. >> there's never going to enough to address every structure need in this country but this is a great step. >> rep

the igs and gao are doing a great job, but frankly there is a groundhog day aspect of gao reports. i use the example of cybersecurity. when you look at the opm breach and the ten years that preceded that, and the work coming out of the white house and opm, it reflects the multiple approaches the administration said was going to be done to take cybersecurity seriously, nothing happened. there's been no consequences. >> how is it that more than half of the employees get bonused up? for instance, we had people that engaged in the sexual misconduct, and yet where they punished? was there a consequence? no. they got bonuses. they got promotions and bonuses. what does that say to the workforce? what does that say to -- there needs to be consequences from the secretary on down so they feel the heat that good people get rewarded and the bad apples are weeded out and pushed out the door. as you relate to the opm data breach, one of the largest data breaches we've ever had, 20 something million people whose information is out there and has been stolen, the inspector general, i think it was s

last month gao report ed that 1 of 15 sectors -- sector specific agency had not identified incentives to promote cyber security even though that's called for in the national protection plan. the president's executive order called for the framework to be both cost effective and prioritized. three years later there has been no objective measurement of the framework's effect on improvement security, adoption, or its cost effectiveness. three, the government needs to escalate -- to educate the top leadership as the private sector is doing. in 2014 isa and aig create add handbook on cyber security for corporate boards which was published by the national corporate directors and is the heart of the training program that they are launching. price water house cooper recently validated the success of this approach saying boards appear to be listening to the nacd guidance. this year we saw a double digit increase in board participation cyber security leading to a 24% boost in security spending. other notable outcomes include the identification of key risks, fostering an organizational culture of

in gao's opinion, would noaa incur higher costs if they did not receive all of the requested funds for the polar programs? >> i'm not certain. this is back to where the appropriate analysis and the tradeoff assessments needs to be given to this committee, to gao, so that we can actually answer that question. you need analysis that supports it. >> well -- to close this, and i assume this will close the hearing, i just think handing noaa another blank check to build satellites when they can't get the ones that they have off the ground, it appears a bit irresponsible, mr. chairman. and i think noaa needs to fix their systematic problems that have plagued the program for years before we throw any more money at it. i yield the balance of my time. >> i would like to thank the gentleman from alabama. it is -- it's a very challenging issue that we have -- we have delays, we have these challenges, and it seems the only answer is more money, more time, more money, more time. if we don't provide it, then we have quite frankly even bigger problems with data gaps and the inability to predict weathe

in its report the gao referred to these lawsuits as deadline suits because they simply compel agencies to take stat torely required actions within a designated time frame. found little evidence that deadline suits determine the substantive outcome of agency action because officials, quote, stated that they have not and would not agree to settlements in a deadline suit that finalized the substantive outcome of the rulemaking or declare the substance of the rule, unquote. earlier this year a regulatory policy advocate for public citizen also clarified during the legislative hearing on hr-712 that, quote, all of the settlements scrutinized by gao by the epa's rulemaking authority under the clean air act went through the public notice and comment process allowing all members of the public an opportunity to comment on the rule before it is finalized. end quote. this finding confirms that there is little evidence supporting the proposition that federal agencies engage in back room deals with pro regulatory groups to circumvent the apa or substantively bind the agency in a subsequent rulemaki

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concernse gao's chief is about the timeline for reaching one answer percent implementation. the v.a. address that concern? ms. mccoy: i will start that her toand i will turn to supplement my answer. vbms,he intended goal of the idea was to create an electronic repository, an electronic file room and we have a compass that. that.have accomplished we rolled it out in 2012. by june of 2013, to all 56 regional office is. they have that functionality. we didn't stop there. we went on to add in automation, because of that made sense. that was the right thing to do for veterans. if she could add to that. >> i appreciate the opportunity to be able to talk about why vbs is different. it is different because we use agile methodology. that means we can release software every three months and bring high-value folks now the to the field as quickly as possible to serve our veterans. that is a little different than maybe you have seen before. so as a result, once we were able to deliver that electronic folder, a lot of folks were able to look around and say you could do so much more. we tu

your nickels and pennies cost more to make them worth so there could be changes he asked the office, gao says it costs about 1.7 -- 1.07 to make a penny. government plays rising metal prices bid use cheap metals is the obvious solution but the investment has not identified a u.s. composition to prevent think that makes of 97 percent of every penny that lawmakers are the ones who will need to decide if any changes should be made to bring cost down. >>> stocks are up on wall street this afternoon speaking of money, look at the numbers the closing figures for you tonight on channel 9 eyewitness hey, guys, it's annie. you know, as moms, we are always looking for new ways to save money. pwell today, i'm going to share with you pa simple tip that could help you stretch your budget when it comes to not bad. pit's easy: bogos from other stores aren't always the best deal, pbut walmart every day low prices, pwell, that could save you some money. orlando, the total amount saved at walmart vs winn dixie was $16.17 in this week's basket - that's 14% including bogos. give walmart every day low prices

i keep going back to this gao report and the note that they made about subsidized properties counting for the majority of the repetitive loss properties in the market. i heard it yesterday during the testimony, as well. 1% of all nfip policies account for 30% of all claims paid. so i think we have to face it there. that 1% category of property, no one is attracted in insuring those properties and to think that you could come up with a accuarily sound rate that covers the risk of that property i can't imagine a consumer having the ability to afford that. we believe there is the need to the nfip to service some level of backstop but we think you can focus it down on that category of risk. >> so a hybrid? >> maybe. i mean, i think again 2901 is going to shift as much business as possible to the private industry. but let's face it. private industry, they're going to have trouble insuring that 1% category as well without a pretty reasonable rate. so if you focus on that 1% category, maybe focus the nfip on their mission of mitigating flood losses, preventing flood losses, that in our opini

new numbers from the governments own internal auditors at the gao show that in 2015 more than 56 million calls to the irs went unanswered. only about four out of 10 people trying to reach iris were successful. the country's official taxpayer advocate said in her recent report to congress that this is by design. quote and intention on the part of the irs to substantially reduce telephone and face-to-face service. we figured we call the irs and see how long it takes them to answer our calls. we called multiple times and each time that an answer under but the numbers show that's rare. on average taxpayers waited about 30 minutes. i reached out to the irs a spokesman referred us to the official audit response iris officials say in the future they want more customers to go online to finance answer to question rather the picking up the phone. in terms of becoming more efficient the irs took formal online services. iris says money is also a big part of this. congressional budget cuts of left them with limited resources. this weeks after announcing historic moved to boston ge has signed its firs

a 2015 gao report says it's not unusual for delivery time and cost to be underestimated by 20 to 50 percent. critics of the system say the competitive market forces of supply, demand and price are missing when there's a single buyer, and that single buyer being the pentagon. and there aren't many incentives to deliver programs on time. some changes were included in the defense authorization legislation that was signed into law last year. but thornberry has said that that piece of legislation was just a first step. what are the next steps? let's hear that from our speaker. ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm national press club welcome to house armed services committee chairman, mac thornberry. chairman thornberry: well, thank you all for being here. i certainly appreciate this opportunity to think out loud with you a little bit about the threats that the country faces, and about what congress, and more particularly, the house armed services committee, intends to do about them in the coming year. last month, at the library of congress, the new speaker, paul ryan, outlined his vision for

powner, in gao's opinion, would noaa incur higher costs if they did not receive the all of the requested funds for the polar programs? >> i'm not certain. this is back to where the appropriated analysis and the tradeoff assessments needs to be given to this committee, to gao, so that we can actually answer that question. you need analysis that supports it. >> well -- to close this, and i assume this will close the hearing, i just think handing noaa another blank check to build satellites when they can't get the ones that they have off the ground, it appears a bit irresponsible, mr. chairman. and i think noaa needs to fix their systematic problems that have plagued the program for years before we throw any more money at it. i yield to balance my time. >> i would like to thank the gentleman from alabama. it is -- it's a very challenging issue that we have -- we have delays, we have these challenges, and it seems the only answer is more money, more time, more money, more time. if we don't provide it, then we have quite frankly even bigger problems of data gaps and the inability to predict w

the fact that for instance, the gao identifies $650 billion a year worth of questionable expenses, or the house budget committee, $5.5 trillion of potentially cuttable programs. you know, why aren't we talking about that, it has such an effect, and why aren't we talking about the cost to every american family. of all the regulations, $24,000 per family of four. which is happens also to be the poverty level. if you want to fight poverty, fight the regulations. we don't talk about that kind of stuff. we get into all of this peripheral stuff and personal attacks and, it certainly would be nice if we could talk to the american people about the things that actually affect their lives. >> dr. carson, you looked like you were having fun up there. you did get serious with foreign policy questions and one of them you talked about emps. talk to the people about that, the electro magnetic pulse weapon and why that's important. >> well electro magnetic pulses can come naturally or they can be manufactured. natural ones come from the sun. from activity on the surface of the sun. and it occurs abou

we go into great detail; gao reports and inspector general reports in every single agency of the immigration enforcement bureaucracy. they're creaking. they can't even enforce these basic american worker protections in h-1b and b-1 and l-1 and the eb-5 program which is selling green cards to the highest bidder. let alone the problem, the ongoing problem of the illegal immigration situation. and so not only do we have to fight this compulsion that both parties have -- and i think that's one thing that's really distinctive about this book. we go after republicans probably even harder than the democrats. and it really does transcend all of these party lines, the inability of the federal government to do its basic duty. every single one of these immigration and entrance programs should put american workers and american citizens first. their public safety, our national security and our economic security. >> host: want to show some charts from bloomberg business, and john milano, you'll be able to see them right there. here's a cluster of skilled foreigners. it says that in total employment 22% of

and this of the conclusion of the gao government accounting office recently, to be implementing any time soon given the tremendous cost and fiscal situation of these jurisdictions. i want to note quickly that this is not a question of global harmonization. in the european union, the european union concluded actually that 20 megahertz, two channels, are sufficient for time-critical safety applications using dsr c, and a third channel could be authorized for non-time critical but safety-related dsrc. 30 megahertz. japan is using entirely different frequencies for what they're doing, mainly about roadside units. doing things we already do with unlicensed, ez toll has been on the frequency on license bands for many years. so there are two competing proposals. i don't want to get into any detail since we have mary brown from cisco and dean brenner from qualcomm here, but qualcomm, as you've been hearing, has proposed that we should segment the 5.9-gigahertz ban. that is 30 end in hertz of the 75 could be at the top and reserved for this v to v or realtime safety signaling as well as for first

nejra: phillips has canceled a $2.8 billion sale of its lighting component unit to a consortium led by gao of china. the dutch company says the deal was terminated because of opposition by a u.s. regulator. sap is predicting sales for next year to top its previous forecast as it moves more customers to a new version of its business software. the company expects sales to increase to as much as 23.5 billion euros in 2017. manus: let us go back to fran. francine: we're now joined i the as -- ceo. we were going through the numbers that you put out today for next year's sales. they will top previous forecast. you're going through a huge transformation. what has been driving your thoughts that you will be doing better? >> we have a different business model then they do. a different vision regarding how a company runs its core. we have in memory real-time database. and our new business suite. we are in the early stages of a big adoption cycle for a new innovation that is fundamentally changing the way companies run their business. in the past, we were not in the cloud in 2010. today, we are the n