in response to the gao recommendations to conduct a fraud risk assessment as out lined in gao's frauld risk framework, dla headquarters, specifically our dla inspector general office and my logistics office director will lead this effort with participation by dla disposition services. dla has made significant enhancements to improve policies, procedures and internal controls in the 1033 program. weal remain committed to continuous process improvement to ensure we provide the best possible support to law enforcement agencies in their critical mission. chairman wilson, ranking member bordallo and members of the committee, we thank you for the opportunity to discuss this important issue here today and are prepared to answer any questions you have. >> mr. canyon. >> sir, mr. scott spoke on behalf of the agency. >> thank you. i want to -- it is really remarkable an agency acknowledges that an error occurred and then has taken positive response. so we appreciate your service. i'm really grateful. today we have really talented members of the subcommittee here, people who are really dedicated

previous gao records. we have hadden in independent review of the program by the rand corporationment the. the external reviews did not identify the deficiencies. now that we know them, we are all over it to make sure it never happens again. >> they now have to show an i.d. they didn't have to show an i.d. >> when someone symptoms to a disposition service site, to pick up property, everyone is required to present an i.d. and follow proper sign insure procedure. we always had to the measures in place, in this case to the measures were nod adequately followed. what i have done is i immediately at the three locations -- i don't know the specifics because the gao report didn't identify them but were able to fishing out the locations they went to and we immediately conducted remedial training on everybody to main sure they were following the protocols are in in place, and then since -- then we start -- actually brought my six field leaders to battle creek, michigan, to headquarters to talk to them about this fa

chairman, for calling this important hearing on the recent gao on the -- gao report on the dod program also known as the 1033 program. thank you also to our four witnesses for being here today for what i expect to be an insightful discussion. let me begin that i understand the value of the 1033 program. it allows law enforcement agencies to fill critical equipment shortfalls at little to no additional cost to the --payer, leveraging access excess dod property. many of these items are noncontrolled, can be purchased at any of -- the office supply r furniture store and help alleviate budgetary stress, particular on local agencies, but this can also be controlled property, items that are sensitive in nature and cannot be released to the general public, such as firearms and military-grade imagery technologies. that is what makes the gao report particularly concerning. not only does it highlight the negligence with which dla treated property procured with taxpayer dollars but it demonstrates a dangerous vulnerability that could compromise the safety of the american people. so i am particula

gao? >> the medical examiners are not required to take trainings specific to gulf war illness issues. if elective and because of their high caseloads and effective don't have a lot of time for a lecture training, only about 10% of the medical examiners have taken training on gulf war illness. >> american legion. >> thank you, congressman. the training, that something that we have a lot of concerns about and i trusted during my remarks was that all the medical side, yet remember these are doctors come doctors a lot like mechanics. you don't take a car into the mechanic to fix my breaks a guy comes as is i don't know what it is. that goes against their dna. they naturally will create a diagnosis pic i think it's how they operate. if the doctor comes back and says i don't know, that's a pretty rare circumstance. they want, the the concern is va as a department has said this is a priority of hours within only 10% have taken it, it can make you and if there's just lip service been paid. then th

thank you. >> this is melissa, gao.ould say that we found that the letters did not specifically inform veterans that their claims had been considered in terms of presumptive eligibility, and the language made it seem like only direct service connection had been considered. so if you were a veteran expecting a presumptive claim and you saw the letter, you would think that that was not evaluated appropriately. >> and va accepted that recommendation, and we have plans to change our letters by the end of august to provide that information. but i think programs we need to look at it in more detail, see where we can make it even more clearer. we will do that as well. >> from vfw, this is a grave concern to our organization as it is to the american legion and the other vsos. the number one thing about these letter, as you said, they're convoluted. they're not written in english. they're not written in plain language that the average citizen can understand. it is not just related to gulf war illness. this is for every disabilit

that is what makes the gao report particular concern. not only does it highlight the negligence with which dla treated property procured with taxpayer dollars but it demonstrated a dangerous vulnerability that could compromise the safety of the american people. i am particularly appreciative that gao conducted this operation and delivered this report, because it brings to light these older abilities and allows us to conduct critical oversight on the handling of equipment to ensure reforms are in place to better secure the transfer program. i am deeply disturbed, however, by the prospect that a malicious individual or organization could procure dod property, especially controlled items. understanding this is likely the result of a combination of issues, including inadequate protocols and safeguards, insufficient training and potential cultural errors, i expect to dig down on how this program to be reformed. i do look forward to the discussion this morning and hope we can come away with clear objectives and steps forward to ensure the prog

guys.eciate you i think gao also -- i think gao also. some of the best information i've learned over the series of hearings have come from these people. i only have the be as dubya in vfwistrict decile have it -- i only have the vfw in my district. it is going on my website. i'm telling veterans to join. i can't -- they could be helpful i apologize for being part-time general. >> no apologies necessary. my parents raised me to be kind. as a boy scout i was courteous, so i am going to try very hard to maintain my parents and my scoutmasters values hearing my questioning. you can tell by the questions from our members, there is a sense of urgency in this panel. a true sense of urgency. i am not sure i feel that i amghout the room, so going to look at you first. do you feel a personal sense of urgency in this? >> yes, not just for goldcorp -- gulf war veterans -- >> since you do, can you give me an example of the v.a. of the last two years, 10 years that actually would show a sense of urgency from the top on down to get some results? let me

guys.eciate you i think gao also -- i think gao also. some of the best information i've learned over the series of hearings have come from these people. i only have the be as dubya in vfwistrict decile have it -- i only have the vfw in my district. it is going on my website. i'm telling veterans to join. i can't -- they could be helpful i apologize for being part-time general. >> no apologies necessary. my parents raised me to be kind. as a boy scout i was courteous, so i am going to try very hard to maintain my parents and my scoutmasters values hearing my questioning. you can tell by the questions from our members, there is a sense of urgency in this panel. a true sense of urgency. i am not sure i feel that i amghout the room, so going to look at you first. do you feel a personal sense of urgency in this? >> yes, not just for goldcorp -- gulf war veterans -- >> since you do, can you give me an example of the v.a. of the last two years, 10 years that actually would show a sense of urgency from the top on down to get some results? let me

gao upheld the protest. >> so you didn't rebid it? >> we went out to a different solution and rebid the second solution. >> the second solution was in-house -- >> on-premise solution. >> now you're doing -- >> an on-premise solution. >> on-premise solution? it will be fully automated that will sweep the -- i'm seeing a number in here, what was it, 33,000 hard drives if i were to count everything that is floating out around there, will automatically back up and capture? >> all of our electronic e-mails will be backed up and captured, yes, sir. >> direct messaging systems? >> the instant messaging system. but there's a piece of that. instant messaging according to our policy, mr. killen can explain this in more detail, but it's not supposed to be used to -- for a formalized record. if it is, then that has to be copied into the system and stored. >> but if it is used, someone has to make that decision to save it? >> yes, congressman, that is correct. >> so you and i are working on something, and we decide we're going to use the direct me

but the fact is, is what gao found was the know your customer rule clearly was being violated by the u.s. financial institutions. >> can you explain that further. just for people who may not fully understand what it was. >> sure, i understand that. obviously, the united states is concerned about the potential use of u.s. bank accounts for money laundering, whether it be for corruption, whether it be for drugs, whether it be for other illegal activities, and there are various banking laws that, among other things, the know your customer rule, where banks are supposed to do reasonable due diligence to understand whose account it is, where they get their money, what type of business activities that they're engaged in, in order to try to provide reasonable but not absolute assurance that fake accounts aren't being set up for the purpose of money laundering. and in this particular case, there were two u.s. corporations, euro-american corporation and ibc, that set up about 2,000 different accounts for various russian brokerage, money came from eastern europe, went through these accounts, w

including technologies gao has there is land-based surveillance reported on gao has management and oversight of the surveillance technologies under the former in theborder department's more recent plans. my remarks today will summarize some of gao's past reports as well as some preliminary observations from ourongoing work for in subcommittee on cvp's varioussurveillance technologies. more specifically, cvp has made progress in deploying technologies along the border. this includes fixed and smoebl surveillance system agencies and portable and these technologies have aided the border security efforts as of july cbp has of technologies to arizona completed deployment of technologies to arizona, texas, and california for example cbp . has reported deploying all manned remote video surveillance systems or rvss and mobile surveillance capability systems or mscs to arizona. cbp has also reported deploying 15 of 53 planned integrated fixed towers to arizona and cbp has deployed all planned msc systems to texas and california. have made this progress, we have reported that cbp could do more to stre

i note that as of this morning, gao's website reports there are 57 publications from gao with a total of 125 open recommendations for the department of state, including 28 priority recommendations that haven't been implemented or fully implemented. now, some of these open recommendations relate to issues like human trafficking or diplomatic security or security assistance. really consequential issues. and i want to make sure i'm very fair and clear here. i note that 125 open recommendations is down from the 132 in may. but i would hope that we might continue to make rapid progress towards addressing some of these. i would also note that the number of priority recommendations has increased since we last visited, from 22 to 28. so can you just provide me, mr. secretary, with an update on your efforts to insure state fully and appropriately responds to gao's recommendations? >> yes, thank you, senator young. the statistics you cite are important. and troubling. the fact that there are as many open items as there are, and that's reflected in recent statistics from the gao from june. we ha

gao recommended that cbp ensure schedules and cost estimates more fully address best practices. such as validating costs estimates, with independent estimatesand dhs concurred. what more remains to be done. >> yes, congresswoman. the schedules themselves cbp has provided us with updated schedules and have shone significant improvements in quality. so we are continuing to look at those schedules to determine the extent to which they -- the revised schedules meet the intent of the recommendation. as it relates to the life cycle cost estimates, i want to talk about theestimates for two different program was the rvss andifts for the rvss the dhs and cbt -- drchlt hs theconduct a independent logic cycle estimate for cvss and has been working with wcbp to reconcile the two estimates. will be obtaining follow up drumgs fromkrfrmt bp and dhs on the effort and can certainlyfollow up with you after we have had a chance to look at that and make our own analysis for the ifts we havenot sienna cbp has yet done an independent life cycle cost estimate for that program. and in line with whatwe

among gao's findings in the report are the following. first firstnet has conducted he efforts to establish network releasing the proposal and rewarding the network contract to at&t. at&t will be responsible for the overall design develop a production and evolution of the network. additionally firstnet consulted with state and local federal and tribal stakeholders. state officials gao contacted were generally satisfied with the efforts to engage them however tribal stakeholders gao contact six some concerns that firstnet did not fully engage in effective mitigation with tribes. firstnet discharge the right of mechanisms such as point of contact and working group. individuals the first 10 knowledge of the tribe's experiences are not able to represent travel views among firstnet's -- although firstnet is required to consult with the tribes through points of contact the key principle affecting travel to mitigation is to seek full understanding of travel concerned and reach consensus where possible by exploring actions to address tribal stake

department of homeland security accepted the gao recommendations.my question to you and you as well, mr. larkin, if relevant, is given the fact the capitol police and the sergeant at arms are part of that security system, the field that those provisions as gao recommendations are being implemented? do you feel you're being properly included as part of the team? how are the lines of communications? what is your assessment? >> we have a very robust communication with all of our partners in the national capital region, specifically some members of dhs, dhs central, we are in their communication link. >> we work very closely particularly with a large-scale events, national security events, and, frankly, and i say this to my partners all the time, in the 32 plus years that i've been a law enforcement i've never seen better coordination between all entities, particularly are really close partners, secret service, fbi, service being part of dhs. but we get tremendous support, information sharing is as good as i've ever seen, intelligence sharing, both clas

lightfoot my opening statement i talked about nasa's challenges with the gao high-risk list and i know this is something that you've been working on but does nasa have the touch of terry and human resources to address the concerns that nasa has raised and what's it going to take to get off that high-risk list? >> that's an interesting, i've been here for five years and is associate administrator i think we have been on the high list since i started. there are five categories that they ask you to get graded on. three of those are compliance. we are fully compliant. the two that they haven't fully complied with is what they call proving over time. if you look at the gao report while we are still on it they give us a lot of credit over the last five years and teams have put a lot of things in place with whether it's value management joints conference levels that we use. the challenge we have is we have some big programs coming up. we have james webb, with a space launch system and orion. those are multibillion-dollar programs so i understand that piece of it. i think the challenge is goin

are you satisfied with gao in washington though? >> yesterday i will take with submitted by plaintiff we have not done anything back plan at this point. >> simulation for you, dr. wright. >> i think the states role of the mississippi is setting a long-term goals per subgroup area so that we know what we want for our children ten years out. i think it's really a local districts and the local schools that need to be developing their own respective plans and have the meet the needs other individual children. i wouldn't presume to know, i appoint a 44 districts four districts, all the needs of that. i trust my superintendents and the principles and the teachers. >> you are satisfied with student success. >> yes i am, very much so. >> a little while ago you kind of a talking very positively about kind of more preschool. of the ever read anything indicating preschools nuttiness nonassertive much of a benefit? >> no. quite to the contrary. preschool, there's too much research out there now for us to not be paying attention to our three and

we have this system professor university of mississippi medical center and the director of the gao and chief executive officer of first net in senior vice president from at&t i recognize my friend and drinking river. >> in 2012 we made an important commitment to public safety and after hurricane katrina the first responders face those glaring problems could not communicate with one another in the emergency and these could be solved with the nationwide interoperable public safety communication network. making a solution a reality. a police officer can run a background check pitchers of the suspect to access federal law-enforcement database emergency personnel will not be completed in -- competing with those usersey wi to have priority with public safety specifications with competitive devices to specify public safety applications. it is a huge task the first time we have done anything like this we now have a vendor, at&t going beyond what first net envisioned to be three months ahead of schedule and many are in the review process hoping they'll learn the value of this network many of us

on hearing on the gao report, the committee also looked at ways states are innovating to improve early childhood education services in the budget and vision ending needs and inefficiencies and ensuring early childhood programs really do produce a lasting education game or kids and their families. the budget also believes that states and localities should be empowered to improve programs that are working in their own areas. the innovation at the states and to show there's measurements and actual process improvement. this amendmentwould increase taxes on the american businesses , our country job creators and the tax code does have special productions and loopholes and that's why we propose pro bono tax reform. it's to clear these loopholes and lower taxes for all taxpayers. a simpler, competitive tax system will encourage investment in private-sector creation. we want to make sure these programs are well done but throwing more money at it is not the answer. measuring them, making sure they are actually working for these children is the answer. and with that, i yield back . >> the lady yi

so gao, as you know, does not have a statutory or other role in reviewing state plans. at the time that we did our work there were only a couple of plans that had been submitted in draft for feedback. so we did not have any information from the department about feedback on the plans at the time we did our work. >> do you have -- okay. so you did your study before you would have been able to see whether it was inconsistent feedback. >> yes. >> one plan gets one, one plan gets another. that's something we hopefully will be able to look into as we move forward. >> if i may. >> yes. >> i can provide thoughts on this. i think there were definitely areas where feedback was inconsistent. i think part has to do with the fact without the regulations there are fewer specific rules around some of the vague areas in the law. so one area of our -- and a question came up earlier around areas that the department could provide future guidance is. i think one area as dr. pletnick was describing, the various indicators that can be select, this is an area where the law gives states flexib

so gao as you know doesn't have a stachory renewal of state plans. at the time we did our work tlfrp only a couple of plans that had been submitted for feedback. so we didn't have information at the department. >> that's something that we hopefully will be able to look into as we move forward. >> if i may, i can provide some thoughts on this. i think there definitely were areas where feedback was inconsistent. i think part of it has to do with the fact without regulations there are specific rules around some of the vague areas in the law. of course you came up with areas that the department can provide future -- this is an area where the law gives states flexibility and even provides some examples of the indicators that states can use. number of states are really interested in prioritizing college readiness. and so they're including things like access and performance and advance placement, dual enrollment, early college. the feedback to one state was somewhat negative about the state's approach to this. and we're fearful that feedback like that witho

just give me an example of how it can hurt the fed. >> because what you're talking about with the gao or policy reviews on -- >> just give me an example, not a general swipe of review, just say, take for example this if somebody said this, it would be horrible or end of the world for the fed. give me an example like that >> so i would envision a situation where the gao, at the request of members of congress, might come in and say at our meeting a week ago, taking the transcripts and reviewing what we said, they believe that the decision we made was the wrong one at that particular meeting and i would say that is an extreme interference in splitizati splitizatispliwh politicization -- >> so you are saying that somebody is saying that you have a fear of being wrong, so i get that >> we are talking about political interference and decision making. >> i don't see that. if it's after the fact, i don't see it as interference in decision making. >> i do. >> so give me an example. >> i gave you an example >> just give me one example why they shouldn't have that transparency >> well -- >> time

we heard from the foxconn chair, terry gao.plan to invest $20 billion in the united states by 2020 to create 13,000 jobs. david, one thing that we do not know is whether any of these products produced at this plant will be apple products. we know that they will be lcd panels, which may be used in some apple products. trump has been hard on apple and talked about convincing apple to move manufacturing efforts to the united states. what is your take? guest: i don't know if it has anything to do with apple but it is an impressive announcement. it is an advanced plant. the lcd's they are talking about is like building gigantic chips. if the state is investing $3 billion in incentives, the state, local, and federal together, 13,000 jobs, that is $230,000 per job by my rudimentary math, for jobs that he said will pay an average of $53,000 per year. this is great, and it suits the agenda, paul ryan's agenda, and governor walker's agenda, but it's not cheap. it looks like foxconn is getting a good deal. emily: we are waiting for the pr

someone at tca thought it was appropriate to tell employees that any information given to ig or gao had to be cleared. then once the acting person realized this they corrected it. but i want to get to that person who issued that guidance in the first place. reason i want to challenge you to find out who that was and take action is because of the issue i discovered on whistleblower retaliation. last year i asked former administrator how many senior executors of tca had been found guilty of retaliation by -- he responded in last five years neither osc or any u.s. court has made a finding of such with respect to any seniors at tca. i was surprised because i knew obtained corrective action for seven employees in 2015 alone. and there had been 20 tca whistleblower claims in last five years. didn't match up. i was told by administrator and what we knew to be the reality. and what we believe happened it these cases got settled and managers retaliating against subordinates received no discipline. no action taken against them. no record they had been disciplined for whistleblower retaliation eve

the focal point of that gao report was about the banks onboarding of client accounts, account opening documents and that kind of issue, a compliance issue. he has never been implicated in any wrongdoing whatsoever. >> like his attorney said there, kaveladze never criminally charged as part of that money laundering investigation but lawmakers really saying that's beside the point, including senator mark warner. he says the mere fact that kaveladze was inside that june 2016 meeting with donald trump jr., given his, quote, colorful past, senator warner says that raises the stakes even more as these investigators continue and plow forward to find out exactly what transpired in that meeting. >> jessica, thank you. jessica schneider in d.c. we're going to talk more about this eighth man, whether this is becoming a follow the money investigation. >>> also, a secret sit-down or conversation between president trump and russian president vladimir putin. why didn't we know about this, and why didn't another american join the conversation? >>> and the story of two russian spies living life in a n

the gao was looking into suspected russian laundering. ike kaveladze was never accused of any wrongdoing and in an interview in the year 2,000 he called the whole gao investigation eight, "witch hunt." a familiar language. >> john roberts. thank you. senate republicans are on quite a losing streak with health care as an issue. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight. but what happen this time? >> to senate republican pan's to scrap obamacare have failed in the past 24 hours. the latest one, boating on a repeal plan with two years to transition, which republicans passed in 2015. >> it's pretty clear that there are not 50 republicans at the moment to vote for a replacement for obamacare. >> democrats insisted repeal without replacement would be a disaster. >> it's like if our health care system was a patient who came in and needed some medicine, the republicans proposed surgery, now republicans are proposing a second surgery that will surely kill the patient. >> only one republican moderate, susan collins,

chair yellen: what you are talking about with the gao our policy reviews. >> an example, not a general swipe. take for example, this. if somebody said this, it would be horrible and the end of the world for the fed. if me an example like that. -- give me an example like this. chair yellen: a situation where the general accounting office at the request of congress may come in and say at our meeting a week ago that they have taken the transcript and reviewed what we have said and believe that the decision we made was the wrong one at that meeting. i would say that is an extreme interference and politicization of our ability to make independent monetary policy decisions. >> you are saying we should not be transparent for the fear of being second-guessed? for somebody criticizing you because you thought -- they thought you were wrong. do i get it? >> we are talking about -- chair yellen: we are talking about the lyrical interference. -- political interference. >> if it is after the fact, it is not a defense. >> the time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. scot

he says "as gao reported, kaveladze established some 2,000 u.s. corporations and bank accounts for a number of them. the owners of those accounts moved moved $1.4 billion through those accounts. he claims he did all this without knowing for whom he was doing it. he goes on to call kaveladze the poster child of the practice of money laundering. so more questions being raised about cape canaver about kaveladze who was the eighth person in that room. >>> joining me now on this to discuss is former u.s. attorney michael moore. great to see you. go into. >> good to see you. >> the eighth person in the room, kaveladze, from the 2016 meeting, he's being linked to the federal money laundering investigation. this was back in the 2000 when this was being investigated. is robert mueller going to look into this? >> i think bob mueller will look into a lot of it. these investigations take a long time,ing more will come out, hopefully we don't have leaks. but the problem with the explanations about the meeting is like the russian dolls that you open up and ther

as gao reported, kaveladze established some 2000 u.s. corporations and bapg account for a number of them. the owners of those accounts then moved some 1.4 billion there are through those accounts. they wanted to talk about the money that russia may get back. and you have a guy in the room who is expected to move over a billion dollars in russian money -- >> meaning laundering. >> maybe, because he didn't get convicted of anything, but that's what they looked at and it does change the guidelines of how you have change of ownership in corporations. best reading is we don't know what the relationships are or financial obligations to trump to any financial institutions in russia, but we do know that they were looking for a meeting to talk to his son about how to work on russia money matters. that's relevant, it's not sick. >> why don't we know what his business or financial ties are to russia, chris? the reason is he's the first candidate in modern presidential history not to release his tax returns. it's the longest audit i've heard of in a

we are handing that authority to enter into leases back to gao and we are searching now as hard as we can to fill that space whether through subtenancy or otherwise. we have been working very hard in kansas city in particular and have entertained a number of offers. unfortunately they didn't make economic sense for us. we continue to find ways to utilize that space in new york. your second question was? >> let me go to mr. clayton now. te telework was my question. >> teleworking has increased. it's one aspect of technology that i believe and our staff that handles operations believes can actually reduce the required footprint per employee. we have been working to do that. rough data, it used to be 290 square feet per employee. we're now down to about 245 square feet and we're looking to trend down to 230 square feet per employee. >> what about telework for you? >> we are in negotiations with our union right now. that is one of their requests, for increased telework. having come from the private sector, telework is an idea that is found to be less attractive in the private sector. ibm

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gao and pentagon officials testified about the findings before the house armed services committee. mr. wilson: good morning. the hearing will come to order. ladies and gentlemen, i welcome you here today and call

they were told recently that any and all documents related to it oig are gao request must be cleared by tsa leadership before they can be sent to investigators. i want to give credit to the acting administrator because the acting administrator, once he realized this had gone out, immediately corrected that, and sent out guidance that concurred with the ig recommendation that they should not in fact, do that and it was an all hands e-mail to employees. so someone at tsa thought it was appropriate to tell employees that any information given to the ig or gao had to be cleared. then once the acting person realized this they corrected it. but i want to get to that person who issued that guidance in the first place. and the reason that want to challenge you to find out who that was and to take action, is because of the issue i discovered on whistleblower retaliation. last you asked the former administrator how many senior executives at tsa had been found guilty of retaliation against whistleblowers by inspector generals, the osc or federal court. he responded come at a quarter come in the

a study foro to do gao came back after a year and said we cannot handle it. is the most daunting issue facing this country for the next 20 years. host: what do you think about the republican approach you saw over the last few weeks and months? guest: i thought that, unfortunately, it was not cohesive. but on the other hand, the interest in various aspect of health care is so dramatic that i am not surprised. up the brought, again, difficulty i faced when i tried to find an answer to health care back in the 1990's. our guest is the former house ways and means committee ,hair, republican hill archer looking at tax reform and at various issues of health care. for questions, democrats can call 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. .ndependents, 202-748-8002 the idea of coming together, what did you think republicans have to do when it comes to tax reform? how do they build consensus within their party? guest: it is very difficult, because the public is very difficult today compared to in the 1990's. you have a much more divided public, and there are factions o

the gao did a report and they said they think it is about i want to say 50,000 jobs within excuse me, i think it is 10,000. i should know that number. it is 10,000 jobs that are unfilled within the it space across the federal government. and so we have to make sure that we are focused on growing people into those jobs and guess what? we need our sons and daughters and nieces and nephews to go into this industry because that is what is going to protect us in the future. we have to make sure that they are prepared for jobs that do not exist today. >> do you have a timetable for producing that legislation? >> we are working on starting to put pencil to paper and working on this. i don't have an exact timeframe but you will be the first to know. >> congressman, you talked about moving the government to the cloud. and that is a default position. are there extra security issues with that? >> well, if you talk to some folks resisting the movement to the cloud they think there is. they think that they can do a better job of defending a database than someone who is does this every second of th

the gao has found that customs and border protection within dhs has no metrics in place to determine whether border fencing has any significant impact on its mission. let's instead focus fixing our broken immigration system, through comprehensive immigration reform which would boost our economy and reduce the deficit. a border wall will do little to better secure america's borders and its costs are uncertain which is why i ask my colleagues to reject the construction of a new border wall by supporting my amendment. i would now like to yield one and a half minutes to the representative from washington. >> thank you for yielding. show me a 50-foot wall and i'll show you a 51-foot ladder. it will do nothing to fix the immigration system and as recently as april our homeland security said it was highly improbable that a wall would be built from sea to shining sea. as long as we continue to throw money and enforcement without providing a road map to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented men, women and children we will continue to have people crossing the border illegally in a desper

the gao did a report and said i think it's 50000 jobs, excuse me, it's 10000 jobs unfilled within the it space across the federal government. we've got to make sure we are focused on growing people into those jobs and we need our sons and daughters and nieces and nephews to go into this industry because that's what will protect us in the future and we've got to make sure they're prepared for jobs that don't exist today. >> you have a timetable for introducing that legislation. >> i want to get mdt put the bed. we are working on trying to put pencil to paper so i don't have an exact timeframe but you will be one of the first to know. >> he talked about moving the government to the cloud and that's the default position. are there extra security issues with that? >> if you talk to some folks who are resisting the movement, they think there is. they think they can do a better job of defending a database and someone who does this every second of the day. this is why we have a cloud for strategy within the federal government, and we should be transitioning into the cloud. some people act li

the gao did a report and they said, i think it is about, i want to say 50,000 jobs in, within the i.t., excuse me, 10,000, i should know that number, it is 10,000 jobs that are unfilled within the i.t. space across the federal government. so we got to make sure we're focused on growing people into those, into those jobs. guess what? we need our sons and daughters and nieces and nephews to go into this industry because that is what is going to protect us in the future. and we got to make sure they're prepared for jobs that don't exist today. >> do you have a timetable for introducing that legislation? >> guest: i want to get mgt to bed and we're starting to put pencil to paper and working on this. i don't have an exact time frame, trust me, tim, you well be one of the first to know. >> host: government hurd, you talked about moving the government to the cloud, that is a he default position. are there extra security position to that? >> guest: talking to folks that are resistant to moving into the cloud they think there is. they think they can do a better job defending a database than s

byrne to require the gao review of contractor business system rules. amendment 113 by mr. larson regarding the standard guidelines for evaluating service contracts. amendment number 17 170 to exted the spending cap on service contracts. amendment number 311 by mr. gallagher to include federal prison industries products and online marketplaces. amendment number 314 are won by mr. lamborn to require the briefing on the canceled contract solicitations. is there any further discussion about the package number one? if not, the question is on package number one so many in favor? was supposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the speedy love and have it and the amendments are agreed to. further amendments to the full committee's section of the mark. the gentleman from wisconsin. the gentleman from california is recognized. you can buy a weapon of the state and it works in just about every state. this causes most of which are women don't have the same ability. they are not able to purchase a weapon or able to buy a dime and so this simply gives the same rights as the active-duty s