2009 aauthoritative practices that the gao referred to. these are the current activities underway so we will look forward to updating you. i don't have a date for when that would be published. i think it's 2018 that we can provide that answer for the record. >> i have a couple other questions that i would like to submit for the record, mr. chairman. thank you. >> you're certainly welcome. when senator murphy was referring to e tree hugging. i don't know this didn't refer to any in this committee. with that, let me recognize senator whitehouse. >> mr. chairman, i recent that remark. i represent that remark. welcome, all, thank you for your work. i would like to focus with you on the question of reactor licensing as you know, i've been persistent and trying to open the possibility of next generation advanced nuclear technologies with the ultimate holy grail of possible. och finding technologies that can aplow us to go through our nuclear waste stockpile and try to turn that into value bable energy rather than leave it lying out there as a ma

as well as other recommendations from the gao and our own ig. and the good ideas that are going to come from our fleet c.o.s around the globe. the oversight's board, just to be clear, is simply to remove barriers to anyone with a responsibility to implement actions. we're going to help prioritize those actions and remain focused on addressing root causes with necessary resources to make them whole. to get after this will take a lot of time, and it will take money. and it's on senior leadership to set the tone and get it right. the fleet, the public, the media, and congress have the right to shed a bright light on what we're doing. but make no mistake about it, folks. we are in this to win. so back to the question of the day here. what will it take to win? step one was taken, frankly, in fiscal year '17. with the much needed injection of readiness dollars, it's helped us buy down some of the maintenance backloads we're experiencing, and begin to invest more in spare parts. step two is working to fill in the holes in fiscal year '18. and the tragi

number three is look at the latest gao report from 2010 to 2015. the fans we have right now was preached over -- times. i asked an appropriations homeland i said how much time with able wall by you and this is said quote a few minutes or even a few seconds so we are spending billions of dollars in a few minutes or a few seconds to do that? that is the other thing. i want to let our chairs say a few things. listen, this is what we told the president is called the one yard line and he saw the football game last night. it was pretty exciting last night but if you call the u.s.-mexico border where we spent eight teen billion dollars a year on border security doesn't make more sense that we place the fence on the 20-yard line text do you know mexico by working with them on this southern border with guatemala at one time they were stopping more people than the border patrol. finally the last thing we are not facing issues of border patrol and i sat down with them and spend time and i went with them. they go in visit the border for a few hours and they th

then i sort of looked at the gao report. and everything you talk about fatigue goes back to the work week and manning and things like that. so i did a pf -- control function seven for manning and manpower. it came up 66 times in the report. i flipped to the back the look for action items and only found one. it was to do a study. so i guess if i saw an action item in there i would kind of like to see something like let's go back and look at the gao reports take the action items from there and look at some of the governing documents like theon nav instruction. primarily the standard navy work week and changing the number of watch teams per ship from three to four to bake in those gains from the crew endurance part. that's sort what have struck me as where i would have liked to have seen. >> okay. i do note that the surface force did recently come out and say we are going to institute watch bills and ship routines that are based on a circadian rhythm. i thought that was an immediate action in the line of what your comments are.

report.the latest gao from 2010-2015, the fences we have were breached over 9000 times. ones -- i asked in an appropriations -- i said, much time would wall by you? this is what he said. " a few minutes or a few seconds." so we are going to spend a billion dollars on that? i want to finish with this, because i want our chair to say a few things. listen, we keep playing defense. it is called the one-yard line. he saw the football game last night. it was exciting. we if you play defense where spend $18 billion a year on border security, doesn't it make more sense that we play defense on the 20 yard line, working with mexico or central america? they should know that by working time, theyat one were stopping more people than the border patrol. last thing. and go over this with border patrol. they visit for a few hours in a think they know everything. but if you talk to them, they need cameras. -- havey need also is you asked the homeland secretary the question? do you know it is losing more men and women in their hiring? we were 21,000 500 strong. right now, they have 18,500

years ago but still reeling from the united states walking away from it all right let's speak to victor gao now he's director of china national association of international studies and he's joining us live from beijing it seems very much in the opening stages of this visit from president mccrum the president she has got what he wanted he wanted a u. approval didn't he for the belgium road initiative which is already got yes indeed the one belt one rolled initiative is not only important to china but to almost one hundred countries in the world including many countries in europe including france and i think president micron is doing the right thing to endorse the one belled world rolled initiative was again on behalf of the french government and hopefully china and france and all the other almost one hundred countries can join hands in promoting this a major infrastructure project and enable all the parties if the country is to benefit from this one world initiative and in the past china perhaps directed it. its attentions if you like through the u.k. for access to the e.u. can we say now ob

you were one of grace mugabe's key allies, part of the so—called gao faction, which was trying to manoeuvreobert mugabe, so you are really top of the list when it comes to the people who are wanted for this alleged corruption. first of all, it is not corrupt to support a particular politician to become any officeholder, whether it is vice president, president... it can't be a crime in a constitutional democracy. it is false to allege that there was an attempt to elevate dr grace mugabe, the former first lady. what is really going on here is that there is a group of people that sees itself as the stockholders of zimbabwe. and this group is led by emmerson mnangagwa, who is now president. but the controller of this group is general constantino chiwenga, who is the vice president now. but he is vice president because of a military coup. he has not been voted into that office. if you grant power by force, you then must find excuses to justify that grant, and this is what they are doing. you are questioning mnangagwa, the new president. world reaction has by and large welcomed him. rex tillerson

the gao just launched an investigation following a wall street journal investigation on the prevalence of fake comments on proposed rules, funding there are a number of fake comments that are flooding the notice and comment process. is this something that surprised you, is this something you having countered, is this something in light of this exists you are on alert for? how are you responding to this. ms. rao: we were not aware of the extent of the problem previously and when you become aware of the problem we taken extremely seriously. my staff works closely with the website that takes in a lot of these comments, we are already working hard to try to implement procedures that can cut back and eliminate these problems. it is something we take very seriously. we are really trying to get on top of that. ted: this is a slight good news story. this is making lemonade out of lemons. i was always skeptical of the role of public comments, i think it is an important component of the regulatory aspect of our rulemaking process, if you ask my brother or cousin or mother, they have no idea such

when i ask the gao to investigate how the corps comes one their prices, they reported back that they couldn't because the agency's recordkeeping was so bad and varied, they could not actually study how the agency arrives at their numbers. does that shock you? >> i almost feel like that's a trick question, senator. >> no, it's not a trick question. it's a serious question. and now is the time to talk about it because we have new people coming in, and we've had a hearing already with the civil division to the corps of engineers. and they recognize changes have to be made. but not if we all sit around and keep quiet and don't talk about it. >> i think that you hit a strong point on the head there is a lot of information that is not available out there. and it's something that we need to figure out and work together to do it. >> yeah. well, my time is expired. but that's something we need to address. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman. i appreciate the panel being here. particular welcome to mr. friedman. rhode island has two ports

earlier i spoke to victor gao, a former interpreter to the chinese leader deng xiaoping and now director. all, first . all, the chinese government has already called the vancouver conference as illegitimate and nonrepresentative. this is because all these 20 countries also were actually fighting in 1950 in the next several years in the early 19505 next several years in the early 1950s against china during the korean war. therefore, the impression china got from this vancouver conference is that these countries were ganging up again in preparation for another military effort involving the korean peninsula at the very critical moment where relations are kind of improving on the korean peninsula, this gesture is not welcomed and may be very unconstructive worry than destructive. but victor, there are concerns that china is not holding up concerns that china is not holding up its end of the agreement on sanctions on north korea. that is why they were excluded from these talks. is this justified?” personally don't think these concerns 01’ personally don't think these concerns or allegations a

that is something we asked the gao to look at and that's something we continue to investigate and i'mnot opposed at all to it as long as there isn't some sort of interference issue and that has to be first and foremost. we are scouring every bit of spectrum and as well as look at unlicensed appropriate amount of fat and its attention we have in the 2012 act and were going to try to get millimeter and there's a lot were doing and at the time in 2012 and i may be wrong but we thought some of the upper and spectrum and people weren't sure what that would be used for and didn't have much value and now we know that's some of the new beachfront iff you will and we are looking at how to maximize use of that as long as there's an advantage. >> time for one more. right here. >> identify yourself. >> are linked medication. can you say anything about opportunities about telecommunication act. >> thank you. i started an effort we did an extensive information gathering project update and it had good input on how to do that. that as i mentioned earlier collided with big net neutrality in the room a

." >> reporter: fredericksen says special counsel robert mueller, gao is investigating russian meddlingthe 2016 campaign, has to be careful about bringing a case against the president. >> the saying is, you don't take on the king unless you know, you know you're right and you can win. and so, when i say special counsel mueller will approach this carefully, he will. >> reporter: legal scholars disagree on whether a president can even be indicted while in office. jeff. >> glor: and, jeff, in other news today, the attorney general did make an announcement about the federal prosecution of marijuana. t. reporter: well, that's right. attorney general jeff sessions has issued new guidelines, paving the way for u.s. attorneys to have more discretion in prosecuting marijuana crimes. this rescinds obama administration guidelines which allowed prosecutors to be more lenient. critics, though, charge the move adds confusion as to whether ho's okay to grow, buy, and sell in those states where the drug is legal. jeff. >> glor: all right, jeff, thank you very much. ar how does this affect states where

the fda still hadn't met a 2011 gao recommendation to provide written advice to centers and offices onavenues to address economic adulteration. has that changed? have they created the document that's been used from 2011. >> i'm not aware of such a document. i do know there is a group that looked at this issue and they found it very challenging. i spent a lot of my career looking at the issue for several years but i worked with committee on that. there are a lot of different ways this could happen. i think, in large part, the answer that the agency is looking for is to look at standards that get applied throughout the supply chain because the places we've seen this enter or the places we've seen adulterated products coming in, it's usually with a lack of accountability within the supply chain. that's what we think is the most effective strategy. >> so you indicate there are a lot of obviously, strengthening our systems against bioterror are incredibly complex, but can you talk with us about some of the impediments and challenges that your group and those who work in that group are exper

. >> representative alone letter, request the gl, gao plants look at their reliability of some of the advanced net neutrality public comment. what would you say about how much you relied on the public comment in making the decision? what are you doing to ensure the reliability going forward, in you think any legislation is needed in that regard, reliability and verification wise? >> in terms of what we relied upon, you can see for yourself in the text of the order that we adopted. we relied on what the courts have consists of called substantial evidence, comments that are substitute and meaningful grappled with the issues that we teed up in the notice of proposed rulemaking. in that regard, decision-making process relied on those comments that were in the record that were substantive. going forward we will assess and before consider ways, if there any reforms necessary to the process, but as far as the december order goes i'm confident that we relied on -- >> it's kind incognita. is legislation needed not just for your agency but for other agencies to prevent or ensure the reliability

congress should instruct the gao or another suitable intentity t review these projected and a clawback should be considered to protect taxpayers from any misuse of funds. in conclusion, the constitutional prerogative for members to direct resources toward c toward priorities is a core aspect of our democratic design. members of congress should receive openly, proudly and be held accountable for. congress should rightly reclaim this legislative tool and establish a transparent and deliberative process worthy of the public trust. thank you for the opportunity to testify. >> very nice, thank you very much. appreciate the gentleman. i will confess a bias, as mr. sullivan is from texas. mr. sullivan is an eagle scout and he is american, and prau ouf that. the gentlemen is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. it is a real pleasure to be with you today, words that i never thought i would utter about being in washington, d.c. my organization was formed for the purpose of folcus on state and local government, to encourage citizens to be more engaged. our principl

further, the gao raised concerns about fda's food recall process in 2012 and while fda says that its addressed many of the findings of the recent oig report it is troubling that many of the recommendations from almost a decade ago stand today despite the additional authority given to the fda through fisma in 2010. today's hearing gives a good opportunity to share specific plans to share the recommendations made by oig including the timeframe in which we can expect the changes to be implemented. >> i do see dr. burgess. i know he was looking for some time. anyone else would like the remainder of my time? if not, i will yield back to the chairman so we can proceed with the hearing and i do have another hearing i have to go to, so i'll be in and out of this one. thank you for the good work you do. i know we are here for americans can trust the food is safe to eat. >> thank you, mr. chairman. now the chair will recognize the ranking member mr. pollone for the purposes of opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> this committee has a long history of overseeing food safety. over th

and we'll start to clearly see did you get paid for the disposal. >> the gao indicates that the d.o.d. lacks a sufficient number of financial managers. what are you doing or what areas has the department done to acquire these? >> this is a challenge. when you have an organization that most of it has never been under audit and federal employees don't themselves conduct financial statement audits the way commercial enterprises do. you may have cpas that don't have exposure to those practices. the agencies that went under audit first like the corps of engineers hadnow have a number people who have been through an audit multiple times. some of them we've grown by leading with certain examples. some we've just done out and hired. the third focus is training. we have a robust training system where we've been emphasizing audit readiness and internal controls, whereas a decade or two ago it would have been budget type topics and not accounting topics. >> mr. chairman, i have no more questions. >> mr. norquist, i want to interject on one point mr. kelley raised. i am also very concerned that w

gao recently did a study that there are about $4 billion projects like this in the country. and that about $400 million has been reimbursed. but we don't know the total amount that requires to be reimbursed. how well those are working? well, how well other agencies in the future want to make those investments and what they can expect in the which of the federal government partnering in those investments if they do choose to lead rather than wait for the corps. >> thank you, thank you very much. i want to turn next to mr. friedman. thanks very much. does the cuyahoga river still catch on fire? >> no, sir. we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of that infamous fire, senator, and i'm happy to report that the environmental health of the river has been restored significantly. so we're proud of what we've been able to achieve since that dark day. >> i was -- i stood in ohio state university around that time. and we used to talk about fish fries up on the cuyahoga river. the wrong kind. the wrong kind. a question for you if i could. by 2020, the total volume of cargo shipped by w

is it and clearly see did you get paid for the disposal. >> my final question to the gao. in the case the dod lacks a sufficient number of financial managers. and what are you doing or what areas has the department done to take care of to acquire these. >> this is a challenge. when you have an organization that's most of it has never been under audit and don't federal employees don't themselves conduct financial statement audits the way commercial intervises do. you may have cpa. who don't have exposure to some of the other practices. and so over time we have been able to grow that a couple ways. the first is the agency that went under audit firs like the core of engineers. they have a clean opinion. a number of people who have been through an audit multiple times know what it looks like, part of fixing things. they're helping the army. some we have grown by leading with example. some we have gone out and hired. and the third focus is training. we have a robust training program we have been emphasizing audit standards, audit readiness. internal control. in decade or two ag

if you look at the latest gao report, they studied the wall and they found over a five-year period over300 times people were able to get over that will. most importantly i want you to listen to this. i asked the current border patrol chief and the past border patrol chief this question. how much time does the wall by you? you know what they said? a couple minutes or maybe a couple seconds. if you are going to slow somebody down for a couple of minutes and spend billions of dollars, i think we need to be smarter. look at what the military does in afghanistan and iraq. they use air stats and camera sensors and drones to secure the area. we have got to look at what's been tested, what works, and if it works for the military, a to work for us on the border. -- it can work for us on the border. david: congressman, think you so much for being with us today. rep. cuellar: thank you. have a wonderful day. shery: we are seeing treasury yields continue to rise for a fifth consecutive session. let's get a check of where we stand right now with julie hyman with the latest. julie: we get to treasuri

nothing is more irritating to me than when the really hard work of gao and the igs identify problems and really make your job easier in terms of where you should focus and nobody consumes the product. it's really important, i think, that all of you consume this product, because they identify ten challenges of management, and that's what your jobs are. is management. i'm going to focus on a couple of those today. but i certainly would advise all of you to take this report seriously. sustainment problems. the market leveraging for spare parts. they identify, in this report, that for the h-60 helicopter used by the services and so com, that they have purchased 2.9 million spare parts for the h-60, d.o.d. has, using 2,000 separate contracts. awarded to 590 different contractors. over a 12-month period. for almost $400 million. and often, these parts were purchased for different prices, the same part. this is, you know, the kind of stuff that just makes you want to tear your hair out as somebody who's a former auditor. what roadblocks can you identify, secretary lord, that would keep you

as you know, the gao has stated dod has not yet demonstrated that its leadership has ability to achieve financial reform. the dod lacks a specific cadre of managers with qualifications and level of expertise needed to lead reform throughout the department. additionally, having looked at what occurred in the financial industry over time, i have concerns have how we're going to go about guaranteeing that this marriage between the dod and the different auditors is one that's going to be transparent enough for us to understand that the taxpayers getting the appropriate audits that we should be getting, because as you know, what occurred in the financial industry was that basically the auditors did what the people being audited wanted them to do so that they can get the next contract the next time it was around or keep that contract. i really want to know how we're going to watch that issue and has dod developed not only a process to guarantee we're getting what we say we're going to get, but brought on additional personnel with demonstrated financial experience, what barriers continue to im

so if you have the gao or inspector general saying this is clearly waste and fraud, what could the democratsdispute that? >> but see, this came down to the debate on both regulatory relief but particularly tax relief. the idea of stimulating the private enterprise, empowering people, getting that economic growth that makes these things possible. more limited government, more economic growth in the private sector. that is it what we are pushing for. that is where we need help from our colleagues. david: senator john hoeven from north dakota, thank you very much, senator. appreciate you coming in. >> thanks, david. melissa: we're now learning author michael wolff is moving up the release date of that "fire and fury "book. saying there is unprecedented demand of the critical tell-all book about president trump. was supposed to be released next tuesday. it will be out tomorrow, despite a cease and desist order from the president's lawyer. there you go. you can buy it and read it tomorrow. thank you, mr. president. david: great advertising for michael wolff. >>> a scandal at intel. a major chip f

the gao high risk list roundtable to implement corrections to improve access to care and some of the responses we would have a conference call or see something later this year in some cases we have seen no progress so the fact with action already undertaken with specific proposals moving up the information to the transaction is very refreshing. i love to see that i hope you will follow up by us informed of your progress. we all agree sooner rather than later but most importantly veterans with the efficacy of those efforts. thanks for what you are doing and i yield back. >> mr. london, when we say ginnie mae is able to find companies in this space is that basically the e2? v.a. that they operate in partnership? >> ginnie mae has the authority to issue rules to access security. we have broad statutory authority to write rules as we need to protect it. looking at the charter the top five mandates the first four make sure there is liquidity in the mortgage market. but once we issue the rule they hear the rule we need to abide by. if there are violations then we can issue penalties. the r

one of the things that somebody ought to look at, yourself or gao or whatever, would be how much not getting information, how much that adversely affects the ability of congress to do its job. again, that is a huge deal. the other thing i think is you have -- and i know problems with resources and things like that. but we need to measure things. you all weigh in on bunches of stuff. many times, that is accurate. sometimes, that is not as accurate. sometimes it is not because of the fact that there is a mistake to be made. it is just a very difficult to do these things. i think it would be helpful for us to know the areas that we can truly rely on the information versus a guess. but you can on do that through metrics. you have to have the ability to check yourselves o. i don't think that is happening right now. can we talk about that? and if you don't have the resources to do that, what would it take for us to give you that ability? i do think, regardless of what we do, you need to have that information. we need to have that information as we make really important decisions. dr. hall:

central position we cannot do things many times without you weighing into that beside yourself for gao is how much that adversely affects the ability of congress to do this job and that is a huge deal. i know you have problems with resources but you need to measure things but how many times that is accurate sometimes it isn't sometimes it is because of the fact there is a mistake to be made but it is very difficult so it would be helpful to know those areas versus a gas but you can only do that through metrics to have the ability to check yourselves out and i don't think that is happening right now. can you talk about that? if you don't have the resources and what does it take for us to give you that ability? i do think regardless of what we do, we need to have that information for decision. >> to call the analysis of actuals where we sit down and look at the budget categories and see what happened during the year and what we predicted. so if i have a meeting how will we adjust the view going forward? it sounds like it may help if we publish the analysis so you can see exactly how we d

i just left the gao high-risk list roundtable about vha being able to implement corrections that will improve access to care, and some of the responses we got, we'll have a conference call on this and we'll see something later this year and in some cases we've seen no progress on any of these so the fact that you came to this meeting with action already undertaken and specific proposals about what you're going to change, for example, moving up this information to the outset of the transaction instead of the moment when you sign and you're under all that pressure and very refreshing and i hope that you'll follow up on that by keeping us informed of your progress on implementing this. i think we all agree sooner better than later and we'd love to hear back from the industry and most importantly veterans on the efficacy of those, forts. so thank you all for what you're doing and your testimony today and i yield back to the chair. >> mr. takano, five minutes. >> doctor -- mr. london, and who is the guy from the jennie mae? i can't remember your name. mr. bright? mr. bright, when we say th

opportunity scholarship voucher program that has seen some results that, by the gao research seems to suggest that the program has a significant impact on college matriculation for its participants. we are, i should add, the proud home of miss ashton's husband is an alumnus of our school. >> thank you all. were clearly have a wide range of experience and expertise here with us this morning. i'm eager to hear from all of you. i would like to start our discussion time by asking tom and steve if you could just elaborate a little bit more briefly so everyone has a chance to enter in, on what you think the limiters are too wider spread adoption of your approaches around child centered learning and both approaches that you have been taking in your district, and for others to enter in with that conversation as well. >> i believe some of the delimiters are the lack of flexibility that public schools have, especially in north carolina from calendar flexibility to financial flexibility, we are fortunate that we have a supplemental school tax that our community pays that gives us additional reso

despite congress' development of strong, merit-based criteria for infra, gao was unable to determine u.s. d.o.t.'s rationale for selecting the first round's 18 successful projects. and lastly, a partnership with the private sector. funding should leverage private participation and provide the largest possible two box of funding options. an advisory council of freight industry members and system users could assist u.s. d.o.t. to foster partnerships with the private sector. i thank the committee for their time and attention to this critically important topic. >> thank you. and also, thank you for being specific. because you specified five things, and this is -- this committee is going to have to make some decisions, and i think those are excellent suggestions. mr. parker. >> thank you, chairman inhofe, ranking member cardin and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today on the topic of freight movement, assessing where we are and where we're going. i know other witnesses this morning will concentrate in their testimony on map 21 and the fast

and so that's something we asked the gao to look at, that's something we're continuing to investigate. i'm not opposed at all to it as long as there isn't some sort of interference issue. that has to be first and foremost. but, look, we're scouring every bit of spectrum we can to do the kinds of things that you're talking about as well as look at unlicensed, what the appropriate amount of that is. it's attention we had in the 2012 act. we're going to try to get millimeter spectrum out there. there's a lot we're doing. there was a time i would say in 2012, and i may be wrong on this, but where we thought some of the upper-end spectrum weren't really sure what that would be used for and did it have much value, and now we know that's some of the new beachfront, if you will. we're looking at how do we maximize use of that as long as there isn't an interference area. >> do you have time for one more? >> yeah, sure. >> just wait for the mic and identify yourself -- >> [inaudible] can you say anything about any opportunity to update the 1996 telecommunications act. in other words, reform. >>

gao will make sure they do it. we also take care of contracting because the previous cdc director's said you had to get 10 sign offs on travel vouchers for people to get over to africa and that slowed the response. he had to contract with ngos to contract to get transportation for people and goods. we are trying to circumvent that and we put something together in regards to that. let me hit on stuff that's perhaps more provocative. you speak about the need to maintain this international network. theoretically the world health is doing that. i'm not sure we are getting a bang for our buck with world health. if we are funding internationally world health and the cdc is doing it separately, that does not seem in a time of scarce resources a wise use of resources. thoughts? dr. inglesby: the world health organization has some of the best experts in the world on diseases around the world and they are the normative agency for setting policy and guidance around the world. they are not a strong operational agency. they don

gao will eventually do it at it would also take care of contracts. the previous director said of ebola he had to get 10 travel vouchers for people to go to west africa. he had to contract with ngos for them to contract to get transportation for people and goods. senator schatz and i've put something together with guards of that. let me ring up something that's perhaps will more provocative. the need to maintain the international network theoretically world health is doing that. i'm not sure we are getting our bank for our buck with world health. you probably have relationships with them so don't mean to put in a bad position but the cdc is doing it separately. at the same in a time of scarce resources a wise use of resources. thoughts? >> the world health organization has some of the best experts in the world and around the world and they are the normative agency for setting policy and guidance around the world but they are not a strong operational agency. they don't have resources for going to train the world. they have some money for that but their

i think to me the number more telling is that since 2008, gao has been looking at the accessibility of the voting booth, itself. the actual station. and in 2008 they found that 46% of them were not fully accessible. 46% of voting stations themselves had some type of the impediment for people with disabilities. in 2016, that number went up. 65% were in some way inaccessible. we are going in the wrong direction when it comes to how we are actually casting the ballots. this means that they were less likely to be wheelchair accessible, less likely to be sheltered to show privacy and less readily for headphones for people who cannot read a page or screen, and interestingly enough, less likely to even be powered on. we are setting up voting machines that we are not bothering to switch on. and there are two i think that in my mind are main reasons for, that and what changed between 2008 and 2016? i will say that the first thing that we have talked a lot about today is the funding issue, and when hava passed the federal government was willing to put the money into the states to get the equipme

borrow $1 trillion a year without cutting $400 billion in waste, fraud and abuse and duplication the gaoention? >> we have 12 states, we end up with 20 at the end of this year, we are moving to get the 34 states to call in amendments convention on three areas, term limits, scope and jurisdiction of the federal government and limitation in terms of fiscal responsibility of the federal government so they make hard choices, we were not making hard choices, nobody. stuart: you look great. you come back. good to see you. stuart: you look terrific, thank you. we have nike unveiling the us a lipid team's uniforms ahead of next month's winter olympics, they will wear these on the podium during the ceremonies. ralph lauren is designing the opening and closing ceremony for team usa, those or pictures thereof have yet to be released. the president is holding that cabinet meeting, any headlines, you will hear them very quickly. more varney after this. ♪ curity panel, keypad, key fob, entry and motion sensors and for a limited time, get a camera included and installed at no additional cost. retail. u