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as you know, gao says your headquarters has space utilization rate of 11%.has gotten so bad one of your employees went so far as to write me an anonymous letter that i do have with me today madam chair, i would like to submit that to the record please. >> so ordered without objection. >> let me read a few sentences, and i quote, the vast majority of u.s. d.a. employees are not working in person. on the occasions i have gone to usda headquarters in washington, d.c., it resembles a ghost town. your employee goes on to say, remote work and telework employees are often unreachable and do not respond to simple email questions for hours. with that, mr. secretary, knowing your own staff is recognizing issues with policies currently put into place, how many days per week do you require your d.c.-based managers and employees covered by collective reckoning agreements to be physically in the office? >> the majority of the week. >> okay, but with that majority of the week? >> for some it is three days, others, four days. >> yet the occupancy is 11% according to -- >> s

gaos now reporting they basically waste every year half a trillion bucks.ng on in this government and he has the nerve to stay, yes, i'm going to raise your taxes. vote for me, i'll raise your taxes. even jimmy carter campaigned on tax cuts, final word, liz. >> yeah, i don't know that anyone ever won the presidency by assuring they'll pay more in taxes and businesses will be clobbered. seems like a weird campaign thing. liz: and a weird interview. holy toledo, whoa, grab your wallet and head for the basement moment. liz peek, thank you so much. that's the big story over the weekend and probably pick it up on monday. good to see you. bring in former top homeland security council mike powell hawaii do you think of chuck schumer, he attacked israel from the senate floor and now he's saying to prime minister netanyahu, he attacked pm netanyahu and now wants him to speak before the joint session of congress? what's going on here? >> he's all over his place and at his core, schummer and biden have the democrat party on the strangle hold of the jewish vote isn't g

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our bill requires the gao to also study airport worker standards a step towards getting our baggage handlers and workers and aircraft cleaners the pay and benefits that they deserve. thede bill also does something r the first time for consumers. it says that you deserve a refund after a three hour delay. even if you have a nonrefundable ticket. you also deserve a refund for an international flight if it's been delayed for six hours, and you can get that refund immediately by talking to the carrier, or if you decide you just don't want to be on the delayed flight, you can get a refund. i want to thank senators markey and vance for a mandate in the bill that says families get to sit together and you can't charge us more. if the airlines a break these rules, guess what happens, the dot assistant secretary is authorized to issue penalties up to $75,000 for fines and penalties to have a strong deterrence. i also want to thank the subcommittee chair for her leadership in making sure airlines better accommodate passengers with disabilities. it's because of the unbelievable advocacy that we are goin

since the end of the cold war, have now become particularly acute. 1 in november 1990, sir geoffrey gaoresigned and with his bitter farewell speech accelerated mike's challenge to margaret thatcher's leadership. heselteyn. in the next vote, she received the majority of votes. however, according to party rules, the lead was insufficient and a second vote was required. after receiving this news at a conference in paris, she immediately proclaimed her intention to fight on. but a political earthquake struck the day after her return to london. many colleagues from her government did not support her in issues of europe and doubted that she would be able to win the fourth general election. suddenly abandoned her leadership and left her no choice but to resign. this is a very brave and selfless decision of the prime minister. once again, margaret thatcher put the interests of her country and party above personal considerations. this will allow the party to elect a new leader who will unite the party and continue its tremendous successes. i would like to add that i am very saddened by the fact

. >> the gao made eight recommendations for the re- evaluations.a permits only four of those regulations and it begins before and the recommendations made we have made a concerted effort for in a timely way. you will find cooperative much more than previous administrations. >> what do you think you'll get it? >> i don't have a specific timeline today but i'll be happy to get it. >> i'm sure it's -- it will be before we have to reevaluate. >> so you could reevaluate is that what you're saying? >> no, we will take actions requested prior to reevaluation of the food plant because it focused on making sure who work collaboratively on recommendations as we do with oig. >> in may of last year the plan for the 2026 reevaluation, my understanding is usda as additional data on food prices and guidelines for americans, to have insight on how the information will impact the taxpayers? will begin the process for the reevaluation. >> obviously we don't know because we don't have the information but i think it is appropriate to ask the information, we have to de

in beijing, victor gao is vice president of the center for china and globalization. a leading a chinese think tank and didn't talk here to me. he goes to good. she is a special adviser at the gypsy future studies center. he's previously advised the japanese cabinet during the sions are all the administration. thank you very much for being with us here. on inside story, we really do appreciate your time saying you can i place, begin with you. your in taiwan were saying military exercises, time and time again from china, especially in recent years. do these feel different? i well i think tony is people are getting used to this and because we have been younger throughout of china for a very long time. so last time. uh, especially the trinity trinity, to me that the original, which is a big arcadia of taiwan is at the time west. jade, where we see that the all the word especially the internet to meet the store number as of all of that. but for the time these people will discuss very routine ovalo daily lives, because the china law frying a lot of watches and the fido, ju

again with our partnerss at gao and others.rt between the three of us we have something like 400 peopleking on this during programmatic oversight. during investigation, also sorts of support functions we have more than 30 people deployed in the region as i mentioned people at the embassy in ukraine between the three of us we will soon have 15 people at the embassy working on this in country in addition to people in germany and elsewhere in the region. we are doing robust work in this area. it iss challenging i don't suggest is not were doing oversight in a wartime situation i have a great people as to my colleagues we have a lot of experience in this oversight in conflict situations. we are making sure we are getting after it. i pressured the comet and the concert we are doing everything we can to address it. >> alright will get marsha from apollo beach, florida republican. >> hi there. first off i agree with the past couple of callers just the words robust oversight is so unbelievable that is your remaining go back to ug just keep falling back to that. we don't believe it. we don't bel

i have a gao report generally 16, 2020 that joe biden, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer relied on. december of 2019 the office of management and budget with help from obligation funds are appropriated to the department of defense for security assistance to ukraine for this is when they're going after trump. in order to withhold the funds, we issued a series of nine apportionment schedules with footnotes that made all obligated bounces unavailable for obligation. faithful execution of the law to submit the president to substitute his own policy priorities. for those that congress has enacted into law, omb withheld funds for policy reason. that is exactly what biden is doing. i do not with them going -- excuse me you're not only not only a dictator in america you're not dictator in israel. which is not permitted under the empowerment control act that was passed in 1974. the withholding was not a programmatic delay. therefore we conclude oh mfp violated the i see also known as violated federal law. this decision is whether there be an authority i'll be working from the president to wi

currie, the gao has offered a number of reports on the emergency management efforts with topics ranging from federal cooperation, managed growing risks, to barriers with recruiting, and retaining federal wildlife and firefighters, and many others. so my question for you is, what are some of gao's top recommendations to fema to help be better prepared and respond to wildfires. how can the committee help, and what can we do. >> a couple of things. first of all, back in 2019, we issued a report on wildfire response. we were talking about how unique the response wasn't how fema programs were not necessarily geared towards that. fema developed a plan in response to some of my recommendations to try to change some of our recommendations to cure them towards wildfire. there was some progress there. there was just not enough. and a great example of the house and when i talked about. so fema provides short-term housing when the federal government gets response to a disaster like a wild fire. this is not really designed for the length of recovery for a wildfire that a survivor has to deal with. a

b process.be because prosecutors and judges and the legal system are not supposed to be bullied and gao threatened and intimidated and pressures and maneuvered out of their jobs because they brought a prosecution that affects powerful people. they're not supposed to be subject to that. if they are subject to that kind of pressure, the scandal ought to be not on the prosecutors and investigators themselves who are getting smeared and attacked and intimidated and threatened. the scandal ought to be on the head of these people who have brought that pressure to bear.et it should be a shame they can be never live down. it should be certainly disqualifying from any role in american public life. i mean, in the 1940s, it is a scandal that senator burton wheeler of montana was involved in a gross nazi agents propaganda plot in the united states senate, and he was.at but if you're asking me, it is a bigger scandal that senator burton wheeler got the prosecutors fired who were looking into it. got them fired and professionally destroyed. it's a bigger scandal for him, and frankly, it's a bigger sc

if you've heard one thing from the gao and the various ig's in almost every hearing and report on pandemic fraud over the past four years, it is that l certification is not a control. it is a tool for prosecution, not prevention. they falsely attested to something when they signed. it's not a control to prevent people from lying. and yet, it is the way the faa continues to do business, essentially as a rubberstamp for every operation that comes in and complete. according to registry officials at the time, they believed fraud was the responsibility of other faa organizations, and this is simply not accurate. all federal programs are required to manage fraud programs with a focus on prevention. in 2020, we made 15 recommendations to the faa to close these critical gaps in critical information processes. the faa has taken action on three, which is foundational to other recommended changes. however, faa has a lot more work to do on the remaining 12 recommendations to help prevent exploitation of the aircraft registry for criminal purposes. i appreciate the caucuses interest in this important t

the report noted that while gao could not determine how much the program has and will cost to operate, the irs having not provided sufficient information to do this, the current tab far exceeds $100 million, just through fiscal year 2024. for an option that might only serve 100,000 taxpayers this year. in contrast, the federal government spends less than $5 million a year to add 2 to 3 million taxpayers served in one of its free income tax preparation programs. were the irs to use this year's direct file spending to pay third-party providers to prepare and file returns instead, literally hundreds of times the number of taxpayers could file for free. the irs spending hundreds of millions of its finite funding to simply test the utility of doing something that can already be done more efficiently with better outcomes and without the very real conflicts while simultaneously pleading for more funding calls for more oversight. direct file is not my only concern with the irs's current path. other serious concerns include the continued irs use of biased data and post factor metrics to plan a

again, my ching fong, kim tong tai chi minh and gao yan took again. so thank you. thank god they come. yun chi san. cheng fong okay. thank you for sharing your comments. could we could we have a interpretation of those final comments? then we need to move on to the next speaker, please. okay. so today mr. lee suffered from alzheimer disease, which prevent her from speaking to you directly from living her family while her fight for justice is end. we continue to fight for ongoing struggle to secure housing. board of supervisor, i urge you to not letting situation like mr. lee happen again. please understand that the proposal design for all model for a home for their family. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. alejo drinking at times. polystichum bqe zheng yi. webex yin yang wah fauci tai johnson fong welcome. zheng yi tong li fung hong good. johnson. fong gunnarsson miya. go mama. song tai ganga. ogawa ppe. tai. san. sam fong yun thai. fong kishore kumar. cheng liang. fong mo yan. see my chin. yim. models on sigurdson. cheng ho futa

he recently held them meeting at mar-a-lago with many conservative organizations planning their gao ground game for 2024, the national rifle association was part of those meetings and donald trump is promising to be a second amendment president if elected. once again, he said he will undo all the work that joe biden has done on gun safety since taking office. now, this is a contrast that the biden campaign is very eager to make. they are more than happy to let trump playing the mantle as a stalwart for the second can amendment and for the lack of action he took as president after all the mass shooting he saw during his four years, the trump campaign, they'll believes that this is a moment and opportunity for him to rally his base. they are some of these are some of his strongest supporters, which is why he's spending time with them in between all these court appearances, jessica all right. >> steve contorno for us at the lake it is from dallas. thanks so much for that reporting. also this weekend, president joe biden making a fresh appeal to black voters into close battleground states. geo

as led by this committee the gao has provided solutions for better foreign farm ownership reporting standards and a number of members have pointed to additional solutions and reporting. stronger cyber security vigilance championed by members here is also critical and there are a host of other possible solutions in the face of funding challenges that can ensure our nation remains vigilant on applying solutions to the uninvited, unwarranted, and increasingly sophisticated threats that certain actors present to our nation and food security. that concludes my opening remarks i do look forward to hearing from you and addressing to the best of my ability any questions on matters you wish to raise your >> sir, thank you very much. appreciate your experience. significant experience, and her input. now i am pleased to recognize ambassador tom. please proceed with five minutes of testimony when you are ready. >> honorable chairman thompson, ranking member scott, and distinguished members of the house committee on agriculture. as a lifelong farmer and a former ambassador to the rome- based u.n. food and

suspicions, someone was leaking her allegations to the press leading to tabloid headlines like grope, gao asked for movie part and secret life of harvey shy accuser. >> i was 22 years old and i was put under accusation of not being truthful and to be a prostitute or not perfect victim because i a model botswana gutierrez believed then and now the weinstein machine was behind it. all because it wasn't just him. >> i know there is more people behind him that have positions of power that he was using as well. >> but who bought to launch gutierrez believes part of the answer can be found here at former president donald trump's hush money trial. that's where former national enquirer boss, david pecker testified to paying off sources to protect trump's reputation by preventing negative stories from ever going public. while weinstein's named didn't come up on the stand, this tabloid news organization became a protection racket for the rich and powerful laughlin cartwright, a former editor for the enquirer, who now writes for the hollywood reporter, claims the imply protected weinstein, two, cart

as led by the committee the gao has better farm ownership standards and a number of members pointed to additional solutions in reporting. stronger cybersecurity vigilance, championed by members here is critical. there are hosts of other possible solutions in the face of funding challenges to make sure our nation remains vigilant on the uninvited, unwarranted and sophisticated threats that certain actors present to our nation and food security. that concludes my opening remarks and i look forward to hearing from you and addressing to the best of my ability questions you wish to raise >> sir, thank you very much, appreciate your experience and significant experience and your input. now i recognize ambassador tom, please proceed with five minutes of testimony wherever you are ready. >> thompson, scott, members of the house commit on agriculture. as a lifelong farmer i would like to share my perspective with you today on the threat of china to america's food supply and agricultural systems. i add the world is watching us today. americans need to understand our international security is dep

so you know, as far as the gao goes, the government, audit and oversight. excellent presentation by you, inspector general wiley, the issue is, if you are to look at that agenda and what was on their consent calendar for the settlements, that's lots of dollars. so at every opportunity that when i've been running into the mayor, i would remind her we need a budget, and that preventing litigation, even 1 or 2 cases will pay for just the very bare bones budget we're asking for, which is really 50% of what we actually need, and, you know, it's bare bones. i've been doing a lot of work. so on the side and so i don't i try not to burden dan and you and marshall and dan together really powerful. and you know that we talk to each other after hours. so i don't know what's going to happen when, assembly member matt haney's disconnect, legislation might go forward, but, after hours, we're we're all on call and i'm kind of a vampire. so that sort of helps. but i'm very cognizant of you having to travel to the city, to the office. so i try not to call you, you know. oh,

the wildland fire mitigation management commission that gao found there's not enough affordable availablend adequate housing to recruit or retain wildlife firefighters something you reference in your testimony. these are folks that families count on to protect them from these catastrophic wildfires. it is the funding that you requested in this budget enough to clear the backlog on firefighting housing maintenance? >> no, sir, not by longshot piglets how much of a dent will it make? >> the backlog is about three and 50 million acres. anything less than that is not going to get at the backlog. >> i am saying in terms of housing, and the additional funds you have requested what scale of progress are you going toke make and should making sure thour firefighters have access o adequate and well constructed house? >> and the funds were requesting it now i i think we have $25 million we are planning to put toward improving the housing situation but in fact we are lit completely redoing one barracks making a lot of necessary changes to many of the other barracks and houses. >> can you get us a ful

it also contains a new gao study to assess the law enforcement staffing crisis nationwide and the impacts on public safety. to you-- do you believe that traffic fatalities should be among the public safety impacts that my bill hopefully soon law, that that study should evaluate? is that something that once we get this signed, we can recommend that that be included? >> absolutely. because i think we need to underscore the importance. the important role that law enforcement plays in enforcing proven life saving laws. research is crystal clear that when risk of apprehension goes down that risk taking behaviors go up and the international association of chiefs of police did a survey of law enforcement agencies nationwide confirming the concerns with staffing shortages and tied it to negative perceptions of law enforcement overall in the united states. as i noted in my testimony, one the ways we can help to address that is to offer more support to law enforcement through accessing better data, stop data to increase transparency and communicate with the communities they serve and protect. >> an

just your experience with the cost of living gao and fearful of losing those services. >> great.that's it for the council and move on to mo d staff. >> nicole you thank you fiona and if the digit fund is planning to participate in public comment today incidental at the end of budget hearing or what's the next step for you. >> we we have the coalition and continue to be our own meetings with the (inaudible) yes intend to budget public comment today (unintelligible). >> uh-huh. >> just i want to put that out there for the folks. yes we do intend to do that. >> thank you i want to list another option to be considered should you like to do that. okay. >> that's all the questions for me debbie and no questions and thank you, if i and wish you to the best with our budget. >> thank you for having us the next presentation is from a budget issue budget issue of disability community organizations. presented by allegra heath-stout and itzel romero,senior and disability action (sda) i'm sorry. i'll get it. >> (calling names) okay. and friends from the senior disability action take it away. >

su: you ask that question of the gao and you got your answer. i'm not in violation of any law sitting here but i do want to say that i respect the role of the senate -- rep. burlison: to me, i think you continuing to serve is, if anything, a disrespect for the constitution and a disrespect for the senate. clearly the senate feels -- gives deference to other secretaries under the biden administration and they have approved but they have not given that deference to you. at what point will you acknowledge that you have not been accepted by the senate and will step down? sec. su: i was confirmed by the senate as a deputy -- rep. burlison: despite the fact that in my opinion you are operating as an illegitimate secretary, your agency, even though you have zero jurisdiction over union election procedures, you have created a prounion propaganda website called workers center dot dove that basically regurgitates information from many of the acting -- the think tanks for labor unions to encourage people to organize. what authority, what jurisdiction do yo

our bills requires the gao to study airport workers standards, a step towards getting our baggage handlers and ramp worker the pay and benefits they deserve. this bill also does something for the first time for consumers. it says that will you deserve a refund after a three-hour delay. even if you have a nonrefundable ticket. you also deserve a refund for an international flight if it's been delayed for six hours, and you can get that refund immediately by talking to the carrier or if you decide you just don't even want to be on the delayed flight, you can get a refund. i want to thank senators markey and vance for a mandate in the bill that says that families get to sit together and you can't charge us more. if the airlines break these rules, guess what happens, the dot assistant secretary is authorized to issue penalties up to $75,000 for fines. i want to thank senator duckworth to make sure that airlines accommodate passengers with disabilities. it is because of her unbelievable advocacy here that we will reduce the damage done to wheelchairs and to the passengers who have to make these

we have data from the gao and other places that say when law enforcement agencies confiscate guns and 36 countries in connection with crime, drug cartels, terrorist, they are guns that were diverted. they were sold to a legitimate commercial user and diverted, and that is against american national security, and that is why we took the steps. as proof that these are nearly targeted, as everything we do, the restrictions will affect less than 10% of all gun exports , so i don't agree with you. i agree, i admit, it is some commerce, that i think national security comes first and i do not agree these are large swaths of national commerce. >> a $250 million economic impact is not narrowly tailored. i certainly cannot support this increase in funding when bis comes out with this particular type of rule, and i yield back. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and a ranking member cartwright for holding this important hearing, and thank you for joining us today and thank you for your service and that of your staff. the whole operation has been incredibly professional and helpful. i want to ta

we have data from the gao and other places that say when law enforcement agencies confiscate guns in these 36 countries in connection with crime, drug crimes, cartels cartels, terrorists, they are guns that a been diverted. they were sold to a legitimate commercial user and averted. that's against american national security and that's what it took the steps. by the way, as proof that these are narrowly targeted, as everything we do in the eis, restrictions will affect less than 10% of all gun exports your so i don't agree with you -- i agree, i admit it is some commerce but i think national security comes first i don't agree that its large swaths of commerce. these are narrowly tailored to meet the national security mission. >> at $251 economic impact nine dollars economic impact is not narrowly tailored. i certainly cannot support this increase in funding when bis comes out with this particular type of google, and i yield bac back. >> mr. morelle. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman and ranking member cartwright for holding this important hearing. and madam secretary, thank you for

it also contains a new gao study to assess the law enforcement staff thing crisis at departments nationwidencludes the impacts this issue is having on public safety. do you believe that traffic pea fatalities should be among the public safety impacts that my bill, hopefully soon law, that study should evaluate9? is that something that once we get this signed we can recommend that that be included? that stud evaluate? is that something that we can recommend be included? >> absolutely. we need to underscore the important role that law enforcement plays in enforcing lifesaving laws. the research is crystal clear that when risk apprehension goes down, risk-taking behaviors go up. there was a survey of law enforcement agencies nationwide confirming the concerns with staffing shortages and tied it to the negative perception of law enforcement throughout the united states. one of the ways that we can address that is to offer more support to law enforcement accessing better data to increase transparency in the communities that they serve and protect. >> can i have my staff reach out to you for info

spilled an estimated 14,000 girls in nebraska and because of these issues the gao issued a report injuly of 2021 regarding keystone pipeline safety record which included a shocking revelationck the keystone with s record was not an outlier. it's about the same safety level on average is pipelines all over the country. this taken with mr. caram's testimony showing 2020 23 was the deadliest year for pipeline safety in america in 20 years should be a red flag and it's a sign of how concerned we should obe by the state of our pipelie infrastructure and especially by this increased buildout that we are sleepwalking toward inut ths committee and this congress. sadly another example of the significant threat pipelines pose can be seen with the feeling that the danbury gold coast pipeline in 2020 that exposed the community to dangerous levels of co2. when it ruptured it took 15 minutes for residents to feel the effects in 50 of them went to the hospital with a significant number still suffering effects today. these accidents and failures are not outliers. we are continuing to see the same pr