gsa was the only federal agency to meet all five of its contracting goals.mall business, small disadvantaged businesses, and service disabled veterans. she continues to set the bar. please help me recognize mary parks. [applause] ♪[applause] >> finally, i am pleased to present our national minority- owned small businesses person of the year award. first things first. like to recognize that 10 regional minority-owned small businesses people of the year. it is a very competitive process to become a regional winner. these dynamic individuals already own and operate 8a firms that have begun to show signs of growth, sales, and job creation. they have to be in business for at least three years, show a good track record of performance, and they need to show that they are active in the community. its 10 businesses will be recognized again this evening. if the regional winners could please stand so we can give you a big round of applause. [applause] >> and now the final award. this is a surprise, i think. this year's national winner is a company that was established

>> traditionally gsa has not used design-build extensively with you with recovery acts -- the majority of projects will be design-build projects. >> what kind of -- >> i was searching through -- >> it would seem to me -- this is a situation where we need to employ this strategy so i would be real curious what you're doing at gsa. >> we started getting the money -- most of our projects -- we had more projects ready to go than we had dollars, so we -- the -- and so part have what you're seeing -- what we're seeing right now is i believe it on the o & m as soon as those projects are ready, we're sending those out and it's happening. on the construction side there are again the -- i think there are other factors that cause an effective schedule for a construction project, but in our criteria, i think the corps does design-build. it is an effective technique. in the case of the stimulus, we were focusing on projects that had designs completed or were completely complete so we had go ahead and go ahead to that. i don't know the direct answer to your question. i don't know how many design-bui

territories were gsa will spend 5.5 billion dollars of funding to repair and green our existing federalldings and construct high-performance green buildings progress three months ago he committed the gsa would award $1 million of recovery act funding by august 1. i am pleased to report that we not only met that goal but exceeded it. as of this morning our obligations are just under

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gsa was the only federal agency to meet all five of its contracting goals.antaged businesses, and service disabled veterans. she continues to set the bar. please help me recognize mary parks. [applause] [applause] >> finally, i am pleased to present our national minority- owned small businesses person of the year award. first things first. like to recognize that 10 regional minority-owned small businesses people of the year. it is a very competitive process to become a regional winner. these dynamic individuals already own and operate 8a firms that have begun to show signs of growth, sales, and job creation. they have to be in business for at least three years, show a good track record of performance, and they need to show that they are active in the community. its 10 businesses will be recognized again this evening. if the regional winners could please stand so we can give you a big round of applause. [applause] >> and now the final award. this is a surprise, i think. this year's national winner is a company that was established in 2002. these two professio

we know over 10 years she has sell build a foundation for successful contracting at gsa produce saw our results of her work. gsa was the only federal agency to meet all five contracting goals for small business, didvantaged businesses, womesounds and serve and the disabled veterans so she continues to set the bar please tell me to recognize mary parks [applaus ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >>inally i am pleased to present our national minory small business person of the year of war. the first thing this first-ev like to recognize that 10 regional minity small-business people of the year is a very competitive process to become regional winner these individuals already own the affirms that began to show signs of growth and sales and job creation. they have to be in business at least three years ensure a good track record of performance and they need to show thay are active in the community. these businesses will be recognized again this evening but if those regional winners could ease stand so we can give you a round of applause a [applause] >> and now, and the final award. this year it national win

first is the gsa administrator. we support and have called upon the senate to, to immediately upon its return to fill the position of the gsa add -- administrator. two other positions at gsa have been given a green light to go ahead and be filled, and that's good news, but we need the administrator in place. the second position i want to mention is secretary of the army. representative john mchugh is the nominee, and again, we call on the senate to act on that as soon as possible after their return. well, that is a rapid and far-reaching summary of things that are pending right now. what i'd like to do at this point is turn the gavel over to all of you, open the floor for any questions, and we'll either defer to the appropriate expert to help us out -- >> [inaudible] -- you may take the first question yourself. >> all right. let me go right there. please identify yourself. >> irv chapman, i work for bloomberg radio. just to flush out a couple things you ran quickly past, you want to build a fiber under roads and bri

two positions at the gsa have been given a green light to go read and be felt. that is good news. a message and place. and secretary of the army, representative john mchugh, we call on the senate to act on that as soon as possible after their return. that is a rapid and far-reaching summary of things that are pending right now. what i would like to do at this point is turn the gavel over to all of you, open the floor for any questions. we will either defer to the appropriate expert to help us out. >> you build a fiber on their roads and bridges -- under roads and bridges. where do you want it to go? what if broadband his 50,000, half the across the country? do you want to do for the town's post s? >> you don't want to miss the opportunity to put down the infrastructure for the 21st circuit -- century. it makes common sense to put the fire down for all kinds of capability, some of which we cannot know yet. there would be municipal and government needs, private sector should be able to plug into that as well, it should notify it that we roads need to be torn up, i will let -- josh t

first is the gsa administrator.port and have called upon them to immediately upon its return to fill the position of the gsa administrator. two other positions at gso has been given a green light to go ahead and be filled. but we need the administrator. the second position is secretary activity army, the norm knee, and we call on the senate to act on that as soon as possible after their return. this is a rapid and far-reaching summary of things that are pending right now. what i'd like to do is turn the gavel over to all of you, and open the floors for any questions. and we'll either defer to the appropriate expert to help us out. all right. let me go right here for the first question. please identify yourself for the camera. >> mr. chapman. you have to built fiber under roads and bridges. what do you want it to go? where do you want it to go? and broadband in the same token. it's thanks to the feds a town of 50,000 halfway across the country, what do you want it to do for that town? >> i'll call on joshua lamel. yo

. >> for the record, the beautiful campus that they occupy is actually part of the gsa budget, so none of your food safety dollars for going to build that lovely campus which we are also proud of. i will yield back. >> if we do testing and have to report their positive results, after a while if you can see a continued positive results for e coli from a plant, would that not indicate you have a problem and you have to increase inspections? like that peanut butter one with the salmonella, no one received a report and no one at the fda ever knew what was going on there. >> i agree with you. the fda has to respond to problems very aggressively and has to be able to follow up with manufacturers that are not meeting standards, and if necessary, shut them down. in recent weeks we have taken action against some firms. rex but you would not know unless you receive positive results. somewhere, someone has to receive the results and look at them. >> it could be that we get a complaint and we investigated. it could be testing that the fda does. we can find out, we can have someone call us and say

when the housing and economic recovery act was passed, and arm twisted cbo scored the gsa titles of the said there was less than a 50% chance that a bailout authority would ever be used unless in a 5% chance that the cost would ever run over $100 billion. the chairman of this committee, chairman frank, chastised republicans on the floor who said that the cost would likely go well over the cbo estimates. he said it is the most inflammatory rhythmic tic i've ever heard. the higher use but republicans he stated the summers are being thrown out are simply inaccurate and misleading, he said. speaking of inaccurate and misleading, the cbo weekly updated their scores, and the cost estimates have increased by over 1500%. so as we begin this month with a more formal debate overregulate where restructuring and providing the government with an explicit bailout authority, i think it is essential that any conversation begins and ends with gics and any rigor toward reform that does not conclude gse is not to reform. fannie and freddie were a large part of the problem and reforming them should be a la

territories were gsa will spend 5.5 billion dollars of funding to repair and green our existing federalbuildings and construct high-performance green buildings progress three months ago he committed the gsa would award $1 million of recovery act funding by august 1. i am pleased to report that we not only met that goal but exceeded it. as of this morning our obligations are just under 1.1 billion. the first billion will fund 120 projects in 42 states plus the district of columbia and pr and allow gsa to construct new-line and ports of entry and eight federal buildings and implement high-performance buildings and a gsa buildings at least 20 are already under construction the rest will begin soon. . .

we know that she has helped build a foundation for successful contrasting at gsa.f you sur scorecard last week, you saw the results of her work. gs was the only fdderal agency to meet all five of its contracting goals. smallusiness, small disadvantaged businesses, and service disabled veterans. she continues to set the bar. please help me recognize mary parks. [applause] [applause] >> finally, i am pleased to present our national minority- owned all businesses person of the year award. first things first. like to recognize that 10 regional minority-owned small businesses people of the year. it is a very competitive process to become a regiol winner. these dynamic individuals already own and operate 8a firms that have begun to show signs of growth, sales, and job creation. they have to be in business for at least three years, show a good track recd of performance, and they need to show that they are aive inhe community. its 10 business will be recognized again this evening. if the regional winners could please stand so we can give you a g round of applause. [applaus

120 projects in 42 states plus the district of columbia and pr and allow gsa to construct new-line and ports of entry and eight federal buildings and implement high-performance buildings and a gsa buildings at least 20 are already under construction the rest will begin soon. . . acronym calgama. it stands for california leafy greens marketing handling agreement. and we're also going to be talking about the proposed nationalization of that agreement. the hearing will focus on bagged or value added leafy greens ready to eat. consumers are quite familiar with those products. and look at the role of private industry and government in regulating these products. and the economic, environmental and food safety impacts of that regulation. now, without objection, the chair and the ranking minority member will have five minutes to make opening statements, followed by opening statements that -- of other members, not to exceed three minutes by any member who seeks recognition. without objection, members and witnesses have five legislative days to submit a written statement or extraneous materials