>> than the european countries basically your child care would you put some government money into a gsa at the beginning? >> may be automatically start out by thousand four need based? >> right to. but even if we take all the people in this country to put money into the a gsa we're still short of what we spend now. so people begin to be responsible if you need to have something done to sink to our want to go here? a lot of people said you cannot do that. >> fin they had to put limits on i will buy some hamburger and a hamburger helper. and then how to stretch it out to make it work. but then to have control of the health savings account. and then into the free market economics. >> is outside the hospital is as much of a problem but they will charge a ridiculous with the other would go through the bill lyons filing and said it to the insurance company. with their rich charging crazy amounts of money. >> is because the cost may only be a $2,000 but if they put that down the insurance company will pay 300 so if we put 20,000 the and they will pay us the 3,000. it is a game. so how do you b

>> look at gsa. a number of technologies or platforms the might be useful in developing vaccines. i think we would be ready to work with major governments to put in place more of a standing readiness. let's put in place more of a standing readiness working with the right agencies and making sure rather than having emergency response in the way that -- can we do something that is a bit more ready? we'd do not know what the next threat will be. >> we do not know what the next threat is going to be. that is a scary thing. >> it is. we also have a series of technologies of building blocks, if you will. in most cases, we have been able to reassemble in a hurry to put together one thing that gives -- that process is very responsive and time pressured. what we can do is step back and -- the mechanism where we are working on those i years, but where we have something partially ready. we could get part of the way there in anticipation. take some of the pressure out here to >> advances in take some of the pressure out. >> advances in biomedicine -- >> absolutely. a powerful example, malaria

gsa officials found two loaded guns and assault in a bad one with a bullet in the chamber the tea is a spokesperson says that many of these cases people just forget that these items are armed and loaded putting washington lawmakers on notice: you have 30 days to get your act together. speaking on nbc's "meet the press," schultz called on congress and the obama administration to quit bickering and cooperate. "washington has let the country down. the congress now has a unique opportunity with the administration to stop the polarization and dysfunction and demonstrate immediately a new set of rules. and that rule has to be civility and conversation and cooperation. if we don't get that in the next 30 days the business community is going to do what they've done for the last 10 years: dismiss washington, but we can't have that. this is a unique opportunity." schultz also urged businesses to take the lead in the nation's economic recovery. this isn't the first time the starbucks head has become steamed over dysfunction in washington. as the nation teetered on the edge of the so-called fisc

but we signed a gsa, and that is an important document for us, because it will allow not only military support for the african security, but importantly the financial support. >> the trouble is that the taliban do not seem to be getting weaker. is the new president going to persuade them to engage in peace processes in a way that his predecessor couldn't. >> well, there is a consistency inside and outside of the country that war is not the ultimate solution for afghanistan. ultimately we have to reach out a compromise with the taliban. what kind of compromise - we have to escape to the institution in afghanistan. to the - what we have achieved in the past 15 years. to our constitution. and president ashraf ghani. from the first days in office, yes, started to reach out to important counties in the region. he travelled to saudi arabia, then to china, and in pakistan. he wants to convince our partners in the region, that establishing in afghanistan is important. and the chinese understand this, because they have suffered from terrorist attacks. it's a real opportunity that pakistan could

perhaps the most notable example of that is gsa -- ts a. id has the free check a number are a member of that to submit information on background there is a shorter line. less screaming when you get there and it enables us to free up resources to devote for the class the individuals we know less about at the airports. so tsa actually has become popular with the american public their actions saying nice things about tsa at the same time we have developed the pre-check which is an amazing fact. just in the first 10 months of calendar year 2014 we have a tsa pre-check it has also seized from carry-on luggage the aviation passengers 1,855 firearms. over 3,000 types of weapons seized by a tsa. i salute the work of this organization. there is a lot of misunderstanding or misapprehensions' about the state of our border security right now. and one of the things i am devoted to is more transparency when it comes to the numbers of people apprehended or removed in the course of any fiscal year there is some misunderstanding over the numbers. i am commi

on travel particularly that there have been egregious examples of misuse of funds of that sort the gsa extravaganza in las vegas for instance, the way in which that is now implemented provides a very heavy burden upon those of us who are trying to organize scientific conferences and make sure that scientist have a chance to attend them. i can tell you from my own 30 years of experience as a physician scientist, many times some of the most exciting ideas that have arrived in my own career have been on the basis of those conversations that happened at these meetings where you rub shoulders with people who are not at your own institution and a light bulb goes off and new idea gets started and something important for the future gets to occur. >> all right. now i must tell you the way in which oversight is being applied at nih caused us to spend $13.7 million last year on the enterprise and involved more than 150 employees to try to track, maintain some sort of records that could be scrutinized by anybody who want to see all of the connen froms that we want people to go to. and we routinely

he did it, and gm knew it was coming because once the gsa gets airbags in cars, their ball game is over. they're going to have to provide it to the public. so they refused to bid. chrysler refused to bid. ford bid on 5,000 vehicles, and the rest is history. you now have airbags that can prevent you from exerting your freedom to go through a windshield, ok? [chuckling and applause] so... so people say to me, "look at all the things you've done. this is unbelievable." i said, "don't make me out as a freak." [scattered chuckling] you can do the same thing. you can have the same passion. you just want to do it. somebody wants to win the olympics, they work night and day to train. someone wants to be a great poet or sculptors, they work hard to do it. and if we want to be an effective, strategic, successful citizen advocate, you work on it. you read history. you learn the lessons of the people before you who won; at how they won the struggle against slavery, and women's right to vote and civil rights and the farmer populist victories and the victories of industrial trade unions in those horr

. >> gan to read that campaign i always wanted to run because the hour gsa had my back.ith the democratic governors' association spent $1 million of attack as right after the primary the rga was right there with a response ad that was perfect and covered be allowing me to continue with what i wanted to do for arkansas so we could read the agenda oriented campaign that made all the difference in the world. so we started off telling them what we want to do for arkansas. which was the plan to go to the web site per'' they could download the six points as well i wanted to do including tax reduction making arkansas more competitive compared to surrounding states we have 7% with republicans and governors around us having lower rates. we had to be competitive. second career in education education, talk about computer science at every high-school. we want to reduce health care with choice this is like gm put -- campaign done. the a vintage is it was not it easy race but we won by a great margin. whenever we won the -- every federal race everyone every constitutional office in ar

somewhere you have to get the gsa to delegate the authority for us and they have to delegate everything. seventeen of the 20 are above the delegation and we have to find a way to work around those issues and then we have to give the contractor, we wind up contracting with so we have time to build the facility. >> thank you. doctor? >> thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member. veterans have spoken and i join them in their message in saying that anything less than the highest standard of health care that the veterans such her -- the veterans need and is centered, that must be the sole standard by which we judge ourselves. i hosted a workshop that educated 70 medical professionals in high demand specialties for the va in my district about how to work with the va loma linda and tri-west to provide veterans with health care in their communities. the goal was to get more veterans better care and recruit physicians to treat veterans in the community and we will continue to speak with the medical professionals that attended to measure the success of the event. i received a call from the secretar

that's not took days ago, jeff neely of the now infamous gsa employer responsible for organizing the extravagant las vegas conference that caught everybody's eye, i think we have a picture of him. everybody recalls this guy, thumbing his nose at us on a hot tub. it took all that time to document and go after the falsely filed statements that mr. neal he meat. he said his travel was for official purposes and many of his purported business trips were as we saw and identified for pleasure. the individuals in miami and mr. neely are the rare bad examples of federal workers and our federal workplace. the vast majority of federal employees are honest and hardworking, dedicated individuals. i hope today's hearing will serve as both a reminder that we need to do a better job monitoring this credit card program and also act as a potential deterrent to deter bad actors. make no mistake. congress and the inspector generals and the managers, all of us in wng will hold the offenders couldable. they send their taxpayer dollars to washington and expect and serve to have accountability and responsib

somewhere in the we've got to get gsa to delegate authority for us under these leases. we've got to give the contractor, we wind up contracting with the time to build the facility. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member. our veterans have spoken them and i join them in the message in saying that anything less than the highest standard of health care that veterans centers will not be tolerated. in implementing the veterans access, choice and accountability act, that must be the sole standard by which we judge ourselves. i hosted a workshop educated 70 medical professionals in high demand specialties for the va in my district about how to work with the va and try was to provide veterans with health care in their communities. our goal is to get more veterans high quality veteran centers care and improve physicians and will continue to speak with a medical professional that attend to measure the success of the event. i received a call from secretary mcdonald which i really appreciate to discuss event. and i shared with him the lessons that we le

but was the smoking clown invited back to burn through more of our taxpayer cash at another big gsa convention. what were they smoking? ♪ ♪ >>> a massive nor'easter threatening the busiest travel day of the year. >> that's today we're talking about. snow and ice interrupting plans for millions of americans going to somebody's house. >> doug luzader has been traveling the dc roads. how is it looking out there and did they give you any salt to help the others? >> reporter: a lot of people are going to need help out here. 46 million, i guess, according to aaa traveling more than 50 miles this year, which is a seven-year high, by the way. look outside, the problem right now isn't so much volume. it's this weather. we're seeing a fair amount of rain right now and the problem is, especially if you head farther up the coast, this is going to start to turn to snow. that's going to make travel conditions pretty bad in the nation's highways. but also for air travel as well. while this is primarily going to affect the northeast, there is the potential for that cascading impact across the country. >> it l

somewhere in there we've got to get gsa to delegate authority for us under these leases. they have to delegate anything. 17 of the 27 leases are above gsa's delegation to delegate. we have to work around those particular issues. then we have to give the contract to, whoever we wined up contracting with, the time to build the facility. >> thank you. thank you mr. chairman. ranking member. our veterans have spoken and i joined them in their message in saying that anything less than the high standard of health care that's veteran centered will not be tolerated. and implementing the veteran's access choice and accountability act that must be the sole standard by which we judge ourselves. i hosted a work shot that educated 70 medical professionals in high demand specialties for the v.a. my district. about how to work with the v.a. loam why linda and tri west to help with health care if their community. >> we will continue to speak with the medical professionals that attended to measure the success of the event. i received a call from secretary mcdonald which i really appreciat