for people wondering today whether or not the gsa is even affected at all.lieve that the psa can be fixed or is it too big to fail at this point? we need to scrap everything and start over? >> i don't think we need to do that but it could be reviewed. that would require congress to change the law because much of what t s a does day in and day out is implement laws passed in 2001. is time to review how we go about doing all this but it is unfair to say that the security gap is wide open because we are doing background checks through secure flights, and many other things are being checked as passengers 2 million a day come to the checkpoint. that doesn't excuse this performance but it does say the combination of factors makes it safe to continue flying. jenna: appreciate your time as always. thank you very much. jon: unusual ceremony at the white house. the medal of honor posthumously awarded for conspicuous gallantry in world war i to army sergeant william schuman an army private henry johnson. let's listen to president obama. >> no one who serves our country

>> we did consult with gsa and the gsa schedule on this.ere were some requirements we wanted to include in our contract that were not available on the gsa schedule and it -- >> like what? >> d-duplication of services is one of them. we knew -- what we were trying to do at opm was set up a contract vehicle that we could use in the future for any additional breaches, whether it's one or twossies or anything else. we wanted to set up a vehicle that would not cause us to pay or to offer the same services to affected individuals at same time. that is built something the gsa schedule afforded us the opportunity to do, even after we talked with the schedule holder at gsa. >> i'm just telling you this reeks. for any contract to go out that fast i understand the gravity of the situation you'll deviate from that and immediately go out to a subcontract, i would encourage you to as swiftly as possible get back to senator warner mr. palmer as well as this committee. i do need to ask about credentials. ms. archuleta, is there anybody in the opm system, w

>> we did consult with gsa and the gsa schedule on this.there were some requirements we wanted to include in our contract that were not available on the gsa schedule and it -- >> like what? >> d-duplication of services is one of them. we knew -- what we were trying to do at opm was set up a contract vehicle that we could use in the future for any additional breaches, whether it's one or twossies or anything else. we wanted to set up a vehicle that would not cause us to pay or to offer the same services to affected individuals at same time. that is built something the gsa schedule afforded us the opportunity to do, even after we talked with the schedule holder at gsa. >> i'm just telling you this reeks. for any contract to go out that fast i understand the gravity of the situation you'll deviate from that and immediately go out to a subcontract, i would encourage you to as swiftly as possible get back to senator warner mr. palmer as well as this committee. i do need to ask about credentials. ms. archuleta, is there anybody in the opm system,

evicted on the streets naked 85 years old is a survivor in world war ii at 12 clock it is how the gas gsa to that this is sitting here i asked him a few times to help me to find out why the police reached out without court ruling evicted me on the streets why i'm 85 years old now open the street for one and a half years okay. again, i say to god it is only could be in one country in this faceish country with the country that was germany where i survived during world war ii again, i can't believe how could 6 police come not found anything okay. and throw out 85 years old with 6 people you know, i was dressed in underwear without medicine without anything and they put me on the street and this is how i was god will punish you. >> sir, you can't address any commissions but the commission as a whole. >> okay. thank you very much. >> i want to remind you senior inspector is here if you have a complaint inspecting and for you, mr. pa triplets the issues you brought before us. >> next speaker. >> and good evening mr. miller. >> good evening commission and executive officer and community i'm here

and is a gsa is that liberal policies can best be achieved for crowded it is a brilliant sub for sieved booked and i am looking forward to your published very much also ted cruz of looking in june that will get a lot of attention. these are some of the books i have published in the past. have genu. >> banderas someone told me that is what i was doing harriet would not have reconsidered but i may have with a general interest nonfiction and there i with anthropology or religion or books on jewish subjects is an interest of mine. those that were the most susceptible really within two years what i learned is the publishing industry is not run is scientifically or not very organized. it is like the great barrier reef with the cater san jose if you are a writer to place with the right publisher and editor. it is a matchmaking function. it is very difficult to find the right person. who is that person? >> can enter in but that is what men but as you get to be known to do research in type of thing but then been that they identify you that way. >> so then you get the submission in that area. or

>>mark: the reassignment they have directed the gsa to take a series of action. behind bars for sex with batter and a child under the age of 14 the 22 year-old of castro valley was arrested last week at the building and kids' school campus it was a teenage girl who was a former student that was the name of the school before building canseco last september parents are shocked. >>: i trusted to take care of my daughter every single day my heart goes out to the victim it goes out to the teachers to. >>mark: oakland police are asking for the public's help to solve the deadly it run crash we have all of the victim this happens is after 11:00 on friday their 20s and western they're asking anyone who might have seen them friday night to contacted he was wearing a blue and white plaid shirt and jeans at the time drive away in a white 2013 toyota as uv think person deliberately hit him with the car there will be awarded $10,000 if you help them. >>mark: after the break a new park for state senators the ring of some controversy would explain why some are hoping senators av

from technology on digital inclusion and i guess having a little bit more specifics on how our and the gsa, budget for technology includes effort to reach out to the low income communities and isolated seniors and the staff of the family that don't have the high speed to the home but i am hoping to get more specifics on the equity and digital inclusion and i was also talking to supervisor breed about the neighborhood and there is an incease of $900,000 on top of the $2 llion from the previous years and so the data like the district by district and the projects will be really helpful, and neighborhoods that don't have as much of an advocacy capacity, are considered in addition to the neighbors that are always asking for funds and so that information will be helpful. >> i did want to ask a question to miss pond about the new budget and i know that that is a large one with the labor council and the immigrant rights and sf island and the community coalition, but i was wondering how that fits into the budget. >> thank you supervisors, we have not asked for additional funds, and to do that excep

and the cover team to does of air force tried to sneak banned items like mock weapons that from the gsathem a few of them 5 percent of the time the screen as fell 67 out of 70 attempts the congressman the chairman of the house the reform committee called the deplete alarming but another republican was not quite a surprise to is a security theater and we need to be focus on real security and real steps to go after people who pose a risk. >>mark: the administrator was being reassigned the same day the sale screenings came to light they're still being written it would not be issued as a letter of the summer >>darya: that approved another plan to raise up california's minimum-wage san francisco was all of the bill and it cost a minimum to go to $13 an hour in 2017 after that it will be tied to the rate of inflation this comes just two years after he signed legislation giving california one of the highest minimum wage rates in the united states this as an $9 an hour right now and will go to $10 an hour next year. >>mark: and he is holding a public hearing senate a few minutes for youth progr

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not saying he is guilty but he is under investigation so why didn't you go to the gsa? there is a list of approved vendors why not use them? >> we did consult with them there were some requirements but some on the schedule. >> like duplication of services is one of them. we were setting up a contract vehicle to use is of teacher we want to set up of vehicle that would not cause us to pay our offer the same services to the affected individuals at the same time that is not something the gsa schedule afforded us to reduce even after we talked with the schedules holder. >> this reeks i am understand the gravity of this situation you will deviate from that then immediately to subcontract i would encourage your as swiftly as possible to get back to senator warner of that committee. i do need to ask about the credentials ms. archuleta. is there anybody in the opm system employee or contractor that is a foreign national? >> i want to be sure. i will have to come back. >> is there anybody that is a foreign national involved as a contractor or directly as an employee at opm? >> i

gsa identified 70000 records as responsive to a foya request. and used the number of records as a reason to close a request from the taxpayer protection alliance. a requester waited ten months before the dea told them that his request for 13,000 documents related to the capture of mexican drug lord el choppo would cost 1.4 million$1.4 million. >> one freens journalist wrote, i often zrab the handling of my request as the single most disilusing experience of my life. the responses are enlightening and continue to come in they seem to be numerous bipartisan across the board insistent and just absolutely frustrating. we also saw unreasonable and inappropriate redactions. they show the fcc blacked out the chairman's initials on every e-mail he sent or received. blacked them out. in doing so, the fcc claimed a personal privacy exemption that isn't permissible for use even with lower level staff. staff commentary like wow and interesting were deliberative and redacted them under b-5 exemption exemption. the time and expense it takes to go through such

it performs an extremely important mission and i went gsa looked at the international environment it is not is time to say that they are useless. >> i would add to that description why it remains relevant as the capital asset. like kidney, it needs to be maintained and refurbished and modernized and as we mentioned earlier, is due at the same time. it has lasted two decades beyond that life and that is one small side - - slice of the need to do that. >> the cost of the systems aging out yesterday or day before the center for strategic and budgetary assessment released a preliminary study entitled our u.s. nuclear forces is affordable? a kanye budget request now through 2039 is that no point with the nuclear force sheriff national defence be more than 5% of the defense budget. does that sound right based on the projections that you look at? >> we did an incredible steady but retrieve their estimates and dollars is the long-range bomber for the nuclear mission. it would take 7 percent of the budget right now spending 3% to double that level of effort to sustain the force requires about

they have free cancer patient -- transportation if it is related to government activity and the gsa determinesngs from the government, but they also can make a lot of money from giving speeches and doing other things as we have seen with mr. clinton and mr. bush. host: to make the security element or understandable, what is the argument for all these other benefits, specifically the one that comes to mind is the office benefit? guest: this first started with mr. truman, who wrote to congress. congress under the constitution has the authority to establish pensions and salaries of the president. that should be clear. but mr. truman was spending over $30,000 a year just answering letters. so congress determined that they should allocate money for that. that is now $96,000 a year minimum for people just to answer letters and correspondence. congress then and congress now feels it is reasonable for ex-president's to have support. office support as well as staff support and they have it. the problem is, of course, if they make lots of money in another way, both the senate and the house feel that may

gsa identified 70000 records as responsive to a foya request. and used the number of records as a reason to close a request from the taxpayer protection alliance. a requester waited ten months before the dea told them that his request for 13,000 documents related to the capture of mexican drug lord el choppo would cost 1.4 million$1.4 million. >> one freens journalist wrote, i often zrab the handling of my request as the single most disilusing experience of my life. the responses are enlightening and continue to come in they seem to be numerous bipartisan across the board insistent and just absolutely frustrating. we also saw unreasonable and inappropriate redactions. they show the fcc blacked out the chairman's initials on every e-mail he sent or received. blacked them out. in doing so, the fcc claimed a personal privacy exemption that isn't permissible for use even with lower level staff. staff commentary like wow and interesting were deliberative and redacted them under b-5 exemption exemption. the time and expense it takes to go through such

it performs an extremely important mission and i went gsa looked at the international environment it is not is time to say that they are useless. >> i would add to that description why it remains relevant as the capital asset. like kidney, it needs to be maintained and refurbished and modernized and as we mentioned earlier, is due at the same time. it has lasted two decades beyond that life and that is one small side - - slice of the need to do that. >> the cost of the systems aging out yesterday or day before the center for strategic and budgetary assessment released a preliminary study entitled our u.s. nuclear forces is affordable? a kanye budget request now through 2039 is that no point with the nuclear force sheriff national defence be more than 5% of the defense budget. does that sound right based on the projections that you look at? >> we did an incredible steady but retrieve their estimates and dollars is the long-range bomber for the nuclear mission. it would take 7 percent of the budget right now spending 3% to double that level of effort to sustain the force requires about

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

. >> there have been some good studies but is based on flimsy evidence but i would gsa it is rooted significantly for someone who is ill intention to that is the big issue and the founding fathers were concerned about. >> but you did have presidents the use that for political purposes. >> there is the track record there is more in place today. it was secret for a reason. >> i have the question discussing the efficacy of dhs. >> have you spoke more about red tape and how that affects it? and the sharing of information between agencies and how that was changed? >>. >>. >> with the department of homeland security in terms of red tape and leadership could you speak to sharing information between the 22 different agencies? >> i think there is some healthy things that occurred with that this functionality as we integrated to a of the 22 were left alone and not touched. 20 were integrated. there was some painful integration and a lot of bureaucrats were a happy. -- unhappy those that criticize i would say i watched a lot of smart and dedicated people that were highly educated beyond the secret meeting i

we worked with the gsa schedule and contacted the schedule holders, and put it on fed bizops for otherortunities. so our goal was to make sure that we could notify individuals as quickly as possible. >> that was quick. maybe too quick. my time has expired and now i recognize the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you to the witnesses for participating today. ms. archuleta you testified before the senate. let me ask you on the outset, who is ultimately responsible for protecting the information of employees at opm or that are covered by opm, the federal employees? >> the responsibility of the records is with me and my cio. >> so you also testified that nobody was to blame. is that right? >> i think my full statement, sir, was that i believe that the breach was caused by a very dedicated, a very focused actor who has spent much funds to get into our systems, and i have worked the rest of my team was i have worked since day one to improve legacy systems -- >> i understand you are blaming the perpetrators that those are the people responsible, is

so we worked with a gsa schedule. we contacted to schedule holders.we also put it on ed biz ops for other opportunities. we received quotes from both scheduled for as well as non-schedule holders and so our goal was to make sure that we could notify individuals as quickly as possible. >> that was quick. may be too quick. my time has expired. i now recognize the gentleman from massachusetts mr. lynch. >> thank you mr. chairman it and again i want to thank the witnesses for participating today. ms. archuleta, you testified before the senate, let me ask you at the outset who is ultimately responsible for protecting the personal identification information of employees at opm? >> -- >> or that are covered by opm federal employees. >> yes, the responsibly of the records is with me and my cio. >> okay. so he also testified that no one was to blame, is that right? >> i think my full stable as i believe that the breach was caused by a very dedicated, a very focused actor who has spent much funds to get into our systems. .. focused actor who has spent much fund

we worked with the gsa schedule and contacted the schedule holders, and put it on fed bizops for otheropportunities. so our goal was to make sure that we could notify individuals as quickly as possible. >> that was quick. maybe too quick. my time has expired and now i recognize the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you to the witnesses for participating today. ms. archuleta, you testified before the senate. let me ask you on the outset who is ultimately responsible for protecting the information of employees at opm or that are covered by opm, the federal employees? >> the responsibility of the records is with me and my cio. >> so you also testified that nobody was to blame. is that right? >> i think my full statement sir, was that i believe that the breach was caused by a very dedicated, a very focused actor who has spent much funds to get into our systems, and i have worked the rest of my team was i have worked since day one to improve legacy systems -- >> i understand you are blaming the perpetrators that those are the people responsible, i

we worked with the gsa schedule and contacted the schedule holders, and put it on fed bizops for otherortunities. so our goal was to make sure that we could notify individuals as quickly as possible. >> that was quick. maybe too quick. my time has expired and now i recognize the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you to the witnesses for participating today. ms. archuleta you testified before the senate. let me ask you on the outset, who is ultimately responsible for protecting the information of employees at opm or that are covered by opm, the federal employees? >> the responsibility of the records is with me and my cio. >> so you also testified that nobody was to blame. is that right? >> i think my full statement, sir, was that i believe that the breach was caused by a very dedicated, a very focused actor who has spent much funds to get into our systems, and i have worked the rest of my team was i have worked since day one to improve legacy systems -- >> i understand you are blaming the perpetrators that those are the people responsible, is

>> our goal was to be able to notify individuals as quickly as possible and so we worked with the gsa schedule and we contacted schedule holders and also put it on fed biz ops for other opportunities. we received quotes from both schedule holders and nonschedule holders and so our goal was to make sure we could notify individuals as quickly as possible. >> well, that was quick. maybe too quick. my time is expired. i now recognize the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. >> thank you mr. chairman. and again i want to thank the witnesses for participating today. miss archuleta, you testified before the senate. let me ask you at the outset, who is ultimately responsible for protecting the personal identification information of employees at opm? >> the -- >> or that are offered by opm. >> the responsibility of the records is with me and my cio. >> okay. so you already testified that no one was to blame. is that right? >> i think my full statement sir, was that i believe that the breach was caused by a very dedicated, a very focused actor who has spent much funds to get into our system

first, in collaboration with the gsa, we've been working on the creation of a consolidated portal that will be added to the resources available on foia.gov. this service will allow the public to make a request from a single website and will include additional tools. second, oip has been working on the potential content of a core foia regulation. we formed an interagency task force to tackle this project. we've met with civil society organizations to get their input, and our team is actually now hard at work drafting language for this important new initiative. we look forward to our engagement with both civil society and our agency colleagues as we work forward on that project. now, third, in an effort to improve internal best practices, we launch what we're calling a series of best practices workshops and we started there with a very important topic of improveing timely ness. these workshops provide a unique opportunity to apply strategies more broadly across the government. finally, this past march, i'm pleased that we completed our commitment to enhance foia training by making standa

there is film's, whether there is something that they saw that has been stuck into the basement of the gsa basement together with raiders of the lost ark and noah's ark down there waiting for generations to pass before it becomes public. that these critical documents are somehow hidden away -- there is some truth to that. for while. when the warren commission finished in 1964, all of its records were submitted to the national archives. a few blocks from here. the unpublished documents were sealed for 75 years. until the year 2039. and so a lot of the conspiracy theorists came to the conclusion that the good stuff, the stuff that proves the conspiracy, they found it and now they hit until 2039. books have been written on all of these documents that are stored away and we just have to sit patiently and wait until 2039, and we will finally know the truth. except for a couple of things that have happened since. the 75 year rule no longer exists. the freedom of information act was passed in 1966, and you can have access to it. and then specifically in 1992 the jfk records act was passed by cong

the agency in charge of, major workers on the ground according to a federal report that found the gsaailed to notice 73 airline industry workers had links to terrorism. blake berman in washington with an amazing story. >> the last bottle of water or newspaper you bought at the rport might have been sold to you by someone with a link to terrorism. and inspector general report found that the as a screening processes, 73 people who fell into what is described as a terrorism related category, and airliners and vendors. t s a acknowledge these individuals were cleared for access to secure airport area is despite representing a potential transportation security threat. a different report revealed be eased to which undercover agents were able to sneak fake explosives and weapons through checkpoints. the acting king as a head was reassigned last week. the inspector general will testify on capitol hill bleeder this morning. maria: thank you very much. frequent fliers, does this scare you? unbelievable. >> any surprise yet? if you fly as frequently as i do, i was in sandra's favorite airport, o

they have free cancer patient -- transportation if it is related to government activity and the gsa determines they have quite a few things from the government, but they also can make a lot of money from giving speeches and doing other things as we have seen with mr. clinton and mr. bush. host: to make the security element or understandable, what is the argument for all these other benefits, specifically the one that comes to mind is the office benefit? guest: this first started with mr. truman, who wrote to congress. congress under the constitution has the authority to establish pensions and salaries of the president. that should be clear. but mr. truman was spending over $30,000 a year just answering letters. so congress determined that they should allocate money for that. that is now $96,000 a year minimum for people just to answer letters and correspondence. congress then and congress now feels it is reasonable for ex-president's to have support. office support as well as staff support and they have it. the problem is, of course, if they make lots of money in another way, both the senate a

they have free cancer patient -- transportation if it is related to government activity and the gsa determines that. they have quite a few things from the government, but they also can make a lot of money from giving speeches and doing other things as we have seen with mr. clinton and mr. bush. host: to make the security element or understandable, what is the argument for all these other benefits, specifically the one that comes to mind is the office benefit? guest: this first started with mr. truman, who wrote to congress. congress under the constitution has the authority to establish pensions and salaries of the president. that should be clear. but mr. truman was spending over $30,000 a year just answering letters. so congress determined that they should allocate money for that. that is now $96,000 a year minimum for people just to answer letters and correspondence. congress then and congress now feels it is reasonable for ex-president's to have support. office support as well as staff support and they have it. the problem is, of course, if they make lots of money in another way, both the se