the itc, corporate interests. to be able to subsidize the low wagers this paying thai workers with taxpayers taking the full responsibility of making sure that low wage earners aren't living in poverty. >> exactly. >> they don't say that. >> keeping the minimum wage low forces small businesses to support their competition to underwrite their competition. i will give you an example. in missouri we have -- missouri health net. the last year on the website they have any number force is 2009. first quarter of 2009, walmart workers, used $4.25 million of missouri health net funds. the -- next biggest one, i think, was tyson who used like $1.4 million. small businesses who -- don't cash don't have the fancy accounting and don't have offshore accounts, end up paying -- normal taxpayers and end up paying into these funds. i'm essentially underwriting walmart's ability on sell cd and less than i paid for them. >> subsidizing the wages through the social safety net. >> in a lot of cases, it is the large retailers that are o

itc?ut you were making a point -- >> they have 15 -- they own a transmission and itc is about to merge with it and that's 15,000 miles of wire also compared to our 15,000, when they put them together that guy's been spending 100 million dollars a year expenditure is going to go up and we've got 17%, 18% growth going forward for a number of years. that's going to give us ten years of growth. and if we don't get the acquisition it's going to be in four or five years we've got to double and if we do get it we've got two doubles over the next ten years. that's one example. just electricity transmission, we need it so we use less energy, we can be more efficient about providing it and we don't have blackouts and brownouts and people can manufacture and go to ball games without being afraid. let me give you one other idea. that 100 years ago, if you had a factory in vermont and you wanted to get your goods to market what did you do? you put it on a truck or some fortunate guys built a railroad.

freedom see't happening, a big sites, assites small sites government sitestese under attack 24/7 and the itcuys see it happening but these liabilities exist oned all over their big and small serve boar but what they need to get in and. or might see the attacks on the banks, individual banks are under attack so they shut the front door if you try to get into your account you can to come to when they start stealing money? >> they are. one business lost nearly half a million dollars gone never to be seenne again. it is an epidemic, talkingwe arl about billions of dollars ofsacs unauthorized transactions out of business accounts la accounts, much less protection for businessh,my accounts and people think my bank will cover me but that is not the case in the courts have affirmed. gerri: is in it their fault? >> in the case i worked onsponsy the businesses themselves did not follow well-known techniques to thwart the taxi and businesses have responsibility to harden there network and system beyond anti-virus and firewall. gerri: if my bank does not protect me it should be their fault. who who are

other key investments, itc in maryland and district, wildly popular bike sharing program that has becomegest in the country. >> great news is the market is headed that way and we have young people, downsizing empty nesters, families. everybody is trying to find a way to live closer to work and live where they have access to other options including transit. >> reporter: tysons corner, adam tuss, news4. >>> virginia senate is debating its version of a transportation bill that could bring hundreds of millions of dollars to road and rail projects in northern virginia. the proposal takes a much different approach to raising new money than what governor bob mcdonnell has been fostering. the senate bill would create a new 5.5 cent sales tax on gasoline but would do away the state's regular gasoline tax. the house already endorse ad plan much closer to the governor's plan. it would drop the gas tax in favor of a higher state sales tax. >> quality of life in northern virginia, hampton roads, richmond, our ability to attract new jobs, to the state, is continually being undermined by the fact we ha

i wanted to go to the itc, the earned income tax credit and the interrogation techniques.both. i'm not for the second, but the first. you talk about the 6,000 pages. we are dealing with the central intelligence agency and various administrations. but trying to get information, why was it that we felt we were so unworthy of being trusted? why were they willing to talk to pat roberts and me and dianne feinstein, but not anybody else. until we literally bludgeoned them into agreeing to include everybody. karl levin is not trustworthy. it's amazing. i pursued dianne feinstein's point about staff. when you go and you have under the there was administration a briefing with the president or the vice president under the head of the cia and others, you are not allowed to -- i can remember driving with pat robert when is he was chair uh and i was vice chairman, we were not allowed to talk to each other driving up or back. we were not allowed to. the staff was a part of nothing. you have to understand that you are surrounded by people who work with you and fill you in. people were ex

that is why i prefer the itc. tracy: we'll debate that.nt to work but they have to want to work too. ashley: that is true. you can respect fullly disagree. tracy: and we did. ashley: coming up, burger king hacked on twitter. new details on this breaking story next. tracy: gas priges are surging this month despite low demand this february. what is causing the spike and how high will gas prices go. what's next? keep it here on fox business. we're open for business. tracy and ashley are still here the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more... [ midwestern/chicago accent ] cheddar! yeah! 50 percent more [yodeling] yodel-ay-ee-oo. 50% more flash. [ southern accent ] 50 percent more taters. that's where tots come from. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on every purchase plus a 50% annual bonus on the cash you earn. it's the card for people who like more cash. 50% more spy stuff. what's in your wallet? this car is too sma

. >> the administration has been pretty good on trade enforcement through commerce and through itc, fallen short when we ask the administration to include currency in their filings. are you willing to, do you support industries filing petitions to seek relief against companies that -- or countries that actually manipulate their currency? >> senator, i would put a lot of energy behind developing a relationship where i could push back on practices in china that we think are unfair. we have done that as an administration, we will continue to do that. >> thank you very much, senator. senator toomey. >> thanks mr. chairman. mr. lew, good to see you again. wanted to follow up on the conversation we had in my office a week or so ago. as you know, i'm very concerned about the implications, the effects of this huge new series of regulations most of which emanate from dodd-frank. as you know, we've seen over 9,000 pages of new rules and regulations already, and they're not close to being finished. and when jamie dimon famously questioned chairman bernanke about the cumulative adverse effect of all o