latta for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. again, thank you very much for holding the hearing today, and thank you to everyone who is testifying today. i appreciate it in hearing your testimony. if i could start with mr. size i don't know any. -- cicconi. big for boast us. i have a very big district. i go from urban to suburban to very rural. and one of the things that i have met with a lot of my rural telecoms. they had problems with dropped calls, and this is a serious issue for folks out there. again, if you have family members that are elderly and you're trying to call them and all of a sudden they're not picking up the phone, the next recourse is you call the local law enforcement or the fire department, aka, to check on family member. and the same way it really hits small businesses or any business out on these areas. again, i have a lot of businesses that are locate the way out, and all the sudden the calls are getting dropped and they can't make the call. pretty soon they are out of business. as we're looking at what i

latta said the government's survival must be separated from berlusconi's legal troubles. berlusconi has been fighting a string of legal convictions, first convicted of fraud in october 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. the high court upheld the conviction in august. politicians were expecting to vote friday whether to strip berlusconi of a senate seat. in retaliation, berlusconi ordered five ministers in his party to resign from the coalition government, leading to the prime minister to seek backing from parliament and a he volunteer of defense. let's go live now to sonia live in rome. what stage in the process are we at and when are we expecting the vote to happen? >> well, the vote is expected to happen in the next two hours. after that, the results, the senators all will be voting individually and all those votes counted individually, as well. what is interesting to note also is how they are already splits in the party over which we members are going to be voting. about 91 say they are going to be voting against the volt of confidence, but 35 say that they will

latta: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, i rise today in support of h.res. 378, the current u.s. sugar program is uncompetitive, outdated, harms .s. manufacturers and forces higher prices on products made with sugar. without reform, it puts 600,000 jobs at risk. i'm too aware of these economic impacts during a recent visit to a leading manufacturer in my district. spanningler candy company is a family-owned company that has canes and over 400 u.s. employees but if it could purchase at world market prices, that number would be 600. two00 highly skilled manufacturing jobs in a small midwestern town. imagine the positive economic growth that would result from sugar reform nationwide. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution. reforming the program will restore sugar in the market and encourage u.s. investment and spur job creation in our local communities. madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio yields back. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr.

latta. but do you think as we go forward with the ip, especially the rural providers, do you think it will help them to make sure that they don't have the dropped calls in the future? >> i would be hopeful. but, again, i think that is one of the reasons you have trials, to test these things, make sure they work properly, make sure the replacement technologies are just as reliable as the others. we can't go out and convert a wire center today from tdm to ip without permission from the fcc. so while a lot of ip investment is going on, we can't do the fundamental investment. there are 20,000 wire centers in the country that have to be converted to ip and not a single one of them can be converted without permission from the fcc today. so that is why we need the trials, to take two of those wire centers, it is all we have proposed out of 20,000 nationally, conduct the trials and see if we can accomplish this without the kind of problems that you have experienced in the rural areas and ensure, fra

latta. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. madam secretary, thank you for being with us today. appreciate your testimony so far today. there are some questions we have received from our constituents back home, specifically about what's going on with the website and for them. and so what i'll do i'd like to get those to you, but there are a lot of questions here and a lot of thoughts going into a lot of these questions. if i could start with last week's testimony when the four contractors were here. and in one of the questions that i had posed to ms. campbell from c.g.i., in her testimony she stated that they delivered the medicare.gov and also federalreporting.gov. and i asked at that time were these sites more or molest complicated than the site we are talking here today. she said of site today was more complicated. and in the questioning, in terms of her testimony, we have been hearing about this end-to-end testing that wasn't happening. that we had individuals out there saying that two weeks had been done. but ask her about was there sufficient enough time when they did the

latta. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and madam secretary, thanks very much for being with us today. appreciate your testimony so far today. what i'd like to do is i'll get these to you because these are questions that we've received from our constituents back home, specifically about what's going on with the website and for them. and so what i'll do, i would like to get those to you, but there's a lot of questions here and a lot of thought has gone into a lot of these questions. but if i could start with last week's testimony when four of the contractor were here. and in one of the questions that i had posed to ms. campbell from cgi, in her testimony she had stated that they had delivered the medicare.gov and federalreporting.gov and i asked were these sites more or less complicated than this site that we're talking about here today. she said of course this site today was more complicated. in the questioning and from her testimony, you know, we've been hearing about this end-to-end testing that wasn't happening that we h

latta. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you very much for our witnesses for being here today. greatly appreciate your testimony. and last night i read through all of your statements beforehand and if i could, because there's been a lot of questioning of course about the testing site. ms. campbell, if i could turn to your testimony. page two, you said in recent years that c.g.i. federal has delivered some of the most complex i.t. implementation to the u.s. government including federalreporting.com and medicare.com. we heard from you all saying you only had at the very end about two weeks to make sure this thing was integrated. when you were working on, for example, medicare.gov, how much testing did you do on that? did they give you a time frame or what can you tell me about that testing at that time? >> [inaudible] i'm sorry, i can't give you the exact time frames but we had sufficient time to test the system before it went live. >> can you tell me what sufficient time is? >> so we had, you know, a number of month

latta. >> well, thank you very much, mr. chairman and madam secretary, thanks very much for being with us today. i appreciate your testimony so far today. what i would like to do, i will get these few, so many questions, that we have received from our constituents back home, specifically about what is going on with the website and for them. and so what i will do i like to get those to you but there's a lot of questions here and a lot of thoughts going into a lot of these questions but if i could start with last week's testimony when our, four of the contractors were here. and in one of the questions that i had posed to ms. campbell from cgi, in her testimony she had stated they delivered the medicare.gov and federalreporting.gov and i asked at that time were these sites more or less complicated than the site we're talking about here today? and she said, of course this site today was more complicated and the questioning, and from her testimony, and we've been hearing about this end to end testing that wasn't happening, that w

latta. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you very much for our witnesses for being here today. greatly appreciate your testimony. and last night i read through all of your statements beforehand and if i could, because there's been a lot of questioning of course about the testing site. ms. campbell, if i could turn to your testimony. page two, you said in recent has that c.g.i. federal delivered some of the most complex i.t. implementation to the u.s. government including federal report -- federalreporting.com and medicare.com. we heard from you all saying you only had at the very end about two weeks to make sure this thing was integrated. when you were working on, for example, medicare.com, how much testing did you do on that? did they give you a time frame or what can you tell me about that testing at that time? >> [inaudible] i'm sorry, i can't give you the exact time frames but we had sufficient time to test the system before it went live. >> can you tell me what sufficient time is? >> so we had, you know, a num

latta can, what is your view? c i have a mother who is 80, works hard for 30 is out my dad died, paid into medicare and so should you. she earned the benefits but mayor booker supports a plan under a rock obama to cut three quarters of a trillion dollars out of medicare. those things have paid into the program all their lives, like my mom, have the right you see a rationing under obamacare. social security needs to be reformed over the decades to come so we don't have this constant problem with less and less people coming into a system and more and more retirees and everybody knows that. booker: his plan is to allow to go into the private market. [talking over each other] >> moderator: how would it work? lonegan: well, you know, he is what mayor booker is saying is that you these people on the top of the system collecting but relying on the people at the bottom today in to shore up the people at the top, what you're describing is a pyramid scheme. we sorted don't think that's the case can do we? social security is