. >> thank you, mister chair and both of you for appearing today. this is an interesting topic for a number of us and especially for me coming from the midwest where this is a great part of our economy. i always appreciate the opportunity and it has spurred domestic energy production, throughout the midwest especially in rural areas and brought a lot of competition, needed competition to the gas pump and saved american consumer money and reduce reliance on foreign oil. some of the aggressive production targets for advanced biofuels originally envisioned by congress haven't been achieved, and i will recognize that. it is not time to hit the panic button and pull the rug out from under this burgeoning industry. we are just getting started is how i feel about this. one of the reports that gao had states cellulosic technology at existing plants is the most cost-effective means for generating advanced biofuels. i did this at one of those facilities in iowa earlier this year. they are using corn fiber which is a byproduct of the ethanol process to create

currently mister peter levine, secretary of defense for personal readiness is chairing a shelter with the national guard bureau, united states army, office of secretary of defense, general counsel and defense finance service. this team is leading the effort to expeditiously resolve cases involving the affected california army national guard numbers. you will hear from secretary looking a little later this afternoon. secretary of defense carter will adjudicate all cases by july 1, 2017. the national guard continues to support the process of ensuring each soldier's case is fairly and equitably reviewed with due process afforded to each and every soldier. in closing i assure you the national guard has worked hard to implement appropriate controls across the 50 states and territories in district of columbia and to prevent fraud from occurring in the future. i look forward to your questions. >> general baldwin, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mister chair and ranking member davis and members of the committee. appreciate you taking up this important issue to help our sold

. >> thank you mister chair and thank you to both of you for appearing today.this is an interesting topic for a number of us and especially for me coming from the midwest where this is a great part of our economy so again, i always appreciate the opportunity for the rfs and it has spurred investment in domestic energy production, help grow our economy through the midwest especially and in those rural areas and it's brought a lot of competition, needed competition to the gas pump and saves american consumers money and reduces reliance on foreign oil so the aggressive targets for advanced biofuels originally envisioned by congress haven't been achieved and i think we all recognize that. it is certainly not time to hit the panic button and pull the rug out other this burgeoning industry. we are really just getting started is how i feel about this. so mister rusco, one of the reports that the gao had states that both on cellulose technology at existing plants is the most cost effective means for generating those advanced biofuels. i did visit one of those facilitie

thank you, mister chair and ranking member davis, and the members of the committee. i do appreciate very much you taking up the -- this important issue to be able to help our soldiers. as general kadavy mentioned in 2010, a whistleblower and a very astute auditor, uncovered signs of potential fraud within our incentives program in the california national guard. that resulted in a fairly broad investigation by the federal department of justice that went through the course of -- of the three years. the governor relieved my predecessor in march 2011 and recalled me from afghanistan in april of that year in order to take charge of this organization and with the mandate of cleaning up this and some of the challenges. i immediately ordered full investigation on our side into this matter to do a couple things. one is, i wanted to see if there is any other cases of fraud were out there, that the federal government had not begun to investigate picked up on. the second was to hold leaders accountable to find out why did this happen and what -- what -- what were the problems. w

those involved in parliament, your families and mister speaker , the chair and the state. [applause] honorable members, you are showing us the way. your decisions have extra time for debate for an effective democracy has never been more important. not only after june 23 but what's been happening in america. we haven't even had the chance to debate that in parliament and we will follow you. zach, you showed us how important it is to take people with disabilities and move them to the front of the agenda, that's a major difference now as a member of the nhs youth forum. honorable members, you are showing us the way to end increasing society and as the minister stead, to many young people over the last few years have taken part in your balance area this year, 978,126 took part in the public that you've got today. doubly return the most ballots, 8722, jason cavanaugh from liverpool returning 7222, samantha rose beauchamp from derbyshire collecting thousand 753. and as liberty said, age 13, we need to say what young people are saying. honorable members, you are showing us the wa

is why we are supporting the diversity initiative chaired by john parker and we encourage is this is to ask on jobs recommendations. >> thank you, mister speaker. recent foi has shown ame departments diverted use in my constituency, 61 times in the past 12 months. a hospital scheduled for downgrade next year. in light of evidence, will the leader of the house pledge support from the government to keep it open? >> nhs is busier than it has ever been in its history which is why it should be a matter of tribute to hard-working nhs staff that 90% of people going to amd are seen within the four our target. the point about configuration of local services in any part of the country is these are driven by local clinicians through working together with dcg. the people who manage and understand each locality the local authority through its health committee has the right to call in proposed changes to services and refer them to the secretary of state if they are uncomfortable with them. >> i know my right honorable friend will share with me the importance of the great sectors the economy conjunction with the world's language-based exporting, huge

martin said sure mister president, i'd be happy to. though the federal reserve chairwas trying to be obliging towards the presidents he served and that is why he was at his best under kennedy. >> you know, carter appointed his offer. >> but that showboating on a daily basis by the individual voters, i don't recall that from my years . >> i hate that, i've written about that. it does more harm than good. when i was a child i worked for the federal reserve and i asked for paul broker, i was his secretary and the era. and i did some speeches, i did some correspondence but anyway, both as chairman wouldn't put up with it you he just basically told everybody to keep quiet. both are as chairman didn't want anybody to know what he was doing area and it was kind of cool. he had it right. it might not have always been self so it depends on who the president is. harder wouldn't let booker do his job even though he appointed him. reagan did, reagan said do whatever it takes to get rid of inflation. right now there's debate about that. i don't agree with one of the candidates who

is why we are supporting the diversity initiative chaired by john parker and we encourage is this is to ask on jobs recommendations. >> thank you, mister speaker. recent foi has shown ame departments diverted use in my constituency, 61 times in the past 12 months. a hospital scheduled for downgrade next year. in light of evidence, will the leader of the house pledge support from the government to keep it open? >> nhs is busier than it has ever been in its history which is why it should be a matter of tribute to hard-working nhs staff that 90% of people going to amd are seen within the four our target. the point about configuration of local services in any part of the country is these are driven by local clinicians through working together with dcg. the people who manage and understand each locality the local authority through its health committee has the right to call in proposed changes to services and refer them to the secretary of state if they are uncomfortable with them. >> i know my right honorable friend will share with me the importance of the great sectors the economy conjunction with the world's language-based exporting, huge

chair. [laughs] miss fanny. fanny seward: thank you for coming, mister president. abraham lincoln: how could i stay away when my secretary of state is rendered in such a way as he cannot but listen? [laughs] i have worked my own hand as hard as at sawing wood, so many others' hands have i shaken. i've been to libby prison. general weitzel asked me point blank how to treat the defeated confederate soldiers. i told him to let them up easy. my old friend. tom hanks: it is close to 10 pm when secretary of war stanton delivers to lincoln the telegram reporting that robert e. lee has surrendered. the next day, washington city is in full celebration. a crowd gathers in front of the white house to serenade lincoln and to call for him to speak. he politely promises a speech the next night and requests that the band play the confederate anthem. he asks them to play "dixie." [gunshot] [hits target] james powell: a fine shot with a parlor pistol. john wilkes booth: thank you, mr. powell. james powell: payne. it's payne. not powell. i ain't goin' by powell no more. abraham linc

mister weidefeld. i think you for willing to get back to that and get that response lose the chair recognizes miss watsoncoleman for five minutes. >> a base salary of 77,000 $80,000 a year, over time -- $10,000 a year. and i would like to know what you think in order to make the system operate. printer transportation is vitally important. do you have a comprehensive, all the things you need to do with your cars, your tracks, your electrical? >> we do. all those levels. that is the biggest focus but we haven't for our buses. a big part of it is working closer with union employees and getting to those core issues. >> there is a plan that goes for five years, ten years. >> we have an overall plan but i'm focusing on the remainder of this year and 17 to get to the core issues we address immediately. >> to get the system in good repair, you have a long-term plan. >> we do. >> do you anticipate a certain amount of money in order to accomplish this both long term and incrementally to get to that long-term? >> we do. we have a program of what we think. >> do you have what you need or is there a running deficit?

the chair recognizes mister fletcher for five minutes. >> i want to thank the panelists for helping us, how we might approach this problem. walter jones on 28 pages for 15 years to get the information out there which was far too long. as we were asking for disclosure and classification and the administration is pushing back saying it is too sensitive. agencies saying methods and sources and finally when it was declassified, they flipped and said the information is not valid, totally different tax. we are struggling with the dea and fbi in regard to confidential informants. and the office of inspector general for the dea that we have 18,000, they have 18,000 confidential informants out there that are under contract being paid by the dea. last year we spent $237 million, congress knows 0 about that. they don't know the way they are operating. the dea headquarters intimately involved, this is all being operated. that is just the dea. from our conversations i believe the numbers are doubled, $500 million, the highest-paid confidential informants double the number probably in the area of 30