mr. brill worked on a variety of policy issues, including international tax policies, including international tax policy and u.s. trade policy. he graduated with a bvpt .a. in economics and received a masters for boston university. we're grateful you're here. >> my wife is a massachusetts native. so i'm glad to be here. >> the national ceo of manufacturers. the largest manufacturing trade association in the united states representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector. he became the national association directors in january of 2011. he's a lidding advocate nearly 12 million americans employed directly in manufacturing, educating the public and policymakers on issues that affect this critical sector of the u.s. economy. he previously served as chief of staff to a congressman a governor and allen. mr. timmons graduated from the ohio state university. welcome, mr. timmons. finally scott paul. scott m. paul is the director of the alliance for american manufacturing. which was

mr. brill. >> thank you, chairman casey, vice chairman brady, other members of the committee for the opportunity to discuss the manufacturing sector. my perspectives on sound fiscal policy is to promote fundamental long-run economic growth. i like to stress two points in iraq this morning. first, manufacturing unemployment is and has been in decline, productivity growth is robust. second, policymakers should seek to establish broad economic policies that permit the u.s. economy to evolve this market forces to date and not pursue narrow industries specific in our policies. manufacturing, a wide range of injuries including semiconductors and fruit production has long been a significant driver of economic growth in the united states and abroad. total manufacturing output declined during the recession and has yet to fully recover, but true to its reputation for economic growth, productivity -- manufacturing labor per unit increase 4.1% over the last four quarters. manufacturing employment as others

zandi, mr. brillrt of your testimony, the question about the impact during the period of recovery that manufacturing jobs had, manufacturing as a sector contributed mightily to the recovery, half the growth, but in terms of the job gains, about one-tenth. is that what you said? >> that's correct. one-tenth. if you include the temp jobs in manufacturing, at mows, one fifth. >> just at that posing that or putting that along with this question or point that mr. brill made about productivity, pretty substantial productivity gains, the question i have is how much when you consider both of those, when you consider the productivity gains with that one-tenth of jobs manufacturing contributing one-tenth of the jobs, what has happened with regard to wages? it seems that even though we've had pretty substantial up tick in productivity, i wonder how much workers benefitted from that. what can you tell us, if anything, about the way it -- >> senator, i can't speak to that specifically. what i can tell you, however

mr. zandi and brill, part of your testimony the question of the impact during this period of recovery the manufacturing jobs have had that the manufacturing as a sector has contributed mightily to the recovery about half of the growth, but in terms of the job gains is one in one tent. is that what you said? >> that's correct. if you include the tend jobs manufacturing at most. >> so juxtaposing that or putting that on along with this question or this point mr. brill made about productivity very substantial productivity gains. the question i have is how much when you consider both of those and consider the productivity gains the one-tenth of jobs in manufacturing contributing one-tenth come only one-tenth of the jobs what has happened with regard to the wages, and it seems that even though we've had a pretty substantial to and productivity i wonder how much workers benefit from that, what can you tell us if anything about the wage growth in 2009 to 11? >> senator, i can't speak to that specific. i can tell you, however, that there is some restriction in this area including staff of the bur

brill, if you wish to proceed. >> thank you, mr. rockefeller. i'm julie brill, commissioner of the federal trade commission. i appreciate the opportunity to present testimony today. that amounts of information about consumers are collected and used by many different types of businesses. employers, retailers, advertises, data brokers, lenders, insurance companies and many more. imagine a cash crop mother working -- cash strapped mother working as a substitute teacher and awaiting an opening bid to tide them over between paychecks, she gets a payday loan. she then goes to the drugstore and buys diapers and children's tylenol with her loyalty card. soon after, in the mail, she gets coupons for diapers and children's motrin, and an offer to refinance her mortgage on terms that seem too good to be true. in the evening, the mother goes online to spend time on a social networking site. she notices she is receiving at tysons for toys and children's cough medicine, as well as -- advertisements for toys and children's cough medicine, as well as more loan o

brill. welcome mr. kerry. >> thank you chairman rockefeller and members of the commit a. i welcome the opportunity to be here today and to discuss with you the issue of how we can best protect consumer data privacy in a digital age. this is an issue that affects everyone. at this committee's hearing on march 16, the obama administration urged legislation to establish basic commercial data privacy protection for all u.s. consumers. what we recommended and had three elements. the first is baseline privacy protection in the form of a consumer privacy bill of rights. adapted from widely accepted fair information practice principles. the second is for government to convene multi-stakeholder processes to encourage the private sector to develop legally enforceable contacts specific codes of conduct that implement the bill of rights and specific context. and the third is to bolster the federal trade commission's leadership in this field by granting its explicit authority to enforce the privacy bill of rights and to grant safe harbors for revolving codes of conduct. we are encoura

mr. gibson, up on your shelf here, inside mexico's criminal insurgency. >> well, um, ian brill low who is the author who has lived in mexico for the last ten years has gone inside the drug insurgency in mexico and has interviewed everybody involved from the gang leaders to the police, and he tells the inside story of what is happening in mexico, the extraordinary upheaval in their society, um, and because he tells it from all angles you come to understand who is responsible for it. it's not just the gangs, the government bears responsibility as well, and it has a huge effect on the united states because drugs, obviously, from mexico are all over the united states. >> "american crisis." >> bill fowler is a distinguished professor of history, and we were talking a few years ago, and he said he wanted to write a book about the famous speech george washington gave to his troops in 183 -- 1783 right after the war had supposedly ended. but the war hadn't ended, and i said to bill i thought he ought to write a larger story about that. we think that the war ended in 1781 when cornwallis surrender