mr. cartwright, for five minutes. mr. cartwright: mr. chaffetz, i want to talk about the valor that's shown by the -- especially a young man you mentioned from scranton, pennsylvania in my district today, the u.s. secret service is proud to note that its own sergeant technician william ewer from scranton was presented by d.h.s. secretary jae johnson the secretary's award for valor which is awarded for displays of exceptional courage, of course, as the chairman mentioned, young mr. uher actually pulled an accident victim from the baltimore-washington parkway, an accident. pulled the victim from a burning vehicle and it was later determined that victim would have been unable to extraindicate himself without william's help. so we're exceptionally proud of william in pennsylvania today. we're also proud of him for coming in 30th in the scranton half marathon last month covering 13.1 miles in less than an hour and a half. i wish i could do that. mr. roth we're here to talk about failures of the secret service, though, and it's a dower duty th

mr. cartwright for five minutes. mr. cartwright: thank you, mr. chairman. i think my colleague from massachusetts. he talked about this is not a question of self-preservation forever's of congress. -- four -- self-preservation for members of congress. we think about the young people it help enable us to do the work that we do. we are about thousands and thousands of young people -- interns and fellows and employees on capitol hill. we we feel responsible to them and their families and their parents. to keep them safe. all of these people are within the special flight rules area. they are all within the national capital region of flight area. more than that, the visitors to come and visit our national memorials the world war ii memorial, the jefferson memorial. we just had the national cherry blossom festival couple of weeks ago. there had to be well over 100,000 americans visiting all of those areas are within the special flight rules area. are they not? that is correct. an area that was traversed by this knucklehead with a gyrocopter. that could easily bee

mr. cartwright. rep. cartwright: i want to thank you for mentioning the valor that is routinely shown by agents of the secret service and in particular and especially a young man that you mention from scranton, pennsylvania, in my district. today the u.s. secret service is proud to note its own sergeant technician william muir was presented by secretary jeh johnson the secretary's award for valor which is awarded for displays of expression -- exceptional courage. as the chairman mentioned he pulled the next in an victim from the baltimore-washington parkway accident. it was later determined that the victim would have been unable to extricate himself without his help. we are exceptionally proud of him today. we are proud for him coming in 30th in the scranton marathon last much -- last month. mr. roth, we are here to talk about failures of the secret service though. it is a dour duty that you have to talk about the downside is in the things we've seen in the secret service. your report concludes, and i quo

mr. cartwright for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i thank also my colleague from massachusetts and wish to associate myself with his remarks when he talked about this is not astuff of the self preservation for members of congress. we think about not only ourselves but the people who come visit us from our districts and the young people who help do the work we do. thousands and thousands of young people interns and fellows and employee s employees on capitol hill here and we feel responsible to them their nams and their parents to keep them safe. all of these people are within the special flight rules area. they are all within the national capitol region flight area. and more than that the visitors who come and visit our national memorial, the world war ii memory memorial. the jefferson memorial. we just had the national cherry blossom festival a couple of weeks ago. there had to be well over 100,000 americans visiting. all of those areas are within the special flight rules area, are they not? that is correct. an area that was travers