mr. cummings question as ms. jackson did? >> i thought i did but if i didn't, let me sick and i directly respond to congressman cummings question i sang that at no time any intent to circumvent the federal records act. >> thank you. mr. mclaughlin. >> good morning, mr. chairman, mr. ranking member. members of the committee. i think this is incredibly interesting set of issues. and so what i would like to do is make an observation and then three suggestions for the committee's consideration as you move forward. my observation is something this. the world that we're moving into is one where any executive branch and click on the own for a single by the personal e-mail account but may well have dozens of communications accounts on different servers. i've listed probably 2000 common services that of respect in 20 sunset in my written testimony. so the world wer where moving io is one where friends, contacts my former coworkers, members of the public can find you on the services and can send communications in. so i have one personal

mr. cummings: thank you very much. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to the legislation before us. while the delta queen may be historic, exempting her from cruiseship fire safety law sets a terrible precedent and it puts families at risk. moreover, this bill is designed to help one ship in the passenger cruise market at the expense of all others. i understand the delta queen has a long and distinguished -- distinguished history. since it was built in the 1920's, it carried three presidents, it is a national historic landmark, but that is all the more reason why fire safety law is important here. this is an old ship, made almost entirely of wood and powered by out-of-date technology. it has been in dry dock for the past four years and not inspected in five years. the queen's antic engines and steam boilers are prone -- antique engines and steam boilers are prone to cause a fire at any moment. the last fire onboard was in 2008. there's g

mr. cummings, here's the problem. that precisely what happens when these bankers are never punished, nobody ever goes to jail, they only get bailed out by the government, therefore, they act with complete impunity. they've learned absolutely nothing. of course, he's going to say offensive things like that. why shouldn't he? >> yeah, there really does need to be consequences when you do wrong things, and, clearly here the consequences have not been there. as a matter of fact and that's one of the things i was complaining about five, four -- four or five years ago, martin, the whole idea that these same folks would go out there and after receiving, again, taxpayers' money would go and have parties and get bonuses and it was just -- it was like spitting in the face of every single taxpayer and but there's a disconnect clearly between folks -- some of these folks on wall street and the rest of us who live day-to-day lives like those in my community. >> here's the problem, to bring this back to your own workplace, congress

mr. cummings, i've talked to you so many times. now a philosophical question.believes you owe your judgment to your people back home, not just your vote, your judgment. >> i believe i owe a lot of judgment to my constituents. but i also know something else, chris. and after listening, going through three of these classified briefings now, one of the things that i keep in mind is that i'm getting information that my constituents don't even know. and i can't disclose it to them. that's a -- >> qualitatively, what does it tell you? you don't have to give me the details obviously. what does it do to you that you think should be done to your people in terms of a message? >> i think it helps me with regard to what my good friend mr. vargas is saying. i mean, you get a better -- i mean, side that the president is talking about, the significance of the event, a lot of the moral issues and why we've got to do this. >> yeah. >> and how we're going to do it. but there is still a lot of questions that i need answered. but, again, i can understand vargas' feelings, because

mr. cummings, where are you hearing, most importantly, what are you hearing from people in maryland? of all, my constituents, i'd say 95% of the people i've heard from are against it. chris, they have the backdrop of iraq. in other words, they know we went to war on inaccurate information. they know we spent hundreds of billions of dollars. they know most importantly, we've lost so many of our young people. many of them from my district and from maryland. and they feel -- they don't feel -- they don't sound as angry as they did at that mccain meeting. but i can tell you, i did a walk throughout my district yesterday with some nbc reporters, and to a person -- i mean, they were very thoughtful. every single person we approached was well informed on this issue. and every one of them said we don't want it. you know the other interesting thing, chris, i asked them, i said, remember, we voted 80% are four the president of the united states. they said, we love the president. we respect the president. but we just don't want to see us going back in this area, going into syria. and i've got t

mr. cummings, do you think there's any way in the world that the president of the united states having been rebuffed by both houses of congress would go it alone? >> i think it's possible. i would not recommend it. i mean, if it had come to a vote, chris, and if we had voted it down, i definitely would not have recommended it. but, you know, in a way, chris, i think it's good for him to have that question mark out there. particularly when we're trying to negotiate this russian/syria solution. and so i, you know, again, i wouldn't recommend it, but still, i love for president assad to have it in his mind that the same president that took out osama bin laden is serious about what he says and that might be some leverage to get this russian/syrian deal done. >> let's go to david because that's the big problem. the russians say do it, but don't put the gun to the back of our head. don't do it and say or we'll blow up syria. they say pull back on this gun play and let us have some time and stop talking about that stuff. that's what they say. >> the president has pulled back. he has pulled a time

mr. cummings. >> thank you very much. ambassador pickering, sometimes i don't think that the public understands that the state accident often serving in places that don't offer a lot of options when it comes to facilities. let me read to you what the executive director of eastern affairs told the committee in his interview about how the united states ultimately selected the special mission commound in benghazi for use in the military. he said this. it was the only things that were available at the time that even met minimal standards. remember chris stevens had just gotten off a ferry with cars. he had gone back into a hotel. there had been a bomb that went off. we had to find something and something quick. and i mean the department as a home with had to find something. here is a challenge. in the case of benghazi, you had some very smart people, including ambassador stephens advising the united states government that we should be in benghazi. but it sounds like there were not many good options available. even the hotel w

mr. cummings be in there saying he should resign? this is inflammatory comments.y that he said it. i've been talking to people about it. the thing with the d.c. bailouts, a lot of these bankers, a lot of these ceos holler around complain about d.c. but they are the first to go down there with their tin cup to get government bailouts. ashley: that's true. that is irony, isn't it, around the goal you could say. >> yeah. ashley: look the taxpayers bailed them out? >> yeah it did. with a lot of money. they paid it back. they still owe some money. aig still owes the taxpayers some money. a lot of money from the federal reserve came that way. >> started to hit on it. benmosche, did he save the company or chop it up and sell it? >> he sold off a lost units. tracy: can we call him a savior? >> that is the debate in social media. can we call him a savior. pitchforks saying that in 2009 and talking about lynch mobs in 2009. you know, that is where debate is too. tracy: ick. ashley: maybe he shouldn't say anything. tracy: there is that. ashley: liz macdonald, great stuff. >>

mr. cummings, before addressing the subject of this hearing, my wife deborah is here with me today and iwant to express our deepest sympathies to the families of those killed in the tragedy earlier this week. as a navy family house, both lost were shipmates and family members in the truest sense of the word and their dedication, serviced your country and sacrifice will never be forgotten. chairman rouhani, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i hope that testimony will be helpful to the committee with the tragic events that occurred in benghazi, libya on september 11 and 12, 2012. after those events i was then asked the secretary of state to serve as the vice chair of the accountability review board, established to examine the attacks on the special mission compound and annex in benghazi. the board was a good ambassador thomas pickering and included three other high qualified respected members with expertise in various areas relevant to this review. the board took our responsibilities very seriously and we work diligently to fulfill our obligations to determine the facts make

mr. cummings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor dr. levi watkins, a pioneer in the medical field and civil rights movement. after four decades with johns hopkins medicine, dr. watkins will retire on december 31, 2013. he's a man of many firsts, the first african-american to attend and graduate from vanderbilt medical school. his first scientific breakthrough was his research into the connection between rhettin n.g.o. system and congestive heart failure that led to the use of the blockers and treatment of heart failure. he also performed the first implementation of the automatic implantable defibrillator in the human heart. dr. watkins fought for african-american civil rights in the 1950's and fought for equal opportunities in education throughout his career. increasing minority enrollment at the johns hopkins university school of medicine by 400% in four years. i thank dr. watkins for all that he has done for our nation and the legacy he leaves to inspire generations yet unborn. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expir

mr. mcdonagh and congressman mike ustins, just in a mosh -- j amash, and elijah cummings.ebroadcasts of the shows begin at noon eastern with "meet the press." 1:00, "this week." sunday," "state of the union," and "face the nation." listen on 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c. area. syria --19 on xm sirius radio. download our up for your smartphone -- app for your smartphone, or listen online at www.c-span.org. >> wilson was so intellectual. he is the only president with a phd. as a result of that, most of the books written about him have been academic in nature. they have missed the very human side of this man. he was deeply emotional, passionate, romantic figure. he had two wives. when his first wife died, he courted and fell in love with a woman and married a second time. he wrote thousands of passionate love letters to each of these women. this was a real, living, breathing human being. i don't think we have seen that about woodrow wilson. berg's biography of woodrow wilson releases tuesday. here more tonight at 8:00 on c- span's "q&a." " continues. journal host: the presi

mr. chairman. congressman cummings. thank you for having me today. menendez china and silver and have been asked to appear today as the committee examines issues are the record keeping and the federal government. diapers to serve as the jaded director of the loan programs office of the department of energy, a position and left almost two years ago. i should not, therefore, i am here today in my capacity as a private citizen and then not in a position to speak to or about the current retention policies and practices of the department. i testified before this committee subcommittee on regulatory affairs, stimulus overset command of a spending in 2012 with these issues are discussed in depth. it does not testify in front of a different house committee but also address of these issues have also been interviewed on several occasions by various committee staff. i'll ask him before his grandmother and a year ago during the committee review one of the 17 of buy programs during the course of the review are voluntarily provide all the relevant documents to