mr. duncan. >> thank you, madam chairman. i thank director morton, secretary morton for being here today. you know, there's an interesting constitutional debate raging across this country right now in the wake of the supreme court ruling on the arizona law. i bring that up because south carolina passed a very similar law. i think there will be future supreme court rulings on this, but i want to point to justice scalia's dissenting opinion. when he talks about the rights of the sovereign states and we're a nation of individual sovereign states and what rights those states have in enforcement of federal law, what rights the states have in protecting and securing their own state borders. i would point to the chairwoman and the members of the committee to read that opinion if you haven't. i think it's very interesting going forward. mr. morton, director morton, i was reading the memorandum of march 2nd, 2011, where you point out some priorities for i.c.e. first off, thank you for what you do and what

mr. duncan is recognized. mr. duggan is not on the terrorist watch list. -- mr. duncan is not on the terrorist watch list. >> i appreciate you continuing down that path. i think it is very important. i would like to have -- hear somebody from this administration and not been made a mistake and own up to it and seek some disciplinary action if necessary. madam secretary, you're the secretary of homeland security. somebody who is a member of a foreign terrorist organization coming into this country is absolute your responsibility. the buck stops right there. homeland security is something that i know you take a grave responsibility for. we take very seriously on this committee and in congress. let me just say that is not the path i wanted to go down and i will stop right there. in the final report of the webster commission on the -- and the fbi and event at fort hood that was recently released, at the time of the attack, the fbi did not have access to all the relevant d.o.d. databases. they did not have access to search for relevant information on major hasan. were

mr. duncan. so we start out -- the beginning equation is, what can we do with the resources that congress has provided us? on average we can remove about 400,000 people a year with the resources that we have. obviously, our statutory direction is broader than that. and to me the question then is, who are those 400,000 people going to be? are they the first 400,000 people that walk in the front door? i don't think that can be the approach. i think in a world of limited resources, you have to say, no, it's got to be the 400,000 people that make the most sense for public safety and the administration of the immigration system. >> i don't mean to interrupt you, but you're having to utilize the resources you're given. an apprehension is an apprehension whether that person has been here ten years or they just crossed our border. you still have contact with that person. if they've been here longer, you're going to let them go. if they just crossed the border, you're going to send them back. >> not quite

mr. duncan, thank you for inviting me. and it's my honor and pleasure to appear before you today to talk about secure communities and our other related initiatives. let me start, madam chair, by saying that i think secure communities is an excellent program, and i think it represents one of the most important efforts by the congress to focus i.c.e.'s enforcement on criminal offenders. as you noted, secure communities got its start in 2008 in the appropriations act when congress directed i.c.e. to improve its efforts to identify convicted criminal aliens held in the nation's jails for removal from the united states. congress instructed i.c.e. to identify all convicted criminals and to prioritize their identification and removal based on the severity of the alien's crimes. congress has since reiterated that direction in every single one of our subsequent appropriations and has consistently focused our detention resources accordingly. secure communities was launched in harris county, texas, in october of 2008. we have come a

mr. duncan. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you director morton for being here today. you know, there's an interesting constitutional debate raging across this country right now in the wake of the supreme court ruling on the arizona law. i bring that up because south carolina passed a very similar law. i think there will be future supreme court rulings on this, but i want to point to justice scalia's dissenting opinion. when he talks about the rights of the sovereign states and we're a nation of individual sovereign states and what rights

mr. duncan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank dr. humphreys were being heard. this is educational to me. and thinking through the 2011 with the iranians claiming to hijack a military uav, the question i have for you as an encrypted signal, but do you think that the iranians for labor to use a technology is spoofing to help bring down that uav? the next important to bring whatever they say with a couple of doses of salt. but in this case, i am somewhat concerned that their claims could have some merit. they may have initiated an electronic barrage against the cia uav played their airspace. it could've initiated a sequence of events that led to his capture. the plain fact is that showed up intact and that means we've got a lot of explaining to do. >> rate. that means it didn't crash. so that type of electronic rashi mentioned that may have been used, is that possibility within civilian airspace if someone wanted to capture law-enforcement uav, could they put up an electronic garage to bring down a law-enforcement uav? the next similar may be used. the command-and

mr. duncan from south carolina. >> thank you for holding this hearing. i think we do need a hearing with the faa to bring them and ask questions about what they're doing to implement permitting and certificates with a flying unmanned aerial systems. we have a robust civilian aviation population in this country. if you have visual flight rules and you have a civilian aviator who goes up in a cessna, he is not following a flight plan and probably not looking to see if there is a certificate whether the sheriff is flying a drone in the area and the drone pilots are looking down on whatever they are surveiling. i think there's a real threat to civilian aviation with unmanned systems, especially if we see a dramatic increase that is projected based on the information provided today. i think that's a valid question and we need to talk to the faa with regard to civilian aviation. the gist of my concern about drones is the privacy issue. it is a real issue and concern to the constituents i represent and a concern to americans across this great land, what the gov

mr. duncan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. duncan: thank you, madam speaker. you know, americans know that the government takeover of health care is wrong. they spoke very loudly when the other side of the aisle forced this on america in the last congress. it was bad policy before the supreme court ruled, it was bad policy in january when we first passed the repeal bill, it's bad policy today and it will be bad policy tomorrow. $500 billion away from medicare, puts government bureaucrats between americans and their doctors, it rations care for the american seniors, it adds exponentially to the nation's debt. it grows government, specifically it grows the internal revenue service to collect the tax which the supreme court of the united states so evidently pointed out that it is a tax and will be assessed if you fail to meet the government's requirement to buy something. socialized medicine is wrong for america and it is time to repeal the bill and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the bal

mr. duncan of tennessee for five minutes. mr. duncan: i ask permission to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. duncan: later today we will vote on h.r. 459, the federal reserve transparency act of 2012. because this legislation comes to us on the suspension calendar it will require a 2/3 vote in favor for passage, but i rise today in support of a full audit of the federal reserve. i have thought for many years there's too much secrecy and too much power invested in our federal reserve. this is an effort that i first joined in june of 1991, in the 102nd congress when i co-sponsored a bill introduced by the congressman of illinois to audit the federal reserve. even back then before our most recent major financial recession, congressman crane's bill had 56 bipartisan co-sponsors. that support has grown over the years and in the 111th congress, the last congress, congressman ron paul's audit the fed bill gathered an overwhelming 320 co-sponsors from both parties. now, t

mr. -- honorable duncan smith's premise is that she's some sort of lazy person who is lacking in character so, therefore, she would quit work, and i am saying that she is someone like me who very much wants to continue work, but needs honestly needs more support in order to be able to continue to work and so that's the clarification i would make with regard to our agreement on that. >> mr. larson's recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you, mr. teabarry as well. i appreciate the spirit of which this hearing is being conducted and especially appreciated the value added that my colleague from wisconsin brings and you underscore a point. i wasn't going to speak, but to look at the magnitude of this situation and it goes beyond anecdotes and i'm speaking, i think, with a great deal of knowledge just in my own staff here at the capital. when we talk about day care, i think ed zigler, sterling professor of psychology and the father of the headstart program under the nixon program said it best, day care is nothing short of a cosmic crap shoot for people who are seeking

mr. duncan. >> i want to thank dr. humphries for being here. this is very educational. thinking through, as we watch the video, thinking through what happened in 2011, with the iranians claiming to have hijacked a military uav, i know that was a unencrypted signal. but do think they were able to use a similar technology of spoofing to help bring it down? >> i think it is important to take whatever they say with a few doses of salt. in this case, there claims could have merit. they could have initiated a sequence of events that led to capture. that means we have a lot of explaining to do. >> that type of electronic bearish -- barrage, is that possible in civilian aerospace to capture a law enforcement uav? >> similar techniques could be used. they typically have two important wireless signals. of course, the gps signal hopes it to navigate. mostly, they do well if you cut colony -- is to cut one of those two, but not if you cut both. i am broadly concerned about an electronic attack, and about spoofing. >> in not only change the youth -- the gps symbol, but you tapped in

mr. duncan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank dr. humphreys were being heard. this is educational to me. and thinking through the 2011 with the iranians claiming to hijack a military uav, the question i have for you as an encrypted signal, but do you think that the iranians for labor to use a technology is spoofing to help bring down that uav? the next important to bring whatever they say with a couple of doses of salt. but in this case, i am somewhat concerned that their claims could have some merit. they may have initiated an electronic barrage against the cia uav played their airspace. it could've initiated a sequence of events that led to his capture. the plain fact is that showed up intact and that means we've got a lot of explaining to do. >> rate. that means it didn't crash. so that type of electronic rashi mentioned that may have been used, is that possibility within civilian airspace if someone wanted to capture law-enforcement uav, could they put up an electronic garage to bring down a law-enforcement uav? the next similar may be used. the command-and

mr. duncan in this vetting process if he's held to accountability then rick might be a little more careful and protect our citizens a little more. doesn't that make sense? >> representative, that particular case has been looked at me and there were no mistakes made reed is the next three separate settings and no mistakes but he had on his facebook page he wanted a terrorist organization. at the white house a couple weeks ago. >> will again, representative, i think i discussed this long enough and i would be happy to provide you more offline. >> i appreciate -- i wouldn't want to see a flow chart on all of your responsibilities because you've got an extremely complicated and tough job and i do appreciate what you do but sometimes it is the little things that matter coming and if we could go back and look at these 3i just can't get through my head these groups of people affected this fellow. >> it began in the state department because this was a state department sponsored trip to bring individuals who are now going to be potentially part of the leadership of a country with whom we have deali

mr. duncan. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. duncan: thanks to natural resources committee for their hard work on this issue. the congressman from louisiana reminded us drilling equals jobs and republicans have a plan for job creation in america and it begins go, it begins not with the government takeover in our health care but it begins with america pursuing energy independence. utilizing the resources that we are blessed with in this country, primarily right now in offshore areas. we do this by expanding areas of our outer continental shelf that are included in our nation's plan for exploration over the next five years. it seems simple to the average american and that's what frustrates them so much that we would refuse to explore our reserves and meet our energy needs in this country. with a 9.4 unemployment rate in south carolina. drilling equals jobs and that is why my state, their offshore area is included within this bill. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this american jobs and energy initiative by

mr. duncan from south carolina. >> thank you for holding this hearing. i want to follow up. i think we need a hearing with faa to bring them questions about what they're doing to implement permitting and certificates in the country with the flying of unmanned air ideal systems because we have a lo rough bust civilian aviation population in this country. and if you have visual flight rules and you have a civilian avenueuateer that goes up on the 172 he's not on following a flight plane. he currently probably not looking to see if there's a certificate are whether the sheriff is flying a drone in the area. they're not looking for other aircraft in the air space. they're looking down at whatever their surveilling. thing is a real threat to civilian aviation with unmanned aerial systems. especially if we see dramatic increase projected based on the information provided. we need talk to faa with regard to civilian aviation and flight rules. the gist of my concern about drones and unmanned aerial systems is the privacy issue. it's a real issue, real concern to the constituents tha

mr. duncan. >> it is interesting constitutional debate raging across the country right now in the wake ofhe supreme court ruling on the arizona law. i bring that up because i think there will be future supreme court rulings on this. i want to point to justice scalia's dissenting opinion where he talks about the rise of the sovereign states and what rights the states have and the enforcement of federal law and what rights do states have in securing their own borders. i would point to read that if you have not because it's very interesting going forward. i was reading the memorandum from march 2, 2011, where you point out some priorities. thank you for what you do and what the agency does and i also want to mention the fallen officer mentioned earlier. our condolences to his family. but going back to the priorities -- it's interesting that you have a recent illegal entrants -- that need to someone just entered the country and is apprehended, they get priority to be taken back to their home country. then in the june 17 memorandum, it talks about the length of presence in the united states. s

mr. mulvaney, jeff duncan, duncan hunter, steve southerland. i want to thank them for their dedication, hard work and most of all just showing up. and the big winner, madam speaker, is an organization called the first tee because over the last 11 years we've had this competition, over $1.5 million has been raised for the first tee. that's an organization that works with young people to try to touch their lives through educational programs that deal with character and honesty, integrity. they work at all 50 states. they've touched the lives of 4 1/2 million people over the years and they do a lot of work with the inner city and las fortunate. it was a great day. i want to thank everybody for their involvement and certainly yield time to my democratic counterpart, captain of the democratic team, mr. yarmuth. mr. yarmuth: i want to congratulate the republicans on their victory. all great things must come to an end and our five-year winning streak was broken through largely superior play. although i do question some of the strategy that was invoked

1987 to 1991, secretary duncan played professional basketball in australia and it's his play as the nba all-star celebrity game is any indication, he's not lost a step. welcome, mr margaret steel lings serve is as secretary of education from served as the domestic policy advisor to president bush. she led the development and implement nation -- implement station of the no child left behind act. now she is strategic advisor to the u.s. chamber of commerce. i think it's worth pointing out, as governor haslam was saying that this rethoroughization of esea is of crucial importance and that we all are going to have a real role in this. here we have two leaders of the last decade in education. secretary spelling, who worked for a conservative, some would say moderate republican. secretary duncan who's work forward moderate, some would they liberal democrat, but what they have both focused their sights on is dramatically increasing the standards but which we hold the expectations and the standards by which we're going to hold student achievement to and then creating a level of accountability so we can measure that success and i think that the version of the reauthoriza