mr. duncan and others, for example, disposal of the vacant buildings. we've all pass legislation. i passed some with mr. denham on the subject, but i come to the conclusion you can only eat an elephant a bite at a time so you really have to focus. we hope folks down to empty building to i think the first thing i did as chair of transportation was in the vacant post office building two blocks from the white house. that was in february 2 years ago. then we went back a year later because they hadn't done anything. and hauled the bureaucrats down there to get into building. the first time it was 32 degrees outside, 38 degrees inside the that tends to get their attention but it still takes time. that is a success. we have had successes but you have to target. we got a lot of failures. amtrak, we're going to celebrate a billion dollars this year in a dozen years, in food-service losses, for which we passed a law that you cannot spend money and lose money. tsa, tom, we were here when we created. started off with 16,500. we have 15,000 administrators, and 66,000 employees, totally out of c

mr. duncan. he had the time. i continue on my side? ok. who is next?he chair recognizes the german from colorado. >> thank you for convening the hearing today and talking and taking a closer look. in january 2000 12, president obama visited my home state of colorado in what he considered to be in all of the above energy approach. he was merely paying lip service to the american public and in june of 2013, he announced his climate action plan. the plan does not represent a true, all of the above energy reproach. it picks winners and losers, wages a war on coal, and it is a continuation of the costly and ineffective policies of his first term. it will destroy thousands of jobs. all of thets a true above energy plan that embraces all of america posses vast energy resources and provides american families and businesses much-needed relief from the energy costs without killing good paying jobs. rather than pursuing and all the above energy plan, the administration continues to circumvent congress and turnout job killing regulations, cart -- targeting the coa

mr. duncan. >> thanks for having this insightful hearing today. and first, i want to add my voice and thanks to senator lieberman for your service to the country and general, for your service in the 101st airborne first brigade, the chairman and i were able to visit with a third brigade combat tiemann afghanistan, and november of 2011. and memories that i had of men and women that were serving in harm's way go a long way and i want to thank everyone that is serving to fight the elements that we are talking about today around the globe in afghanistan or where it may be. thank you for your comments in the opening statement when you said let me underscore the enemy is violent, islamist extremism on the political ideology that is justified totalitarian governments by turning to religion and we can never stress enough it is not islam itself, is the islamist extremist that use religion for its own use and the game. i want to shift gears on some of the topics we talked about today because talking about a false narrative that endangers the homeland and as

mr. duncan: school choice means giving every child the opportunity to learn at the place that best meets their needs, not one that they're relegated to because of where they may live or what district they're assigned to. for decades now our children -- where our children learn has been decided by arbitrary government rules that can never understand the needs of each individual child or family. when kids fail to make the grade, the solution has been to throw more money and government regulation into the mix, but the end results cannot be clearer. this top-down government knows best system has failed to serve the very people it seeks to help and support from parents and teachers for initiatives like common core continue to crumble. be it a charter school, private school, home school or local public school, the fact of the matter is parents know what works best for their child, not washington. we owe it to our children to help them reach their full potential. i strongly believe that every child, rarledless of background or school district, should -- regardless of background or school distri

mr. fenton what about the notion that secretary duncan impressed upon everyone over and over again, that they're looking for locally developed approaches, that there isn't one blanket policy. is it possible? >> well, what they've done is to discourage locally developed remedies by setting forth so many norms and requirements and documentation obligations. and data gathering requirements that the practical effect of this in our schools and school systems is going to be to deter school systems from developing workable discipline policies that ensure that the kirds who do behave are going to be able to sit in orderly classrooms, hear their teacher and do their homework. so i think arne duncan's words are exactly right. that i think that the effect of his and the attorney general's actions is going to be precisely the opposite. >> what about this idea that we've heard from teachers saying you know what, sometimes getting a student out of the class is the only way that i can try and retain any semblance of order in the class that it really would prefer to outsource this i'm not a security pro

mr. speaker, that the source closest to the chacha says, there are some ministers improve in office, and others like iain duncan who shows that they are just not up to it. >> i said all along and i repeat, this program essentially is going to be on time. by 2017, some 6.5 million people will be on the program receiving the benefits. >> he promised universal credit by may 2017. even promised it would be accessing the simplest claims by the end of october. they aren't. so why should anyone believe him when he says the delivery of universal credit is now on track? >> we intervene early when there were problems. we did not let this program were out so that anybody was damaged. >> the people of somerset think that it is a mark of a statesman to take a deliberative and intelligent approach to these problems, and not, not to rush it in a typical socialist fashion. i wonder if he agrees with me that his critics have forgotten to read their bible and remember the line, for there may be the tiniest specks in his proposals, they have a veritable forest in their i.t. suggestions. >> norman smith is with me was again. unive