mrs. edwards. we have been joined by the congresswoman from florida. >> earlier it was said there were 71,000 raoefrpls and you made a -- referrals and you made a distinction of the behavior leading to arrests. how many were arrested? >> of the 71,000? >> yes. >> that is the random selection method. nine arrests were made. >> in the other method? >> using spot, 23,000 and a little bit were referred and 151 were arrested. >> the types of arrests? >> i don't have the nature of the arrests. >> so it could have been brooklyn bridge rapbs seu or anybody? >> some were prohibited items that were on them at the time. others could have been through o outstanding warrants. >> do you think that i have an appearance or would i be a target for spot? every time i go through the airport i get pulled aside and searched and the reason i ask is because being a past law enforcement officer and trained i have concerns about the way you are identifying and pulling people aside. dr. hartwig, you said you thought the pro

mr. edwards, and by the way, thank you for your report. i realize the scope of your investigation was limited, very different than ours, but i thought it was overall very, very good work. did you look at share point and how it works in your investigation? >> no, sir. we became aware of the share point system, the new platform, and the three days where people can, the components can submit their responses and after three days they can get it out of the door, and then that changed to a day this monday. we have not -- >> coincidence of our hearing not with standing. >> we have not had an opportunity to assess the system or because our scope was just -- >> do you plan on looking at that share point? >> if that's something the chairman wants us to do. >> i think the chairman and ranking member both would like you to look at it. one of my companies i'm affiliated with in the past has share point. i'm aware one of the things it has the power to do, and you'll have to see whether the version you bought is implemented, but it can parable share. it'

mr. charles edward inspector general of the department of homeland security. welcome. mr.r counsel and director of open government project at epic. pursuant as he saw the first charge of the committee rules, would you please raise your right hand and take the oath? do solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? at the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. since you are a patient for the first round, i won't recite anything. with that, recognize mr. edwards for his opening statement. cnet good morning, chairman issa, ranking member cummings and members of the committee. contrast k. edwards, acting inspector general for department of homeland security, dhs. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the efforts to disclose information under the freedom of information act also known as foia. when permission focuses on the foia program as well as the march 2011 report and the dhs implementation of the freedom of information or. during the review, we found

edwards. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and congratulations to you as you convened the first of what i hope are many oversight hearings to make sure that we are paying attention to the kind of oversight we need to engage in on the science and technology committee on behalf of the taxpayers. i'd like to say that i too am disappointed that tsa is not here today, wasn't able to provide a would've. i think you lost an important opportunity to inform the congress and the public why they believe the s.p.o.t. program is worthy of our support. and i hope they will cooperate with this committee and the congress in the future. and i hope it's not terribly distracting as we get to the witnesses. i don't want anyone of them to be identified as tsa. i know it's a confusing for me a beer. let me just say in the opening i think each one of us has had an experience that instinctively sensing that something about a situation of a person is wrong or is worrying. police officer, immigration officers, transportation security officers

mr. tonko: thank you, representative edwards. you know, i would have to say that i truly believe that if dr. king were in our presence today he would remind us that a budget is a series of priorities and what we place high, what we place most precious in that budget we would see that as a document that speaks to a family. just like a household will balance their needs, their concerns with their abilities to pay and put together the balancing, so too does the family of america require that sort of tender balancing. and he would remind us that, you know, here are families, whether they're employed, critically unemployed or marginally underemployed, whatever the situation might be, today america's middle class is living paycheck to paycheck. that's becoming more and more the scenario. and he would have suggested that, look, we need to take that concern for mortgages, that concern for college tuition, that concern for just pay, the concern for utility bills, the concern for food costs and energy costs, take all of that, invest in the

mr. edwards: i -- ms. edwards: i feel like i'm in the movie "groundhog day." i can't believe we're standing here today when we should be talking about creating jobs in this country for the millions of people who are unemployed instead of taking away their health care, instead of taking away their ability of a young person up to age 26 to stay on their participant's health care plan. we are -- parent's health care plan. we're talking about the ability of young people who have children, who have pre-existing conditions, to be denied coverage once again instead of creating jobs. instead of creating jobs, mr. speaker, we're here telling seniors that we want them to reach into their pockets and into their retirement to pay for outrageous prescription drug coverage. we're standing here instead of creating jobs telling small businesses that you're not going to get a tax credit to provide health care insurance for -- for your business. i mean, this is ridiculous. and, mr. speaker, i have to tell you, the american people must be wondering what it is that this republica

mr. chairman. >> thank you, ms. edwards. we've been joined by congressman from -- congresswoman from florida, mrs. adams, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. earlier you said there have been 71,000 referrals and you made a distinction that the behavior leading to arrests. how much of those were arrested? >> of the 71,000? >> yes. >> that's the random selection method. >> correct. >> that's 71,000 were referred in the random selection, nine arrests were made. >> nine? >> yes. >> and in the other method? >> using spot, 23,000 and a little bit were referred and 151 were arrested. >> and the type of arrested? >> i don't have the nature of the arrests in the data that we looked at, ma'am. >> so it could have been belligerencey or anything of that matter. >> some might have been prohibited items at that time. others could have been through outstanding warrant or something of that name, ma'am. >> do you think that i have an appearance or would i be a target for spot? i mean, every time i go to the airport i get pulled

edwards. >> thank you mr. chairman, and as i mentioned earlier, i am disappointed that tsa is in here because i think you are a number of questions that actually go to things like training protocols and other aspects of the s.p.o.t. or graham that they would have really useful information to share so i look forward to working with the chairman and the committee on this question about who needs to appear or not is not a decision really for the administration. congress determines under its constitutional authority who appears before the committees and what the jurisdiction is, so i do share that concern. i want to go to this question though of profiling,. >> with a gentlelady yield? i appreciate your comment. you took up about a minute and i would like to give you next a minute on top of that. [laughter] i don't want to charge your. >> i appreciate that. >> if you want to start the clock you can. >> thank you again mr. chairman. i have a question really that goes to this issue of e-filing. as an african-american

edwards. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i mentioned, i am disappointed tsa is not here. there are a number of questions that could to things like training protocols and other aspects of the spot program that they would have a useful information to share. i look forward to working with the chairman and the committee on this question about who needs to appear or not. it is not a decision for the administration. congress determines who appears before the committee and what the jurisdiction is. i share that concern. i want to go to the question of profiling. >> i appreciate your comment. you took up almost a minute with that. i would like to give you an extra minute on top of that. i do not want to charge you. >> i appreciate that. >> start the clock again, please. >> i have a question that goes to the issue of profiling. as an african-american woman who, because i wear a scarf on my head, i have had the experience of being pulled over. it has not happened once or twice. it has happened multiple times. i do not want to make any speculation but it does raise the question of w

edwards: mr. speaker, there have been a lot of quotes on this floor. so this one goes out to our young people and our seniors and service members and federal workers who stand to be affected by a government shut down. it's a lesson from our republican colleagues courtesy of the white stripes, i guess you have a problem if you want to invent a contraption. first you cause a train wreck. then you put me in traction. first came inaction then a reaction, but you can't switch around for your own satisfaction. you burnt my house down then got mad at my reaction? it's just you can't take the effect and make it the cause. some of my republican colleagues who want to shut the government down for the effect you cause, you learned this white stripes wasn't first. if you are heading to the grave, you don't blame the hurts, you built the house of cards and shock me when you see them fall. you seem to forget when this started. you can't take the effect and make it the cause. with that i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yield back. for what purpose doe

mr. nadler of new york and ms. edwards of maryland. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. mica: there being no further business before the house, at this time, mr. speaker, i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the virginias -- ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands >> the measure authorizes funding through 2014 and terminates the essential air service. there were over 30 amendments offered to the bill and we should see more votes on those as well as a final passage vote tomorrow. members plan to work on legislation related to 2012 spending. follow the house live when members return tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> republicans and democrats were negotiating about the best way to fund the government for the rest of the year. we will hear from john baner and the white house next on c-span. dennis kucinich talked about cutting off military funding for militar

to remind that my guest in the studio today is edward he had president of the american university here in moscow and we're talking about a lawsuit that mr liz and ski and he's colleague anthony sally have the director of the americas that you can key of these two people for a lawsuit against. the u.s. i get presents and i'm not trying to force him to lift their jaxon van a commandment which is discriminating russia because the soviet union thirty years ago didn't the jews emigrate from russia and not only jews and other people ok now who said that the russians believe today most of the russians believe that the jackson very command is still alive because it's an instrument to pressurize russia to put pressure put political pressure to make it easier to get cheap it was russians now on the other side here's a quote from fowl bammers and here's what he says in my opinion this is not true that the jackson vandyck amendment gives washington some means to pressure on moscow and anachronism cannot serve as a real political instrument of pressure and current or so which point of view do you suppose is it an instrument or not. not for administr

mr. ellison: two minutes for the gentlelady from maryland, miss done -- congresswoman donna edwards.he speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. ms. edwards: thank you, madam speaker. i'd like to thank the gentleman from minnesota for raising this point of order. i join in support of the point of order. first of all it's time for us to create jobs, we haven't created jobs for 13 weeks into this congress and we are not debating jobs today. second, as to the underlying resolution, i'll speak to that later, madam speaker, but today we are sitting here with a bill that violates the rules of this house, that congress said when they took on this new leadership that they were going to come into the congress open and transparent and without hypocrisy and not following the kind of rules that they railed against during the previous congress, and yet here we are today with a rule that doesn't allow us to really consider appropriations in the way that this congress not the last congress but this republican congress established. we are neither open, we are

mr. goldsmith, who was the mayor of indianapolis in the 1990s until last year had never lived or worked in new york is the wrong man for this high pressured position." his immediate predecessor, edwardskylar, was so maniacal about making the city work. he was called, quote/unquote, 'batman' and once tackled a would-be mugger in midtown manhattan." when you read that, is it one of those things you say, "i -- they'll never accept me because i did -- i'm not from here"? >> well, ed was a great deputy mayor and he's younger than i am. i'm not tackling any would-be muggers. i don't think i'm -- i don't think i could catch them actually. i think there are a couple of -- a couple of things in that article that bothered me a little bit. one is i think there is a view you're not from here, therefore what do you have to offer and that's pretty typical of any city and it's a little bit more typical of new york and i appreciate that folks look at me with kind of, like, you know, are you up to the job and i'll show them i am. i'm not worried about that. the second implication in that story is also interesting and it's the following which is that do you want -- so the mayor recruited me saying, "

edwards here in the d.c. circuit as well as sandra day o'connor in the united states supreme court from 2003-2004. it is our great pleasure that have dr. winter and mr. grimsley here. >> please to be here this morning. i will be presenting the results of the national academy investigation into the causes of the deepwater horizon. i will know that that i will be presenting what had been our interim findings which were first released back in november, and because of the process than -- that the national academy goes through with a formal peer review one of our findings, the next phase of our report which hopefully will be available around june has yet to be released. i will be giving you the report that we gave to the secretary and the staff back in november. in fact, i will be using the same charts for the most part during the presentation. on our activities in the reason for it, the national academy of engineering does such study as a matter of course. this one was in particular a request from secretary salazar. our focus is very specifically on the causes for the blowout explosion and subsequent fire. with recommendations to come as to hopefully ho

edwards here in the d.c. circuit as well as sandra day o'connor in the united states supreme court from 2003-2004. it is our great pleasure that have dr. winter and mr. grimsley here. >> please to be here this morning. i will be presenting the results of the national academy investigation into the causes of the deepwater horizon. i will know that that i will be presenting what had been our interim findings which were first released back in november, and because of the process than -- that the national academy goes through with a formal peer review one of our findings, the next phase of our report which hopefully will be available around june has yet to be released. i will be giving you the report that we gave to the secretary and the staff back in november. in fact, i will be using the same charts for the most part during the presentation. on our activities in the reason for it, the national academy of engineering does such study as a matter of course. this one was in particular a request from secretary salazar. our focus is very specifically on the causes for the blowout explosion and subsequent fire. with recommendations to come as to hopefully ho

edwards here in the d.c. circuit as well as sandra day o'connor in the united states supreme court from 2003-2004. it is our great pleasure that have dr. winter and mr. grimsley here. >> please to be here this morning. i will be presenting the results of the national academy investigation into the causes of the deepwater horizon. i will know that that i will be presenting what had been our interim findings which were first released back in november, and because of the process than -- that the national academy goes through with a formal peer review one of our findings, the next phase of our report which hopefully will be available around june has yet to be released. i will be giving you the report that we gave to the secretary and the staff back in november. in fact, i will be using the same charts for the most part during the presentation. on our activities in the reason for it, the national academy of engineering does such study as a matter of course. this one was in particular a request from secretary salazar. our focus is very specifically on the causes for the blowout explosion and subsequent fire. with recommendations to come as to hopefully ho