mr. gonzalez but have yet to hear back from him. >> go'd from neighborhood. dealing with a bit of a pest problem lp. >>> makes completely up in arms. >> it stinks. some days it's unbearable. you can't open your doors. >> city officials have gone to great lengths to eradicate the problem using helicopters, gun blasts, horns trying to drive the animals out of this park. some neighbors are thankful and you might imagine some activists pretty upset they're treating the animals like this. >> they have no ability to fly off, they have to care for their babies and they can die. >> i get the point of the activist but when it comes to your health, you unfortunately have to take matters. >> and they're big, too. they look like pterodactyls. neighbors say they've been driven back like [ bleep ] crazy. >> we take freedom very seriously in this country. so why this particular freedom is being censored is beyond the understanding of a lot of activists. this video starts off with a group of women running down the streets of new york city. then you start realizing they're ta

mr. gonzalez views be a part of this committee champion when he was on the committee to allow -- offeredill that would allow seniors to switch plans between m.a. plans during the first three months of the year. rideout the open a moment. that was a resources section of his at the time and one that i think the committee could support. mr. chairman, i would also like -- i time to go to the archives and i encountered a very brilliant and insightful opinion piece that was printed in the "washington times" june 6, 2012 and i would like to offer it for the record. >> without objection, so order ordered. the gentleman yields back and now the chair recognizes ranking member of the health subcommittee for five minutes for an opening statement spent thank you, chairman pitts, and thank you to our witnesses for being here to share your expertise. today i'm pleased we have the opportunity to talk about medicare and a positive reforms introduced by the affordable care act, medicare advantage. while the majority of medicare's 52 million beneficiaries are in the traditional federally ministered program

mr. gonzÁlez that used to be part of the committee was allowing a return -- offered a bill that would allowseniors to switch plans between and a plans in the first three months of the year right after the open enrollment for go. that was a reasonable suggestion of his at the time and one i think the committee could support. mr. chairman, i would also like to -- i had some time to go through the archives and i encountered a very brilliant and insightful opinion piece that was printed in the wall street times of june, 2012 and i would like to offer for the record. >> without objection, so ordered. >> the gentleman yields back and now the chair recognizes the member of the health subcommittee for an opening statement. >> thank you, chairman and into the witnesses for being here to share your expertise. today i am pleased we have the opportunity to talk about medicare and the positive reform introduced by the affordable care act to medicare advantage. while the majority of the 52 million beneficiaries are in the traditionally federally administered federal program, medicare advantage or m.a. of

mr. qwang and he claimed that there, and there were permits issued for a block on 417 gonzalez drive and i am going to put the map up here so that you can take a look at that. >> okay commissioners this is where the permits were supposedly issued for. and but the work was done on brotherhood way which was about 200 yards away. so, mr. qwang and mr. ruber cannot explain why they were issued for 417 gonzales drive which were over here and there were no signs posted and nobody recalls seeing the signs torn down. yet, the work was done about 150 yards away on brotherhood way and a number of trees were lost and we lost a number of significant trees during a two-week period until we had to go and i am going to go to this e-mail here. and we had to go through norman yee's office. who is or district 7 supervisor and we had, and i don't know if you can see this here. we had to go through supervisor norman yee's office how in order to get the information on the permits because mr. john qwang from dpw would not give us that information. and we had, we were stalled for two weeks before we could get

mr. qwang and he claimed that there, and there were permits issued for a block on 417 gonzalez drive and i am going to put the map up here so that you can take a look at that. >> okay commissioners this is where the permits were supposedly issued for. and but the work was done on brotherhood way which was about 200 yards away. so, mr. qwang an

gonzalez. he is now with waller. a nashville based law firm mr. attorney general, thank you so much for being here. you were attorney general when these program were being implemented. can you tell me one instance when any of this bulk collection of data helped stop a terrorist act or catch a terrorist? >> i'm going on leave that to the intelligence professionals, quite frankly. i know there's been sworn testimony these authorities, these activities were very helpful in defending america. and let me say that i believe that this debate we're having today, the appropriate way to defend our country, to protect american lives. to do so in a way that is consistent with our values is a very important debate. we talk about it and argued about it in the bush administration. i think this is a report from this board put together by president obama, i think, has initiated good dialogue about what is appropriate and necessary in our country today. why do you think we're having this debate? it seems to me we're having this debate because edward snowden leaked