mr. levine: no. course ofthe identifying and gathering in producing documents, can you tell us what challenges -- and during the course of identifying and gathering and producing documents, can he tells what challenges you faced? are avine: i think they small agency that in the past been challenged with this level of document production. recently did not have the infrastructure in place whether simply staffing level to produce document. in this way, the priority of the agency, since the breaches has withon being responsive respect to document request, as well as information about the services. it has been a combination. there have been delays. we would like to do things out of quickly as we can. we have been moderately successful. i think it speaks to the volume and lack of preparedness for the volume. >> i thank you for your testimony. i thank you for your efforts in complying with these great gust -- requests. thank you for working with us to make sure these data breaches do not happen again. i yie

mr. levine. mr. levine: i am pleased to be here this morning to testify on the half of the office of personnel management and the acting director, regarding the request for documents related to the cyber security incident. under extraordinary circumstances, we have worked to provide information and services to those impacted and to respond to numerous congressional inquiries regarding the incidents, classified and unclassified briefings, and town halls. during this time, employees have worked hard to improve on the services we provide everyday to the entire federal workforce, from resume to retirement. since i arrived in august, it has been my distinct privilege every day to serve with these individuals. opm is a small agency to serve the american people. to preserve that mission, we have made the highest priority to respond to the cyber security incident and bolstering the i.t. infrastructure and security capabilities. we are committed to working with congress, as well as partners, including dhs, dod

mr. levine. i am pleased to be here this morning to testify on the half of the office of personnel management and the acting director, regarding the request for documents related to the cyber security incident or over thent. under extraordinary circumstances, we have worked to provide information and services to those impacted and to respond to numerous congressional inquiries regarding the incidents, classified and unclassified briefings, and town halls. during this time, employees have worked hard to improve on the services we provide everyday to the entire federal workforce, from resume to retirement. since i arrived in august, it has been my distinct privilege every day to serve with these individuals. opm is a small agency, with a to serve the american people. to preserve that mission, we have made the highest priority to respond to the cyber security incident and bolstering the i.t. infrastructure and security capabilities. we are committed to working with congress, as well as partners, inc

mr. levine, i have some questions for you. ou are the director of the office of congressional legislative and intergovernmental affairs of opm; is that correct. >> yes, sir, mr. congressman. >> thanks for being here today. for the record, i think you're nice and sweet too. >> i appreciate that. so does my family. >> i'm particularly interested in opm, because we had this data breach. we had a couple of -- we had a couple of significant breaches that impacted really millions and millions of current and former federal employees. this committee has been investigating the cause of those breaches on a bipartisan basis with a goal of ensuring really that opm has the necessary tools to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. as part of the investigation, this committee sent four requests for documents and information. and now, as of today, i understand that opm has produced documents responsive to each of the committee's four letter requests. am i correct in that? >> yes, sir. >> is that what you spend the majority of your ti

first of all, mr. levin, you are noted as founder and chairman of credit.com. what is credit.com? >> credit.com is an online educator, advocate, also a site where you can get services appropriate to where you are in your credit life and also provide free scores him for information how to get you from wherever you are to wherever you want to get to you. so you pay less money for access to money then you pay when you started. we have been around, one of the longest surviving dot-coms. we started in 1994. we actually swapped a hard drive to get the domain. that is how long we have been around. we've had a wonderful opportunity to communicate with consumers can help consumers. we've helped millions of people over the years and they hope to continue to do so. >> you are also the founder of the website called identity theft 9-1-1. >> that is the new name because we were scaring people with the old name, an organization that works with companies for the benefit of customers, employees, clients. we have everything from identity theft education, identity management, response, preparedness,

mr. levine? >> well, thank you for the question, mr. cummings. i think, as you've specifically noted, the ability to work with your staff and the chairman's staff and the committee's staff on prioritizing the information that could be most helpful for you and them is the most helpful step that you can provide us as we work through the requests. and we appreciate when they have done that and i hope we continue that dialogue. >> anybody else? ms. johnson? >> yes, congressman cummings. it's the exact same thing. the most successful thing we do with the secret service requests was coming back to the committee, asking you to prioritize the 18 categories. you identified four. we immediately started to search and to produce on those four. so you see the constant dialogue between our offices and your staffs is extremely important. a collaborative spirit is important. and whatever we can do to try to narrow and focus the request allows us to do the searches and to produce documents much faster. >> i would echo the comments of my colleagues, that the narro

van hollen: i yield two minutes to mr. levin, of michigan, the ranking member of the ways and means committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: this bill is reckless and zero chance of becoming law. it is heartless. what it says from republicans here to millions an unhappy new year. take health insurance away from 22 million people. to them, these 22 million from republicans an unhappy new year. it will repeal funding in medicaid expansion, leaving 14 million low-income americans without health care. to those 14 million americans from house republicans, an unhappy new year. it would eliminate the tax cuts from low-income families and individuals, a key part of what makes a.c.a. affordable. it would eliminate the individual and employer mandates, undermining the patient protections and access measures that helped dramatically reduce the amount of uninsured in this country. republicans are also using this bill to continue their ideological obsession with did he priving women access to affordable fam

van hollen: i yield two minutes to mr. levin, of michigan, the ranking member of the ways and means committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: this bill is reckless and zero chance of becoming law. it is heartless. what it says from republicans here to millions an unhappy new year. take health insurance away from 22 million people. to them, these 22 million from republicans an unhappy new year. it will repeal funding in medicaid expansion, leaving 14 million low-income americans without health care. to those 14 million americans from house republicans, an unhappy new year. it would eliminate the tax cuts from low-income families and individuals, a key part of what makes a.c.a. affordable. it would eliminate the individual and employer mandates, undermining the patient protections and access measures that helped dramatically reduce the amount of uninsured in this country. republicans are also using this bill to continue their ideological obsession with did he priving women access to affordable fam

mr. levine, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> levine, mr. chairman. levine. that's okay. chairman chaffetz, ranking member cummings and members of the committee i'm pleased to be here to testify on behalf of the office of personnel management regarding the committee's request for information and documents related to the cybersecurity incidents at opm. in the face of extraordinary circumstances, opm has worked to address the cybersecurity incidents, to provide information and services to those impacted and to respond to numerous congressional inquiries regarding the incidents through hearings, classified and unclassified briefings and document production and letters and town halls. during this time opm employees have worked hard to improve the services we provide for the entire federal workforce from resume to retirement. since i arrived in august i can tell you it has been my distinct every day to serve with these individuals. opm is a small agency with an important mission to recruit, retain and honor a world class workforce to serve the american people. to preserve and

first of all, mr. levin, you are noted as founder and chairman of credit.com. what is credit.com?> credit.com is an online educator, advocate, also a site where you can get services appropriate to where you are in your credit life and also provi

mr. trina levin's testimony. as an advocate, what is preferable about ross murphy to the himelfarb model that mr. sharon 11 is advocating. what is applicable to the solution to the model that mr. mr. birnbaum is advocating. can you respond to mr. birnbaum's contention that 29 no one would give surplus lines and ensures the ability to cherry pick nfip policies that are low risk and make nfip more vulnerable. >> i'm interested to hear your thoughts on that. >> thank you for that question. with respect to the can't do it, 29 no one does a very different job of pushing this coverage the private market and mandated the private market offer terrorism coverage given the private market the opportunity to get in and figure it out, invest in underwriting processes and experience to develop product. many standard companies over time will probably add flood to the standard homeowners policy like we talked about here. it's just going to take time. much of the experience will transpire out of what the market is able to do. seco

mr. levine, i have some questions for you. ou are the director of the office of congressional legislative and intergovernmental affairs of opm; is that correct. >> yes, sir, mr. congressman. >> thanks for being here today. for the record, i think you're nice and sweet too. >> i appreciate that. so does my family. >> i'm particularly interested in opm, because we had this data breach. we had a couple of -- we had a couple of significant breaches that impacted really millions and millions of current and former federal employees. this committee has been investigating the cause of those breaches on a bipartisan basis with a goal of ensuring really that opm has the necessary tools to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. as part of the investigation, this committee sent four requests for documents and information. and now, as of today, i understand that opm has produced documents responsive to each of the committee's four letter requests. am i correct in that? >> yes, sir. >> is that what you spend the majority of your ti

host: mr. levin good? guest: i don't know whether dennis had a job in the pipeline.announced he was leaving in late summer and that he was transitioning out by just last week, basically, by tuesday after the governor's state address. he was going to transition the chief of staff office to give the communications director some time to get up to speed with that job. that said, there is a -- there's some murkiness here in the governor's office about when the governor was really fully bereaved on the problems. he has said -- the governor has since then said that he did get some indication from the chief of staff that dennis was in communication with the community health and the environmental quality departments and the governor has said they push for information and were basically told there's nothing wrong here. and there is records to show that, that there are d.e.q. employee who is sent messages to the governor's office saying there's no problem with lead right now. and so the -- but at the same time in august, the governor's office was facilitating quietly the distri

mr. morales and barbara de levine and the commission staff and our special assistant, and the lincoln cottageaking this event possible. [applause] many throughout the nation content that december 6, 1865, the date on which the 13th amendment was ratified in slavery abolished i america is the most important daten in african-american history. others would extend the statement by saying that, in deed, it is the most important date in american history. it is on that day that this its existence with a lofty ideals embodied in our founding documents. yes, all men are created equal. the date was the moment that our nation decided all men would be free. lincoln'ssident emancipation proclamation marked a pivotal turn in emancipating all slaves, our presenters have reminded us that it was the 13th amendment that formally abolished slavery throughout the united states. while the emancipation proclamation provided for the emancipation of some of those already enslaved, it did not prohibit slavery outside of the affected areas, nor did it prohibit the enactment of future could return to slavery. in fact,

mr. peters: eight months ago, as i delivered my maiden speech in the senate, i discussed how honored i am to succeed senator carl levin, a mentor to me and a man who defined what it meant to be a united states senator from michigan, a feeling that has only deepened during the past year that i have served in this body. during his 36 years of service, senator levin personally met tens of thousands of michiganders. he remains beloved by many, including those who might never have had the opportunity to shake his hand or sit down next to him. this is due in no small part to his tireless commitment having accessibility and responding to questions and comments from his constituents. whether those issues arose in person, over the phone, in a letter or during the latter half of senator levin's ten-year. michiganders reaching out to senator levin's office knew they could be heard and they could expect a thoughtful, honest response about their senator's positions. these responses, hundreds of thousands a year and millions over the course of senator levin's career, were made possible by his correspondence manager, rick carter. ri

mr. trump. don't even try. when you look at history, nothing seems to ding donald trump. why would this? >> well, when mark levin's of us have for how he came out at times and took on the establishment. but then when ted cruz passes him in one poll in iowa last month, the very first time on december 7th, he turns and attacks him on two things. one of them is that ted doesn't get along with the establishment. where does that come from? the other thing that he attacked them on is not opposing ethanol subsidies for big corn. and a lot of these if you don't think you're going to go to iowa and take on special interests, why do we think you're going to come to washington and do that. so he raised questions with that kind of an attack on ted cruz. >> van, i want to ask you about the dims in your party in a minute. you want to touch on this? >> first of all, 2 corinthians. listen, if you can't look at a bible verse and notice a 2nd corinthians, that means yoit's gone. they have attacked president obama, president obama knows the difference between 2nd kri corinthians and 2 corinthians. >> i'm guessing donald trump does k