mr. livingston -- mr. livingston: we brought up some very serious issues, somewhere new, some were the october 2009. if we can agree some of these need to be addressed now by the administrator, this is the prime opportunity to advance the operational success of tsa. none of the things said today here or personal -- rep. mica: no, you are speaking in the betterment of tsa. mr. livingston: the last two points, sir, if we could take a look at how the erc, or the executive resource council, appoints these at tsa, that might be a way for you to exert your most control over tsa, because that is where the pay, the assignment, the selection, reassignment, that is the nucleus for everything. and i'm just not sure that is a effective in the best interest, because i have heard you speak several times, both here and on the committee. , and severalator things you said over and over, i had not seen the actual actions. rep. mica: you can't imagine my frustration. mr. livingston: yes, sir. rep. mica: they have ignored me,

mr. livingston? >> sir, the most important thing about tsa is the people. the people and the mission. if you don't make the two match, tsa's never going to get better. we've got a great leader but it's getting lost in translation. >> look, i'm very happy to hear about mr. neffenger and he's been before this committee. he's a frequent flier here and he is trying to put in some of the changes that we need. i want to jump to something else though. we did talk with mr. neffenger about the -- look, check points are very important. if you google check point bombings or check point attacks, you look at what happened in brussels. you look at what happened at the airport check point, at the rail check point, suicide bombers detonating at both of those. look at paris outside the stadium where president hollande was watching the game between france and germany. those suicide bombers hit at the check point. so what goes on at that check point is incredibly important. we got to have a whole different strategy for

mr. livingston is a resident of columbia, maryland. is is an area that is shared between my district and the district represented by my distinguished colleague, mr. sarbanes. mr. sarbanes has written a letter to the committee, to express support for mr. livingston and to urge, quote, that the committee full investigate mr. livingston's claims, end quote. i would like to ask for consent that the letter be included in the record. mr. chairman: no objection. so ordered. mr. livingston, you are now recognized for five minutes. mr. livingston: members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you regarding the transportation security administration and the reported issues of misconduct. whistleblower retaliations, violations and the lack of security as it pertains to senior executives and their impact on the mission. i am here today to share with you what i have seen firsthand and as a member of the tsa senior leadership team and as a victim of these practices, after confronting and reporting misconduct by top leaders. i

mr. livingstone made in the complexities of fishing across the you because what i was in aberdeen for the program is a large number of people in that audience who were from the fishing communities who are wanting to vote to leave the eu. because they believed it would make this change, but clearly it wouldn't. >> i really, really grateful to you. this could go on for another half hour and i think we've all enjoyed this session. as i said, i would like to see more of the ministers. rudderless anyone has pressing questions we have to get set up for scottish parliament but we are grateful to bring you two coming around and answering the questions. thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> today another hearing on increased wait times at tsa airport security checkpoints. a house homeland security subcommittee whether from representatives of airports most of them impacted. you can see their testimony live at 9 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> dr. tom frieden, direct of the centers for disease control and prevention, discusses the zika virus outbreak today at the national press club. you can see hi

mr. livingston said. he said there is half a million in equipment sitting in boxes. are you familiar with that? >> i am not familiar but i will go back and look for that. >> okay. i will yield the remainder of my time. >> mr. cummings for five minutes >> i will be brief. i think to thank you both of your -- i want -- testimony. after the last hearing on the tsa, admiral, we had a guy, my staff gave this to me this morning, a land written letter from one of the whistle blowers and i never read a letter into the record that was addressed to me like this but i am reading it for a reason and i will explain. this is one of the whistle blowers. dear sir, thank you for your leadership in direct fairness in the hearings on the issues of tsa's potential misconduct. you spoke truth to power when you asked and demanded a fair and balanced hearing. you breathed air into our agency and gave hope to all the men and women when you asked for the facts. we all of us at tsa now believe that congress can and will fix tsa. thank you, sir. you have inspired all of us to renew our faith i

mr. livingstone spent i think this in terms of how the reforms that you can support particularly will affect scotland i think in particular scotland, like the rest of the uk, will benefit from the principles that will define the future relationship between those countries in the euro and those that choose to make gaza. i think if we look to the long term, this was a very important element of the overall renegotiation because i believe that economic logic would require our neighbors have committed themselves to a currency union, single mantra policy, single industry, a single central bank, overtime to integrate the fiscal economic policies more closely, and that in turn will require some mechanism to create political accountability at euros on level. for those decisions. so the testing year, the union as a whole, is how to make that possible, and i believe that it is in scotland, uk's interest that the eurozone should be stable as a currency and not moving from one crisis to another. how you do that while at the same time respecting the integrity of a single market of 28 and the right of thos

mr. livingston said. he said there's a half million dollars worth of equipment sitting in the box in the office. are you familiar with that? >> i'm not familiar with that. but i'm going to go back and look for that. >> okay. i'll yield the remainder of my time. >> go to mr. cummings for five minutes. >> i'm going to be very brief. first of all, i want to thank both of you for your testimony. after the last hearing we had on tsa, admiral, we had a -- just my staff had given me this morning but it was a hand written letter from one of the whistle blowers, i have never read a letter into the record that was addressed to me like this. i'm reading it for a reason. i'll explain it in a minute. again, this was one of the whistle blowers. dear sir, thank you for your leadership and direct fairness in the hearings on the issues of tsa's current and potential misconduct. you spoke truth to power when you asked and demanded a fair and balanced hearing. you breathe air into our agency and gave hope to all the men and

mr. livingston said he said there's a half million dollars worth of equipment sitting in the box in the office. are you familiar with that? >> i'm not familiar with that. i'm going to go back and look for that. >> okay. i'll yield the remainder of my time. >> go to mr. cummings for five minutes. >> i'm going to be very brief. first of all i want to thank both of you for your testimony. after the last hearing we had on tsa, admiral, we had a -- just my staff had told me this morning but it was a hand written letter from one of the whistle blowers, i have never read a letter into the record that was addressed to me like this. i'm reading it for a reason. i'll explain it in a minute. again this was one of the whistle blowers. >> thank you for your leadership and direct fairness in the hearings on the issues of tsa's securing and potential misconduct. you spoke truth to power when you asked and demanded a fair and balanced hearing. you breathe air into our agency and gave hope to all the men and women when you asked for the facts. we all -- all of us at tsa now believe that congress can and will f