coming forward and for your trying to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, yield back. >> thank you mr. micah. mr. shaw? >> thank you for having this very important hearing today, needless to say i was appalled when i first heard about some of the things that the gsa administration had paid to the taxpayers or their conference. this congress has had its share of disagreements over the past how to reduce the federal spending and how to address the deficit issue, however, i think that we all can agree on that there's no place for this type of a taxpayers abuse of funds. the employees that put together this conference forgot that the federal government is supposed to work on behalf of the tax payers, families and small businesses throughout maine should not have to pay for employees of gsa to take lavish vacation vacations anywhere else around the country. and i hope we can get to the information we need here today to make sure that this does not happen again, additionally, i plan to offer an amendment to the financial service and general government appropriation bill to prevent gsa from holding

mr. micah's committee. we're going to cover that. then the senate takes it up. two senate committees. are four hearings necessary? >> well, there's a political nature to this, too, as you well know. you know, this is very sensational. we're seeing a very bad situation being brought to light, and i think a lot of those that are in positions of authority to invist gate this want to make sure they have their day and have their say in what needs to be done. it's not so much the coverage that it gets in terms of hearings. what matters is the outcome of these hearing. will something be done? are we just doing this for the sake of addressing to the american public there's a problem? are we actually going to do something that prohibits this type of activity from of happening again. >> so explain what does the gsa do and would you -- are you in favor of privatizing it perhaps? >> the gsa is the government's quartermaster. procure contracts, maintain leases. maintain the real property. they maintain the equipment for the federal government. do we freed to privatize it? well, maybe we ought to l

islamic at astana or would like to recognize mr. micah. >> i have to think you for your leadership and not just on this issue but outrageous matter that's before us from the very beginning and i had to select someone to share the subcommittee that oversees public buildings. i think we are a country that was fortunate to have you and your experience and leadership and i see when we met our first assignment was to pick up what we had discussed we would do before you got here in the minority, and be published this report. this report was october ironically of 2010, the same time that they were spending money on the gsa outlandish convention. but this is entitled the federal government must stop sitting on its assets. it's all online and i hope you'll get a chance to read it. the first part starts right out with gsa, and the abuse of not just millions of dollars in a convention junket, but billions of dollars in waste. this was the primary and i couldn't have had a better partner. one of the very first hearings this committee did and i asked

micah: mr. skilling, we are cooling off; right? tom: yeah, after that you are right. up. we've had thunder and lightning in the area after a 73 degree high. 67 years ago we had the previous most 70s in april. but the 15 that we have on the books as you see the lightning go by is the most ever in 141 years of weather records by this point in a year. we then only two by this time last year. see how the front sets up through the area. it's marked by the clouds and all. a big area of rain lifts into wisconsin with the storm. then we drag more extensive showers through here tomorrow night and bring a strong wind flow on the backside of the weather system. tomorrow an amazing day. get in the car and drive north and south across the area and experience a 30 degree temperature variation with cool temperatures settling in. while it's warm from well, the southern suburbs. two week forecast of rainfall from .75 to 4 inches. that's the range. let's hope the upper end holds up. we need moisture. we are five degrees above normal. look at the temperatures. these are lows tonight. th

chairman micah had comments for famous now jeff neely and his whereabouts. >> mr.- is not with us today. we had requested he be with us. i guess he has taken the fifth on another committee. i guess the only way we'll get to see him is on a video on the hot tub. >> andrea: look at said video and get our own greg gutfeld to react. you like bathroom shots typically. >> greg: taking shots in a bathroom? >> andrea: or pictures of people in a bathtub. this is jeff neely in the bathtub before the festives at the conference that we are now learning that mr. neely are telling friends of his, come to las vegas. get a room near ours. we'll pay for it anyway. he is a no-show today. up next the real story here, the other congressman was correct, he did take the fifth. fifth of whiskey. >> andrea: more than that. >> greg: the real question is there are two glasses there. who was with him and when? that's what i want to know. that is the real scandal. the person taking the picture? we don't know that. we don't want to jump to conclusions here. that is two glasses of wine we paid

transportation committee, republican congressman john micah said the only way we're going to get to see him tuesday was in that hot tub. we learned yesterday that mrs. neely tagged along on a lot of exotic trips with her husband including a 17-day visit to the south pacific which was going to be a birthday celebration for deborah neely. we know that because she e-mailed her husband the lyrics to a song. >> we were concerned that this was an unnecessary trip and a waste of money. you saw the e-mail. he says it's a birthday gift for his wife. they quote the song. it's your party, we're going to party like it's your party. >> so inspector general miller had the lyrics a little bit off but you get the idea. we also heard from the republican chairman of the committee say that it might be time to break apart the g.s.a. while a democrat said she's bothered by the complete lack of responsibility. >> i am prepared to systemically pull apart g.s.a. to the point where we will make it a question to the american public on whether g.s.a. is needed at all. >> this agency apparently is one so that people in washington that don't have accountability even though the