i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. owens. mr. owens: thank you for conducting this hour this evening. you know, as i travel around my district in upstate new york, which forms the convergence of vermont, quebec and new york, i hear a couple of questions from my constituents. the first is about jobs and the second is why can't you fellows work together. no labels is a big part of that answer. we must work at the process of discussing issues, of gathering facts, and i want to repeat that, of gathering facts, then discussing those facts, and then reaching compromise. that is what the american people sent us here to do and that's why i came to congress 3 1/2 years ago. we all recognize that no one, no party, no group, has a monopoly n good ideas nor on the facts. i urge all of my colleagues in congress to work with us so that we will develop the kind of relationships, the kind of action, the kind of motivation that allows us to work for our friends and neighbors at home, those who we call constituents. and i yield back. mr. ribble: i

doesn't get how something this screwed up could happen as mr. owens was talking about, where people flag organizations that have the name tea party. >> i'm going to say up front what i don't know and we all don't know. which manager and which specialist set into motion that search for tea party groups and why they did it. i think those are the key unanswered questions out of cincinnati. what we to know, this is a mixture of interviews and the report from the ig, this was a unit that had incredible turnover. they had more managers than, you know, spinal tap had drummers. they constantly had turnover of specialist. they were moving responsibility for these cases from one group to another. it is complicated stuff as marcus was saying. it's not really very easy to say with finality, this group is doing too much politics. and they have to consult with lawyers back in washington to get real close advice on the tax rules. it's not an easy process. they screwed it up. >> i hate to call it a hunt here, witch hunt. there aren't any such things as witches. mr. m

mr. owens, thanks for coming on. enlighten us.hy do you think she took the fifth. >> well, she had to. there have been calls for a criminal investigation. department of justice has answered those calls. and she's been accused of lying by members of congress. she had no choice, frankly. >> why not -- i'm just going to play average citizen here. you can be the sophisticate from the government. or former government. why if you have nothing to hide and you're a truth teller and you're of sound mind, and she seems to be, why doesn't she sit in that witness stand and answer truthfully? what's she got to be afraid of? >> well, what she has to be afraid of is people distorting words and the process of an investigation. there undoubtedly will be a criminal investigation. department of justice has said they're going to be going in. so everyone has to be careful about what they say publicly. >> why wouldn't she want to clear her reputation today? >> i'm certain she does. but today in the circuslike atmosphere of a congressional hearing is no

. >> before i yield to mr. owens, i would say that the vote that is on presently is the camp amendment. then there will be followed by a vote -- 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit. the next vote will be on that motion to recommit. then the third vote will be final passage, which will be a five minute votes. and then the possible a fourth vote, approval of the journal. mr. owens, i am happy to yield to you now, sir. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i wish ms. mccolum was here, as a former jag officer, the regulations provided that in -- event of a commissioned a lieutenantof a colonel, he would be subject to administrative discharge proceedings. it was unfortunate when that discussion was going on that that was not shared with her, because i think it may have given her some, for the basis for understanding the process you were going through relative to the potential for a dual prosecution versus allowing the prosecution to proceed in the civil arena followed by an administrative action in the military

mr. owens the job where all this action took place for years, unperturbed, no investigations of anything. you have read the inspector general's report about what happened in your old job. what do you read in the inspector general's report? what do you think the irs did wrong here? >> well, actually i couldn't find anything that suggested the irs had acted inappropriately, acted perhaps ineffectively in a couple of places, but not inappropriately. >> i have to tell you if you were on any other program in america, you would have just shocked the audience, but i have been saying that over a week now. i haven't seen what they did wrong. they are supposed to evaluate how much political activity a 501(c)4 wants to engage in according to regulations of the irs, it is specifically their job to do that, but do you think in the inspector general's report that he kind of just accepted this notion that there was something wrong with this basic screening process that they have to engage in? >> well, that is

before i yield to mr. owens, i was just say the vote that is on and so is the camp amendment. then they will be following that vote the will be 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit, and the next vote will be on that motion to recommit. and then a third vote will be final passage which will be a five minute boat, and then the possible of a fourth vote of approval of the journal. and mr. owens, i will be happy to yield to you now, sir. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i wish that ms. mccollum was here. as a former jack officer, -- jack officer, the rag that i was on active duty provided in the event of a conviction of a lieutenant colonel that he would be subject to an administrative discharge proceeding. and i think it was unfortunate when that discussion was going on that that wasn't shared with her, because i think it may have given her some for the basis for understanding the process that you're going through relative to the potential for dual prosecution versus allowing the prosecution to proceed in the civil arena followed by an administrative action in the

. >> before i yield to mr. owenssay that the vote that is on presently is the camp amendment. then there will be followed by a vote -- 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit. the next vote will be on that motion to recommit. then the third vote will be final passage, which will be a five minute vote. and then the possible a fourth vote, approval of the journal. mr. owens, i am happy to yield to you now, sir. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i wish ms. mccolum was here, as a former jag officer, the regulations provided that in the event of a conviction a lieutenant colonel, he would be subject to administrative discharge proceedings. it was unfortunate when that discussion was going on that that was not shared with her, because i think it may have given her some, for the basis for understanding the process you were going through relative to the potential for a dual prosecution versus allowing the prosecution to proceed in the civil arena followed by an administrative action in the military. do those rules

i yield back. >> thank you mr. owens. mr. womack, thank you for your patience. >> thank you mr. chairman and my thanks to secretary donley and wish you well when your tenure as secretary is over. and general welch as always good to see you. and as the secretary said it's been a long time ago that he said this we've covered a lot of material here but i want to associate myself with his remarks about regular order and i think that's one of the true challenges facing this congress. i know there's a lot of things that are challenging our defense department and the services but we have to get back to regular order and i couldn't agree more and i appreciate you so much saying that in your opening comments. i also mr. chairman want to associate myself with remarks that have already been provided regarding the critical issue of sexual assault and going on within our services and i know it's been a difficult issue. i think mr. cole said it pretty well when he said that he had the absolute confidence in the leadership of the air force to deal with this issue and but it obviously is someth

mr. jeffrey owens, executive vice president and chief technology officer, delphi automotive. troy michigan. dr. peter sweatman, director of the university of michigan transportation research institute, and dr. john lee, emerson electric quality and productivity, professor of university wisconsin, at madison, wisconsin. why don't we start with you? >> [inaudible] >> mr. chairman, thank you much for the opportunity to be here today. to testify at a physics or nighttime. the cdc celebrated the reduction of traffic death as one of the 10 great achievement of the 20th century. since then death per mile traveled are down another 25%. these gains result of many factors of an increase use of seatbelts and decreased incidence of drunk driving. as well as crashed technologies making the impact of accidents. moving forward progress will come from technology can reduce in driver error. given that more than 90% crashes result in human mistakes, the combination of emerging driver assist features come a connectivity and ultimately autonomous vehicles offer the promise of safety, a safer mob

mr. owens already said that he did not know. although i am not under oath, i have reviewed by committee staff documents. we certainly did not have the shape,tion in any way, or forms of the congressional action could occur. until practically today. >> there are established procedures for conducting an audit. to ensure fairness and that we are completely accurate with the information that goes to congress, we will not report it until the irs has had an opportunity to take a look at it. >> mr. george, that is not the statute. >> it would be impractical for us to give you partial information that may not be accurate. it would be counterproductive if we were to do that. >> i appreciate that. we will give the same time to our ranking member. last august the committee made withear that as written the ig cannot be used as a whipping boy of the new want to. i will admonish you as best i can, but there was a there there and people in your own internal operation new. if you did not know, you were there like in your duty or your management

mr. jeffrey owens, executive vice president chief technology office. troy. dr. peter sweatman. director of transportation research substitute, and dr. john lee. member university of wisconsin at madison, wisconsin. why don't we start with you, sir? >> mr. chairman, thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today. to testify to extraordinary time for mobility. a decade ago they celebrated the reduction of traffic death as ten great public health achievement of the 20th century. since then death per mile traveled are down another 25%. these gain results many factors included increase use of seat belt and decrease in drunk driving. going forward it will come from technology reducing driver error. given that more than 90% of crashes result from human mistake. the combination of emerging driver assist feature, connectivity, and vehicles offer the promise of safety, safer mobility as well as congestion, fueler, lower insurance cost, and higher productivity. we see a robust debate in the press. most engineers who agree with each other. about when self-driving cars will become

mrs. cleveland. later, president obama speech at arlington national cemetery. on the next washington journal, discuss tax exempt laws with marcus owensnior white house correspondent for u.s. news & world report, will discuss his new book about the lives of presidents in office. washington journal begins live at 7 a.m. on c-span. >> i begin with integrity because it is so essential to who and what you will become. pathof you have a career in mind. many of you have no idea where you will end up. you may be surprised where life takes you. was. in the end, it is not what we do, but how we do it. >> give me one second, i'm rational, when i woke up this myning, i thought about first month on campus. i was a freshman. the football team went number one in the nation preseason. i remember when i got here that there is all this excitement on campus. our first game was at wisconsin. we went out there and lost our -14.t game 21 there was this crushing disappointment afterwards. i want you to think about the soaring expectation sword -- followed by -- helps. >> fbi director robert mueller and florida governor rick scott. saturday 8:30, the twitte