mr. pierce? mr. pierce: it's not only a privacy issue, as mr. boardman said, it's the way the cameras are utilized and how they're implemented. there are no safeguards? >> safeguards. all it's doing is taking a picture. what do you mean safeguard? why wouldn't that have inward facing cameras? a cheap way to increase safety? mr. pierce: you're suggesting that we're going to change behavior, and that suggests there's intentional bad behavior, and i would argue that's inappropriate or not an accurate representation. the bottom line is -- >> we had -- we've had proven cases of bad behavior. two years ago there was a driver who said he fell asleep, i believe. going into a curve. and people were killed. we don't know what happened in this case. mr. pierce: i don't consider fatigue bad behavior congressman. mr. rice: i would think if they're on camera, they might be a little more aware of their surroundings. mr. pierce: i do not think a camera will cure fatigue. it will not make you less tired. mr. rice: i suspect that it will -- would be a great incre

mr. pierce, let me ask mr. pierce. mr. pierce, would you comment on what mr. boardman has said and on this notion o f poor lineup and surprise calls to work. whether that continues and what the effect has been on workers. >> my comments were inclusive of freight and passengers. and because they interact on the same tracks, we view that as a related issues. amtrak jobs are scheduled much more so than the freight environment. there are cases where shift changes that come and people rotate from one shift to another do contribute to fatigue. our comments were intended to at least note the things that can contribute and it's been identified by the ntsb for a very long sometime. and it's something that we still try to continue to get our arms around. >> could i ask the witness from ntsb whether you are looking at fatigue along with the obvious absence of ptc, if you are looking at issues of possible fatigue, i'm concerned about this. i'm assumeing we don't have people ordinarily riding the trains that go 100 miles an hour around a curve. i'm asking if you're looking

mr. pierce, let me ask mr. pierce. mr. pierce, would you comment on what mr. boardman has said and on this notion of poor lineup and surprise calls to work. whether that continues and what the effect has been on workers. >> my comments were inclusive of freight and passengers. and because they interact on the same tracks, we view that as a related issues.. amtrak jobs are scheduled much more so than the freight environment. there are cases where shift changes that come and people rotate from one shift to another do contribute to fatigue. our comments were intended to at least note the things that can contribute and it's been identified by the ntsb for a very long time. and it's something that we still try to continue to get our arms around. >> could i ask the witness from ntsb whether you are looking at fatigue along with the obvious absence of ptc, if you are looking at issues of possible fatigue, i'm concerned about this. i'm assuming we don't have people ordinarily riding the trains that go 100 miles an hour around a curve. i'm asking if you're looking at w

mr. pierce, let me ask mr. pierce. mr. pierce would you comment on what mr. boardman has said and on this notion o f poor lineup and surprise calls to work. whether that continues and what the effect has been on workers. >> my comments were inclusive of freight and passengers. and because they interact on the same tracks, we view that as a related issues. amtrak jobs are scheduled much more so than the freight environment. there are cases where shift changes that come and people rotate from one shift to another do contribute to fatigue. our comments were intended to at least note the things that can contribute and it's been identified by the ntsb for a very long sometime. and it's something that we still try to continue to get our arms around. >> could i ask the witness from ntsb whether you are looking at fatigue along with the obvious absence of ptc if you are looking at issues of possible fatigue, i'm concerned about this. i'm assumeing we don't have people ordinarily riding the trains that go 100 miles an hour around a curve. i'm asking if you're looking

mr. pierce son. >> supervisors and staff thank you very much for being at the forefront of the medical cannabis your patient rights regulars is developed appreciate i'm the founder of spark at hundred and 50 employees we work hard to give back in donations and providing careers we've been recognized by any state leaders as a model industry hosting tours for law enforcement and others understanding and enforcing cannabis we've got a culture vacation in the city with the sparks mission to provide save assess for those who needs a safe place in you'll likelihood voeshgz voters will pass that lets keep san francisco at the forefront and get ahead of the curb i urge the formation of the task force to regulate it around industry and the dispensaries effect neighborhoods by addressing we'll be ahead for legalization we have problems with dispensaries in neighborhoods without access there is a place for cannabis policy i encourage you to reach out to me if you have questions thank you for your attention i'm here auditor for questions. >> sir if you want to fill out a cardio see. >> sir. >> good afterno

mr. pierce. let's start with a round of questions that i would encourage all members, there's a lot of interest, i would encourage you to keep to five minutes. interest remains high we will consider doing a second round of questions. so again please respect the five minutes. there's a lot of folks are i will be quick with the gavel so watch the clock. i will start out. ms. feinberg, in december of 2013 with the metro-north commuter train derailment it was a very similar circumstance. train was going to fast and the accident required, the fra requires metro-north to put the code into the atc system automatically so the trains going at those speeds and i just issued an emergency order that literally cuts and pastes that order from two years ago to be put on amtrak. it seems that the next logical step, i think you said this come is right now you're going to look at all the curves, but don't you think they should've done it after the metro-north derailment? should have put out an order for fra, and i

mr. pierce son. >> supervisors and staff thank you very much for being at the forefront of the medical cannabis your patient rights regulars is developed appreciate i'm the founder of spark at hundred and

mr. pierce son. >> supervisors and staff thank you very much for being at the forefront of the medical cannabis your patient rights regulars is developed appreciate i'm the founder of spark at hundred and 50 employees we work hard to give back in donations and providing careers we've been recognized by any state leaders as a model industry hosting tours for law enforcement and others understanding and enforcing cannabis we've got a culture vacation in the city with the sparks mission to provide save assess for those who needs a safe place in you'll likelihood voeshgz voters will pass that lets keep san francisco at the forefront and get ahead of the curb i urge the formation of the task force to regulate it around industry and the

mr. pierce. i understand that you were -- i think making a distinction between privacy concerns and right to privacy i sort of intu it it from your testimony and questions you were answering. can you talk more about this reasonable implementation because i'm a little concerned when we're talking about the privacy concerns of an individual operating engineer who would be taped while in the performance of her duties because essentially you have to balance that against the public safety considerations of the 200 or 300 plus passengers who are in the train. i think a lot of us are concerned that your testimony seems to suggest that we need to really focus on the privacy concerns of the operating engineer and not some of the public safety assurances and some of the information that would be elicited if you had the inward facing cameras moving forward. so i want to give you an opportunity to sort of share with me a little bit more -- share with us a little bit more about what it is about these privacy

however i do have several of the letters and albums hand written, journals, and frequently similar to mrs. pierce the older women, elders of the family, there is the serious concern and doom and gloom of just in general attitude toward who has deceased, who has succumbed to that. of course, consumption or tuberculosis as we know was a very common ailment in cincinnati, quite that. and i find that the prompting that she may have had to write about her deceased child may have come on her own. i have seen a new one but do see a letter from mrs. harrison, the daughter-in-law who went to the white house with william henry one of her sons did die upon coming home after being shortly in the white house, and she had written a small letter, it is in the papers here in the historical society. >> thanks. i'm going to jump in because we understand that your comment here, which is writing to the deceased relative would have been somewhat common at the time. >> yes. she's made a very good point. >> a related question from john on facebook, he wants to know, was jane pierce criticized for her connections with s

mr. pierce took that initiative and really told us you know i could see you doing this, you know this is who you are going to be you know i see you being this and it really just gave us motivation if he >> reporter: rainier beach is currently asking the state will for an additional $250,000 to keep the program going and parents and community leaders have also started a foundation to support it beyond 2017. for the pbs newshour, im april brown in seattle. >> ifill: economics correspondent paul solman spends a lot of time trying to explain and assess why markets, individuals, consumers, and businesses behave the way they do. but there's a growing school of thought that says the traditional answers to those questions may not be the correct ones. paul caught up with one of the leading thinkers changing the way we look at economic behavior, as part of his series "making sense," which airs every thursday on the newshour. >> reporter: millennium park richard thaler an academic revolutionary, who thinks his field economics, has a weirdly distorted view of human behavior that we're all rational m

mr. pierce, and that is this notion of moving to two men in the front of the train. it seems to me it would be an added financial burden to the amtrak system which is already straining to the tune of more than $1 billion in terms of subsidy and other. and if you look at the whole notion moving towards positive train control, the idea is to take out that possibility of human error which wouldn't be frankly, truncated or eliminated if you move to a two-man system up front. i think it is important what you all have done at the amtrak level to move to this notion of inward facing cameras. i think that can watch out for human error but think that would be a step too far as well. and i apologize. it was my sister. any thoughts on either one of those two as steps too far. she's resleptless. ms. fineburg: we're moving ahead with inward facing cameras and something my predecessor was moving ahead with at the time of his departure. this committee urged the f.r.a. to make sure we're making use of the commit and asked rsac to come to a conclusion and we told them we were moving

mr. chairman i would just say that the point is a 556 bullet is not an armor-piercing bullet. the only reason it's been called that is because of a loophole. that's my point. we have an administration who just put out a whole list of regulations that say they want to restrict the rights of people because they may or may not have a mental illness, they want a whole range of regulations that they'd like to roll out in the final days of this administration to limit, to infringe upon, our second amendment rights. and what i'm saying is, we're not going to stand for that. so the bullet, the round that i'm talking about is not an armor piercing round. it's never been defined as an armor piercing round but because of a loophole this administration tried to ban it as such. having said that, i yield to the chairman. mr. cull behr soon: i want to express my strong support of the gentleman's amendment. it's necessary because the a.t.f. did come out with a broad framework in which they were trying to come out with whole categories of ammunition, and that's not what the statute was intened

mr. fattah: maybe you can inform me but i believe the restrictions of armor piercing bullets predate the administration. mr. culberson: a.t.f. was -- the statute says that you cannot use an armor piercing ammunition that includes depleted uranium and has very specific things that congress restricted -- was focused on the content of the bullet rather than what type of weapon it could be used in. and the a.t.f.'s -- they created a legal framework for analysis, which is fairly standard for this administration. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. massie: how much time is left? the chair: 2 1/2 minutes. mr. massie: i yield a minute to the chairman. mr. culberson: it is important to have this language in the bill because the a.t.f. just as in the e.p.a.'s attempt to regulate every square inch of the united states include any piece of ground. the e.p.a., a.t.f. and obama administration requires a legal framework for analysis to expand their executive authority far beyond what congress intended. and in this attempt, i was successful in persu

mr. ruiz, it might have been a saving grace for him that he actually had piercings and that he was removedhe doesn't have to answer any of those questions. >> well, as you know, i'm from orange county jail. >> just hours before he would answer to the judge. ruiz used his time in isolation to write a letter to his girlfriend who he had not spoken to since his arrest. >> baby i'm sorry for not picking you up at work. i was in a police car at the time. i hope you're there when i get out. the only thing i can dream or think about is all the right things i'm going to do when i get out. this is too hard for me right now. to be continued. >> okay. we're back in session, back on the record. on case number 10-sf-0604, people versus richard edward ruiz. mr. ruiz is richard edward ruiz jr. your true name? >> yes. >> the following day it's preliminary court hearing ruiz was charged with felony possession of narcotics which could carry a lengthy sentence behind bars. he entered a plea of not guilty and had one supporter at the hearing, his girlfriend, samantha dunn, who spoke to us afterwards. >> tell

mr. chairman. this is a very important hearing and we're here today because foreign cyberspies are targeting millions of our federal workers. opm has made it clear that every month there are 10 million efforts to pierce our cyberspace. these folks are hacking into our data system to get information about our employees. private information about them their families, their friends and all of their acquaintances. and they may try to use that information in their espionage efforts against united states personnel and technologies. mr. chairman i want to start by thanking you. last week we held a hearing on cyberattacks against opm. and this morning we have an opportunity to hearing from opm's two contractors who offer suffered mayor data breaches, usis and key point. some people in your shoes might have merely criticized the agency without looking at the whole picture. but you agreed to my request to bring in the contractors and you deserve credit for that, and i thank you. on monday night i received a letter from usis, representatives finally providing answers to questions i asked more than seven months ago, mr. gee neatty. seven months ago. seven months ago. the letter disclosed that the breach at usis

pierced. but as you know california is a big concern of mine and so is california high speed real. he would recognize the facting that mr. capuano has been very gracious. he has skipped his time so that others may go first. >> i don't think you and cap wana certainly do in the same sense. ms. fineberg, you heard what about the potential conflict and whether or not if they continue their courage of other passengers. can you resolve that? >> the congress is going to have to act. i cannot make a little delitigation. and i did leave because of the heart -- deadline. >> i cannot expand the deadline. >> you talked inforce. i would like to get a little insight on that. >> there's a lot of history here that -- a lot of questions about how we got to this point and how much people are closer to meeting the deadline everett. so these are penaltys that exact funds from the railroads. wouldn't it be better if you main date everybody puts together a schedule that you would approve or not approve in terms of how they can be nut benchmarks. and that would be extending the deadline that would be the argument. the deadline is the deadlin

of submachine guns and armor piercing bullets and guns in churches and guns in schools and that sort of thing. i think it is absolutely ridiculous to do that. [applause] mrsrter: i get very upset when people with mental illness are blamed for everything that happens like that. because only 4% of all violent crimes are committed by people with mental illnesses. and if you look at the statistics or if you look at their lives, most of them, you will find, have not had access to services. people knew that they needed services, but they didn't -- the one in washington, in the capital, how many times had he been in to try to get help and could not get it? anyway, it just -- i hope the stigma is lifting a little bit now. i have a program at the carter center, a mental health program there. and we have mental health fellowships with journalists. and when they were sitting around 18 years ago, trying to decide what else we could do to overcome stigma, and somebody said, why don't we bring journalists in and let them know about mental illnesses so they can write accurately and in-depth, and my journalists have been doing that for a long time now, and i think it has

piercing this metal, you can see were the shards emanated. it could well have caused the kinds of deaths we have seen a time so far, demonstrated a time so far correct? mr. kennedy: yes sir, and i want to reiterate how sorry we are for all of the pain we have caused. senator blumenthal: i am not challenging whether you are sorry. i believe that you are. my question is, in replacing these wing -- batwing propellants, have you also replaced the chemicals? ammonium nitrate that was used in these batwing propellants? mr. kennedy: some of the replacement parts we are using for those that wings include stabilized ammonium nitrate. it is a different design that we have not experienced issues with. senator blumenthal: you have not experienced issues with it because you have not finished testing? mr. kennedy: they have been in the field for a number of years. they have been in the -- in a number of different vehicles. alternative designs have not seen issues. senator blumenthal: why are you continuing to use ammonium nitrate, if it was very likely a contributing factor in causing these exploding inflators? mr. kennedy: i would respectfully disagree. it could be

piercing this metal, and you can see where the chards emanated. could well have caused the kinds of deaths that we have seen eight times so far demonstrated eight times so far, correct? mr. kennedy: yes, sir. i just want to repeat how deeply sorry we are for all of the pain and suffering we have caused. senator blumenthal: i'm not challenging whether you're sorry. i believe sincerely that you are. my question is in replacing these bat wingpropelents, have you also replaced the chemical, ammonium nitrate, that was used in thesepropelants? mr. kennedy: some of the replacement parts we are using still include a phase stabilize nitrate. it's a completely different design we have not experienced issues with. senator blumenthal: because you haven't finished testing. mr. kennedy: they have been in the field for a number of years. they have been used in a number of different vehicles. and we just -- it's just alternate -- alternative designs have not seen issues. senator blumenthal: why are you continuing to use ammonium nitrate when it was very likely a contributing factor, if not the factor, in causing these exploding inflators. mr. kennedy: i respectfully disagree. the issue

mr. chairman. this is a very important hearing and we're here today because foreign cyberspies are targeting millions of our federal workers. opm has made it clear that every month there are 10 million efforts to pierce our cyberspace. these folks are hacking into our data system to get information about our employees. private information about them their families, their friends and all of their acquaintances. and they may try to use that information in their espionage efforts against united states personnel and technologies. mr. chairman i want to start by thanking you. last week we held a hearing on cyberattacks against opm. and this morning we have an opportunity to hearing from opm's two contractors who offer suffered mayor data breaches, usis and key point. some people in your shoes might have merely criticized the agency without looking at the whole picture. but you agreed to my request to bring in the contractors and you deserve credit for that, and i thank you. on monday night i received a letter from usis, representatives finally providing answers to questions i asked more than seven months ago, mr. gee neatty. seven months ago. seven months ago. the letter disclosed that the breach at usis

mr. chairman. this is a very important hearing and we're here today because foreign cyberspies are targeting millions of our federal workers. opm has made it clear that every month there are 10 million efforts to pierce our cyberspace. these folks are hacking into our data system to get information about our employees. private information about them their families, their friends and all of their acquaintances. and they may try to use that information in their espionage efforts against united states personnel and technologies. mr. chairman i want to start by thanking you. last week we held a hearing on cyberattacks against opm. and this morning we have an opportunity to hearing from opm's two contractors who offer suffered mayor data breaches, usis and key point. some people in your shoes might have merely criticized the agency without looking at the whole picture. but you agreed to my request to bring in the contractors and you deserve credit for that, and i thank you. on monday night i received a letter from usis, representatives finally providing answers to questions i asked more than seven months ago, mr. gee neatty. seven months ago. seven months ago. the letter disclosed that the breach at usis

common m-855 ammunition as armor-piercing despite its exemption from there this classification since 1986. thankfully this proposal was dropped after pressure from congress. mr. chairman, the people i represent in southwest alabama are tired of a federal government that doesn't live within its means. they want to see their elected officials in washington get serious about making cuts to the federal bureaucracy. my constituents also are tired of executive overreach and the federal government involving itself in areas where it simply doesn't belong. i know that the committee and chairman culberson have made real efforts to rein in the a.t.f. and i appreciate those efforts. i also understand that a.t.f. is now under new leadership and hope that the new leaders get serious about much-needed reforms. i am all for safety and responsible gun ownership. and the a.t.f. does have a role to play in that. but this amendment would simply require a.t.f. to return to its core functions and responsibilities. it would cause a.t.f. to look at itself in the mirror, find areas where they can cut back and refocus on their true priorities. ultimately, this amendment is about prot

piercing improvised explosive devices that originated in iran. they don't deny it. i think they take pride in it. the destabilized impact, mr. president, of a nuclear weapons-capable iran is hard to overstate. if you want to do one thing that casts a huge shadow over the next decade and perhaps decades of this century unless that shadow somehow is removed before the end of a decade, it's hard to imagine. sanctions with the credible threat of military force were doing good until we decided that we would lift -- that we would ease those sanctions as if iran would come to the negotiating table. two years ago that began. two years ago we said things that we would insist on. two years later none of those things appear to be things that are still being discussed in these iranian so-called negotiations. sanctions should stay in place until iran fundamentally changes its course and its behavior. i'm greatly concerned that the dwreement -- agreement on iran's nuclear program will not be presented to the congress in a way that allows the congress to really weigh in, and i am concerned that this program as it will be presented to congr