mr. tom schatz is president of citizens against government waste. brian alexandealexande r is the president of taxpayers for common sense. the honorable dan blair's presidency of the national academy of public administration and mr. john kamensky is a senior fellow at the ibm center for business and governmengovernmen t and ladies and gentlemen pursuant to the committee rules which you please rise to take the oath and be sworn? and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or from the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record indicate all witnesses answered in the affirmative. before i recognize mr. schatz i want to thank you all for being here. often we talk about individuals coming before us as witnesses. ultimately you are all partners in the process of understanding in exposing waste in the government so i'm particularly pleased to start off this oversight panel for this oversight hearing with this panel. with that you are all experienced and you know the five minutes in the red

mr. demille is shooting, you got an appointment? no appointment necessary. (thomas schatzand every star was a virtual genre unto himself. this is heavily oriented toward the contract system and toward long-term contracts that major stars would sign. where is mr. demille shooting? stage 18, miss desmond. thank you, jonesy. teach your friend some manners. tell him without me he wouldn't have any job, because without me there wouldn't be a paramount. you're right, miss desmond. go on, max. the studios would loan actors back and forth, but that was just like trading in grain futures, you know. the actors were, as i understand it largely properti then and treated as such, though very deferentially and lived marvelously. that was really very good, indeed. (woman) you think so? it was absolutely terrific. it was really wonderful. it was s---. here we go again, billy. it was forced. didn't you notice?! i want to do it again. you'll never do it better. i'm ready. let's do it again. the stio system gave more people more tns at bat and more chances to play, you worked for one studio

hereby appoint the honorable brian schatz, a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader smed. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will resume consideration of the nomination of senator hagel to be secretary of defense. that vote will occur tomorrow morning. mr. president, in less than two hours, our country will be without a secretary of defense. at a time when we have a war going on in afghanistan, we have about 70,000 troops there, we have a nuclear weapon that was detonated in north korea a few days ago -- they're threatening, as they have publicly on other occasions, but after this bomb was put off -- set off, that they were designee it to attack us -- that they were doing it to attack us. that the situation in iran with all of their very, very militaristic statements against us. all over the world america is involved in matters dealing with our military. mr. president, i met the night before last with the man that killed osama bin laden in my office talking about his 16-year career as a seal

hereby appoint the honorable brian schatz, a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following any leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business for on hour. the republicans will control the first half, the majority the final half. following that, the senate resume consideration of the american family economic protection act. at a time to be derld today, there will be two cloture votes on motions to proceed to s. 388 and s. 16, which is the democratic and the republican sequestration bills. senators will be notified when the votes are scheduled. i have worked that out with senator mcconnell. mr. president, today the senate says goodbye to a valued and accomplished staff member, rick dubobies, who is retiring after 10 years of staff director for senator levin on the armed services committee of the rick came to the senator more than two decades ago after a distinguished 26-year career as a judge advocate in the navy. he spent his entire capitol hill career with the same comm