mr. secretary. good to see you again. mr. retary, the chair and the ranking member sometime ago created a task force on terrorist financing on the committee and with myself and mr. fitzpatrick and we have been working in the middle east, north africa and my colleagues are leaving for central america in the not too distant future. the examples where we had the greatest success has been the result of coordination with your office with the financial crimes enforcement network and also in several countries we worked with treasuries that are a part of the u.s. embassies in the countries and goes from african stan to jordan to egypt to tunisia and all of what we got from them which has been considerable has been the result of your work and the work of people like joe parker. i think he may be retired now. i think he was very, very instrumental in setting up some of these financial intelligence units within the countries to push back on money laundering and terrorist financing. the problem that we see is that it's spotty. even in joe

mr. secretary. >> thank you. we now go to mr. dana z>dcu rohrabacher of california. >> thank you, mr. secretary. again, thank you for your service to our country. you work very hard for us, and while we have some disagreements, policy disagreements, you have our respect and our gratitude. so, first of all, let me mention then some of these issues that we may have disagreement on. when you say that the decision will be made very, very soon to act on the idea of whether christians and yazidis are targets of genocide, let me just note this has been going on, we've been seeing this now for well over a year, probably several years now, of the slaughter of christians in the middle east, and for us not to have made a decision and that we're making the decision, that that decision hasn't been made yet is unacceptable. we're talking about the lives of tens of thousands of people who are brutally, being brutally slaughtered targeted for genocide. i have a bill hr 4017 and the president has commented that it w

mr. secretary. thank you again. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much, ranking member engel, all the members of the committee, i'm privileged to be here to have a chance to present the 2017 budget and to answer your questions, and obviously, i know most are respect to policy, et cetera. i will try to be very rapid in this opening. first, our request for resources this year. $50 billion is equal as ranking member engel reminded everybody to about 1% of the entire federal budget. one penny on the dollar is everything we do with respect to diplomatic security, development security, relationship security, all of the things we do with our embassies, a.i.d., everything. and i would suggest very respectfully to the members of this committee it is a minimum, minimum price for the leadership that we offer to the world, that we are currently engaged. i think as the chairman said, i can't remember a time where there were as many hot spots, as many difficult challenges because of the transformation taking place

mr. secretary. we will proceed with five-minute rounds, alternating sides, recognizing members in order of seniority as they were seated at the beginning of the hearing. please be mindful of your time and allow secretary castro the time to answer it within that five-minute period. >> mr. secretary, as i alluded to in my opening statement, the hud office had to express a disclaimer on hud's financial statements. billions of dollars improperly accounted for at cpd and tens of billions in other problems at jeanie may. it would be bad enough if it was one year but it's terrifying a financial institution as important as hud can't get a clean bill of health from its auditors two years in a row. please, as simply as you can, can you just explain what's going on with hud's financials? >> thank you very much for the question. the audit you're talking about is one we take very seriously. let me begin by saying we have a close working relationship with our inspector general. we meet on a regular basis and this

mr. secretary. good to see you again. mr. secretary, the chair and the ranking member some time ago created a task force on terrorist financing here in this committee and together with myself and mr. fitzpatrick and mr. pittenger, we've been working basically in the middle east, north africa and my colleagues are leaving for central america in the not too t distant future. the examples where we've had the greatest success in north africa and the middle east has been the result of coordination with your office, with fcen and then also in several countries we've worked with treasuries attaches that are part of the u.s. embassies in those countri. it goes from afghanistan to jordan to egypt, tunisia, morocco. all of those countries, the level of cooperation we've got from them, which has been considerable, has been the result of your work and the work of people like joe parker. i think he may be retired now. but he was very, very instrum t instrumental in setting up some of the financial intelligent units within these country to

mr. secretary. >> we'll do what we can. >> thank you, sir. mr. joyce. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, back to this ffh example you gave to me prior to our getting cut off, you mentioned that there were some prior research that went into it. could you give the subcommittee an exact example of where it is you're using the research and data you gleaned from your backgrounds into making -- acting in concert with the community and the outcome of the fahh? >> i'll be glad to follow up with you. i don't have those in front of me. i know we did engage in that. i'm very proud of the team from our policy and research group, as well as fair housing and cpd. because this had come up in the 1990s and it had not gotten past the finish line, it was not successful, from the very beginning they were attentive to local communities in trying to understand how we could make this feasible to them and put them in the driver's seat. we'll be glad to share with you on the record these different instances of plans that were put together in communities. >> thank you. and would you consider, are you f

mr. secretary, with all due respect that just doesn't have credibility. it just doesn't have credibility. ranking member's recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much for being here, mr. chairman. the chairman just talked about the american citizen's distrust with government and how angry they are with government. mr. secretary, i believe that if there's anger and distrust, it's because of the way we conduct ourselves here. and when the secretary of the treasury is battered and disrespected, then i think the american people sees that more as the congress of the united states not being able to work with each other, more than some so-called demand for response to pages that have been sent or questioned that have been sent or depositions. as i understand it, we've received over 3,000 pages from the treasury since may 11th, 2015. and as i understand it, there were four more depositions that were issued yesterday. and i want you to know, mr. secretary, that we're not consulted at all by the opposite side of the aisle on these depositions. we don't have

mr. chairman. after listening to the secretaries responses or non- responses, mr. chairman, i think anyone viewing today's hearing would say, secretary, that you are that a pity me of what is wrong with washington today. the disdain that you have for the american people, the failure to answer the simplest a question is what is wrong with that-- washington and why the public has been view of the bureaucracy and bureaucrats such as yourself your today. >> you know, the questions we put to you are basic ones and simple ones, asking sometimes for long answers and sometimes simple answers. i got a new phone other day-- curious question, do you use a cell phone or iphone? >> i carry it, but i hardly use it. >> there is almost a simple answer. so, in your communications with people whether on your phone, iphone, e-mails, letters, phone calls, other things the chairman asked us of a question, has anyone from the administration ever directed you to not comply with the subpoenas? is a simple question of whether through these communication devices you may have one way shape or

mr. secretary. mr. secretary, the criminal incompetent that resulted in tens of thousands of american citizens in flint consuming led contaminated water is shocking. historically, lead paint has been the most widespread source of lead exposure. much of the success we've had in reducing exposure to lead has been in a partnership. each providing expertise and resources. however, of the past few years, funding for the lead has a control and healthy homes programs has been flat funded at $110 million with $83 million for lead hazard control grants and 25 million for the healthy homes program respectively. down from $140 million just five years ago. and we know the job has not been done. with millions of american homes still containing lead based paint, i'm concerned your budget just does not address the serious need. are the resources that have been provided in this bill sufficient to fund the need for this program? for instance, how many grant applicants are turned away due to the lack of funding? how does

mr. secretary. mr. cretary, the criminal incompetent that resulted in tens of thousands of american citizens in flint consuming led contaminated water is shocking. historically, lead paint has been the most widespread source of lead exposure. much of the success we've had in reducing, spoe ining exposure t been in a partnership. each providing expertise and resources. however, of the past few years, funding for the lead has a control and healthy homes programs has been flat funded at $110 million with $83 million for lead hazard control grants and 25 million for the healthy homes program respectively. down from $140 million just five years ago. and we know the job has not been done. with millions of american homes still containing lead based paint, i'm concerned your budget just does not address the serious need. are the resources that have been provided in this bill such fishant to fund the need for this program? for instance, how many grant applicants are turned away due to the lack of funding? how doe

mr. secretary, i have a question for each you. mr. secretary, you mentioned with regard to the counter isil campaign that momentum is now on our side. one of the big challenges looming ahead is mosul. there have been some movements by the iraqis to move troops up closer to mosul. i'm wondering what your current thinking is about whether the u.s. role will be something closer to the fight when it gets time to take mosul in terms of something beyond what they did? or is ramadi more the model of where the u.s. continued with its current approach? >> well, i will start and then ask the chairman to pitch in. we do -- are working with the iraqi forces to prepare forces for the envelopment and ultimately the seizure of mosul, absolutely. we expect it to be like ramadi in the sense that the iraqi security forces under the control of the government of iraq, prime minister abadi, will be in the lead. we will enable them. to get to your question, will we do more to enable them? yes. we fully expect to do that. and when we have the opportunity, th

mr. secretary. obviously, this is a difficult time in the world. multiple complexities and challenges in the world. i'm going to shift to south asia where we certainly have opportunities but also some challenges. it is a time of unprecedented increasing relationships between the united states and india. so lots of positive movement there. one area of complexity is the pending sale of f-16 fighter to pakistan. and you know, given pakistan's given support of terrorism throughout the region -- certainly we saw recent terrorists attacks in india in january at the air force base. at a time where we're seeing progress in u.s.-india relationships, understanding the complexity of the region, understanding that we do have vested interest in helping pakistan fight terrorists. i would be curious from your perspective if pakistan is doing enough separating good terrorists versus bad terrorists enough domestically to fight the terrorist threats that not just threaten to destabilize india but also our interest in

mr. secretary? yes, i mean, to be very, very candid, this is one area that has frustrated me more than any, since i've been secretary because everybody, everybody knows this is a problem. and the reason why i feel so strongly about this is last year during our award ceremony, i had to give out seventh american flags to family members that lost loved ones in forest fires and the reason why some were lost is because we haven't been able to do a job we need to do to restore and make our forest more resilient because we borrow money from those accounts to put fires out and to me a fire is no different than a flood or a tornado or hurricane. where we fund not out of an operating budget but an emergency budget and if we could just create a circumstance where those large uncontrolled very expensive fires could be dealt with, it would create more flexibility within the budget and many concerns you addressed here, which we share, could be more potentially more adequately addressed. >> thank you for your passi

mr. secretary. on behalf of our farmers and ranchers, we want to make this bill as farm friendly as possible. that is particularly important right now with commodity prices. we are seeing real stress out there on the part of farmers and ranchers with these commodity crises. one area that we can help in terms of making sure that the farm bill is farmer friendly is with the national statistics service data. i think that you are already working on this with your fsa director. but in some cases that nas data, because there are not enough survey forms sent in for some counties, we are getting a bad result. for example, it's not unique to north dakota -- it's occurring in other states as well. i believe iowa, i don't know about kansas. a number of states where you have counties and there are not enough of the survey forms that come back. the nas information is not used. instead we are using risk management agency information , and we are getting a bad result. what i mean by that is that if you take counti

mr. secretary, thank you for your testimony today. i wanted to follow up, the questions from my colleague mr. pitten jer. as a member of the terrorism financing task force, as you know the work of treasury is important, particularly technical assistance. we know from the hearings, revealed significant gaps in the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing capacity of many developing countries. and my question to you is, given the role of office of technical assistance and agency for international development at the state department within the u.s. government, which of these agencies takes the lead in providing that assistance to our allies and other countries? >> well, obviously, the office of technical assistance has the subject matter knowledge to be cape nbl this area. us i.a.d. with resources in some places we don't. we collaborate together to try to work in partnership. one of the reasons we've proposed over the next several years to double ota it is, i think, one of the most important ways to build capacity in other co

mr. secretary. you've done so much for us, i thank you for your contributions. also, i have another question for either yourself or secretary mcchord. it is estimated that defense department spends nearly twice as much on service contractors as it does on civilian personnel. even though they're often doing the same work. nevertheless, the department's budget request seeks to cut civilian personnel and increase spending on service contracts. in this extremely constrained fiscal environment, can we expect to see the department leverage the clear cost savings found in civilian personnel versus contractors? are we still waiting for a complete accounting of all service contracts that was mandated back in 2008 but we have still not received the report. >> thank you. i'll just say, then turn it over to under secretary mcchord, we are committed to reducing the strength particularly of headquarter staffs, both civilian and contractor. and for that matter, military. that's where those numbers come from. and are we getting better at understanding how we're doing the spend f

mr. secretary? >> i do. >> thank you. >> on behalf of chairman mccain, senator nelson. >> mr. secretary, would you give us your advice for that period of time, 2018 to 2022 of being able to put our payloads into space, and i'm mainly talking about d.o.d. and intel payloads in addition to nasa payloads and commercial payloads. would you give us your advice on the question of whether or not we should continue to be able to have access to the rd-180 engine, which is the engine in the first stage of the atlas 5 rocket? until we develop the new one. >> i can, senator. it is reflected in our budget. and i know that there are different points of view on how to approach this problem. i think everybody agrees, we have to have assured access to space. so we have to have a way to launch our national security payloads into space. our country's security depends on that. one way to do that, which is reflected in our budget, is to continue to use the atlas booster, including a limited but continuing number of rd-180 engines. notwithstanding the fact that we don't like the fact they're made in

mr. secretary, i'm going to ask you -- >> madam chair, i apologize to my colleagues. if you, mr. secretary, please give us in writing what the authorization is why you think it is available when previously you said it wasn't and the offsets in more detail. thank you, madam chair. >> we can send somebody up to talk to you if you like, our cfo. >> senator warren. >> madam chair, thank you for being here. mr. secretary, for months the massive gas leak at porter ranch california spewed methane from an underground storage facility into the air. the leak was finally sealed a few weeks ago but not before it released the same amount of green house gases as half a million cars driving for an entire year. it was the worst natural gas leak in history. the climate equivalent of the bp oil spill. but it is not the only leak. there are a huge number of gas leaks from pipelines and storage systems, some of which has been ignored for decades. in massachusetts more than 20,000 leaks have been identified. in the boston area alone they spew about $90 million worth of methane into the air every year.

mr. secretary good to see you again. together we saw mr. kirkpatrick working basically in the middle east and north africa and my colleagues for central america in the not-too-distant future. in north africa and the middle east. in and the crime enforcement network and also. and in several countries we work with the treasury attaches that are part of the u.s. embassies in those countries. all of those countries the level of cooperation. he may be retired now but he is very instrumental in setting up some of these financial intelligence units within these countries to push back on money laundering and terrorist financing. he handled and had a big portfolio and a big region he would hop from country to country to help us to adopt anti-money laundering statutes just basic stuff. know your customer helping the local banks prevent terrorist groups from using thlegitimate financial system to spread terror. it's ironic today that we've got ice is taking isis taking credit for the attacks in brussels and our thoughts and prayers are with them this

mr. secretary, for being with us today. >> pleasure. >> we stand adjourned. >> thank you, mr. chairman. [ indiscernible chatter ] >>> since that hearing, secretary of state kerry announced he has cancelled his trip to cuba due to continued disagreement about what dissidents the president would be allowed to meet with. a live picture from the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california, where nancy reagan's body is lying in repose. she died sunday of heart failure. she was 94. [ indiscernible chatter ] [ indiscernible chatter ] [ indiscernible chatter ] [ indiscernible chatter ] >>> join c-span friday at 1:30 p.m. eastern for the funeral service for former first lady nancy reagan at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. first lady michelle obama, former president george w. bush, and laura bush will be among the dignitaries attending the funeral. mrs. reagan will be buried next to her husband at the library. live coverage on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. >>> president obama will be hosting a state dinner tonight for canadian

mr. secretary. for months the massive gas leak at porter ranch, california, spewed methane from an underground storage facility into the air. the leak was finally sealed a few weeks ago, but not before it released the same amount of greenhouse gases as half a million cars driving for an entire year. it was the worst natural gas leak in history. the climate equivalent of the bp oil spill. but it is not the only leak. there are a huge number of gas some of which have been ignored for decades. in massachusetts more than 20,000 leaks have been identified. in the boston area alone, they spew about $90 million worth of methane into the air every year. massachusetts has decent information because state law requires utilities to report every gas leak. secretary monis, do we have any similar national reporting system in place to track all of the gas leaks and how much methane they're emitting? >> senator warren, well, first of all, of course, i think as you know, the department of energy does not have that a

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mr. secretary? >> i do. >> thank you. >> senator nelson. >> mr. cretary, would you give us your advice for that period of time 2018-2022 of being able to put our payloads into space -- and i'm mainly talking about d.o.d. and intel payloads, in addition to nasa payloads and commercial payloads. would you give us your advice on the question of whether or not we should continue to be able to have access to the rd 180 engine which is the engine in the first stage of the atlas 5 rocket until we develop the new one? >> i can, senator. it is reflected in our budget. and i know that there are different points of view on how to approach this problem. i think everybody agrees we have to have assured access to space. we have to have a way to launch or national security payloads into space, our country's security depends on that. one way to do that, which is reflected in our budget, is to continue to use the atlas booster, including a limited but continues number of rd 180 enjis, notwithstanding the fact that we don't like the fact they're made in russia and w

mr. secretary. i appreciate you highlighting some of the things that we have been working on. several years ago when we introduced the energy 20-20 and brought up for discussion at that point the energy water nexus and the priority and so it is good to see the department taking that and running with it as you had mentioned. also, highlighting that the public-partner partnerships that mr. gates is leading and the opportunity that many of us have had to sit down as well as you for further discussion. we appreciate that. i want to go more parochial and do my first round of questions and focusing on alaska initiatives. thank you for coming to bethel and making a commitment to places where there is no energy grid so to speak. you mentioned at our field hearing that you recognize that the doe office of energy was understaffed and that you were intending to add new staff members to the alaska office. can you give me any updates when we might expect to see additional put in place there? >> what we have is t

mr. secretary. i appreciate that. mr. price. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me move to public housing and in particular the repairing and maintaining our public housing stock. congress bears primary responsibility for that, for chronically underfunding this account. i start out by saying that. however, i'm concerned that hud didn't ask for any increase in the public housing capital fund in the fiscal '17 request. i wonder why that's so, what it indicates. i wonder if you could discuss the rationale behind that decision to provide essentially flat funding when it's clear we're falling farther and farther and farther behind. and then secondly, i wonder if you could reflect on the impetus that lies behind moving to work, for example, which you've just been discussing, or the rental assistance demonstration program, the r.a.d. program, or for that matter choice neighborhoods and other demonstrations programs. to what extent are these programs drawing on discontent or the shortfall of adequate funding for the public housing capital fund? are we seeing here way

mr. secretary. just a pause in our march for just a second. a quote i saw from you that i really liked on this point of the partners, you said to sakari, you said when we do win, we'll remember who contributed. >> that's right. >> that's a great quote. >> that's exactly right. people need to both recognize we are going to win but they need to get in the game. it will be important part of what they, what the chessboard looks like when the isil piece is gone. they want to look, situate themselves on that chessboard. we'll remember what contributions. >> pause button. pieces will not be gone in the next nine months. is this something that happens under the next president? >> i would like it to happen as soon as possible. my answer to that is as soon as possible. we're doing everything we can to accelerate. and we get more opportunities. the more success we have, the more we see. >> okay. so i should address that. is it possible that you will defeat isil under this president? >> i certainly hope so. that is what he says he wants. that is what he t

mr. secretary.u just one question about wages and minimum wage, with you which you mentioned. bernie sanders says, let's take the minimum wage to $15. and over the course of i think four years. could you do that? and secondly, how many -- will it have any affect on wages? guest: the president and i and many others support a $12 minimum wage proposal that was introduced by senator murray and congressman scott, supported by the likes of elizabeth warren and many others in the senate. and we also support efforts to go further in states. i was here today in new york talking about the need to establish a $15 minimum wage here in new york state. i was out in seattle last year when their $15 city minimum wage went into effect. and so, we're going to continue to support that federal floor and then go higher elsewhere. the issue of wage stagnation is a big part of the unfinished business of this recovery. and the issue of stubborn growth in wages is something, as you know, that predates the great recession.

mr. secretary or mr.mccord, with respect to procurement, my understanding, but please correct me, is that you've done all you can to maintain multiyear contracting for systems which essentially keeps us in the ball game, if you will, but if we do not fix the sequestration problem next year, this fragile structure will sort of fall apart. but we are still maintaining the cost-efficient multiyear contracting? >> we are. >> we're not cutting back on those deals? >> no. we are. and this gets to the point the chairman raised about how did we accommodate the difference between what we planned last year and what we got in the bipartisan budget agreement, what i described as a net of $11 billion of our almost $600 billion. how did we accommodate that? as the chairman said -- i was very insistent upon this as was the chairman. we protected readiness. the prince pal impact dame in a number of modernization programs to include aircraft, shipbuilding, a number of minor modernization programs. that's what we did. it's

mr. secretary. i want to begin my remarks by associating myself with the senator from west virginia senator manchin. he's not exaggerating here. you and i took the trip to alaska and we saw some of the same phenomena in alaska as the chairman said the $360 million state budget we are losing not just cold jobs. we are equipment providers and manufacturers. it's a very pessimistic desolate poverty being created that are very very difficult and i just want to associate myself with those remarks. my first question is about the energy labs and in the hearing last year we discussed some of the concerns that i have regarding the report on the national labs. my question is that your budget requests include a position including the d.o.e. lab commissions recommendation separating rst and its program responsibility or in transitioning nettle to a cocoa? >> we are not considering that. we are implementing most of the recommendations but not that one. secondly differently but related is the energy budget. i bel

mr. secretary. in addition to being america's dairyland, wisconsin also produces a lot of specialty crops. we have a very vibrant and rapidly growing organic sector, second only to the state of california in the number of organic farms within our state. and organicy crop farmers have a great need for new varieties and animal breeds and are adapted regionally respond to market demands that can help them grow their market. so-called seeds and breeds. in response to the work last year and the direction in gear 16, the spending bill, i know that the usda is producing a report on classical greeting investments. this committee also directed the agency to create a specific competition for the classical breeding. proposals for this specific type of research compete against each other and not against other, different research fields. so, we have yet to see progress on that particular front. for wisconsin farmers it is not about the academic competition. it is about having the varieties that they need right o

mr. chairman. secretaryke you to offsetre about the third initiative, specifically what is new about it? is it new money, a new way of using the money? we spend tens of billions of dollars researching and developing technologies and that is in excess of our adversaries. this committee has heard a lot about how our technological edge is eroding. that level ofif investment and the way we are using it was sustaining our technological advantage, what about the offset initiative is going to ensure ashton carter: thank you, senator. our advocates are about getting new money and finding new ways for that money. the new money we are looking for in this budget notwithstanding, $11 billion that we absorbed. we did not take them into the anddtd, research development relative to last year, science and technology, which is part of that also. we are doing it in new ways. i will give you a couple of examples. out to thehing high-tech industry that does not have a traditional working with the apartment of defense. when i st

mr. secretary and general for being here. mr. etary, i'm just following up on the question, but are you aware of any discussions to close the naval station at guantanamo bay or transfer it to cuba? >> i'm not, no. >> general dunford, same question for you. are you aware of any plans to close guantanamo bay or transfer it to cuba? >> i'm not. >> mr. secretary, your department delivered a product in february entitled plan for closing the guantanamo bay detention facility. however, this document also addresses specific elements required by the fy-16, therefore, this committee has previously stated the requirement has not been met. in this document, there were three options outlined for handling future detainees. they were on a case by case basis. number one was prosecution and military commission system or federal court. two, transfer to another country for an appropriate disposition there. or three, detention. yet in recent testimony, senior department officials testified -- and i'm referencing this article from stars and stripes --

secretary rusk: mr. chairman, i think that was from paris. >> i read it in the morning post. secretary rusk: the dispatch was from paris, that suggests it was not us for a change that did the leaking. it used adjectives i did not recognize. it would not be for me to disclose a specific contents of the attitude of france is well-known. they think there should be a settlement on the basis of the geneva accords. so do we. they think problems should be solved by political means. we would prefer that. they do not believe the time is right for such discussions, or at least they did not see any steps which they themselves can take at this moment to bring this matter to the conference table. but i did not find anything in the letter that justified this word severe used. >> the paper uses the word if my memory serves me right. it said this war is leading nowhere. that the war is absurd. colonial --r the were the colonial power. our original involvement was in response to their request to support them to maintain

mr. conaway: we need to get raqqah as well. secretary carter: as well. mr. conaway: let me pivot to something more mundane but nothing less important and that's auditing. i worry -- by the way, michael mccord, thank you for the report from the -- your group on where everything stands right now. don't necessarily want to go into the details of that but thanks for getting that over to the committee in response to the ndaa. can you talk to us about transition to a new civilian leadership team next year and the impact that might have on the -- with respect to getting this audit process done by the deadlines? i worry that the impact from leon panetta started this deal. secretary carter, your in favorite of that. are there risks that a new civilian team may not have the same emphasis? general dunford, can you comment on the military's side of that issue as well? secretary carter: i am absolutely fully in support of it and i thank you very much for your persistence and your leadership in asking us to do this and i want to thank michael mccord and his whole team for

mr. secretary, for being with us.ou have had a day to sum up your thoughts of this woman you knew so well and saw so closely on the inside. i'm curious as to how you will remember nancy reagan. >> well, i will remember her in a number of ways, but first i guess as a remarkable woman and the other half of a team that restored america's pride and confidence in itself and reinvigorated really our role, our international -- our role in international affairs around the world. you know, she was ronald reagan's closest adviser. she also was, among other things, his constant protector. she knew when someone in the white house was paddling their own canoe or when they were carrying out the president's agenda. she was very good at that. the president was not particularly good alt firing people. she was pretty good at that. you needed somebody who was very close to him to get the job done sometimes, but she was a remarkable first lady, and she should get a lot of the credit for the accomplishments of this very successful two-ter

mr. secretary. you have done so much for us. i thank you for your contributions. have another question for yourself or secretary mccord. it is estimated that part -- the defense department spends twice as much on service contractors as on civilian personnel, even though they are often doing the same work. nevertheless, the department urgent request seeks to cut civilian personnel increase spending on service contracts. in this constraint fiscal environment, can we expect to see the department leverage the clear cost savings found in civilian personnel versus contractors? are we still waiting for a complete accounting of all service contracts mandated back in 2008? but we have still not received the report. sec. carter: thank you. i will say at the beginning and then turn it over to undersecretary mccord, we are theitted to reducing strength, particularly of headquarters staffs, both civilian and contractor and military. that is where those numbers come from. are we getting better at understanding how we are doing the spend for services contracting? yes, we are gett

mr. secretary, you recently went to the army navy game, what was that like? sec. carter: it was terrific. the level of energy and enthusiasm is fantastic. there, as everywhere, when you look into the eyes of these fantastic young people who are joining us, that is what i, by far and away i love most. about this job. i tell them that they are what i wake up for every day. my wife and i who loves the joy ofalso, that is the this. we love to meet with them. way, -- by the when i worked for bill. his wife lee. is a delightful person, always traveled with him, and it is a great complement. many of the other spouse is a senior military people, stephanie can do that because she works, but every once in while she can. remember, our military is a family affair. half of our listed people, over half are married. 70% of the officers are married, it is a married force. you recruit an individual and you retain a family. it is really important that the family still connected. when she is able to come and meet with spouses, she can meet with kids, we are going to a hospital, unfo

mr. secretary, good to see you again.i just noticed on friday "the wall street journal" had a front page story and it was entitled "europe energy escape valve, u.s. gas." so the escape valve for europe for energy is u.s. gas. the gulf coast exports are expected to loosen russia's grip on the market. that's the sub headline. we talked about this. the article discusses the first shipment of liquefied natural gas from the continental united states that took place last wednesday. it explains that exports of u.s. liquefied natural gas will give countries like lithuania, poland, bulgaria, greater political independence from russia. as one lithuanian mayor put it, it's more than just about gas. it's about freedom. the article goes on to cite that deutsche bank estimates the u.s. could catch up with russia as europe's biggest gas supplier within a decade. with each nation controlling about a fifth of the market. it's not going to be easy. russia controls about a third of europe's market right now, and it may wage a price war, i r

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mr. secretary and president barack obama can be with. >> will they accept and is the president's trip hanging in the lurch >>> a troubling story out of plantation tonight. a mother arrested for tossing her toddler into the trash. we have more from plantation. >>reporter: it's hard to be a mother could be accused of something like this. she puts her daughter inside the dumpster of a plantation hospital. a couple of medical workers saw what happened and and pulled that child out of the dumpster. >> she's charged for putting her two-year-old in the dumpster and trying to leave her there. this woman saw what happened. >> i saw her throw the kid in the trash. after i retrieved the kid from the trash, i ran after the mom. the mom told me she lost the child. that was undefendable. she probably had a moment of breakdown. >> after she was arrested, she detectives i had a miscarriage 5 months ago and i'm depressed. >> she quickly walked away almost as if she was going to start running. >> the judge held her in jail for $15,000 bond. this time they are trying to determine where to put the child. she pre

mr. secretary, before people went through security. one of them went off near a starbucks. do we need to change airport security at this point and move would? >> well, i have to say, this is something i've spoken to people about for some time. the actual portion of the airport before the checkpoint is not really controlled by the federal government. it's controlled by the local authorities. and it has increasingly become vulnerable because as people wait to go through security, they actually congregate there. and so now there's an effort, i think, on the part of tsa to start to move the airports into pushing the security envelope back. we've seen some of that in terms of not allowing you to park in front of the terminal but i think we're going to have to step that up. >> what can, what should the u.s. do at this point? what, what, what is our position, our reaction? >> well, obviously first of all, we want to help the belgians with intelligence sharing. evidently there is still a remnant, at least, of this terrorist cell that attacked paris that may have been precipitated i