mr. wright. when you have the problems identified in the iscd memorandum appear to be related to hiring and developing staff to implement the program, including the lack of policies and procedures to guide staff efforts to do their jobs. please discuss whether you believe problems related to hiring and developing staff and a lack of related policies and procedures are a challenge to implementing the cfats program, and if so, why? and then give us your experience with how the employees were hired for cfats program. what is the history from your point of view? >> i think i'll start with your -- the second part of your question first. i have probably been around longer than any of the nppd leadership at the inception of the cfats program in hiring the inspectors. we were originally detailed from the fps workforce. so i did attend that initial class one day of a week-long course for the initial group of inspectors. and i think that was the initial what can now be be looked at as a setback. because th

mr. wright, i want -- share the comments available from mr. allmond in his system money where we strongly urge dhs to rely on half a dozen federal issue prudentials. union to express the concern about the proposal. they supported even that and also noted additionally relying upon contractors who typically have turnover, whenever. struggling on that word. delete last night. the need for constant retraining, institutional knowledge is the key conducted primarily with contract support. really providing a lot of support unlike what you have to testify about and strongly commended the work is so important to share that with them. filing my question for you, have you found there to be a transparent and open process among the work force positions that are open and available? sins so many of them are contracted positions currently? >> i don't have much experience with contractors. i am concerned with the statements by director anderson about the openness and transparency of the action plan because it has not been brought to me. i have not been notifie

mr. david wright is the president of the american federation of government employees local 918. again, his career as a federal protective service office in 1986. since that time has been promoted to the rank of sort inspector and has served as president of the local 918 since 2006. we thank all of you for being here. we of course will include your written testimonies in their entirety in the record, and we'd ask that you confine your statements to a summary of five minutes. and we'll proceed from my left to my right with mr. allmond first. >> good afternoon, chairman long green. >> ranking member clark. i'm vice president of the public and relations at the society of chemical manufacturers and affiliates. i'll pleased to provide this testimony regarding the problems of and the progress made by the chemical facility anti-terrorism standards. nearly six years ago, congress enacted a comprehensive security chemical program known as cfats. thanks to this bipartisan effort, the regulated facilities are well down the road in implementing this important program. to great extent, dhs's

mr. wright is not going to come around. >> there excepting mr. right now, of like an arranged marriage. >> romney attack the president on immigration. >> this has always been a priority for the president he chooses to say nothing about. >> president obama has $84 million to spend in the fall. romney only about $7 million. >> you're going up against a money machine. >> newt gingrich faces the primary $1.5 million in debt. today the president is pitching his economic message to a woman's conference. a new poll shows president obama has an edge with female voters. tracie potts, wbal-tv 11 news. >> damaging testimony involving the investigation into john leopold. one man said he would is the so- called smoking gun that can break the case wide open. kim dacey has the details. >> deputy police chief emerson davis answered questions that his boss declined to address last week. davis asked the justice department to investigate allegations of police misconduct related to the criminal indictment against county executive john leopold. deputy police chief em

mr. wright. >> reporter: there was the surveillance photo, the voice message which was placed from a spothe loft according to cell tower tracking and the eyewitness. he'd been shown a photo lineup with chris in it and now he remembered some details a little differently than he had that first traumatic day. like chris' blue eyes in the photo, he said, jarred something in his mind. >> i was 80 to 90% certain that this was the man that i saw. >> reporter: then he found a picture of chris on the web and tried photo shopping in a few details, like the wig. >> i looked at that and said that looks almost exactly like what i saw. >> reporter: reinforcing a memory, but was the memory accurate? as for the rest of the case, the investigation wasn't over yet. the story just begun. the first puzzle pieces placed where they seemed to fit. but -- >> i never had a case this complicated before. >> reporter: oh, even more than complicated, as those friends in the loft began to believe. something darker than that. >>> coming up -- investigators believe they've solved the mystery while one of the residents s

mr. wright. if you would you are lying.is man came up here and punched you in your nose, you seen blood you're not going to sit there and say, well, let me call the police. you just stand right there. you're not going to do that. you're going to go to somebody's ass if they punch you in the nose and you see your nose bleeding. that's what i felt like i had to do. >> finally, as jennifer is escorted out of the building her hopes of seeing danica seem like they're about to come true. >> the grounds are now restricted. the grounds are now restricted. all unassigned inmates report to your zone. >> but with the yard shut down for the day, jennifer can only call out to danica's cell block in hopes she might be seen or heard. >> i love you. >> the future of any prison relationship is uncertain, and especially so for jennifer and danica. jennifer, serving time for drug offenses, was due to be released within a matter of months. danica, in for robbery, was still facing three to five more years. >> we plan to be together for the rest

mr. castro-wright, was there after promoted throughout the organization.ow walmart acted over the last several years upon learning of this is obviously not going to sit well with the department of justice or the sec. >> professor, let me stop through. you and i in terms of our lives are aware of the statute give us our viewers a quick summary and what happens to a company that once it finds out that a foreign subsidiary is giving bribes. >> the action is not new. it's been around approximately 35 years. congress passed it to capture payments to foreign government officials in connection with a business purpose. we're really at a new era of fcpa enforcement when the enforcement theories are expanding as well as the scrutiny that companies are under. the fcpa itself does not contain an affirmative exposure obligation when the company learns of improper conduct. there are any number of reasons why a? may want to make a voluntary disclosure, but even if a company does not voluntarily disclose, you would expect company executives who are faithful to their fiduc

mr. castro-wright. >> the story does not suggest that go do this.ey were doing it on their own but when they found out about it, they didn't do anything about it. >> quickly, i just wanted to throw a question at scott if i could. i'm sure we all started to read about the fcpa last night. the exception you said do allow for -- you are allowed to potentially move that along and that is called kind of greasing things. that is not a violation, correct in. >> that's actually written into the law if it's a payment to facilitate a certain action that, it can be legal. also if it's written into the law. but there's very strict interpretations of that. >> sounds like exactly what this was. if it was moving permits along. >> it could be. that could be their defense. it doesn't sound like they're mounting an affirmative defense to this at this point. >> michelle, very quickly, does the u.s. reputation suffer in mexico from this? >> i don't think so. just to give you some insight into the way people think here, i asked when wallmex opens today or tomorrow, is i

mr. wright and for his or educating people about the need for reform. but to put the lie four with positive suggestions and reforms but as a physician icahn tell you that will soar pertain out there. with clarification to make sure people understand the proposal is guaranteed, it is stated in all of the communications rehab and in the legislative language. seniors need to appreciate we need to approve medicare in a positive way. but look at the current system in the real world. status quo is unacceptable. there are new medicare patients

mr. wright and starts with all tax cuts then goes much further.e talks about beyond the bush tax cuts deficit neutral the cuts not surprisingly are tilted toward the highest income people. he promises to take the top rate to town that 25%. so the result is the specific tax cut he did so hold another four and 1/2 trillion dollars deeper. the one mou poll off the table is capital gains think about that. you cut the taxes to the low was double the highest income people but did you leave the mortgage interest deduction exclusion and much or to the middle class people. but the obama proposal that raise this $500 billion some mr. ryan is implying to the highest income people. >> before we go. >> you do analysis of the media. how did we get to appoint the tax plan of the moment is a plan for redistribution of wealth? >> the ryan plan is in play. the way one step further it literally gets rid of matt -- most of the budget. under his direction assuming his numbers to keep military spending or around 2050 the rest of the government disappears. justice depar

mr. president. and roosevelt turned to walter wright who he trusted more, and asked walter, how many people really will march? tell me the really story. white replied that he expected no less than 100,000. they stared at each other. and then roosevelt started to negotiate. and he committed to put the force and weight of his office behind the effort to secure jobs for qualified negros. and he left by proposing they create a committee, which didn't sound too good at first, but they managed to hammer out an agreement in which this committee, the fair employment practices committee created by the executive order, would actually have the power to discipline companies who discriminated in defense contracts. so, in this moment, in this key moment, this march on washington most certainly did make a difference. but it came at the cost of canceling it. once it was signed, on june 25th, randolph proceeded to fly to the meeting of the national association for color people and announce that the march was off. a call was made out on the radio stations that touched most african-americans, and they called off the marc

mr. obama's telling n.i.v. world experience. reverend wright, that kind of stuff. in the end, mccain did not have enough persuasive power to overcome the charismatic obama. that was then. now, the president has a record and many believe it is weak. we have a new fox news poll that will demonstrate that in a moment. can mitt romney exploit the shaky economy? rising gas prices? and out-of-control debt? that is a question. romney can expect no help from the media. new study by george mason university says that the three networks and fox news are pretty much the same when it comes to scrutinizing the republic field. isn't that interesting? while the president and the democratic party believe fnc shils for the g.o.p., an academic study says that is not the case. also both rick santorum and newt gingrich have complained publicly that fox news was not fair to them in the campaign, favoring romney. the george mason study says that is not true. talk radio may help governor romney but that's about it obviously he can expect no support from the liberal media fox news will cov

mr. obama's telling n.i.v. world experience. reverend wright, that kind of stuff. in the end, mccain did not have enough persuasive power to overcome the charismatic obama. that was then. now, the president has a record and many believe it is weak. we have a new fox news poll that will demonstrate that in a moment. can mitt romney exploit the shaky economy? rising gas prices? and out-of-control debt? that is a question. romney can expect no help from the media. new study by george mason university says that the three networks and fox news are pretty much the same when it comes to scrutinizing the republic field. isn't that interesting? while the president and the democratic party believe fnc shils for the g.o.p., an academic study says that is not the case. also both rick santorum and newt gingrich have complained publicly that fox news was not fair to them in the campaign, favoring romney. the george mason study says that is not true. talk radio may help governor romney but that's about it obviously he can expect no support from the liberal media fox news will cov

wright who represents the inspectors, the lead workers. we need their vus on the problems if we are to solve these challenges. mr. chairman, i hope we are going to hear some of the answers we need today and i yield back the balance of my time. >> opening stams may be submitted for the record. we are pleased to have three distinguished witnesses. rand beers, the undersecretary department of homeland security. a position he's held since june of 2009. in this role, he's tasked to reduce risk and collaborate with governments, the private sector, international bodies to prevent, respond to and mitigate threats from act of terrorism and natural disaster and other events. penny anderson serves as -- office of infrastructure protection. responsible for leading the implementation of dhs regulatory authority for the high risk facilities as well as supporting national level critical infrastructure risk management, prepardness and protection programs. before joining nppd, mrs. a anderson served as a transportation secretary of administration for west michigan from november 2007 to july 2011 and she was the primary point of c

miss wright, it would appear that the arab spring has become the winter of our discontent. and the immediate demise of mrmubarak, iranian gun boats were floating through the suez canal. there has been, you know, unrest and uprisings all over the arab middle east and this idea of hoe s -- hosanahs and halleleujahs of a democratic future of the middle east appears to be somewhat realistic. i think in real politic terms, you know, this recent thing where the army in egypt disqualifies the muslim brotherhood, i think that's a good sign and i think we have to stop thinking in naive terms about democracy, we'll solve all the problems because i don't think that the that the culture would support and i made that same statement that mr. sharansky some years ago when he published his book on democracy, i don't think there's anything in the arab historical experience that supports democracy. host: thanks for the call. robin wright? guest: the arab world was clearly the last bloc of countries to hold out in the democratic tie that has the rest of the world over the last 25 years. i disagree there's something inheren

peter edelman, has been our dear sister, mary wright edelman who is the most courageous fighter on behalf of children. her husband quit over this issue. but mr. saskia you, how much -- are the chickens coming home to roost? how much of this mess right now is bill clinton's responsibility quite >> you called welfare reform. this is a system that may have working perfectly and he made it even worse. you have a lifetime task on how long you can see in public assistance of five years. that makes no sense. though clinton was pandering frankly to the right when he did welfare before. we all of the clinton, but he was pandering to the right and he was excoriated on the floor of congress. let's be clear right now i don't think anyone has an appetite. this particular congress is one of the worst i think we've seen in a very long time, especially land issues for women and children. they don't like cutting anything. basically talking about at the same time we see people falling into poverty. clinton may have started it, but mr. bush instituted a tax cut for the wealthy. because we in store or restore, get rid of the bush tax cut. it would be millions a