mrs. blackburn be allowed to participate in today's hearing. without objection, so ordered. i will now note that the ranking members of each of the committees are driving in have been delayed. so it is not a flight as far as i know. so they will make their opening statements after our witnesses make theirs. i'm sure they'll be here by thenment with that i would like to introduce our first panel. mr. christopher l. mclaughlin is the assistant administrative security operations at the transportation security administration. mr. steven sadler is the assistant administrator for intelligence analyst at the transportation security administration. mr. steven lord is director for homeland security at the u.s. government accountability office, our wing, if you will. and rear admiral zukunft. and i might mention without a doubt, the best jewel ever given to homeland security, in my opinion, and in the ranking member's opinion. pursuant to the rules of this committee, would you all please rise to take the ohs? raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony y

mrs. blackburn from tennessee for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank the committee for allowing me to participate. tsa is something that is important to my constituents. mr. lord and mr. mclaughlin have both mentioned constituent satisfaction, customer satisfaction as a goal. would i just commend to you looking at the economist magazine's online poll, which they have up right now. and the question they're asking is whether or not changes made to airport security since 9/11 have done more harm than good. and at last check, as i checked, it was 87% of the readers agree that changes at airport security have done more harm than good. so, gentlemen, i would contend that we are not doing our best at customer service and i think mr. connolly, my colleagues from the other side of the aisle spoke well to that. i want to talk to you a little bit about the viper teams. on october 20th, 2011 my home state of tennessee became the first state in the country to deploy viper teams simultaneously at five weigh stations and two bus stations. the teams includ

mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, president obama's obamacare plan not only raises many constitutional questions, but it's creating an environment where younger americans like my little nephew, preston james hunter, who was born last night, will be forced to live in a world with less choice and higher health care costs. as the cost of health care rises, we are seeing that taxpayers are on the hook for even more money. now, we all know that this bill pulled $500 billion out of medicare, and now we're learning that over the next few years the states are going to have to pay another $620 billion for medicaid extension. yes, $620 billion for medicaid expenditures. for tennessee, my home state, tenncare estimates that it will increase tenncare enroll by 2,491. that is an extra cost of $225 million a year. those are just the estimates. while the president and democrats in washington are raiding medicare, republicans in the house are fighting back and working to protect medicare for our seniors. also, the jobs kill

mrs. blackburn: thank you, and i thank the gentleman for yielding. you know, i find it so interesting as we are here debating this bill, this is only a 21-page bill. and i don't find, mr. speaker, in this bill i don't find the word constrain and straitjacket anywhere. it does not exist in this bill and as i heard my colleagues talk about this bill, i think that they have not read the bill. so, unlike the 2,300-page bill that is being debated at the supreme court across the street, i would encourage them to pick up this little 21-page bill and give it a read. i've also found it very interesting, the white house and this administration likes to say transparency is the cornerstone of their administration, but i have seen them go to just extreme lengths it seems, the white house and the senate, to block bringing this process reform bill forward. yesterday the white house released a statement of administration policy saying, and i'm quoting, it is generally recognized that the f.c.c. has improved its practices and procedures to make it more effective. but

blackburn for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, thank you for staying with us to take these questions. i want to ask you about section 220. and we had section 220 the president supposedly -- >> section 220 -- >> of the obama bill -- >> affordable care ability? >> yes. >> and the president said we'll have transparency and open government and this was a major push. fiscal yeahat the president signed included section 220. this was an important thing we're going to have transparency. going to let you know where the money gets spent. on this bill. yet, is we get the 2013 budget and section 220 has been removed in its entirety. so we have a lot of concerns about what is happening with the transparency components and how the money is going to be spent. so i would encourage you to look at this and see if you can find out what has happened with the money that was going to be designated to transparency. we'd like to have an answer to that -- if you do not mind. >> i would be glad to do that. >> thank you. i appreciate that.

blackburn. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> could you get a little closer to your microphone? >>

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