mrs. blackburn from tennessee for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank the committee for allowing me to participate today. this is an issue, tsa and their participation and their conduct is something that is important to my constituents, and mr. lord and mr. mclaughlin have both mc have both mentioned constituent satisfaction, customer satisfaction as a goal. i would just commend to you looking at the economist magazines online poll, which they have upright now the question they're asking are if changes done to airport security have done more harm than good. 8 % of readers agree that changes of airport secure have done more harm than good. gentlemen, i would contend that we are not doing our best at customer service. i think mr. cobly, my colleague from the other side of the aisle spoke well to that. i want to talk to you 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 included your tsos, b

mrs. blackburn for her questions. >> thank you, madam chairman and to each of you. as you can hear the bells, we've gotten votes, so we're going to do this quickly. i'm just going to give each of you a question that i would like to hear from you on. you can submit it in writing because i know mr. cassidy, we want to get his questions in before we leave. but we've talked about come pet pifness and mr. lubrano touched on that a little bit. also, and what i would like to know is from each of you is number one when you look at that bottom line and as you said, you've had some tough years and we're learning to do things differently. in our u.s. manufacturing base. when you look at your efficiencies, what percentage of your product, of our profit are you attributing to the use of new information technologies? and then secondly, as we look at spectrum and of course, we're trying to get more spectrum auctioned so that you can use more of these technologies. how important is it to you to have more spectrum available for use of these new technologies in the marketplace and i

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 then. with that i would like to now 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 analysis at the transportation security administration. mr. stephen lord is director for homeland security at the u.s. government accountability office, our wing, if you will. and rear admiral zukunft. an assistant commandant for marine safety and stewardship and i might mention without a doubt the best jewel ever give on the 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 oath? raise your ri

mrs. blackburn, for five minutes. mrs. blackburn: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. mrs. blackburn: mr. speaker, the government accountability office says that cyberattack has grown. the cost is estimated to be $388 billion. allowing these trends to proliferate is bad for job creation, consumer protection and the future of the internet whose future success will greatly depend on improving user trust and security online. the u.s.-driven digital revolution has created countless opportunities, freedoms and economies of scale. we're the india of the world in that regard. this revolution is continuing to be driven by information and data. data is really the natural resource that will power our nation's future but only if we safeguard it appropriately. new online presence and digital diaries or what i like to refer to as the virtual you is consistently growing and expanding as individuals and businesses operate online. we need to

mrs. blackburn, for five minutes. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to offer my praise to one of tennessee's true living legends, born in clarksville, tennessee, in tennessee's seventh congressional district, coach pat head summit, paved the way for women athletes at her high school and then at the university of tennessee martin. she was an exemplary student athlete and today the gem at u.t. mart -- gym at u.t. martin is named in her honor. she took the reins at the university of tennessee in 1974 and she has led the lady vols to an unprecedented 31 consecutive ncaa tournament appearances. in her time as a coach she has coached 12 olympians, 20 kodak all americans, and 77 all s.e.c. performers. after 1,098 career wins, over 38 seasons. pat head summit is the all-time winningest coach in ncaa basketball history. pushing excellence both on and off the court, coach summit prepared her players to be successful women when they hang up their jerseys. we will remember her legacy at u.t. for two things -- winning games and most importantly gradua

the chair recognizes miss blackburn. >> mr. secretary, you've been patient with you today and we are appreciative of that. i knew that congressman dingle asked you a little bit about information technology. in my district in tennessee, we've got a lot of performers as well as having a lot of small business manufacturers who purchase information technology in order to try to get a competitive edge. and then it turns around that they are competing with companies that in china or russia or somewhere that have stolen that information technology. and what i want to know from you is what can you do and can the federal government do anything about the competitive harms that are caused by the theft of that information technology that drives the efficiencies and also, about other u.s. intellectual project that is stolen and specifically, are you going to put any strong ip protections in trade agreements like the trans pacific partnership? >> the short answer is intellectual property that we do not get compensated for, that is taken in o

blackburn for her question. >> thank you, madam chairman. and, mr. secretary, you've been patient with us today.i know that congressman dingell asked you a little bit about information technology. in my district in tennessee, we've got a lot of performers as well as having a lot of small business manufacturers who purchase information technology in order to try to get a competitive edge. is and then it turns around that they are competing with companies that -- in china or russia or somewhere that have stolen that information technology. and what i want to know from you is what can you do and can the federal government do anything about the competitive harms that are caused by the theft of that information technology that drives the efficiencyies, and also about other u.s. intellectual property that is stolen and specifically are you going to put in strong ip protections like the trans-pacific partnership in --? >> so the short answer is intellectual property that is, that we do not get compensated for, that is taken in other countries and there's no recognition of where that initially came from