mrs. grossman stickers since the company began it all started with this red heart mrs. et of stickers printed in 1979 over 40 years later. it is still a customer favorite. i love the story of my father-in-law who met up with andrea when she came into the store with a roll of believe heart shape stickers and said, okay. here's a crazy new product. do you have any interest in selling this at the five and 10 and my father-in-law who also took chances with bic pens and hula hoops said, yeah, let's give it a try the rest as they say is history since then jason grossman says they've printed enough stickers to go around the world. we've touched a lot of lives this with a silly little sticker. it's amazing how it attracts people and how much they love it and adore it. they're just so innovative and on and whimsel about mrs. gro stickers even though times have changed more people now using emojis rather than pasting a sticker on a handwritten card these little pieces of art are timeless, but love regardless of your age or generation. we have got grandmothers that gave it to their

mr. grossman. mr. grossman, good morning, first of all. the last year the gao offered six recommendations to the f.a.a. to strengthen the cyber security oversight program and the gao report found involving cyber threats and increasing connectivity between airplanes and other systems could put future flight safety at risk with the f.a.a. doesn't prioritize oversight. can you discuss what the f.a.a. is doing to assure the networks and systems are secure from cyber threats? >> good morning. or good afternoon, congressman. thank you for the question. yeah, i mean, f.a.a. looks at, really, at the whole system of the airplane, you know, once avionic equipment is installed to make sure there is proper procedures and questions. and the audit that you referenced, the gao issued six recommendations, we have already proposed closure on two of the three of those are scheduled for closure in march and just one when we would-- we would welcome that audit and make significant changes. >> thank you. and one of the recommendations that the gao made, which

mrs. grossman.rinting millions of stickers and bringing joint thousand the kids and customers, he has decided it is time to downsize. the company is ending all sales and moving out of state to utah. >> of course the pandemic changed things. just found moving out of the state easier for business and i need everything easy now. i'm getting old. >> we are very sad to see misses grossman scope. -- misses grossman's go. >> and all started with this red heart. the first sheet of stickers printed in 1979. over 40 years later, it is still a customer favorite. >> i love the story of my father-in-law who met up with andrea when she came into the store with a roll of, i believe heart-shaped stickers and said here is a crazy new product. do you have any interest in selling this at the five and 10? and my father-in-law who also took chances with big pens and hula hoops said let's give it a try. >> the rest, as they say, is history. they have printed enough stickers >> to go around the world. >>we touched a lot o

mrs grossman says the high cost of doing business in california is just one of the reasons the company to leave the state after 43 years in business. new year, same problems empty shelves in stores locally and across the country. it's due to supply and labor shortages. ktvu tom baker takes a look at what's slowing delivery of much needed products. the porch remained jammed so much so that products keep arriving late now bay area air quality officials want the diesel powered container ships anchored in the bay to go out and wait it see, instead of idling in the bay that may delay some goods. but professor choi cut chowdhry, uc berkeley supply chain expert says this things are shifting right. it's not always the same problem that we're dealing with. the biggest delay right now is labor. worldwide workers are falling six. so if you don't have people like santa warehouses or truck drivers to take these things, whether the grocery hardware, clothing or other store there are many missing items, freight rates and shipping rates are up double or treat three times. sometimes frankly, it's not w

mr. grossman. last year the gao offered six recommendations to the faa to strengthen the cybersecurity oversight program. gao report found evolving cyber threats and increasing connectivity between airplanes and other systems could put future flight to safety at risk if the faa doesn't prioritize oversight. can you discuss what they are doing to ensure that networks and systems are secure from cyber threats? >> good morning or good afternoon. thank you for the question. faa looks at the whole system off the airplane once it is installed to ensure others proper procedures and protections. we've already proposed closure onto two of the three. one of the recommendations that the faa did not concur with is the periodic independent testing. can you discuss why they disagreed with this recommendation? >> absolutely, sir. it was the independent testing currently flying today and we were concerned that independent testing is how we had discussed the avionics system. >> thank you and i have one more follow-

mr. grossman and neuhaus.everything we've heard from airlines is that in 2022, it could be a record-breaking year in terms of traffic from middle east and south america given the demand. obviously it could throw a wrench into the plans but cbp, staffing for the work is going to be critical and could be a significant pinch if they are not prepared. how is the faa preparing for further disruption in the systems as they move closer to the busiest travel time of the year? >> well,r? that's not cybersecurity civic question, i believe our staffing numbers are not going to be impacted by that. >> are you expecting further disruptions or no? >> not expecting any further, no. >> okay, so no preparations being made been for the increased travel in 2022? >> well,2 we are staffed for the increase, i guess i'm not sure i'm not addressing the question specifically. >> so what is the tsa's plan to ensure checkpoints of proper staffing and wait times are minimized for passengers? >> we are leaning forward very heavily. as you

mr. grossman, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. first question, this is for mr. ingles. as i understand it there was recently a cyber incident and an important part of government, and it took your agency quite a while to become aware of it. it wasn't reported to your agency for quite a while. is there any reason why agencies are apparently afraid or hesitant to share information with you or could you give your general opinion of that incident? >> yes, so if i recall the incident you refer to happened in late july. i think we came forward to the congress, the federal government came forward to the congress in mid-august to describe the nature of that incident. what we were doing about that. is that the one, sir? >> i believe so. and i believe your agency was not made aware either. >> we were not. it's almost coincident with the incident we believed to be significant. i believe there's a couple of challenges here. one is that there are hundreds of things that happen in a system every day that might be constituted as anomalous. it's not something you may have expected but s

mr grossman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. first question this is for mr , ingalls as i understand it. there was recently a cyber incident, an important part of government and it took your agency quite a while to become aware of it. it wasn't reported to your agency for quite a while. is there any reason why agencies are apparently afraid or hesitant to share information with you or without? could you give me a general your general opinion of that incident? >> yeah. so if i recall the incident that you referred to happened in late july i think that we came forward to the congress, the federal government came forward to the congress in mid august to describe the nature of that incident, what we were doing about that is that the one sir? >> i believe so. and i believe your agency was not made aware right away either. >> we were not, but my agency didn't come into being until i showed up on the 12th of july is almost coincident with the incident that ultimately was revealed as being we believed significant. and i think there's a c

mr. grossman, wisconsin. rep.n: i don't have any historic universities in my district but there are a variety of issues i think that our concern across all academia. i will start with ms. sailor. i notice in the materials we have there are shocking numbers of student loan debt for students who have attended these institutions. we also have the same problem in wisconsin. some administrators feel what we ought to do is we ought to allow the universities themselves to have to sign off on student loan debt. they feel young people being what young people are sometimes take out student loan debt in axes of what they actually need. do you think it would be a good idea, ms. sailor? or maybe one of the other witnesses? would you like the ability -- do you think the universities would like the ability to say, wait a minute, you can make do with $3000 of debt. do you think that would be a good idea? ms. sailor: thank you for the question. as young people are coming into the workplace and becoming independent being able to wr

mr. grossman, wisconsin. rep.ssman: i don't have any historic universities in my district but there are a variety of issues i think that our concern across all academia. i will start with ms. sailor. i notice in the materials we have there are shocking numbers of student loan debt for students who have attended these institutions. we also have the same problem in wisconsin. some administrators feel what we ought to do is we ought to allow the universities themselves to have to sign off on student loan debt. they feel young people being what young people are sometimes take out student loan debt in axes of what they actually need. do you think it would be a good idea, ms. sailor? or maybe one of the other witnesses? would you like the ability -- do you think the universities would like the ability to say, wait a minute, you can make do with $3000 of debt. do you think that would be a good idea? ms. sailor: thank you for the question. as young people are coming into the workplace and becoming independent being able t

mr. grossman and victoria neuhaus. everything that we heard from airlines. in 2022 he could be a record-breaking year in terms of traffic for europe, middle east and south america given the pent up demand. obviously it could throw went into those plans. but cbp staffing for international arrivals will be critical. it could be a significant pinch point if they're not prepared. how is faa preparing for the disruptions of the system as they move closer to the busiest travel time of the year? >> i apologize, that is not a cybersecurity specific question. i believe our staffing numbers are not going to be impacted by that. >> are you expecting for the disruptions? or no? >> i'm not expecting any further disruptions, no. >> okay. so there's no preparations be made then? for the increased travel in 2022 question. >> we are staffed with increased travel. i'm not sure i understand the question specifically. >> what is the tsa's plan to ensure checkpoints to have proper staffing wait times organize for passengers customer spivak congresswoman we are moving forward ver

mr. grossman, is recognized. >> [inaudible] thanks for calling on the. well, as miss i would ask this stepman a couple of questions. first of, all i'm looking here at a study mentioned by heritage foundation. they claim that unmarried childless women under 30 who live in cities earn more than their male counterparts, the program. do you believe that's true and would you comment as to why you think that's true? >> yes, i do believe that's true. that's because the wage gap that just mentioned it during this hearing is too overwhelmingly to different advocate choices that men and women make in their careers with regard to hours work, with regard to which college majors they choose, and many, many other factors. in fact, the obama department of labor said that the department of labor under the obama administration put out a metal study that looked at a bunch of different analyses and studies of the so-called pay gap, and found that overwhelmingly, that gap is explained by women's choice in terms of wet fields they want to go to, and how they balance family a

but before i close i want to offer mr grossman an opportunity to offer a closing statement. >> i'd like to thank you for having the hearing. i thought it was a good bipartisan hearing without the partisan rancor that you sometimes have. i'd like to thank our guests for being here. this is a very important topic and failure is really not an option. i mean there's some agencies out there, they can far from around our country will continue on but you guys cannot fail and i hope that you make um dealing with cybersecurity threats your number one priority. i think there were some indications from some of your comments that that might not be your number one authority number one goal but it's got to be your number one goal. i share in the request for a private meeting some time and again i thank the chairman for , keeping such a cordial hearing going one more time. thank you. >> thank you. the gentleman yields back. i'd like to thank first and foremost all of our witnesses for appearing today, including mr wales who appeared on very short notice. thank you. today's hearing advanced several imp

mrs. you know, let's say a container full of plastic. you honey grossman, looks into corruption and environmental related businesses around the world. the government is going to pay. i don't know what, $5000.00 i'm just making the gross to recycle it. and then the company says, okay, we're not actually going to recycle it. so we're going to keep a $1000.00. and then we're going to spend $500.00 to send the container. we're going to need somebody $1000.00 in indonesia to make it disappear. and then we'd still have to have $1000.00 profit that something like that. and companies in asian countries are willing to take the plastic in local waste collection is much less developed here. and so clean plastic can be used to feed the upcoming recycling industries. but here's where laws can be broken. the massive convention is international treaty that stipulates which plastics can and can't be traded. it says for example, that contaminated a low grade, plastics need special permission from the receiving countries. governments before they can be shipped. my independe