ms. plaskett: what would you consider severe discipline? ms. leonhart: i would consider what happened with the cartagena agentses to discipline. ms. plaskett: what about agents given two to 10 days of paid leave? ms. leon hart: i am not happy with that. ms. plaskett: you're not in the disciplinary process but responsible for the discipline? ms. leon hart: i am responsible for the whole agencies. i am responsible to set up a mechanism to send messages to our ply ployees to hold people accountable if they are not -- if they are going to conduct this misbehavior, that they have significant discipline. that is what i have done over the last couple years to send that message to make sure our employees, number one, report, report their allegations, and number two hold managers accountable for not reporting. number three, make sure that we set up a process, have good o.p.r. inspectors. i was one at one time. do the investigations. so that our disciplinary process, our board of conduct that proposes and our deciding officials have all the information t

ms. plaskett: thank you, mr. speaker. today, one day after the one-year anniversary of the abduction of the school girls in nigeria, i rise to encourage my colleagues here in congress to continue in its efforts to help bring back our girls. we have protested, demonstrated tweeted, and spoken about this issue on a number of occasions. now with the new nigerian leader in place i encourage the president to do all within his power to tea feet boko haram and bring back our girls. in an effort to improve the quality of life of their young daughters, can you imagine as a parent sending your child off to school and never seeing them again? this is the case for hundreds of families. this is not right. no family or child should feel threatened when it comes to improving their lives through education. therefore, as we continue to call for the total annihilation of boko haram, we should also use this moment to emphasize the importance of establishing safe learning environments for all children. i commend usaid and other human rights

ms. plaskett for five minutes. >> i'm interested in the impact of these reports have and show or rather what they show about the low morale among employees and specifically low morale to me as an outcome of leadership and an outcome of mechanisms that have been put in place for employees to feel that the workplace is a great place to work. mr. ehrlich, i wanted to ask you about employees repeatedly expressing concern that the leaders aren't responsible stewards of their positions and that they don't listen to employees' concerns. that's something that has been in the report. how do you think employees can expect to best fulfill their work requirements when they don't feel their leaders are not steering them in the right direction? or don't understand the jobs they have? >> the attitude has to change and it is changing. we have obviously lost a chair. that takes its share of trauma on an organization. we have made it known that we are going to change issues and those attitudes have to be changed and they will change over time but they are not going to change overnight. >> do you think that ju