ms. richards? the department of homeland security. >> i can't think of an instance where those purchases would be appropriate. but again, you'd have to look at the individual purchase to see if there was a nex us to government purpose. the department of homeland security's regulations do state that government purchase cards are to be used for government business only and not for personal business. >> so you have an explicit prohibition? >> we don't have an explicit prohibition naming those items but that guidance. >> mr. lyle, understanding that you can't speak for policy for the air force, we understand that, but can you think of a reason why we wouldn't want to include the pentagon and by extension the air force in a government-wide consistent set of standards mechanisms and standard operating procedures with respect to the use of such cards? especially since you are, by far, the biggest user. >> the department of defense is the largest user of purchase cards. i can speak for policy for the air f

ms. richards is attracted to these initially.i commend you for publishing the paper on target collection under 12333 and you said that you are applying the fips attic of your talking about the 2008 dhs iteration of the fips. but then you said that, for example, the individual participation fips can't really apply to your activities. the transparency one can apply in a very limited way. i guess i'm wondering whether it doesn't make sense to come up with a new set of principles that applies to surveillance activities of the government. if you look at the dhs a fips, the transparency one cannot apply because it's talking about providing evidence to the individual regarding collection. individual participation can apply at all. some of these other ones are very, very important. specification is important to minimization, data security, some are important yet this doesn't at all address things like thresholds, evidentiary thresholds for collection which is by law but if you talk about principles that are supposed to sit on top of the

ms. richards. we will get back to you with questions and turn to our next witness, he's the deputy assistant secretary for contracting at the u.s. air force. welcome, sir u and you are recognized. >> thank you, sir, and good afternoon chairman and ranking member for the opportunity to testify this opportunity. because i have submitted my complete testimony for the record, i and based on your request, i will provide a brief summary of my testimony. first and foremost, we in the air force are committed towards proper spending controls and are used in the purchase card program referred to as gpc. in summary when used in place of written purchase orders, it all allows us to apreer bli reduce interest charges, save $70 per transaction in administrative costs and to execute the mission. in fiscal year 2013, air force units saved $105 million on 1.5 million transactions and received $14.7 million in rebates on total expenditures of 1.2 billion. through a a variety of tried and true controls, we are confid

support of the young entrepreneurs and small businesses and see what goes commissioner richards you're one quick question for ms>> so the project sponsor can do they've got a pocket business plan for a hooka lounge without the piece would you and our association be open to having that type of business. >> no as i said the balboa station plan many of us participate in 5 years of meetings and the whole transient concept was initiated by the balboa plan and the plan to succeed has to have good transient and high immensity housing we is that a "yesly need you lived there 319 years it's a designation place we didn't pack a position whether or not hooka is good or bad. >> thank you i think just to commissioner johnsons point the way that ocean it is it is sloped towards the west so you can't see the backyard from the greener level and the only people that see the backyards is the neighbors looking into it. >> commissioner johnson. >> i'm going to let commissioner fong (laughter). >> i honestly don't feel a public threat by the vapor stores and not a health it's not necessarily good for you but i don't see that the se

richards. >> i guess i have a question for staff mr. jones and ms. hester talked about this it is this different from the projects we've looked at here. >> commissioner richards for the purposes of this hearing we shouldn't are a back and forth they'll respond in writing and that's one question the other thing i support i don't know if it's legal or not we need to get real when we talk about affordable housing we're talking about creating affordable units how can we not talk about that without talking about people that are being displaced we needed need to get real about the nonprofits spaces this is going to be you know a great fabulous project in angle area it's traditionally been low income so you what is going to happen to the people and on the open space i have a concern about the fifth floor being considered an open space i asked the developer how it works in the united states i said tell me about one globally i can't see myself urging the open space i agree with the childcare i want to see the area plan maps and i have a question why when a was

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richard reeves is near the scene with new information on the accused shooter. police have a suspect in ms., side. 36-year-old -- police have released his picture and that of his car. residents in this neighborhood are fearful about a homicide in their midst. it was a report of gunshotthat led lease year to this apartment complex on saturday night. >> it's very shocking. >> officers arriving at this easement apartment around 10:20 p.m. found the body of a man from hyattsville who police say had been shot multiple times. >> this is believed to be some sort of dispute between two males. >> police believe this man shot and killed him with a handgun. investigators are searching for his 2006 cadillac escalade with possible maryland license tags. >> i have been thinking about movie full -- about moving. i don't want to live next door to killers. >> this does not look like a random act or anything of that nature. the parties involved may have known one another. a people living close by say believe the dispute turned ugly during a busy party. >> neighborhood kids play all around here and there is

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ms. marshall serves as our vice president for the institute for family, community and opportunity. oversees our research areas that determine the character of marriage,ducation, family, religion and civil society. andalso heads our richard helen center for religion and civil society. manages our familyfacts.org online source for the latest social science on those issues. joining us here, she worked both at empower directornd as senior of family studies at the family research council. please join me in welcoming marshall. [applause] >> jennifer? you, john.ank and thank you all for being here for this conversation about in america. we're really pleased to debut this index of culture and onortunity, and here with me stage is david azerrad, my colleague at the heritage foundation. directs the simon center for principles and politics. and the reason we wanted to conversation here today is that david, along with our colleague ryan at hair taij, contributed to the index of culture and opportunity. before we got to the 31 indicators of culture and whether thosed indicators are opening the doors or closing the doors to the americans, well wanted to set the stage with what our concept and idea of was as a whole. and david and rya

ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield three minutes to our colleague, richard hudson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for three minutes. mr. hudson: thank you, mr. speaker. you may notice my sharp jacket tonight. it's a jacket worn in honor of my dear friend and colleague, howard coble. howard was not only -- was not always known for just his colorful jackets. when he first came to town, howard coble was known for his many colorful suspenders. in fact, i don't know how many colors he had but he was well known that he would always have bright colorful suspenders on. next he became known for wearing distinctive hats. in fabblet, -- fact, in the 1990's tim russert used to refer to him as the man with the hat. then it was tim russert's son, luke, who first noticed the jackets a few years ago eands put on his twitter account, mr. speaker, that the jacket howard coble is wearing tonight looks like a, quote, exploding turtle, end quote. so the russert family has long acknowledged howard's unique sense of style, as have many of his cons