they can come to osc. they can come to congress.they experience retaliation, we can open up an investigation, where we can use the expedited review process to try to get relief very quickly for them, and we have gotten relief quickly -- >> you're still talking about relief to protect them. i want to follow -- keep going on the track. what is the procedure for disciplinary proceeding to set the example? i mean, look, that's half of what criminal justice system is all about. it's part of what an employee justice system is about. to set this example. here we're modeling the behavior of this collaborative approach. over here, we don't want this to happen. sending somebody to an office with a hole in the floor. sending somebody else to an office with no windows. these are things not tolerable. and we're going to demonstrate that to all the other employees by saying, oh, that person was let go. they didn't uphold a standard of core operative collaborative spirit that we hold dear in our workplace. >> disciplinary action is really key to a

osc has about 140 employees. we are stretched pretty thin. we have reallocated our resources to prioritize our work on v.a. cases. perhaps most vividly, we implemented an expedited review process for retaliation cases. this process allows osc to prevent -- present strong cases to the v.a. at an early stage, sick -- saving significant time and resources and getting quicker relief for employees. in the past year, we have obtained 22 corrective actions for ba whistleblowers through this expedited process, include a settlement on behalf of dr. catherine mitchell who you heard from earlier and two other phoenix v.a. employees who were at the heart of the wait time scandal. my written testimony summarizes a number of the other cases we resolved through this expedited program including three v.a. whistleblower complaint settled last week. it's a sign of progress that the v.a. leadership agreed to the expedited review process and also agree to resolve many more cases through our regular processes, including mediation. 99 to be exact. we are also enco

perkins indicated the osc opinion leaves the questiont -- is, where does that stop? is it just those three statutes or other provisions? the fbi has identified 10 other categories that they have concerns about. just yesterday, i am told in our review of the fbi's use of the bulk statute, a review that this committee has very much to been interested in and are doing, we got records with rate actions. not for grand jury title iii or fair credit information because those have been dealt with, but for other areas that the fbi has identified legal concerns about. while the process has improved, we are still getting redacted information and it is not resolved. do you think this should be resolved legislatively than? mr. horowitz: there is no other, i think, solution at this point. ms. klobuchar: mr. horowitz, under the office of legal counsel's opinion, there is three types of information here. you mentioned the title iii, the credit reporting act information. it's as we know highly sensitive and confidential -- and we certainly had some breaches lately. what do you have i

local mandate that allows the business awe kruger's up to the 48 hours with the understanding that the osc has the rule around accrual their rule around accrual as best understood my their rule making in 2007 that an individual can use as it is accrued so of they've accrued and used - if they've accrued. >> they can continue awe kruger and not meet the 24 hours cap. >> it makes sense but the people with the least resources or the micro under the 10 in the city if we can make it clear if you don't choose the twenty-four hours vested but go to a 48 hours. >> our understanding and bryan correct me that our discussion us go with the state there are to options or being able two options the up front allocation or an accrual allocation what we the probability not put in here the state said you you know as a business can say well, you can only utility 3 days of that pay is it doesn't matter if this is up front you can limit the amount you as angle employer pay out san francisco does allow you to pay that out if you have it in our bank to use we didn't include that in our summary of combining into

. >> osc >>> in ferguson, we saw a movement take shape and take off. biggest supporters may have been the ones left behind. black women are seen as members of the movement, those associate are african-american men. now the louder. >> on that here is christopher putzel >>> the morning, march 31st, 2012, a month after the murder of traifon martin. this man turned on his tv to the news that two had been shot. >> i'm looking at the tv. there's a surgeon on the tv and says that the young lady who was shot - there's a slim chance that she'll survive. they don't want to operate or do surgery, because it will kill her. i'm looking and i see 22-year-old girl, 39-year-old man shot. i sent my prayers to the family, i hope god heels their minds, right. >> reporter: what he didn't know was that he was praying for his own sister. dante, an off duty police detective fired shots into a group of people standing in an ally near his home. sutton's sister was shot in the back of the head and barely clinging to life in hospital. >> that said, let's me talk to you. said if

in fact, your statement reads that the osc is on track to receive more than 3800 prohibitive personal practice complaints in this year and that more than 1300 are approximately 35% of those will be filed by v.a. employees. you also make this point. v.a. now surpasses dod in the total number of cases filed with osc despite the fact that dod has twice the number of civilian personnel. i know that secretary mcdonald and his team are working to change the culture at the v.a. yet complaints keep coming. more must be done to change the culture at the v.a. to improve the system so that there is aggressive action against those who retaliate against whistleblowers. the question i have for you is but i would also like to hear what ms. halliday have to say is what specifically do we need to do to change the culture here? >> i think there are several steps that we can take. there are no easy fixes. there are important stacks that the v.a. can take. we have to keep working to change the culture to embrace whittle -- whistleblowers. changing the culture begins with an understanding that we need emp

osc oscar miss tore yas's early release on hold. they say his case has to be reviewed again by a parole board before he's moved to house arrest. he was set to be released this friday. he served ten months of a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend. back to you. >>> all right. thank you. a developing story now. hackers claimed to have leaked a massive list of users from ashley madison.com. that's the match making website for cheating spouses. an enormous amount of data was found on dark web. experts who have analyzed say this the data includes millions of names, credit card numbers and amounts today. it is cooperating into an investigation into the leak. the hackers said they didn't want money. they just wachnted to embarrass the users. >> i think that worked. the next time you go to the movies, don't be surprised if your bags are searched. a new policy to search backpacks and bags. no word yet if the theater in our area will go ahead with the new policy. >>> maybe a competing football team should wait until monday to compete

took the leadership to develop not only laws in america but to show international leadership in the osc countries. we now have special representatives and reports every year are trafficking, best practices. practices. why, because of the u.s. leadership, because of what we have done in this country. we've celebrated 15 years of the trafficking victims protection act this year, it was a tremendous victory. as a result we have the trafficking in persons report which is the gold standard, it is on my desk, i look at it before i look at and a representative of another country so i can look at their trafficking issues. if they want to have the type of relationship with our country they have to make fighting trafficking a high priority in their country. we we take great pride in the leadership of our country. the 2015 report causes me concern. causes me concern. i want to get answers today about the 2015 report. their upgrades in this report that are hard to understand. i put malaysia number one on the list, malaysia has a very serious problem of trafficking of labor. we we know about it, we

again, getting back to osc, helsinki principles. giving a little more focus on the economics. that's what russia is so interested in. unfortunately, the united states is less interested in that as a topic. but can we bring russia more fully on the economic side as we did 40 years ago through the helsinki final act encouraging that. >> and finally, that human dimension, never forgetting that four million people live in the arctic. this is a human rights issue. we need to build greater resilience into all of those challenges that i showed you. so perhaps we need a little more innovation. as we think about the arctic, the arctic council has been a wonderful tool. i think it's insufficient for the challenges that i have suggested. and before i welcome marlene and steve up, let me stop and thank an incredibly important member of our team, carolyn rolloff, who is my co-author. carolyn has worked tirelessly on this project, and we could not have done this without her, so my thanks and special gratitude for my wingman on this project. so with that, and i have gone on for much too long

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no more snap exercises they must be notified 45 days prior to, again getic back to osce principles. giving a little more focus on the economics. that is what russia is so interested in. unfortunately the united states is less interested as a topic. but can we bring russia more fully on the economic side as we did 40 years ago? encouraging that. and finally that human dimension, never forgetting that 4 million people live in the arctic. this is a human rights issue. we need to build great require sillions into all of theas challenges. so perhaps we need a little more innovation. the arctic council has been a wonderful tool. i think it's insufficient for the challenges that i have suggested. and before i welcome mar lean and steve up, let me stop and thank an incredibly important team. of our carolyn, who is my coauthor. she is in the back. carolyn has worked tirelessly on this project and we could not have done this team. carolyn, who without her. so my thanks and special gratitude for my wing man on this project. so with that -- and i have gone on for much too long. let's start the