that can be used for program securs. guest: any other issues beyond the corporate tax rate were there is an opportunity to work with the president? guest: i will have to look. nothing comes to mind. as we analyze this budget, which so disagree with the direction he took his budget. philosophically, the president and i are on the same page -- are not on the same page. host: thank you for your time. guest: thank you. pleasure to be with you. host: "newsmakers" is back with the jonathan alan. after our conversation went with what looks to be enthused, energetic jim jordan. you were talking about the relationship with his organization, 185 members, and the leadership -- john boehner. what is your sense and watching as about the dynamic between the republican leadership and the republican study committee. guest: right now the republican study committee is so infused with the tea party energy, that they are forcing the leadership's hand. they came out with a bill for the rest of the year, and they went, heck no. they had to co

security officers. it is basically an outreach program. supporting that we have a homeland open security technology program. this is because we recognize that most of you are looking at open source software to reduce your costs. our science and technology office has initiated this program to develop governance, acquisition, and deployment policies so we are all working from a secure information base and that our information assurances is as high as it can possibly be. the third point i want to make is the federal emergency management administration homeland security grant program which is responsible for providing grants across the entire homeland security spectrum. included within that's is cybersecurity. over the last four years, from 2006 to 2009, we have distributed about $27.5 million devoted exclusively to homeland security and cybersecurity, and 9 million in fiscal year 2009. we do not have the 2010 figures in yet. that has led to some innovative programs. south carolina they set up a security operation center and delaware they have

the first i would ask is why do we have a social security program? what we want a system to? if you answer the question social security forum becomes easier to manage. the first social security program in the u.s. and around the world is effectively to force people to save. if you didn't require people to save for retirement a good number would fail. they wouldn't be looking ahead, the and in poverty and retirement and they depend on other people for assistance. so requiring everybody to save their income each month, that helps not just people themselves but also helps the taxpayers that might otherwise have to bail them out. the second task is to redistribute money to the lower earners, the disabled and the survivors. these are people even if they save responsibly every month wouldn't have enough money to provide for themselves at a decent standard of living and retirement. the third task of the social security program is to help people productive consulting their assets to even if you survive age 55 you know your life expectancy is around age 83 but a lot of people live sign

you're individual rate of return is not a function of follow up with the social security program has invested in, it's what tax rates have you been assessed and what does that benefit from ilyse it is going to give you and those determine your personal internal rate of return. if you look at how different people are treated there are certain broad trends you have to look of the system treats everybody. you can't just look at the bonds, you have to look at the whole package. there's certain trends. one is if it redistributes from higher to low-income people generally and the system redistributes money from leave her birth years to earlier to people who retired on social security first got a lot more back than they put in and then the next generation came and they were finding their benefits. the reason your personal return from social security might be low is because of because what is happening with the bond and trust fund but because you're dollars paid for the previous generation. as it happens, the worst treatment by far is going to be for young third-generation zandt this is one

programs have lower costs. the jails have the additional accountability problem that the arresting officers do not work for the same department and then not overseen and supervised by ice. the secure communities program, which involves when people's fingerprints are taken in the jail the databases set up a match against records to see if the person has committed a prior immigration offense. that secure community program is almost at 1000 jurisdictions and will be nationwide. because it is a universal screening program potentially they face some of the same difficulties that we see on a much larger scale. our recommendations are that ice should implement a targeted program and multiple emigration offenders really following this model. we also recommend, and this is something that we could talk about more, the detainers be placed after conviction. this insures that people are convicted of the crimes they committed before they are deported. investigate racial profiling. this is the recommendation of the office of inspector general made twice that ice is still not following. the u.s. department of justice would need to be involved in this. and weigh the costs and benefits of the progr

programs. the caller was talking about medicaid, medicare, social security. let us go to gary. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am an accountant here in warren and i volunteer at the volunteer income tax assistance program. i think that the people are making these decisions should get out on the streets and see the people who need the aid before they make the decisions. when i saw they were cutting the community services block grants in half, it affects all of the low income and vulnerable people in our society and i feel it is a decision they make without proper knowledge of the people it helps. all these people under the community services block grants are the people who are the low income and poverty in our society and need all the help they can get. to cut that program in half seems to be very drastic cuts to the people who need it most, especially here in michigan. just some of the people i did taxes for, the whole family, both mother and father are on unemployment. and without community services monies to help support the programs for these poor people, i don't know

and by the way, do you know what helps the social security program more than anything else? people working, people paying social security taxes, people on the job, all the things that they're cutting in this very same budget. so as mr. tonko tries to make that point and engage that argument, i see nothing but members on this side of the aisle cowering under their desk and hiding behind robert's rules. and when the speaker -- when the chair makes her ruling, listen carefully. she says relying on the best judgment of the chairman of the budget committee. now, i like the chairman of the budget committee, he's a fine man. his judgment, not so much. and i think that we should have this conversation because if there's a fundamental difference here, it is on social security and its future. we want it to be there. and i say to people watching at this hour, first of all, have a warm glass of milk. there might be other ways to get to sleep. but i would say to you, think very carefully about what this budget debate is about. it's very easy to lose side of page this, line that. what it r

security and safety? >> indeed, congressman. we have a whole surface transportation program and strategy that we will make available to you. now, it's a little bit different. so much of it is controlled locally. busway systems and railway systems. chicago is fortunate. they have built now extensive security in the -- within the mu n nis pl limits. we have added so-called viper teams, which are transportation security teams. dogs and equipment in the transportation environment. >> let me thank you for much and again, as other members have done, commend you for what i think the outstanding work is that you do. i certainly look forrd to working more closely with both of you. >> thank you, sir. >> i thank you mr. chairman and yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you, sir. doesn't appear anyone else is here. i thank the witnesses. thank you for your time, your valuable testimony and the members for their questions. members of the committee may have additional questions and i ask that you respond to them in writing, please. the hearing record will be held open for ten days.

they are cutting programs for homeland security to keep our cities and communities safe. they are cutting things that are vital to america and to jobs. they are cutting the training programs, workforce development. a lot of these things are important for economic growth and growing our way out of the republic -- out of the economy. it is a question of being immoral document and there is a clear bright line difference between what president obama is advocating for against what the republican leadership is advocating for. >> is it a bright line or blurry line? when i asked a moment ago about the president's budget, you jump on message to talk about how bad the republicans' budget is and i hear the point. is that your way of saying that the president's budget goes after everyday people in some ways and republicans are worse? are we looking at the better of two evils? >> no. the president's budget increases funding in certain areas. if you listen to his state of the union address and what he wanted to do in his budget, he is making, creating a level of priorities for where inv

i know that the overall majority has a problem on the federal level comes down to three programs: social security, medicare and medicaid. unless we go about tackling those three issues, all the rest of the things that the president is talking about and others on capitol hill are talking about are minor league issues. not saying they're not important; not saying they're not, you know, interesting. and i might like some of them. if you don't deal with those three, those three are going to eat up everything else. we have to start dealing with it. i think the people of the united states are ready for a frank, adult conversation about it. i've seen that in new jersey. i've done a lot of things that people say i don't like, but i'm glad you're taking it on because you have to, because we know we're in trouble. so my view on it and the reason i came down and gave that speech was to say to people stop being afraid and stop tell... selling the people of america short. they're smart. they know we have to do this. >> schieffer: all right. governor, let's take a break here. we'll come back and talk about thi

of this amount, $81 billion has been cut from nonsecurity programs and security related programs have been reduced by $19 billion. these cuts are not ambiguous across the board reductions. they're hard-nosed, tough, line by line reductions in specific programs. these cuts were determined through careful and fair analysis of all discretionary agencies and programs without regard to politicasacred cows. and they affect nearly every facet of the federal government. the cr also includes a provision to eliminate any unobligated stimulus funding approved in the american recovery and reinvestment act saving the taxpayers as much as $5 billion. in addition, this cr provides critical funding for our national defense giving our troops and commanders the resources they need to the maintain the security of our nation and advance our missions abroad. in total the legislation will increase funding for the department of defense by 2% over current year's level giving military leaders the budgetary certainty they need to continue successful operations for the mainder of this fiscal year. the cr includ

the first question i'd ask is why do we have the social security program? what we want the system to do? you answer those questions can social security reform becomes easier to manage. the first half of the social security program both your and the u.s. and around the world is to force people to save. if you require people to save, a good number of people would fail to do it. they wouldn't be looking ahead. they would end up in poverty in retirement and depend on other people for assistance. requiring everyone to save each month helps not just the people themselves, but also helps the taxpayer that might otherwise have to bail them out. the second task is to redistribute money to low earners, the disabled and the survivors. these are people who even if they stayed responsibly every month wouldn't have enough money to provide for themselves at a decent standard of living in retirement. the third path of the social security program is to help people protect against outliving assets. even if he survived a 65 come your life expectancy is around each 83, but a lo

the first i would ask is why do we have a social security program? what we want a system to? if you answer the question social security forum becomes easier to manage. the first social security program in the u.s. and around the world is effectively to force people to save. if you didn't require people to save for retirement a good number would fail. they wouldn't be looking ahead, the and in poverty and retirement and they depend on other people for assistance. so requiring everybody to save their income each month, that helps not just people themselves but also helps the taxpayers that might otherwise have to bail them out. the second task is to redistribute money to the lower earners, the disabled and the survivors. these are people even if they save responsibly every month wouldn't have enough money to provide for themselves at a decent standard of living and retirement. the third task of the social security program is to help people productive consulting their assets to even if you survive age 55 you know your life expectancy is around age 83 but a lot of people live sign

security officers. it is basically an outreach program. supporting that we have a homeland open security technology program. this is because we recognize that most of you are looking at open source software to reduce your costs. our science and technology office has initiated this program to develop governance, acquisition, and deployment policies so we are all working from a secure information base and that our information assurances is as high as it can possibly be. the third point i want to make is the federal emergency management administration homeland security grant program which is responsible for providing grants across the entire homeland security spectrum. included within that's is cybersecurity. over the last four years, from 2006 to 2009, we have distributed about $27.5 million devoted exclusively to homeland security and cybersecurity, and 9 million in fiscal year 2009. we do not have the 2010 figures in yet. that has led to some innovative programs. south carolina they set up a security operation center and delaware they have

let me go through at talk about the secure traveling program.ecking for prohibited items but where i want to move to is assessing the person and that is what was talking about earlier in terms of using more of an intelligence risk-based approach, so clearly, i think there are many opportunities i would like to go into detail with the subcommittee at a later date and still working internally but i think there's very good options we will see this year. >> for several years a number of laws have been arguing it makes no sense to make the pile let's go through when they control the aircraft later on. >> that's why i changed the policy. >> i know that it's incorrect to think he would change members of congress any differently and i appreciate that, but i would just deposit the question if you have a group of people who are permitted under the wall of the united states to have the highest classified briefing you can possibly have, it seems strange to me maybe you have some intelligence you will share with us later that finest members of congress are a

program mandatory. the documents were made public by the department of all men security. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> you are watching c-span, bringing you politics and public affairs. every morning, it is washington journal, our live at call-in program about the news of the day, collecting you with elected officials and policy makers and a journalist. weeknights, a congressional hearings and policy forms, and supreme court oral arguments. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs -- "the communicate is," "2 in," and "prime minister's questions" from the house of commons. c-span, washington your way. it public service created by america's cable companies. "washington journal" continues. host: russell wheeler is a visiting fellow at the brookings institution's governance studies program and is that a small think tank with an interest in it-french relations. he has been studying this issue a federal -- interest in inter- brach relations. he has been studying the issue of federal judicial vacancies. "the washington post" repor

of this amount, $81 billion has been cut from nonsecurity programs and security related programs have been reduced by $19 billion. these cuts are not ambiguous across the board reductions. they're hard-nosed, tough, line by line reductions in specific programs. these cuts were determined through careful and fair analysis of all discretionary agencies and programs without regard to political sacred cows. and they affect nearly every facet of the federal government. the cr also includes a provision to eliminate any unobligated stimulus funding approved in the american recovery and reinvestment act saving the taxpayers as much as $5 billion. in addition, this cr provides critical funding for our national defense giving our troops and commanders the resources they need to the maintain the security of our nation and advance our missions abroad. in total the legislation will increase funding for the department of defense by 2% over current year's level giving military leaders the budgetary certainty they need to continue successful operations for the remainder of this fiscal year. the cr in

i talked to about the secure traveler program. are we checking for things or are we checking for people? >> so right now we are talking about prohibited items and assessing the person and that's what i was talking about earlier in terms of using market intelligence wrist-based approach. clearly i think very many opportunities for tonight to go into detail with the subcommittee at a later date. i'm still working internally, but i think there's some very good options will see later this year. the max for several years we've been arguing it make no sense for the pilots to go through when they controlled the airplane later on. it -- i just posit a question. if you have a group of people who are permitted under the laws of the united states -- did the highest classified review you can possibly have -- it seems strange to me -- maybe you have intelligence to share with the reader to find the members of congress rss that caused. but all i can face your people to a very good job of making sure that i know that they do it through examinati

we're highlighting the stories that made headlines this week welcome to the program the un security council has slapped sanctions on a libya's leader moammar gadhafi and ordered an investigation into crimes against humanity all of this following the bloodshed in the country over one thousand people have been killed in almost two weeks of the uprising against the regime and our correspondent in the area is it all about he's keeping across the developments . the u.n. security council voted unanimously to impose these sanctions on the gadhafi regime that they'll take the form of a travel ban against colonel gadhafi himself as well as others close to him an asset freeze on gadhafi and is in a circle a sixteen names on this list is also an arms embargo placed upon libya now the resolution it was brought forward by france the u.k. germany and the united states also contains a referral to the hague to the international criminal court there so that they can look into allegations of crimes against humanity committed during the two weeks of violence that we've seen in libya governments around the wor

the 15% devoted to so-called discretionary programs, not related to security or defense. the president's budget does call for $78 billion in reductions to growth in pentagon spending over five years, savings recommended by defense secretary robert gates. but neither party is yet tackling the so-called entitlement programs: medicare, medicaid and social security, reforms recommended by the president's deficit commission. for his part, white house budget director jack lu defended the need for bipartisan action on spending. >> i think that we've put down a reasonable plan, a comprehensive plan. it's our plan. and we understand that that's the beginning of the process. we've also said that we don't have a monopoly on all wisdom. we look forward to working with the congress. >> suarez: congressional republicans will have the chance to question director lu in a series of hearings next week. in the meantime house republicans plan to vote on their own plan to cut federal spending for the current fiscal year this week. >> ifill: for more, we get the view from the white house from

the secure communities program involves a fingerprints taken in the jail and information from the fingerprints is set up to the dead adata base. that's secure community program is almost in 1000 jurisdictions and will be nationwide. because it is a universal screening program, they face some of the same difficulties we see with 287-g. ice should implement a targeted program focusing primarily on level one and level two offenders and multiple immigration of vendors. they should follow a las vegas model. we also recommend that the tenors be placed after conviction as they do in los angeles. -- detainers be placed after conviction as they do in los angeles. we recommend a discontinued the universe of jurisdictions and weigh the cost and benefit of the program verses the secure community and other partnerships. if ice decides to keep the program, it only expanded jurisdictions that do not have racial profiling. ice itself along with a partner agencies should conduct more outrage. some jurisdictions including las vegas and prince william county are already doing this. "this should involve a advisor

security contractors. we'll go up in our embassy to 5500, and then our police training program, they'll require some security as well, let's say the better part of a thousand more. and then osci working through dod will also have security contractors as well. we are very, very concerned about that given the blackwater incident in 2007 in downtown baghdad. the state department under undersecretary pat kennedy who's still on the job and still watches us closely did a report outlining all of the problems that led to that tragic event, and we have taken various precautions and various modifications and reforms as have the iraqis. all of these security companies have to be registered with two iraqi ministries. they're under iraqi law. we, in addition, have a variety of new procedures, ttps as we call them or sops that require, for example, a commissioned or full-time state department security employee to ride in every convoy. we have cameras on the vehicles to record everything that goes on. we have blue force trackers to monitor where they are. we have done special training and rules of engagement in culture awa

rules of the so called secured communities program. it forces cities to participate. cities initially had the option of taking part in that program which runs all criminal finger prints through a data base. many law enforcement agencies say that policing immigration should be left to the feds. >> the case against barry bonds is taking shapement we now know that secret recordings between bonds and his former personal trainer will be used in the trial. the judge ruled that they can play the conversations during trial. in it bonds and anderson allegedly talk about the complexities of injecting steroids. bonds' trial starts next month, charged with lying to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. >> people who oppose smart meters take to the streets. protesters plan to march outside of the california public utilities commission in san francisco. they want the right to opt out of having a smart meter. some are concerned that the meters can have adverse health effects. the cpuc is the only government agency that can regulate what pg&e

y are we talking about cutting this social security insurance program that ever went has been paying ? i am not sure. it seemed like bernie sanders is on the money 20 says let's increase the social security tax for the progressive way for turner's above the limit to three that would solve the problem. i believe him. guest: i do not know extending the capp will solve the problem. first, you are taxing wages up to $100,000. and then a situation where you are taxing significantly everybody's wages up to a $1 million. this is a remarkable change to the social security system. it will charge the wealthy quite significantly. most changes talk about try to balance both ways. the caller is right. in 2037, you will see the trust fund run out and social security 3/4 ofe able to pay out threefor benefits. these people are relying on the system to work and nearly 100% capacity. if we start now and make small changes -- raise the cap and maybe raise the tax rate a little, make the where we pay benefits more progressive -- we can phase these changes in slowly. make most of the cuts the top 50%. the

it does not address the fast growing and expensive programs of medicare, medicaid, and social security. >>> the marks took a breather early in the week, but the rally kept on rolling midweek. by wednesday, the s&p 500 doubled its lows of march 2009, and the markets hit two and a half year highs. >>> convicted swindler bernard madoff has granted his first jailhouse interview. madoff telling the "new york times" he never thought the collapse of his ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction it did to his family, and he also said that various banks and hedge funds, quote, had to know about his fraud. and their attitude was iyou're doing something wrong, we don't want to know about it. >>> the federal reserve says the economy is taking up steam in minutes from the fed's last meeting. officials were slightly more optimistic than in the past, but said they would not change their plans to continue buying $600 billion in bonds. >>> and china now has the world's second largest economy, surpassing japan in total size of the gross domestic product. the united states stills that world's larg

the homeland security title of this c.r. responsibly funds programs vital to our nation's security and it will help them get back on track from our federal budget perspective. i thank the distinguished appropriations chairman for yielding this time and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. price, who has been the chairman and now the ranking member of the homeland security subcommittee. the chair: the gentleman yields three minutes to the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: mr. speaker, i'm afraid if there ever were a case of overheated campaign rhetoric overtaking responsible governing, then we're seeing that case here today. far from continuing to fund the government through to the end of the fiscal year, this measure would dramatically slash the investments in our economic recovery and undermine our national security in the process. i don't know why we even call it a continuing

program. our guest is homeland security secretary, janet napolitano. with us is a correspondent from the "the los angeles times," brian bennett, and a correspondent for a "the new york times," eric lipton. >> the department says you're hoping to have 1000 of these new technologies in by the end of the year. does the budget allow you to meet that target? >> i think we will be able to meet that target. we are already pirating the next wave of software, and we are always moving to try to address the concerns that were raised. the reason we do pat-downs is because of the intelligence and the threats. there is evidence of the fact that our adversaries understand that explosives hidden in certain areas can be found because they know of our sensitivities, quite frankly, and we recognize that and respect that, and so, what we have done is with the new technologies, we have a much better way of finding nonmetallic substances. magnetometers, obviously, cannot find those. there is a very small number of passengers. what we found through thanksgiving and christmas

the deficit and reduce spending overall was that we need to look at these entitlement programs from social security to medicare. we have to rein in spending on those programs. otherwise, the budget, overall, is going to continue to grow and we will continue to see deficits growing into the future. so, frankly, when you look at the very people who the president tasked with figuring out how to solve this problem and what they say needs to be done, they say you need to look at medicare and you need to look at social security and that is still the big elephant in the room and hasn't been addressed here. >> what are the other big question marks as you look through this? >> reporter: well, when you look at this plan, any model, any look at the future has to make assumptions about what is going to happen in the future. and one of those big question marks is the future growth of the united states and our economy. and what you see in this plan, in the proposal for the president's budget, is that the growth assumptions are pretty aggressive. they are very optimistic about the state of our future and, in fact

because social security's going to be the last federal program standing. social security's going to be there after the pentagon has been vacated and leased out to somebody else. why do i know this? because every year, maybe it's every six months, i never can keep this straight, i get, you get a statement from the social security administration, and what does it say? it says you have an account balance. here's your account balance, and your name is right next to that account balance, and you start to think that, yeah, there actually is some money in some place in washington with my name on it. and if somebody takes that away, i'm really going to feel hard put upon. i don't get a statement of account from the pentagon. i don't get a statement of account from the department of energy. so you can cut the pentagon, and i'm not going to feel as though you took away something that's owed me. be few you -- but if you start messing with my social security, i'm really going to feel the pain. by the way, do you know why it's that way? it's that franklin roosevelt in 1

secretary, of the congressional budget office shows permanent deficits in the social security program meaning that social security payroll tax can't fully cover the benefits. in other words the cost of paying benefits is more than revenues coming in to pay. you would agree. we are in on a very tight time schedule so i will ask a few simple questions and i ask you to be brief in responding if you would. how are we paying benefits if we don't have sufficient payroll taxes. is 310 -- treasury paying social security interested is turning from the i/o yous treasury gave the system when it barred payroll taxes bumped social security to pay for other government spending? >> we have the ability to meet our commitments to social security beneficiaries and we will continue to meet that obligation but we recognize as many of your colleagues to that over the longer-term, we have some time to get this right, we need to make sure we secure social security for future generations and that will require some changes and as the president said we are willing to work with all of you to figure out the best

so you've got a number of programs focusing on assisting critical infrastructure and identifying, ra mediating cyber security risks, but for a portion, they receive a lot less funding, those programs, than the ones focused on protecting the federal government websites in cyberspace. do you have enough to do what you need to do in that area? since so much of our critical infrastructure is in private hands hands. >> it is, but it also is getting resources from the private sector. the operators, for example, of the grids know -- the operators of our financial institutions -- the big critical infrastructure and institutions we all know that are so important to us and potentially subject to cyber attack. they're putting resources into this as well. we're working closely with them, but this is a -- this has to be a multiyear and probably an ongoing type of expenditure that we have, and i think where we were prioritizing is where we think we need to start and where we have the greatest need, and that is making sure that the federal government itself is protected. >> okay. and then the note has now been amended to s

security. it was not as large as this program, but it was significant. the state department provide security for all of our personnel in pakistan while it is somewhat -- pakistan. i was involved in the transition on the military side. we turned over in saigon and a tremendous equipment delivery and security mission said in february, 1973. >> ambassador, i believe you testified that when you were in iraq previously that it was sort of rock-and-roll in terms of why you were dealing with. one of the concerns -- what you were dealing with. one of my concerns is we do not want to put our personnel danger. i am sure you share those concerns. want do you -- what do you recommend? >> the assumptions i have made that we can do -- i would go beyond adequate -- that we can do security that i am comfortable with, based upon the continuation of the current security trends, with attacks down 90% from the high point in that era, with the iraqi security forces on the job, they still have areas they need to be improved, and that exposes weaknesses, but there the our secur

recommended the board seek additional funding to secure a second pilot program and you also recommended that the establishment of the committee to ensure that ifd would not deplete the general fund. the planning department has been actively involved in the process since you heard the ordinance this summer. this week the board unanimously approved all eight pieces of the legislation on first reading, the property owners in the area also voted on that tuesday and their vote was counted on the board. there was 100% approval by all property owners. all that awaits is the second reading and the mayor's signature. the city will have created the first ifd in the state. this week i also wanted to share an ordinance introduced that would amend the planning code having to deal largely with restaurant controls and increase the maximum size for small self service restaurants and the minimum size for large self service restaurants and it would require that certain other provisions including removing a prohibition on on site food preparation in retail coffee stores. that will be before you within 90

we have secured sustained media coverage for all of the program's highlights. most recently with the use of "big red" the wrecking ball at the terminal center. we also had a successful transition to phase two operations at the terminal. looking ahead to this year, we will continue our outreach project as the work progresses with a specific focus on phase three and four demolition activities. we are now moving to a new area of the project, the western side of the ramp, so we are ramping up our outreach to those neighbors as well. we are also coordinating communication for utility efforts, buttress and shoring, and excavation efforts happening. we will continue our e-mail updates and continue to hold our monthly elkridge meetings at the tjpa. media efforts will focus on securing national exposure for our engineering and construction accomplishments. as you are aware, this is one of the most exciting projects under construction in the country and we will be pitching what it takes to build the first modern high-speed rail station in the country. >> thank you. now n

administration, supplemental security program, $13,400 million. section 1110, amounts incorporated by reference in this division that were previously designated for overseas deployment and other activities pursuant to senate concurrent resolution 13, 111th congress, are designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism. pursuant to section 3-c-2 of house resolution 5, 112th congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 403-a of senate concurrent resolution 13, 111th congress. section 1111, any language specifying an earmark in an appropriations act for fiscal year 2010 or in a committee report or joint statement accompanying such an act shall have no legal effect with respect to funds appropriated by this division. for purposes of this section, the term "earmarked" means congressional earmark or congressionality directed spending item. section 1112, none of the funds appropriated may be used to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or within the united states as territories or pos

the blackwater security efforts. >> senator, we currently have 2700 security contractors. 5500, and then our police training program will require some security, as well, let's say the better part of 1000 more, and thenosci, working through dod, will also have security contractors, as well. we are very concerned, given the blackwater incident in downtown baghdad. the state department, under another person who is still on the job, did a report, outlining all of the problems that led to that tragic event, and we have taken various precautions and various modifications and reforms. the security companies have to be registered with two iraqi ministries. they are under iraqi law. we, in addition, have new as we call tcp's, them, that require a full-time state department employees to ride in every convoy. we have cameras on the vehicles to record everything that goes on. we monitor where they are. we have done special training in was of an engagement and cultural -- training in rules of engagement and cultural issues. we have not had a serious incident since 2007. >> thank you. general austin, the u.s. government's presen

and administration of tsa's program for service transportation security.d that we introduced along with chairman thompson a major purgation security initiative, h.r. 2200 of the last congress, focused on the growing professional development of our members said the tsa team in a number of other very important security reforms. i hope mr. chairman, will have an opportunity to look again and work together with you. mr. chairman, and from early discussions with you we share the same commitment to securing nations transportation systems to administrator pistol coming will commute into the sub committee and look forward to your testimony. since you were confirmed a month ago come you've been presented with the merida challenges from explosives shipped from yemen to enhance patdown screening that is giving. and through it all you show leadership and determination and trying to get it right in addressing thread eternal transportation. i specifically remember engaging with you during the transportation enhancement process during thanksgiving and christmas am actual

own up to it you know you tell us every day how vital all of your actions and your programs are to the nation's security interests so if it's so vital then what's the big secret maybe it's the fact that average americans are getting screwed the programs are vital to their livelihood are on the chopping block because our country has a bit of a spending problem and defense is one of the worst culprits so the d.o.d. trying to hide fifty six billion dollars worth of classified spending hoping that no one is going to notice it's just sickening to me you should be embarrassed that your pockets are getting stopped at the expense of everyone else. welcome to happy hour when a lot of pressure out what voters wrestling matches rather than their daughter as a wrestling match of the male daughter you know that. really crazy because one of my favorite stories that i heard today was about this high school wrestler who was taking place in the championship i mean this is only the first round he decided not to compete because he didn't want to go up against the girl because he said that wrestling can sometimes be violen

agree on changes to he's confident republicans and democrats can agree on changes in social security and other programs, and he thinks investors and the markets want to shrink the deficit. >> if they see us chipping away at this problem in a serious way, even if we haven't solved 100% of it all in one fell swoop, then that will provide more confidence that washington can work. and more than anything, that's not just what the markets want; that's what the american people want. >> susie: but that's not how republican house budget committee chairman paul ryan sees it. ryan said the president hasn't shown the leadership needed to tame the deficit. house republicans want $61 billion worth of cuts in federal spending this year. >> tom, for all of the hoopla about that big merger we've been talking about at the new york stock exchange, the new york stock exchange euro nex stock itself was down today, as was the dow average. >> tom: in fact, a little bit of profit-taking not only in the exchange sector, but most of the equity sectors. let's go ahead and get everybody updated in tonight's "market focus." the ma