the technique stp same as a pottery wheel. >> the great thing about this profession is you have directntact to many areas of craftsmanship. leading up to the table. you see how the individual parts are created. >> the choice of materials is often key to sebastian's success. he was inspired by christmas martials when he -- he used paper-thin glass with silver coating on the inside. the color of his glass was the inspiration. these lamps can be plugged into each other or plugged into other household products. >> some people might think designers are superofficial and just come up with new styles. but design also involves using know-how to create a new product. it's often the designers themselves that inspire the new direction taken by engineers. >> he is only 29 but already has some speck tackler achievements under his belt. he was invited to milan twice and teaches as the -- >> in 2010 he won the coveted red-dot award. he's the rising star of german design. >> i don't see myself as a star at all. of course it's a great honor to get all these prizes. i'm still overjoyed to have received

. >> do you support the decision not to expand the stp program for private airport screeners and do you think this is good for security? >> i think administrator vestal who was former deputy director of the fbi has made the right call here. for several reasons. one, is he wants to maintain flexibility to surge resources when he needs to and there are issues there when talking about privatization of the screening population. secondary, the studies that have been -- you know, they still have to meet tsa requirements in terms of what they do. they are more expensive than simply maintaining it within the tsa structure and that's been issue and thirdly, it's important to recognize that when you privatize, you still have unions. several of the privatized workforces are indeed also unionized. >> thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman and i yield back. >> the gentleman from missouri is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. >> no, you don't. thank you very much. >> thank you, secretary for being here. back in december, you announced that additional dhs officers were being sent to afgh

. >> do you support the decision not to expand the stp program for private airport screeners and do yousecurity? >> i think administrator vestal who was former deputy director of the fbi has made the right call here. for several reasons. one, is he wants to maintain flexibility to surge resources when he needs to and there are issues there when talking about privatization of th screening pulation. secondary, the studies that have been -- you know, they still have toeet tsa requirements in terms of what they do. they are more expensive than simply maintaining it within the tsa structure and that's been issue and thirdly, it's important to recognize that when you privatize, you still have unions. several of the privatized workforces are indeed also unionized. >> thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman and i yield back. >> the gentleman from missouri is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. >> no, you don't. thank you very much. >> thank you, secretary for being here. back in december, you announced that additional dhs officers were being to afghanistan to assist in border contro

another bank stp-rbgs waste and -- waste and fraud in the health care system. provisions in the health care law reduce waste and the value index that i and others pushed for in the health care reform bill is going to ensure that we reward value, not volume, in medicare. now, in texas, for example, medicare reimbursements are about 50% higher per patient -- per patient -- than they are in minnesota. yet, in minnesota we have better outcomes. why? because we deliver higher-value health care at a much lower cost. imagine how many tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars we could save if every state delivered health care like minnesota does, like my state does. also in medicare, the government pays too much for medicare prescription drugs, because medicare represents so many people it could negotiate prices directly with the drug companies and deliver the same benefits for seniors at a much, at a lower cost. the v.a. already does this. the v.a. does this. this simple change could save taxpayers up to $24 billion a year, or $240 billion over ten years. th