july 4th, 2012, the new bureau was announced. the administration has requested $228 million to fund various anti-terrorism with the bureau. in fiscal year $286 million and fiscal year 2012 will be 238 and they are seeking a significant decrease in funds available for anti-terrorism programs. i'd like to thank ambassador benjamin for his service. and i look forward to his continuing service in this continuing difficult global environment. i am less skeptical of the chairman of the bureau of counterterrorism being in fact a bureau and not an office and even if the administration was seeking an increase in funding for the bureau, i -- given the importance of your work would be supportive but it appears from the statistics i just went over that the administration is able to function without seeking an increase. one program of particular importance is the encountering violent extremism for at-risk youths for prop begpropaganda a dissuade terrorists to announce their affiliation. the state department has identified five countries, alger

. >> just ahead, richard cordray, director of the consumer financial protection bureau, on the new rules being considered by his agency. then a look at ballot initiatives effecting women in this year's elections. and later a white house official talks about the obama administration's proposal for protecting consumer data privacy. >> during the two week congressional recess, we'll be featuring some of booktv's weekend programs in prime time. tonight, a look at the revolutionary movements in the middle east. after the "the communicators," we start with the author of "liberation square: inside the egyptian revolution and the rebirth of a nation." then at 9:55 eastern, the senior political analyst with al-jazeera talks about his book, "the invisible arab." after that at 11:05 eastern, noni darwish will talk about her book, "the devil we don't know." booktv in prime time all this week here on c-span2. >> c-span's 2012 local content vehicle cities tour takes our booktv and american history tv programming on the road. the first weekend of each month. this past weekend featured little rock, arka

the semiannual report to the consumer financial protection bureau. the cfpb is an independent federal agency whose authority, as many of us have said, is far reaching. some have said unprecedented. title x of the dodd-frank act gives discretion to the director almost unfettered to find services deemed to be unfair or abusive and to ban them under what has been described as a highly subjective standard that has no legally defined content. all of us agree on the need to protect consumers. all of us also agreed that every government bureaucracy needs transparency and oversight. the simple proof -- if we can have a little order. the simple truth is there is no reason we cannot have both robust consumer protection and an agency that is accountable for the action it takes and the resources it uses. the call for greater accountability was not well served by the president's decision to circumvent the advice and consent of the senate and install the cfpb's director in a constitutionally questionable maneuver. as i told you previously, mr. cordray, i believe ne

that is something i have indicated is the point of emphasis for the bureau. this goes back to my personal background. i served as the elected state treasurer of ohio and attorney general. i worked with smaller banks because we have a lending program we made available and the number of them participated in that. we created a community bankers council that advised me about all aspects of work we were doing at the treasury. when i became attorney general, i did that and had a bankers advisory council on the issues we touched on in the attorney general's office. we are going to have a community bank advisory council and a credit union advisory council. we met earlier this week to work out how we will select members for that. they will have very direct input to me. we are required by law in a number of our role makings that gives small providers and banks to pepper tree to give us rule proposals and how that would impact our decisions and whether there should be adjustments made. that's something we will consider with each of our proposals. the international transf

and the easy way to get around it was not to elevate you to bureau status within the existing -- i just want to explain that. we're good on that. but it's the agency, you know, it's the department that i think needs to play by the rules that are set out in terms of the constraint. but go ahead here. >> with regard to the issue and we do find it remarkable but we still to this point do not have any evidence that suggests that the pakistani government per se had any knowledge of bin laden's whereabouts and we have no conclusive evidence that the pakistani government knew where he was. >>. >> let me ask you in africa, let me thought here the relationship with al qaeda. after the easter attacks on a number of churches in nigeria, it left dozens of people dead. and islamist fighters have now descended on the northern part of the country. top leaders of al qaeda's north african branch have been seen in the area reportedly. so i would just ask you, what is the outlook there? i had a muslim governor of a northern nigeria providence tell me that he was very, very concerned with the cha

later, david givens from argus discuss of the work of the bureau of land management. "washington journal" is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] host: the headline reads "u.s. vows to stay in afghanistan until 2024, a full decade after the former troop withdrawal. looking at reaction on capitol hill today and this week. and we want to get your reaction to that headline. we will give you as much detail as we can about this u.s.-afghan pact. there are a couple of other ways to reach "washington journal." lots of different headlines of afghanistan start today. this is "the financial times." nancy green writes from karachi. here is a quote -- looking for your reaction to the headline this morning. we will get to your calls and a couple of minutes but we want to show you the "new york times was would headline on all of this. -- "the new york times" headline on this. your headline uses the word aid -- tellus exactly what the aid will look like if you have the details. guest: we don't have deta

the bureau says the european debt problems dampened demand for chinese goods. it also cites the rising labor costs in china and soaring oil prices as factors for the slowdown. >> translator: china faces crucial issues like a slowdown in exports and surging consumer prices. >> observers say china will determine when to ease its monetary policy as it watches how the economy is performing. measures will include interest rate cuts. international monetary fund managing director christine lagarde has repeated a need to boost its bailout lending capacity for indebted nations. this is to prevent the debt crisis from spreading beyond the eurozone. she said on thursday, some improvement in the economic climate has been seen because eurozone members agreed to boost their rescue fund. a series of global financial meetings, including the group of 20, are scheduled in washington next week. lagarde expressed her hope that some agreements will be reached to boost the imf bailout fund. >> by the expression of support by many of our members to increase our resources, and i'm hop

recently, for the 20th anniversary of the bureau, and attending that were a number of the vietnamese f, cameramen and sound men, and bureau drivers. and with them were their grown children. and some of them now were doctors, nurses, stockbrokers. you name it. i think they've been a great credit to this country, and we should all be very proud of them. thank you. >> good evening. i'm george esper. after the -- thank you very much. thank you. after the last u.s. helicopter left vietnam 20 years ago, the incoming teletype in the "associated press" bureau clicked off a message from our general manager then, wes gallagher. gallagher was concerned about the safety of peter arnett, matt frangola, who's here with us tonight, and myself. he advised one final helicopter might be returning. any of you want to leave if it works out, he messaged. i never really bothered to ask peter or matt because i knew what their answer would be. thanks for your offer, i replied to gallagher, we want to stay. during our many, many years as war correspondents for the "ap," all of us, i think, wondered how and wh

of two thousand and eight in spite of protests from governor ritter and colorado legislators and the bureau of land management went ahead with the federal auction of leases on the rhone plateau. the entire top of the plateau fifty five thousand acres it was leased nearly fifteen thousand citizens sent protest letters but the bureau found the protests to be without merit and issued the leases anyway our goal is ciro incidents and zero impact on the environment and there. were not there obviously. we do have injuries we do have still. but we try to prevent them or we do the best we can sign in our game shows them off across the road anywhere i mean you know that's not how it's not in writing just this natural gas went out in a while are also natural gas on the market interest. today's hearing will examine loopholes in federal health and environmental protections that are exploited by the oil and gas industry as children we all learned about basic fairness and we know that it's not just not fair when someone gets to play by different rules than the rest of us but as we learned today there is o

seven usually elected colorado governor bill ritter is faced with a critical confrontation with the bureau of land management and agency of the interior department they had authorized more than fifteen hundred new gas wells on the rhone plateau one of the last pristine areas in garfield county we just started with a very modest request. for a new administration and we were turned down and we don't think twenty four days is enough for us to be able to really have a thoughtful and. response there is too much that we don't know for us to be able to really respond in a very short amount of time so that's going to push very hard with secretary kempthorne and me asking to grant the governor the request the governor has made of him. in the summer of two thousand and eight in spite of protests from governor ritter and colorado legislators the bureau of land management went ahead with a federal auction of leases on the rhone plateau. the entire top of the plateau fifty five thousand acres it was leased nearly fifteen thousand citizens sent protest letters but the bureau found the protests to be wit

fifty five thousand acres was leased nearly fifteen thousand citizens sent protest letters but the bureau found the protests to be without merit and issued the leases anyway our goal is to row incidents and zero impact on the environment and. we're not there obviously. we do have injuries we do have stills. but we try and prevent them which in the past we can sign in our game shows that often across the road and where i mean you know that's not how it's not a more dangerous as natural gas coming out in a while or all scales of the natural gas not from an archangel. today's hearing will examine loopholes and several health and environmental protections that are exploited by the oil and gas industry as children we all learned about basic fairness and we know that it's not just not fair would someone gets to play by different rules than the rest of us but as we will learn today there is one set of environmental rules for the oil and gas industry and a different set of rules for the rest of america the federal government's got to be involved in that this isn't something that the states can do

it looks like we've been working very closely with the department of justice and the bureau of indian affairs and they have outlined some administrative and possible legislative options. and so the next step would be to decide what our priorities are for those options, and then to consult with the tribes, because some of those options actually do involve whether the tribes will be helping us with this problem. we would be happy to discuss the details of those options with you and work with you on this issue. but now that i've seen we've made progress in identifying some specific options, then i will do what i can to push for resolution. >> thank you very much very much. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator. my question is for the panel. the budget control act requires an enforcement mechanism called and i did mention in my opening remarks sequestration. and due to take effect in january of 2013. my question to the panel is what would the sequestration have on the department's budget and your ability to provide core services to tribes? >> well, we are very concerned

, and the commander from the operations bureau. this evening we are going to start with a few words from the chief of police gregory suhr. >> good evening. i want to thank everybody for being here. we are a very proud police department, rich in tradition. this week, we had a promotion ceremony on monday where we promoted sergeants, lieutenants, captains, and members of the command staff. we've recently brought back the retirement ceremony. i think for everyone in the police department, this particular ceremony stands above the rest. every day, the men and women of the san francisco police department go out and put it on the line every single day. they leave their families and little ones -- it is so great to see the kids and parents here. every day, they go out to put themselves between the bad guys themselves without us. more than every once in awhile, the officers do something extraordinary. you will hear some stories tonight that are going to make you amazed that someone would do that for someone they have never met before. i kno

and here's the kicker the bureau of prisons did this reportedly at the request of an anonymous congressman and isolation is no joke human rights groups have said that the experience can be considered tantamount to torture and here is what a staff attorney from the center for constitutional rights had to say that isolation. bill are being cut off physically from their families in a way is that just sort of from their legitimate purpose whatsoever this is deeply upsetting the only two. clients who are incarcerated but also deeply destructive to their children and their status is to their loved ones. now to christopher's case he was given little exercise little fresh air and minimal contact with the outside world and his lawyer patrick shea said that his clients mental state started to visibly worse and after just three weeks now thankfully for christopher the new spark of public outcry fishel integrated him back into the general prison population and i took shape told us tim would still be in isolation but for a free press now prisoners in the federal system are thrown in isolation without d

we have a number of people have come to the bureau. i'm pleased to say who have come not from other federal agencies or not from state government or not from the public sector at all, but from private sector entities. .. >> i've heard quite a bit about him. >> okay. they're trying to recommend him, i believe, for a position with your agency. are you considering that at all? >> that's news to me, sir. >> okay. i was just curious. the reason i ask is because he's been rather outspoken with regards to his opinion of oversight with regards to the financial services industry. in fact, in 2010 at duke university school of business he made a statement that says we've hired 50 lawyers, ph.d.s and mbas to basically terrorize the financial services industry. that gives me great pause whenever somebody like that is being recommended to your agency. if they have the attitude going in that they're there to terrorize the industry that they have oversight over, what's your reaction to that quote? >> i don't have any particular reaction. i'm not famili

the requesting bureau must now ensure that adequate resources are identified early in planning. the cognizant assistant secretary must certify planning and oversight is adequate for every service contract valued in annual expenditure of over $25 million and also verify annually that oversight continues to be sufficient. we have also increased accountability by mandating that contract oversight work elements include performance appraisals of technical personnel with contract management responsibilities. all cors and government technical monitors must now complete a 40-hour training course which we updated to be more interactive, skills-based and adult learning focused. a separate class session has been tailored for diplomatic security cors who deal with local guards and other security programs overseas, all department cors supporting dod-issued contracts for iraq mission take additional dod training in the contingency environment and inny the other specialty training related to that specific contract. this ensures that state personnel managing dod contingency contracts meet the do

the regional bureaus control the rest of the funds to the end of the bureau of counterterrorism can play robust role as envisioned, and by the way, we on the subcommittee support that will come of that equation has got to change in terms of control of those funds. the counterterrorism landscape has changed substantially since the investors testimony one year ago, osama bin laden and anwar al-awlaki are now dead but the senior obama administration officials have gone so far to declare that the united states has i report the administration within the reach of the strategically defeating al qaeda. yet just weeks before bin ladens's def we had testimony before this subcommittee ambassador benjamin mengin at time we continue to see a strong flow of recruits into many of the most dangerous terrorist organizations so we will hear it that is the case today. but a year has brought other changes as well. radical elements have egypt looking into the abyss. armed militia have them be and there are concerns over the fighters of syria. it's hard to see how some of these developments have not harmed u.

the c.t. bureau helps stand up an interagency body that works with communicators in the field to counter counteterrorism. it challenges messages online in different languages on social networking sites and produces targeted, attributed videos. successful cve involves more than just messaging including social media programs to generate constructive local initiatives. we are supporting skill building and mentoring efforts. let me turn to multilateral engagement. in particular, the global counter-terrorism forum. strengthening partnerships is at the heart of our efforts. one of our initiatives is building the architecture to address 21st century terrorism to fill a critical gap. allowing policy-makers and practitioners to share expertise, experiences, and lessons learned and mobilize resources and political will. the bureau created the global counter-terrorism forum. secretary clinton was quite clear mandate we do not need another debate. we need a catalyst for action. in this spirit, two deliverable is

the u.s. census bureau was surprised by how many americans were looking forward to looking back. day's release of the 1940 census set off an internet avalanche. 22 million hits overwhelmed the bureau's computers. anthony mason looks at what you might find when the world of the 1940s is back online. >> you cannot know your country unless your country knows you. >> reporter: the details of the 1940 census show a street-level view of a united states emerging from the great depression and on the brink of a world war. connie potter of the national archives says everybody census is a reflection of the preceding decade. >> the questions the census asks refer back to questions that the country needs to know the answers to. >> reporter: with 15% of the adult population unemployed in 1940, for the first time census takers asked about income. >> what's interesting is the highest salary you can write down is $5,000 plus. >> reporter: they also asked about education. 5% had a bachelor's degree in 1940. today it's 28%. >> reporter: now this is your family down here. >> yeah. this is exactly my

the bureau of land management says that's not really the case. >> i really do like that gray.'s a really nice horse, and he handles himself real nice. if you noticed, he hadn't bumped the fences or got too bothered. everything is going. he's got a nice brain. and most of the horses are really, really gentle once you get ahold of them. >> the program organizers say they are very careful who they adopt to to make sure the horse goes to good homes. the government holds on to the adoption papers after a year. the owners must pass an inspection before being awarded the permanent title for the horse. they look like they are having an okay time out there. anxious to get a new home. "nbc nightly news" is next and then more local news a6:

angelique crumbly is the acting assistant to the administrator for the bureau of management for the united states agency for international development. commonly known as usaid. she is a member of the senior executive service with more than 20 years of federal service and has held several key positions at usaid, including senior deputy assistant administrator in the bureau for management and director of the office for management, policy budget and performance. it's the custom to swear in all witnesses that appear before us. if you don't mind, i'd ask you to stand. do you swear that the testimony you will give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so, help you god? >> i do. >> let the record reflect that all of the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. please be seated. we will be using a timing system today. we would ask that your oral testimony be no more than five minutes. your written testimony will be printed in the record in its entirety. i am told that i have -- we have committed a protocol gaffe. mr. kennedy. that under the hierarchy

we should get to the bureau of labor statistics. their last release of 8.3%. e number of people looking for work are 4.4 million. they're not included in the figures. i of working age folks, 23- million are under-employed. 4.4 million have given up looking. if you sift through all these figures, the real unemployment rate would be 70 million people, and under-employed it would be closer to 27 million people. the government likes to shout about these numbers. i wonder how many of these jobs pay more than the minimum wage. host: john, we will leave it there. we want to show our viewers, and read it for our listeners, regarding the march 2012 on a plan and demographics -- host: back to the phones. new work, ohio, car, and our line for republican -- clark, on our line for republicans. caller: the health industry and the energy industry -- in the health industry, we are suffering from recessions globally. it seems like the government -- the health secretary relies on technical people. the people i talk to do not want to hear about bacteria. the only thing left becau

of safety environmental enforcement and through the bureau of ocean energy management, two agencies which i created. if on the other hand the decision is made to move forward with the expiration of those arctic seas, it will be done under the most cautious and watched for exploration program in the history of the world. we need to recognize that we have already seen close to 30 exploratory wells. in prior times they've been drilled into the bullford and krukt seas. what would happen is we would be gathering additional information about the arctic seas so we as the american public, american government can make decisions about how best to move forward. >> senator david vitter blocked a pay raise for you because he said you weren't approving enough oil drilling permits. do you believe this was an attempt at extortion? >> you know, senator vitter and i came to the senate at the same time in 2004. i don't know what his motives are, but i can just say to anybody who's watched that debate that i don't do this job because of the money i get paid. i do this job because it is singularly the b

people and alter or abolish the american form of government some of them have been violent and the bureau has often broken or bent the law in pursuit of national security and f.p. called on the press by civil libertarians and i think today if you want to look at the whole history of the cia they're getting better at this do they get it right all the time absolutely not because they confess or when they screw up they actually do and that is something new under the sun ari and then one of the other things that you discuss is that you know our intelligence gathering really isn't all that old if you want to compare it to tell their country their empires out there we know we have been doing it for as long a time to tell me all to tell you kate you know we have more money to dedicate to these things we have more resources we really are pumping everything we've gone into it you have no money doesn't buy you intelligence we are neophytes at this the russians have been at this since peter the great the british since queen elizabeth the first five hundred years ago the chinese for twenty six hundre

mike smith, deputy director of the bureau of indian affairs, and keith moore, director of the bureau of indian education. next we welcome the honorable yvette roubideaux, a director of health services in the department of health and human services. accompanying dr. roubideaux is mr. randy graknell, deputy director of health services. let me just thank you for your patience, and i've been looking forward to this hearing. so secretary, will you, please, proceed with your testimony. >> thank you, chairman akaka. we have previously submitted a written statement, but i'll summarize my statement to begin with. we thank you for this opportunity to provide the department of statement on the fiscal year 2013 president's budget request. the 2013 budget request for indian aaffairs within the department of interior totals $2.5 billion in current appropriations. this is $4.6 million below last year's enacted level, which amounts to a reduction of 2/10 of 1%. as you know, indian affairs meets with tribes on a quarterly basis. on the budget. through the tribal interior budget council and through th

the bureau says the european debt problems dampened demand for chinese goods. is it also cites the rising labor costs in china and soaring oil prices as factors for the slowdown. >> translator: china faces crucial issues, like a slowdown in exports and surging consumer prices. >> observers say china will determine when to ease its monetary policy as it watches how the economy is performing. >>> economists have different opinion on china's economic growth going forward. here's what ke long, a senior fellow at the fujitsu research institute, has to say. >> i think the government is coming to enforce liquidity generation policy like qe-2, qe-3 in the united states, to support the company's investment and also to stimulate the private consumption. and a second one, we find that smes, small companies in china, are just facing quite difficulties to finance. because in the firmo financial market, the private companies, especial the small companies, they cannot, you know, borrow money, especially from commercial banks, for example. so, i think the government need to re

we participated and contributed to that investigation to the extent that individuals within the bureau were implicated, we, along with justice, investigated that. there is at least one individual who is still going through the opr process, let me just put it that way, and i cannot certainly openly but -- i can you that that process is monitored but it goes through our process when a person has an opportunity to respond to the charges and the

our guest tonight looks at the challenges from the reign of hoover to today's bureau of the record by robert mueller and perhaps most important if our intelligence apparatus can be effective and strike a balance between liberty and security joining me from our studio in new york is tim weiner pulitzer prize winning reporter and author and his latest book is called enemies a history of the f.b.i. and out so i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and i guess my first question to you is how do you want people to think of the f.b.i. what do you want them to walk away from or walk away with after reading your book and i suppose to think that this is an organization out there that it's really keeping me safe or just one that's poorly run that's a massive bureaucracy that's made a lot of mistakes and has been considered an embarrassment at times well the f.b.i. has been with us for a hundred and three years and i would say in the last three years are starting to get this very crucial balance right between civil liberties on the one hand and national security on the other the cons

that is probably 46 truckdrivers in the balance of the bureau. mostly people that graffiti, there are probably 30 or 40 people. a majority of the work force are the people that go out in trucks and actually sleep, minimally, many of our streets. we're out there cleaning up after events, and they are also a crew that worked 24-7. a majority of them in the morning, we have a good number of people that work on the swing shift at the number of people that work at night. supervisor chu: is there a reason why we do manual street cleaning otherwise -- aside from events? >> we have to neighborhoods where there is a limited mechanical street cleaning, and many years ago, we passed the act that does not allow us to force mechanical street cleaning in those neighborhoods. will of god and quite a number of times to introduce automatic street cleaning and we have encountered resistance. those operations involve manual street cleaners, and we try to make sure that we get the streets clean. we have, on occasion, been able to go into the neighborhoods, but obviou

philip doyle is with the bureau of labor statistics and jodi schneider. just some of our guests and topics tomorrow morning on the "washington journal" heard live here on c-span radio and a reminder, check out all of our programming online any time at c-span.org. thanks for joining us on this thursday. i hope you enjoy the rest of your evening. >>> in a few moments, a hearing on manufacturing and jobs with testimony from commerce secretary john bryson. in two hours, steve forbes, the president and ceo of "forbes" talks about the economy and the tax code. after that, a hearing looking into a general services administration conference in las vegas. >>> when i was embedded in eastern afghanistan, the soldiers started telling me that the u.s. government was wasting tens of billions of dollars on totally mismanaged development and logistics contracts. >> in funding the enemy, douglas wissing follows the money in afghanistan and finds corruption from top to bottom, right into the hands of the taliban. >> i was in one meeting where the brigade command ir, an incr

in november 2011, when rajiv shah asked me to lead the bureau of management he knew i was a career civil servant with more than 20 years of experience making things work at the agency. throughout my career i focused on making our business practices more efficient and effective with the overall goal of enhancing performance while reducing unnecessary costs. so i understand the motivation behind this legislation very well. it addresses many of the management challenges highlighted in the report of the commission on wartime contracting that you, senator mccaskill, created along with senator webb. it also addresses some of the most important, issues in our current engagements in iraq and afghanistan and those we could contend with in future contingencies. usaid has begun to implement the lessons learned from iraq and afghanistan. over the past two years, administrator shaw has instituted a comprehensive reform package. our usaid reforms as we've named them are designed to ensure that we provide a more effective business model and deliver more sustainable and results driven development progra

carroll served as the director of administration for the bureau of industry and security in the department of commerce. it is the custom of the subcommittee to swear all witnesses who stand before us. do you swear the testimony you give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, god? [ all: i do ] >> i must say that the attention you will get today is much less than your colleague brian miller will get this week but that's probably a good thing. i'm not sure that we'll have any injuries of tv cameramen trying to follow you down the hallway, and if you're going to talk about las vegas, warn me ahead of time because -- i joke about this, but i must say, every once in a while something happens in the world of inspectors general that highlights your work. and for most of the time, your work is done in the shadows. no

the bureau says the european debt problems dampened demand for chinese goods. is it also cites the rising labor costs in china and soaring oil prices as factors for the slowdown. >> translator: china faces crucial issues, like a slowdown in exports and surging consumer prices. >> observers say china will determine when to ease its monetary policy as it watches how the economy is performing. >>> economists have different opinion on china's economic growth going forward. here's what a senior fellow at the research institute has to say. >> i think the government is coming to enforce liquidity generation policy like qe-2, qe-3 in the united states, to support the company's investment and also to stimulate the private consumption. and a second one, we find that smes, small companies in china, are just facing quite difficulties to finance. because in the firmo financial market, the private companies, especially the small companies, they cannot, you know, borrow money, especially from commercial banks, for example. so, i think the government need to reform the system