. -- on the basis of corrupt data. the president should call on the ipcc to establish a robust mechanism before further climate legislation or regulatory measures are taken. such action is necessary to prevent future infringement of faultification and fraud. and i'll yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. markey: thank you very much. and without question, we are now engaged in historic debate. and that debate is over the question of whether or not the united states is going to become a leader and not a lager on the question of climate change and energy independence and clean energy job creation in our country. and what is happening on the republican side is that they have decided to engage in a phony debate. a debate about science which is in fact not debatable. a debate about whether the united states should be the leader in

show us the data sets. here is one email were one of these guys is deathly afraid that he will be asked to show the parameters of his model. if you are very confident that you are absolutely right and your dad is right, make it public. what will they do that? dr. mann at penn state has yet to make his data public. why not? what is he hiding? why is he talking about the leading things? why are they saying we are born to subvert the freedom of information act? make it open and transparent. when you talk about thousands of scientists most of those are not original creative thinkers. they are implemented. their facilitators. there are only 50-100 in the world that are at the top tier and more and more is appearing that they have engaged in either a conscious effort to withhold the truth from the world, or maybe they have just decided without realizing it that they have become so ideologically committed that they have lost track of the true scientific method. i don't know, but it is something that really needs to

show us the data set. show us the -- there's one of these e-mails that one of these guys is deathly afraid theas going to be asked to show the parameters of his model and some of the al ga rhythms in the model. again, if you're very confident that you're absolutely right, if you're very confident that your data is right, make it public. now, why won't they do that? dr. man n at penn state is yet to make his data sets public. why not? what's he hiding? why is he and these e-mails talking about deleting things? why are they saying that we're going to subvert the freedom of information act? if they're so certain they're right, make it open and transparent. and when you talk about thousands of scientists, most of those are not original creator thinkers. they're implementers, they're facilitators. there are only maybe 50 to 100 in the world that are at the top tier and more and more it's appearing that they've engaged in either a conscious effort to with hold the truth from the world, or maybe they're just decid

who buy the aggregate data. rvices. then coming back to the consumer, there's a variety of services that happen from the data users and through this aggregation of data, and it can be the extension of credit, it can be advertising, it could be a whole host of things that the data users then bring back to the consumer. and in some cases the consumer is aware of these services, in other cases they're not particularly aware of. and the one, the one thing that's important here is that we have, you know, both a primary user of data and secondary uses of the data. you know, for example, if i buy a house and pay property taxes, a lot of people don't realize that information about my house is then used to characterize me for marketing places, it's a secondary use. what we're going to look at, also, then today is some specific examples of the use of data in everyday transactions here. this is one that's personally applicable to me. over the last three or four years i've had, like a lot of folks, had to start taking pills.

and more collection of data, the explosion of collection of data, due to technology. many people in the room can realize this by thinking back only 15 years to the first time they owned a cell phone or use a web browser or had a credit card swipe with the magnetic swipe instead the embossing machine. those are the implications of the technologies that are driving this data collection ecosystem. one illustration of technology that i want to point out -- this is a technology, made in 2003. -- this ancient technology, made in 2003. you could buy all 1 gigabyte hard drive today for around $150. these used in computer servers to hold information about what we're talking about today, the data collected as part of transactions. what is one terabyte of data? that is the equivalent of 1 million of typed text. that can be held in one hard drive. we make hundreds of millions of these hard drives per year. as the chairman has pointed out, it is practically free to stored data. it costs more to delete data off of these drives them to keep it. we have to fill al

to put it into the data base. is that right? >> well, i think, if i'm understanding you correctly, the information if it's obtained, like if we were to obtain a male profile from one of the e items, we wouldn't need to test multiple items to put that in. however, when we do test the rape kit, we do test multiple items but the profile is only entered once. does that satisfy your question? >> i think so. i just think, if you identify the victim -- the perpetrator, you know the perpetrator, i think it could be put in and might not cost quite as much as if you were having to obtain the sample from the rape victim. >> well, we need the sample from the victim to compare against, in the interpretation, to know what information is there. sometimes every case is different. sometimes in the details of the case necessitate comparison to the victim. so we always take the victim standard as part of the rape treatment kit. hour, i can tell you in our experience, we work every case even if the subject is known we still work it. obviously for pr

i think if you look at the aol search example, the way the data was read in a fight was the ability to link search queries over time. and when you amass enough data about a unique individual, in some cases that was enough to identify the person. i think the court also to keep that in perspective. there were 650,000 users in that record. the data has been out there on the internet for over three years and a handful of people haven't we identified as result. but that's still a problem. we can do better and we should do better. anonymization method that we use on our search engine involves not only deleting the entire ip address, but also deleting all cross section cocaptain fire so you break that link, search sessions over time. dramatically reducing the likelihood of that data being identified. but you need to data security around that system. you need to have transparency about how the data issues and yes, you need retention, limitations on that as well. all the major search engines, the three big ones, have adopted data retention methods, data anonymization method as will. they differ

and they actually are visible in the data so what do gift cards to? you buy a gift card and also you spend the money for a giver spend the money in december the retailer doesn't get the revenue in december. they have to put it in escrow of some sort. the retailer gets to recognize revenue and government statistics show the revenue arriving when the gift card is redeemed which is typically january common on december. and so if kit carts were having a big effect in the economy what we ought to see is the job of from december to january should be shrinking. and well, sure enough it is shrinking over time. in particular since cards hit the scene ten or 15 years ago that period is exactly when we see this drop-off happening kind of in a big way. it's even more pronounced if you look at particular retailer particular kind of stores, the general merchandise or department stores, it's even bigger there. you see this big drop off. so sure enough gift cards are changing the timing -- changing the timing of holiday spending. one criticism that i think is a legiti

it's hard to find the data. as we look at a time and surveys, to look at everything and it's not exactly clear and so that is where we say let's take this assumption of the one in 140. people can think about it. what's important when you are coming up with explaining an idea it's to put the assumptions, number one, in front of people but also explained in ways they can get intuition. bye saying we think the same proportion of miles driven drunk ar walked drunk. in my own life i am a big drunk walker. maybe that's wrong >> host: i'm still an amateur at walking it. >> guest: so let's take the particular points that you raised which are big ones. so, is it true that maybe the people who are walking drunk or on average much more drunk than the people driving drunk and that would skew the numbers is the exact same person with the same number of drunkenness switched from walking to driving, then the benefits would be, you know, the difference would be a lot less than we said and that's possible. so again, you go to the

we compared the u.s. data to the average for these crisis in the run-up and the subsequent after crisis and the concluding remarks is we will be lucky if this doesn't happen here. what is the response even in 2007 we're not an emerging market so these are not emerging markets. these are advanced economies. we have the world's most sophisticated financial system, the world reserve currency, the run-up of housing prices is predicated on the fact that we have discovered how to securitized mortgages and create this wonderful new market call the subprime market. we have been so successful in creating this market that to not only are the u.s. firms buying this but the central banks from all over the world are tripping over themselves to buy subprime paper. don't forget we are borrowing from their rest of the world. we're still borrowing from the rest of the world with a crisis not withstanding. the perception is this time it is different. those rules don't apply here. the case-schiller index which looks at housing p

and more collection of data, the explosion of collection of datale in the room can realize this by thinking back only 15 years to the first time they owned a cell phone or use a web browser or had a credit card swipe with the magnetic swipe instead the embossing machine. those are the implications of the technologies that are driving this data collection ecosystem. one illustration of technology that i want to point out -- this is a technology, made in 2003. -- this ancient technology, made in 2003. you could buy all 1 gigabyte hard drive today for around $150. these used in computer servers to hold information about what we're talking about today, the data collected as part of transactions. what is one terabyte of data? that is the equivalent of 1 million of typed text. that can be held in one hard drive. we make hundreds of millions of these hard drives per year. as the chairman has pointed out, it is practically free to stored data. it costs more to delete data off of these drives them to keep it. we have to fill all these drives up and we are a

it's hard to find the data so we look at the time surveys, try to get everything. it's not clear so that is when we say let's take this assumption of 140. at least people can think about it. what i think is important when you come up with a -- explain the idea to put the assumptions number one in front of people but also explain the ways they can get information. the same proportion of miles driven drunk our walked drunk. in my own life i'm a big drunk walker mabey. >> host: i'm not a pro yet. i'm still a much read walking. >> guest: so let's take the particular points you raised which are good ones. is it true maybe the people walking drunk are on average much more drunk and the people driving drunk and that number says if the exact same person with the same drunkenness switch from walking to driving the in the benefits would be -- the difference would be less. and that's possible. so again, go to the data and you might think of course there must be good data. the u.s. government keeps every fatal crash. it turns out they don't very often do the blood alcohol on t

whether or not consumers are aware of the extent of the data collection. and whether they will exercise control over this. the format is a little bit different than usual. rather than having each panel have remarks, and the palace will have the opportunity to discuss these questions to engage in a dialogue. we have staff members with index cards and if you have a question, please raise your hand if you have a question. and the web cast audience members may also submit their questions. professor rosen will be leading with the first scenario and he may also have some remarks. >> thank you so much. i am delighted that they have begun this roundtable series on restoring privacy and i am honored to be part of this. i was so happy that the chairman sited a man who was not only the patron saint of the privacy law, but also the ftc. he would be very interested in turning their attention to this subject. we know that the new technology is supposed to privacy. they said that this was the kodak camera that made him concerned about what used to be whispered in the clos

the secretary shall establish procedures for making data submitted under subparagraph (c) available to the public. such procedures shall ensure that a psychiatric hospital and a psychiatric unit has the opportunity to review the data that is to be made public with respect to the hospital or unit prior to such data being made public. the secretary shall report quality measures that relate to services furnished in inpatient settings in psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric units on the internet website of the centers for medicare & medicaid services." (b) conforming to be an environmental exposure affected individual described in subsection (e)(2) shall be "(b) optional pilot programs.-the secretary may establish a separate pilot program, in accordance with this subsection, with respect to each geographic area subject to an emergency declaration (other than the declaration of june 17, 2009), in order to furnish such comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective care to individuals described in subparagraph (2)(b) who reside in each such area. "(2) individual described.-for purposes of pa

there's a wonderful chapter on whether the data coming in our garbage. emember, the model is dynamic. the first slice is just a reflection of what the data say the current state of the world is. if the data are garbage, they're not going to reflect a reasonable understanding of the current state of the world. so then we know it's garbage that if the data are pretty good, that is, they do reflect the way we understand the current state of the world on a projected problem, then that point for it is the models logic that has taken over and is generating change in the variables and changes in the predictions. and so the thing to argue with is the models logic and not the data. >> there someone in the audience who is willing to pick on you just a little bit. and you said before we started that that was all right with you. you say that history doesn't affect your variables. but yet when you discussed the copenhagen summit, first thing you refer to was the historic -- the historically international treaties have no teeth. >> i did not say that history does not a

>> i think a lot of it comes down to the approach which is based on data. and it strips away a lot of the issues of ethics and morality. a lot of the subtleties of questions come down to kind of a right versus wrong. rarely are we in the business of right versus wrong. let's take, i don't know, one of the controversial subjects which you could say i'm not an expert and in the sense i haven't spent my life studying, which is car safety versus eagles. so what did i do? i analyze them in a way that i know how to analyze data sets. when you look at the data in subways or in complex ways, you just don't see a very big difference in the effectiveness of child car seats relative to a adult seatbelts in saving the lives of young children. you do see some benefits, some relatively minor benefits. both car seats and seat belts are a world better than not being restrained at all. so in some sense i am not an expert in this area, but i have access through the david and i look at it and i do what i know how to do and i find it. on top of that, steven and i went out and d

this dramatically reduces the period of time we will hold data and vastly increases the scope of data written testimony. we believe this approach to testimonprivacy is a testimony r success in privacy. the decision about whether to ask for consent or give users opportunity to opt-out depends on the information being collected. most advances in online privacy protection have come as a result of the industry initiative and self regulation. market forces drive companies like doggett to bring privacy innovation to customers quickly. as one companies leave, many other companies follow. as congress considers this role in helping protect consumer privacy online, l.b.o. pew will consider approach that enables providers to keep pace with customer demand and expectations as well. i am very proud of what his record of trust and privacy. -- i am very proud of yahoo!'s record of trust and privacy. >> hthank you. the chair recognizes ms. wong. you have five minutes. >> thank you. i am pleased to appear before you this evening to discuss online advertising and the ways that google protect the user p

this would go into the data base. we do not know when they arrest this man -- we have no knowledge of the disposition unless we have testimony. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you for your moving testimony. thank you for coming forward. you have mentioned in your story the need for a well- trained nurses. and collecting the evidence and making certain that the victims do not feel victimized when the evidence is collected. the note we could do to better train the nurses in these areas , getting more nursing students to go into this area? >> there is a wonderful program for people who are trained to take the examination. my doctor was actually reading the instructions as we were going along. that is not very reassuring. . -- money for investors. >> this hearing of the subcommittee on capital markets will come to order. i ask unanimous consent that permission be granted to anybody who is a non member of the subcommittee who is present today to sit with the subcommittee. pursuant to committee rules, each side w

to put it into the data base. is that right? >> well, i think, if i'm understanding you correctly, the information if it's obtained, like if we were to obtain a male profile from one of the e items, we wouldn't need to test multiple items to put that in. however, when we do test the rape kit, we do test multiple items but the profile is only entered once. does that satisfy your question? >> i think so. i just think, if you identify the victim -- the perpetrator, you know the perpetrator, i think it could be put in and might not cost quite as much as if you were having to obtain the sample from the rape victim. >> well, we need the sample from the victim to compare against, in the interpretation, to know what information is there. sometimes every case is different. sometimes in the details of the case necessitate comparison to the victim. so we always take the victim standard as part of the rape treatment kit. hour, i can tell you in our experience, we work every case even if the subject is known we still work it. obviously for pr

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the data we have released in the last months, state-by-state data, and we will be releasing the conversion data next week. going forward we will see more and more detailed data as trends develop. we are opening of transparency and. there is a discussion of making the npv model more available. with that i will turn it over to debbie. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to talk about the context for the crisis of than what the implications are as well as reactions to the government's proposal, the grant program that tom was talking about. he laid out the dimensions of the foreclosure crisis. it is stunning in a bad way. it is astonishing how many people are facing foreclosure in this nation. i am trying to think if there is some way if we can at geographically, one or two ways in this room would represent the number of families out of this crowd that are past due on their mortgages and potentially facing foreclosure. it is a lot of people. if i asked for a show of hands, many of you either know someone who has gone for foreclosure or is at risk of it, or have had a forecl

the first cost of buying the data. you are buying it from a vendor like us, it may be easier. it's going to be one flat price first state. if you are working with the state party, it may be free. if your republican, i don't know what the deal is. because i don't know how that works. but if you are building yourself, i assume that's the best way to answer your question. if you are bidding it yourself, you have to buy the data which can be anything from free, which many states are, or florida is $10, california is $30. alabama is $27,500. it varies enormously from very cheap to not so cheap. arizona is free to the parties from the state from the counties. but a dime a name to vendors. making it $300,000 if you buy it. which no one does. just, they only have to sell it once, they'll do pretty well. so that is a -- you can see that's an enormously various cost. then you have to go through and you have to process it. you have to standardize it, you have to create households, run it through the national change of address, ad

so you've heard a lot about the data today. we talked about the size of the achievement gap when it comes to performance on reading and math. it exists throughout every level of the system. we've talked a lot about the graduation rate gaps. we talked a little bit about discipline policies. taken together, the problem is stark. but what gives rise to the achievement gap is not the socioeconomic status of someone's parents and it's not their color of their skin. it's the opportunity gaps that in our public education system we provide students that need the most with less of everything that research says makes a difference. this department of education is committed to doing something serious about that. as we think about brown and its legacy certainly is here in this room, the pervasive patterns of inequality of opportunity were really at the heart of the original violation in brown. certainly it was separate. but it was unequal. and we now have some unprecedent tools to do something about it. that's not to say, john, that we're no

base and this i don't think was an issue of the testing as much as the data wasn't dumped is that right? >> that's correct. my understanding is that some of this is this reaction to an unfunded mandate. some of the localities are required, of course, to collect kits tr all convicted offenders within a particular county. and i'm aware that that costs money to the counties and somewhat of a burden to counties which are strapped. and as a result, those counties are not as vigorous as they should be in collecting that data. i'm sure that wisconsin is not alone, that there is a problem of uncollected -- >> you're not picking on them because of the packers? >> no. >> you believe this happens in other states, it's the actual physical entry of the data? >> i do. i would be shocked if it didn't, yes. >> do you know if we have that going on in minnesota? >> there is a problem in minnesota we are attempting to correct right now, but it is an issue. >> i was thinking about how the nitty-gritty testimony makes us realize that the miami-dade police department is note like "miami vice" a

"(b) the reporting, collection, and validation of quality data. "(c) the structure of value-based payment adjustments, including the determination of thresholds or improvements in quality that would substantiate a payment adjustment, the size of such payments, and the sources of funding for the value-based bonus payments. "(d) methods for the public disclosure of information on the performance of ambulatory surgical centers. "(e) any other issues determined appropriate by the secretary. "(3) consultation. in developing the plan under paragraph (1), the secretary shall- "(a) consult with relevant affected parties; and "(b) consider experience with such demonstrations that the secretary determines are relevant to the value-based purchasing program described in paragraph (1). "(4) report to congress. not later than january 1, 2011, the secretary shall submit to congress a report containing the plan developed under paragraph (1).". (b) technical. section 3006(a)(2)(a) is amended by striking clauses (i) and (ii). sec. 10302. revision to national strateg

and how to properly complete these documents, including the collection of such data for diabetes and other chronic diseases; diseases; (b) encourage state adoption of the latest standard revisions of birth and death certificates; and (c) work with states to re-engineer their vital statistics systems in order to provide cost-effective, timely, and accurate vital systems data. (2) death certificate additional language.-in carrying out this subsection, the secretary may promote improvements to the collection of diabetes mortality data, including the addition of a question for the individual certifying the cause of death regarding whether the deceased had diabetes. (d) study on appropriate level of diabetes medical education.- (1) in general.-the secretary shall, in collaboration with the institute of medicine and appropriate associations and councils, conduct a study of the impact of diabetes on the practice of medicine in the united states and the appropriateness of the level of diabetes medical education that should be required prior to licensure, board certification,

so there's nothing in that, those particular e-mails that change the underlying data. that was what we ask ourselves during the finding and not just about these e-mails but all along. >> are you saying even if this particular body of work was manipulated or if things were left out that could have been said about this case, that there is other information which is broader, which counteracts that? >> ifill: that's exactly what i'm saying. i'm saying that, you know, the knowledge out there, the data that is out there, is vast and it the e-mails deal with a small sliver. the other thing the american people should know is we are talking about u.s. scientists as well. these aren't -- you know, if you read some of the press on the e-mails, you might think that most of the data that's out there is foreign data. there are u.s. scientists and u.s. organizations that have been collecting data as well, separate and apart. and all of that has been analyzed by scientists the world over. >> ifill: does any of this lead us up to stricter standards now for vehicles, something that would

the jury is out. we have 14 sites and limited data that -- that is coming in. they haven't tresed the -- stressed the pilot under a range of scenarios that they could stress it at. there are a number of different base cease and they're working towards, farther down the line. and i do know they'll be up to 21 by i believe sites by june of 2009 and have to issue a final report in august. i don't know if they're going to say at that time that this is ready for further sexaven shun. i think there are another seven sites that they play roll out in the fall but the timeline for the worldwide implementation, i haven't seen anything it that effect. and my concern is that they have all the data and that this would be a data driven decision, that they could crank back into any system that is proposed. >> thank you for your testimony. >> thank you, senator. senator haigen. >> i'm going to wait for the next panel. >> thank you. we thank the panel for your appearance here today for -- for providing us an update and analysis of progress and -- and that that remains we hope th

the data set is very interesting. >> guest: one thing, the last thing you want is to have bit legalize. the reason it is paid so much she can figure out how to get to the barriers and and she knows her rates would go way down. and the other thing that you learn from doing the study i think the one that i've learned the most is that it is such a window into how the inner city work send things you would ever imagine like in the fact of chicago, it is more like to have sex with a police officer then be arrested with one. i was shocked from what we discovered. and sometimes a star is to give you in sight but maybe policy more generally and what they may try to do with the inner city. >> host: then you have a couple of terrific chapters about health care and very un common datasets. here we are trying to fix something in washington doing health care reform. trying to get the votes from max baucus, what did you originally believed about the health care system? >> i think, not that much. the data that i have the we have looked at on health care on very specific parts of the problem they are n

some of the key data elements that have been important, we wrapped up collection because of the government program sliding, we want to wrap up a non- governmental data reporting. but we did have some interesting statistics that have shifted, and it shows the landscape changed from subprime to prime. here are a few october statistics. 94,000 borrowers with the foreclosure sale. 67,000 or prime. 26,000 were subprime. that is a leveling off of subprime because there were so much focus on managing that product early on. fourposter starts in october were 222,000, 158,000 of prime and 63 of subprime. many loans have been worked out for proprietary models or payment plans through october. in addition to that, 650,000 in- process processhamp mods are under way. 3.3 million people have been touched through october of this year. there are 700,000 foreclosure sales this year. the foreclosure starts are escalating and a pipeline of distressed borrowers is very large. it does not enter what is happening going forward. history may not be able to repeat itself there. here for the data. let me just say, w

republicans for the lower. even datafrom the liberal bloggers showed partisan intensity had the generic ballot relatively close. and definitely voting 39% definitely voting republican. the generic ballot they had democrats winning by four points. they have a four point democratic advantage with that intensity, will take that any day of the week as a republican. people come out to vote in that direction. republican party verses obama. this is the extent of what is going on in terms of trend data, people have more faith in the republican party than barack obama. who will do a better job handling the economy? left hand side, republicans from 923--11. health-care reform, republicans are 7 points down in health care reform. think about that. 7 points down on health care reform and it is not driven by but republicans are putting forward the reaction to what people are thinking about obama and what congress is doing on health care reform. the republican party feared even better against democrats rather than barack obama. two su

my question is, the black box and other archaic methods -- one i just used transport data through the -- why not just use transport data for the satellite and downlink it to earth? we can capture everything there is rather than that ju -- rather than just the last 20 minutes. guest: that is a great question, and there are a lot of people asking questions like that. there is technology that has existed for some time. some manufacturers, a smaller business jets, are actually doing that direct data link, as far as looking at the help of the engines and monitoring the aircraft. -- health of the engines and monitoring the aircraft. this past summer, they were unable to locate the black boxes in the ocean. there have been a lot of additional questions about whether or not we ought to have longer life on the transponders, the beacons that are on those black boxes, that they should last longer than 30 days. as well, people are asking the same question that you are, is there a way for us to download or have a data link with information about the aircraft? there was information that was receive

here we've taken a strong look at the existing state of data systems across the country. ata is not always the most exciting part of education reform, but it's also critically important to our ability to move forward. providing feedback and ability to improve instruction and make important decisions about responding to students' learning and their needs but also important decisions to inform decision making at the local level and state level around how we're supporting this work of closing the achievement gap. and then finally the fourth point on really intervening and improving achievement in our struggling schools. amy put it well. we have 13,000 schools that have been identified under no child's left behind's rubric needing improvement. our work does not end with labeling, identifying a school. it begins with that identification of the need to address the problem, then we need real coherent strategy and an all hands on deck approach to approve achievement in those schools. that's more meaningful school improvement plans, doing more to transform teaching and learning in

the math on your own. okay. so, tracking systems are really important. updated data is your friend. before i said either buy this from a vendor. have volunteers go collect it from the county clerk. you can have staff go collect it from the county clerk. set up some system where someone on your staff calling getting data downloaded every day. good news about improved technology broadly, one of the good things about even the, way voting has changed, federal laws have changed what states do this is a lot more electronic. which is good then you're actually matching voter i.d. numbers and knocking real people out rather than, when we first started doing this, well, john smith who lives on elm street, is that elm street in arlington or alexandria? is that a same john smith or different john smith? you can identify this really well. you can track people you registered as you're going through. you know you registered somebody because you have that some spreadsheet over here. you can knock out when they voted. small election you can do it on your own pc which is helpful. okay. you're going to

act known as the data act. h.r. 2221 addresses data breaches by requiring, quote, entities holding data containing people's personal information to have reasonable and appropriate security measures in place to protect that data. h.r. 2221 would also require them to notify consumers who are u.s. citizens or residents and the federal trade commission when a breach occurs. for the past five years the clearing house contends that nearly 340 million records containing personal information have been involved in security breaches. high profile data breach have plagued financial institutions, nationwide retailers, online merchants, information brokers, credit card processors, health care institutions, high-tech companies, research facilities and government agencies. currently similar laws require for specific sections of the marketplace. these laws include a rule which has -- which contains data requirements for financial institutions and the sound credit reporting act disposal rule which imposes safe disposal obligatio

so you've heard a lot about the data today. we talked about the size of the achievement gap when it comes to performance on reading and math. it exists throughout every level of the system. we've talked a lot about the graduation rate gaps. we talked a little bit about discipline policies. taken together, the problem is stark. but what gives rise to the achievement gap is not the socioeconomic status of someone's parents and it's not their color of their skin. it's the opportunity gaps that in our public education system we provide students that need the most with less of everything that research says makes a difference. this department of education is committed to doing something serious about that. as we think about brown and its legacy certainly is here in this room, the pervasive patterns of inequality of opportunity were really at the heart of the original violation in brown. certainly it was separate. but it was unequal. and we now have some unprecedent tools to do something about it. that's not to say, john, that we're no

the s.a.t. judging by this data here, they have not succeeded. and they have enormous incentive with the money back guarantee to improve those scores. >> erased a great issue. let me put it another way. what do we really need to do to raise the scores? i think you talked about raising the iq and charles murray. of course i want to stay away from that issue and decline but i told him frankly that i couldn't do it because i thought he didn't observe the distinction that psychologists observed between fluid and crystallized intelligence. that is behind your normal inborn sort of abilities and your achieved abilities after you are educated. and knowledge makes you smarter. that's an interestingly documented fact so that you get smarter when you know more and charles murray didn't take that into account. and so, there's this problem with murray's analysis, let's not worry our heads about this. but how do you change that? you have a more coherent school-based approach to how children gain the enabling knowledge they need. right now we have a helter-skel

i'msaying that, youknow, the knowled out there, the data th is out there, is va and it the e-ils deal with a smalsliver. thother thing the american pele should know is we are talking about u. scitists as well. the aren't -- you know, if you re some of the prss onhe e-mails, you might think thamost of the data that's out there is foeign data. therare u.s. scntists and u.s. organizations that have bn collecting data we, separate and apart and all ofthat has been analyzed by scientists the world oer. >> ill: does any of this ad us upto strier standards now for vehicles, something that would ha a direct impact an embattled actor -- secto, the autindustry? >> yea they do, but there are no srprises there. thefinding is the fouation that allows us to then propose and finalize autobile emissions rules. those res, we worked on witthe automobi industry, withhe state of california and with othertates who are lookingor cleaner cars. with labor unions and with environmentalists. in fact, i think onof the most upstanding accompshments we've had in the clean energy and climate space haseenreaching a

it raises premiums, it would increase the data because it does include a lot of things like the positions reimbursement. and it cuts medicare by a trillion dollars over ten years once it's fully implemented very but we also point out what we think should be done and what we think should be done. my colleagues have documented many times. instead of wheeling and another 2000 page bill we should focus on the bill of reducing cost them and take several steps towards reducing cost. and the senator from arizona has talked about one of those, which is reducing the number of junk lawsuits against doctors. but i don't think that's anywhere in the bill unless it secretly been added in the back room today. >> that's one i doubt is being added, but again, i also want to point out americans are now against passage of this legislation. but in that polling data is very interesting although to the majority of seniors by much larger numbers, the actual beneficiaries of medicare are turning against it and the intensity of americans against it, which is harder to gauge any poll is incredible. if the respons

i want to find the data before the accident. i want to find ways to get the information to wessel that we can predict the accident so we don't have hearings like this. you can be talking to me about budget issues are something and not about tragedies that happen. information is going to take us through that. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you mr. chairman. let me if i might mr. babbitt in the short time i have, focus on four i think really important things. i want to talk to you about this communing issue. i want to talk to you about pilot experience, salary and salaries for pilots and then probably as important of-- as all of those, equipment. help me understand commuting. let's say i'm a pilot and i live in san diego, but the flight that i am going to fly originates in new york city. and ameet back-and-forth between san diego and new york city. that flight from san diego to new york city that i make every week to get on my flight, how is that factored into safety regulations or is it? is it just not counted? >> no, there

and the data i'll soon refer to here on this chart. when we see negative numbers on this chart, as i've said, the joint committee on taxation is telling us that there is a tax benefit. so conversely, where there are positive numbers -- this would be an example of positive numbers -- the joint committee on taxation is telling us that these taxpayers are seeing a tax increase. so those numbers i've already pointed to. they begin at $50,000 for an individual and go up to $200,000 for an individual. when we see a positive number, then it's reversed. the joint committee on taxation is telling us that these taxpayers are in fact seeing tax increases. so if we see positive numbers for individuals making more than $50,000 and we see positive numbers for families making more than $75,000, it's just this simple: we know that these people's taxes are going to go up. the joint committee on taxation is telling us that taxes for these individuals, once again, for a third time, will go up under this 2,074-page reid bill. these individuals and families

in short they cooked the books and that data is no longer available. it was deleted by the research institute and cannot be looked over again for accuracy. oh, i guess we should just trust them. fortunately the ground-based censors that fed those infamous computer models are not the only source of temperature data. information is also available from research and observation satellites and weather balloons and you guessed it, that source is in conflict with ground-based data. of course no one is certain of that because all of this we're talking about was the data before adjustments were made and before it was all deleted. so how is this for a scientific challenge? defend the scientific integrity of the manmade global warming data collection process. it's got more holes in it than a spaghetti strainer. and this manmade global warming theory is the greatest scam in history. this, of course, is only one of many scams designed to fight us into accepting draconian solutions for figure tigs problems. remember when i was a kid they said cranberries cause cancer

and by adding at the end the following, medical reimbursement data centers. functions, a center established under subsections c-1-c shall develop fee schedules and other database tools. b, use the best available statistical methods and data processing technology to develop such fee schedules. c, regularly update such fee schedules and other database tools to reflect changes in charges for medical services. d, make health care cost information readily available to the public through an internet website that allows consumers to understand the amounts that health care providers in their area charge for particular medical services and e, regularly publish information used by the center to analyze health data and make such data available. two, conflicts of interest. a center shall adopt bylaws that ensures that the center is free of all conflicts of interest. such by laws shall ensure that the center is not controlled or influenced by and does not have any corporate relation to any individual or entity that may make or receive payments for health care services base

data collection infrastructure. states not receiving grants under this section may also use the common definitions, formats, and data collection infrastructure developed under paragraph (2)(b). "(g) evaluation. "(1) in general. the secretary, in consultation with the review panel established under subsection (d)(2), shall enter into a contract with an appropriate research organization to conduct an overall evaluation of the effectiveness of grants awarded under subsection (a) and to annually prepare and submit a report to congress. such an evaluation shall begin not later than 18 months following the date of implementation of the first program funded by a grant under subsection (a). "(2) contents. the evaluation under paragraph (1) shall include- "(a) an analysis of the effects of the grants awarded under subsection (a) with regard to the measures described in paragraph (3); "(b) for each state, an analysis of the extent to which the alternative developed under subsection (c)(1) is effective in meeting the elements described in subsection (c)(2); "(c) a comparison among the states receiving grants under subsection (

the securities and exchange commission. websites, federal reserve registration data, the fdic data, over the counter trades and commodities futures. trading commission data. the data sources are not only housed in different agencies, but are in incompatible systems and formats, making the use of material unusable. these agencies are unable to share the data with each other and learn from it. the bill which i have co-authored with represent arive peter king and 42 of my colleagues require all relevant tarp data, including regulatory filings and public records and calls for them to be collected by the department of the treasury and put in a consistent, standardized format so tarp funds will be transparent and traceable. this bill would also provide the ability to monitor inconsistencies that may indicate waste, fraud, and abuse or both for both the corporate and individual officers. by using tools that currently exist, individual filings and transactions can be pulled together to create a single view of an institution. and provide better management and regulatory oversight. the basic data elements would include, but not be limited

so you've heard a lot about the data today. lked about the size of the achievement gap when it comes to performance on reading and math. it exists throughout every level of the system. we've talked a lot about the graduation rate gaps. we talked a little bit about discipline policies. taken together, the problem is stark. but what gives rise to the achievement gap is not the socioeconomic status of someone's parents and it's not their color of their skin. it's the opportunity gaps that in our public education system we provide students that need the most with less of everything that research says makes a difference. this department of education is committed to doing something serious about that. as we think about brown and its legacy certainly is here in this room, the pervasive patterns of inequality of opportunity were really at the heart of the original violation in brown. certainly it was separate. but it was unequal. and we now have some unprecedent tools to do something about it. that's not to say, john, that we're not tou