we have to have the event data recorders in all vehicleses. they need to be standardized and there needs to be readouts. we don't do adequate crash investigations in the country to protect and find out what the problem is. to predict defects, to catch them before they become major crises like toyota acceleration and ford explorer. if we had a international accident sampling system at the full design level of 19,000 crash we could have predicted defeats. we would have found them earlier. we wouldn't have them build up over 10 years before we get a recall and manufacturers like toyota suffer in their reputation. let's build the system. cutting corners on safety is no bargain for anyone, the consumers, manufacturers, or government. thank you. >> thank you, mr. ditlow. i will ask the first question and then senator wicker from mississippi who said he'll be back in time is acting today as the ranking member. and he will ask the second question, we will go on from there. mr. saski, last week, mr. lentz, the president of toyota motor sales usa testifi

you are always looking for the facts and the data. sometimes, if people have a concern or believe in something to be true, they get very unhappy when we do not agree with it. frankly, the facts are not there yet. given the resources, we have to look at the biggest bang for the buck in protecting the public. investigators are like sherlock holmes. i have seen them kicking tires and asking people in the garage because they have heard something they think may be plausible. when they see a lot of complaints they do not suddenly run out and recall. they do it preliminary investigation. there is enough data for us to allocate resources and do a preliminary investigation. the contact car companies for more information. when there is enough concern, they raise it to an engineering analysis. they are clever in how they can replicate some of the things that occur. with toyota, the fact that we are seeing the same sort of issues from other cars from other manufacturers makes you think it could be it is not a floor mat. it could be that there is s

here's the data appeared within a july 2008 and said, here's the data. then we would've back in either august or september and said here's my data. we are still concerned. >> so your testimony is as you are aware of it and not a surprise and he went to the government to say you got a problem. what was their reaction? >> serve, their reaction to my knowledge was we got it, we understand and we are studying it. as far as i know -- i personally was involved in the communications because i wasn't there then, but in january we did the same thing again. we went back to the government and said look, it's underutilized. and not only are we concerned about it, but we want to sit down and talk about a better way to utilize this workforce. you know, we get contractual requirement to provide it. we were just as concerned as you are that they weren't -- that we were not using that capability. and as i've said before, i don't know when i don't want to second-guess what the military knew that we didn't about future operations, about capability they wanted to retain and

>> no question, the doctor's data. >> but the doctor's data can save from you taking medications that contradict each other. like i said, life is a tradeoff. >> you can call from hong kong and say i've got a seizure or heart attack. you can get it immediately and can save your life. >> and now under obama care, your medical records will be available to the secretary of health and human services and the millions in that bureaucracy as well as the irs, john. >> mort? >> i think there's no doubt the medical records are much more of a risk in many ways. >> i don't think there's a risk on either side. we'll be right back with predictions. when planning for retirement these days, the forecast is full of ifs. if i'm too exposed to downturns. if i'll go through my savings too fast. to help you feel more confident consider putting a portion of your savings in a metlife variable annuity. when the market goes up, it gives your assets a potential to grow. while protecting you if the market goes down with a steady stream of income. let america's number one annuity provider help you stay on course

loading and data collection. theople she is talking to our people in the group. she is seeking additional help in loading data. >> you had to borrow staff for new ratings, i understand. is that correct? >> yes. at different times, we shifted. >> how about at that time? >> in december of 2006? in february, we were working jointly. >> retaking staff -- you were short of staff the same time they were short of staff. you're both short of staff. >> yes, mr. chairman. everybody was working very hard. >> were you both short staffed? >> you are always asking for more resources. >> this was all routine? >> no, not at all. >> you needed more staff. you saw something coming. >> yes. >> did you also need more staff? did you make request for more staff? did you have to pull staff from other parts of the operation? >> yes, we did. alkn general. i really keep up with what is gog withhe subime mortgage performancere in g. wasng ptty wl. can speo . an moninesueies

i knew about the facts and the data there. >> mr. horn. >> i am aware of the joint% utilization rates. >> i am talking about the november 14th letter, the audit from dcaa, and your response to it. in this audit is pointed out that, on average, across all sites in iraq, the average utilization rate was less than 11%. are you saying that you had never heard of that before today? >> i am aware of the issue, and i have seen the preliminary information on it. i have not had a chance to see the final report that came out on a friday. >> have you seen in the november 14th audit, of which is the audit in which this issue of 10% utilization from january 2009 to july 2009, of less than 11%, have you seen that audit? >> yes. >> have you seen it? >> i have not seen in the final. i saw the preliminary. >> i was actually going to try to help you out a little bit, because i thought that there was not any dispute on kbr's part as to what the labor utilization rates were for that time. is there no dispute on that? do you agree that it was less than 11

look at the data, the animal testing data, chemical composition, nutritional volumes of the foods that are produced. give these products a stamp of approval. that has not been done. the fda takes a cursory look at a small sampling of the data that companies selectively provide. senator durbin has considered legislation, but there has been very little support for such legislation to ensure the safety of the gmo's. the industry does not want it, because it fears it will trigger the need for more expensive testing. i think genetic engineering can provide tremendous benefits in terms of reduced pesticide use, drought resistance and improved nutritional values. we need to take advantage of this technology. at the same time, we need to guard against risks such as cancer or dive believe that these may conjure up. labeling is a very crude instrument. if food has to be labeled, nobody would buy them especially regarding gmo's. we do not have the educated public that we would like. i think we need to ensure consumers that genetically engineered foods are safe. and then eat them. we need greater

in 2007, falling the two previous credit enhancements, the data was suggesting, the performance dataas suggesting that it was even more serious than was previously contemplated. therefore, in february of 2007, ttájt downgrades on credit watch for subprime mortgages. in march, we reported also in a teleconference about what our outlook was in terms of expectations for the housing market and with the impact may be in terms of adapting them of this reporting is great but the key -- >> how many triple-a's are we sending out the door and retrospect when you look back on it, they were not triple-a but jump. that is really the key. ms. corbet, were you here for the first panel? >> i was in and out. >> that is now with a set in the first panel. they said a number of things. they said it was incentives. mr. mckenna, they said there were incentives in the organization to get more business out the door and not worry about what the ratings would be, just move it out there, quantity over quality is the term one of the gentleman used. that was not raised as one of the problems. >> ratings quality

first, i would go back to the success that we just had in the regarding the current data. we are the lowest number of deaths since the recording the status since 1954. n.h.t.s.a. is deck seeding in its -- succeeding in its mission. do i feel that vehicles are generally safe or will be safe and we won't have any other issue like toyota? it's the automobile responsibility to warrant their vehicles comply with the federal vehicle safety standards. that is their responsibility. we are not branding these jobs safe. it's our job to enforce and police the marketplace, which we will do. so as far as i'm concerned, the automakers have to not only comply with our standards and state of the war president it's my job to make sure they hold with the standards. the agency will hold that long. >> the chair's time is up. they recognize for 5 minutes. >> mr. mr. mr. strickland, thank you for joining us. i think the agency should be commended because the highways are safer today than they have ever been from a statistical stand point. you would agree with that, i'm assuming. >> yes, sir. >>

has done a fantastic job of analyzing, and publicizing through its reports, all of the data that theepartment of justice publishes on an annual basis, so this is based on the government's own statistics and many of the reports that have been done by the sentencing project. >> calls, atlanta, is first on our democrats line, jane john with michelle alexander, she's the author of "the new jim crow." go ahead please. >> caller: yes, prisoners in the -- the census counts the prisoners in the county they're in and some of the money from the federal government and representatives, that's determined by the census count. that count goes toward that. but they can't vote. how does the district get credit for that prisoner and moneys allocated to him for the account? >> guest: yes, you're absolutely right. what you're referring to is the practice of the census bureau of counting prisoners in the counties in which the prisons are located. rather than counting them as residents of their home communities. so you know, in states like new york, for example, the overwhelming majority of prisoners come

guest: one of the things we learned by analyzing the data is that over all democrats watch more television than republicans. so, one of the few cases where republicans are watching more television is sports. so we look at the party identification and the propensity to turn out among sports fans. and if you look at that, most republicans and highest turnout exports are golf and college football. host: why is that? guest: it is hard to say. part of it because the audiences for golf and college football are more upscale and more male, a demographic that looks more republican. host: well, we want to hear from our viewers. our guest will be on the line for a little while so he can react to some of his comments. we want to get your reaction about a new poll and -- about sports fans and party identity. i want to show you this chart that came out with the poll. mr. feltus, 31,000 people were polled. host: -- guest: actually 220,000 adults. we looked specifically at the markets for the ncaa elite 8, and that subset, there were about 30,000 people. host: but over 200,000 in the entire pool? guest: v

but we have never seen a case where we can definitively prove, based on the event data recorder or something else, that this is electronics. that is something the experts are going to look at and try to find out one way or the other. the transportation department is asking nasa and the national academy of sciences to come on board. are they admitting they do not have the resources to look into today's modern cars? >> you are right. they are. they have a few people with experience but they do not have the amount of -- the things you look at, mechanical problems in cars -- the agency has generally shied away from doing a lot of electronics. the look at this issue in 1986. in 1989 the wrote a long report and thought they put it to bed. for decades, these issues have popped up. in the late nineties there were issues about jeeps in car washes and whether there were electronic searches. i think the agency has not necessarily put a lot of stock in electronics issues. now they say they are going to bring topflight experts in -- nasa to look at electromagnetic radiation or outside forces. they are no

>> well, the data points coming out of the marketplace, it's all been positive. there are some cross currents of data. but by and large, as we look at things, the environment for investors looks pretty positive. you have conditions of the u.s. economy moving higher. you've got to inflation condition very subdued, you've got earnings explosive. we're going to see probably one of the best earnings reports or earnings expenses this year that we've seen in two decades. and so for us, it looks like the conditions are favorable and we're going to see continued cross currents. we've had a great rally and when may comes go away and come back in the fall. it may be influenced by the idea of higher oil prices, higher gasoline prices. those kinds of things might cause a pause in the marketplace for there's nothing big in our eyes to cause a huge retrenchment in the stock market. we think if you have any dips, you buy the dips. >> what could also create a pause in the market is what's going on in washington with the dodd bill. the switch to rd whatter provisions against ache

the division of insurance looked at the ritz, compared them to the data the health plan submitted -- they live r at theates, -- they looked at the rates and found for the most part that they were too high. they rejected them, and asked for the companies to re-file and look for a more reasonable increase. host: the next call comes from atlanta, ga., on the line for democrats. kenny? all right. the next call comes from boston on the line for republicans. caller: yes, i would like to hear your guest to respond to the fact that there are fewer doctors now in massachusetts since this bill has been passed and prior. do you agree or disagree? host: bob, before you go -- and before you answer -- do you think that if in fact there are fewer doctors, the think it is because of the health care plan put in place by gov. mitt romney? caller: absolutely. guest: i actually disagree with that statement. if you look at massachusetts, we have more doctors per capita than any other state in the country. not by just a little, but by a significant amount. we also have more primary care providers then any

here is the data. we went in july of 2008 and said, here is the data. then we went back in either august or september and said, here is more data. we are still concerned. >> so your testimony is that you were aware of it. this is not a surprise, and you went to the government to tell them you had a problem. what was their reaction? >> to my knowledge, it was, we've got it, we understand. i personally was not involved in the communications because i was not there then, but in january we did the same thing again. we went back to the government and said, look, it is underutilized. not only are we concerned about it, but we want to sit down and talk about a better way to utilize this work force. we have a contractual requirement to provide it, and we were just as concerned that you were -- it just as concerned as you work that we were not using that capability. i do not know, and i do not want to second-guess what the military knew that we did not about cheaper operations, about capabilities they wanted to retain and whether or not they specifically excepted

it crunches all the data and says, okay, where are they doing better or worse. ng customer complaints to the d.o.t., mishandled or well-handled bags, as well as whether or not they are bumping passengers. there you see the top, hawaiian and air tran. you're seeing a division into three parts. your low-cost carriers tend to be the best in those four categories. then, your legacy air carriers. at the bottom tend to be the regional carriers. the regional carriers fly those jets that people tend to feel cramped on. they're also operating at smaller airports and sometimes, you have to go to the gate and you're checking a bag there. that said, at the end of the day when the data is crunched, the airlines did better last year in terms of fewer complaints than in 2008. the fact of the matter is, the data suggests that people feel better about the performance of the airlines last year. >> i find it surprising, but interesting stuff. thank you. >>> still no sign of an 11-year-old girl in florida. she disappeared on friday. nadya bloom has a form of autism. she was last see

. >> all the data from these various deferent flights that are being made are being fed into the european regulators so they can form a more accurate picture of what's happening with this ash cloud over northern europe. >> reporter: a concern some of the ash, while invisible, may still be dangerous. >> we know that volcanic ash has a very, very negative impact upon jet engines. >> reporter: today, frankfurt, berlin and warsaw allowed some flights to operate and european officials were hopeful that as many as 50% of all flights might take off tomorrow. hundreds of thousands of passengers remain stranded at airports across europe today, hoping for one thing. >> we want to go home, back to our own country, to get home. >> reporter: today the british government told airlines to help stranded passengers by providing food and accommodation. it also announced that it's considering using the royal navy to bring home british citizens stranded abroad, including those in the united states. >> we've got to mobilize all possible transport means to get people back from the continent or from north ameri

the data base is so much more sophisticated that in the sixties it was not. but some marvelous things came out of the war in terms of changes with medical treatment. let me mention a few to you. so you have some idea of these things resulted in pretty good things. of the renown totally familiar with the trumps centers. in every major city has five of them. in 1960 there were no trauma centers nobody heard of them. every hospital have their own staff of surgeons and you took care of it. as a result of the work in vietnam with casualties it became very clear that specialized concentrated efforts produced better results. so in the mid-70s the concept of the trauma center was born now there are thousands over the country and the overall but that is what comes out of four. one famous boston surgeon named churchill not been fitted to winston the only victor in war is the surgeon and there's the element of truth. the other thing that can mugabe and tom was the basket there registry prepare you can imagine with the injuries that we saw, there were a number of blood v

it's fair to question the government and the use of the data. you have seen the form, it's race obsessed. it's about race. why is that? someone defend that. i'd like to see defense of why we need that information on the skin color. >> chris: a.b., your thoughts on the census, and the conserve tiative participation and conservative boycott? >> it's ironic that the republican establishment worked so hard this year to make sure they don't alienate the tea party voters who they hope to pick up the fall and they have anti-government conservatives threatening their chance at picking up, couple dozen more seats in the redrawing of the districts in congress. in texas and some of the most republican pockets of the entire country, compliance is extremely low. they are looking to pick up four seats in texas. those would be eas easy for republicans to pick up. democrats are going to turn out the demographics big-time. they have corporations working with latino internet companies and on and on to make sure that they are going to get the people out. i think k

raider, did you have data? >> the moderate theal is researched in a number of these exhibits we have looked at was a data set that had a significant amount of information on those hybrid pay option type of loans, and the analysis of those loans suggested that we were underenhancing or being overly optimistic, and that was the primary reason for prying to push that model into production in 2004 or 2005. >> because you were trying to test as to whether or not that kind of a product would increase the risk of non-payment, is that correct? >> well, the product started to appear in 2003, but in very small numbers. by 2004 when we welt this database, we had more significant information on those types of products that indicated that how we thought they were going to behave in the initial versions, it was behaving worse than that, and we needed to get the new model in place because it had more data and gave us a better look at how these things might perform. >> was there a delay in putting that new model in place? >> well, we

the data goal is to preserve the inactivity of children's experience on the internet while protecting the privacy. that goal remains the essential today. researchers have found that children gain important educational and social benefits such as increased opportunities for loving and creativity while engaging in interactive activities online and children are realizing these benefits as the increasingly use new technologies to access the internet. including mobile phones, video game consoles and portable media players. but as we all recognize these interactive technologies often enable consumers to his close personal information online and children and of falling understand the terms of the trade-off involved. it is designed to address this issue. microsoft fully supports the objectives of enhancing parental involvement in protecting children's privacy. while children's use of the internet has evolved over the last decade of the objectives remain just hours if not more important today. privacy failure can have an impact on children's safety. therefore microsoft takes a number of steps

has it been a matter of grabbing the data and getting it to the right organization because they are somewhat distributed? or are the designs coming down the field. we really don't know yet, we may not know for the next two or three months, maybe more. >> alike to think c-span, and also dr. runge and dr. martinez. i served at the institute of electrical and electronic engineers. it is significant that dr. martinez got the ball rolling back in 1998, and we have had a decade of progress, we have a standard for preventive recorders. this to a few minutes ago, he mentioned that just canal, the consumer protection part of this, if nhtsa sides to mandate it, -- decides to mandate it, there may be a consumer backlash. i would like to ask dr. martinez what he thinks about the initiatives so far and what does he think -- how could ieee help nhtsa in the future? >> when people think black box, they get the wrong idea. this is like a five second refreshen buffer. it does not say if you were drinking or if somebody should to be there. it just gets a vehicle information. with some protection put in, it he

raider, did you have data? >> the moderate theal is researched in a number of these exhibits we have looked at was a data set that had a significant amount of information on those hybrid pay option type of loans, and the analysis of those loans suggested that we were underenhancing or being overly optimistic, and that was the primary reason for prying to push that model into production in 2004 or 2005. >> because you were trying to test as to whether or not that kind of a product would increase the risk of non-payment, is that correct? >> well, the product started to appear in 2003, but in very small numbers. by 2004 when we welt this database, we had more significant information on those types of products that indicated that how we thought they were going to behave in the initial versions, it was behaving worse than that, and we needed to get the new model in place because it had more data and gave us a better look at how these things might perform. >> was there a delay in putting that new model in place? >> well, we

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discussed at the right level because the third esc is the group that makes the decision or provides the data to other personnel on exactly what they need to do their mission. so it was at the right level. the discussion was that the right level, and as i explained , there were four opportunities where these discussions occurred. >> it is your legal position that irrespective of whether there was ever a response to your bringing this to the government's attention that you did not have the legal, lateral right to descope. is that your legal position? >> i don't know if that is a legal position. i think it is from our understanding of our contract and our ability to do what we have got to do. we must have direction from the government' to take it off. >> bringing processing to the government's attention is a criterion. >> it is, sir. >> how much in the way a board feet has kvr gotten on the basis of that criterion, cost savings, approximately? >> sir, i do not know that. at my level, i do not see that. >> all have to get you that information. >> have you gotten any? >> yes, sir. >> can you haza

the data the census bureau clause is not shared with anyone else. host: texas, bea, on the democrats' line. caller: first, a couple of commons, then a question. i am hispanic. i live in texas. the previous callers calling regarding the antipathy as the real thing -- i can understand how the hispanics and probably all the bordering states of mexico, and maybe other areas where the illegals supposedly into the country, would feel very worried. as much complaining that goes on concerning their free ride here in america, i would think the conservatives would want them to be counted for the sake of the federal funds for american taxpayers. it is still money allocated to those locations based on population. that is maybe for you need to emphasize that it is important. illegal or not, that they get counted. the way we have the representation and funds we need, and maybe we can change the laws. do the right way. they are also complaining about the only does, but the conservatives are the ones hiring them. my question concerns questions 8 and 9 -- i had a re

and as we know, as the data shows, about fotch within three years. ou're concern do so about violent crime and poor inner city communities as i am. then you should absolute oppose the drug war. because the drug war isn't concerned primpleely with rooting out foe of po initially when we won the drug war was announced by reagan, there was considerable rance within some law enforcement agencies that were concerned about diverting their resources away from you know serious crimes like murder, rape, robbery, burglary. they were concerned about diverting those resources to the down she it offered cash. you know, these huge cash grants to law enforcement agencies that were willing to boost up foe has been motivated by a kind of generating high volumes of drug arrests. and that that's been the engine. rather than, you know, devoting limited law enforcement resources. to focusing on how to do we address violent offenders in a system and assure these communities rnt plagued with high levels of violence.Ñi violent crime, you should absolutely oppose the drug war

business with the explosion of the business, with the explosion of the stated income loans from the data we have there were many, many companies that were going, starting out as a small part of the business and, at any point were you concerned, is that part of calculation of the ratings there were a lot of stated income loans, in particular. >> that would be a credit factor for an analyst or rating committee to consider. >> do you know if any was, if it was. >> i have not participated in the rating committees but i would be extremely surprised if they hadn't. >> i would expect the same. >> okay. anyway, mr. chairman? sn>> senator kaufman. i think it is all well and good to look back and figure out what we would have done differently if we had known. part of the responsibility is to look at what happened at the time, and when we look at what happened at the time we see the huge impact on the drive for market share. on these companies. and, there is just no getting away from it and the testimony this morning was very, very powerful about it and to look at a few of the exhibits, exhibit 3,

graduates from the top universities for example went in to finance as far as we could figure from the dataare around 1970 was 10% of the peak of the sub cspan: bohm it was 45%. it is money and power. its ideology. i spent a lot of time talking to people and washington. i live in washington. and i spent a lot of time talking to people in and around the official consensus regulators, officials, politicians, their staff and obviously the attitudes have begun to change. this is not i would say that level -- people's thinking is and what it was before some timber 2008 but it's the keys to meet people who think finances good, unregulated finance is better and completely unfettered mega banks are the best. this idea is wrong. this idea is dangerous. this idea must be stopped. how are we going to do it? >> the biggest banks have to become smaller. people say to me well, simon, there's a lot going on, the finance sector is complicated. the size doesn't matter to which i respond really? let's talk about citigroup. citigroup when it failed, i'm sorry, ran into liquidity difficulties. i always forget.

it has to focus on the incredible data. google has proven platforms are paying for it. >> this is the whole idea of analytics. >> it is a incredible platform users are providing. >> the users experience of procter and gamble is they type in and see what they are saying about whatever the product? >> they have a unique opportunity to engage with consumers so consumers can give immediate feedback in real time, positioning opportunities whether it is procter and gamble or a different social media company. >> let's see what oliver has to say. >> i think debbie is right in terms of the need to connect with businesses. for me, the analytics, not enough people have the deep enough pockets. it is procter and gamble and other companies to use twitter. >> they are paying twitter. >> they should. i'm going to stop using twitter if they chashlg me but best buy has the deep pockets. >> what are the possibilities here? >> probably not enough to justify the last valuation. that is part of the problem. >> really? >> so -- >> what was their

some of the data you get on an independent basis would say it's declined beyond that. our anticipation of tomorrow is you're going to see the temporary help number actually grow on a little more of a substantial basis and that you've seen in the past. because there is demand, things are happening out there, but uncertainty and companies are looking at being more project based in order to move forward in this economy. >> i don't want to harm your business but would love to see the people move from temporary work currently on your books to permanent work. what do you they will take anecdotically? >> a six to nine-month lag. individuals may not want to see it. an interesting. . some of the individuals like to work in a project-based environment. 41% in normal times move from our rolls on into the term nent rolls a six to nine month lag time in the economy. we think it will be stretched out longer because the kornted uncertainty. >> al does that feel about flight terms of time scale? >> i agree with that and think the characterization i put on this, it's not going to be a j

we represent about 250 data companies here in the united states. those companies produce a whole range of data tools, credit reports which are used to estimate risk and a lending decision, identity verification tools which protects us from identity theft, fraud prevention tools hah help lenders manage theft. a whole raft of risk decisions in this country involve data that our members are putting together and that are making available in a business-to-business context. host: this is a story from the daily finance. most americans have seen the humerous television conversations like free credit report and free score that claim to help consumers protect their credit profiles. it turns out that many who sought to take advantage of those offers for free credit reports were often misled into signing up for credit monitoring services or other products. what is going on here and how are your -- these companies that you're representing responding? guest: well, so we need to pull apart the wheat and the chaff a little bit with what it is. it's a product. it's

we will start taking samples of the the data up. there is a concern about odor. we do believe that odor is probably due in part to the spill. there's a large machine. is a very thin layer. with increasing wind and wave activity, you get an aerosol out there. that might live. what does that mean? we have no reason to believe it will move. we cannot answer that question until we have the data. as we get the data, we will put on the website and we will interpret it because it is important to know where it really means. water sampling begins today. we clearly know there is a problem in the water, but in order to understand -- this is on top of efforts by the local and state governments and noa, who were already out, getting information, and it builds on an existing database that we have to our gulf of mexico research center. so we are working to answer the questions that are beginning to be posed in people's minds. what i've said to people is that being from this area, it is not unusual for us to face and into that we know is coming in be prepared. the resilience of

so we have put not only the data, the raw dat tacoma -- at that data, and the regression analysis.data we used for unemployment, we used two sort of data. the first report was for the first quarter of the money allocated. we used unemployment level in the district, and we found there was no correlation. the second time around, actually informed by -- after talking with a series of economists who are -- who just do economic tricks, they suggested that better measure and a better way to assess unemployment level is to actually look at the variation of unemployment between time to actually get not only a sense of the unemployment level in absolute terms, but also how hit and hurt each given district was by the recession. again, we were using bureau of labor statistics data, and no matter what type of unemployment indicator we find, we find absolutely no correlation. in fact, if i remember correctly, the coe -- coeticket makes it look as if it was done intentionally, even though i know it's not the case. it was quite stunning. i assumed, considering the rationallal behind the stimulus

in the past we didn't have the hardware to store all the data. we've taken care of the storage side and now have to build some of the software. >> the answer is no. on asking after obstacles. >> and not aware of obstacles other than dollars and the human time to actually do this. >> one other aspect is how much of this is being made available to the public to review your work and the activity is not proprietary opposite. the exchanges which monitor. >> well, there's a great deal of information available in aggregate data and then as senator bonnet as about derivatives reform, if it were to move for their ribby information about that market as well. real-time reporting. i think that answers your questions. >> i am just wondering if there's more of this information being made available to the public. >> we've had success in the last. actually been more information available about investment in the market and broken down for years, barack reports every friday about the markets, broken that down to the people and see what swap dealers and money manage

the humans? and there are some data that says that that is the case, that european data, to my knowledge and to dr. frieden's knowledge, i don't think any of those days have been done in the united states. so that's still something that people argue about whether there is any significance to that. >> okay. thank you. gentlewoman from the virgin islands, ms. christianson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. fauci, as you talk about your institute that supports basic research, how much of that research is done at universities and how many of the universities involved in the basic research are minority serving institutions? do you have any -- that's the question to begin with. >> about 90%, 89 to 90% of all of the research funding that we do goes out to universities on the outside. we funded by grants and contracts virtually all of the primary institutions, whether not they have grants and antimicrobial resistance, i would have to get back you on that, but we readily fund primarily minority institutions in our portfolio. >> okay. i have another question. last week at our spring with the minority health f

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recorder, -- teh event -- the event data recorder. you have to send out to other manufacturers to allow the device to read out what happened in the crash. toyota's have more complex electronics. >> should new consumers by toyota cars? >> that is a really hard question. we publish a book every year, the best bets. there is not a single toyota or lexus that has been recalled -- that have been recalled that is the best bet. >> do other companies have similar problems like we have seen with toyota that consumers do not know about? >> every manufacturer has a problem. in terms of unintended acceleration, toyota is far and away -- they can't explain what goes wrong, and the government has done investigations with no for it -- floormat. it comes down to electronics. toyota hasn't gotten to the bottom of that, and it does not make sense. >> mark in new york, go ahead. >> am i on? >> you are, go ahead. go ahead with your question or comment. >> i wanted asked about the new cars they had today. i know they have in your bodies and they are small.

and one of them is data processing in the cloud. and i think we're starting to see some companies appearing that do a lot of -- that do a lot of certain data work in the cloud. amazon has tackled that a little bit. and obviously there's a lot of implications for when you're building your applications in the cloud doing a lot of the data work in the cloud as well. but that's something i think that's interesting. second is mapping services and just general geo location stuff. you're starting to see some companies pop up and do some geographical stuff in the cloud. i know that's a very broad spectrum of things. i've seen some interesting companies in the space. and i suspect that we'll see more. and i think otherwise we'll -- from a campaign's perspective, i think we'll be seeing more services that sort of offer out of box a lot of the things that a campaign would pay someone for. to have, you know, some vendors and thing like that, more sort of sweeps of tools that a campaign can just come to and get this or that that they paid a compa

in terms of the actual performance data. >> you went back and used the new model or did you grandfather? >> it was a different procedure for existing transactions to look at actual performance data and to the extent the criteria was changed on new shoes, it would always be disclosed to the marketplace to what extent any past transactions meet nea criteria change or modification. >> you did not retest you just disclosed the new rate teeing? >> the new criteria and how it would impact securities to be radiating going forward. >> that is the reason you did not go back and apply your new model that you new to the old deals because of the shortage of resources? is that the reason? >> no. >> glittery since you did not do that was a shortage of resources? >> there are a number of reasons. >> was that one of them. >> i do not believe it would be. [inaudible conversations] >> this is exhibit 62 the standard and poor exhibit. at the bottom of page one how we handle existing deals and there are material changes and if you look at the top of the page to with standard emcor i did not know the situat

let's check on the data coming out from japan today. we have japan's core machinery orders today coming in lower than expected. let's talk about what this means with the chief economist at natixis. still with us, our guest host, darius kowachik. lucca, let me start with you first. what does core machinery orders drop mean? does this mean we're not on the road to recovery, is this a setback? >> this goes along with our view that the recovery in the world economy is not -- is not going to be as strong as some people seem to expect. only the u.s. and in europe, also china, will remain the most important force behind the japanese recovery and industrial production than you've seen in the last few months. >> what does this mean for boj policy, though? >> it means japanese monetary policy, as has now been the case for a lot of years, this is what is going to dominate japanese policy making. i don't think that the economic condition in the world are pointing to something different rye now. >> luca, i know darius has a question, but before we as

association of physical anthropologist urge the american government to phase out the use of waste in the data category and the substitute ethnic categories instead. geneticist studying dna the material of genes that issues instructions to our bodies were also concluding that race as a biological category made no sense. the habit of three leading human heredity to the environment may be traced back but early 19th century racial thinkers turn it around deeming it a permanent marker four and eight superiority not until the 1850's on the environment care rescued with charles darwin changes species they describe a world much longer reaping that heredity was not fixed and generation after generation things change interest bonds to their surroundings. arguments over race in the human genome decided leaving us with some intriguing data about personal appearance. prevailing racial schemes now rest once again on concept of skin color. but widely recognizes the fact that not only are black people various shades of brown and yellow but so too are white people somewhat lighter and often with more pink or

once you had the real data interns of what actually happened. the downside was consistent with the structured and the calculations that we went through to develop our regulatory numbers that were consistent. >> i want to make sure i understand the business model, because it's always been of interest to me. there were really two things that you did. one was to purchase mortgages, provide a guarantee, and generate mbs's for sale and the second business was to borrow and hold those risky mbs's in a large portfolio? >> yield the commissioner an additional five minutes. >> and in this spectrum of purposes that you had to pursue, the public purposes, the profit purposes, what purpose did the portfolio hold? >> when a -- when an originator originates mortgages and builds up a book of loans that they then put into a -- into a fannie mae or a freddie mac security, they are still -- they are the originator of those loans obviously, but they still hold those loans, but that are now in the form of a mortgage-backed security on their books. the reason that th

recorder, -- teh event -- the event data recorder. you have to send out to other manufacturers to allow the device to read out what happened in the crash. toyota's have more complex electronics. >> should new consumers by toyota cars? >> that is a really hard question. we publish a book every year, the best bets.

they are left with the data that you gave them. each controller is going back through everything they did during the mission. was i right? that is the only question in their mind. you hear the electronics, the home of the air-conditioner. you smoke a lot. somebody lights up a cigarette. you drink the final cold coffee and still soda that has been there -- stale soda that has been there. every eye has been on the clock on the wall. when it counts down to zero, i tell kerwin to call. wef@ call again and again. we are a minute from when we should have heard from them. there is a little bit of doubt coming into the room that something happened and the crew did not make it. in our business, hope is eternal and trust in the spacecraft and each other is eternal. we keep going. every time we called the crew, we are one minute and 27 seconds from when we should have heard from the crew before we finally get the call back. a down range aircraft has heard from the crew. almost instantaneously from the aircraft carrier, we get a sonic boom and

kbr reported its labor utilization rates but the report says the army did not adequately reviewed the data or require corrective action. we want to know why. we also want to ask kbr about a sense of responsibility for managing a work force that was clearly too big for the work being done this case study raises serious questions about overall contractor performance and government oversight. our first, as three witnesses. each had deepened direct knowledge of the issues that concern is today. lieutenant general james belpre is the commanding general of army materials. -- lt. general james pillsbury. patrick fit to gerald, director of to read -- a defense contract agencies. dcaa is working at the request of the contract management agency, dcma, to determine whether kbr is reducing its work force in iraq commensurate with the military drawdown. james loehrl is responsible for u.s. army contract. logcap 3 and 4 are under his jurisdiction. we have three witnesses representing kbr and address our concerns about the company's performance and the adequacy of government planning and oversight of the

the latest jobs data out of way and it is tax week. is the economy and how much are projections for growth changed over the last week? our senior economics reporter steve liesman is here. he joins us with the secret plan to try and reduce the deficit. i like that. >> we're not going to talk about that today, though. that was supposed to be -- we're going to talk about that tomorrow for technical reasons. but it's nice when i have to bring you all of the bad news over a period of a couple of years now to finally be able to bring you good news. last week's retail numbers and the recent jobs report have some economists marking up their forecast for the recently completed first and the current second quarter now. animal spirits spur higher growth forecasts uks in the weekend report raise sth growth forecast by half pint for the first quarter. morgan stanley say incoming data continuing to be somewhat stronger than expected and checking forecasts for the first quarter up half a point. at morrissey's new green shoots of spring. and he points