that's what the gao came back and said were failing. so look, we are spending a lot of money to my get that reports are burdensome on the pentagon, i get that, and maybe we shouldn't do gao reports. if you haven't noticed a trend, in every set of comments i've made today i referenced the gao report. maybe we just shouldn't do gao reports but when they come back and tell us we've got a systematic, systemic problem in coordination, were not doing any favor to the men and women who we deploy to the border just because they've been asked to go and we don't want to ask for report. i yield back. >> i would just say briefly, i highly recommend the gentleman from maryland read the gao reports on duplication and waste. they have been writing over and over again about how we, how there's too much duplication and waste and for some years now so i highly recommend the gentleman look at those. i would just say i would feel better about this report if it were all deployments of the national guard rather than only those to the sudden southern land bord

they are looking at every possible option to get that, including now, he says for the gao audit. the implication is they cannot do the audit unless they know the scope. be required and forced the document to be released. there are lorries and others who might have different opinions. , whatsets up this battle is going on with the investigation? it started as a probe into trump, 2016. they want to see where it is going. whether it is going in the appropriate direction. they feel they have been stonewalled by the justice department on that as well as other issues. all kinds of issues going on. republicans trying to get more information. they are not getting what they want. they are using these tactics. the cost of the investigation they feel they can get information about the scope. it is not clear whether or not that will work, but it will help put pressure on the team doing the investigation. that they feel will help yield -- information. -- information. >> explain what this threat, why put that threat out there? >> it is leverage, using all the tools at your disposal to get the

today's hearing, the gao, the department of health and human services office of inspector general are nonpartisan, federal watchdogs. that issue recommendations on how federal programs could run better. in 2011, gao found that hrsa over sight of the program was quote inadequate. saying hrsa's over sight is inadequate because it relies on covered entities and manufacturer's self policing. that is participants ensuring their own compliance with program requirements. and in 2014, hrsa drafted regulations to define what a patient is. hrsa was sued in 2014. the court found they lacked authority to engage in such rule making limiting what it can do to over see the program. the inspector general of the department of health and human services has come to a similar conclusion that over sight of the program has been inconsistent. and hrsa lacks authority to over see it. to improve over sight, the inspector general recommended hrsa clarify which patients are eligible to receive 340 b drugs. how they can use pharmacies to dispense 340 drugs. another concern raised by the inspector general is that

frye, this is in response to the gao not approving these contracts. so we're making some adjustments to our program with anticipation that is going to facilitate easier approval, is that correct? >> that is correct. it's also to address -- the past year they did not approve all contracts. the questions they've raised, they've raised every year. we've done our best to answer them. it finally got to a critical point where the board and committee are asking, what is the real benefit here for the city? and we need to demonstrate that we're really giving money for the right reasons. >> so the notion -- i just don't agree that the notion that because someone chose to go ahead and do the restorations on their own, they didn't need the money. it's an incentive for people to do that. and if they can get it done and then take advantage of the incentive, i don't know why they would have to wait for the approval to get the work done. >> just as a matter of clarification, if you've done work in the previous year, it will count. that will narrow that a little bit an

russell the active director of the gao home and security in his current role hayes is responsible for leading the portfolio working on transportation security issues and assessing progress to make to effectively allocate security resources across transportation modes while facilitating the flow of commerce and people since joining gao the recipient of seven awards including two meritorious service and teamwork awards. congratulations you are now recognized for five minutes for your opening statement. >> good morning chairman and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the quick check program and the wait times primarily based on the february 2010 report 43000 security officers across 440 screen screened 200 million or more passengers per day the primary responsibility is to have security but also with the efficient flow of passengers to the screening process. and the challenge is to take the time to do the job right and moving passengers * quickly as possible with travelers in the travel season underway it is critical tsa gets it right the standa

and today's hearing, the gao, the department of health and human services office of inspector general are non- partisan federal watchdogs that issue recommendations on how federal programs can run better. in 2011, gao found the first oversight of the program was, "inadequate." saying the oversight is inadequate because it primarily relies on covered entities and manufacturers self-missing. that's participants ensuring their own compliance with program requirements. in 2014 they drafted regulations to find where the patient is. however they were sued in 2014. the courts found a lack of statutory authority to engage in such rule making. limiting what they could do to oversee the program. the inspector general of the department of health and human services has come to a similar conclusion, concluding the oversight of the program has been inconsistent, and hurts and lacks authorities to oversee it. to improve oversight, the inspector general recommended that they clarify which patients are eligible to receive 340b drugs, how hospitals and clinics can use contract pharmacies to dispense 34

and announces he is requesting an audit from the gao of the investigation spending. he also talks about the goals of his caucus.here is a brief look. >> you have been one of the biggest critics of the department of justice and how they have handled many aspects of the business recently. and you have gone so far to suggest that the deputy attorney general should be impeached. you and chairman and as of the intelligence community have been asking for more information on their surveillance activities and their investigating activities. what is your issue with the way the doj has conducted itself, mr. rosenstein in particular. and where did the issue stand at this moment? do you, have they been with some of these meetings and treaties that had been entered into in the last few days? >> i think probably the issue, to answer question roughly is that we get more rhetoric. it's all about getting the documents. making sure that we actually get the documents that a constitutional right to have. it is our job to actually do oversight. we have been requesting many of these docum

and i'm confident the gao will accept. it's 16 if you include the two ongoing reviews by your bosses at the white house and the omb. i would ask consent to submit that list for the record. >> it will be included. >> administrator pruitt, as a former attorney general -- you and i share that responsibility, we didn't serve at the same time. and you're also a law enforcement official at the epa, do you support special counsel robert mueller completing his investigation? >> i'm sorry, ranking member. investigation into -- >> do you support special counsel robert mueller completing his investigation? >> i think the process is continuing -- >> it's a simple yes or no. >> yeah -- >> do you support him completing his investigation? as a law enforcement official, you've had investigations before. do you support it? >> i think as attorney general it's important for law enforcement, those investigators that serve prosecutors, to be able to provide adequate information to them to make informed decisions when whether to proceed as a pro

representative mark meadows talks about the muller investigation and announces he is requesting an audit from the gao of the investigation spending. he also talks about the goals of his caucus. here's a brief look. >> you have been one of the biggest critics of this department of justice and how they have handled many aspects of their business recently. you have gone so far to suggest that the deputy attorney general should be impeached. you and the chairman of the intelligence community have been asking for more information on their surveillance activities and their investigatory activities. could you start out by explaining probably what is your issue with the way that the doj has conducted itself, mr. rosenstein in particular, and where do those issues stand at this moment? have they been away by these meetings and treaties that have been entered into in the last few days? >> probably the issue to answer your question directly is that we get more rhetoric than we get action and so for us it's all about getting the documents and making sure that we actually get the documents that we have and consti

i am confident the gao will accept. it is 16 if you include the two ongoing reviews your bosses at the white house and the omb. madam chair, i would ask consent to -- for that to be included in the record. as a former attorney general, you and i share that responsibility. we did not serve at the same time. you are a law enforcement official at the epa. do you support special counsel robert mueller completing his investigation? >> investigation into? >> do you support special counsel robert mueller completing his investigation? >> i think the process is continuing. >> it is a simple yes or no. do you support him completing his investigation? you have had investigations before. >> as attorney general, it is important for law-enforcement. for those prosecutors to be able to provide adequate information. i did that as attorney general. >> as you know, the right answer is yes whenever there is an investigation ongoing. that is the reality. yesterday i requested a gao inquiry into the april 13 suite from your epa's official ac

within the parameters of the appropriated funds from congress that we will be sending a request to the gao, the general accountability office to actually look at the office and make sure that the funds are put forth properly, so that will be going out. >> is there a same request -- >> any member of congress can do that, but certainly i will be giving that at least in my personal capacity but as you know the chairman of the subcommittee on government operations and so gao and others are under the subcommittee and so we will be sending that out. >> to audit the spending for the investigation. >> that comes out of a dedicated fund that basically is what we call backdoor appropriations. this may mean the inside baseball language, but making sure what we are doing is properly spending that. there are some 3 million plus dollars that have been spent or actually potentially not spend in a correct manner. i am not making any conclusion to that because i always want to back up what we have but we need to look at that a little closer. >> executive chair howard schultz talks about the rollinge that r

draper, according to your testimony, the gao is preparing additional reports on the 340b program. what are the areas you're examining and when do you think these reports will be ready? >> we have two reports coming out this summer. one is looking at the issue around contract pharmacies so we're looking at the extent to which covered entities are contracting with contract pharmacies and some of the characteristics of those pharmacies. we're also looking at the extent to which discounts are passed on to low income patients or individuals from the 340b program. we're also looking at lersa oversight of the program and including -- we're going to be delving more into the audits of the covered entities. the fourth thing is looking at finish arrangements between covered entities and contract pharmacies as well as was tpas. there's a cottage industry that evolved around the 340b program. that is something we'll look at, as well with the tpa arrangements. >> excellent. thank you very much. thanks, mr. chair. >> thank you, senator kaine. what arrangement tpa. >> third party administrators.

system and the gap between the bureaus self-assessment and the gao's independent review, if any. we understand that there is communication between the census and gao, but this must be a priority so that the 2020 census meets or exceeds our lofty expectations. funding remains critical to an accurate census. are colleagues provided 2018 funning for the 2020 census even above the requested levels. we expect the census to be a good's george of these resources, particularly at a time when public trust is not particularly high. the census bureau and the department of commerce need to provide a committee with their spending plan for the fiscal year 2018 funding. we look forward to working with today's witnesses and with the appropriations committee to ensure proper funding is also available in fiscal year 2019 and fiscal year 2020. the census is constitutionally significant. it is mentioned in particularity within this committee and it is relied upon by governmental entities and related to the fundamental right to vote and for those votes to be counted fairly and proportionally. but cong

we will compare today what we hear from the bureau with the gao's systems. the gap between the self-assessment and the independent review if any. we understand there is communication between census and gao. this communication must be orority so 2020 census meets exceeds our lofty expectations. colleagues provided fiscal -- funding.ve the census bureau needs to provide the spending plan. we look forward to working with today's witnesses and what the appropriations committee to find -- to ensure proper funding is ready for 2019 and 2020. it is relied upon by the governmental entities and is directly related to fundamental right to vote and for those rights -- and for those was to be counted fairly and proportionately. not only this committee, the congress as a whole takes its responsibility to review -- review progress seriously. each of us shares the common objective there we can have confidence in 2020. clark's thank you very much, mr. chairman. i really do appreciate this hearing. persons -- persons. that is what our constitution requires the government acco

that the big thing up and going. gao the machine in motion. hard to gett's people to think about what's the next new thing. i talk to people often about looking out at the horizon. what's on the horizon. what's beyond the horizon. >> i spend lot of time traveling we have major campuses all around the country. have our international company with different locations the world. group of clients in very efficient way. -- you have a preference flying commercial? >> i'm getting on planes all the time. you and saycognize give me money advice. people that recognize me are employees. if i'm in a city where we have a big base of employees and i'm more likely to be recognized, recognizely clients me. not general. >> after the show, they will recognize you. >> absolutely. >> you feel pressure to recruit other women to be a role model for women? >> i think this is terrific business for women. in particular i think is a great career for women. in anda that you come you're responsible for covering securities and making recommendations. it's your responsibili

we will be sending a request to the gao, the general accountability office, to actually look at an audit and make sure those funds are put forth properly. a question from the oversight committee or the freedom caucus? representative meadows: any member of congress can do that. and i will be doing that in at least my personal capacity, but as you know i am chairman on the subcommittee of government operations so gao and others are under that subcommittee. so we will be sending that out to see who else would join. >> to audit spending for the mueller investigation? congressman meadows: yes, because that comes out of a dedicated fund, what we call back door appropriations. be inside baseball language, but making sure what we are doing is properly spending that. dollars 3 million plus spent or potentially not spent in a correct manner. i'm not making any conclusion to that because i was once to back up what i have, but we believe we need to look at that little bit closer. portion of freedom caucus chair mark meadows' recent comment from our "newsmakers" program. you can watch the entire conv

>> there are inquiries by the inspector general. well.ction with gao as total number -- i don't know. those agencies are involved. 14,y my count, there are including the inquiry i requested today and i'm confident gao will accept. it is 16 if you include the two ongoing reviews from your bosses at the white house. madam chair, i ask consent to submit that lists for the record. as a former attorney general, you and i share that responsibility, we did not serve at the same time -- and you are also a law enforcement official at the e.p.a. do you support special counsel mueller completing his investigation? mr. pruitt: i am sorry. investigation? >> do you support special counsel mueller completing his investigation? mr. pruitt: i am not --i think the process is continuing. >> it is a simple yes or no. do you support him completing his investigation? you are a law enforcement official. mr. pruitt: i think as attorney general, it is important for law enforcement, those investigators to serve prosecutors to provide adequate information to them to make informe

the parameters since it is an appropriated funds from congress that we will be sending a request to the gao, the general accountability office to actually look at an audit and make sure those funds are put forth properly and so that letter will be going out next week -- >> reporter: now, wolf, this as the house intelligence committee devin nunes has been going after the russia investigation and questions that he has about why the russia investigation began in the first place. he had a private briefing yesterday at the justice department with congressman trey gowdy to learn about information they were seeking about someone describes as an intelligence source providing information over the mueller probe. they got private briefing and they say at the moment that was a productive meeting but they want to have further discussions going forward. it is coming as democrats are concerned it is part of an effort to undercut the probe and give the president ammunition to fire rod rosenstein or jeff sessions. >> and the senate intelligence committee is still investigating possible connections between t

what is the dollar value of the benefits. 2017 long after 1978 the gao did report about whistleblowers at the department of veterans affairs and said it actually and actually praise the official time that the facilitated the whistleblower process at the va. what did that whistleblower process and tail -- it uncovered the overprescribing of opioids which is a huge problem across the country and certainly with her veteran populations and long wait times for veterans which also then led to the uncovering of fraudulent form filling so that the va looked better than it was. does that ring a bell with you? >> absolutely. >> their value to that? >> there is great value in that. activities that took place under official times with state and federal government money so all the efforts to increase transparency and collect better data do need to identify not just the cost side by benefits. >> helping our veterans and maybe to the tune of millions of dollars. >> we always member the problems of veterans hospital several years ago and some of those were uncovered because federal employees spoke up.

mark: the gao reports we waste 125 to $250 billion a year. >> that's right. : 2 to $3 billion a year, that's mustard money for the federal government? >> i agree. mark: i'm not talking down the money. as far as the federal government goes, that's a pittance. is there a reason why that's not slipped into the omnibus bills? >> yes. the electric power industry doesn't want to do anything against the emp, and they have very deep pockets. they own half of k-street, lobby against bills. there is also -- mark: why wouldn't they? it would destroy their entire industry? >> i know. mark: don't believe it's going to happen? >> they are not experts on emp, okay? and the -- they don't see their jobs and their right as being national and homeland security. they see that as the job of the federal government and also want to have a regulatory environment such as exists now where in effect the electric power industry is the last infrastructure that regulates itself. we have many examples from history where industries put themselves out of business or seriously harmed their cus

>>that's not just our opinion, that's the gao finding of 2017. >> now recognize mr. ross for five minutes. >> i think that chairman and the panel for being here. a year ago today the house passed extension of my bill which mr. kovacs has referred to , which is a very fundamental accountability transparency bill that would require opm to submit a report each year including total time granted to employees, doesn't pass judgments on what that time was used for, whether it should be used for, nothing. all he does is create the transparent process of counting for all official time. in furtherance of that i would like to submit for the record a editorial from the newspaper in my district discussing the benefits of that particular legislation. >> without objection. >> my first question is is there any reason not to make transparent accountability process such as set forth in hr 1293 for the purpose of reporting official time, mr. kovacs? >> it's an excellent idea. taxpayer should know what federal employees are doing well paid by the public. >> mr. gilson? >> i honestly don'

. >> thank you for inviting me here to discuss the gao observations on the extent to which the paper social security card is used and what it cost to produce.s issuing 500 million social security numbers and cards and not intended to serve as a personal identifier outside of the program due to the universality and uniqueness and private sector entities those that use it as a convenientnv means however as everyday transactions are electronically whether a paper card is still needed or desirable to communicate or verify. today i will first discuss it there any federal requirements for a social security card and sense to discuss common solutions that the stakeholders may ask to see to conduct business and t finally discuss those views in although there are many federalar requirements we found that no statutory requirements identify requirements with human resource managers and finance sector in the state agencies and those that we spoke with have a variety of instances with other acceptable forms of documentation to identify their identity or as a said. clement to document that eligibil

but as you know, i am the chairman of the subcommittee on government operations and so gao and others are under that subcommittee and we will be sending that out this eagles will join it. susan: to audit the spending for the mueller investigation question mark rep. meadows: -- investigation? rep. meadows: that comes out of a dedicated fund that basically is what we call back door appropriations. that may be inside baseball language. making sure that what we are doing is properly spending that. there is some $3 million plus dollars that has been spent or potentially not spent in a correct manner. i'm not making any conclusion to that. i always want to back up what i have. we believe we need to look at that closer as well. susan: do you know how much has been spent so far total? rep. meadows: we really don't. we have the numbers that of been given and that's why we need the audit. we are here. it used to be they would audit these every six months when you had a special counsel. in 2010, that was pulled out, i think it was part of an appropriations where that reporting language was no lo

the gao found there were challenges for the national guard and for active duty military forces in providing support to law enforcement. for example,

so nuclear program let's not speak though about the situation involving the us not going to talk to north korea because victor gao the director of the china national association of international studies is alive with its very welcome north korea by all accounts victor appears to be complying with the obligations said i by the us president why do you think donald trump has called off tunes meeting. the president of the trumps decision to cancel the media schedule and to the twelve with the sit room leader of the gate is a very bad at even of it and it's not constructive for the prospects of beauty a lasting peace on the korean peninsula it also does not help that the grogs asian process not the united states president don't trust me that decision immediately after that this struction one of tested so it's five k. and this is even made the holes into if he was worse it made it less easy to trust the real intention of the united states and it also creates more difficulties for d.p. r. k. and its leaders to create the come to terms with any future decision to meet with the president of the united states so i think it

and it's had its challenges and what you see more importantly as the future and by congress or gao or the contractor what do you see forthcoming? >> it is a challenge that we have. and with the space telescope and other things that nasa does, what we ought to be doing is to say is a very leading edge, where the telescope launches it will see the beginning of the universe. that is an amazing capability of us are anxiously anticipating. that being said, as critical as that is to nasa and united states and the world, it has had its challenges because we are at that very leading edge of technology. the impact of course there has been a number of challenges you start with the fact one of the issues that we have the thrusters were cleaned with a solvent that damaged some of the seals that required us to go back and develop new thrusters that set us back. the sunshield that was on it unfolded u and has proven more challenging than we anticipated that has set us back with time and budget but what i will say is looking at 2019i do think impact will be that significant because the budget for op

that -- >> any member of congress can do that, but as you know i am chairman of the subcommittee on government operations. gaond others are under that subcommittee, so we will be sending that out? >> the audit for the mueller investigation. >> yeah, because that comes out of a dedicated fund that we called backdoor appropriations. that might be the inside baseball language, but making sure that what we are doing is properly spending that. host: so instead of going after the investigation, instead go after the funds and fiscal accountability. anna: it is not only going after the funds. it is also going after the structure of this investigation. this is something you have seen from republicans, especially in the house, but why there should be a special counsel and the history and why they are trying to discredit mueller on the team around him. if there is a result that is not favorable to him, he has already qaeda have -- he has artie kind of sown the seeds of distressed in this and can easily dismiss ing results without risk very much in public opinion. hunter: one of the biggest white house strategies we have

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rescinding that guidance would be troubling in light of the findings recent of of the gao that shows the discipline disparity are not a function of poor students acting out more, is a often the claim, the role of racial violence cannot be denied -- cannot be ignored by the department. the departments enforcement of civil rights laws appear to be in full retreat at a time when students, all students, need the department to stand with them, fight for them, and protection their rights to a quality public school education. to put it more plainly the department is moving further away from the promise of educational he can but the brown v. board, americans students and parents and teachers deserve better emi look forward to the secretary's testimony today and having a chance to discuss these issues which are vital donation's future and thank you, madam chair, and i yield back. >> thank you, mr. scott. pursuant to committee rules, 7c, all members will be permitted to submit written statements to be includes in the permanent hearing record without objection the hearing record will remain open

. >> this is a real issue for the judges because gao mention in its report because there's been such a shift in the law, it's difficult tot judges to apply that in you la. this sounds like one of the ways we're going to put judges in a better position to do that. >> it's incumbent on to us make sure judges had a as up-to-date information as possible, especially with the law. there are new decisions practically every week, new eregulations coming on. judges can look at it themselves or have law clerks do it. this way we can make sure we can get it out in a uniform and timely manner. >> any big regulatory changes you see coming down the pike for your agency or is it too early to talk about that? >> probably too early at this point. obviously, we've had a lot of regulations on different agendas that are pending out there and we're doing kind of like an overall retro aspecttive review of all our rags. i guess the most recent one was increasing the size of the board. nothing that comes to mind. >> immigration judge productivity has dlientd from 1,356 case complexions in 2016 to 807 case co

the government accountability judge said immigration judge hiring were an issue for you. june 17 gao report said it took 742 days, over two years, to complete each immigration judge's hiring process. what steps is the department of justice taking to hire immigration judges more quickfully. >> this actually began just before i came back to eor and just before the report came out. the attorney general in april of 2017 announced a streamlined hiring process in order to address this very issue. the process itself doesn't really change but the key thing that was different is it actually imposed deadlines. the old process in place since 2007 had no real deadlines so people moved through the process but there wasn't necessary lay push for it. something as simple as imposing deadlines for each component to review has actually had a significant impact. since that time, our first aide put out after i came back, close to the end of june, unof 2017, and we anticipate bringing on at least a couple of judges from that ad this month. that gets to us ten months. we anticipate bringing on the rest in

representative mark meadows talks about the molar investigation and announces he is requesting an auditfrom the gao of the investigation spending. he also talked about the goals of his caucus . here's a brief look. >> you been one of the biggest critics of the department of justice and how they handled many aspects of their business recently. and you've gone so far as to suggest that the deputy attorney general should be impeached. you and chairman nunez of the intelligence committee have been asking or more information on their surveillance activities and their investigatory activities. you start out by explaining broadly, what is your issue with the way the doj has conducted itself, mister rosenstein in particular and where to those issues stand at this moment? have they been away by some of these meetings and entreaties that have been entered into in the last few days? >> i think probably the issue to answer your question directly is that we get more rhetoric that we get action. and so for us, it's all about getting the documents, making sure that they actually the document that we have a consti

you know the report, 2017 gao report, concluded dook the doj on average, i think you said, over 700 days to complete each immigration judge's hiring process. what steps are they taking to hire judges more quickly? >> this you will actually began before i came back to eoir. the attorney general in april of 2017 announced a streamlined hiring process to address this issue. and the process itself doesn't really change, but the key thing that was different is that it actually imposed deadlines. the old process had been in place since 2007 had no real deadline, so, and people moved through the process, but there wasn't necessarily a push for it. and something as simple as imposing deadlines for each of the components to review has actually had a significant impact. since that time the first ad i put out since i came back, closed in june of 2017 and we anticipated bringing on an um couple of judges from the ad itself and gets us to about ten months. we anticipate bringing on the rest in july which would be right out a beginning of july, put us at about a year. so we've been able to, so far, re

balancing security resources across transportation modes while facilitating the legitimate flow of commerce and people. since joining gao in 2002, mr. russell has been the recipient of several awards, including two meritorious service awards. congratulations on your awards. you are now recognized for five minutes for an opening statement. >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on tsa's pre-check program and airport wait times. my statement is primarily based on our february 2018 report. 43,000 transportation security officers, tsos, across 440 airports screen two million passengers and their baggage each day. tsa's primary responsibility is to ensure security, but it strives to balance safety with the efficient flow of passengers through the screening process. an inherent challenge in tsa's mission is taking the time necessary to do the job right and moving passengers through as quickly as possible. with an increasing number of travelers and the busy 2018 travel season under way it's critical that tsa get the balance right. the tsa standard for wait times is under 30 minutes for standard screeni

. >> the gao did a report, as you know, and we talked about that, and there's a problem. there's a lack of coordination, a lack of harmonization. now i'm working on legislation that would give the fintechs a voice because they need to have a point entry into the new regulatory stream. secondly, they need to have harmonization. it's not just you and the fed that's speaking to regulate the fintechs. you have out the ocp and the cfpb, the cftc, all of them clamoring here. so i wanted you to know about our legislation. i like to work with you with that because of all of the regulators it is the if the federal that is the anchor of our financial system. you're the point person for that in this very good and new position that we created as the supervisor for legislation for the fed. finally i want to just ask you if you could help us with something. my good friend miss luetkemeyer got a bill, the sievey bill, it passed too. much of what means something is coordinated into senate bill 2155 but it's sitting in the house. people say it's going to die. can you help us? can you get o