zants is the acting head of omb. right? >> that's correct. >> why hasn't the administration sent his name up for confirmation, or have they? >> at this time, i do not believe his name has been submitted for nomination. i'm unaware of the circumstances surrounding that issue. >> do you know how long it's been since his name's been submitted? >> again, i do not believe his name has been submitted. i do know that -- i believe that he became the acting director in january of 2012. >> and the state department has an acting inspector general. >> yes. that is correct. >> the thing i can't understand is the president makes a recommendation to the senate, and the senate reviews it at the proper committees, and then they either confirm the full senate or they reject them. the senate does not have the opportunity to rule on that or to make a judgment unless it's submitted to them. i just don't understand why at this point we still have these people that are in acting positions after 3 1/2 years. i'm not sure you can answer that questio

the obama administration? >> yes, and prior to that, i served as civil servant within omb as the deputy and acting controller, and i started my career at omb in 1997. >> and who do you report to? >> jeff psyience. >> what his position? >> the dep ted position and currently the acting director. >> but he is in an acting position? >> that is correct. >> very frustrated with this administration in particular. we had former chairman burton just a few minutes ago, and led this committee. i've been on it since i came to congress. now, i guess, 19 going on 20 years. been through all kinds of administrations. republican and democrat. i have to say, this is the most difficult one we've ever had to deal with. this stonewalling is a great new art form with these folks. i chair the transportation infrastructure committee, and we have six subcommittees with broad jurisdiction. d.o.t., faa, gsa, which has been on the news day and night. tsa isn't under our jurisdiction, but, legislatively, but we conduct oversight there, too. the other thing, too, is, with the czars and these, some of these positions that aren't approved, i

the question. from my vantage point where i sit at omb and my work with the inspector general -- and i have a very close working relationship with miss fong -- there are a variety of different areas where omb is in a position to help the i.g. community succeed. one of them is to work with them to better understand the resource needs of the inspector general community and to work with them to develop justifications that can survive congressional scrutiny for the levels that the president requests for the i.g.s. i would note as a global matter that while the president working with congress has cut essentially a trillion dollars in discretionary resources in the budget, the i.g. community funding level has remained constant, has been across the i.g.s and has been somewhat protected from the other discretionary cuts that we're seeing. specific to the state department, the state department's inactive level in 2011 was $59 million. in '12 that went up to $62 million. and the president's budget request for 2013 is $66 million. this is the place where omb can step in and assist an i.g. in being as successf

but we're supposed to be protecting the taxpayers. you are and omb and your position of financial management. so one there is something wrong if you know this person and you're not getting the information. there's something wrong here. if first of all -- thank god we had miller there. now, miller never turned anything over to us. it took the whistle-blower, our former employee, to go to him to miller again. did it not? are you aware that she went back to miller and asked, when -- after the guy snubbed his nose, held a convention, the investigation was done. plenty of time to do an investigation from -- we had from november to may. adequate time to do an investigation on the funny business in las vegas. i think that was enough time. they informed the gsa administrator at the time and other officials. they never let us know. we kept asking questions. show us what's going on, to warrant these expenses. then only because of this is outrageous actor, a senior executive employee, thumbs his nose at everybody. he decides to do what is it, a 17-day south pac

the omb, i understand, has a policy of -- >> i recognize the omb has chosen not to be on this panel. we'll remove the name. it may very well mean that he'll be called back for a future hearing. >> that will be fine. first of all, it's not that they are unwilling, just that it's sets another precedent and they'll testify at any time. they are glad to come back. >> sure. no, you know, it was an asked for and i had hoped that they would view this as a time in which it would not be a problem. as you know, administration selectively decides at times that they will sit with non-administration and selectively decides they won't. ultimately we'll respect their decision. we'll get through the first panel. if there's time, based on some change, but i suspect strongly there won't be and we'll have to reschedule. >> thank you. i appreciate that. inspectors general are critical to ensuring that our government works effectively and efficiently on behalf of the american taxpayers. although our committee plays a prominent and often public role in conducting government oversight, we rely heavily on i

. >> in response to these concerns from the white house about the statistics from omb -- >> not about statistics about the press releases on the statistics. i don't think there was a concern about the statistics. >> but i just wanted to ask because george shultz at the time the omb director undertakes a review of statistics, government statistics, as could the four departments that produced most of the statistics, hew. you recall this? >> no, i don't. i didn't recall this at all. but it would be census, bls, and who else? >> well, it was agriculture and commerce. >> yes. >> the census being commerce. and so -- but the first part of it was a reorganization of bls. >> oh, i do remember that. >> but what's interesting about this is that after this review, bls gets responsible for even more statistics than it was. >> yes, right. yes, i mean, george, of course, is a first class economist, knew the statistical business quite well and had enormous respect and regard for jeff moore and thought the bls did a professional job. it was only the press releases that were so controversial as i recal

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according to the omb, 50% of these loans will never be repaid. fourth, the restrains spending on government bureaucracies. look, we all believe in a strong federal work force. they serve our country honorably. but workers in the private sector are being asked to share more equitably in the cost of their retirement benefits, and we feel that federal workers ought to be able to do the same especially since it's those private sectser worker that are paying the taxes to pay their salaries. finally it gets rid of wasteful and do pliktive spending. i'm sure our friends will talk about the block grant but what they won't tell you is that the missions from this block grant program created in 1956 are currently being duplicated by dozens ever newer and other federal programs. we have an enormous array of overlapping and do pliktive programs in the federal government gone unnoticed and unscrutinized for far too long. this begins that process. taxpayers deserve better than to see their money wasted on do plikitive programs that never end because ending them

within the office of management budget he is responsible for coordinating omb's efforts to initiate government-wide improvements in all areas of financial management. when -- and again i use the gsa example, and we did, in fact, have a former staffer who works at gsa, blow the whistle. a, an investigation was conducted, and properly so. a report -- that started in november after the -- well, after the october incident in 2010. in may, gsa and others were informed. administrators. we had the witnesses here. nothing was done. in june, the white house was advised. you said you knew the counsel, but didn't know the incident or didn't read the report. my whole point is here, was, this -- these were very serious allegations of abusive use of taxpayer dollars. okay. so it's reported, nothing's done. the guy takes off and launches another wasteful -- scenario, and susan brita again blows the whistle and the inspector general begins an investigation. but somehow all of the cylinders don't seem to be clicking, and you say -- you just got through testifying to the gentleman from virginia that you get these re

. >> the omb sent us a response to our questions. they say a year ago president called on congress to cut through the red tape and they have 20 steps it must go through before moving a property to sale. they say it's congress's fault? >> part of it is. some people do benefit by keeping things the way they are. >> we couldn't wait for congress so we have cut excess real estate costs by $1.5 billion weewlgt can go much further. when you have approaching $17 trillion in debt and endangering you are children's future you have to start somewhere. we should have the private sector engaged in property management, only the government can do it best -- that is flawed way of conducting the people's big. >> john: you used to be a private developer so you understand the differences? >> absolutely. i don't know anyone that would turn over their property or anything they own to the federal government or government to manage. they would have to be crazy. >> john: thank you. good luck saving us some money. up next, julia, her touching story is a slid

before that he was in the omb. we're happy we can have all three panelists here to speak to you. why don't we just go one, two, three to make it a little easier. all-star with bruce and end up with tom. >> thank you. good morning everyone. it is great to be here. i wanted to comment on a couple of things. i think there are some interesting threads we get along collectively over the course of the day and in the future work the commission is going to be doing and the this important area of cooperation. starting from home, i would note there is a fairly large footprint of dhs people at the conference. i think that is instructive to. it takes me back to an article that the secretary and i wrote an -- in wired it. cyberspace is civilian space. there are many metaphors -- we are searching for them because we cannot see too far into the future. they produce some bizarre conclusion anything, that is the end of that. we all have good examples of that. if you think about some of the things cyberspace can be thought of whether it is a school yard or a classroom or a library, or a market pla

the omb, which advises the president, and the cbo, the congressional budget office, which runs the numbers on this policy. host: -- guest: not on the american test. runoff election is how we elected the president in france and the mayor of chicago. you have a two round election. the first round has multi- candidates. if any candidate gets a majority, 50%, they automatically win. otherwise, the top two candidates run off against each other, thereby guaranteeing a majority. we have a direct election. today is where we the voters are indirectly affecting the president. -- indirectly electing the president. it takes 270 electors to be elected president. host: california. josh, good morning. caller: i would like to give a shout out to my second period class. can you go into greater detail about sunshine law and what is their significance? guest: does congress revisit the decisions they made in the previous year? that is a sunshine law mentality where laws have to be revisited. frankly, we can only hope. the government is so complicated. once it is passed, it is hard to repeal. guest: there two

. >> the omb sent us a response to our questions. t called on congress to cut through the red tape and they have 20 steps it must go through before moving a property to sale. they say it's congress's fault? >> part of it is. some people do benefit by keeping things the way they are. >> we couldn't wait for congress so we have cut excess real estate costs by $1.5 billion weewlgt can go much further. when you have approaching $17 trillion in debt and endangering you are children's future you have to start somewhere. we should have the private sector engaged in property management, only the government can do it best -- that is flawed way of conducting the people's big. >> john: you used to be a private developer so you understand the differences? >> absolutely. i don't know anyone that would turn over their property or anything they own to the federal government or government to manage. they would have to be crazy. >> john: thank you. good luck saving us some money. up next, julia, her touching story is a slide show on the obama campaign

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they always forget about the part of omb that's managing the government that they have making sure they get rid of older useless regulations. they couldn't tell the presidential campaigns, so embarrassing. but the speech actually got worse as he went along because he was lured away from his strength in to talking about things like immigration and contraception. the first thing contraception came up in the debate, the dalian sawyer debate he had a great answer and said no one cares about this. rick santorum brings it up and so mitt romney gets into the thick of it saying he voted for planned parenthood. one of the few things a human being would have for liking rick santorum. [laughter] >> if you've listened to what we have had to say so far you would think that obama is going to walk away with this. let's talk for a minute about -- >> we left of the fact republicans change the rules and citizens united and they are ripped apart, the republican party in the reason we thought about republicans they've been running for six months. >> beverley, citizens united. >> citizens united, we are sti

the recovery. >> reporter: sam serves as an analyst for omb watch in the nation's capital. he says the program, for the most part, is success f. he admits smaller company that is should have received money didn't. >> there's a detention between getting the money out as fast as possible to the people who need it the most. at the same time, making sure you are spending that money in an effective and responsible way. >> with the job assistance, get the refine work. >> califa tried to get funding twice so her organization that represents public libraries could get laptops and provide training for unemployed residents. >> reporter: how much did you get? >> nothing. zero. >> reporter: he and his three business partners at wiviu technology applied for a grant to hire 13 people and build a video conferencing system to serve rural hospitals. >> we would have been in a much, much different state. >> reporter: when they didn't get the money, they essentially went out of business. two examples, critics say that show the stimulus failed to live up to the goals of helping small businesse

he serves as general counsel for the omb under reagan administration, and taught law at university ofssissippi and georgetown. he is also practiced by law as a partner at national law from. >> is written frequently on internet issues and human rights topics, and he'll the ba from city college in new york and got his degree from yale law school. i will know parenthetically that michael horowitz and my good friend colleague mr. wolf was a test has been the genius behind many human rights initiatives that have found their way into law in the united states, religious freedom, the north korean human rights act, and other initiatives. we will then hear from reggie littlejohn who is president of women's rights without frontiers, a nonpartisan international coalition to oppose forced abortion and sexual slavery in china, as was an expert on china's one child policy. just testify before the european and british parliaments, and the u.s. congress. she is also briefed officials at the white house, u.s. department of state and the vatican. she has also shown interviews, also been interviewed on d

she's been a director of the omb. she's the founding director of the cbo. she served on the president's commission on fiscal responsibility, cochaired the domenici rivlin task force on debt reduction and in addition to all of that commission is vice chair of the fed for several years. i said to my left, we have john engler who served three terms as michigan and was manufacturers. it's currently the president president the business roundtable. when i was looking at his background last night on the web, i was struck by the statistics that belong to the roundtable have annual cells of not 6 million, not 6 billion, the $6 trillion. i think to speak authoritatively to the business community. to my right, we have john podesta who has had an almost possible number of influential provisions in washington d.c. and the clinton white house with several key positions in what was ultimately the chief of staff. after his time there he found it was center for american progress and is now the chair counselor an american progress and i should add john has been an incredible

bill into law, five months after fda was to have implemented four major portions of the law and we're still waiting for ombo publish the proposed rules. not the final rules, but the proposed rules. a small staff of white house bureaucrats and their boss, the president of the united states, have brought the effort to bring new weapons to the fighting food-born illness to a complete halt. the administration that proposed transparency has dropped a shroud of secrecy over the fda's proposals. they have shut down what was to have been an open process. it won't go forward on a bill that the president endorsed and signed and congress passed. it authored no reason for this for a simple reason. they don't have to. they can pretty much sit back and ignore our frustration. now mike is going to tell us that fda continues to move ahead educating the public and the industry and preparing for implementation. fda will indeed soldier on. that's what they have always done. the reason that we sought passage of this law was that fda had soldiered on for 70 years with legislative language that didn't address the problems of a

[laughter] >> this is the gripe by how with democrats as they forget about the m part of omb. get rid of all, useless regulations so they do not pile up in sedimentary layers. romney had a convincing campaign but is the first time i have seen this in 10 campaigns. it is so embarrassing. romney's stump speech got worse as he went along because he was lured away into talking about things like immigration and contraception. the first time contraception came up in a debate, romney had a great dancer. -- a great answer. he said nobody cares. santorum brought it up. romney gets right into the thick of it. he says santorum voted for planned parenthood. one of the few rational reasons a person would like santorum. [laughter] >> you think obama would walk away with this thing. let's talk for a minute -- >> the republican side changed the rules which gave us a new system and is ripping apart a republican party. they have been running for six months and democrats have not. >> beverly, citizens united. >> citizens united, we are waiting to see what is going to happen but there are all sor

she's been the director of the omb. she's the founding director of the cbo. she served on the president's commission on fiscal responsibility. she was the co-chair of the domenici rivlin task force on debt reduction, and in addition to all that, she was vice chair of the fed for several years. also to my left, we have john engler who served three terms as the winner of michigan. after that, he was the president of the national association of manufacturers and is currently the president of the business roundtable, and when i was looking at his background last night on the web, i was struck by the following statistics, the companies that belong to this roundtable have sales of not 6 million common of 6 billion but $6 trillion. so john i think speaks authoritatively for this community. to my right, we have john podesta, who sat in almost an impossible number of influential positions in washington, d.c.. in the clinton white house he had several key positions and was ultimately the chief of staff. after that time there, he founded the center for american progress

the omb, which advises the president, and the cbo, the correctional budget office, which runs the numbers on this policy. host: -- guest: not on the american test. runoff election is how we elected president in france and the mayor of chicago. you have a two round election. the first round has multi candidates. if any candidate gets a majority, 50%, they automatically win. otherwise, the top two candidates to run off against each other. there are they -- there by the. being a majority. -- thereby guaranteeing a majority. we have a direct election. let today is where we the voters are indirectly affecting the president. it takes 270 electors to be elected president. host: california. josh, good morning. caller: i would like to give a shout out to my second period class. can you go into greater detail isout sunshine law and iwhat their significance? guest: does congress revisit the decisions they made in the previous year? that is a sunshine law mentality where laws have to be revisited. frankly, we can only hope. the government is so complicated. once it is passed, it is hard to repeal. gu

the recovery act. >> reporter: sam rosen amy serves as a fiscal policy for omb watch in the nation's capital. he says the federal stimulus program for the most part is successf successful, but he admits some smaller companies that should have received money didn't. >> there is sort of this tension between getting the money out as it fast as possible to the people who need it the most and at the same time making sure you're spending the money in an effective and responsible way. >> it was directed to job systems. >> reporter: califa's lind a crowe tried to get stimulus twice. how much did you get? >> nothing. >> zero. >> zero. >> zip. >> zip. >> yes, we had to drastically cut back. this man and his three business partners at wiviu stimulus grant to hire 13 people and build a videoconferencing system to serve rural hospitals. >> if the funding had come in at the right time, we would have been in a much different state. >> reporter: when they didn't get the money, wiviu technology essentially went out of business, two examples critics say the stimulus failed to live up to some of its lofty goals

he was a member of the -- a former vice chair of the federal reserve. she ran omb and cbo as well. many hats of course involved in the budget debate. and we have chris van hollen the ranking democrat on the house budget committee. he was also a member of the super committee and someone intimately involved in the spending issues on capitol hill. jodi, take it away. >> we have a big topic. i'll get started. on december 31st, the 2001 and 2003 income tax cuts expire as does the payroll tax cut for workers. the estate tax will rise from 35% to 55%. automatic reductions and defense and domestic spending will begin in january and the alternative minimum tax wants millions more tax payers and as we just heard, the u.s. debt limit will probably run out in january. so given all of that and the fact that congress had enough trouble finding $200 million billion to extend it to payroll tax cut this past year, what are the chances of congress addressing the so-called fiscal cliff before the end of this year and what are the potential economic and fiscal implications and implications from the bud

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the recovery act. >> reporter: a fiscal policy analyst for omb watch in the nation's capital says the federal stimulusam for the most part is successful, but he admits some smaller companies that should have received money didn't. >> there is this intention of getting the money out as fast as possible to the people who need it the most but at the same time making sure you're spending the money in an effective and responsible way. >> reporter: linda crowe tried to get stimulus funding twice so her organization which represents public libraries could buy laptops and provide training. how much did you get? >> zero. >> reporter: zero? >> zilch. >> we had to cut. >> reporter: this man and his three business partners at wiviu technologies applied for a $1.5 million grant to hire 13 people and build a videoconferencing to serve rural hospitals. >> we would have been in a much different state. >> reporter: when they didn't get the money, it essentially went out of business. two examples critics say that show the stimulus failed to live up to its lofty goals of helping small businesses and creating jobs. >> we

. >> last month the associated press reported that defense secretary panetta incurred $870,000 personal travel to california using a government plane in accord dance with omb command to reimburse the pilots for the market rate. it is my understanding that the attorney general used fbi aircraft for personal travel. i understand that the fbi is charged for these trips along with the other trips the attorney general takes on non-fbi aircrafts, such as dod and faa planes. does the attorney general use fbi aircraft for both business and personal travel? >> he is required to use fbi -- not necessarily fbi, but he is required to use government aircraft so that he is in continuous communications contact. >> does the fbi charge the attorney general's use of the fbi plane against its own budget or against the attorney general's own travel budget? >> i do think it goes against our budget, but i have to check on that. the i didn't cancies between the billing of the department of justice and ourselves for the attorney general i would have to get back to you on. >> yeah. then the question comes, why would the fbi be paying for this? >> i -- i would have to look at that.

before that he was in the omb, the true center of power. we are very happy that we can have all three panelists here to speak to you. why don't we do the following cannot go one, two, three, start with bruce and end up with tom. >> good morning, everyone. great to be here, although i must say i hardbacks to follow. so that is a good thing. we are really happy to be here, and i wanted to come on a couple of things, draw out a couple of the conversations that jamie and cecilia started because i think there are some interesting threads here that we can pull on collectively over the course of the day and in the future work that the commission will be doing in this important area of trans-atlantic separate security cooperation. so starting from home i would note that there is actually a fairly large footprint of the hs people here at the conference, and i think that is instructive because its takes me back to an article that dippy secretary and i rode about a year-and-a-half ago. the main thrust of which is that cyberspace is civilian space. so

i instructed our congressional budget office to try to be as conservative as the omb was. it worked out pretty well. i believe you could put together and of democrats if you could make a simple argument that he cannot spend all of your money on the present and the past. we may have a better balanced budget plan than the republicans do but it is too heavily bogged down in health care and costs.menretirement it is too oriented toward yesterday and today. it is not a good idea for us to have discretionary spending where it was when eisenhower was president when south korea's 14 times faster than we are. it is not a good idea when we have fallen from first to 15th in the world in college graduation rates. you can say what ever you want. unemployment rate among college graduate is half what is among those who have a college degree. i think it will hurt us with the economy over the long run. it is a little amount of money. >> she is taking copious notes offstage. issue interviewed speaker john boehner later. --she is interviewing speaker john boehner later. >> constituencies and

he served as general counsel for the omb under the reagan administration and university of mississippiand georgetown. he practiced as a partner at national law firms and written frequently on internet issues and human rights topics and holds a b.a. from city college in new york and got his l l b from yale law school. and i know parenthetically that michael horowitz has been the genius behind many human-rights initiatives that found their way into law and religious freedom and north korean human rights act and other initiatives. we will then hear from regina 18 -- reggie littlejohn, a non-partisan international coalition to oppose forced abortion and sexual slavery in china as well as an expert on china's one child policy. testified before the european and british parliament and the u.s. congress and briefed officials at the white house and department of state and the vatican and shown interviews -- been interviewed on dozens of tv and radio programs and spoken at harvard law school and george washington university and offered severe reports that are in the congressional record. littlej