. >> reporter: the key question: since so many embryos are unaccounted for, is it possible they could have been implanted in the wrong mother? >> we have no evidence that that's the case at all and no reason to think that. >> reporter: some of the families involved want genetic testing to settle any doubts and they say any family involveed that asks for that test willing get it free of charge. today's news comes on the heels of another remarkable mistake at a fertility clinic. in ohio, carolyn savage revealed she was implanted with an embryo belonging to another couple. she plans on giving the baby to the biological parents. >> just can't believe you're in a situation where this is unfolding the way it is. it's just unreal. >> reporter: other than d.n.a. tests, all they can offer their patients is an apology. >> we are disappointed in ourselves and what we have learned to date. we are deeply sorry. >> reporter: they have shut down their fertility clinic while it continue it is investigation. mark strassmann, cbs news, new orleans. >> couric: and coming up next here on the cbs, the cam

now i understand what they were saying is that they had unaccounted flights -- flights that were unaccounted for, so that could mean in addition to the american airlines flight 11, the other planes that went into those other buildings. it does not necessarily imply there are still planes in the air. little more information. canada has now shut all of its airports down but it will leave the airports open to allow incoming planes that were bound for the u.s. and are now prohibited from landing at u.s. airports to divert into canada but canada allowing no takeoffs and not taking inbound flights from other places other than planes bound for the u.s. >> we get word from american ails that it had two aircraft in this tragedy. flight 77 they are saying bowing 757 operating from washington dulles to l.a. with 58 passengers and four flight attendants and two pilots. that is from one of our guys in the dulles area from american airlines. >> now we know the identity of two of the flights involved in today's incidents and that leaves at least one more and the report of the crash in pittsburgh, if that i

claiming that embryos were unaccounted for or mislabelled.ow the staff is doing serious apologizing. our affiliate in new orleans has the story. >> i'm sorry for what happened here. >> no medical facility wants to be in this position. we talk about the embryos that appear to be mislabelled or may not be accounted for. >> missing? >> i said missing and unaccounted for. >> oxford suspended the in vitro fertilization program at the elmwood center after concerns surfaced about the labelling of frozen embryos. >> the patients' trust has been undermined by the uncertainty. we hope the steps take listen begin the long journey of healing that lies ahead. >> it involves taking a woman's eggs and mixing them with sperm in a lab dish. once the eggs become fertilized, they're known as embryos. the officials say an internal audit confirms earlier concerns and they had an ethical obligation to go public. >> during the process, we have become deeply concerned about the reliability of the overall ivf program, itself, and have hired independent experts to com

and nixon and reagan and both president bushes and yes, the current president has appointed unaccountable czars. we don't know if they're lobbyists in government uniforms. >> quentin? >> george bush had 30 czars, aids, birth control, drugs, health, homeless, religious studies. intercontinental hotel -- anyway, they come from the outside. they're actually private sector guys. they're not bureaucrats. to me, bureaucrat means go through, come up the chain, get confirmed. they are from the private sector and have a different perspective. >> hearing quentin using republicans to make his case makes me fall off my chair, but the fact is that checks and balances is the basis of our system. these guys don't have to be confirmed. they don't have congressional oversight. >> they don't. the whole thing is bizarre. that's why you have be cabinet secretaries. pay them a dollar a year but to give people onbehind responsibility and not have them accountable to congress, that's why congress is up in arms, unlike a cabinet secretary who knows where the budget comes from. these guys treat the chairman like

you have an organization like acorn, there's complete unaccountability, not only unaccountability, we're going to give you all kinds of power, we're going to give you -- make you the stake holder in this administration, we're going to let you organize america to fit your own image. that's a little scary. but when there's no accountability, that's where all of this goes. so i'm -- i'm pleased to see friends who are also wishing to address this topic. i'll recognize them in a moment, but -- i see a sign, acorn goes nuts. as i just pointed out, from one acorn we know many nuts can grow. and with that, i would like to yield to my friend from texas, mr. carter. judge carter. mr. carter: i thank my fellow judge and friend from texas for -- first off, for being here to start this because i was across town and fighting the traffic to get back and i apologize for not being here on time, but sometimes things don't cooperate around here like they should. we're talking -- we're starting off, we're talking about, i think you've probably told people, again, we're addressing what we've been addressing

he will not add that coinage to our deficit but yet $400 billion to pay for this plan are unaccounted for. >> we will have a lot more on what the president says on the noon newscast. reporting live from the university of maryland, armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> thank you for that report. we are going to have highlights from the morning speech coming up on 9 news now at noon. you can always read the details of the senate health care reform plan at wusa9.com. just click on the living well tab. >>> today virginia's candidates for governor will debate in our area. democrat deeds and mcdonnell will face off at 10:30 a.m. the fairfax county chamber of commerce is sponsoring the debate. polls show that mcdonnell's once large lead has shrunk to single digits. >>> the budget outlook in maryland keeps getting worse. the state's updated revenue collections forecast comes out today. if martin o'malley's prediction is correct then another $300 million may need to be cut from the budget. these new cuts could be on top of the $37 million cut in annapolis. >>> budget cuts are coming

so i think they were holding him unaccounted. >> i should mention joe wilson the commerce from southolina. what's clear to me is that if the liberal media had a choice the twin city healthcare get an active are blaming the failure of health care on joe wilson and sarah palin, they would much prefer the latter. they would much prefer the rule of critics announcing the right wing and actually care about the healthcare of the average american. >> amazing thing about the joel something, i think it was a serious reach of the courtroom. he should've showed that out. but he is perturbed by the press has an irrational god checking in this line of obama care at might end up covering immigrants. they have another senator saying you know what, we're going to change the legislation to make sure it doesn't cover illegal immigrants. so every time the republicans cannot with some light, sarah palin lied to us and -- >> we been told this is not going to add one dime to the deficit. how does that happen? >> it doesn't happen. sue hecht was asking a question the media. >> i think everybody's asking th

service members unaccounted for from that war. >>> and we end tonight with an incredible journey by aber of the greatest generation. a former bomber pilot who 65 years ago was shot down and decided to bury his pilot's wings in a german cellular where he was held prisoner. all these years later he determined it was time to get his wings back. nbc's donna friesen picks up the story. >> reporter: the last time bern nard harding was in germany it was a very different place. it was july 1944, first lieutenant harding from new hampshire was leading nine other b-24s on a dangerous daylight bombing mission of a german aircraft factory. just 25 years old he was already a veteran pilot having flown 13 missions. his 14th was his last. >> we were attacked by a group of german fighters, and in less than three minutes all ten aircraft in our squadron were shot down. >> reporter: he bailed out and landed unhurt in a field near berlin. this week aged 90 he and his stepson went back on another mission, to retrieve his pilot's wings, wings he took off his uniform and buried in a cellar after being take

. >> 100 embryos unaccounted for, mislabeled at this new orleans fertility clinic and just five weeks a woman gave birth to another woman's child after a doctor at an ohio in vitro clinic implanted the wrong embryo. >> it is just unbelievable. >> we are going to have tur away from our loss and focus the gift we are giving to that family. >> the mistake -- >> no matter how many times you do this, you cannot be complacent. one small mistake is all it takes. >> like many who hear about what happened in ohio and now called new orlean he is shocked. he says it is incredibly rare and should not happen if all of the checks are in place from the moment the embryo is frozen to the time they are implanted. >> we know exactly where it is playeced. by the time they do to the implant stage, they have gone through five separate checks. >> each year, they're more than 100,000 embryo transfers. his office often does multiple transfers per day. he says it is routine and these mixups are inexcusable. >> the emotional trauma that these couples have to go through is indescribable. >> the doctor says he h

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and advisors that are appointed by the president that don't get vetted in any way and seem to go unaccountable. >> i feel strongly that it is an end around the constitution. our government is supposed to work with accountability and check balance. no one branch of the government is to have dominion over the other. last count there were 34 different czars. people appoint the duties are nebulously defined. they have been given extraordinary powers like the guy who can set corporate pay for executives. that is astonishing . no one voted him in and no one can vote him out. those are things to be a concern to us. yes, next question. >> governor, the country is looking at trillions of deficits and everybody wants to pay less taxes and not more taxes. even if we don't act a health insurance plan how can the government cut spending to save trillions of coming deficits. >> we'll have to restructure the tax system. i am advocate of a fair tax which is a transformation of a tax on our productivity and it would tax our consumption. it would open americans up to be productive and not penalize. lose all inc

are we all the surfs and they are unaccountable and unelectable. they are running the economy. many have ever run a job or business. you heard the czar obama appointed to run the car industry say i have never run a business. you have got to learn how to run do something before you can run it you put people in place who don't know anything about creating a job. >> does this whole van jones thing show there has been a lapse of the vetting process of some kind. >> absolutely. probably the only person here who has had three full field investigations by the fbi. >> we trust you. >> it's absolutely important to do. those questionnaires, they're unpleasant to have to fill out. have you ever done anything or said anything that might embarrass the president? that's an elmembarrassing questn to have to ask. we need that to be able to have confidence. what they have done really is to defy the constitution. the president is allowed appoint people in policy making positions with the advice and the consent of the senate. and he has avoided that he has put people into very powerful positions.

and the last thing we need are 18 new czars unaccountable to the elected officials whose job it is -- our job -- to check and balance that government. so i am glad in a way that the white house has noticed my comments and those of senator collins, senator hutchison and the other senators. i hope they will respond to senator collins letter, to senator feingold's request. thank you very much. and to the other admonitions. we call on the administration to answer the questions posed by senator collins, senator feingold and the others that were specifically outlined. who are these czars? what is their role? what is their responsibility? how were they vetted? what limitations are on their positions to make sure that they don't encroach on the legitimate statutory responsibility of other executive branch officials? and whether they will agree to a reasonable request to appear before or provide information to congress. i thank the president, and i yield the floor. mrs. feinstein: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. feinstein: madam president, i'm informed

dozens more are unaccounted for. a tropical storm dumped more than a month's worth of rain in 12 hours last saturday. >>> much lighter news, the sports fan in chief is personally leading the charge to bring the olympics back to the united states. president obama plans to join the first lady and other chicago celebrities on a trip to denmark this week. there he will lobby members of the international olympic committee to award the summer games to the windy city. >>> the secret service is investigating an on-line poll that discusses an assassination of president obama. that story is coming up in what's on the web. >>> plus, strong storms leave a trail of damage in virginia. are we in the clear today? >> we are looking at a couple of things. we are looking at the allergy update which is in the high category when it comes to mold. the weeds, by the way, are low and the grass and trees are absent. let's talk about the wind and the cooler weather when 9 news now this morning returns. >>> a fast-moving storm is left behind

you know you got five blockers and one unaccounted for. look at the ragein' cajuns providing different looks.in' c providing different looks. >> eric: there is a flag on the field. mccoy made the open field tackle. we'll have to sort this one out. >> referee: offside, number two 22 on the defense. repeat third down. >> brock: what a killer there. you get a critical third down stop lsu backed up and momentum. that's one of those defenders for louisiana-lafayette roaming around trying to confuse the quarterback. put himself in a position to draw that penalty. louisiana-lafayette. you have to get that stop. to continue that momentum. >> eric: out of the back feel. can't get out of the grasp of antoine sanders. middle linebacker with the squeeze. it's a loss of six. >> brock: impact player for a reason. 24 tackles on the season. best open field tackle. not an easy patchup for any linebacker in america. williams to throw a little behind minimum. jordan jefferson and this is tomorrow morning that teaching tape will say, jordan, look at this play

reparati reparation of czars and advisors to the president that don't get vetted and seem to go unaccountableo the american people? >> i feel very strongly that it's sort of an end around the constitution. our government is supposed to work with accountability and checks and balances, no one branch of the government, be it executive, legislative or judicial is to have dominion over the other and supposed to be able to check each other. last count there were like 34 different czars, people appointed. no senate confirmation, the duties are sort of nebulously defined. we don't really know what they do, except they have been given extraordinary powers like the guy who can set corporate pay for executives, that's astonishing. and nobody has voted him in. nobody can vote him out. those are things that really ought to be a concern to us. yes, next question. >> governor, the country is looking at trillions of dollars of deficits over the next ten years. and everybody wants to pay less taxes, not more taxes. even if we don't have a health insurance plan, how can the country cut the spending of trillio

>> i'm so concerned that the president keeps appointing these unaccountable czars with enormous policy authority in many areas such as health care, energy, the environment, and when he does that, it completely circumvents the constitutional process by which the senate is supposed to advise and consent to the nominees. it also prevents us from exercising aggressive oversight's since traditionally, individuals in the executive office of the president do not testify in public -- neil: i don't want to rush you, but given all these latest news of elements, you are saying the problem is that at least 18 of them may be should not even be there, right? >> that is right. these are not statutory established positions. they are not being confirmed by the senate, and yet, they are exercising the enormous authority. this is completely contrary to the principles of accountability, oversight, transparency, and there's the question of how well they are vetted, as we found out in the recent case involving van jones. neil: you are considered one of those slain, bipartisan, potential health care reform v

so that leaves two unaccounted for. and i'm believing that one of those could be michaela. >> katrina rodriguez is joining us. she was with michaela garecht and witnessed her kidnapping. katrina, this has got to bring an awful lot back to you when you hear about the way in which jaycee was reportedly kidnapped. >> yeah, it sounds remarkably like michaela's kidnapping. broad daylight, shoved into a car, and with her kidnapping, i believe there was a witness too. >> are you the one that provided the description to the police? >> yes. >> and you remember the car. tell us what you remember about the car that she was pulled into. >> it was early '80s, maybe late '70s, kind of boxy, a sedan, and tan in color. and photos i've seen of the garrido's car, they -- it looks like the same shape of car. i can't vouch for the color. it doesn't match my memory, but the shape of the car matches. >> people might wonder, of course, why would they have that car 30 years later, but i have to tell you, from a psychological perspective, when

you remember there was a period of time le was missing and unaccounted for.ow there is an alleged murderer in custody, so there's some feeling, okay, this was not an urban crime. this is not a university crime. this is something the police are calling a workplace crime but the motive and the means and the why -- are a big mystery. >> ron, what about those report that's first emerged in "the hartford current," the newspaper there this morning that basically they tracked down -- have you to swipe your card when you go through certain rooms in a building like this. annie le swiped her, and then he swiped is and then appears to be the last person to see her alive? >> yeah. so it seems that the police had a very -- the trail leading to him was pretty straightforward. and these identity cards, these cars to get into a lab environment are pretty damning, i guess you can say. there are also hours and hours -- 700 hours i thought i read of videotape surveillance and specifically of the people coming and going out of this lab. the guy left a trail. it may have been a c

and they're not saying -- they're arguing thatçó i'm bein unaccountable for my own decisions, and thatshould -- my prtrate. my own feeling -- i have plenty of remorse for the decisions that we made. you know, i've had my credit scores shot to hell. i've blown my savings. i will have a very tough time retiring -- i'd be really happy if i could retire by the age of 70 on any kind of income and, you know, we may well lose this house. so there's a lot to be sorry about, but i don't feel -- and this is what makes people mad, i don't reallyeel like apologizing to the rest of the world for these decisions. whatever my bad my judgment was a borrower and however bad the judgment of condo flippers might have been it really pales in comparison with the recklessness that was undertaken by the biggest financial institutions in the country. and i have yet to hear stan o'neal of merrill lynch o chuck prince, former of citigroup apologize for the recklsness that they unleashed but, boy, did they do a lot of it and the closer you look at what happened, the more outrageous it becomes. how much time do i

john mcwethy has had a battalion commander tell him as many as 200 firefighters are principally unaccountedtry today at airports and at public sites, many, many of which have been closed from the west all the way across to the east, people are holding their breath, i don't wish to be melodramatic about it, are holding their breath as to whether or not there is one more or should i say another incident to come. that was because the shock was so profound watching on television as we did this morning to see the second aircraft come in and crash into the other of the twin trade towers. there it is, which have now both collapsed. it is in some way as reminder of what happened when the challenger exploded and the constant repetition of the explosion of the challenger space shuttle just drove it into our collective consciousness all across the nation what we had witnessed together, though were clearly unable to feel in the same way as those people in the immediate area. john mcwethy at the pentagon. john? >> reporter: peter, we are standing outside the pentagon at this point. it has been already a

. >> very non-transparent, unaccountable countries are at the forefront of what you could describe as are anathema to america and to the west. >> back to you. jon: president obama, as we mentioned, has been meeting this morning with two important middle eastern leaders, benjamin netanyahu from israel and the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. the president emerged, saying that progress has been made but more needs to be done. he wants the official peace talks started again soon. we will expect playback for those remarks shortly. jane: i want to get back to harris about this brings employee has been shot in an armored car robbery -- this brinks employee who has been shot in an armored car robbery. >> we have video of a bullet hole right in the front of his truck. the guards did survive and is in a local hospital. the robbers have now torched one of their escape vehicles, possibly to cover evidence, and now they are on the move. we do not know how many of them there are or how they are armed, but we know that they are dangerous. they shot one guy, took evidence in their vehicle, and

senator byrd, the senior democrat, has warned about the consequences of these unaccountable czars. senator hutchison and senator collins, senior republicans, have warned about that. so, mr. president, instead of 1,000-page bills that don't succeed and in which the people of this country have no confidence, i suggest we change course, we follow rule 259 in the little book and we begin to work on major issues facing our country step by step to reearn the trust of the american people, to begin to solve the big challenges of this country. we bite off what we can swallow. we make sure we get it right. and after we've taken the first steps, then we can take another series of steps until we eventually resolve the problem. a few steps in the right direction are a good way to get where you want to go. how would this work in practice? let's take health care. instead of $1 trillion, 1,000-page comprehensive health care, government-run plan, as a first step, we might allow small business pooling to reduce health care costs, increase accessibility for small business owners, unions, associations

the president's use of unaccountable policy czars to circumvent the constitution. by one account the white house has 32 policy czars, including a science czar, a regulatory czar, and even a great lakes czar. these czars are tasked with leading major policy efforts for the administration and have simply been granted a great deal of authority. yet each czar unlike a cabinet secretary, is not subject to congressional oversight. members of the cabinet have to be approved by congress and they report to congress. policy czars have no such obligation. so what we have now is a situation where major policy decisions are being made by a group of people who are not approved by congress, not subject to congressional oversight, and operate without any transparency or accountability. this is not what our constitution intended. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? mr. perlmutter: for permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. perlmutter: thank you, mr

the abstract political science and how government -- and administrative agencies who seem to be unaccountableted brafrmz of government and to leaders. and the point is i not asking jim to change his mind is simply to understand why a person like me and i think roger palan has been doing a lot of work for years we have administrative units of power of ming power of law that essentially one party goternment and theyon't change even if you don't want to change th. the premise is -- in fact'll actually put it th way. modern bureauctic rule is the partisan of the democtic party. very controversial tng to say. you can disagree witit fine but there's a point of view that sa it isonstitutionally dubious the way we are now ghd in important ways in our life. reagan understood that pretty well. and so the premise o your argument was that it is somehow either wrong or i legitimate or, you know, i'm not quite sure what the right word is for a president to appoint someone with the mission of the agency. maybe. maybe in the case of say paxter -- i tal about baxter of the justice department. he overthrows a

. >> we can't afford to have that many felony's dna unaccounted for. >> it's essential we recover thatormation. >> i have to admit, i'm shocked that it could have happened to this magnitude and i've been around a long time. but the numbers that we're talking about to me are staggering. >> well, authorities say most of the dna samples could be taken from people already in prison. processing them will be a burden on a crime lab that's already backed up with other cases. and without dna on file, investigators would be unable to tie suspects in custody to other criminal probes. >>> a former high school football coach has been acquitted in the death of a player. a kentucky jury found david stinson not guilty of reckless homicide in the death of 15-year-old max gilpin. gilpin collapsed during a practice in hot weather last august, his body temperature reaching 107 degrees. he died three days later. the defense argued that other factors may have led to gilpin's heatstroke. >>> pakistani police say they're ready to arrest a leading cleric for helping a group believed to be behind the deadly at

unaccountable to the voters alphabet agencies and the cabinet departments here in d.c..public by the treasury secretary, called the congress. if you look at the very first sentence in the constitution after the preamble, article 1, section 1, all legislative powers shall be vested. lawmaking is for the religious leader, not the treasury department, and no to the key terms, all legislative powers shall be vested. the vesting provision is not selective and it is not discretionary. delegations are okay, said the court, but only if the congress enacts and intelligible principles that the executive department knows how to flesh out the details. what is the intelligent principal secretary and geithner must follow? no one knows least all the taxpayers have to pay the cost. make things better is what and intelligible principle. wind federalist 45, james madison warned about excess of government power, and here is what he wrote: the powers delegated by the constitution to the federal government are few and defined. that might have been the intent, but it is not what has transpire

especially these difficult economic times, we must demand absolute asperity unaccountably for every last taxpayer dollar. thank you. with that i'll ask mr. blake for his opening remarks. >> i think the cherry-pick i want to mention also republicans are caucusing as well. i apologize. both of us had to slip away. i have the same dangers as the chairman with regard to the oversight ability to police and to make sure that there isn't significant waste, fraud and abuse. i think with the backdrop here of the commitment to step up our troop levels there with what others have described is serious and deteriorates situation in afghanistan makes this kind of hearing very important to see what safeguards are in place. and if you have the resources and tools to ensure that our money is being well spent. so with that, i look forward to hearing the witnesses. >> thank you. this subcommittee will now receive testimony from the panel before us today. i will give a brief introduction of each of the panelists, and thankfully it is great because we really read all your conditions it would probably take up

it creates unaccountable institutions like the bbc trust, channel four, and ofcom.and now in the old media market place, it threatens significant damage to important spheres of important enterprise and endeavor, the independent news, investment in professional journalism, and innovation and growth of the creative industries. we are on the wrong path, but we can find the right one. the right path is all about trusting and empowering consumers. it's about embracing private enterprise and profit as a driver of investment, innovation, an independent spirit and it's about the dramatic reduction of the activities of the states in our sector. if we do take that better way, did we, all of us in this room and in our wider industry will make a genuine contribution to a better society. one in which trust in people and their freedom to choose is central to the way we behave. often the unique position that the business of idea and choice in a free society is used as a justification for greater intrusion and control. on the contrary, it's very specialness demands an unusual and v

nobody falls to the cracks, but being responsible and making sure our taxpayer dollars are spent unaccountablyway. new mexico's leading the way, and our voters have responded. you know that there -- we but for the winter in the presidential election more than anybody. whether it was 0.5% or 15 points like it was in 2008, we are the swing state's swing state. we are the bellwether possible bellwether in new mexico and we are proud of that. -- we are the bellwether's bellwether in new mexico and we are proud of that. but they say, there's this little weird, quirky state in the southwest, with a whole bunch of hispanics in that state. they cannot possibly be representative of anything that is really happening in america, could they? right. well what could of widely the first state with native americans, hispanics, and all kinds of cultures all coming together, with an economy focused on energy teach anybody in america about economic times or about electoral trends? will check this out. four years ago new mexico at a republican senator, to republican congress people, and was carried by george bush

only one of the 1,000 people on board is now unaccounted for.e rescued woman said, i just prayed and prayed. nine people are known dead from that ferry accident. >>> and countless health officials say a large swine flu outbreak at washington state university may be letting up. they say the number of students contacting university health services has gone way down. the virus is suspected of sickening at least 2,200 students. they might take a page from emory university in atlanta. there school officials have set up a dorm specifically for students who think they're infected. students call the self isolation at the facility club swine. >>> and 20 people now have cars compliments of actor/rapper ludacris. ludacris did some radio spots asking people to write essays explaining why they hope to be selected for the cars. entrants ranged from an out of work father of two to a sudanese refugee who recently lost his 4-year-old daughter. ludacris and the dealer gave away the cars to the 20 winners yesterday. >> i hope they were good cars. >> i'm sure they

from now, i have attached for cabinet istrers to do a number of things beyond transparently and unaccountablydistribute the moneys under their jurisdiction. at the end of the day i asked for us to put together literally a handbook on how from this point on to responsibly, in the future, for every government program that is administered from washington, be more accountable, be more peansparent, and done more efficiently. the end results of what we are doing, we are actually compiling the changes we are making, up until now, you could not find, you know this better than i do, if you were to try to determine whether or not the toilet built in yellowstone park and a rest maea, had actually been built and how much it costs and how many people were employed, you go to the department, you e nldn't find any of it, you can this you can now. we had never done this before. we never followed the dollar's like we are following them now. my view is this should be the start of a new way of doing business rather than the implementation of a single program. with regard to the first part of your question, whic

person who did not go through any confirmation process, appointed by the president, who is totally unaccountable to congress. this health care czar would have the power to decertify private plans. that's right. that means if you have a health care policy you like, the health care czar in their bill has the power to take away your health care plan. even if you do like it. it's in their bill. we actually try to take that out in committee. another claim that's been made a whole lot, it was made here on this house floor, deals with the issue of illegal immigration. and do illegal aliensp have access to health care? -- aliens have access to health care? many have claimed illegal aliens wouldn't get health care in their bill. the problem is their bill according to the congressional budget office, the president's bill allows eight million illegal aliens to have access to his government-run health care plan. that testimony was given by the congressional budget office. it's not a republican or democrat that said that. that's the bipartisan group that we actually have to follow who scores these bills, who

new not think it is a very dangerous model of controlled to allow a select few of totally unaccountablepeople the power to make those sorts of large scale decisions? guest: i disagree with you entirely. we do need standards. when we recognize they are differences, -- right now we have no system of standards. if patients were getting great care, i would not disagree, but the fact is all the evidence we have from medicare studies to the rand corp. study is show patients are not getting the best care and oftentimes are getting terrible care. the health care statistics on the macro level document that. you cannot start by saying we have a great system. we don't have a great system. the question is, how old do we move away from at least on the medicare side where you got decisions that people recognize are appropriate but cannot be implemented because of the political buffeting. it is true the fed is quasi- independent, but it is subject to politics. and if you have a separate federal medicare reserve it would be subject to political buffering but it would not be elected every two years the

unaccountable to the voters.rtments here in d.c. that's what actually happened. the bailout was foisted on the public by the treasury secretary, not by the congress. if you look at the very first sentence in the constitution, after the preamible, article 1, section 1, all legislative powers shall be vested in congress. law making is for the legislature, not the treasury department. and note the key terms, all legislative powers shall be vested. the vesting provision is not selective and it is not discretionary. delegations are ok, said the court, but only if the congress enacts an intel yidgible principle so the executive department knows how to flesh out the details. what is the intel yidgible principal that secretary guides anywhere must follow? no one knows least of all the taxpayers who have to pay the cost. make things better, is not an intelligenceable principle. in federalist 45, james madison warned about excessive government power, and here's what he wrote. the powers dell gate by the constitutetion to t

we obviously have those weapons that were potentially unaccounted for.e a follow-up going on for that? >> yes, mr. chairman. in fact, we have done several reviews. -- reduce relative to weapons and explosives accountability -- refused relative to weapons and explosives accountability in iraq and afghanistan. we did find concerns. we have also found that there have been corrections made with respect to those in iraq. >> i am zeroing in on just afghanistan. >> well, we are focused -- we went to afghanistan last fall and took a look at what and accountability as well as training and equipment sustainment. >> that is where we went out there and visited as well and we were not satisfied that enough was being done. are you answering me now that you are looking at to follow up on that? >> we have followed up and have planned several things that will be in motion between now and next spring, yes, sir. >> thank you. special inspector, have a special -- a question for you. obviously, salaries are going to employees in security divisions of beck afghanistan. i thin

branch officials elected by no one should have 100% monopoly power over spending, that people unaccountable to the votes should have this monopoly power is their position. congress can, however, and does set criteria, but the more criteria we set, the more it becomes a congressional earmark. the less criteria we serkts the more it remains an executive branch earmark. in executive agencies, people have their own agendas and political leanings. their own political bosses in either the bush administration our the obama administration have their own agenda. i don't like monopoly power of the obama administration on spending and i didn't support it during the clinton or either bush administration as well. i have to admit that i find it puzzling to lair some of my self-professed conservative friends suggest that the way to reform spend something to turn it all over to the obama administration to earmark. i am not arguing they should have no role. i'm arguing today that congress should have a role. the constitution, article 1, section 9, says very clearly -- it gives the congress the power of the