we demonize the men and women who work there then we underfunded and give them an impossible job. and when they can't do the impossible, we punish them by giving them even less money so the impossible goes to the catastrophic. so i really would appreciate you do showing up every day and trying to run this ship. i really do think the president's budget, if we don't find it full close to $30 million, we are talking about the need to add more money and taxpayer service, beefing up enforcement, strengthen the operation and looking at new technology. so let me get to my question, which goes to service. i am concerned about giving you less money, we end up with more fraud and abuse. so tell me how many people have had, what is the staff level reduction since 2010? >> since 2010 we have lost 13,000 employees. we asked if we lose another 3000 at the end of fiscal 2013. we will be down a total estimated 16,000 employees. >> 16,000 employees in four years? >> five years. since 2010. >> and then have a look at that i understand from the taxpayer aggregate that for every dollar spent on tax e

place but we'll take what we get in terms of the various investments and in terms of whether it's underfunded or bridge i don't understand how you can make the allocation it's still upside down in terms of what you want to do thank you. >> (clapping.) kari you diagonally commissioners and fell union members he want to set the record straight there were 2 of us members on staff that presented so it was more than zero. >> thank you i think that that promoted a couple of speakers. >> i'm john a four-year member of hedge funds i want to take issue i'm sure that professor when you said that was warren buffett was a hedge fund he makes most of his money from 60 korptsdz if he's doing hedge funds that will be less than the one percent and those are issues oh when we have whereon in 2008, was a bad market and more than seven hundred hedge funds went out of business in 2008 that's one point and not point when most hedge funds losses money you can kiss is going back when you talk about the s.p.c.a. 5 hundreds sure it goes down but it goes down every recession so that's what happened when it doubles it

the mayor's office of housing is a legitimate way of getting funds they do a great job this is underfunded and they put it to good use and they the evidence will then show it 2 to 1 although it didn't result in being built at the same time as affordable housing it was a good project when then and it should be approved in the way it was presented thank you. >> sue hester the last one drove me around a bit we spent years doing planning market octavia plan was adapted i know the personal calendar i carry it around adapted 4 slash 172008 and eastern was adapted before the adoption years of serious work from people in market octavia and people in south of market people in the mission district about how to address the housing needs of the city when they said 40 percent 2 bedrooms in market octavia it didn't come out of the air but years of struggle market octavia plan is in the context of the general plan of the city those are requirements were transmitted into the planning code section if the planning commission wipes out the requirement their wooipz out the serious work done by the people who

. >> rare cancers usually are underfunded. not a lot of research and development going on for rare cancers. so the need is vast. >> sure is. over the past 80 years, cycle for survival has raised well over $70 million. >>> gas prices in the d.c. metro area are up eight cents from a week ago aaa says the average price is in and out 23938. silver lining gas in our area is still about three cents lower than the national average. >>> well we're still following breaking news on the interim d.c. fire chief. he has been fired. mark seeingers broke that news on twitter just moments ago. we'll update that story. >>> and sunday's icy conditions sent some off the road. the driver of this vehicle survived but the weather forced a lot of people to change their plans. news 4 derrick ward continues our coverage next. >>> though the ice storm is ending tonight, will it have any impact ♪ ♪ wow something sounds sweet in here!!!! ♪ ♪ need a little honey in the bowl. yeah!!! badabopbopbopa!!! no? must be the honey!!! >>> montgomery county got a bi

anticipating we'll continue to make some investments in the population health side that's been underfunded aid really try to focus on creating capacity to do the population health management that aligns with what we're doing on that side of the house at the it helped and black african-american health initiated that is a program we've talked about quite a bit at this committee there are staff positions and contracts funding included in that initiative to move forward aggressively on that savings noicht we have a couple of expenditure changes we're using to balance all this out and fund some of the it investments own pharmacy we have two years ago or i guess 3 years ago appropriated an increase in pharmacy costs for the protecting height program which we needed at the time since that program is being phased out and those people that were foreman in the program have been moved on to insurance we have general fund savings we're able to pull out of the program and reprogram for other uses so that is $7 million per year the second line is a combination of second see third combination of various

underfunded pensions. pensions are generally funded. it's a matter of how well funded they are. unfunded retirement health care plans. very generous promises to their retirees, many retire early and they're total unfunded if you will. yes, we have to restructure these obligations in a way that's fair to workers and retirees. there's a way to do that. we can eliminate the abuses with regard to current workers, double dipping and work a lot of overtime into one's career to pad your pension. we could also end up capping the indexing, allow for indexing for inflation but having some reasonable relationship between how much you make in retirement versus the person that has the job that you retired from. with regard to retiree health care, we got an even bigger option. the affordable care act. you can let people be covered under the affordable care act, depending upon their income, they may get federal subsidies and convert to an approach based upon years of service. those changes will save many, many billions of dollars. and in the absence of restructuring this, it means higher taxes

they have been systematically underfunded for an administrative budget by congress.very time the social security inspector general looks at the issue, the weight of fraud programme is less than 1%. any case of fraud is one too many. what we need to do is give the social security administration resources to keep fraud as rare as possible, and not beating it over the head with myths and misunderstandings about what the real problem is here. one other thing that is important since we are having a conversation about the 2016 programme is that each if we were to root out every case of fraud or abuse, it wouldn't get us close to preventing the need for reallocation across the earlier. >> there are other options than reallocation pushing us all the way to 2033, which is way too plate to address the problems. congress in the past has granted short-term borrowing authority to the di programme, and i think maybe there could be pilot programs that congress should look at to make the programme better. in terms of disability, funding alone is not the only problem. some countries

and it's not just pensioned, underfunded pensions. the pensioned are generally funded. it is a matter of how well-funded they are. and retire plans the fact that state and local governments may generous promises to retirees and they retire early and they're generally unfunded. we have restructure these in a way fair to workers and to retirees. and there is a way to do that. we can have new plans for new workers on the pension side. we can eliminate the abuses with regard to current workers such as double dipping and working a lot of overtime near the end into one's career to pad your pension. we can also end up capping the indexing. allow for indexing for inflation but have a reasonable relationship for how much you make in retirement versus the person who has the job that you retire from. so with regard to healthcare we have an even bigger option. we have the afford shl care act now. you can let people be covered under the affordable care act. depending on income they may get subsidies and then convert to a defined contribution premium support approach based upon years

coming year and as a new supervisor in my district i've got baby birds in every corner saying i'm underfunded and we need help and our next budget cycle is literally around the corner and it's important to me also that steps have been taken outside of of the cola to aid our nonprofits and i agree more needs to be done but the question is is this the best avenue and i think for me the defining thing is this cola will not achieve the goals. it's not going to prevent evictions or have or elevate workers pay and i think supervisor mar description is small because we're talking about payments to a lot of our nonprofits of no more than 3 or 4 or 5 $5,000 spread among the number of employees and the entire scope of work the nonprofits do is literally a drop in in the bucket so my goal would be to try to work in our next budget cycle to address some of these long-term issues and have this consideration be placed in a forum to have a balanced look at the over all needs of the city and address them in the best way possible. >> thank you. supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president i think that the

. >> why are you badly underfunded?'d thing the one thing everyone agrees on is you want to take care of suffering children. >> sure, we are hard wired to care for our children as human being. i think the problem is in a way, just a fatigue people are used to seeing children suffering, and people are used to seeing more suffer and the crisis. we mustn't let it happen it's stupid strategically, because these children are the children that will decide what the future of our world will be. so we keep trying. on a personal note i wake up in the morning, read the headlines, i see no progress. you know there'll be climate change and natural disasters also. and i say to myself - we are going to go through another day of not able to do everything we can for the children. i start to get discouraged. then i remember and what we tell each other in u.n.i.c.e.f. and to others - even if we can't do 100% of what we need to do children dying and futures being blighted. there's a difference between doing 90% of what we need to do and 80

we demonize the men and women who work there and underfunded. and have an impossible job. and we punish them by giving them less money so the impossible goes to the catastrophic so i appreciate you just showing up every day and trying to run this ship. i do think the president's budget if we don't find a full $13 billion we are talking about the need to add more money in taxpayer service keeping up enforcement, strengthening operations and looking at these new technologies. let me get to my question which goes to service. i am concerned about giving you guys money. and what is the staff reductions since 2010? >> we lost 13,000 employees, we estimate another 3,000 at the end we will be down and estimated 6,000 employees? >> 16,000 employees in four years. >> five years. >> having looked at that, i understand the tax payer advocate, for every dollar spent on tax enforcement we get $6 back but i am concerned about the fraud issues as you are we talked about it the guys in prison who come up with dummy accounts, this recent thing with turbo tax, we could go through one fraudul

we'll deal with whatever you give us, but i can tell you, we are cigsignificantly underfunded already. >> how much money did you waste in licenseture last year? >> in where? >> in licenseture? >> in terms of i.t.? >> yes. >> there's an i.t. that we have disagreement with in terms of entire use of licenses for software, as to whether in fact we had lost money by not using them and it was abn issue of how you measured it. we have taken actions to make sure, because i am a big supporter of igs. when they raise an issue like that, we deal with it. >> and we'll visit with the ig about that. >>> during a hearing last month senator grassey asked you about the tax pons and whether it would allow individuals to claim billons of dollars in tax benefits for unaut rised work. your follow up lotter to him last week that individuals may claim up to three years of refunds on income even if they were working off the books or never paid tax social security truly startling. why are you allowing individuals who cheated by not paying any taxes to now claim a refund that will be financed by hard-working a

this program overall is actually pretty underfunded and with this add back we were able to increase services for this population and bayview is one of the centers that actually submitted a proposal to increase their service for this population. and this program is actually, will be offered at all four of their congregate meal sites. >> commissioner sims. >> just as a point of clarification, why is there a separation in these congregate meal budgets and proposals for adults with disabilities versus the primary or the other congregate meal programs? they are in the same location is it the same meal? >> it is the same meal. the reason why we have to have separate contracts for that is because these are general funded and these meals are not eligible to be counted and reported to the state. we have to keep things separate. the state does not want us to co-mingle anything. >> so they actually eat togethering. >> yes. >> it is not a different setting. >> correct. that's the only way i think we can really make it cost-effective as well, to be able to serve 20, 30 people really piggybacking on the e

. >> hello my name is mike yoshioka i'm a resident and manage an underfunded community center. i just wanted to point out quickly my 3 incidents i've had with the police there was some vandalism at our center and took over 3 days for the officers to respond to my first phone call and the second time was when the police officers broke over my fence trying to pursue someone which they that and then the third and most recent someone broke into our community center stole a flat screen tv and the call went in at 12:00 p.m. last friday and wasn't until the following monday that that the officers came out. the kids in the community are watching the reaction and it puts value on the community center but also puts a value on how they perceive their own community i'm going to leave it at that i just want to reiterate everything said before we do need more police presence and support but i want to introduce a person from the community he's the only young person representing young people. >> hello my name is irir i'm just speaking on behalf of the bayview and the community center and we'd

considering include pancreatic cancer, lymphoma every pediatric cancer and rare cancers usually are underfunded. there's not a lot of research and development going on for rare cancers. so the need is vast. >> over the past eight years, cycle for survival has raised well over $70 million. >>> tonight, some cars and trucks are headed to the repair shop after those icy roads caused a lot of accidents. this one slid right off the intercounty connector west of new hampshire avenue. the driver of injured, but the icy sidewalks made it just as tough to walk anywhere. some folks told us they are more than ready for winter to end. >> i grew up in northern maine, for me this is a bit much. >> we're done. done with winter. it's march. should be over. >> i'm tired of it. the snow's fun, but the ice not so much fun. >> yeah. i agree. maryland highway officials predict road temperatures probably won't rise above freezing until sometime tomorrow morning. and that pretty much means it's going to be a little bit of a mess for folks trying to get out of their neighborhood and subdivisions to get to some of the

why is it a mistake when many of the top colleges have underfunded computer science departments? i'm not making an argument against stem. it is incredibly important and very valuable because the simplest way to solve that problem is immigration. give these foreign engineers a green card. the point i'm making is it is not the only thing that is important. there are many paths to success. it is true that engineering graduates in general start off somewhat higher. over 20 years, the liberal arts graduates make it up, especially at the end up going to grad school. your second, third, fourth jobs have little to do with your first job. what you need for 50 working years is strong basics the ability to think and learn and analyze and develop social skills. the liberal arts can do that just as much as engineering can. my point is following your passion. don't forsake english and history. there are a lot of ceos who are english majors. betty: i was an english major. i remember the amount of student debt i had to pay after graduating fr. when you look at the $40,000 you might read as a his

agencies are incompetent and that they won't do the job effectively, and then what we do then is underfund them and thereby guarantee they can't do the job effectively. so funding and archaic regulations are definitely part of the problem. he world is changing quickly and our regulatory system is not keeping up. >> host: dan fagin is our guest here's the book "toms river, story of science and salvage" winner of the pulitzer prize in 2014. and chris and oak park illinois, you're the first call. >> caller: dan, i grew up at exit 117 on the parkway as little north of toms river. i was shocked to read there was that much pollution or this cat at tom's river. i remember swimming and coming out dirtier than when i went in. now it's -- as you said about toms river, it's a lot cleaner but i was wondering in light of that pollution coming into the bay, from the north, would -- what your impression of governor christie's settlement with bp rather than what the state wants to get. and i'll take my answer off the air. >> guest: so, thank you for that question. it's true that people in toms river and p

the nih, and in general was really underfunded research into heart disease on women over the years.so i went back and looked at the chart of the disease breakdown, what the nih spends on. 84 million americans have heart disease. and yet the amount we spend per death is 100 times less on heart disease than it is on hiv/aids. 100 times less per death. that kind of discrepancy just needs to be justified. this is going to be a rhetorical question. it is stunning what that discrepancy is. and how the fact that we dedicate as little as we do to heart disease, the most prevalent disease in the country. you know, how that will affect the population. anyway, rhetorical question on that one. dr. volcker, i'll ask you a question about drug use. obviously there's an ongoing discussion about a dangerous addictive drug marijuana. many people don't think it's dangerous or addictive. but it is. it affects a lot of things that are probably not good for people especially our youth. do you know what the economic impact of marijuana use is, including its effect on work force preparedness on education?

it has been underfunded by the city government itself. the city government did not make the corresponding requisite pension requirements and payments. the workers twice a month have always had their paychecks docked and taken out of their pension payments. >> chicago is spending so much that they do not have the money. so how are you going to get this new money? >> i would always talk about how we should be cutting in certain areas. how we should be -- we have an 8 billion-dollar budget. we ought to be looking at what could be fairer for the workers. >> what would you cut? >> i think that there is a number of ways in terms of certain contracts that are given in who they are given two. as well as how we renegotiate this and how we have made this long-term borrowing as a city government, which i have a poster opposed during my eight years in the city council. john: let's look at this pension debt. a lot of cities have pension debt and here are some of the highest. and boston is 8000 new york is 10000, chicago is 19,000. shouldn't these pens

for years we have systematically underfunded our military. marrying this philosophy of retreat with a misplaced understanding of our larger budgetary burdens. we have strained our fighting forces to the breaking point. even as we have eaten away at investments in our future forces. meanwhile, the long-term debt crisis hardly looks any better even as we ask troops to shoulder the burden of deficit reduction. rather than shouldering the arms necessary to keep the peace. the result of this experiment should come as no surprise, are little different than the results of the same experiment in the 1930s. >> ladies and gentlemen, you're welcome to be here. >> you will be arrested, your one and only warning. >> as much as these fellow citizens support negotiations with iran, so do i support negotiations with iran. but negotiations from a place of strength. where we -- where we are dictating the terms of the negotiations. not -- not the circumstances -- just two days ago two days ago, let me remind you, ayatollah hoe mainny whipped up the crowd in teh

for years, we have systematically underfunded our military. marrying this philosophy of retreat with a misplaced understanding of our larger budgetary burdens. we have strained our fighting forces to the breaking point. even as we have eaten away at investments in our future forces. meanwhile, the long-term debt crisis hardly looks any better even as we ask troops to shoulder the burden of deficit reduction. rather than shouldering the arms necessary to keep the peace. the result of this experiment should come as no surprise, or little different than the results of the same experiment in the 1930s. >> ladies and gentlemen, you're welcome to be here. >> you will be arrested, your one and only warning. tom cotton: as much as these fellow citizens support negotiations with iran, so do i support negotiations with iran. but negotiations from a place of strength. where we -- where we are dictating the terms of the negotiations. not -- not the circumstances -- just two days ago, two days ago, let me remind you, ayatollah mainny whipped up the crowd i

we are underfunding virtually everything that we can do versus what we could do. >> thank you for your comments, and i yield back. >> just for informational purposes, we do have time constraints. i we will go to mr. dent so he has an opportunity to ask his question. you are recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for receiving us a few weeks ago. an interesting program that i got a lot out of. i just want to mention, the analysis of the national cancer institute data from 1975 until 2,005 found that liver teefive liver cancer incident rates increased by more than 300 percent 1.6 1.64.9 cases. in fact liver cancer has seen the 2nd largest annual percent increase in incidence of any cancer in the us other than direct cancer. historically the survival rates have been dismal. the five-year survival rates of persons diagnosed between 2003 and 2009 is only about 16 percent. these are second-worst among all cancers only slightly worse than those for pancreatic cancer. yet the nci yet the nci has no dedicated specialized program for research excellence on the liver or liver cancer pr

we have underfunded heart disease research in women over the years. i looked at the chart of what nih spends on. the amount we spend per death is 100 times less on heart disease then hiv-aids. 100 times less per death. that kind of discrepancy just needs to be justified. this is going to be a rhetorical question. it is stunning what the discrepancy is and how the fact that we dedicate as little as we do to heart disease, the most prevalent disease in the country. how that will affect the population. tour question on that one. -- rhetorical question on that one. i'm going to ask you a question about drug use. some people might not think that marijuana is dangerous or addictive but it is dangerous and addictive. it affects a lot of things that are probably not good for people, especially our youth. do you know what that economic impacts of marijuana use? on education?\ do we had his answers and are they important things to study? before we go willy-nilly into legalizing a dangerous and the drug? >> there have been many studies that highlight the consequ

but the short underfunding means we've made less progress in the developmented of our fitters and our system capable of dealing with the influx of those returns. we've had 5,000 fewer revenue agents, officers and criminal investigators. there's a reference to the earned income tax credit, a problem i am very aware of. but then again, we have a limited number of people in that area, as well. >> with this double sequester and deductions that congress has forced upon you, are you having a hard time recruiting people? >> at this point, we have some difficulty. we're basically -- our only way to get through this year, except for emergencies, we're not hiring anybody. so . >> so you have a freeze? >> we have a freeze, a total freeze. we've taken the 10% we've saved with the freeze as a general matter, we are not replacing anyone when they leave. >> and when you have a freeze and people leave in the enforcement area do you replace them? >> no. >> so it's not only a freeze it's a freeze on replacement. >> the way we're going to lose 3, 000 people this year is simply not replacing those when t

we are already underfunded. >> how much did you waste in licensure last year? >> in licensure? i do not know that we wasted any money in licensure. in i.t. licensure? there is a report for licenses for software, on whether we had lost money by not using them, and it was the issue of how you measured it. but we have an impact taken -- have in fact taken measures to make sure that when we raise an issue like that, we deal with it. >> during a hearing last month senators asked you about the tax impacts of the presidents actions on immigration. your follow-up letter to him last week that individuals may claim up to three years of refunds on income coming even if they were working off of the books month or never paid taxes is truly startling. wire you allowing to -- why are you allowing individuals who cheated by not paying any taxes to earn this? >> this is only if you had earnings that could be documented. even though they are undocumented and paying into the system, anyone who now under the president program is provided a social security number, they would be eligible for filing

dramatically underfunded.ally struggle with that type of support, and the country also struggles with the lack of solidarity. >> okay. u.n. high commissioner for refugees in cameroon. thank you for talking to al jazeera. now libya's rival factions are resuming peace talks in rabat. the legally installed government based in tripoli and the government based in tobruk have both welcomed a u.n. proposal. here are some details. it calls for the formation of a national unity government. it will include members from both sides. a presidential council will look after the implementation of the agreement. as the two parties resume talks fighting continues across the country. we spoke to the human rights director of the u.n. mission. he said human rights violations are also on the rise. >> there's a humanitarian crisis in libya, but there is also a human rights crisis. many abuses are associated with the fighting. there are several conflicts taking place in libya, such as attacks on civilians, people being abducted somet

unions say it's not their fault lawmakers underfunded retirement savings. >> after quarter of a century of teaching. judy is looking forward to retirement. the pension she was promised. it could be skimpier. >> i'm upset. i don't feel that the teachers are at fault. >> illinois public employees contribute up to 9% of their salaries the state has not made regular contributions for decades. state governor pat quinn agreed an initiative in 2013, saving $163 billion helping the pension programme reach solvensy. to do so retireies would have benefits reduced 10-33% depending on the job and years of service, and reduces employees corrections, caps salaries pushes back the retirement age and ends cost of living increases. it's one of 15 states where employment is not covered by social security. more many, a pension is the only savings available. >> it's possible we'll have to do something other than stay at home. i will not be able to afford to do the things i thought i could do. now the supreme court is taking up the issue. the court says it has the right to take action in times of crisis. >>

a chronic underfunding had already stretched the agency thin in many critical areas and jeopardized our ability to keep up with inspectional demand, product reviews, and the evolving science and cutting-edge biomedical products, at the very time that scientific and technological discoveries were revolutionizing medical products. fda's challenges were exacerbated by the increasingly global marketplace for the products that we regulate. the imports of fda related products were growing dramatically. there was a series of serious episodes associated with adulterated products coming from overseas, most notably the imports from china obtained -- of tainted heffron, and the melamine laced dairy products and pet foods that cause deaths and serious illness. these effects, and a constant negative drumbeat from our friends in the media combined with the congressional criticism took a toll. , public trust was flagging. it was clear there was so much good work going on. as i took stock of the agency, its vast responsibilities and it's enormously talented and committed workforce, it was clear that fd

we have really underfunded research into heart disease for women over the years. i looked at the chart of what the nih spent on. hundred 58 million americans have heart disease. and yet the amount we spend per death is 100 times less on heart disease than it is on hiv and aids. that kind of discrepancy needs to be justified. this is a rhetorical question. it is stunning what that discrepancy is and how the fact that we dedicate as little as we do to heart disease, most trouble and disease in the country, how that will affect the population. anyway, rhetorical question on that one. i will ask you a question about drug use. there is obviously an ongoing discussion about legalizing a dangerous drug called marijuana. some people may not think it is dangerous or addictive, it is. it affects the human brain including memory, motivation, a lot of things probably not good for people, especially our youth. do you know what the economic impact is of marijuana use is, including its use on workforce preparedness, on educations, do we have these answers? are these important th

stavridis: i think it's undervalued and underfunded. our largest co-heart every year works in the door and they're peace corps volunteers. i hear their stories and know their impact in the world. it is so wildly disproportional to the tiny amount of resources they get. thank you. >> i'd just -- you don't have to spend it all, you could put it to work in credit. credit is the life blood of commerce and credit is what is dried up and missing. the u.s. banks have withdrawn completely from financing anything like what we do. mr. fort: the european -- mr. ford: our coffee business are funded by individuals, happens to be from the state of arkansas and the state of texas, who just care. and otherwise it's the chinese that have come in. so if you've got access to that kind of money, credit could use it too. senator leahy: preach to the converted, all of you do. mr. blunt: senator daines. senator daines: i want to thank you, i want to thank you each for your passion, your compassion, your generosity, your kindness as well as your vision. mr. ga