of hud, romney's undersecretary, and me. and romney, hodgson, and volpe were complaining about the fact that they had never, or almost never, had any -- certainly never any small meetings with nixon on domestic policy matters. and i had had that one meeting with nixon on the legislation to deal with emergency disputes. turned out that that was one of the few meetings he ever had with subcabinet officials on a domestic matter. and these three cabinet officers were speculating that nixon never wanted to meet with them because he was afraid that they would press their pet projects and it would bust their budget. they all said they wouldn't have done that, but they just felt frustrated because they didn't have any meetings with him. i thought about that meeting after the tapes came out and i read more and more of nixon's discussions and got more and more of a perception of his personality, and i also had one meeting with him after i was fired, with my wife, and i concluded that nixon did not have the meetings with his cabinet of

dave cohen is the undersecretary of terrorism. undersecretary of the treasury for intelligence and we can think of no better foreign tell us about the role. my colleague was basically this job in a former administration plus, something like that. then juan went to the white house and was deputy national security adviser. we owe both of these officials a great debt for their service to this nation. i'll turn it over to juan for this fascinating discussion. thank you to all of you for coming today. in particular, david, for agreeing to do this. this is a great honor for us, for me. i will tell you openly and honestly and those of you who have followed the work we've done here, i tend to invite not only high profile government officials, but also friends. to come join me and i count david among one of my friends. this is a great discussion to have because i think as we read the newspapers every day, we see the importance of treasury as a core element of u.s. national security. and not just as a tool of national security, but strategi

he was calling it the undersecretary of terrorism. undersecretary -- the treasury on intelligence. we can think of no better person here to tell us about the role of the treasury in national security. my colleague, juan zerotti, was basically this job in a former administration. plus or minus -- well, something like that. and then juan, of course, went to the whiteout and was deputy national security adviser for combatting terror. we owe both of these officials a great debt for their service to this nation. so on behalf of csis, i'd like to welcome you all today and i'll turn it over to juan for this fascinating discussion. >> andrew, thank you very much. thank you to ael of you for coming today and in particular, david, thank you for attending today and agreeing to do this. >> happy to be here. a great honor for us, for me. i will tell you openly and honestly, in those of you who have followed the work that we've done here at csi, i tend to invite government officials and friends. and i found david among one of my friends. this is a great discussion to have because i think as we r

undersecretary. one of the major reprisals of the arab uprising is where assets ended up in international institutions, financial and otherwise. and now you are working on retrieving that money. is there any policy in place to prevent this thing from happening in the future? >> look, the kleptocracy issue has gone on for years. it goes back to my tenure where we were working on issues of kleptocracy. the effort to enhance the overall standards in the financial community so that financial institutions know who they're dealing with. they know the sources of funds. they know where the money is coming from so that financial institutions can take the appropriate precautions to avoid becoming repositories for the stol stolen patrimony of various countries. that depends on the various institutions' willingness to do that, where leaders are stealing money from their own people can put their funds. and that's -- that is an issue that that is frankly a difficult diplomatic issue to deal with, to get to generat

the agriculture undersecretary for food and nutrition and the cdc's director for obesity discussed recent legislation to combat rising obesity in this country, and improve nutrition standards for schools. the discussion focused on the healthy hunger-free kids act which increases the focus of nutrition in school lunches. this is just over an hour. >> good morning. thank you again for being here at the food policy conference. we're moving on to our last session. we have a terrific panel lined up to talk to you about some really key issues on the nutrition obesity fund and administrative efforts on that and kind of give us an update of where things are and where we're headed. to begin the panel, i would like to introduce sally squires, vice president at pal-tate and she will be moderating the panel and introducing our speakers. sally? >> good morning and i hope you're all enjoying this conference as much as i have. we were talking a little bit before this and just saying that this is kind of our, for those of us in the nutrition world and food world, this is our conference. there are a lot o

he was treasury undersecretary during the george herbert walker bush administration. the senate democratic leader harry reid said that the $2 billion trading loss announced just last week from jpmorgan chase prompted his decision to push the nomination through as well as to bolster the fed's regulatory expertise with the nominees, but there had been some criticism of the nominations, including that from senator david vitter, republican of louisiana, who was holding up at least one of the nominations demanding for a full look into the background and then the full senate vote that 2350i7b8ly did come today. let's go to the floor and the comments of the louisiana republican, david vitter. >> the fed with five affirmative votes passes regulations under dodd/frank under its authority. that process is ongoing right now. now, why these two nominations significant in impacting the development of those dodd/frank regulations one way or the other. it's pretty simple. those dodd/frank regulations coming out of the fed need five affirmative votes. right now there are five members

senate to serve as undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the usda. fncs, for those of you who don't know, has the principle responsibilities and funding authority for the food and nutrition service, which feeds 1 in 4 americans. it also has responsibilities for promoting healthful diets through the center for nutrition policy and promotion, which, as i'm sure everybody in this room knows, is responsible with hhs for the dietary guidelines. our second speaker is dr. william dietz, director of the division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity at the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta. prior to his appointment to the cdc, he was a professor of pediatrics at the tufts university school of medicine and director of clinical nutrition at the floating hospital of new england medical center -- i'm sorry, the floating hospital of new england medical centers hospitals. and for those of you who have been watching, either at weight of the nation last week or have been watching hbo, you know that he's played a really important role in all

miss clark is recognized for five minutes. >> undersecretary beers. your office provided the subcommittee with an internal memorandum entitled challenges facing iscd which identified challenges facing iscd has continued implementing the cfats programs including those related to human capital management, strategic planning, procurement and program administration. many challenges i testify in a more emmer -- memorandum longstanding issues to develop a cfats program for some time. nevertheless when you testify before the house committee on energy and commerce on the cfats program in march of 2011 you gave no indication there was significant problem with the program's progress. when did nppd become aware of the problems with the cfats program and what problems were brought to its attention at that time? >> as we have briefed this committee and other committees at the point in time that i asked for this report there have been three different pieces of information or problems that come to my attention which the committees have all been briefed. the first wa

we also have the undersecretary of the treasury traveling through europe at the moment. >> correct. >> steve, nail it for me. we have said all along america will not allow imf funds to go into europe unless basically europe has put a lot of its own money up front. and obama will not go into the election saying that the americans bailed out europe. how can they do a deal on bankia? >> how can i nail it for you, simon, any better than you just nailed it for yourself. that's exactly what the treasury's been saying, what the administration's been saying for a very long time. they want to see europe put up their money. there is a pot of money at the imf, something like $400 billion the last i checked, that is designed to be used and it was bolstered a little bit, that is designed to be used for contingency plans, for example, if there were a big global shock. my guess is what the imf is probably doing right now is, hey, look, if this happens, if that happens, if this happens, there could be a call on imf funds. here's how we might use it. we would go to the board, we would do so only in th

glen nordin, the principle foreign language and area advisor for the office of the undersecretary of defense intelligence at the department of defense. he is representing the director of national intelligence. as you know, it is the custom of this subcommittee to swear in all witnesses. i would ask all of you to please stand and raise your right hands. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give this subcommittee is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> thank you. let it be noted for the record that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. before we start i want you to know that your full written statements will be made a part of the record, and i'd also like to remind you to please limit all remarks to five minutes. mr. ochoa, will you please proceed with your statement. >> thank you. good afternoon, chairman akaka. thank you for the opportunity to appear before the subcommittee today. my name is eduardo ochoa, i'm the assistant secretary for post secondary education. i am pleased to provide testimony for this hearing on natio

as a part of this study, the secretary may included a recommendation of a standard for an undersecretary for trade in foreign agricultural affairs, that would be discretionary. the findings of this study will be submitted to the senate and house agricultural committees and the house and senate's appropriations committee. i think it's a good place to go, madam chair, i respectfully request that the ranking member respect the amendment. >> senator roberts? >> madam chairman, i support this amendment, i think my friend and colleague, senator johans, he comes at this issue from a very unique perspective having been secretary. it's been the same as senator baucus on the finance committee in regards to trade for a number of years, and it would simply require the usda to study the reorganizationization. there are a lot of people that need to just go ahead and do this. but obviously we want to work with secretary vilsack. and the position would oversee the multitude of international trading functions that are currently spread across several agencies within the department. that's the problem, we

to ameliorate conflicts between divisions of the department and who would report back to the undersecretary and secretary. in the selection of these individuals, i had asked frank sarr who was assistant secretary for administration, to be sensitive to minorities, look for qualified minorities. and he came up with the notion of one fellow for the new york region by the name of clay cattrall, who was the head of the manpower administration in that office, was a republican and a harvard business school graduate. very talented, able guy. i told frank to appoint him. and frank came to me and said the civil service won't approve. i said why? anyway, turned out that the civil service was under instructions from the white house not to approve cattrall. make a long story very short it turned out that peter brennan, the head of the building trades union in new york either in the city or the state, had objected to a black and african-american as head of the hablabor departm because he was concerned about the affirmative action plans and must have taken a position that merely because he was black he wo

has not only had tremendous leadership from the secretary, the deputy secretary, a number of undersecretaries, but has also recruited and retained some tremendous talent. they come from private sector, a background that says, this is not all about the government. >> you spoke directly to my next question. we have seen the dhs hire new officials in the last month. do they have the credentials? >> i used to have a discussion with some of the industry experts. they would say, i thought about a dh and tos, but i am not quite sure they are ready for someone at my level. my response has always been, if you are not -- if you think they are not ready, by going there, you would help them get there. we brought someone that was with the energy sector, ran a cyber security for a couple of states, we have the talent. it is very competitive. >> what do you think of john mccain's approach? no mandate. protecting infrastructure, according to ham. >> that is the challenge. the idea of saying, i will do what i'm supposed to do, but did not ask me to prove that i am doing it. that is a challenge. coming from a

the treasury undersecretary david cohen said the new sanction will add pressure on the assad regime by closing off a key means of evasion. he said officials in qatar have agreed to take similar actions. department officials will host their international counterparts next week. they'll discuss what else they doon to persuade assad. >>> u.s. president barack obama used a video conference link to speak with european leaders about the debt problems. they agreed they need to work together to limit further damage. obama shared his views with german chancellor angela merkel, french president francois holland d hollande and italy's mario monti. the leaders will meet again next month in los cabos, mexico. >>> the biggest trade insurer has pulled its coverage of shipments to greece because of the uncertainties. the country's heavily dependent on imports. officials said they will not underwrite deliverez for the foreseeable future. analysts with the france-based insurer say they are worried about whether greece will remain in the eurozone. greeks will vote next month in parliamentary elections an

that's from a law firm, not mine, and signed by former undersecretary of commerce for industry and security. so that's not an overstatement. i'd like to just mention and then stop, the british who used to resist extra territorial actions with great intensity now have a new law on corrupt practices that's probably much more extra territorial than ours, except for this one p. i wonder if you would take this as an opportunity to opine on the breadth of these sanctions, extra territorial actions, not just us but the canadians and europeans -- it was signed by mario mancuso and -- [ inaudible ]. >> my old job is i was a lawyer. i always have to correct the record when people say what we're doing is extra territorial. it's not. what we do is regulate u.s. finances and u.s. businesses and decide with whom they are able to do business. we don't have any jurisdiction to tell any foreign company or foreign bank what it can or cannot do. we tell our own banks, our own businesses whom they can deal with. i think as a technical matter there is no extra territoriality in any of the authorities that we ha

navy undersecretary robert worked his at the cato industry -- institute. at 2:00, remarks from former supreme court justice, justice stevens. justice stephen step down in 2010 after 35 years on the court. they did this afternoon, president obama will hold a news conference following two days of meetings at the nato summit in chicago. >> q is the light of this morning. at 7:45 eastern, the u.s.aid a minister will join us to talk about food programs. at 8:30, chairman of the latino coalition will talk about the critical issues impacting

yes, sir in the back, middle. >> undersecretary work. and no, sir, i'm not going to ask about the lcs. you commented that we do not need for it gets. i'm just curious, it seems that there's some indicators that things might be changing that could change that in the next five or 10 years and am wondering if you concur? and given that there is a decision with environmental change with china that we do need forget, we don't have them, what would do in that continue to? indicators seem to be with the asia-pacific pipit is just a vast size of the pacific, vast blue water that you need blue water long endurance, belonged will ships that maybe can't necessary role that name as a frigate. with a large continental power, with global sea power in vision, we see that motto clearly with china, with an aspect of maritime commerce that could potentially come up interdicted with china, we see may be another indicator that we might need to either interdict chinese merchant shipping or protect our own commerce coming to the regions. and also with less hi

we did have a phone conversation with 1 of the undersecretaries in washington and i feel confident that will continue to move forward and we will be 1 of the first to build out our system. san francisco is 1 of 5 counties funded by the state of california to pilot the disaster program. this is a first in the nation effort to strengthen government- affiliated volunteer programs and integrate a volunteer resources. disaster core, we are hoping to get volunteers shortly. these volunteers will be able to do things for us that others cannot do because of the background checks and the classifications that they had as being a member of disaster core. on our emergency shelters, we quickly assessed the disability needs in emergency shelters. more than 50 personnel were trained to be on the assessment service teams and staff teams. the trainees came from him and services agency and also department of public health and we think that these teams are going to help us in serving our local community and service providers. finally, i hope that you will all go to the academy of sciences to see the new s

undersecretary. one of the major causes of the arab uprise hag been the abuse of money by

for example, in march of this year, acting undersecretary kendell issued a memorandum that was designed to take initial steps to stand up an aggressive and comprehensive anti-counterfeiting program to prevent and detect electronic counterfeit parts and other mission critical and critical safety parts. we're unaware to date of any loss of life or catastrophic mission failure that has occurred because of counterfeit parts. that doesn't mean we should stop addressing the issue. we will not stop until we strengthen our efforts to identify, prevent, and detect these pieces of equipment from entering our supply chain. i would note too that we've worked closely with the white house and national property coordinator to try to strengthen reporting requirements and contracting clauses for the federal acquisition relation which governs the establishment of contracting guidelines for suppliers of goods and services to the u.s. government. not just to the department of defense. those recommendations are in coordination right now with the office of management and budget. and finally, when counterfeit

we'll hear from undersecretary for consumer services kevin cohn cannon. giving an update of a number of the key administrative initiatives that have been going forward. we'll see where things are and where they are headed. we're pleased to have mike taylor here with us. before he begins, i would like to introduce carol tucker foreman. she's has a distinguished history of working on food issue as an consumer advocate for cfa. i'd like to turn it over to carol. carol? >> thanks, chris. good morning. good morning, folks. it's a terrific pleasure to be able to introduce mike taylor, the deputy commissioner of foods for the food and drug administration this morning. consumer advocates who work with mike know that there's no other federal official who has ever brought the same level of intelligence, energy, creativity and integrity to the effort to make our food supply safer. as the administrator of the food safety and inspection service in the 1990s, he lead the effort to install the system, modernizing meat and poultry inspection, and he declared e. coli a 15

undersecretary joann rooney and to discuss the ides system. we've come a long way since the issues of walter reed, army medical center, were identified in 2007. at that time, v.a. and the d.o.d. were mimes apart. simply stated, the lack of integration and cooperation between the departments did not serve wounded service members well. since that time, together we have committed to achieve a seamless transition through a multi-prong aid proech with ides as one of the critical initiatives. the joint ides process was designed to eliminate time consuming and often confusing elements of the separate disability processes. the goals of the joint process, increase transparency, reduce processing time, improve consistent sip and reduce the benefits gap. to achieve greater transparency for service members we enhanced our online tools. the my healthy vet and e benefits to allow service members at ides to view appointments and lab results and to track their claim. internally we've increased transparency to the ides track board that tracks performance at ea

also today at 4:00 and remarks from the former undersecretary for political affairs and u.s. ambassador to nato. he has a new report exploring steps and for revitalizing the nato vitality. here's a look at our guests this morning on "washington journal."

navy combat surface fleet with the undersecretary of the navy. >> i want people that i gift them the book is a better understanding of who she was, what she was like during that four-year period. because there have been a lot of books written. and most of it is been written by people who have talked to friends of friends of friends. they really don't have the information themselves. i happened to be there. i knew her. >> from late 1960 through 1964, former secret service agent clint hill served on the protective detail to first lady jacqueline kennedy. >> there isn't any gossip in there, no salacious information. it's just what happened, what she was like, things that she liked to do, how humorous she was at times, how athletic she was at times, and how intelligent she was. and how kind of rambunctious she was. she tried to put me to the test many, many times. and i did my best to meet that test. >> more with clint hill sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. . >>> this is c-span 3 with politics and public affairs programing throughout the week, and every weekend 48 hours of people and

bob's right is robert kemmet, an army veteran, veteran civil servant during the reagan years, the undersecretary of state for political affairs during the bush 41 administration and was ambassador to germany in the latter part of that administration. after that was very successful in private life, working for a number of prominent firms. i encountered him again in government in the bush 43 administration where he was the deputy secretary of treasury. i should add as deputy secretary of treasury had nothing whatever to do with anything that went wrong during the early part of the decade. there were other people at treasury. i know what bob was working on, and it wasn't that. he was one of the principle diplomatic figures of the bush administration and is well equipped to join us today. both bob here as a policymaker veteran, bob kemmet, bob strong, tim naftali, both of whom helped collect the information. i'm philip zelikow, was a young diplomat during the bush 41 administration. i'd like to offer as opening comments as the chair, first a little remark about the significance of oral history, but

undersecretary work made a case for the mix. while we are on the subject of trade-offs, a trading one vessel for another, i have to say it. we have made this decision to build very large aircraft carriers. at least $14 billion to build the next one. i would be shocked if it came in at $14 billion. that is about 28 l.c.s.'s? am i doing the math right? is that about right? opportunity costs aren't just in the surface fleet. we have an opportunity comes of sxbnx. we are planning to build 12 of the new ballistic missile submarines with a target average cost of $2.53 billion. two months ago the naviest maded it would cost $11.7, and the c.b.o. estimated it would cost $13.3 billion. that number looks pretty daunting. why do i dwell on this in a forum that is supposed to be about a surface fleet? these are opportunity costs. if we invest so much in that ssbnx, we are giving up. the budget is unlikely to increase by 50%. we have to weigh the costs. i say this not because i am a swo, or that i have something against submarines. i just do

can we ask -- there is the -- the undersecretary is here can we ask their opinion on this? >> would someone from the usda like to address this particular issue in terms of the need for clarity or the position of the department as it relates to this? >> yes. i'm with the office of general counsel. >> we do have a podium with a microphone. >> good afternoon. i'm the associate general council of the usda that handles in part of the nutrition programs. looking at the amendment, i think we understand generally what the amendment is trying to do. we are a little bit concerned about some of its breadth, particularly if we're talking about this or any other act. and also the placement in terms of how this relates specifically to section 32. i think on behalf of the administration, the office of general counsel will be happy to provide drafting assistance to try to address those concerns if they are reflective of the concerns of the committee. >> senator brown, be wear of asking the question. thank you very much. >> i said i know it's a danger -- i'm not trained as a lawyer, but i k

have not only had tremendous leadership from the secretary, the deputy secretary, a number of undersecretaries, but also has recruited and trained some tremendous talent that really understands this area, that comes from private sector, that comes from a background that says, yeah, this is not all about the government. >> host: you actually spoke directly to my next question which is, we have seen the dhs hire a rash of new cybersecurity officials in recent months, but do they have the level of expertise necessary especially when you consider they're competing with the pentagon, the intelligence community and the be private sector for skills that are in high demand? >> guest: right. it used to be a discussion i would have with some of my colleagues i used to work with all the time that would say, yeah, i thought about going to dhs, but i'm not quite sure they're ready for somebody at my level. my response is if you going there would help prepare them better, i think that's what we've seen. the talent that came over that really implemented, we brought someone who was with the energy secretary,