a now report shows they made 67 billion in agency recommendations last year that remain unimplemented many of the recommendations involve it security and improving over site for payment. marco rubio was on "hannity" to talk about the cuts. >> the sequester they are going to look at the most painful cuts for publicity in order to drive home the point this is a bad idea. people watching the program who had reductions of 10, 15, 20 percent some people lost everything. i think they would be shock to do hear a bunch of politicians belly aching over a 2-3 percent reduction across the board on spending. >> they have 17,000 recommendations still open. >> an iowa police officer goes beyond the call of duty and risked his own life to save a man from a burning vehicle. look at this. zach mcdowell. he had report of a car fire. he was doing doughnuts sishlging around in a parking lot when he crashed into the building's ac unit. officer mcdowell says accident think twice to go in and get the guy out. >> i can't even tell you what i was thinking at the time other than it's not good to be breathing a

and the unimplemented reports from your department, did she find some cost savings? >> of course we did. thank you, mr. farenthold. we'd recommendations in the year before that $1.7 billion not to say that all those financial recommendations trades late immediately to cost savings because they do not. some we respect recommendations for is to be enterprise architecture or facility consolidation realignment are forward-looking. ultimate cost savings over the course of a long process to fully implement programs. >> we heard a lot of testimony about nexgen and aviation. had the infrastructure aviation subcommittee. we heard about about delays associated with nexgen. i had the opportunity to speak to folks within the airline industry to commute back and forth to texas. i hear time and time again not only are these delays costing the airline efficiency and money, but to chile costing us money. how much would receive if we would've gotten next john done on time clicks >> we can issue estimates, but i would tell you in one piece were simply straight now is saving the airlin

money wasted of unimplemented recommendations, 2009 it was $29 billion. 2012, there were 16,000. would that be a good place to start, dan, to try and look for a way to cut costs? >> it's time for this administration to grow up and govern. this is the new political air stock i can't city. i call them the downtown abbey crowd. ask you to cut. a tax hike is you cutting your budget. it's more money out of your pocket that goes to the government. but the very idea of them cutting and making responsible cuts so you can live your life, to them is considered almost political heresy. think about the nonsense. this is our government, take it back. you deserve better than this. >> gretchen: he called it naked petty politics. former u.s. secret service agent and a republican nominee for u.s. senate in the great state of maryland. thanks so much for your time. gretchen: they are the hottest thing in europe and now taking america by storm. ♪ . >> gretchen: see what all the buzz is about coming up next. first let's check in with hemmer for what's coming up at the top of

i want to thank the committee for its work in highlighting the issue of unimplemented recommendations in the topic is an important part of good government. since 2007 was reported to this committee on publication on recommendations made in reports that the department had not in lamented. our most recent letter focus high-priority short-term and long-term recommendations. we highlighted recommendations and five diverse areas, all of which we believe are important to the ability to deliver programs and operations efficiently and without waste of taxpayer dollars. i set up our fully in a statement, desire fraud rings, federal student aid debt management system, i.t. security improper payments in charter schools. each area is directly aligned with the management challenges for the fiscal year identified by my office. the goal of our audit investigative and related work in other areas is not simply to identify problems but to recommend improvements in remote corrective action. since 2002, my office has issued the audit resolution follow processes, each having problems of ineffective intern