that there wasn't problem with usis. and there's a suit out there that doesn't look very good to me, and now we're finding out that o.p.m. is probably going to get onboard or maybe going to get onboard or is getting onboard. what's going on? it looks to me quite frankly that there's a real disconnect here between what the contractors are doing and what the expectations what the contractors to do and people are dying because of it. we're losing critical information because of it. i mean, the list goes on and on. so what -- what's going on? >> thanks for the question. i am not aware of anyone at o.p.m. saying there's no problem with usis. i do know that because of the fact that this complaint was under seal we were unable to talk about the complaint. and now we can talk about the complaint, which i think is a good thing. and i think what we have tried to do, as i was explaining to senator carper before was -- and this started before the complaint became public and it's been over the last several years is to address and to

through this dumping, usis maximized its profits. many national security experts have long argued the security clearance process is antiquated and in need of modernization. given recent events i think we have to ask whether the system is fundamentally flawed. we should also be mindful for many years both congress and the federal agencies were concerned about the backlog of security clearance applications, which grew larger after 9/11. we need to make sure that investigators do not feel pressured to sacrifice quality for speed. many have heard me say that almost everything i do i know i can do better. same is true i think for all of us, and most of our federal programs. it is in that spirit we convene today's hearing. our primary purpose is to learn what we are doing right in the security process, while also learning how we can improve it. we have many questions to ask. here's some of quem. are we looking at the right risk factors in attempting to identify people who should not be trusted with a clearance or who should do serious harm

lots of things have occurred at usis since this -- >> my time has expired. i want to be respectful of my colleague. sum it up in one more sentence. this is good response. >> a loft changes have been made at usis. there's a new c.e.o. there. there's a chief compliance officer. there are new integrity standards. internal audit committee. there have been a loft changes made since the events that were revealed in the complaint. that has given us some level of comfort and confidence that we can rely on these products. rely, trust but verify. >> trust but verify. well said. dr. coburn, thank you. >> thank you. let me -- thank you for your testimony. i kind of see this as a multitude of problems. i mentioned in my opening statements, we overclassify, which is a problem for the american people because that means it's not transparent. and sitting on the intelligence committee i get to see what is secret and top secret. highly classified and compartmentalized. one of the other things i see is in five different instances we have people who are doing in the investigatio

coburn. >> a lot of changes have been made at usis. there is a new ceo there and chief compliance officer and integrity standards. there have been a lot of changes made since the events revealed in the complaint and that has given us some level of comfort and confidence that we can rely on these -- trust but verify. >> trust but verify. well said. dr. coburn. >> thank you for your testimony. at a kind of see this as a multitude of problems. i mentioned it in my opening statements. we over classified which is a problem for the american people because it's not transparent. and sitting on the intelligence community i get to see what is top-secret highly classified and compartmentalized. one of the other things i see is in five different instances we have people who are doing the investigations are also doing the adjudication. .. half have a top secret clearance. the american people ought to be asking what in the world is going on? and my question is, we've now seen outline who'd is ultimately responsible for it. that is the dni, correct?

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part of that movie that roman made that you're putting out now, i had mononucleo usis at that time.rking racing in canada and going back to racing formulas. it was a different racing world back in those days. most racers don't do that number. >> maybe it was glamorous in those days. polanski in the height of his power did a cinema documentary on the racing. >> he had a passion for the sport. he had a passion for his friendship with jackie. to him jackie stewart was the coolest man in the world, and i'm sure that jackie thought roman was very cool. it was that synergy that allowed the film to get made. if it wasn't for that friendship the film would never have seen the light of day. >> how do you think you would have fared today if you raced today. what do you think about the guys today if the how would they fark in your day. >> i think the animal stays the same. i don't think i'm any different. >> is the animal the same? largely because of your efforts and those of others, it is much safer now than it was back then. that has to make a big difference when you get in a car and you dec

each year we sit down with each doctor and we go through how usy are doing, and they tell what it can mean for the organization. it's a wonderful way to get that feedback, and it's the way almost every business in the country works except health care. ,> let me add a question however you are not tenured, but the more heart surgery you do, the more you bring to the hospital, the more money that comes in, the better off everybody can be. x that is correct. the direct one-to-one relationship is not there. you are ae, if psychiatrist and we need you to help us with our transplant program, you're not going to bring any money to the cleveland clinic, but we don't want you thinking about the fact that you guys are something else rather than what the institution needs. we all get paid on the basis of our total contribution to the organization tom and the contribution might be clinical, it might be research, it might be education, it might be a combination of those. it might be management, mib business. it.of those things go into don't haveat we tenure i think is a wonderful thing. tenure fran

usig e reover, vrecent research usis a variety of samples havedriver indicated that drug use is one aof the prime drivers of overallc criminal activity. in med analytical research indicates the drug offenders ther beyond drug offenses. regarding the safety current law permit judges to waive mandatory minimum sincing with little to no criminal history is. childhood to adolescence to adulthood. as the director indicate in the panel one, 25% of the inmates are gang members. gang moip is -- membership is confinement and resit vifm. in this way prison is an important interruption of the criminal career. unfortunately the preponderance of offenders continue to commitment offenses. releasing them could likely produce more crime. research has shown a one prisoner reduction in the prison population is associated with a 15 part one index crime increase per year. to put this in perspective releasing 1% of the current population would result in approximately 32850 additional crimes. an independent study by other researchers arrive at the estimate that one prisoner reduction increases crime by 17

i remember very vividly after the attack in tokyo with sarin, mass destruction, you are kept quite .usy to make sense of that i really think with your wide experience, share with us your thinking about various scenarios with the useties of what we call some sort of ,eapons of mass distraction whether chemicals, the sarin, or the anthrax. some cases we have seen in the u.s. and abroad related to eaths -- kyle,se, here please come up here. >> thank you. the lone wolf terrorist is obviously a subject of great interest and concern. through several questions out at the beginning. you asked whether or not the future for terrorism in general but certainly the lone wolf terrorist -- are we looking at something worse than 9/11? you asked about whether society can't survive. you asked whether or not democracy and our freedoms can survive. all, echoing a couple themes which were already voiced. represents a unique problem. we sometimes through the label terrorism or terrorist around too expensivel -- into expansive a fashion. it may be criminal activity or revenge. the terrorism word puts it in a

usy do not necessarily tell which groups will contribute the most spending. the overall proportion across all respondents of those planning to increase spending was 13%. to at 15% were more likely increase spending than women at 12%. that is a slightly lower ggg, or gender generosity gap then we found last year. by age, respond is between 18-34 to roughly the gen y or millennial's, were more likely to increase spending than. any other age group respondentseny planned to increase spending and that is double the over all finding of 13%. faced tohis group has the cultist entering the labor market but they are also in the age range were kids tend to show up in the household. this does not mean this group will do the most spending it's just that they're spending will increase more than any other group. considering race, african- americans at 20%, hispanics, 17% were more likely to report increased spending than non- hispanic whites at 12%. by income, upper-income households were marginally less likely to report an increase in holiday spending plans this year which

usis kind of an excuse for to be having a conversation with each other.hat the lawyer is a little bit like, i have some points to make too. [laughter] where like, too bad. [laughter] >> i think some law students can identify that. >> then we have conference a couple days after oral arguments. i like that. a lot of appellate courts around the country, people go into conference right after the arguments. i like the fact that we have a couple of days where we talk about it with the clerks, i talk about it in one-on-one and we mull it over. it works for me. i mull it over, what i have heard and what i am thinking. then we go into the conference room and it is just the nine of us. we have no clerks, no administrators. the chief justice starts things off. he brings the case and remind everybody, here are the issues and here is what we need to decide. he is the first person to state his views. he casts a preliminary vote. and it goes around the table. in seniority order. so i always speak night. it is actually better than speaking eight, 7, 6. it has a certain d

make risky bets with private investors and commercial banks that have played in them ported role in usinesses. there has been a lot of concern the firewall will be compromised . can we count on the said to work with regulators to produce -- to work withfed regulators, to implement it in a fashion keeping up with this goal of systemic risk. closelye working very on this rulemaking with other agencies. faithful tog to be the intent of this rule, which is to eliminate short-term financial speculation in institutions that enjoy the brick action of the safety net. the devil here is in the he tells. it does hermit appropriate hedging and market making act committees, and we are trying to devise a rule that will permit those act 70s but be faithful to the ed ted congress had here. be faithful to it. >> they put their thumb on the scale through the ownership of , pie plants,r warehouses for key metals, and inre is certainly a history terms of grandfather commodity investments, and in terms of related activities. that there is concern the ability to influence will affect price and creates a conflict o

explain to me the difference in the fieldwork contract and the supply services contract you have with usis? one. two, are contractors completing background investigations and are other contractors validating the completeness of those investigations? are these contractors from the same company? >> i can answer the second part. opm is better suited to answering the second part. yes, contractors perform background investigations, yes, contractors can perform quality reviews on those investigations but only government employees make a determination as to whether to grant security clearance to someone. >> but my question is, is it the same company that's validating the work of their colleagues doing the investigation? is that correct? >> i'd have to defer to o.p.m. >> no. the companies that are doing the investigations have an only -- have an obligation under the contract to also do a quality review, but then we do another quality review. and the purpose of their quality review is we would like them to catch errors before the file gets to us but we do a quality review as well. >> so o.p.m. is t

of this sequestration, which is, as everyone has said here numerous times, a horrible way to do .usiness >> while i'm familiar with those negotiations, i don't think anything is being discussed currently that approaches a specific, concrete response to this particular problem, and i would urge -- i know you all are not the ultimate decision- makers, but i would urge the administration to put forward a , as presidentstal , and a did in the 1990's situation that i believe you are correct in saying was far less challenging, although it was serious. also want to ask about some readiness issues readinessjoint training and the like. i have a particular interest in that because some of that happened at fort hope in louisiana. sequestration has forced the cancellation of several combat training center rotations. can you describe how important those rotations are and the impact on that readiness? >> in fiscal year 2013, we had to cancel seven rotations. 5000ave usually a force of to 60,000 men and women going .here we were not able to do that. knowing that, you lose a significant amount of experi

for morni usiness. last votes of the week are expected no later than 3:00 p.m. on friday, no votes are expected. madam speaker, the house will consider a few suspensions next week a. complete list of which will be announced by close of business today. in addition, the house will consider three bills to increase domestic energy production, create american middle class jobs, and lower the cost of energy for our families. these bills are h.r. 2728, the protecting states rights to promote american energy security act sponsored by representative bill flores. h.r. 1965, the fellow lands jobs and energy security act authored by representative doug lamborn. and h.r. 1900, the natural gas pipeline permitting reform act sponsored by mike pompeo. together these bills represent our continued commitment to energy independence and putting more money in the pockets of working middle class families. with that, madam speaker, i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for that information. i think as the majority leader knows probably as well as any of us, maybe better than

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