marcus watkins of nasa. mr. watkins, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear here today to share information regarding the nasa role in and commitment to noaa's joint polar satellite system and noaa's geostationary operational environmental satellite r series program. jpss -- >> could you pull your microphone slightly closer? >> is that better, sir? okay. jpss and goes-r are critical to the weather's nation forecasting system, climate monitoring and research activities. nasa and noaa have been partners for over 40 years in developing the nation's pollard and geo synchronous weather satellites. with the president's direction in 2010, nasa and noaa returned to the successful partnership for jpss. since that time, the nasa program management office was established and is nearly fully staffed. in addition, noaa and nasa have established joint councils to oversee the portfolio of satellites and have integrated their decision-making processes to efficiently and effectivel

watkins, maybe dr. sullivan will have some insight on this as well, how much money has just evaporated from the nim post program? we have some things that are left from this debacle that are worth something, but how much can you say is an actual total loss of value for the american taxpayer? >> do you want me to -- so where we are today tied to the program, approximate $4.3 billion has been spent to date. now out of those resources, we had the development of instruments that are ultimately going to be flying on gpps 1. instruments that are flying on npp. the fact that we had developed a ground system that is actually being utilized today in order to operate the npp mission. and instrument developments across the board. so a lot of the costs that have been spent today are actually being utilized as part of the overall gpss program. >> that's the basis. how much have we lost? i mean, there's no loss at all? it's not really a debacle? it's an ideal program? we have been told just the opposite. representing

watkins. we appreciate your testimony and the final witness is the president of the accountability office. you have five minutes. >> chairman brown, chairman harris, ranking members miller, and members of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to testify this afternoon on the jpss and gozar programs. starting with jpss, this $13 billion acquisition is proceeding with the satellite by march 2017. this afternoon i would like to fight an overview of the progress to date. the key risks to the program and potential gaps in data satellite kobt newity starting with progress, mpp, the planned demonstration satellite was successfully launched in october 2011 and the instruments were commissioned by march 2012. noaa has made good progress transferring management contracting responsibilities from the old imposed program, and also solid development has occurred on all five sensors soesh yated with the first satellite. specifically, all five are 60% complete and two are 85% complete. last september

his grandmother, sarah watkins, was a sister to my fifth great grandfather, john watkins. so i'm real proud of henry clay and that connection. my question is, the three times he won the nomination, it seems like the timing was really not good for his candidacy. they seemed doom. you believe there was a presidential election during his time of prominence that would have been better timing that he could have won the presidency? >> i think he could have won in 1840 pretty reasonably. in 1848, zachary taylor is the wig nominee. clay particularly opposed zachary taylor because taylor had done nothing other than be a general. he had never voted before he ran for president. clay very reluctantly tries to get the nomination in 1848 and fails. clay got that nomination, i think he would have won too. the democrats were divided that year. clay is quoted by someone as saying the years he could get the nomination, his friends are basically deserts him. clay saw it almost as a betrayal of all the things he had done. >> since we've fast forwarded to 1848, let's move to 1850. henry clay's

. >> caller: my last name is watkins. gerald watkins. watkins, and henry clay was related to me. so i'm real proud of henry clay and that connection, but my question, the three times he won the nomination, it seems like the timing really was not good for his candidacy. they soeemed doomed. was there a presidential election that he could have won the presidency? >> i think they could have won in 1840 pretty reasonably, and in 1848 zachary taylor is going to be the wig nominee, and henry clay opposed any general. clay particularly opposed zachary taylor because taylor had done nothing other than be a general, and he had never voted even before he ran for president. clay very reluctantly tries to get the nomination in 1848 and fails. clay got that nomination and i think he would have won, too. the democrats were divided that year. clay was quoted by someone as saying, you know, that years he could get the nomination he can't. his friends are basically deserting him because john jay critn critna of kentucky was a backer of clay. >> since we fast forwarded to 1848, let's move ahead to

watkins? >> yes, sir. we have been working with the administration, again, to assess the senate's proposal. at this point in time, that continues to go on. again, we, too, would want to make sure that we are able to maintain overall schedules and the concerns of getting these critical space assets in space as soon as possible. >> okay. i guess -- your answer is not a no and it's not yes. i guess can we expect the administration to take any position on this, on a change like this? and if so, when would it happen? >> sir, i don't know the answer to that question. it's my understanding that the administration is taking this under advisement and that process is ongoing. >> once again, i gave an illustration of my own life. i went before a big company to borrow a lot of money one time and they said, mr. hall, we'll listen to your ignorant proposal with an open mind. that's kind of what i'm getting here. you must have an opinion, both of you, on that. you work for noaa. you work for nasa. you're high up there. t

pastor watkins, why are you losing this fight? >> well, i don't know that we're losing the fight.d earlier that i didn't think this was going to be the issue that was going to determine the presidency. african-americans were not going to vote against president obama because of his stance on gay marriage. that being said, as pastor of the gospel of jesus christ, i stand by what the bible says. i love everybody. we all love everybody as god loves everybody. god, in his word, doesn't like everything that we do and doesn't sign off on everything that we do. >> as you know, pastor watkins, he said if you right hand offends, cut it off. talk about drinking poisoning. you know that nobody is literally interpreting the bible to the extent they excludes common sense. can't people disagree with you and still be christian? >> anybody can disagree with me because i'm not god. i'm just a follower. i choose to believe the word of god. >> so do people who disagree with you. >> there's people that disagree with me that say they believe god's word. maybe they don't see it the way i do. >> you're g

watkins if you could answer that, it would be very helpful. >> thank you ms. lofgren, i appreciate your comments and question. with respect to the continuing resolution, one big item that would concern me there is fy-13 is when coczar has a scheduled budget bump in respect to the launch vehicle f. we are unable to proceed with the launch vehicle, and in respect to the continuing resolution at the appropriated level of the fy-12 plan, that is in line with what we have come forward for in the president's budget, so, i would forecast with the same caveats of the forecasts less impact on jpss, but an impact of concern on go czar. >> the only thing i would add to that is that with respect to the go czar program, we are currently at a fiscal budget, we are planned to be increased to $8003 and if we were under a continuing resolution that went beyond the first quarter of the fiscal year, it would begin to have severe negative impacts to the cost and the schedule that is specifically the go czar mission, and so it is a continued resolution hurts us on the goes-r progr

bush administration the reverend joe watkins and former dnc communications director and columnist forfinney. good morning, out of breath with all of your titles. it is interesting to me, frankly newt gingrich is talking about the corrupting power of money. having said that, you know, is all this money necessary? >> it wasn't enough, chris, that's what it was, wasn't enough. >> he got outspent in some places. the question is, is all of this money in and of itself corrupting or let's look at the bright side, it gets more opportunity for the candidates to bring their message to more places. >> you've got to get your message out and the more money you have, the better chance you have of getting your message out to the people you need to get excited to come out and vote and also for rapid response because when the negatives get posted out there against you when the candidate on the other side of the aisle says that you've done something bad you've got to be able to respond to it quickly. not having the money to be turn around the negatives really hurts. >> you got to raise that money, kare

everyone from presidents clinton and bush, secretary of defense leon panetta, to james watkins, great figure in my life, the former chief of u.s. naval operations and the chair of the commission on oceans policy. so it's clear that no country stands to gain more from this treaty than any other. the u.s. has an empty seat at the table. which need to fill it. after all americans have never been ones to sit back and let others make decisions that affect our security, our economy or our environment. the benefits of this treaty are too great to ignore, especially at this crucial moment in our recovery. we should act now. so finally, it's commencement season. we all know that, and most of us know it, and are affected in some ways by it. i will say in closing that we need to inspire the next generation to understand, explore and protect our waters in the decades that lie ahead. about a mile from here in d.c.'s crime museum, noaa introduced a new exhibit on the anniversary of the marine animal protection act. as you know, this helps protect our marine life and marine ecosystems as we speak. i

watkins to correct me if i misstate anything, but my tracking is that all of them are, in fact, performing at or above speck, with some anomalies, but the technical team jumped on top of those and digging down and understand the root causes and developing corrective actions. >> thank you. my time is up. >> thank you. i want to thank the witnesses for your valuable testimony and the members for the questions. the members may have additional questions for the witnesses and we'll ask you to respond to those in writing. the record will remain open. the witnesses are excused. the hearing is now adjourned. >> dr. harris, if i may just assure you, we will be timely with our responses. >> thank you very much. >>> both bodies of congress are in session today. the house gavelled in earlier to continue work on transportation and housing in urban development spending. the chamber has been working on amendments this afternoon. follow the house live on c-span. and the senate has been working on a bill that extends the flood insurance program for five years. you can follow the senate live on c-span 2. >>

voiced their support many years from presidents clinton and bush to secretary of defense to james watkins, great figure in my life, the former chief of the u.s. naval operations, u.s. secretary of energy and the chair of the commission on oceans policy. so it's clear that no country has more to gain from this treaty than does the u.s. important meetings are already underway to draw up the rules that are flowing from the convention. the u.s. has an empty seat waiting for us at the table. we need to fill it. after all america has never been content to sit back and let others make decisions that could effect our security, our economy or our environment. the benefits of the treaty are too great to ignore especially in this crucial moment in our recovery. we should act now. so finally it's commencement season. we all know that. most of us know it or are affected by it. i am. it is appropriate to close by saying we need to inspire the next generation to understand, explore and protect our waters in the decades that lie ahead. about a mile from here in d.c.'s crime museum just opened a new exhib

watkins to correct me if i misstate anything, but my tracking of the technical data is that all of them are in fact performing at or above spec with some anomalies that are needing to be worked out, but the technical team has shown a good accumen to jump on top of those and digging down to understanding the root causes and developing the corrective actions which is the what you do with the space systems. >> thank you. my time is up. >> thank you very much. i want to thank the witnesses for the valuable testimony and the members for the questions and the members of either subcommittee may have additional questions for the witnesses, and we will ask you to respond to those in writing. the record will remain open for two weeks for additional comments from the witnesses. the committee is now adjourned and the committee is adjourned. >> i would like to assure you that we will be timely with the responses. >> thank you very much. send the message to the epa while you are there. >>> next on c-span3, a veterans panel investigates marketing practices by educational institutions to u.s. veterans.

marcus watkins, the director of the joint agency satellite division at nasa and our final witness is mr. david a. pounder, the director of information technology management issues for the gao. i thank you all for being here. as our witnesses should know, spoken testimony is limited to five minutes each after which members of the committee have five minutes each to ask questions. your written testimony will be included of the record of the hearing and the complexities of the issues today i would allow you to go after five minutes if you need to, if you can continue to make it within five minutes please do so. i'm very proud of the colleagues for keeping them in five minutes. the practice of the subcommittee on investigations and oversight to receive testimony under oath. when we use the practice today as well. do any of you have any objection to take an oath? >> let the record reflect that the witness withes were all willing to take the oath in shaking their head from side to side. do any of you have counsel here today? >> all three, again indicated shaking their head saying no, so le

trotter, a partner at lathe am watkins and co chair of the practice group and deputy chair of the corporate department in the washington, d.c. office. his focus is on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation and general corporate matters. thank you. and finally, our last witness is mr. ilan moscovitz, a senior analyst for the motloey fool, a global financial services company and is a tireless advocate for investors specializing in financial reform, macro economics and shareholder rights. his research has been cited numerous times in the national press. we thank you all for being here. all of your testimony will be made part of the record in its entirety, and i would ask you to summarize it within five minutes. and we'll begin with dr. sherman. dr. sherman. >> chairman reid, thank you for inviting me to testify today. my research has been primarily on ipo methods in various countries with different methods. one of the points i want to make today is that the u.s. method called book building is the most common method in the planet. and it wasn't always that

we listened to reverend sharon watkins who is the first woman ever to deliver a sermon at the national prayer service. she spoke about harmonies of liberty and she shared a piece of wisdom attributed to the cherokee nation. here's what she told us, one evening a grandfather was teaching his young grandson about the internal battle that each of us in the world faces. there are two wolves struggling inside each of us the old man said to his grandson. one wolf is vengfulness and anger and resentment and self-pity and fear. the other wolf is compassion and faithfulness in hope and truth and love. the grandfather stopped, the grandson sat thinking and then asked, which wolf wins, grandfather? and the grandfather replied, the one you feed. thank you. connie. [ applause ] >> standing here watching sherrod speak it occurred to me i should make one wish for all of you. may all of you be so fortunate and smart to marry your hero, because i did. he said he did, too. nice. well played. sherrod talked about the importance of the long view in your lives. i want to bring it down to what you can do st

he is a one-time winner on the getting the win in watkins glen, new york.in wisconsin on another road course today. not a smooth pit-stop for sam hornish. danica patrick moved in front and held the lead. patrick running fourth when she was hit from behind. that spun patrick into the gravel and rather than the top- five finish she came in 12th. nelson piquet, jr. held the lead and held off-the-field for a win. words exchanged between the pit crews. piquet is the son of former formula run racer nelson pic yet sonar. >>> fred inglis was along those who got to experience the so- turn 1.9-mile sonoma circuit firsthand. >> perfect fit. >> what are you expecting? >> i'm expecting to go real fast. i'm just hoping to hang on. what is your best advice for me. >> while you are ride handwriting in there, biggest thing to do is strengthen the neck muscles. if you are not doing that you will have the bobble head effect. you hit every blue and yellow marker around here. is that the intention to kind of cut this track in half? >> yes, that is the total innocent. you want c

. >> reporter: in the watkins court apartment complex, folks watch out for each other's children. >> i love all these kids. >> reporter: they sit and chat with their neighbors. >> every holiday, we got something going on. >> reporter: so the news that there was a 10-year-old girl trapped in a closet inside this apartment and no one knew hit hard. >> i have been here three years and never seen a child. >> if i knew the baby was up there, i would have went and got the baby myself. >> she's in a very serious situation. >> reporter: the jackson county prosecution shared details about the horrible conditions. >> not only was the door barricaded from the outside, but there were shoe strings or some string that was bound around the two knobs of the doors. she obviously had defecated multiple times, and the urine, i'm told, hard to bear. >> reporter: she weighs just 32 pounds, less than half what she should for her age. >> she was very dirty and upkept, but amazingly as children end to to surprise all of us, she had very good spirits. >> police say that the mother had two other children, and

ed watkins family drop up from richmo richmond. is there anybody special you want to see later? >> tiger woods. >> reporter: are you a big fan? >> yeah. >> reporter: there is also hundreds of volunteers. this group of 40 foster kids brought in by the tiger woods foundation. >> they've never been on a golf course, never been to a place as lovely as think. and tiger woods is every youngman's idol, even if they don't follow golf. for them it's an exciting time. >> reporter: it was warm yesterday, but scheduled to be even hotter today. here are a few stats that might surprise you. the concession stands here will sell an estimated 3,000 cases of water. shovel out 100,000 pounds of ice, or 2500 bags, serve 20,000 hot dogs, and 10,000 hamburgers by the end of the weekend. because of heat, water is on special. >> we dropped the price from $3 to $2, so it will be a hot item. >> reporter: on tom of that they have misting stations. >> feel good? >> yeah, this is better than being out on the course right now. >> reporter: be sure to check on parking. you cannot park here and cannot get drop

i'm joined by joe watkins, former white house aide in the george h.w. bush administration.gist and deputy campaign manager to john kerry in 2004. gentlemen, good morning. >> good to be here. >> here we have, steven, in an election about the economy. it was supposed to be an ace in the hole, yet you have the business poll, overall negative ratings back to an all-time high of 39%. some democrats didn't like it, but are the bain attacks working, do you think? >> the obama campaign is right fully challenging that record and putting the facts on the table and it is working. i think one of the downsides is romney is not that well known yet. the american people, the swing voters don't know much about him and the obama campaign is giving them new information and when they get that new information, they are not informed. >> that's an interesting point. what you don't want to do is let your opponent, joe, define you before you get to define yourself. and steve is right. if you look at the battleground states which we polled a dozen of them, it grows to 8 percentage points. what do yo

years -- everyone from presidents clinton and bush, to secretary of defense leon panetta, to james watkins, the former chief of u.s. naval operations, secretary of energy, and chair of the commission on oceans policy. so, it's clear that no country has more to gain from this treaty than the united states. important meetings are already underway to draw up the rules that are flowing from the convention. the u.s. has an empty seat waiting for us at the table. we need to fill it. after all, america has never been content to sit back and let others make decisions that could affect our security, our economy, or our environment. the benefits of this treaty are too great to ignoreespecially at this crucial moment in our recovery. we should act now. finally, it's commencement season. so i think it's appropriate to close by saying that we need to inspire the next generation to understand, explore and protect our waters in the decades that lie ahead. about a mile from here, in d.c.'s crime museum, noaa just opened a new exhibit on the 40th anniversary of the marine mammal protection act. as you know

the watkins family drove up from richmond. anybody special you want to see later?tiger woods. >> reporter: are you a big fan? >> yeah. >> reporter: but there are also hundreds of volunteers. this group of 40 foster kids brought in by the tiger woods foundation. >> never been on the golf course and they've never been to a place as lovely as this and tiger woods, every young man's idol even if they don't follow golf, they know tiger woods. for them, it is an exciting time. >> reporter: it was a warm one yesterday and scheduled to be even hotter today. here are a few stats that might surprise you. the concession stands here will sell an estimated 3,000 cases of water. shovel out 100,000 pounds of ice or 2,500 bags and serve 20,000 hot dogs and 10,000 hamburgers by the end of the weekend because of the heat, water is on special. >> we dropped the price from $3 to $2. going to be a hot item today. >> reporter: on top of that, now they have misting stations pretty much everywhere. feel good? >> this is much better than being out on the course right now. >> reporter: if y

watkins, a professor at syracuse university, wrote on the website, your black world, quote, shackles, 400 years while experiencing the most horrific atrocities imaginable? i am offended by these shoes. there is nothing funny about the prison industrial complex which is the most genocidal thing to happen to the black family since slavery, itself. in a statement to msnbc adidas said, quote, the design of the js roundhouse mid is nothing more than the designer jeremy scott's outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery. what does your gut tell you? are these sneakers offensive? go to facebook.com/news nation to cast your vote. that does it for this edition of "news nation." i'm tamron hall. i look forward to coming to work tomorrow because i can't wait to see what you say about those sneakers. i like comg just one. martin bashir is up next. ...the united states would be on that list. in 25th place. let's raise academic standards across the nation. let's get back to the head of the class. let's solve this. just $14.99. start with soup, salad and cheddar bay bis

>> bubba watkins back there dancing in the green room. >> and that leads us down the path of unhealthyrage,.1 slices of pizza per serving. >> yum yum. >> in many ways, charlie, pizza is the perfect food. think of how many food groups you covered. >> we're working hard! >> i love your show. >> i'm awful sorry, mr. baldwin. >> a lot of people don't want to be in a room with him. not very smart, mr. baldwin. not very smart. >> slow start but i knew that -- >> the miami heat are once again nba champions. >> this is probably the happiest day of my life. this is a dream come true for me. >> you can now feel that i am the best player in the world because i won the title. you agree with all that? >> yeah, pretty much so. i mean -- yeah. what can you say? >> there we go. we're all done. nice to see you. >> lebron james captures that elusive title he so desperately mashed potatoes and gravy. mac 'n cheese... mashed potatoes and gravy! mac 'n cheese. [ male announcer ] now you don't have to pick a side. buy any kfc 10 pc meal or larger and choose two more large sides free. today tastes so good. k

so right now i am really happy to be joined by the "liquidated," a friend lawrence lessik, sharon watkins, enron whistle blower and co-author of "power failure" and cnbc contributor dan dicker. great to have you all here. good morning. what do you make of the dim ond episode. he kind of turned to say we had all these shave checks in place, nothing deeper here to look into, no cultural examination, we're not going to think about how jp morgan does business. >> i think what's so interesting about jpmorgan's testimony aside from demonstratie ining nationag innateness, i by what was so crucial about his testimony was that he linked finance to productive hedging. linked it to actual risk litigation, when nask most of the-actually have nothing to do with hedging risks. >> the key story he said is, look, we have this unit of the business, and it was just trying to balance risks, it wasn't trying to generate huge revenues. but if you actually look at what it was done, what it was done was try -- balancing risk on one hand, making a big bet on a certain outcome is another. and as someone who has w

presidents clinton and bush to secretary of defense leon panetta, a californian from the coast, james watkins, a great figure in my life, former chief of u.s. naval operations, u.s. secretary of energy, and the chair of the commission on the oceans policy. so it is clear that no country has more to gain from this treaty than does the u.s. important meetings were already under way to draw up the rules that are flowing from the convention. the u.s. has an empty seats waiting for us at the table. we need to fill it. after all, america has never been content to sit back and let others make decisions that could affect our security, our economy, or our environment. the benefits of this treaty are too great to ignore, especially at this crucial moment in our recovery. we should act now. so finally, it is commencement season. we all know that. most of us know it or are affected in some way by it. so i think it is appropriate to close by saying that we need to inspire the next generation to understand, explore, and protect our waters in the decades that lie ahead. and nbc's crime museum noaa just open

to continuing as champions of the annual congressional women's softball team. 7:00 tomorrow night, watkins recreation center, come on out, encourage your staff. this year it's $10 entry fee, but it raises money for the young survival coalition which is an organization that raises awareness and supports young survivors of breast cancer, and i will just conclude by thanking all the members and staff as a breast cancer survivor myself and a young one at that, it is so personally and deeply meaningful to me that the congressional family is always so supportive of the women members. and thank you to my congressional sisters. you guys are awesome. mrs. emerson: i want to thank martha roby for making our average go way, way down. with that, mr. chairman, we yield back. the chair: without objection, two-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 3 printed in house report 112-539 by the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will re

. >> cans watkins, national academy of housing.ne of the things that we are in courage in is the moving to work housing authorities around the country have a lot more flexibility as many of you here know. in terms of what they do with their funds and how they co-mingle and mix their funds and using vouchers and public housing funds together. and, in working with housing authorities like columbus georgia right next to ford hanning, san diego with rick gentry out there with what he is doing with a naval bases and other moving to work housing authorities that are near large installations like this. i guess my question is, are the groups up on the stage, had they looked at this overlay for example of the moving to work housing authorities and how close they are too to which installations and then the next being the 160,000 or whatever the figure is of returning veterans and more. are they coming back, some of them or many of them, to the sites where many of them trained and stayed over the years through different assignments? >> i will