The subcommittee on oversight investigations will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting to hear testimony examining decades of data manipulation at the United States geological survey. Under Committee Rule 4 f, any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman of the ranking minority member. Therefore, i would ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements will be made part of the hearing record if theyre submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. I will now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Today, well be examining decades of data manipulation that occurred within the the u. S. Geological surveys as well as failure to take corrective measures. Usgs is considered to be the Gold Standard as scientific integrity and reliability. That image has now been indeliliably stained. Incredibly, this committee has learned usgs had shut down the lab from the i. G. Months after it happened. In 2015, the
The subcommittee on oversight investigations will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting to hear testimony examining decades of data manipulation at the United States geological survey. Under Committee Rule 4 f, any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman of the ranking minority member. Therefore, i would ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements will be made part of the hearing record if theyre submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. I will now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Today, well be examining decades of data manipulation that occurred within the the u. S. Geological surveys as well as failure to take corrective measures. Usgs is considered to be the Gold Standard as scientific integrity and reliability. That image has now been indeliliably stained. Incredibly, this committee has learned usgs had shut down the lab from the i. G. Months after it happened. In 2015, the
Engineering as a focus area or something we should spend more time on. Im actually going to go to rob first just from an industry perspective, i mean, thats i will give you the first crack at it and if anybody else wants to weigh in briefly, happy great. I will be quick. Cyber security is a top priority and security across the board for that matter, but cyber is one of the big big issues we are paying a lot of attention to. Its a continuous, you know, challenge because the enemy gets better, weve got to get better, they get better, weve got to get better and we are continuing to try to keep that advantage versus what our adversaries are doing to basically steal our technology. So its at the forefront of what were doing every day. I would also say that theres an element of taking the fight to the enemy, if you will, that offensive cyber. So you dont want to just be playing defense all the time. And there are things that are happening that will keep them playing some defense. I will leav
She buffered access to the president as he recovered from a massive stroke in 1919. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. U. S. Geological survey Deputy Director testified recently on cases data manipulation at the agency between 1996 and 2014. An internal investigation on of a laboratory in lakewood, colorado confirmed the misconduct and also identified personnel and management problems. The subcommittee on oversight investigation will come to order. The subis to hear decades of data manipulation at the United States geological survey. Under Committee Rule 4f, any oral statements are limited to the ranking minority member. I ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. I will now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Today well be examining decades of data manipulation that occurred within the u
100,000 in construction and due to the Housing Market rebounding. And if retail gains holdover of christmas. Personally i dont want to go too far in the direction of, wow, this is great. This is where i dont want to use the word great but saying when you say more people confident. Confident. Yeah. This is still very, very slow job recovery. Still fewer than five years ago and fewer americans employed than ten years ago and some retirement but i think the fact is we know were stable now and dont quite know how we get to that point where were more than stable. Right. And we know to keep everything in perspective, the Unemployment Rate has ticked up 7. 9 so that keeps anyone from, you know, being too confident. Thats because more people looking for jobs and not more yeah. The number goes up there. Keith, the headline, i think the Huffington Post said here we are within a tick up of the employment rate and then 28 days from now, austerity measures or sequestration. The timing of all of thi