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Department of health and Human Services. Mr. Todd park is the chief Technology Officer of the United States. Roekel is the chief Information Officer of the United States. Rules, asuant to the many of you will see, i was asked that you rise to take a sworn oath. Please raise your right hands. Do you swear or from the testimony you are about to give away the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth . But the record reflect that all answers all answered in the affirmative. This is a large panel. It is going to be a long day. Witnesses will be asked questions by both sides of the aisle. I would ask that since your Opening Statements are placed in the record verbatim that you adhere to the time clock and come to a halt as quickly as possible when its red. Yellow is not an opportunity to start a new subject. It is an opportunity to wrap up. With that, we will go to our distinguished guests, mr. Pounder. We appreciate the opportunity. O testify in july, i testified before the Sub Committ
Memoir, american turnaround reinventing at t and gm and the way we do business in the usa. Its a candid and unflinching look at American Business and i had a difficult time in a period that would result went through. And yet the book is also very optimistic about Corporate America and america in general. Welcome. Guest thank you, stephanie. Its nice to be your. Host he became chairman of General Motors immediately after the company filed for bankruptcy. You came out of retirement to take the job. Why did you do it . Guest i became chairman when he came out of bankruptcy. The day came out of bankruptcy. Its a good question why i took a. Because when first asked i said no, i know nothing about the car business. I can drive on. I can start one. And i was retired from at t and i was in sort of late 60s, but i kept talking to Steve Rattner it was the car czar. He kept talking about public service. I kept thinking about how my family had owned General Motors all my life. I drove one. What a
Public hospitals. The idea we just can do that with Public Education is hypocrisy. But people make the argument we shouldnt take the money out of the system but take that money and invest in the failing schools to make them better. This makes no sense because we dont use that logic in any other part of our life. If you went to a dry cleaner down the street and of every 10 shirts seven came back with a burn mark what would you do . You would stop going what is the people said you cannot stop giving us your business because we need your money to invest in new equipment to train our employees and if you take your business the way we cannot do that. What would you say . You would say now with my shirts. If were willing to take that much care with our laundry shouldnt we take at least that much care with our kids and not be willing to say lets continue to invest in the things that has failed and hope that maybe someday it might get better but meanwhile our kids are not learning how to read