And waiste. This is 30 thank you. Were thrilled to be here today. Before we go further. Jonathan small. Oklahoma council of government affairs. John richardson. Director at gold waeter institute. Let me say actors dream of being on broadway, musicians dream of going to card gi haul. Im living mine by being on cpac. I expose and battle against cronyism. I thought it would be fun you see young activist out there. I thought it would be fun to kick it off with the panel. One of the examples of government waste you have encountered. Anyone who wants to take that. Theres so much, its hard to wrap your arms around one thing. The last two years, the most outrageous one the amount of money the department of Homeland Security paid over a three year up to 308 billion was paid of taxpayer money to stay at home and not work because they had disciplinary actions and under its 370 days to do that. 380 billion went to pay people to have up to in one case two years on the payroll without coming to work
And waiste. This is 30 thank you. Were thrilled to be here today. Before we go further. Jonathan small. Oklahoma council of government affairs. John richardson. Director at gold waeter institute. Let me say actors dream of being on broadway, musicians dream of going to card gi haul. Im living mine by being on cpac. I expose and battle against cronyism. I thought it would be fun you see young activist out there. I thought it would be fun to kick it off with the panel. One of the examples of government waste you have encountered. Anyone who wants to take that. Theres so much, its hard to wrap your arms around one thing. The last two years, the most outrageous one the amount of money the department of Homeland Security paid over a three year up to 308 billion was paid of taxpayer money to stay at home and not work because they had disciplinary actions and under its 370 days to do that. 380 billion went to pay people to have up to in one case two years on the payroll without coming to work
Straighter Peter Neffenger testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on alleged misconduct at the agency this is about two hours and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the meeting on government and oversight reform will come together. Without objection, we will reconvene at any time. The public comes in regular contact with Transportation Security Administration, we have a fairly new administration who has had a chance to visit with, but it is important as the Oversight Committee that we continue to take a look at what is happening or not happening. What is not happening at the tsa. Today we will have a second hearing examining the misconduct and Management Practices that we have heard about, seeing about, and investigated at the Transportation Security Administration. This time of year traveling public picks up kids and families and people are traveling, sometimes at record levels. People get frustrated, they go to airports, there are long lines, there ar
You, senator. Youre now recognized sen to senator from tennessee. Can you tell me how many tsa employees make a hundred thousand or more a year . I will have to get that for you. Can you make a rough guess . I can make a rough guess. I dont really know, sir. Let me ask this, do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i have restrict it had number of bonus that is we do. I will get you the exact number but it was a significant smaller number and based upon performance, not based upon special act awards. Can you tell me, have you personally fired any employee tsa employees for misconduct or rudeness or incompetence since youve been in the office . There have been a number of people who have been fired from the agency at all levels. I came in and one of my first tasks was to determined what my agency looked like. I hold my leaders and demanded and i am confident of my team and im confident of team to help lead that team. Today i have been satis
Eer. H. And if anybody pops up in any category, it allows you to take a harder look at them which we do. We go back to the Intelligence Community and to the fbi and we do a scrib on those individuals. We have the methods, there is higher level of sensibility here, allowing these folks to actually work inside of secure areas . Yes, sir. That was exactly the question i had about that. Ive been working closely with director comey and the National Counterterrorism center to mr. Roth, you did a great job on the screening tests the a the big airports and you know, we had, we have very high failure rate the last time of that test. And i know, im not sure of enough time has gone by to allow admiral neffenger to sort of adopt a new protocol among the screeners. Has that happened yet . Have you done any new tests to take a measurement how were doing . Sure, what weve done is two things. One is a natural followup we would do any audit. For example, with regard to the Penetration Testing we have r