gets used for corporations and the wealthy. that s not a guess, by the way. that is the way the republican budget ^+budget is structured. that s their budget numbers. awful it to lower all of it to lower tax rates for corporations and the rich. they re willing to spread the wealth around, as long as it stays in the same hands. we re at the gates of ali baba s cave, this special treasure-trove of earmarks for the rich and connected. we re at that place where the lobbyistists queel the special x deals. we re knocking on the door of tax spending that has been completely untouched, completely untouched in the deficit reduction so far. and our republican colleagues are getting a little twitchy. come on, fellahs. out of nearly $14 trillion in tax spending and earmarks, can t we put just 7% of it, just 7% of it toward the debt and the deficit? our proposal is to leave 93% of the treasure in the cave. that s not unreasonable. what s unreasonable, what s unbalanced is the republican
so, ladies and gentlemen, and congressman, thank you very much for that conversation. here s how we re going to proceed for the remainder of our our. we will engage in a short and brief conversation up here. i ve a couple of questions i m going to pick up on based on your comments this morning and then we will open the microphone for questions from the floor. so be thinking about the questions that you want to ask and when the time comes we ll ask you to raise your hand and do our usual procedure of wait for the microphone and identify your identify yourself. let me start out with a couple thoughts of your very useful description of both while you re doing what you re doing and what you hope to do. there s a lot on worth the effort peace if you will. i think he made the case very strongly for why it s important or critical. it s a little harder though to talk about the possibilities, not necessary the possibilities of undertaking the effort of the possibilities of achievi
evening will be rebroadcast saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern time on booktv on c-span2. this weekend booktv is live in florida for the miami book fair international. coverage kicking off saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two c-span2. coming up on c span two tonight debate on the sexual assault in the military. then the georgetown law center exam congressional proposal to change nsa surveillance programs. that s followed by a hearing examining how security clearances are granted. on the next washington journal, pennsylvania congressman discusses the health care law. the senate this week is working on the 2014 defense program bill. senator kristin jill brand s amendment would remove decision on sexual assault prosecutions from military commanders and give them to military lawyers. senator claire mccaskill decision keep them with the military chain of command but add more oversight responsibilities to the chief. in this hour, the two senators describe their pos
mrs. gillibrand: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mrs. gillibrand: i rise today to speak about my amendment to the national defense authorization act, an amendment known as the bipartisan military justice improvement act. i want to start by thanking my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their strong and unwavering leadership on behalf of our brave men and women in uniform. i could not be more proud of the bipartisan work that has been done to do the right thing. i want to thank senator reid, senator booker, senator heller, our three most recent supporters of our bill. i want to thank them for scored scored for their leadership to end the scourge of sexual violence in the military. i want to thank the senator from missouri for her unwavering commitment for helping victims of sexual assault. although we disagree on my amendment, i want to remind all our colleagues that the defense auth
is that not typically a question you would ask? well or. it s like this. if you design a part for a car, you know your part s working, would you like to know that the car works? absolutely. that s what i m asking you, would you have liked to have known your system worked, is that correct? well, that would be correct. ms. bauer? yes. okay. are these controls embedded in the applications at the direction of cms? they were assessed, but, yes, they were embedded, configuration changes would be made based on controls. and at what point of the phase should security controls begin to be embedded into the application? at the production phase. generally, when we test, we re assuming we re looking at the production-ready version of the application, and then we apply those cms security controls we talked about and assess those against the production-ready version. they em belledded into the architecture of healthcare.gov? the overall cms enterprise security