camp from michigan. he s retiring at the end of the this year as you all know and we re going to lose a tremendous talent in dave camp. but when he got together to take on the most ambitious reform of the tax code that i have seen in my lifetime, he said let s see if we can get the corporate income tax rate down to kind of that oecd country average, kind of that world international average. let s see if we can get in there with everybody else. that s striking to me because it is the best effort, again, that i have seen in my lifetime, and it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle, if we can be mediocre. i don t know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. well, that s the way they do it in europe. how it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look around at what everybody else is doing and say let s be the same. i don t want to be
official responsible for the land-searder we are moving toward in general a risk-based strategy to homeland security. perhaps the most notable example of that is t.s.a. t.s.a. has t.s.a. precheck. a lot of people here are a member of t.s.a. precheck, i m sure. submit some information on background. you get to the airport, there s a shorter line. less aviation security screening when you get there. it enables us to free up resources to devote toward the class of individuals we know ess about at the airports. popular has become with the public. it s the agency of the the government that the public deals with the most. at the same time we ve developed and grown t.s.a. precheck. it s an amazing fact i like to repeat to audiences. just in the first three months of calendar year 2014. t.s.a. has seized from the carry-orn luggage of aviation passengers people getting ready to get on the airplane that you carry-on firearms in luggage including 1,471 of which were loaded, over 3,000
drill further down into the deficiencies that have been revealed in the secret service s policies and procedures, as well as any deficiencies with the physical security at the white house. in particular, i am interested in discussing how the service intends to improve security at the white house when, as was true on september 19th, the president or other protectees, are not present. a month after omar gonzalez was able to enter the white house, another fence jumper was quickly apprehended by secret service officers, including the k-9 unit. it is my hope that this incident shows that the service has already implement reforms. however, the gonzalez fence jumper is just one of many events in the past few years that call into question whether the u.s. secret service is doing all it can to fulfill its mission and prevent mistakes. others include the colombian prostitution scandal. the recent ability of a security guard with a criminal history to take a service webben into an eleva
now today s house oversight committee. secret service hearing with the head of the secret service joseph clancy. congressman joseph chaffetz of utah chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reforma come to order. without objection. without objection the chair chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. appreciate everybody being here. reforming the united states secret service is not a partisan issue. ranking member cummings and i have presented a united front on this issue and i look forward to continuing this important work with him on both sides of the aisle. the most important mission for the secret service is protecting the president and his family however a litany of recent mishaps to raise major concerns. in 2011 nobody recognized shots were fired at the white house until bullets were discovered by maintenance staff. it has been well publicized the secret servi
has gone on, diplomatic for example, and as part of a lot of international forums. our government is trying to adopt some norms to get the chinese to go along with them. but it is my function the fbi s to understand what they re doing, develop the factings and then show our government here s what we see. i understand, you know, that the cyber threat is real and i think congress and the american people are recognizing that it s real and it s clear and present danger. i hope we re doing everything that we can as members of congress to provide your agency as well as others with the resources to counter this threat. because not just illegally downloading music but it s of huge fear that if they engage in some form of cyber attack that it could cripple our critical infrastructure. the last thing i would want to see the the lights go out and your atm doesn t work, your navigation on your car and phone. i think it would cause a huge amount of panic in our country. you also mention