efficiency of federal employee background checks. the oversight reform committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employee s personal information. this hearing is about 2.5 hours. committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. appreciate you all being here. we have very important hearing. we have a number of members that i m sure will be here, but it will be late. there is the national prayer breakfast and getting across town at this point of the day is a difficult task. nevertheless, glad to have you here and look forward to this important hearing. two years ago, the office of personnel management suffered one of the most damaging data breaches in the history of the federal government. this went on for some time and we still, there are still additional details that need to be learned. but the counterintelligence value of the data that was stol
who is going to pay for the detectors, the kind he was talking about. how much money do you need to put these? well, that s a difficult question to answer. i would suggest that the government fund these research projects like these drive through por holes that we could see that could detect nur rons at the same time. we re invested at my particular board working with dndo and a company to develop a state of the art detection system in the port of boston. there is definitely money needed to fund the programs. they are a federally mandated system. dr. flint is willing to put 10 to $15 on the container. we are looking to spend $3.5 billion for a missile defense system for the east coast to deal with your rainian iran nuclear weapons, which presumably aren t going to be available for some decades. thank you mr. chairman. i yield. thank you. as you said, they scan less than 1% of u.s. bound cargo. do you believe that scanning at the point of oregon is 10% effective? or s
we hadn t set fort and secured agreement for this kind of structure then. you did have a number of countries, but a quite small number of countries who had essentially put out press releases saying this is what we re planning to do, but i think you could have counted those on one hand. that was not a large number of countries who did that, so it s a completely different, it s a kpleeptsly different ball game now. and it started with the durbin mandate for this negotiation. which we were instrumental in developing at the end of 2011, where the whole theory of the agreement was that it was going to be applicable to all. it was going to be the not-kyoto. it was going to be everybody. that was the huge, that was the starting point. and then we, as i said, we ve worked through these different structural features along the way. and so fort. a and the impact of the china announcement was significant. the 1997 bird/hagel resolution asserted that the united states should not join an
indicated that we are real into the 80s with probably the u.s. amount i already told you. i don t think this is a huge problem. senator udall? i yield my time to senator boxer. and mr. chairman, here we are again. we have two different venues where we can argue about climate. [ laughter ] and always very pleasant. we re friends. but here we go. i continue to be perplexed by those who wish to obstruct action to reduce carbon pollution. some are deniers, and we ve been through there before. they say they re not scientists and i would agree with them. they ought to be listening to the 97%, 98% of scientists who tell us human action and activities is causing too much carbon pollution. and some just don t seem to grasp the incredible advantages that we have in moving toward clean energy and i m not going to go into it because we re not the environment and public works committee and it s not about public health, but it s so clear that when we do this we also create a tremendo
today, president obama will be giving a speech on the criminal justice system taking place in newark, new jersey. we will have live coverage of his remarks at 4:20 p.m. eastern on c-span2. the house veterans affairs committee will be hearing from speeched witnesses today on alleged misuse of the veterans affairs department program to relocate workers. live coverage on c-span2. all persons having business before the honorable the supreme court of the united states will be admonished to draw near and give their attention. this week on c-span s landmark cases, we will discuss the historic case of schenck versus the united states. in 1917, the united states entered world war i, patriotism was high and some forms of criticism of the government were a federal offense. charles schenck who was general secretary of the philadelphia socialist party handed out and mailed leaflets against the draft. this is the flier that was produced by charles schenck in 1917. 15,000 copies of