such gao veto never existed before.about protecting the authority of elected representatives over unelected agencies. delegating to the unelected gao staff the authority to determine if members of congress can use the cra against agency-submitted rules turns the statute completely on its head. my democrat colleagues say our actions today undermine the legislative filibuster. that is simply not true. i support the legislative filibuster. i have supported the legislative filibuster as a senator in the majority and as a senator in the minority. the congressional review act, which was passed with the legislative filibuster in place has stood since 1996, providing a narrow exception to the senate's normal practice of extended debate. it applies only to allow for disapproval of federal agency rules, and only during a prescribed time defined by the statute. deciding to retain the 30-year-old practice of allowing the use of cra procedures against agency-submitted rules, we are not expanding any authority to enact laws by a simp

maroney joined gao in 2004. mr. john hart is ceo of open the books, mr. hart is a veteran of capitol hill having served in the late u.s. representative and senator tom coburn's long time communications director and co-author. mr. hart helped enact landmark transparency legislation to put federal spending online. mr. ron kendall is the national chairman emeritus and previously served at senior roles in the federal government including within gsa's public building service. again, i want to thank you all for being here to testify today. pursuant to committee rule 9g, the witnesses will please stand and raise their right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing, but the truth, so help you god? let the record show that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you, you may take a seat. we appreciate you being here today and i look forward to your testimony. let me remind the witnesses that we have read your written statements and they will appear in full in the hearing reco

gao later did a revision of that gao report, the initial report, and they revised that number significantly downward. they also said that this should not be, it's a little bit contradictory on their part, but they said this should not be interpreted as a definitive figure. but again, happy to provide those details because i know the republican side kept quoting that $500 billion figure over 10 years, but even gao is not standing by that. >> the question also has to be asked, why are house republicans jumping through hoops to try to cut medicaid, the health care of the american people, and cut nutritional assistance? it's all in service of enacting massive tax breaks for their billionaire maga donors like elon musk. the simple approach here mathematically is just to eliminate the tax breaks that you are trying to enact as it relates to your extreme mega -- maga republican donors. and then you don't have to consider cutting medicaid. you do not have to consider cutting snap. you do not have to consider cutting educational or housing benefits that the american people have earned and come to re

gao also issued a decision that held that a different pot of money omb in the exact thing we that itput a hold on the dod money, omb photo hold on the money under the state funding gao said the underlying statute is different. does president soa on the money it was keeping with the authority granted under the statute and that's not the kind of thing it could trigger so that is about apportionment and i don't think anybody challenge that so what i really think is through the lens of ordinary statutory interpretation, the simplest version until these cases came up makes a strong institutional argument taking all the cases out, i think that is where they would make it rather than the affirmative. >> he would not send the preparation and the ruling on this was hard to understand and they do not declare it in my guess is the trump people were. >> and you got to look at the statute. >> appropriations bill. >> i want to thank our panel is for joining us, it's really important we understand political and legal aspect of this. in the public debate and they are very long so thank you all. >> w

gao prisons whether the submitted action was, in fact -- in fact a rule, that's a law, that's a gao responsibilitygao has weighed in about 60 times in the history of the congressional review act. when gao determined that the action involved was a rule, the action was then deemed submitted and the review clock started. when gao determined the action was not a rule, that was the end of it. congress stood down. no one -- no one moved a cra resolution of disapproval following a negative finding by the gao. never. which brings us to this first oddity. in 2023, members asked gao whether an epa the clean air act waivered decision for california was a federal rule for purposes of the cra. gao said no. correctly because it wasn't. like every other time that settled that. and gao's no comported with the text of the cra and the waiver provision originally in the clean air act that created the california exception and 50 years of agency precedent treating waivers as decisions, a different type of adjudication, which the demonstrator proceed -- administrator's procedure act -- epa itself, across multiple admin

so what the gao did here was not unprecedented. what was unprecedented was for the house to send over a document claiming, falsely according to the parliamentarian, that the waiver is in fact a rule under the cra and to blame the gao or the parliamentarian for that is to mistake the referee from the player who committed the foul. the foul here is pretending that a waiver is a rule and both the gao and the parliamentarian independently blew the whistle on that foul. those are the facts. mr. thune: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. thune: i yield back all time. the presiding officer: all time is yielded back. mr. thune: i make a point of order that points of order are in order under the congressional review act, given sections 802d-is 882-d-2 and 8823-d-4 are in conflict with peach other. the presiding officer: the senate has previously considered this question. therefore, the the question under the provisions of rule 20, submits the question to the senate for its decision. shall points of order be in o

last september the subcommittee with the help of gao created a scorecard to track dod's progress towards achieving the audit opinion. rather than continuing to say that dod doing a good job towards achieving the audit. they were in fact on the road and i think we were here today to fix not only those things that are internally imperative to this, but good ideas from certain elements within dod that are taking the lead. twenty, 28. it is and should remain the goal of the subcommittee. today we plan to discuss the progress that dod made and the challenges they face. as his new administration planning for the future it will be be imperative of what the department has been, where it needs to go and what is standing in the way. we are unveiling the new section of the scorecard that focuses on fraud and risk management. for many years i'm very excited to see a new method to track progress in the areas of peer care meant and contracting. in these systems were critical if we were going to get to where we wanted to go with the clean audit. dod by december 2028. significant progress by 2026. engag

going to the gao was nothing out of the ordinary. in fact, it was exactly what both parties have done when adjudicating this issue for decades. there are senators serving in this chamber, republicans and democrat, who have made use of the exact same process by going to the gao. there have been more than 20 different opinions delivered by the gao at the request of republican senators and members of congress in the last three decades, more than 20 times. and in the cases where the gao found that the cra may not apply, this expedited process may not apply, that decision has stood. they did not move forward and respected the rulings of the gao and the parliamentarian until now. so what does all of this money? what it -- all of this mean? what it means is california established clean air are standards. it was given a waiver under the clean air act to do so. it has done so for decades. those standards have been adopted voluntarily by other states. and as a result, in california and many other states, we have cleaner air to breathe. until n

the administration says it's a rule that gao has said it is not.he united states senate will be heard from on this issue tomorrow . to do something that will avoid again what i think that a lot of people across the country think will be a catastrophic outcome and evening mandate would be imposed across the united states. we have already repealed to the congressional review act biden summit regulations. that is what we will do with that issue the biden california mandate sometime later this week. probably tomorrow or the other good news this week is the democrats allowed us to get on and start to debate the genius act. we are very excited about the opportunityy to actually do something that's incredibly meaningful to people across this country to consumers, issuers and to ensure this a regulatory framework in place and the leaders on that have been senators by the genius bill will go to senator barrasso, senator cap pacheco. quick center thank you for thank you leader thune and i would like to say to everyone i look for to making history hopeful thi

and gao doesn't even get involved.ly, gao broke its own legal opinion to now declare it's an order. why would they do that? well, to prevent this congress from speaking to that rule. it would no longer be under the congressional review act. i told you this was technical. but this was a fascinating little plot that went from 2022 all the way to the present to try to figure out how to get an electric vehicle mandate in america without ever having a vote in congress. it was slick. it was well shaped. except it was dependent on one thing -- gao breaking its own legal opinion. i happened to call the leadership at gao, just last week, i said, as far as you know, has gao ever, ever declared something not a rule when the agency said it was a rule? and after a moment of silence, he responded, as far as i know, gao has always deferred to the age agencies, until now. they literally broke their own policy. they literally violated their own legal counsel. so, now we're in a quandary. gao has broken their own legal counsel. we have

places in government which have got good ideas about how to become more efficient, for example the gao, the government. accountability office pushes out a list every year or two of hundreds of programs and areas where they can uh where the government can work more efficiently and save money and they have been doing this day in and day out for years, and the problem is not that the lack of ideas for for saving money, the problem is that congress has not in most cases taken up, it's taken up some of them, but it has not fully embraced this kind of agenda, and one of... the reasons i feel that this is such a disappointing effort is that the with the impetus of someone like ilan musk having the ear of the president if he had sat down with civil servants with the gao with the inspector generals and helped to lift up some of their best ideas and bring them forward to congress, there could have been some better traction around the cost saving agenda, but that just wasn't the approach at all, the approach was to knock down, not... to lift up and i couldn't agree more with betsy that you have s

khan is the director of gao, and we look forward to hearing from you today, and we ask that each of you would stand pursuant to 9g. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is it the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record reflect that each of the witnesses has answered in the affirmative. we appreciate each of you being here today. and appreciate also that the testimony -- you may be seated, thank you. we appreciate that the testimony you give today would be along the line of making sure that this subcommittee hears you fully with that said, we normally stand five minutes. i have notified each of you that if it takes you six or seven minutes, we are all years. we want you to make sure you are given the time so that this subcommittee hears from each of you. as a reminder, the buttons that are in front of you, if and then we would be able to hear you. i recognize distinguished lieutenant adams for his opening statement. lt. adams: thank you today for the opportunity to appear before you. it's an honor to represent

said they were on the high risk list, the gao, not doug collins, the gao said that and they renew that every year . in fact february we got our last needs improvement and also high risk. and the answer is simply been many times to just let's just add more and add a little money and add this to it to see if we get any better. it's not worked. many things of what we tried so far when it comes to the workforce and what we're doing is not helping chaos but freeing up our claims adjusters to do their job, to give them tools . i found the department that could not tell me how many employees we had, it took a week and a half, whereas oversight that on that ? i think an organization that looks at it from a perspective of we've been looking at mission pack act which is being implemented, all those that have put together rather quickly we're getting is underway and in fact the numbers are good in the sense that we have 6 million over 6 million exposure screens, united 985,404 total enrollees healthcare, assignment law that's over a two-year and over 6 million disability claims approved. when we

just to let you see, the gao said it was on the high risk list. the gao, not doug collins. they have renewed that every year. february we got our last needs improvement. the answer is simply, let's just add more. add a little money to this to see if we get any better. it has not worked. it is freeing up our doctors and our nurses to do their jobs and give them the tools. i found the department they could not tell me how many employees we actually had. where has oversight been on that? i think an organization that looks at it from the perspective and we have been looking at mission act, pact act. we are now getting it underway. the numbers are pretty good. we have had over 6 million exposure screenings. we have added enrollees for health care. when we look at what we have going on, we are addressing as many things as we possibly can. i will also say this. to the ranking member, if we can find common ground, we will attempt to find common ground. you and i came in together. i will commit to that. i'm not saying we will see everything the same but to a v.a. workforce that has

just to let you see, the gao said it was on the high risk list. the gao, not doug collins. they have renewed that every year. february we got our last needs improvement. the answer is simply, let's just add more. add a little money to this to see if we get any better. it has not worked. it is freeing up our doctors and our nurses to do their jobs and give them the tools. i found the department they could not tell me how many employees we actually had. where has oversight been on that? i think an organization that looks at it from the perspective and we have been looking at mission act, pact act. we are now getting it underway. the numbers are pretty good. we have had over 6 million exposure screenings. we have added enrollees for health care. when we look at what we have going on, we are addressing as many things as we possibly can. i will also say this. to the ranking member, if we can find common ground, we will attempt to find common ground. you and i came in together. i will commit to that. i'm not saying we will see everything the same but to a v.a. workforce that has

how is it this has been going on for years and gao has been reporting on it for years? the outrage over doge. barack obama is the one who founded doge. he founded the u.s. digital service when he was president and brought in a bunch of tech pros to come in and deploy them in his words like swat teams across the federal government to make it more efficient. well, they didn't do a very good job. when trump came in and put elon musk in charge of the u.s. digital service they are finding that they didn't fix anything. so they are trying to fix this problem and we should be thankful that elon musk has taken time out of his life and put his other ventures at some risk in order to do this service for the american people. >> shannon: it hasn't been fun to have under constant attack or teslas lit on fire or firebombing at dealerships and yawn guys talking to jesse some have dropped out of school or taken a leave. the most hated men on campus at harvard. they know what they're doing has cost them a life. the vice president said some of these benefits may not be seen until next ye

continues, gao said we have a problem. we've decreased money and benefits. some will say pact act is why we had the money. we are basically giving some of the same money to the same people. they have earned it. i'm a veteran who served under a burn pit for almost five months. these are the areas we have to look at. for anyone out there, i go back to the assessment, where you're cutting 15% of doctors and nurses, which is frankly not helpful to do what we need to do. that is not what we are looking at. frontline workers should be the happiest at the v.a. now because we will be freeing them up to do their job and not getting bogged down with paperwork. >> i hope to see your cfo confirmed soon. i appreciate your focus, outcomes over optics. you have my full support in refocusing the v.a. >> thank you. thank you for being here. the claims you made about the v.a. performance has gotten worse from the previous administration. by many measures, and i want to highlight the great work of the veo, measuring specifically veteran trust scores, which is at an all-time hi

mansa musa constructed mosques and madrasses in timbuktu and gao. of islamic learning from the 13th to the 17th century under the mali. empire. the university of timbuktu is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious universities. ancient timbuktu scripts are still preserved, though they have faced threats of destruction over the last decade. the mali empire declined in the 16th century due to a lack of orderly succession of imperial power, attacks from neighboring states and the collapse of the trans-saharan trade network. however, its legacy can still be seen today in the cultural traditions and sector of west africa. that was a brief description of the mali civilization. thank you for watching and join us next time in the next episode of get to know african civilizations. from me, janat ali, it's goodbye for now. and that brings us to the end of. this week's edition of africa today, it was great having you watch the show and you can watch this episode and all our previous shows on our website pressv.ir from me, mubarak kenya, it's goodbye for

to put the nonpartisan government accountability office gao discovered $2,024,162,000,000,000 in improperlion in improper payments and take a look at this in a dramatic improvement over the year before with $236 billion in improper payments. and what we are finding out is standing here. where was this tax payer money going without checks and balances? >> this is not what hardworking americans trying to provide their families want their money to be used for going out into outer space not literally but flying away. every time i think about the gao, that guy in the bathtub with wine glass celebrating and you are thinking, why was i paying for that? it is not something someone would want to be paying for. people know they were something that does not add up and they know how hard it is to pay taxes, rant, put on the table and pay for the gas. there is definitely a feeling people wanted an ability but they wanted it done in a way they feel is methodical and precise. just be when i don't think people are ready for the chicken to go on sale at safeway with billions of dollars going god knows whe

host: you can talk about the role of gao, as well. guest: i have been at gao since 2005ish.g up on 20 years. the government accountability office is a nonpartisan fact based organization. we work at the request of congress, or in certain issues, we use the comptroller general's authority to start working in that vein. this particular work, i mentioned earlier, at the behest of senator cruz, his committee -- the senate committee on transportation, aviation -- they are the ones who requested we do the work. kudos to them. that is how we work. i have been doing work on i.t. and cybersecurity issues for 20 years. more recently, i have been doing audits of the government's legacy system since about 2013. the faa in particular for the past four years. gao has a long history -- i referenced earlier reports from the 1980's and 90's. host: how does the faa air control system compared to other legacy systems in our government? guest: unsurprisingly, the government has a legacy problem. we have reported periodically, most recently in gao 19-471 about the government's most critical syst

the gao, government accountability office issued a report as recently as march to point out that the not been doing enough to keep their system upgraded. it is concerning. >> john: there was an incident we are going from one concern to another, incident at washington's reagan national airport between two flights that had to go around because there was helicopter traffic in the area, how is that still happening after the accident? >> this a lot of questions surrounding that issue. the ntsb is asking that, the faa are asking that, they're all asking that question. whatever happened last week with that is unacceptable but what i will say, there is a good side of that. when the air traffic controller detected this could be a traffic conflict he directed both of those airliners to go around to. it shows that part of the system does work when it needs to. >> john: former ntsb chair robert sumwalt, thank you so much. coming up on "cbs evening news" plus we go in-depth on how the trade war with china is forcing a major u.s. manufacturer to put >> john: american businesses large and the small

the previous administration failed to act and do this themselves despite repeated warnings from the gao which has resulted in unacceptable delays at major airports that the trump ministration is working hard to address. when the bill passes, we will replace the antiquated system, safety will be enhanced in our skies, reduce delays and empower the future of air travel in the us. this is what is just some of this legislation will accomplish. it is essential republicans unite behind the bell and deliver on president trump's gender. there is no time to waste. americans gave republicans a once in a generation opportunity to cause great our country over many rounds over the past four years and americans are counting on republicans to work as hard as president trump is in this white house every day on capitol hill, send this legislation takes task as soon as possible for his signature. here we have the white house correspondent, liam, please kick us. first question on foreign policy, the president has made several moves towards peace and on multiple fronts come up with the houthis, talking wit

more troubling, the gao's actions suggest bias, because left wing bureaucrats at the gao rushed a response in only 13 days to prop up the mandates. how do we know that? they colluded with senate democrats to do so. when republicans challenged the gao observation, senate democrats turn to scare tactics now, about the filibuster. it's ironic, since every senate democrat has either voted for or campaigned on eliminating the filibuster. this senate vote on the california e.v. mandates, it's not about senate rules, mr. president. it's about democrats' delusional dream to eliminate gas-powered vehicles forever. that's what they want. their complaints are a smoke screen to save a pillar of their green new deal. years ago, congress created a fast-track procedure. it was actually 1996. that's when the congress passed the congressional review act. this week, the senate must decide, do we uphold our rights under the congressional review act, or do we give the gao alveto -- a veto over congressional review act, now and forever? our decision is going to shape the future of the congressional review act.

personnel, together with those civilians that had been made ready to land to be evacuated, be moved to the gaoompound and which is near tents of the airport and about 11:00 last night, he ordered the evacuation of all americans from from town to and from the embassy as well. this has this operation has been going on all day, which, of course, is a night in saigon. and the difficult circumstance is and the total number of those evacuated numbers, about 6500. we will have the exact figures for you tomorrow, of which about a thousand are americans. our ambassador left has left and the evacuees can be said to be can be said to be completed. in the period since the president spoke to the congress. we have therefore succeeded in evacuating all of the americans who were in south vietnam, losing only losing the two marines who were. last night to rocket fire and two pilots today on a helicopter. the succeeded in evacuating some. something on the order. of 55,000 south vietnamese. and we hope that we have contributed to a political revolution that may spare the south vietnam some of the more drastic co

i wish i had the gao report.in medicare, sir, so if anything should happen there, we should make sure we can squeeze out waste, fraud, and abuse in medicare. last thing on social security and medicare, we have a real situation that is coming, both programs going solvent in about eight years. going solvent. under federal law, when a program is going solvent, it is automatic 20% off the top. federal law today, not republican or democrat. >> [indiscernible] rep. donalds: we are going to have to reform these programs. regardless of how you vote and regardless of your policies, what we have to be honest about is that these programs have to be reformed. if we put our heads in the sand and want to play politics, everybody remembers the old commercial where someone is throwing another person off a cliff. back in 2005, someone vilified for wanting to touch the program, if we do not do anything, there will be automatic benefit cuts for every senior citizen in the united states. that is highly irresponsible. [crowd yelling]

gao later did revision of the gao report, the initial report and revised the number significantly downward. they also said this should not be a little contradictory underpar and a part of this edition not be interpreted as a definitive figure. but he can happen to provide those details because i know the republican side kept quoting that $500 billion figure over ten years but even gao is standing by that. >> the question also asked we ask him where house republicans jumping through hoops to try to cut medicaid, the health of the american people, and cut nutritional assistance? it's all in service of enacting massive tax breaks for their billionaire maga donors like elon musk. simple approach of mathematica is just to eliminate the tax breaks that you are trying to enact as relates to your extreme maga republican donors. and then you don't have to consider cutting medicaid. you don't have to consider cutting s.n.a.p. you don't have to consider cutting educational or housing benefits that the american people have earned and have come to rely upon. .. mr. hawley, aye. the clerk: ms. warren, n

let's speak to victor gao, vice president of the beijing-based think-thank centre for china and globalisation. what do you make of this deal and where do you think we stand now in terms of trade between china and the us? thank you very much. i think the news from geneva during this weekend, as well as this monday, is absolutely good news. it bodes well for future development of bilateral relations between china and the united states, especially in the trade sector and the economic exchanges and many other areas. now, this announcement which needs to be firmed up in the coming 90 days, still involves a lot of uncertainties and unpredictability. and i hope president trump and his team will stick to what they have already agreed in geneva and faithfully work with the chinese counterparts to make sure that all of the agreements will be ironed out and put into a real treaty or agreement between the two countries. now, another thing i want to say is that this demonstrates that free trade is a good thing for both china and the united states, and ranking up tariffs do not solve the problem and will n

the previous administration failed to act and do this themselves despite repeated warnings from the gao resulted in unacceptable delays for airports like newark, that the trump administration is trying hard to address. when the one big beautiful bill passes, we will replace the antiquated system and f.a.a. will reduce delays and power the future of air travel in the united states. that's just some of what this historic legislation will accomplish. it is absolutely essential that republicans unite behind the one big beautiful bill and deliver on president trump's agenda. there is no time to waste. americans gave republicans a once in a generation opportunity to course correct our country over many wrongs over the past four years. and americans are counting on republicans to work as hard as president trump is in this white house every day on capitol hill. send this legislation to his desk as soon as possible for his signature. here in our media seat we have liam cosgrove. kick us off. >> the first question on foreign policy. >> the president made several moves on multiple infantries, talk

many of the gao recommendation remain open today does the va intent to establish a standard when veterans appointment should occur? >> we have that within the directat care system mainly how quickly we would like veteran to preschool through the community care process. currently is not measured by the community care provider that they've done to the ppa and have different standards not related to the standard that outlines. >> given the how does the department measure access for community care if they do not collectf data on when or if an appointment occurs. >> we collect the data. at this point we use it in two ways with network standards and we use operationally at medical centers to understand how we can assist sites to improve their data and use the data to guide us where we can improve people and process. >> i understand the va cannot fully control when appointments occur but as we send our veterans into the community for care we should have an idea ofce the quality of care that they are receiving and when they areg receiving it. establishing guidelines and metrics would help make su

efficiently as possible forr the previous ministration failed to act despite repeated warnings and gaounacceptable delays at major airports like newark the trump administration is working hard to address. when the one big beautiful bill passes we will replace the antiquated system, the faa will enhance safety in our skies reduce delays in power the future of air travel in the united states. that is just some of what this historic legislation will accomplish. it's absolutely essential that republicans unites behind the one big beautiful bill delivering president trump's agenda. there is no time to waste. americans gave republicans once in a generation opportunity to course correct our country over many wrongs over the past four years americans are counting on republicans to work as hard as president trump is in this white house every day on capitol hill send the legislation to his desk as soon as possible for his signature and art media seat we have white house correspondent for zero heads with that please kick us off. quick thank you karoline. my first question is on foreign policy the

arfons, on this point, gao has also made a number of recommendations to v.a. that identified the need to establish timeliness standards for care received in the community like time frames for when appointment many of -- when appointment many of gao's recommendations remain open today. does the v.a. plan to establish a standard for when the appointment should occur? dr. arfons: we have that in the system, namely how we we would like veterans to be scheduled and referrals processed within our system. currently our network adequacy is not measured by individual peer providers commit is done through tpas, who have different standards that outline those requirements. rep. budzinski: given that, how does the department measure access for community care if they do not collect data on when or if employment occurs? dr. arfons: we do collect that data. at this point we use it in two ways. the f network advocacy standards as we work with tpas to understand performance. we also use it operationally at medical centers to understand how we can assist sites to improve their

look no further than the 2011 and 2017 gao reports on this issue and if it was an urgent priority then, a new headquarters could not be more urgent now. the fbi is in desperate need of a new headquarters. the current building is crumbling with nets to catch falling concrete. i'm glad from your testimony yesterday that you have taken notice of this and you stated in that testimony that the hoover building is simply unsafe for fbi personnel. i completely agree. we also know from gao reports that the hoover building does not meet the security needs of the fbi and that significantly more security requires a setback campus, not one located in the middle of downtown washington, d.c. that is why after a years long process the gsa selected a site for the new headquarters in maryland. that decision was final and it was made clear that it was the best site that met the needs of the fbi. mr. director, i hope that in the coming weeks we can discuss the importance of that new headquarters. i also look forward to hearing how the fbi will be implementing this proposal to relocate up to 904 vacant pos

. >> griff: let's show viewers, in september, gao reported 76 of 138 air traffic control systems were deemed unsustainable and 105 systems were deployed over 20 to 60 years ago. when you consider the magnitude of the problem, can sean duffy turn this around? we are working to get david's connection back. it is really a unbelievable problem because you are talking about something that dates back to literally half a century ago as you look at some of that and carley, you know, you look at the test before secretary sean duffy and you begin to think of all the secretaries in this trump administration, he may have the most daunting task. when you hear things like there are floppy disks still in use, i'm 54 years old and can barely remember when we used floppy disks and you know many of the younger generation are perplexed by this. we're working to see if we can get mr. grizzle back because i think the question that needs to be asked in this conversation is could former transportation secretary buttigieg have done more? did he drop the ball on his watch? it is clear this is not a one-term p

last september the subcommittee with the help of gao created a scorecard to track dod's progress towards achieving the audit opinion. rather than continuing to say that dod doing a good job towards achieving the audit. they were in fact on the road and i think we were here today to fix not only those things that are internally imperative to this, but good ideas from certain elements within dod that are taking the lead. twenty, 28. it is and should remain the goal of the subcommittee. today we plan to discuss the progress that dod made and the challenges they face. as his new administration planning for the future it will

tried make change into a system was that broken and inherently having problems for 10 years, even the gao changes and they want to attack you, tells you have they have interest in keeping it the same. i only have one interest, and that's our veterans. >> lawrence: a lot of veterans cheering you on today. speaking of our veterans, i want to get this message on mohammed honor and remember the illustrate men and women who made the sacrifice. >> think about it later today arlington and last night at the concert. when you think about those who gave that ultimate sacrifice. when you think about the families who are home. i remember when i was in iraq and having to work and we would lose folks in the hospital and sending them home. what i was thinking about was the families who are now without. so today on this memorial day, not only do we remember those who gave that last full measured devotion. remember today as you go about your life there are some still looking at empty chair and visit or someone that they would pick up the phone and talk to that they no longer can. it's about those who gave

we know from gao reports does meet the security needs of thee fbi. significantly more security requires a setback campus not onemi located in downtown washington that is why after a years long transparent open process gsa selected a site with new headquarters in greenbelt, maryland. that decision was final it was made clear it was the best side that met the needs of the fbi. so, mr. director hope in the coming. weeks we can discuss te importance of that new headquarters. i also look forward to hearing how the fbi will be implementing his proposal to relocate up to 904 vacant positions from the national capitol region to unfilled slots in the field. i appreciate the fact the baltimore field office would get 40 of those positions. baltimore has seen a drop in violent crime. but we always need to do more. in closing out the thank the 35000 fbi employees for their tireless dedication of service to our country. you continue to ask him to do more with less. all while their invaluable work keeps us all safe from harm. they must ensure the resources they nee