bill galston: there is a hand right there. i cannot tell who's hand it is but i will recognize the bearer. >> what is your definition of a high-value data set? does it include politically sensitive data. this is endemic all over the country as governors and mayors open their data sets, there tends to be omissions with politically sensitive data. just to motivate that question and provide examples, three press questioners asked about e-mail, and you responded that state e-mail is public record. responsive to the public information act. that is not quite true in the way it sounds. in my district, they rotate the archives every 30 days. the public information act as 30 days. bill galston: i will have to to cut you off there. >> my point is, this type of loophole is widespread in maryland with a variety of databases. martin j. o'malley: maryland was named a leader in the open data movement. we received some award from somebody that watches this. i always looked at open data in the operations of our government as genies that needed

bill galston: there is a hand right there. i cannot tell who's hand it is, but i will recognize that there are. -- the bearer. >> what is your definition of a high-value data set? does it include politically sensitive data. as mayors open their data sets, there tends to be omissions with politically sensitive data. three press questioners asked about e-mail, and you responded that state e-mail is public record. that is not quite true in the way it sounds. in my district, they rotate the archives every 30 days. bill galston: i will have to to cut you off there. >> my point is, this type of loophole is widespread in maryland with a variety of databases. martin j. o'malley: maryland was named a leader in the open data movement. we received some award from somebody that watches this. i'll is looked at the operations of our government as genies that needed to be released from the bottle. it was my hope that as much data as we can get out there, it would be hard when people started using it to see -- like with the river keepers orga

i am bill galston senior fellow in government studies here brookings institution and i want to congratulate the governor on his speech. i cannot imagine a more appropriate speech to be delivered under the aegis of the center for effective public management and government studies here at brookings. let me also out on a personal note that if you could find a way of bringing 48-hour pothole guarantees to washington d.c. i would follow you to the end of the earth. [laughter] and set with 500,000 other people. that caught my attention. >> it's hard to do in the middle of the summer. i am informed there's a little bit of wiggle room on the backend so we have close to happen our or the question and answer. math. let me tell you what the plan is. i'm going to ask you one question and then i'm going to turn to the audience first taking four or five press questions and then moving on to this very large and interested standing room audience that is gathered to hear you talk. if there's time at the end i will wrap it with a question and if not i want. so let me begin with my question. as you know, ther

among other things the state status, cities city staff programs after his remarks my colleague bill galston will ask them a couple of questions and then we will open the floor to your questions. ladies and gentlemen is my pleasure to introduce governor martin o'malley. [applause] >> thank you. thanks very very much norm eisen and thank you for your kind introduction and thank you for setting the wheels in motion for this event. this was fun. thank you all for being here as well. it's a great honor to be here at brookings today. the people that work around this building have done some really outstanding work on an analysis and research, on government performance so it's a pleasure to be here with all of you to talk about data-driven governing governing, an issue that is near and dear to my heart. our country and our world faces some big challenges. whether it's making our economy work again for all of us or confronting security threats of climate change but all of those challenges confronting them will require a government that actually works. you and i see a world where our creativity and i

bill galston: thank you very much. i will turn to the press questions. if you raise your hands and identify yourselves -- yes. let's wait for the microphone. do we have another one? this one does not seem to work. >> do you think congress should fast-track the transpacific partnership? martin j. o'malley: i think they have to read it first. we have to be careful of lowering our standards, whether it is environmental or how we treat workers. i think when we enter into trade deals, it should be with the goals of breaking down barriers and bringing up standards. >> would you have any objections from having your e-mails from your tenure of government as maryland -- martin j. o'malley: i have many times answered that we abide by our state rules concerning e-mails. we have many times turned over e-mails in response, even if for language may have caused my mother embarrassment. we had a retention policy, unless there was open litigation, we would hold onto those for a number of weeks and then delete or purge them from our system. we always abided by whatever th

among other things the state status, cities city staff programs after his remarks my colleague bill galston will ask them a couple of questions and then we will open the floor to your questions. ladies and gentlemen is my pleasure to introduce governor martin o'malley. [applause] >> thank you. thanks very very much norm eisen and thank you for your kind introduction and thank you for setting the wheels in motion for this event. this was fun. thank you all for being here as well. it's a great honor to be here at brookings today. the people that work around this building have done some really outstanding work on an analysis and research, on government performance so it's a pleasure to be here with all of you to talk about data-driven governing governing, an issue that is near and dear to my heart. our country and our world faces some big challenges. whether it's making our economy work again for all of us or confronting security threats of climate change but all of those challenges confronting them will require a government that actually works. you and i see a world where our creativity and i

. >> watch all of our events from galston on saturday. >> the house foreign affairs committee held a hearing on the russia-ukraine conflict. state department official the tory a -- victoria nuland discussed efforts to implement the cease-fire in minsk. the hearing is chaired by ed royce. >> welcome. this hearing will come to order. our topic is ukraine under siege. ukraine is under siege by russia. unfortunately, the response to russia's aggression by the administration has been tepid. one year ago, russia invaded and seized crimea and some thought that vladimir putin would stop there. not so. last april, we led a delegation to ukraine. we travel to the russian speaking east. we had eight members on a delegation. we went to bordering areas and i have to share that the members -- that the ukrainians -- russian speaking ukrainians -- they wanted to be ukrainian. they did not want to be separatist. we spoke to the women's groups the lawyers grace, civil societies, jewish groups various ethnic minorities, the governor, the mayor. mr. angle spoke of the largest community center -- the lar