Morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses, appreciate your time, your testimony, and look forward to your oral testimony and answering i think what will be some interesting questions. I frequently say from this podium that the General Accounting Office and Inspector Generals are, youre our go to agencies in government doing so much to root out and identify and eliminate waste, fraud prosecutor abruce bus, duplicate prod grams which is what this hearing is about is the reports by the gao that really started with the Pretty Simple amendment offered in 2010 by senator cole burn in the debyte bait over increase in debt sooelg ceiling. Something we all hate do, but it were going to do it its kind of nice to get some measure of control and a Pretty Simple concept asking the gao to start issuing reports, do inspections on different duplicated programs has resulted in 75 billion worth of savings over seven years, which is pretty remarkable based on the amount of
Morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses, appreciate your time, your testimony, and look forward to your oral testimony and answering i think what will be some interesting questions. I frequently say from this podium that the General Accounting Office and Inspector Generals are, youre our go to agencies in government doing so much to root out and identify and eliminate waste, fraud prosecutor abruce bus, duplicate prod grams which is what this hearing is about is the reports by the gao that really started with the Pretty Simple amendment offered in 2010 by senator cole burn in the debyte bait over increase in debt sooelg ceiling. Something we all hate do, but it were going to do it its kind of nice to get some measure of control and a Pretty Simple concept asking the gao to start issuing reports, do inspections on different duplicated programs has resulted in 75 billion worth of savings over seven years, which is pretty remarkable based on the amount of
Daily many 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. And is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. At a Senate Hearing on government waste federal officials testified about ways to save money by preventing fraud and removing a necessary regulation. Senator john johnson shares Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee. This is an hour and 0 minutes. 40 minutes. All right. [silence] morning this hearing will come to order. I want to welcome my witnesses, appreciate your time, your testimony, and look forward to your oral testimony and answering pretty interesting questions. I frequently say from this podium that general and Inspector Generals are, you know, our goal two agencies in government. Doing so much to route out and identify and eliminate ways fraud abuse and prals which this hearing is about is reports by gao that started with a simple amendment offering and by senator colburn in increase in debt ceiling someth
[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barred from casting a ballot which denies the right to participate in our democracy after they have paid their debt to our society. The impact of these barriers goes beyond those previous convicted of a crime. Criminal records are a family sentence. In fact, they have found that nearly half americans children now have a parent with a criminal record. Study after study has shown that the barriers associated with the parents criminal record can severely limit the childs opportunities and lead to worse
And then drive it forward in 2017. Thanks for listening. [applause] i know j stand before you and lunch but i am happy to take any questions for you. Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contribution rate. It is a fascinating story. You have to figure out the story. I think that is a great point. The way the public and the private sector have come together we have studied this to achieve the policy in canada. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Once again i want to thank ida and the Aspen Institute. [applause] sunday, Hillary Clinton speaks at the mayors conference in indianapolis. We will have live coverage starting at 4 p. M. Eastern. And later, cspans conversation with democratic president