Most recently the bugging of german chancellor Angela Merkels cell phone and lederhossen drawers. laughter and the fact that the United States pretended to be her onlean boy friend for two years. Two years but perhaps i never realized how acute and dire the fallout of this may be until i saw this shocking story. Russian leaders are denying reports of spying on overseas leaders. They are accused of passing out bugged gift bags at last months g20 summit. Jon bugged gift bags before all these revelations we could have jumped all over this story with good oldfashioned american con desession and smug superiority, thrown out a little boris and natasha reference. Done a little yaukoff smirnoff, in russia gift bag rummage through you, but now laughter i can only smear at how ham handed their spying is. Delegates were given usb pem ree sticks and phone chargers equipped with spywear. If youre a world leader and you put the usb stick russia gave you into your computer, you deserve to have them [
Stewart. Nice show for you tonight. Our guest Diane Ravitch here to talk bed case and he education reform. Ladies and gentlemen, there are many consequence to its growing cascade of revelations about our nations spying activities. Most recently the bugging of german chancellor Angela Merkels cell phone and lederhossen drawers. laughter and the fact that the United States pretended to be her onlean boy friend for two years. Two years but perhaps i never realized how acute and dire the fallout of this may be until i saw this shocking story. Russian leaders are denying reports of spying on overseas leaders. They are accused of passing out bugged gift bags at last months g20 summit. Jon bugged gift bags before all these revelations we could have jumped all over this story with good oldfashioned american con desession and smug superiority, thrown out a little boris and natasha reference. Done a little yaukoff smirnoff, in russia gift bag rummage through you, but now laughter i can only smea
Other contractors evaluate the completeness of the investigations . Are these from the same company . I can answer the second part, but opm is better suited to answer the first part because they have that contract, and, yes, contractors perform Background Investigations, and, yes, contractors perform quality reviews on these investigations, but only Government Employees make a determination as to whether to grant security clearance to someone. So but my question is is it the same company that is validating the work of their colleagues doing the investigations . Is that correct . Id have to defer to opm. Yeah. No. The companies that are doing the investigations have an obligation under the contract to also do a quality review, but then we do another quality review, and the purpose of their quality review is we would like them to catch errors before the file gets to us, but we do a quality review as well. So opm is the final validating of the completeness of the investigation . Not to so
Assisting individuals with federal and state benefit programs. Most navigators are nonprofit, nonpartisan Community Service providers and have effective privacy provisions in place. Those are the facts and the show good news. You talking your Opening Statement about the navigators were going from door to door and that is a concern. Thats why we have to have the real navigators in place so they can sign people up. Just yesterday hhs, doj and the ftc announced a massive antifraud effort. I would suggest we all Work Together to stop any kind of fraud in the system. With that i want to yield the balance of my time to the representative castor. I think the Ranking Member for yielding time. The enthusiasm i am hearing back home from so many of my neighbors, particularly when it comes to now the bar against discrimination for our neighbors that have preexisting conditions. Just over the past few weeks i met with Community Leaders and multiple sclerosis and diabetes, hiv aids, cancer that now
Fruition. We have a huge business in asia growing thats probably the single largest opportunity over the next decade or so. We intend to lead that market like we do in so many others. But again i come back to the point that its likely that a lot of those countries a number of those will give agreements with or without us if we dont get tpp done and we will be looking at a market that we ought to compete with. Theres another 1i will move to africa because im kind of passionate about this. We watched the chinese really take over africa. They come in with their own financing and engineering, sometimes their own workers to take over Minerals Come extraction, hydroelectric power across africa. And i feel we can do better in this country and i know that is on your agenda and all of our agenda but i am so pleased to hear the crossover between commerce and state because that is what we really need. That is what china and others do so well when they work on the market they combine all of their