now, the chair recognizes ms. edwards for an opening statement. ms. edwards. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and congratulations to you as you convened the first of what i hope are many oversight hearings to make sure that we are paying attention to the kind of oversight we need to engage in on the science and technology committee on behalf of the taxpayers. i'd like to say that i too am disappointed that tsa is not here today, wasn't able to provide a would've. i think you lost an important opportunity to inform the congress and the public why they believe the s.p.o.t. program is worthy of our support. and i hope they will cooperate with this committee and the congress in the future. and i hope it's not terribly distracting as we get to the witnesses. i don't want anyone of them to be identified as tsa. i know it's a confusing for me a beer. let me just say in the opening i think each one of us has had an experience that instinctively sensing that something about a situation of a person is wrong or is worrying. police officer, immigration officers, transportation security officers

ms. edwards. >> thank you mr. chairman, and as i mentioned earlier, i am disappointed that tsa is in here because i think you are a number of questions that actually go to things like training protocols and other aspects of the s.p.o.t. or graham that they would have really useful information to share so i look forward to working with the chairman and the committee on this question about who needs to appear or not is not a decision really for the administration. congress determines under its constitutional authority who appears before the committees and what the jurisdiction is, so i do share that concern. i want to go to this question though of profiling,. >> with a gentlelady yield? i appreciate your comment. you took up about a minute and i would like to give you next a minute on top of that. [laughter] i don't want to charge your. >> i appreciate that. >> if you want to start the clock you can. >> thank you again mr. chairman. i have a question really that goes to this issue of e-filing. as an african-american

chairman. >> thank you, ms. edwards. we've been joined by congressman from -- congresswoman from florida, mrs. adams, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. earlier you said there have been 71,000 referrals and you made a distinction that the behavior leading to arrests. how much of those were arrested? >> of the 71,000? >> yes. >> that's the random selection method. >> correct. >> that's 71,000 were referred in the random selection, nine arrests were made. >> nine? >> yes. >> and in the other method? >> using spot, 23,000 and a little bit were referred and 151 were arrested. >> and the type of arrested? >> i don't have the nature of the arrests in the data that we looked at, ma'am. >> so it could have been belligerencey or anything of that matter. >> some might have been prohibited items at that time. others could have been through outstanding warrant or something of that name, ma'am. >> do you think that i have an appearance or would i be a target for spot? i mean, every time i go to the airport i get pulled

with that i'd like to yield -- ms. edwards: thank you. with that i'd like to yield to congresswoman donna christensen. mrs. christensen: thank you. i want to thank you for helping us commemorate not home the sanitation workers strike but the life and legacy of dr. king and it is unfortunate that as we are here tonight remembering the day that the assassination took place of this great american and great human being, that on the day after we expect a budget that is going to do just the opposite of what dr. king would have wanted us to do. in the last congress we were able to strengthen medicare, to expand its solvency, 12 years, we were able to pass the affordable care act which would expand medicaid and make sure that just because you were poor you were not going to not have the ability to have quality health care and tomorrow we expect the budget that's going to come to talk about privatizing medicare and ending it as we know it, sacrificing the health care for seniors and children. taking -- making an enormous cut in medicaid and really

i can speak for ms. edwards, we are both very concerned about national security. both concerned about civil liberties and we are both concerned that we make sure that the flying public are safe and i appreciate her input. and i hope that you will find some way that we will have those subjects and put in the study so that maybe some kind of the haverhill rigid behavioral science can be identified to identify these both periods we will go to our next round of questions. i recognize myself for five and is. even nine times more effective than random, we're talking about very low rates. mr. didomenica states that the base rate for terrorism is 0.0000006 -- i hope i did not get too many zeros. any panelist help put that into perspective, anybody? >> that statistic implies that acts of terrorism are very rare events. that makes it very difficult to test the efficacy of the program and develop as we recommended in our report performance metrics to determine whether the program works as designed. but we do not think that should deter you from trying to craft what we would

ms. slaughter: i am pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. ms. edwards: madam speaker, i'm really dumbfounded as to why we're here today. i sat back and i closed my eyes and i remember that my favorite grade was fifth grade and now i remember why my favorite grade was fifth grade because as my colleague from colorado has pointed out, i remember in fifth grade playing how a bill becomes a law and i was the house and somebody else was the senate and another one of our fifth graders was the constitution and what we learned is you have to pass the bill out of the house, goes to the senate, goes on to the president, he signs it, it becomes a law. pretty simple. well, here we are in fifth grade yet again. i want to say here, madam speaker, is that i really -- i oppose the rule, i oppose the underlying bill and i'm recollecting that just over a year ago we had this exact discussion about deem and pass. and so while an elephant never forgets, it seems that the party

edwards: i -- ms. edwards: i feel like i'm in the movie "groundhog day." i can't believe we're standing here today when we should be talking about creating jobs in this country for the millions of people who are unemployed instead of taking away their health care, instead of taking away their ability of a young person up to age 26 to stay on their participant's health care plan. we are -- parent's health care plan. we're talking about the ability of young people who have children, who have pre-existing conditions, to be denied coverage once again instead of creating jobs. instead of creating jobs, mr. speaker, we're here telling seniors that we want them to reach into their pockets and into their retirement to pay for outrageous prescription drug coverage. we're standing here instead of creating jobs telling small businesses that you're not going to get a tax credit to provide health care insurance for -- for your business. i mean, this is ridiculous. and, mr. speaker, i have to tell you, the american people must be wondering what it is that this republica

ms. edwards: permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. edwards: mr. speaker, there have been a lot of quotes on this floor. so this one goes out to our young people and our seniors and service members and federal workers who stand to be affected by a government shut down. it's a lesson from our republican colleagues courtesy of the white stripes, i guess you have a problem if you want to invent a contraption. first you cause a train wreck. then you put me in traction. first came inaction then a reaction, but you can't switch around for your own satisfaction. you burnt my house down then got mad at my reaction? it's just you can't take the effect and make it the cause. some of my republican colleagues who want to shut the government down for the effect you cause, you learned this white stripes wasn't first. if you are heading to the grave, you don't blame the hurts, you built the house of cards and shock me when you see them fall. you seem to forg

ms. edwards. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i mentioned, i am disappointed tsa is not here. there are a number of questions that could to things like training protocols and other aspects of the spot program that they would have a useful information to share. i look forward to working with the chairman and the committee on this question about who needs to appear or not. it is not a decision for the administration. congress determines who appears before the committee and what the jurisdiction is. i share that concern. i want to go to the question of profiling. >> i appreciate your comment. you took up almost a minute with that. i would like to give you an extra minute on top of that. i do not want to charge you. >> i appreciate that. >> start the clock again, please. >> i have a question that goes to the issue of profiling. as an african-american woman who, because i wear a scarf on my head, i have had the experience of being pulled over. it has not happened once or twice. it has happened multiple times. i do not want to make any speculation but it does raise the question of w

ms. edwards: thank you, madam speaker. i'd like to thank the gentleman from minnesota for raising this point of order. i join in support of the point of order. first of all it's time for us to create jobs, we haven't created jobs for 13 weeks into this congress and we are not debating jobs today. second, as to the underlying resolution, i'll speak to that later, madam speaker, but today we are sitting here with a bill that violates the rules of this house, that congress said when they took on this new leadership that they were going to come into the congress open and transparent and without hypocrisy and not following the kind of rules that they railed against during the previous congress, and yet here we are today with a rule that doesn't allow us to really consider appropriations in the way that this congress not the last congress but this republican congress established. we are neither open, we are not transparent in this point of order -- and this point of order raises a question as to whether the republican majority i

nadler of new york and ms. edwards of maryland. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. mica: there being no further business before the house, at this time, mr. speaker, i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the virginias -- ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands >> the measure authorizes funding through 2014 and terminates the essential air service. there were over 30 amendments offered to the bill and we should see more votes on those as well as a final passage vote tomorrow. members plan to work on legislation related to 2012 spending. follow the house live when members return tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> republicans and democrats were negotiating about the best way to fund the government for the rest of the year. we will hear from john baner and the white house next on c-span. dennis kucinich talked about cutting off military funding for milita