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Jim Cooper

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Feb 27, 2013

Secretary Poneman, B&W got nearly 60% of its award fee in FY2012. The security failure at Y-12 only cost them $12 million in un-earned fee.

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Feb 27, 2013

Do you feel like you are taking responsibility?

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Feb 27, 2013

It's well defended when an 82-year-old nun got into Y-12? How can you possibly say that?

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Feb 27, 2013

nearly every external review in the past decade has indicated serious problems with the security culture at NNSA and DOE.

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Feb 27, 2013

I take responsibility for everything that happens in the Department and I am----

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Feb 27, 2013

Thank you, Chairman Rogers, I look forward to working with you and our colleagues on these important issues this year.

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Feb 27, 2013

It shouldn't just concern us. We paid no telling how many tens of hundreds, millions of dollars for cameras at Y-12 that didn't work, and an alarm system that gave off hundreds of false alarms a day.

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Feb 27, 2013

Well, let's forget politics for a second and the view of the Department, because right now the Department doesn't have a lot of credibility on the security issue.

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Feb 27, 2013

I am sorry we have to be here, because this incident never should have happened.

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Feb 27, 2013

But I think that one thing folks back home understand is what do we get for taxpayer dollars?

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Feb 27, 2013

Right now in DOE, it doesn't seem like we are getting those results.

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