according to theimp in 2007 -- the imp in 2007, twice as many patients were seen from knob hill as opposed to the tenderloin. i am a low-income tenderloin patient with many severe health problems. i suffer from diabetes with multiple health conditions and also a e manyye probl -- also many i problems -- eye problems. i do not want to see a project to build without community support. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you for allowing me to speak to you. [tone] [laughter] there we are. last year, i spoke to you and i did so against my dr.'s advice. i had just come out of the hospital. i am in great shape now. i care for the most vulnerable people in our city. i believe that the proposal to rebuild think luke's hospital is appropriately sized. i listen. i am not a health care expert, but i am a lerarner. a technologically advanced hospital is the very best way to provide care today and in the future. i believe we have found that for st. luke's. it is my concern for my city that we have seismic beds. one is that they might fall down. five is services continue. the building may s

what you may see as an imped meant is really a regulation put there to protect environmental resources. some people commented on my remarks yesterday that i talked entirely about the economy and nothing about the environment eventhough we're seen as an environmental agency. it seems to me just as this conference opened dialogue for water and environment, i think we should find our worst enemy and going and sitting down and seeing the common ground we have and then putting together a coalition of allies not normally working together and then going to the legislature to ask for oversight hearings to the laws that protect san francisco bay all the way to the laws that deal with water and air quality and so forth and looking for a systemic approach. the reason i suggest that, i found the last election did a fabulous job of making the san francisco fund to read. or fun to read. i would go to page two and see what goofy thing congress had done. so i think we have an opportunity here to work together, to work with our legislative leaders in a bipartisan fashion to address this problem of what

and countries through these various technical means, either the firewall or through, you know, imp decision on people's privacy are really in a systematic way are trying to limit free expression, free assembly, free association. again, our view is that there ought to be an open internet, a neutral platform available to everybody in the world. and there are many, many governments that are threatened by that. please. >> no. can i say that includes north korea, china and the middle east countries? >> it includes all of those and then some. yeah. >> obama, after the release of the hostage and the elects there is, do you see any changes in the human rights situation in that country or just north korea? >> we continue to be very concerned about the situation in burma especially, i would say, the continued dedeposition of more than 2,000 political prisoners. we continue to call for their release. but also the very harsh and unreasonable restrictions on the party. so we have a long way to go there. as you know under the jade act, we are supposed to be appointing a special representative, and i thin

> were there particular cases involving law enforcement on our southern border that could have been imp kateed? >> i don't know of such. >> i yield back the balance of my time. >> i thank the gentleman. mr. ross, are you prepared? i yield you five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. verdi, your organizations made a few requests in the past, and i guess over the years you've had some adequate responses and inadequate responses. my question to you is based on your experience, have you seen an improvement in the last year for your foia requests, or has it been declining or stayed the same? >> sadly, we have maintained a 100% noncompliance rate or the agency has a 100% noncompliance rate with requests in terms of meeting statutory deadlines. there's nor an improvement or degradation in the response. >> these are based on grammatical errors or substantive errors, or why are the requests not granted in a timely fashion? >> they simply vice president responded -- haven't responded to the request or exemptions outside the period we had to challenge through the administrative process, but i

what's the imp my cation for the modernization program? there's more cancellations like meds and eme's? >> that's a piece of what i said. we will be scrutinizing our programs and activities for those not needed, but one the major points i was taking, tony, while that's an important part of seeking economies, it is only a piece of the defense budget, and so what i was trying to do is draw people's attention to the other six-sevenths of the defense budgets other than that. it's easy to pick programs because they have a name and are discreet and easy to underidentify and scrutinize, but that's not where the money is. >> thank you. >> jewish institute for national security affairs. you spoke about erosion of taxpayer confidence. recently, we're seeing erosion of confidence among those of us who support a robust defense budget because of our lack of success in libya. could you comment on that? people are saying $700 billion defense budget, and we can't take down a dictator like gadhafi. are you getting blow back on that? >> i think a couple thi

president, i cannot over imp size the historic importance of the debate we are beginning.of the most crucial eras in the long and proud history of the united states, and, yes, in man keep's struggle for justice and freedom which has gone forward since the dawn of history. if freedom becomes a full reality in america, we can dare to believe it will become a reality ever where. if freedom fails here in america, the land of the free, what hope can we have that it will survive elsewhere? the golden rule shows what we are attempting to do in the civil rights legislation. do unto others as you would have them do unto you. if i went to castle to try to do what you are doing, it would be to fulfill this great admiration which is the human rule of relations. if we are to have justice, tranquility, peace, and freedom. the bill has a simple purpose, to give fellow citizens the same rights white people take for granted. it is no more than the constitution guarantees. surely, the goal of this bill is not too much to ask for the senate of the united states. thank you. [applause] >> oh -

of $11 billion or 17% from fiscal year 2010 and reduction of $7 billion or 12% from the president's imp. at the same time the bill -- president's request. at the same time the bill has the f.b.i. national security programs and the basic scientific research supportive of the national science foundation and nist and others. also, the bill includes a funding language needed to allow nasa to move forward with the new space exploration program that we'll outline in the re-authorization bill. this takes care of nasa and there is language prohibiting nasa and the office of science and technology in the white house from participating in bilateral cooperation with china. the chinese regime is engaged in aggressive espionage program to steal from companies. almost all of the agencies but also the defense department and congress included is being hacked. it's easy to condemn and complain but this is a good bill and i urge all members to support it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield two minutes to

president, i cannot over imp size the historic importance of the debate we are beginning. we are participants in one of the most crucial eras in the long and proud history of the united states, and, yes, in man keep's struggle for justice and freedom which has gone forward since the dawn of history. if freedom becomes a full reality in america, we can dare to believe it will become a reality ever where. if freedom fails here in america, the land of the free, what hope can we have that it will survive elsewhere? the golden rule shows what we are attempting to do in the civil rights legislation. do unto others as you would have them do unto you. if i went to castle to try to do what you are doing, it would be to fulfill this great admiration which is the human rule of relations. if we are to have justice, tranquility, peace, and freedom. the bill has a simple purpose, to give fellow citizens the same rights white people take for granted. it is no more than the constitution guarantees. surely, the goal of this bill is not too much to ask for the senate of the united states. t

funding for badly needed systems like nextgen is inadequate and imp policemennation too slow. we need our own equipment. there's mischief by national labor boards are also major obstacles to success. why should the public care about these challenges to aviation? they just want a ticket, get on a plane, and go some place. let's not forget commercial aviation accounts for $1.3 trillion in economic activity. that's a lot of jobs. that's a lot of economic activity, or 5.6% of the whole u.s. economy, and supports 12 million jobs. the nation's economy relies on a safe, secure, and efficient aviation system, so how do we get from doing better to doing well? by concentrating on the fundamentals? that's what we say in business all the time. by assuring a sound infrastructure, modern technology, reasonable regulations, a flexible work force and stable energy prices, stable energy prices. now, there's another whole meaning. here's a brief flight plan to help the aviation industry take off. first, let me say a word about infrastructure. nothing is more fundamental than basic infrastructur

of $11 billion or 17% from fiscal year 2010 and reduction of $7 billion or 12% from the president's imp. at the same time the bill -- president's request. at the same time the bill has the f.b.i. national security programs and the basic scientific research supportive of the national science foundation and nist and others. also, the bill includes a funding language needed to allow nasa to move forward with the new space exploration program that we'll outline in the re-authorization bill. this takes care of nasa and there is language prohibiting nasa and the office of science and technology in the white house from participating in bilateral cooperation with china. the chinese regime is engaged in aggressive espionage program to steal from companies. almost all of the agencies but also the defense department and congress included is being hacked. it's easy to condemn and complain but this is a good bill and i urge all members to support it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield two minutes to

it has over time, i think, come to recognize and speaking of pakistan as one entity is a lewd kris impy cation. there's -- implication, there's wheels within wheels inside pakistan, but increasingly i think members of the pakistani military and intelligent service and the governing elite in the country are coming to recognize that the insurgent forces that they created which they have supported in many ways as an insurance policy against an afghanistan that is ruled by india, is closely in india's orbit, that that insurance policy they funded is increasingly turning against them, and we literally daily see evidence of attacks on pakistani civilians, on pakistani government targets conducted by some of these pakistani militant groups, and so we have seen slow halting, two steps forward, one step back progress i believe by the pakistani government in terms of clearing and holding the swath river valley, promises to clear and hold north eurziristan upset by the flooding, and a high level pakistanis to kabul to talk about president karzai about the possibility of bringing the war to some s

of $11 billion or 17% from fiscal year 2010 and reduction of $7 billion or 12% from the president's imp. at the same time the bill -- president's request. at the same me the bill has the f.i. national security programs and the basic scientific research supportive of the national science foundation and nist and others. also, the bill includes a funding language needed to allow nasa to move forward with the new space exploration program that we'll outline in the re-authorization bill. this takes care of nasa and there is language prohibiting nasa and the office of science d technology in thehite house from participating in bilateral cooperation with china. the chinese regime is engaged in aggressive espionage program to steal from companies. almost all of the agencies but also the defense department and congress included is being hacked. it's easy to condemn and complain but this is a good bill and i urge all members to support it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman the gentleman's time has expired. e gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield two minutes to the disti