john o'connor. a couple of things, about the d.r. on this project. the project sponsor worked and added to the project. recommending approval of the project as it was. also, the project sponsor paid $7.5000 to the appellant. if i could address the water intrusion issue -- the project sponsor paid $7,500 to the appellant. they came on to the appellant's building and said of the new wall over it. -- set up the new wall over it. it is a construction defects. -- defect. so at this stage the roof collapsed, the water membrane came off between the two buildings, and the water got between the buildings, and that is when the problem showed up. it would have showed up every way -- showed up anyway because the membrane -- both parties agree to water-proofed between the two buildings when the building at 1138 page street is complete. that will resolve that issue. i would say this. as far as the roof collapsing, it is an insurance issue. they are working to resolve this, and that will get solved as it goes along, so i think the key here is that all of the proper

. >> reporter: john o'connor doubled the size of his shop in 2008 on a hunch that the recession would force folks to fix their old cars rather than buy new ones. but customers are even more fruital than he'd imagined. >> we'll tell them their brakes are getting very thin, and they'll say, "can i get another month?" i mean, they literally want to go one more pay period before they do the brake job. >> reporter: the national federation of independent businesses, a trade group that represents countries like shade tree garage, found that for the third straight month, those companies are reporting decreased optimism. of course, that reflects mood, and that impacts hiring. >> we do expect when jobs are created it will come from the small-business sector, but in the near future, our data indicates that we can't look to them for job growth. >> reporter: the federation's may report revealed small companies have the worst hiring outlook in eight months. o'connor says business is stagnant all around town. >> whether i talk to jason up at the coffee shop, you know, other independent repair shops,

roosevelt managed to defeat only one conservative; john o'connor, the congressman from new york and chairman of the powerful house rules committee. the purge was a flop. what were the main reasons for the failure? it's a long list. the liberal challengers whom roosevelt supported were mostly political amateurs and disorganized amateurs. the incumbents had their own well-organized political machines. many state newspapers supported the incumbents. people resented roosevelt's interfering in state and local politics, and roos veld had not -- roosevelt had not given himself and his staff and democratic party organizers nearly enough time to carefully build up liberal bases. roosevelt did not succeed in his ultimate goal which was party realignment. but the purge did herald the realignment that would take place as i discuss in detail in my book in the 1960s, '70s and '80s after the civil rights act of 1964 and 1965 and after nix son and reagan's so-called southern strategies. today the once solidly democratic south is solid no more. what happened in the immediate aftermath of the purge? roosevelt

o'connor, john o'connor, amtrak chief of police acting vice president of the office of security and special operations he will discuss the challenges facing amtrak and the steps it's taking in the emerging threats i think all of you for being here and mr. pistol if he would please began and we would ask you to try to keep your remarks to five minutes. thank you for your strong support with our partners as we try to address the surface trepidation issues we are also aware of and so i am pleased to appear before the committee today to discuss the efforts of the tsa in partnership with dhs, and amtrak and other leaders to provide mass-transit and passenger security. last month the president announced the operation resulted in the death of osama bin laden and the effort market town to the counterterrorism success for the country and of the world has recently announced kashmiri in pakistan and of course we believe kashmiri being responsible for most of the western operations for al qaeda core the leader of the 1998 embassy bombings in east africa and much of the al qaeda and east africa work. ou

this will include the head of amtrak police force, john o'connor, at 2:30 eastern. president obama is in pr. he is visiting pr. the first official presidential visit since the dawn of kennedy in 1961. he is expected to make comments this morning, and we expect to have those later for you in the program schedule. meanwhile, president biden will be on capitol hill shortly for the first of what is expected to be three meetings looking to work on the debt and deficit. we hope to hear something later today about that. we will bring you any news if they come out of those meetings. we do know the house democratic caucus is meeting this morning on a number of issues, particularly the one that keeps bubbling up, which is whether or not anthony wiener will resign. going into the meeting this morning, carol mccarthy said hopefully we are hearing he might resign and a couple of days. we have cameras outside of the caucus room, and if members come to the cameras to speak, we will go to that later in the program schedule. the house coming back at noon eastern. until then, a look