smith: thank you, madam chair. i support the amendment being offered and with that i yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, mr. tonko. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. tonko: thank you. thank you, madam chair. the -- my amendment the d.o.t. medical research program to use the most advanced research technology possible when advancing diseases. they have made advances in diagnosticing relative to breast cancer and prostate cancer but drug therapies have had limited success. breakthroughs in r.n.a. treatments -- current medicines are only able to target a number of proteins. this would increase the effectiveness of drug treatments for these devastating illnesses. sciences and technical breakthroughs have advanced therapeutics. including d.o.t. to use this technology would make an invaluable contribution to the eight medical research programs. finally, madam chair, this new technology can help by identifying medical candidates in ptsd, including depression. with those re

the gentleman from ohio. >> madam chair, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> i rise in opposition to the underlying bill and i think it's important for us to go back, as we hear about market-based solutions, to why medicare was started in the first place. mr. ryan: there is no market to provide health care for older people because there's no money to be made. insurance companies can't make money off of coverinold people who get sick, really, really sick. and what this plan does, madam chair, and theanalysis was, well, it's just goi to be like the federal employee plan. we get members of congress and federal employees get a premium support. well, the premium support that federal employees get is about 70-some percent of the health care costs, and that number goes up and down with inflation for health care. so no matter what the health care costs are, the federal employee has 70-some percent of that covered. the problem with the republican plan is that the voucher or the premium support is hooked to the

supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, madam chair. director martin, i just want to say, and i think president chu would agree with me, that if all the departments were run like the airport -- [laughing] i think without question we have one of the most attractive metropolitan airports anywhere in the country. very inviting. sexy in some ways, i think. all the time that i've spent in airport as cross the country -- airports across the country, i think it has just the right combination of wanting to welcome people and almost becoming unto itself, strangely, a destination site. i've seen the art exhibits, the memorabilia exhibits. just really strong stuff. i have to say it's very impressive the way that it has evolved. especially over the last five to seven years. so i think it's been very impressive. however, you have one thing that i would like, and that is police officers. i'm wondering if it's possible that in this season that there would be some review about the true assessment of how many officers you really need at s.f.o., and if t

sanchez: madam chair, i request the yeas and nays, please. the chair: pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from california will be postponed. the chair understands that the proponents of remaining amendments through amendment number 97 will not individually offer their amendments. it is now in order to consider amendment number 100 printed in house report 112-88. for what purpose does does the gentlewoman from maryland seek recognition? ms. edwards: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 100 printed in house report 112-88 offered by ms. edwards of maryland. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 2276, the the gentlewoman from from maryland, ms. edwards and a member opposed each will control five minutes. ms. edwards: thank you to the chairman and ranking member. i represent the 4th congressional district of maryland which is home to joint base andrews. it is the home to air force one, 11th wing and 113th wing that hass sovreignty over the national capitol region.

the speaker pro tempore: madam chair. the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 1216 and has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. pursuant to house resolution 269 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole on the state of the union for the further consideration of h.r. 1216. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 1540. the chair: without objection. pursuant to house resolution 269 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 1540. the chair appoints the gentleman from arkansas, mr. womack, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the commit

so, madam chair, if you want, i can go over any one of these recommendations, or given the fact that we are still working with the airport, we can report back to you next week. whatever your pleasure is. chairwoman chu: thank you very much, mr. rose. just so i can understand from the department's point of view, there's a number of recommendations that the budget analyst has put forward. are there any at the moment where the department is in agreement with the budget analyst? >> madam chair, my budget manager has been working with the staff i think there's some areas of agreement. but i think there are some areas of disagreement. i'm very confident that within the next week we will get everything resolved. i think probably 19 of the last 20 years we've been able to reach agreement with the staff. chairwoman chu: thank you so we can continue this item until next week when we do hear your budget again. in the meantime, if would you work with the budget analyst to come to an agreement with some of the proposals would be helpful. i think also to the extend that there's further conversatio

. >> madam chair, thank you very much. the budget in front of you is, as you know, our may 1 budget submission. it includes a handful of departments for early consideration. our june 1 budget will include these departments and every other department in the city currently in the process of developing that. so we're happy and available to answer any questions and look forward to getting the budget process underway. chairwoman chu: thank you, mr. wagner. so we do have a number of departments and department heads who are here to present so why don't we start with the san francisco international airport. colleagues, what i'd like to do is to have and invite the department head to come up to speak a bit about their budget to speak a little bit about their five-year financial outlook and plans. we will then go to the budget analyst's report and recommendations, and have a conversation around those recommendations. thank you. >> madam chair, members of the committee, i'm john martin, airport director. it's a pleasure to be here th

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. mr. smith. >> thank you very much, madam chair. and, again, thank you for calling this extraordinarily timely hearing because i think it will get results. sometimes nobody pays attention, this one will, so thank you. let me just ask you, mr. williams, you said there's good cooperation with local authorities when there's an allegation made. you mentioned that these countries are, quote, very interested, closed quote, in tracking down the perpetrator. could you define exactly what that means? for example, how many arrests are have occurred? how many convictions have occurred as a result of rapes of peace corps volunteers? what, if anything, was required of our peace corps volunteer as that court case went forward? and i mean be very, very specific because one of the things we've learned with

. >> madam chair, members of the committee, on the bottom of page five, as shown in attachment 2, on page 16, the estimated total debt service requirement -- between july 1, 2011 and june 30 -- a period of 24 years -- that is an annual average debt service of $8.2 million a year. that includes $240 million in the principal $189.2 million in interest. we also point out on page 6, on a five under thousand dollars home, this bond would result in an increase of property taxes of about $37.33 annually after deductions, however, as the department pointed out, the timing of the issuance of the bonds would occur such that increases in property taxes from the proposed bond would be offset by reductions in property taxes as the city's existing general fund is redeemed. so there should be a neutral effect in terms of increased property taxes. on page 9 of our report, we point out, the mta has its own debt authority to finance the cost of the transit street signal infrastructure improvements, irrespective of the mta's current financial standing. we also point out on the bottom of page 9 we consi

thank you for the presentation. >> good afternoon, madam chair, supervisors. as most of you are probably aware, the mandate of the board is to permit and in force when to ordinances' and protecting tenants from displacement due to excessive rent increases while making sure that landlords maintain fair and adequate rent. i always come before this committee to say that my goal is always to be the least of problems. i hope we will achieve that goal again this year. the budget is very similar to last year's. there is a $500,000 increase due to salary, mostly increases for the attorneys, mandatory fringe, and 24 staff or increased interpreter fees. we are getting many more multi- lingual hearings. we also have some increased i.t. expenditures. spending $50,000 of additional computers, we will be digitized and the documents. in the office luddite, but my understanding is that by converting our documents they will be more accessible to the public and will be preserved for a long period of time. other than that we have funds in there for carpeting and painting, but i

. >> madam chair, i am here to urge you to reject this proposal . it would erode the crucial citizen right to pass an initiative measure to address an abusive power by government. there is usually a compelling reason for citizens to take the time to mount a campaign to circulate petitions to place a item on the ballot. this -- limiting the effect of duration of a vormente responded initiative to three years would erode this power and reduce the citizen right to a temporary fix. the legislative digest fails to present any specific justification for the broad amendment proposed, which would apply to all voter response initiatives. today supervisor wiener mentioned only one which does not warrant such a broad amendment so. in no event should the initiatives placed on the blopt by voter petition be included in this amendment and we urge you to remove those provisions which is all of subdivision b from the measure and if you must pass it to the board, merely limit it to the initiative measures sponsored by the members of the board and the mayor. there's

>> no, madam chair. >> meeting is adjourned.

two minutes please. >> madam chair, supervisors, good afternoon. i have attended more than my share of eastern neighborhood cac meetings. it is unfortunate that there is not a lot of passion on that cac for their neighborhood plans because the community really had nothing to do with writing those plans. they show no ownership, so they are basically obsessed with deciding how to spend money, and it is money that they do not have. i have gotten to know oscar very well through the trailing years of the eastern neighborhoods process where we desperately try to put people back into the planning process, and i would like to wholeheartedly support his nomination to the eastern neighborhood cac, so that he can bring some passion to that group. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon. i have lived in san francisco for 59 years. listening to mr. grande speak, i feel it is obvious he is well qualified. anyone who has done what he has done is obviously committed to the neighborhood. obviously, the reason why i'm speaking for him is i am also a

i know that madam chair here rightfully is trying to keep the trains moving forward so i respect that. >> i'd be happy to work with them. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor chiu. supervisor chiu: thank you. i want to also express to mr. harington a couple of things. first of all, assuming that whatever balance -- fund balance is left on the go solar program this year, even if it's more than $1.2 million, that will get swept into the $3 million we have and that $1.2 million is a cap. i'm comfortable with what you have proposed here and i do think that next year during the budget process we're obviously going to take another hard look and look to see the benefits of this program that i do think have helped to bring san francisco from one of the last ranked barrier counties with regard to solar installations to one of the first ranked. and i do agree with supervisor mirkairmi when i look at the variety of different expenses that are being charged to city college. if we were to tinker with other line items, it would create potentially inconsistent policies vis-a-vis other departments a

the gentleman from new york. >> madam chair, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. i rise in opposition to h.r. 1216, the underlying bill. as a resident of update new york, where much attention has been given to today's spec election far congressional seat, people are saying loud and clear, hands off my medicare. mr. tonko: the republicans are once again putting us on the road to ruin. they are pushing forward to end a program that 46 million seniors and disabled individuals depend on for their health care. this gross injustice is made more egregious by the fact that this is done not to balance the budget to expand and perm neptly guarantee even bigger tax cuts for millionaires an billionaires and give tax breaks to some of the most profitable companies, including oil. i have heard a lot of talk about the need to make tough choices these day. the average senior on medicare earns just over $19,000 a year. one quarter of medicare beneficiaries suffers from a cognitive or mental impairme

>> thank you, madam chair. i would like to first commend the strength of the women before us for your courage to come forward and advocate on such a delicate and important issue. i appreciate you coming to washington this week to speak with members of congress and staff from testifying during this hearing. i know you've all endured hardships from these experiences and should be commended for your bravery and perseverance in ensuring that future generations of peace corps volunteers don't have to go through what you did. you inspire all of us with your actions and commitment to the peace corps from a vision of service and world diplomacy. we are grateful to your service during this time in this program thereafter and i look forward to trying to understand what we can do to make sure the situation does not continue. thank you. >> thank you con man. but they pointed in my opening remarks, senator isakson of georgia as the senator who represents the puzey family and we would be honored to give you a minute, senator

. >> madam chair, and members of the committee, based on our review and analysis, this requested $4 million increase of expenditure authorization is justified based on the actual and projected expenditures in order to keep the contract in place through its ending term of december 31, 2011. as the department indicated, all expenditures would be subject to separate appropriation approval by the board of supervisors. we recommend that you approve this resolution. supervisor chu: thank you very much. why don't we open up for public comment? are there and it -- any members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move this forward without objection? thank you. i know that supervisor mirkarimi is interested in participating in the conversation, so why don't we skipped over to item 3 first? >> item 3, resolution determining and declaring that the public interest and necessity demand repaving and reconstruction of roads, the rehabilitation and seismic approve of st. structures, the replacement sidewalks, the installation and innovation occurred ram

so, madam chair, with your permission, madam chair?ion i ask that article be entered into the record. [inaudible] >> i would ask that richard painter, professor richard painter from the university of minnesota, his blog post today be entered into the record. >> so ordered. >> ninety. and let me just read one little thing from it. liu's opponents have sought to demonize him as a radical extremist and worse. however for anyone was actually red liu's writings, or watched his testimony, it is clear that the attacks fill with caricature and hyperbole reveal very little about this exceptionally qualified measured in mainstream nominee. i want a boy to think about that. -- i want everyone to think about that. this is a guy who participate in samuel alito's and chief justice roberts nomination for the bush administration, and please, i would ask anyone who is considering voting against this nominee to read this blog post. please, i asked my colleagues to do that. let's talk about the letter from kenneth starr and from akhil amar. they write, w

>> no, madam chair. >> meeting is adjourned. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death. cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem wit

supervisor mirkarimi: madam chair, i am going to suggest that we continue to the color of the chair the items related to #six and seven. i know there were some members of the department of public health and the clinic health center that are here, but due to ongoing negotiations between the health center and awhirl other health facilities, their ability to answer some questions right now about us advancing alone are not, i think, timely. i ask that we continue this and hear from the people that may want to speak to this. >> another is a representative here, but rather than going to the public hearing on the budget of day, if there are any comments you like to make, stepped up. if not, we can do general public comment. any comment? why don't we go to public comment? any members of the public that wish to speak on items 5, 6, or seven? >> i would like to speak on no. 5. i am a little puzzled as to whether this will be continued and i can come back another time. supervisor chu: yes. >> where would i get a copy of the budget? at this time, it is being updated? so that i can prepare remarks r

and, madam chair, i yield back balance of my time to you, madam chair. >> i thank the gentleman. i will graciously take you up on your 2 minute and 30 second offer. understanding mr. dingell is on his way down. i do questions until he can participate. this has been a very inciteful hearing. each member has brought up different complexities and understanding how they see these problems. miss shakusky when she specifically brought up the threat to seniors. i hadn't thought about the sony playstation and perhaps a younger generation and risk to them. i want to reiterate although she is not here i will continue to work with her and explore the senior angle and with the ftc as well. i want to thank and congratulate the members who worked on this legislation previously. we've come a long way, 2005. i don't know many people were talking about cloud computing and yet we are today. i think understanding briefly, the ftc will have the authority to go out and, servers based offshore but do we also risk overlegislating and sending more offshore if we're not careful and? it will go to either

supervisor chu: thank you, madam chair. to the budget office. there has been a strategy proposed for the sheriff's department, such as changing out the jail health services, perhaps outsourcing on a contract for a different security service for some of the buildings. is the mayor's office contemplating as? so we can be prepared for this discussion? >> we are not contemplating a geo health proposal at this point. -- a jail health proposal. it has been proposed by the health commission. a security proposal, so that is an option that is on the table. i know that the mayor is going to want to talk to all of you about that before june 1 and have that discussion. that is compared to the jailhouse proposal. you mentioned it was potentially more tolerable for a lot of reasons. number one, the way it has been proposed by the health department, this version of what they have sent to the commission, it would not involve any layoffs. the ip's at the clinics would be reassigned, and then it would release some share of staffing to be returned to the jail to o

speaker, i -- madam chairman, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the chair: without objection. mr. young: madam chairman, the americans suffering from $4 a gas today, $5 a gas next month must feel like they areary experiencing a sense of deja vu. it was just three short years ago in 2008 when gasoline prices reached the record high of $4.11 a gallon. those high prices cut deep not pockets of americans that summer and forced congress to act. that fall a democrat-controlled congress and republican president took bipartisan action to lift the offshore drilling ban that had been in place for decades. this monumental step opened up all of the atlantic and pacific coast to new offshore energy production. three years later most americans will likely to be shocked to learn no energy development has happened in these new areas and they're actually once again been placed off-limits. the progress that was made in 2008 by lifting the drilling moratorium has been completely reversed by the obama administration. the president says he wants to win the future but his polici

. >> madam chair, members of the committee, debra newman. as she indicated and as shown in our report on page 4, table 2, the current lease with asi anna airlines is at a rate -- asiana airlines it is a result the $943,146 per year under the new lease. although the square footage would remain the same, the rental rate per square foot will go down to $21.40 so there will be a total of annual estimated revenue of $849,000 or a reduction of $94,037 per year. however, because of the airport's residual rate setting methodology that there will not result in any budgetary shortfall overall for the airport because the cost will be reallocated and rerecommend approval of the proposed lease. supervisor chu: why don't we open this up for public comment? are there any members of the comment who would like to speak on item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move this item forward with recommendation? we'll do that without objection. thank you very much. item number 2, please. >> item number two, ordinance appropriating $6,995,000 o

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, senator. senator cochran. >> madam chairman, thank you for sharing this hearing. welcome, mr. secretary. we appreciate you being here to understand the administration's budget for the next fiscal year. it is recommended that nuclear energy continue to have a place in the national strategy for energy independence and provide supplies for our country. an increase for the office of nuclear energy, we notice of the budget request. what do you think the priorities of that office should be in terms of reaching our goals and helping maintain our energy security as a nation? corks sure. i with the to mention that question. -- >> sure. i would love to answer that question. what can we do to add value to this? using high-performance computing is a very sweet spot. >> said again. >> high performance computing. there is -- to you high- performance computing to design next generation reactors and had to deal with these things so you can skip engineering steps and engineering design, you can simulate in a mu

, madam chair, ranking member butterfield and establishment of the subcommittee.hank you for the opportunity to testify on the role of the secret service on cyber investigation but in february 2010 the department of all massacres delivered a quadrennial homeland security review which established a framework for homeland security missions and goals and underscore the need for a safe and secure cyberspace. as a vital component of dhs we want to support the department's mission to safeguard cyberspace. with great understand of how the criminal world operates the secret service had to the strategy that had a tremendous impact in terms of disrupting and hispanic underground network. we use this knowledge of criminal networks to adopt our response to the challenges posed by financial crimes in the 21st century. breaking up is criminal networks requires a highly court made law enforcement approach focused on constant innovation and tactics to meet these emerging threats. secret service continue develops technical expertise to track down and successfully infiltrate, inves

. >> madam chair. i believe that the prop j appears on your calendar again today although it was discussed yesterday because we were waiting for public comment so i believe that the committee needs to dispose of that item. supervisor chu: ok. thank you. this, again, item number 7 is an item that is existing prop j's for the public utility -- for the enterprise departments. supervisor mirkairmi. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to make sure because there was a small part of that that i stepped out on. i want to make sure for the record these are not new prop j's? >> true. many of which have been in effect for decades. supervisor mirkarimi: ok. supervisor chu: thank you very much. so why don't we take a motion on item number 7. can we take a motion to send that item forward? ok. we'll do that without objection. and then for items number 4, 5, 6, if we can continue those items pending the last date of enterprise department hearings. thank you. supervisor chiu: will that be on wednesday the 25th or -- supervis