wong. >> susan mccull a. it's the last person who has turned in a speaker card. * >> good afternoon, ms. mccull a. >>> good afternoon, susan mccall a, current vice president of north beach neighbors. john read the the official letter we have in partnership with telegraph hill dwellers, so, i won't repeat the information that is in there. i just want to reiterate that we have been very concerned about the impacts that the current option would have on the businesses and we have been very concerned about the, what we felt was the lack of public outreach in the past. over the last couple months we have been working with mr. funge and mr. reiskin and also representative david chiu's office to improve public input. [speaker not understood]. we didn't have a chance like russian hill dwellers to have a vote on the current option of the pagoda theater, but i do want to comment we have been working for years to try to get something into the pagoda theater and get [speaker not understood] off the street. not off the stre

. >> if you're not careful you'll have a mccull trust me. you'll be happy to have a landrieu. am i not right, patty mor i murray. [laughter] >> i want to thank you ranking member. it's been a great hearing. what we bring is experience in this area both as senator of louisiana an a great sense of response, compassion, but also form understanding that we're in a frugal environment. you have a tough jock. ijob i think if we can work together we institute the forms, respond in a creative, compassionate way, and yet keep an eye on the bottom line. i think that's what we people of the country and those affected would want us to do. right now there is heart break in maryland. and what i do want to comment on the things that -- we want to thank the president for issuing so quickly and promptly the decoration of general disaster deep ration. we want to thank secretary gamp. janet napolitano. you declared we're eligible for public assistance. we want to thank you for you that. our project problem is the individuals and hud, i never thought hud would get high marks in the eastern shore.

turn to senator cochran, vice chair of the overall committee, and then recognize senator barbara mccull i ask, a longstanding member of this committee and we're happy to have her back on the dice this morning. and then senator lawsuitenburg whenever he shows up will also be recognized. thank you for your help and leadership. >> thank you. i'll be brief because we want to hear from our colleagues and i know they have busy schedules. first of all, let me just say that all of us here in the panel and -- express our sympathy to you and your constituents, the loss of life, those injures, those homeless, those suffering from this almost historic level of storm. we had an incident in indiana, devastating tornado, but it doesn't begin to compare with the depth of what our government now has to deal with relative to the impact of this particular storm. so we understand what -- a little bit of what you're going through. the magnitude, i know the chairman has also experienced something that have magnitude. but many of us are grateful for the response of fema and our continued efforts to try to determine ho