mr. delaney from maryland. mr. delaney: the scale of this failure at metro is a most unimaginable. it has become a national embarrassment. i agree with my colleagues that it is a management problem. the system has been underinvested in. we haven't talked about the board and the governing system. you can only blame management for so long. ultimately a fiduciary board is responsible. this enterprise had a fiduciary board for a long time. if this was any other enterprise besides metro the board were then dismissed and a new board would have been appointed. do you believe that the board of metro, if you had to certify it, that the board members have deep experience in operations and financial management and sophisticated transit systems. or had tremendous experience in creating systems of accountability and metrics for their management team. do you feel like you can certify that the individuals who sit on this board. they have a safety committee, obviously they completely failed. a finance committee, complete failure. customer service, complete failure. it just seems to navy that at --

mr. delaney from maryland the balance of my time. mr. delaney: the scale of this failure at metro is almost unimaginable. it has become a national embarrassment. i agree with my colleagues that it is a management problem. i agree with mr. evans that the system has been underinvested in. we haven't talked about the board and the governing system. you can always blame management for so long. ultimately a fiduciary board is responsible. this enterprises had a fiduciary board for a long time. if this was any other enterprise besides metro the board were , then dismissed and a new board would have been appointed. do you believe that the board of metro, if you had to certify it, that the board members have deep experience in operations and financial management and sophisticated transit systems. or had tremendous experience in creating systems of accountability and metrics for their management team. do you feel like you can certify that the individuals who sit on this board, and i looked at some of the board committees they , have a safety commi

mr. delaney raised on the board. appreciate the honesty in terms of looking at the expertise there and obviously there are challenges there to look at. i do agree with mr. delaney that that needs to be looked at more thoroughly. i wanted to, again, return to some of the management ideas our new general manager is focused on just to get them on the record here. yesterday, you had talked about things like looking at paratransit. and how we can save money there. i don't know if maintenance might be an area that can be outsourced. could you maybe detail for the record, so we have some of these good, positive ideas that things will probably all share and have in common and can improve? >> parking, obviously, feeds our system. 60,000 parking spaces. but, you know, that's not the core thing that we wake up every morning worried about. i think that's an opportunity for private sector to do that, for instance. the paratransit, again, we have a model that, you know, it's been around for years. i think in today's technology tha

mr. delaney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. mr. delaney: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, we have a looming retirement crisis in this country. people are living longer, the cost of retirement is greater than it's ever been, americans haven't been able to save for retirement because wages have not gone up and across the last several decades, we've shifted the risk of retirement from institutions to individuals. in that context, the notion that we would allow perhaps upwards of 20% of hardworking americans' savings to be eroded because of conflicted investment advice is preposterous, so it is for that reason i am a strong supporter of the department of labor's fiduciary rule and stand here in opposition against any efforts to undermine it. and the notion that average americans, low-income americans, middle-class americans won't be -- receive service in the context of this new rule is also invalid. -- of the greatest expanses expenses they have is the amount of money they invest to custom

mr. peters: wisconsin, march 3, 2015, jonathan, 33. adam, 31, aaron, 31, olivia, 11. akron, ohio, april 18, 2013. ronald roberts, 24. kim delaney -- thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the extraordinary career of dr. diana, one of our nation's foremost experts on higher education. she has transed formed the university of texas at el paso into a premiere institution and national success story. she was recently recognized by "time" magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. in 1988, she was named president of the university and increased enrollment from 15,000 to 20,000 students who reflect the demographics of the texas-mexico border region. utep is the only research institution in the united states that serves a predominantly mexican-american student boddy. mr. hurd: it serves as a model to universities across the country and truly proud to congr

of our yuck end to walk at great strides miami and help delaney and so many others add more tomorrows to their precious young lives. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? address ous consent to the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, tomorrow is tax day, april 15. it is also the day that by law the u.s. congress is supposed to introduce a budget. mr. speaker, the sad truth is that the republican house leadership is failing to meet even this most basic responsibility despite speaker ryan's promise months ago to return this house to regular order and restore the american people's faith that this body is working to address the needs of everyday americans. mr. cartwright: house republicans cannot even bring themselves to agree on a budget for us to vote on. hardworking american families deserve a congress that invests in the future, protects their safety, and creates a level playing field for them and the