mr. duffy? >> did evening, commissioners. the only thing -- the approved drawings would be brief, i do not know what we approved. i cannot get them from microfilm. they are not there yet. they are between microfilm and the department. they are just hard to track, depending on when the permit was issued, so i do not know what we originally approved on drawings, but i am happy to hear that there is a we strengthening being done, and, of course, a building permit would be required on that, and that would be inspected before going on with the roof deck, so if you want to improve conditions -- and there is a photograph on exhibit 1. obviously, i have some concerns about the height of the railing, but that would all be covered under inspections for the building department. i am not really sure how that will work. i am available for any questions. commissioner fung: mr. duffy, has the department heard of large, flatbed scanners? sorry. this is a traditional issue. it takes months sometimes to go through. >> yes, in limbo over there.

commissioner fung: mr. duffy,

mr. duffy, has the department heard of large, flatbed scanners? sorry. this is a traditional issue. it takes months sometimes to go through. >> yes, in limbo over there. they are not on microfilm. they are just hard to find. president goh: are those different plans that we have in our path that -- packet? i see, ok. >> they may be the same as approved, or not exactly. president goh: some kind of modification, when you have not seen it? >> i have seen the plans, which is what i think he is showing us, the plans that you have there for the proposed. that has not been approved yet, as far as i can see. president goh: so can you tell me how this goes on in the field? they removed the joists, then replace those, and then the specter comes before it is closed up and ensures that those additional joists were put in properly. >> everything you said is correct. that is right. it would be closed up and re- roofed. at that point, the building would be watertight before you do the deck, and then you would put the deck on top of the new roof. president goh: and at what point is someone from your

president goh: mr. duffy. >> good evening, commissioners. joseph duffey. reading the brief, this has been going on for quite a few years. i see a building permit simply to remove some boards or shoring if you want to call it that. they should of been taken out when the building was finished. if access is provided, but i'm not sure if that was the case or not. all i see is a building permit simply to take those pieces of wood from that area. the complaint was there was damage to the property. the contractor did not finish the work. he left debris among the underpinning at the back. the notice of violation preferences a two by four wall. i am a little bit confused from reading that. i do not know what that means. i'm just reading through the brief as well. i will be available for any questions if you have them. vice president garcia: what is the second one that's violation monitoring -- what does that mean? >> i do not know. vice president garcia: had you go from looking at this to all this involves is removing some what it? how'd you get to that? >> the con

i yield to my friend mr. duffy. mr. duffy: i commend the gentlemen from arkansas and new york for the work you've been doing in your own districts, reaching out to job creators, listening to them about what they need to make sure they can expand their businesses and grow their businesses. i've been doing the same over the last couple of weeks, i've done a number of different events. i did a jobs fair in central wisconsin. that's where i -- my district is, central wisconsin up to northwestern wisconsin. we had 100 employers and we have 1,200 job seekers coming through the jobs fair. and if you looked out at the 100 folks that they're looking to hire you didn't see too many people from the government looking to hire. because the real job growth in america is in the private sector. if you look out over that arena of employers, they're not big businesses. they're small businesses. they have anywhere from 10 employees, some of them as big as 100, 120 employees. but all characterized and categorized as small businesses. and i

mr. duffy: when one of my family members is out of work and i see the pain and suffering in the pamly, it's worth it, mr. president, i'll go with you. this is a path we haven't traditionally gone down, we're a economy, a society of free marks and free enterprise. we look to the individual who invests, works hard, innovates, and creates wealth, creates opportunity, creates jobs in their community. but we're willing to go for a while and say, let's try it out, mr. president. a couple of years down the road, we look back and say, where are we? are we better off today than we were two and a half or three years ago? i think if you ask the american people, they will give you a resounding no, we're not. and so what we're doing here today is saying, let's go back to our great history. let's go back to our roots. of free markets. let's try to streamline the regulatory process that this government has given the private sector. let's make sure we free the american people, we free the entrepreneurial spiri

mr. duffy: thank you. this is not the version that i supported. i wanted a version that had spending caps linked to g.d.p. but as this week we passed the $15 trillion debt mark, i thought it was important that this house come together and figure out a way to control its spending. but to look at recent history, this house conference on the g.o.p. side passed a budget this year that brought our country to balance. and all the democrats across the aisle -- most of them voted no. they were offered a counterproposal that could bring our budget to balance. the democrats in the senate haven't proposed a budget in 900 days. we need to be serious about this debt. and today as we have $15 trillion in debt, and we have historic interest rate lows, let's look out 10 years when the debt is $25 trillion and we go from historic low interest rates to historic new orleans. -- norms. if we can't balance the budget today, is it going to be easier? when $25 trillion and we have more people on social security and medicare? my friends across the aisle like to pull out

you were asked the question by my colleague, mr. duffy, what exactly did the smaller banks and credit unions, what did they do to exacerbate the financial melt down for lack of better terms? you anxioused how they were -- you anxioused -- answered how they were affected by it. yes, did they contribute or play a major role in the melt down? >> no. >> okay, okay, hold on, yes or no question. thank you. they didn't. that's why i think when i speak to my community bankers and my credit unions they say we had nothing to do with the melt down. we played by the rules, and now we're hiring more compliance officers. i know the intent, and i think -- i don't think there's anyone in the panel. i don't think there's anyone involved in dodd-frank or in the new bureau that doesn't have the noblest of intentions. i believe that in my heart and soul so it's not the intent i'm worried about. what i'm worried about is we're talking about stream lining and efficiencies and you're already hiring more compliance and already paying more administrative fees kno

mr. duffy: if you look at it, i think the president is saying, i want to do something. and i say, i don't want to do necessarily something, i want to do the right thing. so we can create economic growth and prosperity and wealth and jobs. and this is my concern of what's happening right now. i think the president came in to office talking about hope and change and job growth and job creation and he implemented stimulus number one. and from that, it didn't work. because it's never worked. government borrowing, government massive spending, doesn't create jobs. but that was his sell to the american people. and so now as we roll in to the second phase, i think this is the campaign phase, the political phase, and so instead of focusing on policies that bring the bottom up, that help give hard working folks a good-paying job or good-paying opportunity, he's now focusing on class warfare. that's the wrong way to go. our poll sthace we passed and sent to the senate are policies that will create jobs. i yield back. mr. griffin: i thank the gentleman, i thank my friends for being