this is the last slide and then i will ask john haley and mr. mason to come up. we are looking to fill vacancies in the parameters of our budget and we're having a significant difficulty in attracting, recruiting, training and identifying individuals. mr. haley can speak to the number -- like operators that enter into recruitment and driving a new large difference between the number of operators to end up driving between the ones who actually initiate interest in the position. the board is receiving monthly overtime reports and their drilling down on these overtime areas. we are also working to schedule -- working to manage unscheduled absences. that increases over time needs. we have significant issues with unscheduled absences for a variety of reasons. we are trying to drill down and look at those areas. as i mentioned, we are looking at our scheduled practice and contractual requirements. for example, we are able to implement part time operators that we would see some reduction in over time because there is over time where we could staff the peak time schedule

ultimately i think that operations training which is not as i understand that are mr. mason really ought to be mouffed from the hailey transition. it's very odd for the transit operation system under the operation system. i would edge consider for you to we. we couldn't have a better training system by moving it that way. thank you very much. >> good evening, directors. as i look to the future plan, meetings and an x ray bill. one of our requests are separate that, june 6, and june 8. would show be only for the people. so the people that are coming there they're not jumping on each other's subject and they will not be concluding in the less possible time. which item would you like to put first and the item second. the second thing is about the council. it was designed in such a way as she intended to have the cap on valued holders. so it was designed in the way that nine people in the capital of the number nine. here comes three people who are are waiting. but as you come close to 1 or 200 numbers. the rest of the three drivers were taken from shadow. they don't care about y

we probably do a little better at tracking that and mr. mason and mr. paley can speak to how they handle special events coverage. -- mr. haley can speak to that. our fleet of facilities are in the latter part of their life cycle and require a lot of maintenance attention. i did not put this into the key consideration, but some of our labor contracts until recently, they were scheduled monday through friday, but we need electrician's available, so they are working on weekends to provide service and that is being changed and we had a workweek monday through friday even though we had a 24/7 service delivery. we're trying to chew up our contracts to make sure we have a service delivery that is much more than monday through friday schedule. supervisor farrell: a lot of this is referring back to labor contracts and i guess -- why are we referring to those in the first place when electricians on the weekends since muni has been around. why won't -- why words those discussed before? it seems like poor negotiating beforehand. it's not an excuse to say we are jus

. >> i just want to add to what mr. mason said in terms of one of the things we're trying to do that has had a dramatic impact of overtime. a week ago thursday, we had eight -- we had 22% of our workforce unavailable for service. 22% of the total. the majority of that in july of last year -- excuse me, august of last year, we put a sick leave policy into place. the result was the number of the usage of sick leave went around dramatically in the first six weeks. supervisor campos: tell me -- president chiu: tell me what was happening before that. >> we had put some people on the abuse list. this required bringing in a doctor's note a little sooner and also required -- it identified discipline to be applied immediately for each occasion. the sick leave policy went into effect and within two or three weeks, says cleveland down, but at the same time, the applications for family medical leave went up exponentially. what we have seen is a shift over, and the one instance, to family medical leave as well as sick and so part of what

. >> mr. mason, have you had an opportunity to discuss the matter with ms. anthony?have, your honor. >> okay. anything you need to add? >> no. >> okay. this court will be in recess until 8:30 tomorrow morning. >> reporter: defense attorney would not reveal what that secret matter is. >> any comment at all, cheney, what it is? >> reporter: tone jose baez released a statement. today's adjustment was due to a private matter. please stop the speculation. former attorney kaufman. >> the door remains open. >> reporter: it's taken some unusual modern-day twists. >> do not, and i repeat, do not use any type of electronic devices, houston astros. including tweeting, texting, blogging, or any other means at all. >> reporter: while no jurors' faces are shown on camera and their names are protected in open court -- >> who are you? >> ms. 1312. >> reporter: they know the names of the potential jurors and their online lives that most thought would remain quiet are not. >> did you ever tweet cops in florida are idiots and completely useful? >> yes, i did. >> this is on your faceboo

mr. chairman, anthony mason shes cbs. this is that rare news conference that actually makes news before it happens. can you talk a little bit about your decision to take this historic step of holding a news conference after a fed meeting? what choices did you make? and facing the media comparing facing congress? >> thanks, mom. well, the federal reserve has been looking for ways to increase its transparency now for many years and we made a lot of progress. it used to be that the mystique of central banking was all about not letting anybody know what you were doing. as recently as 1994, the federal reserve didn't even tell the public when it changed the target for the federal funds rate. since then we have taken a number of steps, a statement with -- includes a vote. we have -- we produce very detailed minutes which are released only three weeks after the meeting which is essentially a production lag. we now provide quarterly projections including long-run objectives as well as near-term outlook. we have substantial means

mr. miller: i am happy to yield as much time as he mason sume to mr. stutzman of the great state of indiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to consume. mr. stutzman: i rise in strong support of h.r. 802 as amended this bill would require the department of veterans' affairs to establish an award program to reck nizz business which is excel in hiring veterans. we all know the unemployment problems face manage veterans. our youngest group of veterans have the highest unemployment rate among all the veterans while older veterans between the ages of 35 and 64 make up 2/3 of the unemployed veteran population. as we look for ways to increase veteran employment rates, it is absolutely appropriate that we honor those businesses which make the effort to hire veterans and to emphasize and to recognize their efforts. this award is not only -- this award not only highlights employers who hire veteran bus it is my hope that it will also serve as an incentive for other employers to hire more veterans as well. at the

mr. johnson dr. joseph mason from louisiana state university from my home state, said that we're looking at a loss of 36,137 jobs over an 18-month period out of the gulf coast alone. in february, seahawk drilling, which owned and operated 20 rigs in the gulf coast, filed chapter 11 due to the obama administration's de facto moratorium. mr. lamborn: i'd like to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from louisiana. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. mr. fleming: i thank the gentleman. we have lost 12 rigs so far to such countries as nigeria, egypt, the congo and brazil. and guess who we just gave $2 billion to drill oil in brazil of all places? so we gave them the rig, we gave them the money, so they can drill oil to sell back to us and to put tax money into their coughers. for heaven's sakes, this is crazy. so, in conclusion, i'd like to say today, let's get our louisiana and texas and other people back to work, let's invest in our energy across this country and let's get the gas pric

mr. zywicki is the professor of law at george mason university. dr. david evans is the director of the university of chicago law school. mr. adam levitin is professor of law at georgetown law center. mr. andrew pincus is a partner at mayer brown rowe and maw lp. with that, as is pursuant to the committee rules, all witnesses are sworn before they testify. if you will stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to get will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? all right. have a seat. the record will reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to facilitate discussion, if you can -- your written statement will be admissible to the record, and you can simply summarize assemble five minutes and at one minute you get the yellow light which sort of helps you round up and i would love to hear your testimony. mr. speed, we will start with you, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's a pleasure to be here today. i want to say at the outset that i was in favor of -- stron

mr. romney expected to kick off his campaign tomorrow. then we will discuss funding military operation. the house recently passed a defense plan, which the president has threatened to veto. after that, george mason university professor on the mission and goals of the rotc program. plus your emails, phone calls, on "washington journal" tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. from columbia south carolina, we go to oakland, california for the commencement ceremony at mills college. the first american civilian woman to world in post the second world war in japan. she helped one person secretly write the postwar constitution for japan. we will hear more about her story before the speech. this is have an hour. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] 1] >> it is my honor to introduce to you your commencement speaker for today. she was awarded an honorary degree on the occasion of her speech in 1991. i kept hearing about this amazing mills woman. at a very young age, she had graduated from mills college and how had gone directly to japan to be a part of the writers of the japanese constitution after the second world war. sh

mason university. dr. david s. evans is the chairman of the local economists group and lecturer at the chicago law school. mr. adam j. is a associate professor at law at the university of law center. mr. andrew pincus is a partner at mayer, brown, and rowe. with that, raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear the testimony will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing through the truth? all right. have a seat. the record will reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to facilitate discussion, if you can -- your written statement will be admissible to the record. you can simply summarize simple five minutes. at one minute, you'll get the yellow light which helps you. i would love to hear your testimony. mr. zywicki, we'll start with you, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's a pressure to be here today. i wasn't strongly in favor of regulatory reform, dealing with consumers financial production and that sort of thing. i think that we've been much in need of regulatory form, steam lining and that sort of thing. so this day, i remain disappointed we squandered a golden opportunity to

mason. we have a bill and a plan that is going to bring us closer to less dependency on foreign energy supplies. it will reduce foreign oil imports by nearly 1/3. mr. speaker, we on this side of the aisle are going to deal with the american people in an honest fashion. we are not going to scare the american people. we are going to have an open and honest conversation with the american people. we will lead, and what we are doing here is answering a call that the american people have reached out to us to do and that is to commit to our domestic supplies of energy so that we have energy supplies that will allow manufacturers and the private sector to create the new opportunity for generations of americans to -- that are yet to come. this is not a bill that is about protecting big oil. this is not about tax subsidies. i take great disagreement with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle when they say we are fighting for tax subsidies for big oil. what they're talking about is intangible drilling costs. they're talking about basic tax policy where there are income and expenses that are being calculated and deducted off of income taxes. it goes ba