mr. miller: mr. speaker, one year ago today a massive explosion ripped through the two-mile area of upper big branch mine in west virginia. it bent railroad tracks like pretzels and killed 29 miners. it layed bare the loopholes in mine safety laws. it allows operators, like massey energy, to violate rules repeatedly and with impunity. in fact, the upper big branch mine was allowed to remain open though it had been ordered to stop operations 51 times in the previous year because of severe safety hazards. after the disaster, there were proclamations made from both sides of the aisle about taking meaningful action to honor the victims so something like this will never happen again. however, standing here a year later miners still face many of the same dangers they did on the morning before the tragedy in west virginia. unscrupulous mine operators are still gaming the system by clogging it with thousands of appeals as a way to avoid paying strong penalties. miners are still paralyzed with fear of speakin

mr. miller. >> [inaudible] president vietor: absolutely. >> [inaudible] -- from the union. others that know the history. others that have experience. and of course, the manager that has been here for a long time. and understands the vigorous aspects of of the city operates. one of the things that i have noticed, and i have spoken before when we have the water system improvement project. we have business enterprise, and before the project has come on board. i am here to request to the commissioners with the manager, to review how best you can have those entities in the community to prepare as the others that have native plants. and some prime contractor needs to deal with the native plants. clearing the bushes. understanding the endangered species. we can do that type of training months before it happens. it is easy. at the as i did it at the presidio. i have the experts that can put it all in writing if you want to. i am here to suggest, i can't mandate. there are many people out there who think in that manner. the same issue came up, and they have that vacuum. those are th

mr. miller's residence, what have you. he has made a good-faith effort to try to work with all the stakeholders and bob, -- stakeholders involved, so i am with that with that one request. thank you. good evening, commissioners. my name is -- come in a recently relocated back to san francisco in january of this year. most recently, i was living in china, the people's republic, the communist country, and before that, i worked in seattle in amsterdam. i have come back here for a reason, because of the arts and culture and music in my life. i am 39 years old, and i feel i am responsible to do so. our cultural here is based on bards, sharron, and i first came to visit when i was in the marine corps and was stationed in monterrey. it astonished me, and it was because of that openness. i have watched people moved in, and nightclubs have been having permit issues, and a lot of live music venues have ceased to exist, and at this point, i want to thank you for keeping the metlife alive as much as you have, but i would also say the w

mr. miller is giving us a heads aware this is really going.o you really need that to stay in business? if you can't answer to the affirmative i think you will be disavowed from creating those products that really do deal with your community like ms. anderson suggested. we have a very unusual circumstance that will never come to the attention of a federal regulator. there are 50 states, hundreds of thousands of communities and the chances of them looking at this are not great. we will only consider what you have to do to stay in business. we are not going to approve it. we see that in the federal government. they don't give approvals that are required. we are giving jobs off of the coast of louisiana. why not give permits that require them? .. >> what's going to happen is that a product is not going to be approved because it maybe can't differentiate between whether or not it's race-based or not. the product is simply going to be disallowed, and the people who desperately need access to that credit are not going to have it. i will see that circ

mr. miller? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, do you think it's time that there was some type of resolution, either judicial, i guess it would have to be judicial about this conflict on the war powers act between the legislature and the executive body? >> i'm not going to wade into that, mr. miller. that's up to the congress and up to the president. >> did i hear you say that the president would appreciate a vote on a resolution of support from this congress on our nation's involvement in libya? >> that such a resolution would be welcome, yes. >> would you be willing to speculate what that vote would be? >> no, sir. >> could you or admiral mullen discuss our plans, if any, regarding arming the rebels? they seem to be getting their butts whipped. >> well, consistent with what the secretary said, we know few of their leaders but there's just a whole lot more we don't know. and so we certainly are looking at options from not doing it to doing it. there's a fairly standard way to do this, to train and equip that we are fam

mr. miller? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, do you think it's time that there was some type of resolution, either judicial, i guess it would have to be judicial about this conflict on the war powers act between the legislature and the executive body? >> i'm not going to wade into that, mr. miller. that's up to the congress and up to the president. >> did i hear you say that the president would appreciate a vote on a resolution of support from this congress on our nation's involvement i libya? >> that such a resolution would be welcome, yes. >> would you be willing to speculate what that vote would be? >> no, sir. >> could you or admiral mullen discuss our plans, if any, regarding arming the rebels? they seem to be getting their butts whipped. >> well, consistent with what the secretary said, we know few of their leaders but there's just a whole lot more we don't know. and so we certainly are looking at options from not doing it to doing it. there's a fairly standard way to do this, to train and equip that we are fami

mr. miller. mr. miller: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objection. mr. miller: we have heard how the house republican budget is courageous and bold. but this is not cramings or bold. it's not courageous to throw head start kids out of their classroom and continue subsidies to oil companies with their record profits. it's not bold to cut pell grants and retain incentive for companies to ship jobs overseas. it's not bold to make future generations of americans more dependent, not less, on dangerous dictators and fossil fuels. it's neither bold nor courageous to end medicare for seniors shifting thousands of dollars of costs onto the backs of the elderly to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. for 45 years, seniors have relied on medicare to provide health care in their retirement years. the republican budget within that guarantee. seniors would no longer be guaranteed coverage for basic health items like diabetes and cancer screening. what insurance company is going to write an individual policy for a 70-yea

tarullo or mrs. miller, either one, we've had either discussion -- i remember in the hearing room when volcker talked about the volcker rule. it ended up being part of dodd-frank. and i'm out, as i know all of you are, and certainly my colleagues, we talk with these -- with banks throughout our country. small community banks and others about the examiner charge and the examiner charge that comes into their institution, basically their attitude, their understanding about whatever regulator they're working with changes pretty dramatically how their bank's status is interpreted. the examiner in charge is basically king. as you look at the volcker room, again, mr. volcker, whom i respect greatly, couldn't really describe to us what prop trading is. you just know it when you see it. how will you institutionalize the volcker rule when you have these people that have judgment? i don't know how you do that properly. i'd love to have any help with understanding that. >> so i think -- there are a couple of things. fi

mr. miller: mr. speaker, one year ago this house overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that would have prevented children from being abused in classrooms, but unfortunately it never became law. in the years since then, children have suffered and been abused in school and parents have felt completely helpless. the 2009 government accountability office told our committee of the shocking wave of abuse by untrained school staff that were misusing emergency interventions. most of these victims were children with disabilities. some were 3 and 4 years old. in some cases children died. restraints seclusion should be used only as a last resort by trained professionals but the g.a.o. found that was not the case. this is an unacceptable and yet it is a reality for too many children across the country. a media report out yesterday highlights these horrific abuses continued through this past year. in chicago a 4-year-old boy's wrists were taped together because he refused to take a nap and didn't wash his

miller. and finally, two giants living legends, hall of famer mr. willy makati and hall of famer, the greatest mr. willie mays. [applause] how about a big hand for all of our special guests, everyone? [applause] we would like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners, bank of america, caw, levi's, coors and miller, sales force.com, diamond foods, and charles schwab who helped make this possible. we would like to recognize broadcast partners knbr 680, the sports leader, comcast sports net bay area and nbc bay area, who bring giants baseball to our fans all season long and who have made it possible for today's event to be watched by giants fans throughout northern california. now, everyone, let's get this show on the road. let's get this party started. it is my great pleasure to introduce two members of the best broadcast team in all of baseball -- please welcome dave fleming and john miller. [applause] >> thank you for that. i always thought that this must be what it is like to be code, to go out to st. peter's on the b

mr. chairman. assistant secretary miller, on our second panel today we will hear from the treasurer of fmc, a large manufacture, manufacturing company here in the u.s. who has grave concerns are going to his testimony about the excessive regulations mandated by dodd-frank. his testimony indicates that these regulations will increase operating costs, making it more difficult for his company to both create jobs and manage risk. do you believe that fmc manufacturing company end user is a type of company that should be regulated under dodd-frank? and the treasury had any concerns about the potential consequences of dodd-frank derivatives regulation on job creation? have you done any work in this area? >> thank you for the question. we've heard a great deal from end-users, nonfinancial and financial comment in the markets. and i think that there's sufficient flexibility in the dodd-frank legislation to work with a company like fmc in terms of providing flexibility under derivatives regulation. >> in other words, a company that is an end-user that is managing risk but not in pure financial speculation, i

everyone in california and possibly across the country, as george miller introduced the bill, a national day. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. boyd. at this time we'll open it up for public comment. two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm patrick from the san francisco public authority. i thought since mike said so much about ed, i'd say a little bit about mike. mike, as you know, has been on our board for many years. he's been involved in disability politics for about 40 years. he's a home-care worker himself. he was a specialist assistant to ed roberts and traveled all over the world with him teaching disability politics. he's also been a union steward. he represents -- continues to represent the public authority at many conferences, and i wanted to add he also has the full support of -- of staff liaison and also his fellow board members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you so much for being here. we really appreciate the work that ihsf does for our city. any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comments is now closed. colleagues, we have two applicant for two seats and we have a motion. >> sur

, jan, david meckel, javier, sergio, matt miller, john ring, francois, andrienne, ben, kate, mary beth sanders, kim, brigitte, matt, tom, and arnie larson. >> mr. president chiu, i am here to support this project as emphatically as i can. unlike the sponsors, in human. about that money, let's be real. there are a lot of campaign contributions lying around. is this about building the kind of neighborhood that we have witnessed here tonight? building on the sinking sand? i know there is perhaps a supervisor year or two. with a "ph," for the closed captioning, like sarah palin. with the ambient -- they will need a lot of money. i urge you to think about your future. the displacement of the doctor, the chair of the program. dr. terrance -- no, but all of that aside. think of you! president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. i am with the local and san francisco. i urge you to reject the appeal. i think the environmental report is adequate. when this project is done, you're going to avoid all of those commuters. another thing is there was a lot of noise about local hiring. zero planning. it is not 20%. i urge you to reject this. than

governor miller, if you go from the ground that you would need a lot less people, would you? >> you're right, mr. chairman, and you're right on the basic principle. but as i understand it, correct me if i'm wrong, but $3.8 billion testament includes the problems of diminishing the numbers. so under this contract because businesses contract, you don't realize all the benefits right away. is correct if you think about it. that is if you're going to be contracting very fast, how do you break down the number of employees as rapidly as -- >> i have two more things in a short time remaining. mr. guffey, usage of a 1600-dollar retirement. now, that's your retirement basically funner military service, right? >> no. >> that is your postal service retirement. >> yes. >> you have any other entitlement coming out in the future. >> no, that's it. >> i want to make sure we understood that. i've got a chart i want to put up very briefly. this is the crux of one of our challenges. all of you have been talking up refining and overfunding. when you look at that chart through 2016 which is the end of the pre-fundi

mrs. thorps. there was one of his classmates at carlisle, issa miller, whom she married. >> a white woman. >> sheas white but she claimed to be indian. because it was a school for indians, you're supposed to be american indian. and she fudged the records and got in but was not really indian at all. they divorced about 1924, '25, and he married frieda kirkpatrick, who was much younger than he was. he had four children with the first wife. the first son died at age 3 and it was a horrible tragedy and i think affected him for the rest of his life. three daughters survived. second wife he has four sons. two of those sons survive today. they were divorced. and he married in 1945, patsy thorpe, who is the woman he is married to when he dice and she was quite a difficult person. >> why? >> she was fierce in her -- on the good side she really felt he got a bum deal and he wasn't charging enough in speaking engagements and he wasn't using his image good enough and she fought like a lion to get him a better deal and she also spent a lot of it. she almost scotched the deal for warner deal, she bugged the st

mrs. thorpes. there was one of his classmates at carlyle, iva miller, whom he married -- >> host: white woman?>> guest: white. she claimed to be -- in order to get into carlyle, you had to have what they called a blood quantum, and they would measure it. this was a government-instituted thing. but because it was a school for indians, you were supposed to be american indian, and she fudged the records and got in but was not really indian at all. they divorced about 1924, '25, and he married frieda kirkpatrick who was much younger than he was. he had four children with the first wife. the first son died at about age 3 which was a horrible, horrible tragedy, and i think affected him for the rest of his life. three daughters survived. with the second wife he had four sons. two of those sons survive today. they were divorced, he and frieda, in 1939, and he marries in 1945 patsy thorpe who is the woman he is married to when he dies. and she was quite a difficult person. >> host: why? >> guest: she was fierce in her -- on the good side, she really felt he had gotten a bum deal, and he wasn't charging

mr. banks sings to his young kids: "a british bank is run with precision, a british home requires nothing less." and a british wedding in the house of windsor? michelle millerires precision the likes of which we've rarely seen. >> reporter: the whole operation works like a well-oiled machine. as soon as the engagement was announced, buckingham palace switched into high gear. and the polishing began, from the brass on the royal carriages to the brass band of the household cavalry. everything is being sliced and diced to perfection as the palace staff preps for a wedding reception for 600. >> canapes and champagne for 600 isn't a big deal for buckingham palace. >> reporter: really? >> no, not a big deal. >> reporter: not for sir malcolm ross-- lieutenant colonel sir malcolm ross-- who began working for the royal family in 1987. now a consultant, he planned three royal weddings, including prince charles and camilla's. he also planned princess diana's funeral and the queen's golden jubilee. are you glad you have a military background? >> it's terribly useful, yes, because it teaches you to think in a straightforward way, and you plan and plan and plan. >> repor

mr. chairman. >> the gentleman dr. mcdermott is recognized for five minutes. >> i think you gentlemen understand what you're being made part of today. it's the re-enactment of a play by arthur miller called the crucible. is a play about witches in salem and the evidence had to be found that these women were controlled by the devil. your sin as you know is that you back to the affordable care act. now, i'm sure the chairman has a long list of other groups that are going to be brought in here, and ensure that the pharmaceutical industry will be brought in here because they got a deal they don't negotiate pharmaceutical prices that credited secretary sebelius has prevented from negotiating better prices for seniors. pharmaceutical industry i think they must have gotten a pretty good deal on that. that was put in back when they put in the drug benefit of two years ago, and they said you couldn't negotiate better prices for seniors. you could do it for veterans, quite a bit for them before the, 50, 60%, but you couldn't do it for seniors, so the pharmaceutical industry cost quite a bit in there and they support it. i am sure we are going to have them in here to go over their finances a

mr. chairman. >> the gentleman dr. mcdermott is recognized for five minutes. >> i think you gentlemen understand what you're being made part of today. it's the re-enactment of a play by arthur miller called the crucible. is a play about witches in salem and the evidence had to be found that these women were controlled by the devil. your sin as you know is that you back to the affordable care act. now, i'm sure the chairman has a long list of other groups that are going to be brought in here, and ensure that the pharmaceutical industry will be brought in here because they got a deal they don't negotiate pharmaceutical prices that credited secretary sebelius has prevented from negotiating better prices for seniors. pharmaceutical industry i think they must have gotten a pretty good deal on that. that was put in back when they put in the drug benefit of two years ago, and they said you couldn't negotiate better prices for seniors. you could do it for veterans, quite a bit for them before the, 50, 60%, but you couldn't do it for seniors, so the pharmaceutical industry cost quite a bit in there and they support it. i am sure we are going to have them in here to go over their finances a

mr. mcdetermine not, dr. mcdetermine not is recognized for -- mcdermott is recognized for five minutes. >> i think you gentleman what you are made part of today. it is reenactment after play by arthur miller called "the crucible". it was a play about witches in salem and the evidence had to be found that these women were all controlled by the devil. your sin, as you may no, is that you backed the affordable care act. now, i'm sure that the chairman has a long list of other groups that are going to be brought in here. i'm sure that the pharmaceutical industry will be brought in here because they got a deal that we can't negotiate pharmaceutical prices or prohibited, mrs. sebelius is prohibited, secretary sebelius is prohibited from negotiating better prices for seniors. pharmaceutical industry, i think they must have caught pretty good deal on that. that was put in, you remember, back when they put in the drug benefit a few years ago and they said you couldn't negotiate better prices for seniors. you could do it for veterans. saved a quite a bit for them. maybe, 40, 50, 60% but you couldn't do it for seniors. so the pharmaceutical industry caught quite a benefit in there. and they supporte

miller. i did spend several years there, and work with hillary clinton's staff in my role as speechwriter to the president. and i'm just one is mrs. mcbride misses it? >> guest: i don't miss the precious everyday. i don't miss getting about 5 a.m. and being at my desk at seven and getting home at 10, 10:30 p.m. that i don't miss that. i have young children. my children were three years old and three months old when i went back into the white house and there was a lot of time i spent away from them. but i knew it was temporary. i knew it would be exciting. i knew it would be demanding. so i don't miss the demands on my schedule. i think a couple things i miss, and i'm sure you feel, you miss having that camaraderie of people that you are working with together in all trying to do important things together in a short period of time. i miss the ability on a daily basis to really get some terrific things done. you know, that you know impacts a lot of people so you just have to find other ways to do that. >> host: we will stay at purdue. carolyn. 's back jacob miller has the next question. >> thank you. you spoke about the process made

mr. chairman. >> the gentleman from washington, dr. mcdermott is recognized for five minutes. >> i think you gentlemen understand what you are being made part of today. it is a re-enactment of a play by arthur miller called "a crucible." it was a play about witches in salem, and the evidence had to be found that these women were all controlled by the devil. your sin, as you may know, is that you back the affordable care act. now, i am sure the chairman has a long list of other groups that will be brought in here. a am sure of that the pharmaceutical industry will be brought in here because they got a deal that we cannot negotiate pharmaceutical prices -- secretary kathleen sebelius -- kathleen sebelius has prohibited from negotiating to better prices for seniors. the pharmaceutical industry, i think they must have caught a pretty good deal on that. that was put in one they put in the drug benefit a few years ago, and they said you could not negotiate better prices for seniors. you could do it for veterans, say quite a bit for them, maybe 30%, 40%, 50%, but you could not do it for seniors at the pharmaceutical companies caught quite a benefit in there, and they supported it. i am sure we will have