mr. murphy is here. good afternoon, mr. murphy. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman and directors. i'm daniel murphy, i'm the chair of the m.t.a. citizens advisory council. first of all, i want to extend the welcome to director ramos. welcome to the sfmta and also to invite director ramos to attend any of our c.a.c. meetings. all members of the m.t.a. board are always welcome at these meetings, and if you're interested in when they happen, they're on the m.t.a. website and also ms. boomer can direct you to the correct time and date and what's being discussed at those meetings. so welcome. we look forward to meeting you. >> thank you. >> i also want to express my thanks to executive director ford. it has been, as i was reminded before this meeting, 5 1/2 years. we have worked very productively with the executive director. we have made many demands on his time and staff time and he has been most aecom dating in those. -- most accommodating in those. we have been glad to be included in many of the major undertakings this organization has gone through in the last 5 1/2 years, particular

mr. murphy, will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-181. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. rush: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-181 offered by mr. rush of illinois. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 370, the gentleman from illinois, mr. rush, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. rush. mr. rush: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today is the day on fast tracking the keystone pipeline by two months. reminds me of a saying that eloquently sums up the fight before this congress. nonsense minus common sense is nonsense. our nation safety for the american people, including the economy and jobs. it is incomprehensible that we are here debating a bill that is totally and absolutely unnecessary, completely futile and not even worth

mr. murphy is not in the audience today so there will be no report. number seven is public comment. members of the public may address the board. nobody has turned in a speaker card. this item 8, approving an employment agreement with deborah johnson to serve as acting -- >> there is a change to #eight? >> we have one member of the public to speak. you want to speak, come forward. >> good afternoon, directors. when any [unintelligible] why is it happening and who is the target. anything happening against the mta is very well watched in this city hall corridors. we made many efforts and we mentioned this morning in e- mail's that we are trying to talk to debra johnson but she is not attempting to make any effort to speak with us. about this 5% imposed on the driver's and there are other cities where 5% as charged, but they know the fact that in other cities, it is way cheaper than san francisco. san francisco, drivers pay $104. in chicago, drivers pay $50. that is no competitor to san francisco. in other cities, there is no competitor with san francisco. $104 is the highest rate drive

mr. murphy? commissioner murphy: this ordinance, since it started, this one department has done a pretty good job, spearheaded by john.

mr. murphy? commissioner murphy: this ordinance, since it started, this one department has done a pretty good job, spearheaded by john. looking at this, you did a great job. sure, there might be a few kinks that need to be worked out, but you are certainly on the right track. commissioner lee: with the department like to answer back on how the public can report these vacant buildings? >>

mr. murphy? commissioner murphy: this ordinance, since it started, this one department has done a pretty good job, spearheaded by john. looking at this, you did a great job. sure, there might be a few kinks that need to be worked out, but you are certainly on the right track. commissioner lee: with the department like to answer back on how the public can report these vacant buildings? >> first of all, starting this week, you can go online. i do not believe you will get a number. how it happens -- you can go on line and make a complaint starting this week. the process prior to this was either by mail, phone, or coming to the front counter. it is a vacant building, it would be taken and put into a box. there is a senior building inspector that is assigned to that box and he prioritizes it. a complaint like that would go to the sixth floor. it would need to be transported up there. but by the end of the close of business or within a few hours, there is a number given. once the number is given, it is

mr. murphy: mr. chairman, let me say at the outset that this is a terrible bill. this is the first time that i've come to the house floor to speak on it. and it goes without saying that the devastation that this underlying legislation would do to our frankly century-long history of environmental protection is almost inscribeble. the league of conservation voters said simply this, that this bill is the biggest assault on the air we breathe, the water we drink and the wildlife and wild places we hold dear to ever come before congress. it rolls back new vehicle emission standards, it guts the clean water act, it defunds the endangered species act. and in the middle of it all it adds an 80% cut to the land and water conservation fund, as my friend, representative bass, rightly pointed out. it essentially reverses 50 years of investment in land conservation by returning this account back to the 1965 level. it was a great republican president, teddy roosevelt, who first had the wisdom to understand how integral the open spaces of this country are to what it means to be

mr. murphy, last time indicated, it was a small number of landlords that were a problem. i agree with that. i have lived in rental units most of my life. this particular landlord, i have written letters to her and she does not respond. in terms of a director's hearing, nobody came to the directors hearing. commissioner hechanova: were the inspectors able to get into your unit to take a look? >> yes, i was there to open the door for them. this is seven days before an attempt was made -- commissioner hechanova: thank you. >> where are the priorities of dbi, if not for the city? the time that i went without heat, the low temperature was 37 degrees. the high temperature in the eight days was 54 degrees. i have lived in cold climates. i do not get that cold, but 45 degrees is cold, when you have that no heat for seven days. and nothing was done. i called dbi, and they come back and issue paper work. then it goes into the ether. thank you. commissioner hechanova: commissioner? commissioner walker: this has been helpful in dealing with the issue. i do think seven days without he

mr. murphy? treasure heinicke? >> first of all, let's talk about the switchback issue and your recommendation that we have platform announcements of the pending switchback, which assumes that at that point in the ride, the switchback is known or planned. currently, it is the case that if such a switchback is planned or known at the time of boarding in the market street corridor, the operator is making those announcements and letting folks know as they get on, correct? >> exactly. >> so what you're suggesting is that if it's a situation, and i think this board has called on if we're going to have switchbacks, let's know about them as soon as we can for this reason, is to supplement that operator instruction with the machine not only saying l taraval but l taraval that will end at sunset or something like that. >> yes. that is our recommendation. it's good when the driver makes the announcement. in my experience, that's uneven. >> that anticipated my next question. i'm sure staff will look at your recommendation abou

mr. murphy of connecticut. at the end of the bill before the short title insert the following, section, none of the funds made available by this act may be used to purchase noncombat vehicles for use outside of the united states if such vehicles are not substantially manufactured in the united states as defined in the defense federal acquisition regulation supplement. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. young: i reserve a point of order on the gentleman's amendment. the chair: the gentleman's point of order is reserved. the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for five minutes. mr. murphy: thank you, madam chair. since 2003 the defense department reports that it has spent approximately $1.3 billion to buy noncombat vehicles from foreign vehicle manufactures. -- manufacturers. you may ask, why is that? we have a law on the books that's called the buy american act. and it generally requires that when we are buying items for use by the u.s. military and they are available here

mr. murphy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. murphy: i rise in support of this resolution. setting preconditions on negotiations is just an excuse to maintain the status quo. if president abbas is serious about peace, he should focus all his energies and the nrblings of his people on negotiations with israel. an agreement won't be ease eesy but the outlines of an agreement are well known. all that's necessary now is leader -- leadership from both sides. we are a rock solid friend of israel and anyone who seeks peace with them but this means we stand against those who seek to circumvent the peace process by running to the u.n. yen assembly for a declaration that may score political points but will set back the peace process for years. now with turmoil on every board we are israel, we need to stand with them as an ally. we want peace. israel wants peace. peace can only happen with negotiations. all we are missing is a true palestinian partner. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i y

snyder later opined the surgery would have taken place hours earlier if the patient had been planned mrs. murphy. once again, eisenhower's out of commission for weeks. for the middle east, the timing could not have been worse. by the time ike returned to the white house on july 15th, 1956, john foster dulles decided to withdraw the american offer of 80 to the aswan project largely because congress was opposed to it. on july 19th, 1956, an important date, dulles in a 12 minute meeting, 12 minutes, obtained eisenhower's jacinta the decision to withdraw the offer of aid to aswan. ike was not on top of the issue. his recovery had been difficult. he had been plagued with doubts of depression. that afternoon, dulles informed of the egyptian investors the decision and the next day he proudly told some friends that the united states had made, quote, a big chess move and that nasser was now, quote, in a hell of a spot. a week later in retaliation, he nationalized the suez canal company saying he would use its profits to build the aswan. the british and french had controlled the company for decades. two-t

mr. murphy: thank you, madam speaker, in the five years leading up to the collapse in 2008, 67% of the new wealth created in this nation accumulated in hands of the richest 1%. they now control about 2/5 of all the money in this nation. but our republican friends block them out of their line of sight when they look to see who can pay for our mounting deficit. they see only social security recipients and medicare recipients and the disabled and hungry. it was bad enough that we were crazy enough as a nation to fight $two trillion dollar wars while cutting taxes for the wealthy. now republicans are asking only the most vulnerable to help pay for it. and threatening to collapse the world economy by defaulting on american debt at the same time. i won't stand for it, madam speaker. and my constituents won't, either. social security and medicare recipients didn't get us into two mismanaged wars. they didn't get the benefit of the bush tax cuts. and they shouldn't have to pay for it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida

mr. murphy, for five minutes. mr. murphy: thank you. well, while deliberations continue about dealing with our $14.3 trillion deficit or debt, while blixes continue on raising the debt -- deliberations continue on raising the debt ceiling, americans are concerned where we're going. june unemployment at 9.2% and the growth of only 18,000 jobs translates to a meager 360 jobs per state. now, when you look at how many high school students graduated in june, that's 3.7 million. colleges graduated more. it barely covers students at one typical college per state with a typical major. no wonder americans are worried about our economy when so many youth are entering the job market only to find there are no jobs. so while our leaders on both sides of the aisle are deliberating, unfortunately, too much in the media becomes a battle of words. let's keep in mind that one way to balance america's budget, one very important way to deal with america's debt is to grow jobs. for each 1% decline in unemployment, it's $90 billion per year in federal revenu

murphy described that method of getting care, mr. speaker, you know, it is exactly what we continue to talk about today of wanting to reward health care based on quality and not necessarily quantity. just strictly fee for service, a number of times you go to see a provider and that provider getting paid, albeit a small amount, it's not a very efficient way. and certainly a much more efficient way and we continue to talk about this, is to provide quality of care and dr. murphy correctly pointed out, mr. speaker, that's exactly what medicare advantage does. it offers quality of care and a wellness provision and you know, were we paying these plans a little too much for those services? i don't know. maybe, possibly. but if you're going to cut any amount, certainly 14%, $130 billion, is too much because that guts those plans but whatever savings you get out of medicare shouldn't they stay in the medicare program? if you believe the medicare actuary and the trustees that say if we don't do something by 2024, the trust fund, the hospital t

murphy. >> mr. chairman, if i, obviously, ebb force my colleagues -- endorse my colleagues' comments. however, i think it's important that we do not couple development aid simply to the fact that you've been a bad boy as a pirate. the economic aid has to be spread much more even-handedly, otherwise we're rewarding malfeasance. .. >> confident the u.s. and donor, other donors will stand up and, you know, provide the sufficient amounts of money. let me ask, if i could, on human trafficking, the human trafficking report, the report has just been released a week ago. and it points out that in previous years, trafficking victims were primarily trafficked within the country, from somali's south and central to putinland and somali land. the government made no known efforts to prevent it. i'm wondering if the international community, the government is tfg in your view are even aware that this problem is going unattended to. and obvious it's usually women and children who are the victims of human trafficking

mrs. mcpeek derided the fact that they were making fun of the irish in the united states, you know, things like i survived the kelly murphy family gathering, things like that. and they wrote letters poking fun at what i thought was a couragous op ed piece. so this is in response to the irish americans who don't feel the pride that they should. and please excuse if i manhandle the irish manner of speaking. this is a joke told to me by one of my friends. he said that an american, an irish american, was golfing with his wife on a weekend. and he hit the ball into the rough. went looking for it. all of a sudden, a leprechaun jumped up. we're back to the leprechaun theme. he said, top of the morning to you, lad. he says, you're a leprechaun. he says, yes, i am, and you have 3 wishes. three wishes? he says, yes. you have 3 wishes. i want to be a par golfer.. he says, no problem. from now on, par and under. he says, i want a porsche. he says, when you go home tonight, there will be a porsche in your garage. and he says, i want a million dollars. he says, done. when you go to the bank on monday, there will be a million dollars in

murphy or something. >> i i couldn't believe what you said to mr. ales on the way into this building. you ran from security wonderfully though. >> should the government send a message with a wave of layoffs? >> according to this it would be a wave of killoffs. that's the only way they could do it. >> why the hateful rhetoric? >> i denounce you and your green jacket. >> what are we talking about? from one kind of firing to another. the congressman had a gunman for a grandson. saturday night he was rudely interrupted when an armed intruder burst through his farm door and accosted his family. they grabbed the democrat's daughter and demanded money while boswell quickly responded by tackling the dude. the thug broke free and that's when leonard's grandson entered the scene and pointed a loaded shotgun at the crook who then responded by running away. on tuesday, 19-year-old cody john roland was arrested and charged with first degree -- patty anne brown, you are a criminal. we know that. anyway, was charged with first degree burglary and assault. but let's listen in as the 77-year-old congr

mr. sweeney talked about the burden that it would place on the personnel staff of dbi in recouping the money, but we are not talking about that $60,000. commissioner murphy: thank you. >> i would just like to ask the question, the priorities, is it with the burden of staff, recouping the money, or does it have to do with the health and welfare of citizens? thank you. >> is there any further public comment? seeing none. item 4. update on process for repairing properties with life safety issues. >> good morning, a commission. -- good morning, commission. i will be addressing life safety and then the chief inspector has a presentation. to repair a property with -- if it is an extreme life safety hazard -- we would have an emergency order. only then could we actually go in there and carry out repairs. we did something similar three weeks ago had a fire at 1400 mission street. two buildings caught fire. the building owner was not there. i called dpw and they boarded up the property. it had been some time before we have had to do that, but occasionally, we will get dpw. as far as i know, we have never contracted out to a private company to do that work for us

. >> congressman murphy is working down here to work with both sides. >> reporter: and about an hour after mr. obama spoke, the house administrative office sent out an alert that some phone systems were near capacity, with long wait times. we decided to check it out with one republican. we're here talking to members and their staff about the high volume of phone calls, e-mails, and even facebook messages they're getting from constituents about this debt ceiling vote. i'm going to go in here and talk to congressman tim murphy from pennsylvania. staffers here say the number of phone calls, e-mails, and faxes they're receiving has tripled since last week. what are they saying? where are they coming down on this debt ceiling vote? >> i guess the universal comment is "enough is enough." fix this problem. >> reporter: murphy who made up his mind to support the boehner bill in the last few days says he gets daily updates on constituents' comments. >> reporter: one thing a lot of constituents would ask is does my phone call or my e-mail or my facebook post really matter? has it asked how you made thi

mr. stanley mantooth, the ventura county superintendent of schools, thank you for coming. we also have with us today, marty murphymber of our national advisory council and does some amazing work with the organization facing history and ourselves. so marty. and also, her colleague, also from facing history and ourselves, miss mary hendra, thank you for coming. and we are also delighted to have christian limke, the program director at the arselan program, whose work focuses on youth civic engagement. he's also responsible for the attendance of some opportunities here who are giving commentary as we go through the program today. so thank you very much. also hello to our live audience of students and to people who are watching on the internet. thank you for spending about 90 minutes of your time today listening in on this very important conversation. at the end of the last millennium, time "life" magazine selected johan gutenberg's printing press as the single most important invention. it beat out the automobile, vaccines, telephones, airplanes, refrigerators, and even the personal computer. why? why is it that somet

mr. stanley mantooth, ventura county superintendent of schools. thank you for coming. [applause] we also have with us today marty tippens murphy, a member of our national advisory council and does amazing work with the organization, facing history and ourselves. [applause] and also her colleague from facing history and ourselves, ms. mary hendra, thank you for coming. [applause] and we are also delighted to have christian linke, program director at the arslin program whose work focuses on youth civic engagement, responsible for the attendance of mr. kenny and his students who are tweeting and facebooking and giving commentary through this program today. thank you very much. alsohello to our live audience of students and people watching on the internet. thank you for spending about 90 minutes of your time today listening in on this important conversation. at the end of the last millennium, "time life" magazine selected johan gut berg's printing press as the single most important invention, beating outaccines, telephones, refrigerators, and the personal computer. why? why is it something that helps mass produce books is consider

mr. stanley mantooth, ventura county superintendent of schools. thank you for coming. [applause] we also have with us today marty tippens murphy, a member of our national advisory council and does amazing work with the organization, facing history and ourselves. [applause] and also her colleague from facing history and ourselves, ms. mary hendra, thank you for coming. [applause] and we are also delighted to have christian linke, program director at the arslin program whose work focuses on youth civic engagement, responsible for the attendance of mr. kenny and his students who are tweeting and facebooking and giving commentary through this program today. thank you very much. also, hello to our live audience of students and people watching on the internet. thank you for spending about 90 minutes of your time today listening in on this important conversation. at the end of the last millennium, "time life" magazine selected johan gut berg's printing press as the single most important invention, beating out vaccines, telephones, refrigerators, and the personal computer. why? why is it something that helps mass produce books is cons

mr. stanley mantooth who is the ventura county superintentent of schools. thank you for coming. we also have with us today marty tipness-murphy who is a member of our national advisory council and does some amazing work with the organization facing history and ourselves. and also her colleague, also from facing history and ourselves, ms. mary hendra. thank you for coming. and we are also delighted to have christian linke who is the program director at thers a lynn program. whose work focuses on youth civic engagement. he's also responsible for sponsoring the attendance of mr. kenny and his students who are tweeting and face book g and giving -- facebooking and giving commentary as we go through the program today. and hello to our live audience of students and people who are watching on the internet. thank you for spending about 90 minutes of your time today listening in on this very important conversation. at the end of the last millennium, "time" life magazine selected a printing press as the single most important invention of the previous thousand years. it beat out inventions such as the automobile, vaccines, telephones, a