mr. murphy. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, commissioners the matter is submitted. >> i have a question for mr. sanchez. when we hear testimony that your agency should have reached out to the applicant, when they don't show up multiple times, would that be your protocol to reach out to the applicant, in this case the architect, rather than the property owner? >> thank you, scott sanchez, planning department. in hearing the jurisdiction requestor's testimony this evening and i think getting a better understanding of the facts of the matter, actually the department would not oppose the jurisdiction request at this time. i would agree that the department does bear responsibility for contacting the appropriate party. we did have a meeting with staff and mr. murphy and mr. pollard and i believe at that time it seemed pretty clear to staff that mr. pollard was an agent, an authorized agent of the property owner. so i don't fault staff for making that mistake, but certainly i could be more proactive in ensuring, especially

mr. murphy came to the hearing for the variance. it was postponed. mr. murphy left for ireland for the summer. as far as we know our consultant was working with planning staff. he was not in contact with me or mr. murphy. a hearing got scheduled, i wasn't notified about the hearing. normally i'm the applicant and i get a call or letter telling me to go down and pick up the poster and bring it out to the site. and that has happened in every case. in this case it didn't happen. my understanding is that a letter was sent to mr. murphy's house. mr. murphy wasn't home during the summer. he was in ireland with his family. the variance was denied based on us not being there. i got a letter in late august. i called mr. murphy, unfortunately there was a family tragedy at the time i called. my client, mr. murphy it's father-in-law had gotten very ill and proceeded to die. when i called helmet, he was in the process of making arrangements to have the deceased brought back to the united states and to be buried. so it was a series of errors, partly on our fault, on ou

mr. murphy. >> this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board for items not on today's agenda. i have received two speaker cards. [ reading speakers' names ] >> good afternoon miss hale. >> good afternoon and happy new year. i'm vera hale and i'm a member of the advisory council to the department of aging and adult services. and some of us became very concerned when we read that you were considering at some point eliminating age-based discounts. now we think the senior discount is very important and should be larger, but one of the things that we need to keep in mind is that if you do eliminate it, it would be a disaster for seniors. seniors, there are 155,000 seniors in san francisco. that is 19.2% of the population. and it's growing. as you know, baby-boomers are increasing. the older americans act considers people who are 60 to be seniors. and there are 44 nutrition sites in the city and about 2,000 people go everyday -- not everyday, but go to these 44 sites and most of them go on muni and sometimes they go on one, two or three buses. to start segregating people whe

mr. murphy of connecticut. mr. nelson of florida. mr. sanders of vermont. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? the group: i do. the vice president: congratulations, senators. [applause] the vice president: the clerk will call the names of the next group. the clerk: mr. scott of south carolina. ms. stabenow of michigan. mr. tester of montana. ms. warren of massachusetts. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this oblig

mr. murphy here, therefore, there is no citizens advisory council report. as you stated earlier, you would like, then, to proceed to item 11 on the regular calendar. >> we will come back to the consent calendar and general public comment after that. okay. >> item 11, authorizing the director to determine the feasibility of central subway project option 4 for the removal of tunnel boring machines. >> garv. >> good afternoon, chairman nolan, director rifkin, central subway program director. before you is our request to pursue two north beach tvm retrieval options resulting from a meeting held on november 19th facilitated by supervisor david chiu. director rifkin and i met with the members of north beach community and [speaker not understood] the community's concern to minimize surface disruption on columbus avenue between union and powell streets. [speaker not understood] discussionses with north beach community groups including renew sf, washington square park, friends of washington square park, telegraph hill dwellers, joining the development of the final s

mr. murphy of connecticut. mr. nelson of florida. mr. sanders of vermont. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegice to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? the group: i do. the vice president: congratulations, senators. [applause] the vice president: the clerk will call the names of the next group. the clerk: mr. scott of south carolina. ms. stabenow of michigan. mr. tester of montana. ms. warren of massachusetts. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without

mr. murphy. >> yes, sir. >> shares are down about 21% since that call. what do you think now? >> i'm along the name -- i'm still long, still holding it. it was around 18 that day, two weeks ago, it is currently 16 1/4. it ran up close to 22. icon stepped away. he had 10% of the float. he is telling a ton of stock. down here at 16 it is trading at a multiple more than the publicly traded rail cars pep and there will be consolidation in this space. whether it is icon or mr. buffet, being in the name at 16, we have bought more and i love the name at green levels. it is a buy. >> it is tough to buy losers and sell winners. let's play a little hold-em, fold-em. first, delta trading at its highest level at january 2011. up more than 60% over the past year. doc, what are you doing with this one? >> i'm buying it. i also bought lcc which is u.s. air. both of them are very fast money flows several times over the past couple of weeks, judge. but these both hitting again today. that's why i'm holding and delta and u.s. air. >> how about cvs care, mark? stock is trading at all-time highs.

mr. murphy, for five minutes. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, thank you also for your service and friendship to our country. watching the media, mr. speaker, and hearing a lot of distortion of what happened in the house chamber yesterday. let's recall that on december 31 at midnight taxes went up for every taxpayer. massively. the fiscal cliff. by the end of the evening the house came together, working with the senate, and reduced taxes for 99% of american taxpayers. we kept taxes lower for dividend income, capital gains. we maintained the higher child tax credit. we helped keep the marriage penalty from hurting families. and we did this in a permanent way. this is a big win. we have a lot of work to do, but that was a big win. now, the president also promised that he would work with us to have further cuts in spending. we should hold him to that promise on both sides of the aisle. we have several serious issues to come in this congress. the 113th congress. we have to deal with the debt ceiling. spending cuts. implementation and regulat

mr. murphy: madam speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. if adopted the bill will be amended and immediately proceed to final passage. madam speaker, i appreciate that the republican leadership has put forward legislation that would raise the nation's debt ceiling, agreeing it is not an option for the united states to default on its obligations. i also support that members of congress should not be paid if they do not do their jobs. part of which is to pass a responsible budget, but i do not agree with the political gamesmanship of once again playing politics with our serious fiscal issues and using short-term gimmicks rather than working to find long-term solutions. we need to stop playing games with the debt ceiling and spend our time in energy on job creation. i supported a clean debt limit bill, however, because in this version congressional pay has been tied directly to passing a budget, it is important to ensure that the budget that is passed is responsible and protects our most vulnerable citizens. my amendment wou

mr. chairman. >> senator murphy. senator sanders. >> i think senator murkowski had an engagement and wanted to ask one question. >> thank you. i have a meeting with senator shelby to help organize the appropriations committee and that will take me -- thank you -- to the questions for dr. insel and dr. hyde. what we are hearing is effected intervention whether it is autism or chronic schizophrenia is research, treatment and the work force to make some. my question to each one of view, the issue of research and workforce, particularly research, dr. insel, what are the consequences of sequester, work at the national institute international institute of mental health? you have talked about this outstanding work you are doing. what will happen? >> at this point what we are looking at is 6.4% reduction in the 2013 budget and that will come if it happens in march or april. >> what are the consequences? >> certain studies we would like to do are not going to be done and one of the major project we are involved with is highly

mr. chairman, for this up -- unbelievably important hearing. thank you. >> thank, senator franken. senator murphy. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, excited to be a part of the committee and with a fans tas tick panel. i'll get out of the way so you can provide testimony. i'll say this, having chair the health committee in the state legislature in virginia for years, we grappled with this problem year after year, and i remember specifically a meeting i had with about, maybe 15 or 20 medical students at the university of connecticut, and at some point in the meeting, we talked about the affordable care agent and how it could help medical students, talking about the issue of the high level of indebtedness, and i asked how many are considering, not committed to, but considering going into primary care, and of the 15 students around the table, one raised their hand. one was only even considering it. we started to examine the question as to why they didn't even have it on their mind. certainly, dollars were the first thing they mentioned. all of them would have extreme levels of indebtedness, even

mr. chairman for this unbelievably important hearing. thank you. >> thank you, senator. senator murphy? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i'm excited to be here with a fantastic panel. i will get out of the way so you can provide us with your testimony. let me just say this having chair on the health committee we grapple with this problem year after year. i remember one meeting i had with about 15 or 20 medical students of connecticut. at some point, we were talking about the affordable care act and how it could help medical students. we were talking about the high level of debt. i asked them how many are considering going into primary care? of the 15 students one raised their hand. only one was considering it. we started to exam this question on why they did not have it on their mind and certainly was the dollars is the first thing they mentioned. they could not figure out how they would make it work with the sally they would make as a primary care physician. as you tease a deerp answer out of each of them the second thing is press tidge. they did not feel there was any prestiege an

murphy? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. secretary clinton, i approached this hearing with some degree of sadness. it's my first and your last. but i am so appreciative of your service. you've done such credit to this nation. and we will be sorry to see you go. we know that you will continue to give us good counsel and advice in the coming years. i think if some people on this committee want to call the tragedy in benghazi the worst since 9/11, it misunderstands the nature of 4,000 americans plus loft over ten years of war in iraq fought over false pretenses. it was fought under false pretenses but also fought i think because we had a misunderstanding of what we could do and manage in that region, what was under our control. and i guess my question to you, secretary clinton, is about what our expectations are going forward in north africa. and i think you've referenced this in your opening remarks about what is under our control. one of our criticisms in the review board was that we didn't have a full understanding of this c

murphy. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. secretary clinton, i approached this hearing with some degree of sadness, it's my first and your last. but i am so appreciative of your service. you've done such credit to this nation and though we will be sorry to see you go, we know you will continue to give us good counsel and advice in the coming years. i think some people on this committee want to call the tragedy in benghazi the worst since 9/11, it misunderstands the nature of 4,000 americans plus lost over ten years of war in iraq fought under false pretens pretenses. it was fought under false pretenses and also fought because we have a misunderstanding of what we could do and manage in that region. what was under our control. i guess my question to you, secretary clinton, is about what you're expectations are going forward in north africa. you referenced this in your opening remarks about actually what is under our control. one of the criticisms in the review board was that we didn't have a full understanding of this complica

mr. chairman for this unbelievably importune hearing. >> thank you, senator franken. senator murphy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. excited to be with this committee and a fantastic panel and knock it out of the way so you can provide us with your testimony. let me say having chaired the house committee in the state legislature, we grappled with this problem year after year. i remember specifically one meeting i had with maybe 15 or 20 medical students at the university of connecticut and at some point we were talking about the affordable care act and how it can help medical students talking about this issue of the high level of indebtedness. i asked how many of you are considering going into primary care. at the 15 students, one raise their hand. only one considered it. we started to examine the question as to why they did have it on their mind. certainly dollars for the first thing they mention. i would have indebtedness even out of state university and couldn't figure academy at work with the salary they would make as a primary care physician. as you start to tease a deeper answer f

murphy? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i worry about our ability to micromanage this problem. a lot of the ideas we are talking about are incredibly important. but whether it is great setting or loan forgiveness programs -- i am sometimes more attractive to the idea of resetting the marketplace itself to give the marketplace more reason to invest in primary care. one of the things we talked about is how this delivery system based on a bigger systems of care, that it may lend -- it may help solve this prestige issue. if you are in charge of specialists as opposed to referring out to specialists, you feel better about your work. there is a theory that says if you have more primary-care doctors working for organizations rather than working on their own and you have an aco that is getting a payment to take care of a big group of patients, the aco is going to be incentivize to pay its primary care physicians more. that will help keep the delta of whatever they say. you already see that happening. more primary-care physicians are going to work for hospitals, more hospitals are start

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. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman, secretary clinton, i approach this hearing with some degree of sadness. it is my first and, your last but, i am so appreciative of your service. you've done such credit to this nation and we will be sorry to see you go. we know you will continue to give us good counsel and good advice in the coming years. i think if some people on this committee want to call the tragedy in benghazi the worst since 9/11, it misunderstands the nature of 4,000 americans, plus, lost over 10 years of war in iraq fought under false pretenses. it was fought under false pretenses but it was also fought i think because we had a misunderstanding of what we could do and what we could manage in that region, what was under our control. and i guess my question to you, secretary clinton, is about what our expectations are going forward in north africa? i think you referenced this in your opening remarks about actually what is under our control. one of the criticisms in the review board was that we didn't h

murphy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary clinton, i approached this hearing, it is my first and your last. i am appreciative of your service. you have done such credit to this nation. we will be sorry to see you go. we know you will continue to give us good counsel in the years to come. some people want to call the tragedy in benghazi the worst since 9/11. it misunderstands the nature of 4000 americans plus lost in iraq under false pretenses. it was also fought because we had a misunderstanding of what we could do and what we could manage in that region. what was under our control. my question to you, secretary clinton, is about what our expectations are going for it. -- forward in north africa. i think you reference to this in your opening remarks about what is actually under our control. one of the criticisms in the review board was that we did not have a full understanding of this complicated set of allegiances between the hottest -- jihadist groups that are shifting on a daily basis. i worry when we do this ret

murphy. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, senator kerry. i'm sorry that our careers in the senate will only overlap far few weeks. i want to thank you, for those in our corner of the country who have come in to public service in the last ten to twenty years it's been your example that inspired many of us to do so. your ability to both position yourself as a spokesman for the franchise and dispossessed but also as a -- our country's interest. i think there are a lot of that came to public service in part of your work for our region. i thank you for that. i want to spend my short time turning to the asia-pacific region. and specifically spending a little bit of time on china as well. secretary clinton in a speech gave in singapore sometime back crafted a great but very simple phrase about how today for the first time in modern history you can become a global superpower through the power of your economy. not by the power of your military. china is obviously the best example of that. it has now turned the focus to military mite as well. in conn

mr. heslin is speaking or we'll clear the room. >> a moment last night when neil heslin was shouted down by gun advocates. he's back with senator chris murphy. let me turn to you, senator, if i may, first, this situation with the nra. you've done a lot of investigation into the genuine effectiveness of their political strategy because there is the perception that they're well armed with cash and they go off to politicians who are potentially against their commercial interests and they get them ousted. in reality, how successful are the nra at doing that? >> well, they're much less successful than they used to be, and that's the point that i'm trying to make to my colleagues. because i have a feeling that there are a lot of republicans and democrats that know exactly what the right thing to do is here. they know that if they want to make it less likely that there's a school shooting in their district, that they should join us, join the parents of newtown and pass a strong gun reform measure that gets these high capacity magazines off the streets and puts in background checks for every assault weapon that's sold in this country, but they fear

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. let's see, senator murphy. senator sanders? >> i think senator mikulski had an engagement that she wanted to ask one question. >> thank you, senator sanders. i have a meeting with senator shelby to recognize the appropriations committee and that will take me -- to the questions for dr. insel and dr. hyde. i think that what we are hearing today is effective intervention, whether it is all to some or chronic schizophrenia, its research, its treatment and the work force to make things happen. so my question to each one of you is to take the issue of research and perhaps a work force, but particularly research. dr. insel what would be the research on the work the national institutes of mental health? we've talked about this outstanding work that you are doing. what will happen? >> at this point, we will -- what we are looking at is a 6.4% reduction in the 2013 budget come in and of course that will come if it happens sometime in march or april. >> what are the consequences? >> certain studies that we would like that are not going t