. >> i wanted to thank mr. nolan because the thing about the waving of the fees comes up because of a complaint mark made to you recently and then there was a meeting and the deputy director suggested waving the fees. i've been complaining about that for five years so my first gift from the mta would be $4500 which pails in comparison [inaudible] still be very welcome, especially consider what i just told you that made about $13,000 in four months. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you again. what you are in front of you in 10.7 is fantastic. it is a great start. it creates clear understanding that some of these fees need to be waived right now. if i had a choice we'd waive every fee. we've made tens of millions of dollars and the fees on the taxi industry have skyrocketed over the years and the industry's viewpoint, where the sfmta is making a lot of money in the sales of these medallions, where not a lot of money comes back to the industry, and yet the fees come up is really inappropriate. i know we've l

it's believed mr. nolansion. >> nolan's father was taken from the scene in an ambulance. he lived in the house with his son, who was killed either in the explosion or by the fire. >>> a railway company and three employees facing a lawsuit stemming from the massive train disaster that killed 47 people in canada. the workers are due in court on criminal negligence charges ten months after the run away oil train sped seven miles downhill and levelled dozens of buildings. investigators determined the brakes were not properly applied. >>> the white house says u.s. intelligence experts are combing over every detail of the video showing some of the kidnapped nigerian girls. u.s. drones providing surveillance of the area. >>> pro moscow, insurgents in eastern ukraine declared independence and seek to join russia following sunday's vote. russia is signaling it has no intention of annexing eastern ukraine the way it did crimea in march. the white house says the referendum is illegal and a further attempt to create div

mr. nolan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. nolan: madam speaker, i rise in support of the justice for victims of trafficking act and also as a proud original co-sponsor of the legislation. i want to join the chorus of people here in their praise for judge poe and for congresswoman maloney. for the tremendous work they have done over a number of years bringing this important legislation forward and for congressman goodlatte and for congressman scott likewise for bringing this forward. it is so troubling to know there are 300,000-some children that are being sold in the sex trafficking in this country and there are only some 300 beds for them, when attempts are made to rescue, as judge poe just pointed out. these children aren't in some foreign country. they're right here in our own back yards. these are our own children. we can do so much better, and our national law enforcement officials are fighting this terrible scourge, there are many organizations l

mr. fox. >> director nolan, and members of the board, i am here to recognize carlos pedros for the team and he's played a critical role for the team and agency to make it a more effective organization. when he first arrived he tackled the technology process and implemented improvements to save over 60%. and then after that he was the interim manager to help those providing the service for the users. as part of that it freed up for the technical staff to allow to deal with issues and freed up our staff at no extra cost. as an effort to streamline expenses carlos did an analysis of our telephone costs and finally he looked at the copier program and reduced by 25%. while all of these accomplishments from carlos are important and his steadfast systems to be effective makes him a great role model for our team. we are honored to have him as our team and to give him this award for his contributions. >> you want to stay a few words. >> on behalf of the board and directors, thank you for your outstanding and efficient work. >> chairman nolan, members of the board, director, thank you for this recogn

. >> it is believed mr. nolan was killed by the fire, or the explosion. >> reporter: the slain officer was part of the force for 15 years. he leaves behind a wife and two teenage daughters. robin? >> so incredibly sad. thank you. >>> now, to the desperate search for the missing schoolgirls. the government is talking with the terror group in nigeria. and american-manned missions are under way. they're trying to locate the girls. hamish macdonald is in nigeria with us for the latest. good morning, hamish. >> reporter: we can confirm that the government is talking to the syrian leadership of boko haram. this morning, the u.s. is sharing vital intelligence with nigeria, handing over satellite imagery, running manned surveillance flights, to help find those girls. this video may prove they're alive, claiming to show at least 100 of the missing, dressed in veils and chanting verses of the koran. the leader says they've been converted to islam. he wants to exchange the girls for prisoners. they're talking to leadership b

mr. nolan: jim passed away quite unexpectedly over the weekend. my wife and i and several other members of the house were with him just on wednesday night and jim was as fit as a fiddle, as he has ever been. i commented to another couple there that jim does a thousand pushups every day in addition to riding his bike and jim laughed and said, no i only do 100 pushups every day. so he was a remarkable person. i'm joined here today by our colleagues from minnesota, congressman ine, peterson, paulsen, walls and ellison to join me in this brief tribute. mr. speaker, jim's respect in this house was really quite unparalleled. i recall one day last year, jim came into the well of the house here and he was spotted by some of our colleagues and someone started to applaud him and the entire house burst into spontaneous applause, democrats, republicans, conservatives, liberals, the only time i'd ever seen anything like that happen before was when hubert humphrey walk into -- walked into the house of representatives when he was on his death bed. jim had a gian

mr. nolan: my amendment is construction in afghanistan over $500,000 unless the u.s. government can conduct proper oversight. most of which are outside the area in which our personnel can travel and operate safely and ll go unaccepted and unaudited. $60 bill of $100 billion are completely are completely unaccounted for. the blue area shows where our military and civilian personnel were allowed to travel and operate safely in the year 2009. the blue area in the second chart shows how the safe areas have been reduced. moreover since traditional banking services do not exist in these nonsafe areas, contracts are financed with truck loads of cash. perfect prescription for fraud, waste and abuse. time to stop it and our soldiers deserve better. i urge adoption of the amendment. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california, mr. mckeon is recognized. mr. mckeon: reserve. the chair: the gentleman from california, mr. mckeon reserves. the gentleman from california, mr. swalwell is recognized. mr. swalwell: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yi

nolan. i can't disagree with paul said and always loved mrs and all of what happened in this building. and paul and eric and it's very much consistent with what we've been saying for a number of years someone has suddenly report of may twenty ten so not much new for us and in the in what came out in the indian court case to answer her wonderful new parklands monk are booked and so it was not known to many surprises. people in this country are feeling very angry about what happened to andy and to try and get to most top trial. what you say to the people of art and too much i have to look towards the future and an. it seemed that with quick reading an environment in which got the bill was an insult just what happen in this trial took the whole world leader of the banking system the fate of the entire banking system and function and buy it and my ankle irish bank and in a way in ps. not again. and that's before we put together here that it's a costly regime. bought it a regime i think with which it is to bring the crows concert is known for bringing in new goal was to pick a new criminal