mr. sweeney and his senior staff. they tell me the only thing they can do is issue a notice of violation. they have no way to compel the landlord to make repairs. eventually, they go to a director's hearing and eventually they will be penalized. the penalty they have is nothing. in these three cases, they have not been penalized in any way. if they do not have the ability to force the landlord to make the repair, then we have to do something. we need to get legislation to do it. if you can do it, you have to direct them to do this. these are health and safety issues. these are not issues of [inaudible] this is health and safety. i aske you, how many days which you like to go without heat, when during that time the high temperature was 54 degrees? i am asking the commission. what is a reasonable time to repair no heat, or no hot water or electricity? commissioner lee: why don't we do this. this topic seems to -- why don't you have a seat and sit in on the next item and see what is being discussed. how we handle the not

mr. sweeney, taking them down, stomping on them, and killing them. >> i'm responding to their attempted laceration of me. and if you look at the youtube videos, what you're going to find is -- i see this at my town hall meetings all the time now. here's the last rule. if you want to screw with me, that's great. and if you do it in a polite arespectable way you'll get a polite respectable disaagreement back. but if you decide you want to take me for a walking you'll get that response as well. >> you take no frirnzs. you like a fight. america right now is in the feist its life as a nation, particularly economically. do you think america needs somebody like you who's going to be tough? >> i think america needs lots of tough people. not just me. i think america needs to get tougher, all of us. we need to understand that it's time to step up and pay for what we want. and you know, we haven't been doing that for a long time, and both parties have been guilty of it. >> tell me about your upbringing here. new jersey man, born and bred. tell me about the early days. >> well, my parents moved here to this t

mr. sweeney, mr. whitfield and mr. spratt. what it did was to restrict funding for federal activities involved with meat inspection and thereby it stopped horse slaughter for the purpose of human consumption in any facility in the united states. it stopped new facility -- facilities from opening. well, it passed this body by an overwhelming vote, 269-158. now, every year since, the language has been retained in the agriculture appropriations bill. there's six very good reasons for doing this. one, it's money badly spent. only foreign corporations which dole in horse meat for consumption in foreign markets would benefit from the federal inspection of u.s. horse slaughter plants. so we are using american taxpayers' money so foreign corporations can send it overseas so people living in foreign countries can consume it. there's a $37 million cut below last year's levels in the food safety and inspection service. so here you are cutting $37 million in food safety inspection and yet you would be adding this additional burden onto th