ms. miller should have been and to apologize and carry on with her job. this is just over 30 minutes. >> questions to the prime inster. >> thankm you mr. speaker. >> yes or no. >> very good step forward onh migration. where it is done by a third sense 1998. we've seen net migration come down. what we haven't seen is what w saw under labor which ishi 2.2 million people come in net over 10 years. that was unacceptable forpta getting the situation underme control. >> i can add in terms oft challenge, which i s aboutha doubling the research and treating it like a disease oran cancer or heart disease, thatdie will continue. the work we're doing to make sure that local communities are more friendly, that must continue. also improving thef care that elderly people get in nurse home and hospitals. that fight must continue as well. we will continue to usewo opposition in the g7 for push for this issue globally as well. >> what lessons of the prime minster learned from his handlingi of the situation? >> first of all, i agree with them that it's still very deep conc

ms. miller [speaker not understood] with all my e-mails. >> okay, thank you very much. any questions? seeing none, thank you. from norxv. ~ new orleans i guess kim armbruster has withdrawn from this. is there any public comment on this? you have two minutes. come on up. >>> [speaker not understood] michael kirkland [speaker not understood]. i'm here to speak in support of him. [speaker not understood]. michael is articulate, motivated, pass at andals follow through on thing [speaker not understood] and would be a great addition to the shelter monitoring committee. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments on this matter? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] ~ >> supervisor campos? >> thank you. i just want to briefly note what i have been very impressed with mr. kirkland. i think in a very short period of time you have letteredv more about the shelter monitoring committee than most people. ~ learned i really appreciate your thoroughness, your follow through and your enthusiasm and i think you'd be a great addition to this body and want to welcome you back to san

it for show and no substance i hope they at first i would say is that the battle is perhaps the ms miller of the term because committed in hand implies that that you're committing to some well meaning you're some areas behind him and that it would that was maybe not the intent and the obama nutrition it was clear all along that to middle east continues to occupy them out of their strategic attention and yet again how to cope with that reality that's that. asia pacific region does have that dynamic economy. it has the aca has the top of the world's population and is bound to um down to the command and u s attention also. so i think the love of the balance was more appropriate of appropriate term especially as the us was pulling out of iraq and afghanistan. having said that that day what i believe that i live in a confusion of both that within asia pacific with specific region and outside because that way and then the wait. when it first came out the we will come at it as that package so that we need to step up political military commitment to the nation however as the acid content of the m

ms. miller, for that comment, and look forward to moving forward with this. thanks. >> thank you, commissioner breed. and thank you for your leadership on the rfp. it was your office that pushed this forward, so, appreciate it. thank you. okay. so, colleagues, we can go on to our next item which is i think is general public comment. >> yes. item number 7, general public comment. >> so, the microphone and the podium are available for any member of the public who would like to comment on any item related to lafco and the public utilities commission. >>> thank you. sorry for keeping you an extra two minutes. i just wanted to provide a little bit of context for those not on the board of supervisors who maybe don't have me talking to them as often. my background is i am a trained environmental scientist. i got a master's degree from the yale school of forestry in environmental studies. originally was working on species conservation and essentially as the data came in, it became clear that we no longer necessarily have time for species conservation except conceivab

ms. helman knew that in advance of when mr. miller -- sorry, representative miller announced it in congress. >> you know thomas who trace reported on died on november 30th after having come in on an emergency basis. they didn't call his family until december 6th to come back, they said he's dead. it's too late. he died screaming and crying saying why won't anyone help me? don't let me die. these actions have real consequences and now you're being helpful in a criminal investigation. is that the case? >> yes, but the case, the e.r. care was excellent and the e.r. doctor went out of her way to take care of him and they gave him six consummits. the problem is the two he got that needed the most, the one to you a urology, those weren't answered. >> my mom worked at the va as a nurse for decades and most of the staff cares deeply about veterans. this is not happening at every va or up and down the latter but certainly a problem. doctor, thank you. >>> new details about a big meeting between some of the biggest democratic donors, some of th

millers and cynthia please consider it. thank you >> thank you is there any additional public comment. >> i want to make a point of clarification and ms. empathic i'm looking the discretionary review it only lists ken and mckenzie and only lists one address that's why upper not notified. >> mr. mckenzie if you would - >> is the microphone on. >> she's not on the title page i think on page one of the actual told them in the dr request it states that ms. cynthia smith also johns joins in the request for discretionary review it's adjacent to the property on the south side. >> she's been considered to be part of the dr staff. >> so there's an opportunity for a response and rebuttal if you so diver the two of you could share that time. okay now project sponsor your team has 5 minutes >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners i'm david silverman i'm working with the family that has lived on the property for over 28 years. i'm not sure what the speakers were talking about. mr. lindsey stated in his opening comments that the properties are awe aligned with the two adjacent properties in the rear so the bump out that's goin

ms. heldman knew that when representative miller announced it in congress. >> so why now, that's dr.as the whistleblower who came forward to talk about this. the question is, why now? that's the question mark would do. >> my first initial is dr. foot, he's great, he's a whistleblower, but i want to put my foot up his backside, why didn't he say something like this in the last 15 to 20 years. god bless him, but i think it's a little bit late. in my opinion, people are saying, it's the top five people in that administration that are to blame, that's b.s. they broke the first rule of medicine, first do not harm. they have done a lot of harm. 40 people are dead. >> 42 people that we know of. it is not clear how widespread this is. the v.a. was under a -- this is should be the first order of business. not passing out food stamps to those who arrive here but taking caring of your veterans. hopefully this sparks a congressional investigation of the entire system. and i bet it will. >> certainly somebody should be held accountable. dr. foot was referring to the v.a. hospital. and she has rep

ms. bragg for her testimony. testimony. >> chairman miller, distinguish most of the committee to thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the many things the department of state does to promote the security of u.s. passport and to deter passport for appreciate your focus on this important topic. we at the department of state believe to prevent passport fraud we need to focus on five areas. a sophisticated document with technic advanced security features, a robust and vigorous education system, real-time sharing of data, a proactive anti-fraud program, and outraged u.s. citizens to educate them -- i'm sorry. to educate them about the important form of identification. because of the access of passport provides, we spend years creating products with high-tech security features in photo biometric and secure limiting micro-printed, color shifting ink enhanced electronics that render these documents virtually impossible to counterfeit. but it's the sophistication of u.s. passport increases, so did efforts of those attempting to commit p

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ms. jenkins: thank you, madam chair. i'd like to yield three minutes at this time to our colleague from michigan, mrs. miller. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized for three minutes. mrs. miller: i thank the gentlelady for yielding the time and, madam speaker, helping those without health insurance to get coverage certainly is a very noble goal, was done to d that achieve it under affordable care act is not very good. and this provision employers providing health insurance to employees for 30 hours or more per week. their thinking was that employers would not change their behavior. simply they would absorb these new costs. i guess when you think like the government, maybe you would think that. you're unconcerned about costs, you're unconcerned about balancing your books and so that sort of thinking makes sense. but in the real world it just doesn't make sense. employers need to live in the real world. they need to balance their books. and these onerous provisions of obamacare make it very, very difficult for them to continue with business as usual, to comply with the law and to