neighborhood concerns, they are primarily residential in nature and provide an open space feel as undeveloped, vacant land. some of them are ideal for community gardens. others simply maintain open space. the rec and park department is being responsible to neighborhood concerns. these are not development opportunities. these are life was i-industrial opportunity in a laboratory facility. hoppsupervisor chu: these are al they can facilities? >> yes. with the exception of onondaga, which is a converted residents used as an office and self-help for the elderly. those are the only improved properties that we have on the surplus list. supervisor chu: we had nothing else that was an interesting, warehouse-type building on the property? the process of renovating this is an incredible amount of money. i am just surprised that the city does not own anything that could not be converted after $45 million. >> i get comments from people in the community every day to that extent. it is nice to be able to say that we are thoroughly using everything that we own, with the exception of these you, so it is good

this is a good location for affordable housing, because it has been so undeveloped. san francisco is a big city with a lot of people, different kinds of people with different needs. if there are young people looking for affordable housing who are comfortable in 250 square feet, there should be housing provided for them. we should provide a broad spectrum of housing from large to small, to provide a broader price range. if you really want to provide affordable housing, something has to give. one of the things that has to give is the size. you cannot provide 1000 square feet at an affordable price. i think if we want to take a serious stab at addressing the affordable housing problem, let us not jump to the conclusion that a 24 or 25-year-old is not going to be willing to live in a 250 sq. ft. unit. many would appreciate this opportunity, rather than having to commute into twitter or any other business from outside the city or the east bay. this is a huge market, here. a lot of people want to live in the city. vice president miguel: i appreciate your remarks. i am goin

so it's -- we're almost starting to look like an undeveloped economy when it comes to disasters. now that is something that has emerged in the 2000s. it's very different from what we've seen in the past. >> europe. we look to europe so often on wall street for direction. and the problems that they're having with their debt situation, their banking issues. where do you think that goes from here? >> you know, that's the real crux of the problem. we need containment with europe. the ecb has already warned this week that we could be on the edge of another financial crisis that looks as bad as 2008-2009. that's not the problem in the u.s. the u.s. has liquidity. we have money on the sidelines. we have a cushion. that's the good news. but contagion is always the risk with europe. italy is having problem passing its austerity program. and the greek bailout. i think they'll band-aid it together to get something to buy some time. but we need to see much more movement in europe toward centralized policy. they need what we had was the t.a.r.p. to recapitalize their banks. their banks are no

lloyd: what epa said to us was, "you can have an exemption from filtration "if you keep this undeveloped, "and if you can manage the wastewater so that it does not pollute your water supply." and we feel that we've reached the point where we can really keep it clean enough to drink unfiltered for the indefinite future. and new york city is in a small club of cities that actually have that filtration avoidance waiver. narrator: while municipalities are responsible for maintaining systems and source supply, the standards that protect water are established at the federal level. there are two important pieces of federal legislation that were both enacted in the early to mid-1970s. the first was the clean water act, which acts to protect rivers and lakes, and sources of drinking water. the second was the safe drinking water act, that provides federal standards to assure the safety of the water that we drink. both acts have been amended since they were first adopted, and they're both cornerstones for the water issues that we face in america today. allbee: the clean water act set a floor and ba

levels and analysts expect it to grow by ten percent annually with its boss distances poor roads and undeveloped commercial infrastructure is tailor made for private aviation. in the last year alone the number of billionaires in russia went from sixty to over one hundred and then we look at the ultra high networks that also use airplanes for the overall industry at large that increased by fourteen percent year over year so we see the growth prospects in russia very good throughout europe middle east and africa but equally as good as any to come from the recent tragic accidents of course pinpointed of the areas of potential growth the need to update were police obsolete it costs but what is still happening in the industry is the lack of proper legislation i think there is russian aviation business matures you're going to see a lot more legislation drop and we have seen very positive signs in the last year that we believe we're going to see aircraft being registered in russia and more craft coming in the market here now a new rule allowing general aviation pilots to operate freely in the uncontrol

i consider it an absolute shame and gross negligence that we allow those resources to go undeveloped. that is why i am holding secretary salazar and everything i can so we can reclaim that which is rightfully ours. >> [inaudible] >> what happened to the mandate that was just put out this week? >> from what i can tell, there is an effort on the part of many in washington to try to shut down the backbone of our nation's energy production grid. the bk of our energy nationall and here in utah comes from coal. i can walk into a room, turn of a swih, and the light comes on. i do not know that we fully appreciate how wonderfulhat is. my father did not always have that going up. he was on sawmill camps. he did not have that growing up. it is affordable. we derive the lot of it from coal. we figured out how to make it generate electricity cheaply and in a manner that is really environmentally friendly. we have to keep that going. if we do not,e're all going to be poorer as a result. this will impact middle and lower income earners more than anyone else. they're doing it through regulatory meas

through the 1980s a group of 26 after cap american artists painted beautiful landscape in the serene, undevelopedday, they are known as the florida highwaymen. and you may is have heard of them. one of the florida highwaymen or highwaywoman, i should say, mary ann carroll is coming in to talk to us. you are the only woman out of the 26 african american artists. talk to us about this group. many have never heard of florida highway man and what it was and how it came about. >> we were a group of people that was painting. we thought that we could paint and we found out that we could sell they. we got on the road and better living than some of the guys picking fruit. we had to go from place to mass. because our work was not associated. like we would have sunset paint on the sigh of the road. teachers would go out and ask for permission to display them in courthouses or doctor's offices. those were our galleries at times. this is what we did. >> what was it like? especially you are the only woman and on top of that, the only woman in the group and on top of that, this bass during the 1950s, a very con

congressman a quarter century earlier, he had helped move the nation's capital from new york to an undeveloped site on the potomac. the new capitol was still hardly more than a stall town stretching from rock creek in the west to capitol hill in the east. a ragged park, decorated by a few incon grewous public buildings as if built by ancients or alien. in the of it -- midst of it stood the white house. madison was the third president to have moved move there. john adams had spent the dismal last days of his administration in a shell inside a construction site. thomas jefferson who madison loved above all men ran it like a virginia plantation house, hosting intimate dinners for congressmen and diplomats with good food, excellent wine and his own sparkling conversation. madison's white house was grander yet thanks to his wife, dolly, who brightened it with banquets and soirees, red velvet cur tapes and -- curtains and green gilt-edged china, a piano and a macaw. now, a little before 8:00 on the morning of august 24th a message came to this republican palace from general william winder, commander

places that may have resource potential, but they also have potential of simply being what they are, undevelopedl, a place for wildlife and mosquitoes, but not a place where we would extract resources. anwr is such a place. it's unique. there is no other place on this planet like anwr. doesn't exist. this is it. this is the last that there is. is it worth a few days of oil supply for this nation? to spoil it? i think not. and thus far the american people have said let's leave it the way it is. the way it came to us, natural, undisturbed. that's something very, very special that the american people have decided over the years, not just here, but other places, including the smoky mountains, to say, let's leave it the way it is. let's let it be there for all of the future generations in its natural state, for those creatures that have been there for years, including the ducks. let's leave it there. and yes, there are people who live there. and your community is one of them. oil development is taking place in this region. we know that the shell is exploring offshore. it will soon be exploring offsho

i consider it an absolute shame and gross negligence that we allow those resources to go undeveloped. that is why i am holding secretary salazar and everything i can so we can reclaim that which is rightfully ours. >> [inaudible] >> what hapned to the mandate that was just put out this week? >> from what i can tell, there is an effort on the part of many washington to try to shut down the backbone of our nation's energy production grid. the bulk of our energy nationall and here in utah comes from coal. i can walk into a room, turn of a switch, and the light comes on. i do not know that we fully appreciate how wonderful that is. my father did not always have that going up. he was on sawmill camps. he did not have that growing up. it is fordable. we derive the lot of it from coal. we figed out how to make it generate electricity cheaply and in a manner that is really environmentally friendly. we have to keep that going. if we do not, we're all going to be poorer as a result. this will impact middle and lower income earners more than anyone else. they're doing it through regulatory measu

palestinian authority and israel, particularly, on the security fields was very, very close and undevelopeduntil last week. it might occur in the future both because regimes do not have an interesting for a wave of violence. just one example. a week ago before -- a week before the discussions at the u.n., the palestinian authorities bought from israel a new nonlethal weapon. the israeli authorities gave it to them open handed. 'cause the interest of both sides was to prevent violence. both understood that violence was not work for either the interest of the palestinian authority nor for israel. i guess that will continue. this is what general rothchild referred to. that if things deteriorate it could have definitely a very negative impact on the relationship between israel and the palestinian authority. >> one thing that could undermine the situation -- i agree with what professor perry just said. if congress cuts off aid, i think it will be a serious mistake. and what it will do is reverse the kind of economic growth that we've just been talking about. so instead of young men going to work

so that undeveloped land, that unused land, some of that should be sold to americans and let americans buy america. real property in the lands of real americans. what a novel thought that is. uncle sam, the federal government, is all about power and control over everything. loosen up a little. and let america buy part of america. uncle sam shouldn't prevent americans from having a real stake or share in our country. the united states of america. it doesn't belong to uncle sam, at least it shouldn't. it should belong to americans. and the united states owns most of the grand estate in this country and it's time to let more americans own it because america should belong to americans. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. it's unfortunate there is an attempt to scapegoat americans' unions for the economic problems that beset us. after all, it was not americans' grocery clerks, nurses, teachers, postal workers, and electricians that nearl