House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. At this time i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lee, a member of the subcommittee on military construction and Veterans Affairs. The chair the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Lee thank you very much, madam chairman. Let me thank the Ranking Member for yielding, for his unwavering leadership for our veterans on this committee and for your friendship. Thank you very m
Ife is working that hard and making 70 of what she deserves to make. Any way you look at it, its lost revenue coming into the home and it can make such a ifference on small things. Vacation, education, groceries, food, subs nance, to make it through substance, to make it through the week, the month, the year. And on top of that, a woman shouldnt have to feel like she may lose her job if she takes time off to care for her sick children. Now, this is something that i know all too well, mr. Speaker. I know that my wife and i were very fortunate to have the fmla while we were raising our triplets. You see, because one would get sick, then the next one would get sick, then the next one would get sick, then i would get sick, then my wife would get sick and it would start all over again. Theres no way, theres no way either one of us could care for them while worrying about whether she is going to have a job to return to. But still today too many women have to choose between being employed and
15 million is estimated that it will contribute to bringing the train downtown and now the accumulative effect of these project are certain not enough to pay for the train box but it gives San Francisco the opportunity of having local fund to be used to be leveraged with other funds to accomplish that and its an extremely important benefit benefit and so i urge you in the course of actions that you have been taking and to add this to your achievements thank you. Thank you. Good evening commissioners tim col ron on behalf of the housing commissioner and is ill be brief it was a really enthusiastic reception for this project at our meeting last week. One of our well known members said this is a killer project this is the first exoskeleton that we have reviewed and this particular, one of the thing that we really liked was the bridge to the park and we are building a very large New City Park 75 feet in the air it needs very large connections to it to ensure that its well used and so there
When its done Treasure Island yerba buena is the next designation in the bay area. We realize we are strategically located so were not only looking at roads and transportation our goal is to try to alleviate the heavy traffic about that the bay bridge by spelling your last with the board of transportation so were in the right communication with tilly to come up with a vibrant of plans that will help us to envision that 5 to 10 years if now we should be able to pass the bay bridge and be able to travel anywhere were strrl located and make sure this development is one if the finest in the country. Weve got 10 though residents will be living here. Were all going to have a point of designation of hotels and almost 250,000 square feet of retail spaces and also the development this will be planned the Treasure Island and yerba buena has a vision so without further ado, im just here today and thank caltrains and happen that all of the agencies are going to work with us are we going to have ch
Designation in the bay area. We realize we are strategically located so were not only looking at roads and transportation our goal is to try to alleviate the heavy traffic about that the bay bridge by spelling your last with the board of transportation so were in the right communication with tilly to come up with a vibrant of plans that will help us to envision that 5 to 10 years if now we should be able to pass the bay bridge and be able to travel anywhere were strrl located and make sure this development is one if the finest in the country. Weve got 10 though residents will be living here. Were all going to have a point of designation of hotels and almost 250,000 square feet of retail spaces and also the development this will be planned the Treasure Island and yerba buena has a vision so without further ado, im just here today and thank caltrains and happen that all of the agencies are going to work with us are we going to have challenges, of course. However, when you look at the par