Calling being present, the subcommittee on health labor and pensions will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays subcommittee hearing on the financial challenges facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and more importantly the impact to workers and retirees, George Miller was a proud liberal lion of this committee. While we very often disagreed, the years that i served with him on this committee, i admired his commitment to ensuring americans have the ability to retire with dignity. In 2014, he worked with john kline, then our chairman, to try to solve a real problem. A retirement system on the brink of collapse. They put politics aside, worked with employers and labor unions and negotiated a set of reforms to the multiemployer Pension System in order to provide benefits for millions of workers. President obama signed this bipartisan approach into law in 2014. The law was based on the premise that the Plan Trustees who have a legal and moral obligation to pensioners
The ride hailing is up is an increase from 2015. When asked whats the main reason you would use uber or lyft rather than muni. One is really the top three have to do with speed and direct service. Those are the key reasons far and away. Its fast and goes direct to my destination. I dont want to wait. Doortodoor services and theres others but in terms of the top ones they have to do with that theme. The last slide was an asked of a different group. This represents those who havent used it in the past six months and asked whats the main reason you dont ride muni more. This slide represent whats people told us. We took down their responses and coded them into different categories. The commute travel out of the city is a tough one and other ones such as muni trips take too long, rules, dont want to be held to a schedule that are actionable in terms of riders who dont currently use muni. That concludes the presentation. Thank you very much. Director thank you. Very much. That was a good dir
Relatively highly but not at the same level. Disability or condition impacting travel. The individuals who indicated that theyre pretty close to pretty on par with your regular users. Theyre at 73 versus 70 excellent or good. 10 poor versus 8 for regular users. Continuing this is still the same question broken out by income level. I tink the interest on this particular one is very clearly if you look at those whose income is less than 75,000 theyre more satisfied. You go over 75,000, theyre not as satisfied. Perhaps not a big surprise but its almost linear. So theres a difference there. Part may have to do with choice. The question was on the service theyd most look to see improved and we coded it into categories. More frequent service, better ontime performance and overcrowding were the three top ones that came up when we asked people to tell us in their own words. We asked very specific aspects of muni. We had people rate those and thats coming up on the next slides. This was asking
Will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is ordering the previous question on House Resolution 658. The clerk house calendar number 410, House Resolution 658, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 1638 to require the secretary of the freshy to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the estimated total assets under direct or indirect controls by iranian leaders and providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 4324 to require the secretary of the treasury to make certifications with respect to United States and foreign Financial Institutions aircraftrelated transactions involving iran and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned
Also coming up south korea proposes high level talks with the north this comes a day after north Korean Leader kim jong un extended a rare all of branch of the south and new threats to the United States. And Legal Marijuana hits the shelves in california recreational users can now buy the drug without any fear of arrest in americas too close to populous state. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Great to have you with us clashes overnight in iran have left at least nine people dead the antigovernment protests have been raging for nearly a week in tehran and around the country in total several hundred people have been arrested and at least twenty have been killed according to state media. Now the demonstrations initially broke out against the weak economy and a rise in food prices but they have also been drawing opponents of the countrys religious establishment. And lets talk a bit more about that crackdown we are joined by a. F. P. Correspondent Eric Randolph who is joining us with t