Good morning today is september 8, 20 freen. Welcome to San Francisco transporeitation authority. Our clerk today is steve stamos and todays meeting is brought to us by leo[inaudible] and charles crim nack. Like to mention my other Committee Members who are here. Commissioner kim and malia cohen and well be joined by compose and mar. Any announcements there are no announcement. Ite item 1, ovlose present. Compose absent. Xhigdser cohen, present. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent we have a quorum great, lets go to our consent calendar. Consent calendar item 23 are considered routine, staff isnt planning to present on these items. If a member objects any consent iletm may be removed and crrbed separately. We have minutes and report. Any comments or questions or changes to the minutes . Okay, see none well go to Public Comment on item 2 and 3. [inaudible] isnt on the item today. We need to stick to the items thatd are with us. We vuproval oaf the minutes and item 3 can w
Rity and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Williams, for five minutes. Mr. Williams mr. Speaker, thank you. Mr. Speaker, it is a sad day in america when Army Secretary john mchugh says that in todays fiscal environment the bestcase scenario for our militarys budget is treacherous. Ray odierno says it hampers the militarys ability to train its own troops. While there is waste and overlap in every federal agency, the pentagon budget not excluded, there is much to be said for congress doing its primary job of governing, passing a budget. For the last four years we see continuing resolution after continuing resolution has placed in our military. Earlier this year we saw the rigid re
Way and we have just begun to gather that data and what the announcement was when it went out. Reporter the ntsb is now looking into audio recordings and video taken from inside the train. That image recording has been sent to a lab in washington, d. C. Well look at everything, training procedures, past training, well look at 72hour history of everybody involved. We wont leave any stone unturned. Reporter afscmes Union President said she sent a letter a month ago to the puc about concerns about the recertification process of managers. They said they have concerns and they havent changed their process of certifying. Our train controllers take over a year to certify. The train operators are 16 weeks. Reporter and the ntsb did not talk specifically about those two workers who were killed or what their specific Job Responsibilities were or are. And liz, i did ask the lead investigator if a strike ends, how soon before these trains can get running again with this investigation . He made it
Crew members were evacuated. A paparazzi was killed while trying to get a picture of justin bieber. Hes free he says ill take care of business. All that a soldiers Surprise Homecoming at the rose parade in california. Oh, thats beautiful. Makes me cry. And all that matters. Members of congress are furious after the house went home without voting on a relief bill for Hurricane Sandy victims. Absolutely inexcusable, absolutely indefensible. We have a moral obligation to hold this vote. On cbs this morning. The annual Polar Bear Plunge at coney island could help raise money for coverage. I lost my house, im going in the same water on new years day captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Im Norah Odonnell along with anthony mason. Charlie and gayle are off. No one in washington or the country seems to be happy about the outcome. Late last night the house joined the senate that passed a bill raises taxes for people earning more than 400,000 a year and families earning more tha
Congress passes a fiscal cliff compromise. The house late last night passed the senate bill that avoids the spends cuts and tax hike set to take effect later this year. Weve set up more fiscal cliffs. Were going to look back on this night and regret it. President obama urged them not to fight politics with the nations debt limit. I will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that theyve already racked up. Wall street is ready to rally this morning after the latenight budget breakthrough in washington. Asian markets got a big boost over news of the agramt. Horng congresss hang seng gained nearly 3 . Sandy hook Elementary Students are about to head back to class three weeks after a shooting. Classes return to a repurposed school. An open house is set for today. A Shell Oil Rig has run aground off the coast of alaska. No oil is leaking. All members have been evacuated. They captured photos of justin bean eers car. But he wasnt driving, and