Subject to the subpoena, so another hear beiing may well be necessary. I want to thank dr. Paul brown for his tireless efforts on this subject as well as so many other subjects that have come before this Sub Committee. We appreciate his Public Service and his dedication over the years to his constituents, to congress and to our country. So chairman brown, thank you, again, for all youve done. We appreciate all your great work, and i look forward to todays hearing. Thank you, mr. Smith. As i announced earlier, mr. Swaulwell will be joining us in a bit. And he will give his Opening Statement at that time. And then ask his questions in due order. If there are members who wish to submit additional Opening Statements, your statements will be added to the record at this point. At this time, id like to introduce todays witness, mr. Todd park, the former chief Technology Officer of the united states. An assistant to the president. Prior to this role, mr. Park served as chief Technology Officer
And we meet the rescue divers of bangladesh who risk their live to search for victims of maritime accidents. Let me begin with developments in a story that is big news right now in argentina. The case accusing argentines president in the cover of a bombing, and involving the mysterious death of a prosecutor. Lets get the latest now from daniel who is with us life in bane necessary aries. Reporter the president and her foreign minister and some other officials have now formally been charged in their alleged involvement in trying to cover irans alleged involvement in that bomb attack that killed 95 people. This was the very case that Alberto Nisman was working on had announced in january, the day before he was due to answer further questions in congress his body was found in his bath in his wellguarded apartment with a pistol shot to the head. It has still not been concluded whether it was suicide or he was murdered. That is a huge step forward, or some would say a step backwards. You sa
We start a project. Commissioner toursarkissian. Thank you i agree with our president i think in the project goals we have to have 3 proengz how do we define what constitutes an Economic Analysis and we have to get the elements that should be included also it is going to be a challenge for this commission to come up what the recommendations what triggers that reports and finally and equally important what were going to do to if, in fact an Economic Impact what will be the recommendations and the levels of remedies so this is going to take quite a bit work to analyze and report and brief the Mayors Office by december 31st. Note the commission is not comfortable i mean or their needs to be more time obviously more time to be taken to do the job well so but i think once we start gathering the data putting it before you the data and information you have the time to review it hear it and access it and provide the direction to the staff to work on. I think if i may finish on the issue in get
On about polk street the Economic Impact not for a year you know having the Small Business for many years that maybe a little bit too late for some of the businesses they may go under they mating might not but we need to think about up front some of the impacts before we start a project. Commissioner toursarkissian. Thank you i agree with our president i think in the project goals we have to have 3 proengz how do we define what constitutes an Economic Analysis and we have to get the elements that should be included also it is going to be a challenge for this commission to come up what the recommendations what triggers that reports and finally and equally important what were going to do to if, in fact an Economic Impact what will be the recommendations and the levels of remedies so this is going to take quite a bit work to analyze and report and brief the Mayors Office by december 31st. Note the commission is not comfortable i mean or their needs to be more time obviously more time to b
Year this impacted the businesses for 6 months so i really like this idea. Commissioner dooley. I think this is extremely important for Small Businesses those Infrastructure Projects if they impact Small Businesses many of them cannot simply economically weather a long siege of people not being able to get to them so if theres no way to do on Environmental Impact report basics says this will cause this corridor to lose 20 businesses theres got to be a way to soften the blow it certainly with all the residential building right now i know moving around the city it you know kind of a double blow for many businesses it is never ending for them you know they just simply not being able to withhold the businesses it is two years say of building you know thats unrealistic we need to consider the health of our Small Businesses as an important part of doing any infrastructure promotions i dont feel comfortable sacrificing a number of what many long term businesses to do it theres got to be a way