You have no other identity. [speaking spanish] translator and that is what makes me stand here today and raise my voice to say enough. President obama spoke with reporters today following a daylong meeting at camp david with arab leaders of the gulf cooperation council. He addressed several issues including iran nuclear negotiations, conflict in syria israel and palestine and todays vote in the senate to advance trade legislation. He also talked about u. S. Commitment to maintaining security in the gulf region. The president s remarks around 35 minutes. Good evening. The four i get to what we discussed here today with our Gulf Partners i want to get again express my deepest condolences to the families of those who died in tuesdays terrible Train Derailment outside of philadelphia. I want to express my gratitude for the First Responders who race to save lives and for the many passengers who despite their own injuries made heroic efforts to get fellow passengers to safety. And for a lot
On the what. The thing that gets set up and whether it qualify as an exchange set up by the state. These exchanges do qualify. The rope they qualify is because they fulfill the requirement in section 1311 b 1 each state shall establish an exchange. 1321 tells you that. It says to hhs when a state hasnt elected to meet federal requirements hhs steps in. What hhs does is set up the requirement exchange. Such exchange referring immediately to the required exchange, only required act under exchange 1311 b 1. It has to be what hhs is doing under plain text of the statute fulfilling 1311 b 1 each state establish an exchange. For that reason we say it qualifies as an exchange established by the state. Thats reinforced as justice said earlier definition, exchange is established under section 1311. 1311 again 1311 b 1, which says each state shall establish an exchange. It has to be that way. Petitioners have conceded page 22 of their brief that an exchange that hhs sets up is supposed to be the
Out. As were starting with this new authority, a couple of thing, critical. First of all, throughout the d. O. T. , safety is our number one priority. There cant be enough attention to this. But for transit, our challenge is also recognizing approaching safety, one size wont fit all in terms of a regulatory framework. That simply just wont happen. And so, weve been spending a lot of time, you know, explaining and building on whats going to be the centerpiece of our work which is a Safety Management system approach, an sms approach. Used extensively in the aviation industry. Faa has deployed it some time. And explored by a number of our agencies. And the thought is you approach this not as a checklist of all the things you have to get right but as a Risk Management. You look at the risk circumstances of your operating environment, your capital environment, your worker safety environment. And you build a program around your Risk Management portfolio. So, you know, thats not a concept tha
132 million. These are impressive numbers and keeps us aware of the system here today. To address the first question if you look what the faa tried to do, to shut them down because they didnt have funding, majority of those more contract hours but more faa towers, majority of them were in Rural America. That is one of our biggest concerns about status quo. Thanks for looking out for Rural America. Thank the senator from montana for looking out for Rural America and i think he and i would probably both agree at the end of this we would like to see more direct flights to and from, is that right . I appreciate i think weve run out of questioners and i do appreciate very much the panel great remarks today different perspectives this is the senates first foray into the issue of reform and we have to figure out a way as we move towards reauthorization of doing whats best. We all have the same goal in mind as was pointed out. Sometimes maybe slightly different perspectives on how best to get
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting of tuesday october 23rd order, 2012. My name is david campos and i am the chair of the authority. Madam secretary, if we can roll commissioner present. Commissioner chu carmen chuy. Commissioner cohen commissioner elsbernd present. Commissioner commissioner present. Vice chair wiener. We have quorum. Please call item two. Approval of the minutes. Before we take action to this item. Is there a member of the public that would like to speak on item two . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, you have the minutes of the meeting before you. If we can take a motion to approve the minutes. Motion by commissioner avalos. Seconded by commissioner farrell. We will take that without objection. On item two. Roll call. Campos, roll call taken. Item passes. If you can please call item number three. Report, this is an information item. Thank you very much. Colleagues i have a very brief report today. We