recent permiting committee, we welcome my vice-

. >> item 14, permitting committee report. president o'brien: most of what i was going to discuss has already been covered. limited live entertainment, it has been discussed this evening. the director has discussed already the update on the permit fees and go consolidation project. the only part i would add to its is that maybe this was already mentioned, but we are seeing if the tax and treasurer's office will allow for installment payments. for cash flow purposes. but the feedback so far is that there might be legal reasons that that can't go forward. we will keep checking into that and report back to the full commission. also reviewing the list of priorities, programs, and projects. in may, the committee will have a report for the permit fees. in the report will be an ongoing topic that we will investigate, it has been moved to legislation to follow that and make recommendations on it. commissioner atoms will advise from time to time because he is more familiar with than any of the other commissioners. a lot of that has bee

director of the office of economic and work force development, koran and this is work that the permit a committee has just started to engage in, and the second item, there is consolidated annual licensing projects that are taking place, in just to review for the commission, i will have a little bit more in my director's report, but these are for streamlining the projects that the department and the commission will be taking part in. and then, the last bullet item, the commission asked staff to create the top four, and we have retail, general, and in retail food. those are probably the top four, which we will have written guidelines for. we are pretty well done for the restaurants, and we're working on others. and then, at the retreat, we ask that staff in for the last goal, representing the interagency projects and task force, and again, the consolidations, the project is one. we will conduct mobil facility workshops, and then any other that is as assigned within the year. they're working with the mayor, federal and state representatives, on a key legislation both prior and drug the legislative p

restrictions that allow the storage ago and only if you get a conditional use permit from the planning commission meeting that the committee has a say. there have been some that i have supported. it will be a case by case a situation. you can ask me or anyone else in question. but we are past the end time. >> i am a victim of foreclosure where a company forged a loner that i paid off and has successfully gone to the foreclosure process. a question is, how are you going to stop this? what are you doing to prevent this from happening enforcing it? the other question is for the police chief. they have proceeded either steal or sell my belongings. the police say they are doing [inaudible] >> in the restructuring of the office, we're looking at a mortgage fraud and inappropriate conduct by lenders. before we leave today, i will talk to you and take a look your case at. for the larger audience, if you are where they want as being foreclosed and you believe there are inappropriate lending practices, we have created a unit to deal with mortgage fraud and want to get those cases so we can look at them. i would like to get your info

permit system will do, though. >> good. commissioners, questions? anything on america's cup to be added in the future? >> i do not know that at this point. we are talking with the committee on the america's cup. as you know, jeremy from our department is working on this project with the mayor's office. we will be involved in that in some way. >> is he still part of the apartment? >> jeremy is still part of our department. he will probably transfer to the mayor's department july 1 of next year. and that is there any public comment on the item 7d -- >> is there any public comment on item 7d? >> good morning, commissioners. san francisco coalition for responsible growth. as i was looking at the agenda, i figured that this one was probably an update on other activities affecting the administration and the department. what i will say will include comments i am getting from the public as well as ideas and suggestions that i might have within myself. i think it is probably fair to say that the department is running reasonably well, thanks to some of the changes that were pioneered by this commission over the last year or so with the fifth floor. but i think that some of the thi

permit for any s.e.c. or the modified land area includes 135,000 square feet shall be issued until the committee has approved the documentation. that is a reminder about existing regulations around water conservation. two procedural amendments -- on page two, compost areas must be set back at least 3 feet from dwelling units and decks. the final amendment, on page three line 15, changing from letters to numbers at the request of the city attorney's office. we are strongly in support of the proposed ordinance before you. i will turn it over to him marie rogers from the planning department -- anne marie rogers from the planning department to discuss the details. >> it is a pleasure to speak before you in support of this proposed ordinance. the planning commission is very supportive about this. this item was heard before it as a text amendment. there was no opposition to this. there was hours and hours of testimony by dozens of supporters. i am sure you will see them here as well. as mentioned in the ordinance, this ordinance seeks to clarify how the city of san francisco classifies urban agriculture activities

speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on energy and commerce be permitted to provide a report to accompany h.r. 1217 at any time through monday, april 11, 2011. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 11:00 p.m. on monday next and further when the house adjourns on that day they adjourn to meet at noon on tuesday, april 12, 2011, more important hour debate and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the chair lays before the house the following enrolled bill. the clerk: h.r. 1363, an act making appropriations for the department of defense for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2011, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes ha

committee process and hearing and get it done in time for small business week, so what is in the legislation is the spaces that the department, the commission is asking to have the permit fee waived for each of the participating merchants associations, and you have a list of merchants' associations, and how many do we have, chris, total? i thought maybe you would know that number of hand. clerk: 16. there will be a sale on saturday may 7, due to scheduling, with other conflicts with school schedules. commissioner yee riley: do we have to do this every year? >> yes, we have to do this every year. part of what we bring is our ability to help do the promotion around the shop your neighborhood date for small business week, and part of that is doing the fee waiver for the sidewalk sale, so that encourages the merchant organizations. commissioner yee riley: we have to do the same process every year? we cannot just say from now on? >> dpw needs to have the board of supervisors approved way the permit fee, and then we send them the information, and they korea a permit for each merchant area, and that permit also goes to each police station, just for verification, and the polic

permitted per block. at one point, we would have three different ones within a block, and the study to look like confetti. you would not get a clear message of any single banner committee coming through. we also found that not all poles could accept banners. divisibility of streetlights or conflicts with some of the arms that service the muni lines. even though there are about 20 calls per block on average, and you could put two banners on each one, and in reality, it does not come out to that number. sometimes well, sometimes 14. once in awhile, it is down around eight. there is a limited number. we encourage applicants as they come in to fill the entire lock, and that is how we have been administering the program. >> the main goal is to have one for block so you do not have this double. >> correct, and have a visual punch to their program by repeating the image. >> in the maintenance section, it says the banners should be removed repair immediately -- okay, so once that thing goes up, all the responsibility is on the committee -- permittee. >> correct. and i would like to say we have not had trouble with people removing their banners. other than that, it has been ver

permit that result. i would like to quickly also address the discussion before the committee, before concluding, the discussion draft would do a couple things in terms of the laying -- to the first would delay transfer of consumer protection functions to the bureau until the director is confirmed and remove the current authorization from potential regulators to include bureau examiners and examination of large financial institutions prior to the transfer date. the chamber agrees consumer protection functions should remain with their existing agency until the leadership of the bureau has been confirmed. as for the second proposal we also agree if the rate of concern for the examinations a large financial institutions prior to the transfer date we would support legislation along those lines. thank you for the opportunity to testify and i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> i would like to welcome mr. hillary sheldon as our final witness on this panel. he is director of the naacp washington bureau and senior vp of advocacy and policy. welcome. >> good morning. chairwoman capito and many of my friend

committee and democrats accepted it. they would not have the authority to permit -- to require any institution to offer any given practice. they could not acquire, but they could forbid. they could require them to do something that was good for consumers. further, they do not have any authority to set interest rates. you can price products, however you want to, can you give me an example of a consumer practice that you have to do comment that you were afraid that they might forbid as abusive or unfair that you have to do this dam business? >> to stay in business, i have to serve my community. in serving my community, i can develop products for the consumers in my community that are helpful. one great example is that we have a large burmese refugees the community. we were to the regulator and developed a product for them that allows them to buy homes. they could not qualify for a traditional secondary market loan because they have not lived in the united states for two years. they do not have to years of tax returns. we developed a program of financial education, a loan program for them to purchase a house. >> leaving thi

permit the result. i would like to address briefly the discussion in committee for including -- the discussion drops would do a couple of things both in terms of the lane. the first would be to delay transfer to the bureau until a director is confirmed. it would remove the current authorization to include euro examiners. -- bureau examiners. the protection fund -- the protection functions should remain with examine agency. as for the second proposal, we also agree that the bureau examiners -- accordingly, we would support this legislation as well. thank you again for the opportunity to testify. i would be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, mr. sharp. i would like to welcome our final witness on this panel. he is the director of the washington naacp, the washington bureau and the senior vp for policy. good morning. >> thank you. my good friends are here on this subcommittee. it is a pleasure and honor to be here to share in discussion about improving the strength of the consumer financial protection bureau. it needs to reach its greatest potential to protect the american public and i

committee. but generally, they're not watched, and they're certainly not policed. the last problem is that the system generally permitsption. and a lot of government is inside baseball and behind closed doors. one good example is something i saw in new jersey related to outside legal counsel. when i got to the ag's office, i was surprised in 2006 to find out how much money the state of new jersey was spending both in the attorney general's office and in the authorities which is in the governor's office for outside counsel. and so i looked at who was being hired, how lawyers were being selected and really what was going on. i found two shocking things. first, simply the amount of money that was being spent on outside counsel which was millions and millions and millions of dollars. second, the fact was that it was almost all politically connected firms. we were inheriting a democratic administration, and almost all the firms that were on that list were politically-connected democratic firms. there were also a select few prettily- politically-connected republican firms, and you would find that exact equation flips depend

burden producers with personal permit requirements that would have little to no environmental requirement." i could not agree more that the former chair of the house ag committee. he's not alone, 57 of his colleagues, democrats, supported this bipartisan legislation to set the record straight and send a clear message to the e.p.a. now, here in the senate, i'm a cosponsor of a similar bill that senator roberts introduced this week and i'm pleased to stand here today and support his bill. both these bills are designed to eliminate this burdensome, costly and redundant permit requirement for pesticide permit applications. i comment his efforts here. he is really trying to do something to solve this problem while protecting farmers and ranchers from additional regulation, but also very mindful of our environment. i urge the majority leader to act quickly on the legislation to address e.p.a.'s recountry ant and -- redundant and costly double-permit requirement. we can address this in the senate. if we don't find a solution, our producers will continue being told how to operate in a very, very difficult environment. our producers already deal with the uncertainty of

body armor is permitted under the nonlethal military exception to the arms embarg row under operative paragraph 9 a of resolution 970 but does require prior approval from the sanctions committee set up under that resolution. given the pressing nature of the requirement that the committee has already referred to under 4 of resolution 19, it was determined that an immediate dispatch was an appropriate course of action. it was to enable those forces to protect themselves as they defended their communities against those forces threatening civilians. we believe that there was an overwhelming case for doing so. >> sir, the provision of body armor for the protection of civilians was to enable forces to protect themselves. that's the word you just used. >> it's provision to the opposition, and to any civilian police was to enable them to protect themselves as they defended the civilian populat n population. >> sir? >> please. >> this is to be used for those who are in defensive position trying to stop and attack or in terms of forward infantry trying to charge up the road? i think that's the area we're talking about. >> yes, the primary provision was to enable them to protect themsel

wisconsin be permitted to attend this hearing pursuant to rule 11, section two g to see and ask questions of the witnesses. >> portal without objection the worker. >> the oversight committee's mission statement is that we exist to secure two fundamental principles, first americans have the right to know that the money washington takes mm is well spent. and second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. our duty on the government oversight -- the government oversight on the committee is to protect these rights. our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because tax years overrates no what they get from their government. we will work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts to the american people, bring genuinely want to the federal bureaucracy. this is the mission of the government of oversight reform committee. today's hearing continues the committees have fared to the famine crisis brought on by out-of-control spending and mounting debt at the state level. let me assure you that is not to say every state is out of control, but virtually every state in the union in many localities

body armor is permitted under the nonlethal military exception to the arms embarg row under operative paragraph 9 a of resolution 970 but does require prior approval from the sanctions committee set up under that resolution. given the pressing nature of the requirement that the committee has already referred to under 4 of resolution 19, it was determined that an immediate dispatch was an appropriate course of action. it was to enable those forces to protect themselves as they defended their communities against those forces threatening civilians. we believe that there was an overwhelming case for doing so. >> sir, the provision of body armor for the protection of civilians was to enable forces to protect themselves. that's the word you just used. >> it's provision to the opposition, and to any civilian police was to enable them to protect themselves as they defended the civilian populat n population. >> sir? >> please. >> this is to be used for those who are in defensive position trying to stop and attack or in terms of forward infantry trying to charge up the road? i think that's the area we're talking about. >> yes, the primary provision was to enable them to protect themsel

house committee report found that millions of gallons of diesel had been injected since 2005, including hundreds of thousands of gallons in new mexico. what is epa's position? do you need a federal permit to inject a diesel fuel underground in a hydraulic fracturing operation, and if not, please explain the court rulings that came out in 1997 and the 2005 exemption for exemption for diesel. >> hydraulic fracturing using diesel fuel for the fluid is subject to the safe drinking water act requirements. >> that is under the court's ruling. correct? >> it is the plain reading of the law, the 2005 law that you just referred to. we have the information that we received from the congress and we also are in the process of gathering our own information as we are going through our analysis. and so, we will be looking into this issue of the diesel use and will be following up on it soon. >> my very specific question here -- in a sense, it is a legal question -- do you need a permit to injected diesel fuel? what is the epa's position on that specific question? >> where a state has primacy -- and i actually have a letter, the state of texas railroad commission, said the ranking member -- senator in

permit. i will be happy to bore any of you later. i do hope that this is not the last time this budget committee deals with this huge unfunded infrastructure deficit. thank you, and i yield back. >> the question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the gentleman from oregon. all those in favor say aye? >> aye. >> those opposed, no. >> in the opinion of the chair the notice have it. garza recorded vote is requested. the clerk will call the roll. at ketubah. [roll call] [roll call] at ketubah aptitudes. [roll call] at ketubah. [roll call] aptitude. [roll call] bar [roll call] to winds. [roll call] >> anybody else who wishes to vote or change their vote? i see a little time. [roll call] >> the clerk will report the vote. >> mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 15, the nose of a 22. >> there being 15 eyes and 22 knows, the amendment is not agreed to. next. i believe this is this more. the clerk will designate the amendment. >> amendment designated as number 16 offered by this more, stop that stuff wall street what starts and consumer protection. christ the gentle lady is recognized for six and a half minutes. >> thank you so much. i a