hi, tracy >> thank you for having me here i was appointed for the citizens' advisory council and this was a seat held by alex for many, many years and we have a good professional relationship so i thank him for his many years of service but he's leaving a legacy behind. i've been born in san francisco and been living no bayview and have an background in the environment and running the software age and i am a pollution advocacy and i'll hope e happy to bring my work to the citizens' advisory council and i'm looking forward to building a relationship with the staff and commission and board of supervisors in making sure that the community the most vulnerable communities in san francisco and their concerns are take a look at. thank you for having me and thank you for having me here today. the last thing i want to share i'm in full support of the puc's continuation of the job opportunity. i want to share with the puc i'm also on the board of lgbt organization that's their i couldn't have u view from you all over the city and i worked with them this past summer on one the base opportunity f

last year opposition activists had held protests have a demand the premier to be replaced by citizens council. it was obese a pill to swallow for many russians to watch their red machine stall lose in the men's hockey to fill and there's hope yet for the hope audience the ladies sort of figure skating has just begun and that russia's going all out for sport on the podium more now with. a big decision for us how the pole so could be two medals for the russian side in this case and today is that hoping for too much. well it's been a relatively comparatively quiet day here at the twenty fourteen winter olympics but russia do have hopes for a least one medal possibly two in the figure skating competition which is just concluding this evening all eyes are on the ice skating concludes with the free program in the women's individual competition and going into the final round. of all of russia is in a silver medal positions he's currently in second place but she's only north point three of a point behind the leader so there are real hopes that she could secure the gold medal elsewhere. the fifteen ye

and in that case one the gentleman has been appointed to serve as one of the japantown citizen's advisory council of the gary project folks. and we've looked at touched braxton basis with the union service improvement areas. regarding the day to day business survey we door to door in may of last year sent a team out there they had fact sheets and that reminds me there's a fact sheet that shows details it's open the table over here. i think it provides a lot of good information about what the staff recommendation alternative is feel free to pick up the fact sheet. there's two presentations existing presentations we've previously given to our cac about the merchant outreach safer as well as and the visitor survey i don't have time to go into all of them but there's a lot of good information. i've left handouts. back to the door to door survey we've managed to visit, you know, over 5 hundred businesses and got survey responses if 2 hundred of them and we visited businesses on cle time we've been out on the corridor to make sure that people are aware of the project and what we're proposing to do. we

time we had a robust and i might even suggest a too responsibility we did with the parents citizen's advisory council okay. we wanted them to come to the board every month but that position didn't exist and we don't have any reports in years so i'm hoping that this is sort of the spirit of a living document that we can come up with someway for us to get more information and one of the things that's at issue and has been and i'm concerned about for many years is the issue about how the police behave in schools toward our students for things that occur outside of our schools i want to get that updated reports or periodic reports >> the m l u calls for positions at the captain level that will report to the deputy chiefs office and the reports stated will be given in march and november and june towards the end of the semester and mid semi in her and at the end of the year and other reports as requested. that's written into the m l u with the dates and time >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell we for a while didn't have an m l u we've been working on this and at least there's one we'll find and what else is

hi, tracy >> thank you for having me here i was appointed for the citizens' advisory council and this was a seat held by alex for many, many years and we have a good professional relationship so i thank him for his many

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conservation voters, the national women's law center, the national resources defense council, people for the american way, public citizen, the sierra club, service employees international union, the union of concerned scientists, and the united steel workers, just to name a few. likewise, the administration has issued a strongly worded veto threat against this bill. it warns that the bill would impose unneeded and costly analytical and procedural requirements on agencies that would prevent them from performing their startory -- statutory duties. and for those reasons i strongly urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time? mr. johnson: the gentleman would yield back. the chair: the gentleman from georgia yields back the remainder of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: just taking whatever time i may consume, very briefly, i'm surprised my friend in georgia is a good man, i'm surprised there aren't regulations about when you can send your kids up to clean their room again. look, this is just saying to washington, tell us what your goal is,

. >>> happening now, angry citizens some wearing black scarves to cover their faces are trying to have their voices heard at tonight's city councileeting in oakland. the protesters opposed the city's plan to create a centralized surveillance center linking the port with the city. jana katsuyama is live now in city hall where the arguments are forceful and passionate. >> reporter: julie just two minutes ago protesters rolled out this check that says department of homeland security. there are protesters upstairs in the city council chambers as well. they're upset about this new surveillance system. we hear they could be taking a vote any minute now. that puts the battle over technology privacy and citizen's rights. >>> protesters held up signs as they explained the awareness center contract up for a vote tonight. >> having all the relevant information flow through the center is essential. >> reporter: two people in black bandanas closed in taking flash photography and recordings during the presentation. while others shouted out. the council is seen approve a contract with schneider electric to design, build and maintain a surveilla

. >> signs >>> happening now, angry citizens some wearing black scarves to cover their faces are trying to have their voices heard at tonight's city councilng in oakland. the protesters opposed the city's plan to create a centralized surveillance center linking the port with the city. jana katsuyama is live now in city hall where the arguments are forceful and passionate. >> reporter: julie just two minutes ago protesters rolled out this check that says department of homeland security. there are protesters upstairs in the city council chambers as well. they're upset about this new surveillance system. we hear they could be taking a vote any minute now. that puts the battle over technology privacy and citizen's rights. >>> protesters held up signs as they explained the awareness center contract up for a vote tonight. >> having all the relevant information flow through the center is essential. >> reporter: two people in black bandanas closed in taking flash photography and recordings during the presentation. while others shouted out. the council is seen approve a contract with schneider electric to design, build and maintain a surveillance

at this time the oakland city council suspected of holding a crucial vote on a new surveillance project. the city calls it a surveillance domain center. a group of citizens intends to sue if that project moves forward, jana. >> reporter: that group is called the oakland privacy working group and they plan a big rally at tomorrow's meeting. their concerns that traffic cameras like you see up there and other surveillance cameras in the city could be funnels into a central network and might be used to spy on citizens. these days surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere watching. >> every time you go to the bank. schools have video surveillance. and to me it makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. >> reporter: tomorrow night the oakland city council is expected to vote on whether to award a in the work into one centralized domain awarness center. opponents call it a spy center holding a rally in protest. they say the program to improve homeland security has no business links the 35 port cameras with city traffic cameras or potentially later with other systems that housing authority, neighborhoods and schools. >> we see mass surveillance without any probable ca

they forced the town council there to get rid of their mayor and except a russian citizen as their mayor. they also flew some russian flags. that shows their disposition. the crimean people, the majority of them have no interest in being a part of ukraine. if the russians want to stir up trouble, that's where they can do it. in the near-term, i don't think the russians will push that. russia makes a lot of money out of transiting energy through ukraine and if they cannot do that, that undermines the russians. i think putin might accept the tactical loss but he will use his power to absolutely push the disposition of ukraine to move much closer to russia than it looks today. it is not civil war but it clearly is a heightened possibility of economic default for the ukrainian nation and long-term, that does not look airy good. >> a couple of things. there are a few hurdles to be cleared before we can look at the long-term functionality of the government. i think it is nothing short of remarkable that the entire state apparatus ditched yanukovych. on friday, i think we worried about civil wa

at this time the oakland city council suspected of holding a crucial vote on a new surveillance project. the city calls it a surveillance domain center. a group of citizens intends to sue if that project moves forward, jana. >> reporter: that group is called the oakland privacy working group and they plan a big rally at tomorrow's meeting. their concerns that traffic cameras like you see up there and other surveillance cameras in the city could be funnels into a central network and might be used to spy on citizens. these days surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere watching. >> every time you go to the bank. schools have video surveillance. and to me it makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. >> reporter: tomorrow night the oakland city council is expected to vote on whether to award a in the work into one centralized domain awarness center. opponents call it a spy center holding a rally in protest. they say the program to improve homeland security has no business links the 35 port cameras with city traffic cameras or potentially later with other systems that housing authority, neighborhoods and schools. >> we see mass surveillance without any probable ca

council chairing a meeting. the officials now all report to him. he has assumed full responsibility for the fate of the region and its citizens.aiting to join the meeting we found the former education minister. >> translator: there is a real danger we have heard deputies discussing separating from the country. >> reporter: we found the police chief. he just paid a visit on the people's council, and no, he couldn't comment. now the city's self-defense borders have been sent in to clear up the police stations. but not everything is being restored. an old soviet police poster here is warning that walls have ears. beneath it all of these safes have been broken open. it is estimateded as many as 500 weapons have been stolen from police arsenals in the last few days. >> translator: i don't see the point of any negotiations or trust. too much blood has been spilled. i want to see them all at the international court. they should get the death penalty. >> reporter: such radical sentiments may be isolated hear, but the danger of return to violence cannot be ruled out. >>> we have a ukrainian business woman who recently returned and wrot

council. following the 2012 attack in benghazi, we focused on protecting u.s. citizens and their interest. the marine corps's answer was a special purpose marine air ground task force. crisis response, a tethered ground force along with a command element and supported by six ospreys and others. tour, colonel benedict's they evacuated u.s. personnel from the embassy in sudan, patrolled the mediterranean and africa for a contingency response and engaged in bilateral training exercises with the french legionnaires, the senegalese military. colonel benedict is a copilot by training and has spent time with the infringer he, serving with --h force and retellings retaliatory units. he is presently commanding officer of the 24th marine expeditionary unit. he is a graduate of the u.s. naval academy, a nato command staff college and the marine corps war college. -- we'velcome me in join me in welcoming colonel scott benedict. [applause] >> thank you for that introduction. thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to you here today about the crisis response. 24ths mentioned, expeditionary unit

they basically forced the town council to get rid of their mayor and accept instead a russian citizenas their mayor. they actually flew some russian flag. that clearly shows their disposition. the crimean have no interest in being part of ukraine. if the russians want to stir up trouble that's where they can do it. i don't think the russians are going to push that for two reasons. if they push for civil war you're going to have a republican of western ukraine that's going to want to join nato imminently and that's not in putin's interest. and also russia makes a lot of money at transing energy through ukraine through europe. if they can't continue to do that, that under mines the russians too. i don't think putin, he might accept a tactical loss but he's going to use his power to push the disposition of ukraine to move much closer to russia than it looks today. that's not civil war but that clearly is a heightened possibility of economic default for the ukrainian nation. the long term that doesn't look very good. >> rose: charles kupchan. >> it's a long time before we get the function

council chairing a meeting to sort out the problems of the city. the officials all report now to him. he has assumed all responsibility for the fate of the region and its citizensiting to join the meeting we found the former education minister deeply worried. >> translator: there is a real danger. we have heard deputies in a meeting to discuss separating from the country. >> reporter: we found the only policeman who dared to step out on the streets this week. six police stations here have been ransacked by the protesters, but now the self-defense borders cleaning them up to hand them back. an old soviet police poster is warning that walls have ears. beneath it all of these safes have been broken open. outside the station, we found only contempt for the latest deal in kiev. >> translator: i don't see the point of any negotiations or trust. too much blood has been spilled. i want to see them all at the international court. they should get the death penalty. >> reporter: such radical sentiments may be isolated here, but the danger of a return to violence cannot be ruled out. >>> the venezuelan government is seconding paratroopers to a western city where anti-gover

leaned into this bill to say please pass this, including the citizens against government waste, the small business and entrepreneurship council and the national taxpayers union. america's watching us. let's deal with our inefficiency, and with that i yield back and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. cummings: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: i want to thank chairman issa and the sponsor of this bill, chairman lankford, for working with me to improve this legislation. i respect the sponsor's goal with his bill, which is to provide taxpayers more information about how their money is being spent by the federal government. i think most people don't mind paying taxes but they want to know that they are spending them and they are being used in an effective and efficient manner for the purpose intended. however, the congressional research service identified multiple areas of potential overlap and duplication between the bill as

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council chairing a meeting. the officials report to him. he has assumed full responsibility for the fate of the region and it's citizens. waiting to join the meeting we found former education similarster deeply worried about the decisive strains unleashed in the country. there is a real danger. we've heard in the meeting the separating of the country. >> we found a policemen to appear on th the streets of lvi. the police police chief would not comment. six police stations have been ransacked by the protesters, but now they've been sent in to clean them up and hand them back, but not everything is being restored. >> an old soviet police poster here is warning that walls have ears. beneath it all these safes have been broken open. it's estimated as many as 500 handguns have been stolen from police arsenals over the last few days. >> outside the station we found only contempt for the latest deal in kiev. >> i don't see the point of any negotiations or truce. too much blood has been spilled. i want to see them all at the international court. they should get the death penalty. >> such radical sentiments may be isolated here

council chairing a meeting. the officials now all report to him. he has assumed full responsibility for the fate of the region and its citizens.und ukraine's former education minister, deeply worried about the divisive strains released. >> translator: we have heard deputies ad hoc in meetings discussing to form their own region. >> reporter: six police stations here have been ransacked, but now the city's self-defense forces have been sent in to clear them up and hand them back, but not everything is being restored. an old soviet police poster is warning that walls have ears. all of these safes have been broken open. it is estimated as many as 500 handguns have been stolen from police arsenals over the last few days. outside we found only contempt for the latest deal. >> translator: i don't see the point of any negotiations. too much blood has been spilled. i want to see them all at the international court. they should get the death peppalty. >> reporter: such radical sentiments may be isolated here, but the return to danger and violence cannot be ruled out. >> so very hard to get any sort of enthusiasm for this deal, david? >

have got these differences particularly on the security council, but across the international community that is making action almost impossible. citizen, i find it impossible that we are in january 2014 and this is the position that we are in. decent, dedicated people. as good arying to do job as they can. what do you feel? >> we have been working for two years with syrian refugees in lebanon. syrians of only three participating. not waiting in a rwo-month queue outside unhc door. i am not in my grave. i am not morning a family member. i am not in prison or a refugee can't. my stomach is full after 200 days of besieged general camps. if we do not collectively act upon this, and yes we can. there will be no syrian to sit in my place. the syrians who were expected to be sitting in my place will be suffocating, suffering from social problems or striving to achieve the minimum basic needs like a loaf of bread. it was not an easy decision for me to sit here. the question of the panel, what more can the community due to respond to the syrian humanitarian crisis, i felt as though the committee -- the community has done enough, as if they hav

state laws mandate security for the date of their citizens and the private sector has developed extensive standards through the pci security standards council yet breaches come identity theft, financial fraud continue. affecting virtually every sector from the federal government to merchants, banks, universities and hospitals. we must consider whether the current multiplayer approach self-regulation can be more effective or whether we need to approach the issue differently. in short, the title of today's hearing is an appropriate question to ask -- can data breaches be prevented? equally important, we need to minimize or mediate the ability to commit fraud. americans should have the peace of mind that the government come along portsmouth officials and private industry are doing everything necessary to protect the government from future breaches. i yield the alice of my time to ms. blackwood. >> i thank the chairman. we are pleased to have you here. privacy data security is something that we are hearing about more and more from our constituents. i sum it up by saying my constituents want to know who owns the virtual you. which is you and you

handful of state law mandates security for the data of the citizens in the private sector has developed extensive standards to the pci security council at the preachers, identity theft, financial fraud continue protecting virtually every sector from the federal government to the merchants, banks and universities and hospitals. we must consider whether the current multilayered approach to the data security state industry self-regulation can be more ineffective or whetheeffective o approach the issue differently. in short the title of today's hearing is an appropriate question to ask can the data breaches be prevented. this is the right venue to discuss with the businesses can reasonably do to protect the data equally important we need to find ways to minimize or eliminate the ability of criminals to commit fraud with the data that they acquire. they are to have a piece of mine is that the government law-enforcement officials and private industry are doing necessary to protect the public from future breaches and i will yield the balance of my time. we are pleased to have you here. the privacy data security is something that we are hear

council chairing a meeting to sort out the problems of the city. the officials report to him. he assumed fuel responsibility for the fate of the region and its citizens found ukraine's former education minister, worried about the strains. there is a real denger. we had deputies meeting to discuss separating from the country. six police stations have been ransacked by the protesters. self-defence forces have been sent in to clear them up and hand them back. not everything is being restored. a soviet police poster is warning that walls have ears. the safes have been broken open. as many as 500 handguns have been stolen from police arsenals over the last few days. >> outside the station we found contempt. we don't see the points of negotiation or truce. i want to see them all at the international court. they should get the death penalty. >> such radical sentiments may be isolated here. the danger of a return to violence cannot be ruled out. >> the president of venezuela, nicolas maduro, offered to talk to student leaders to end weeks of unrest there. eight people died in demonstrations over rising costs and crime levels. nicolas maduro has blamed foreig

citizens." joining me now are steve clemens, washington editor at large for "the atlantic" and an msnbc contributor and adrian karatnitsky, a senior fellow at the atlantic council. adrian is also a managing partner for the mirandum group, which advises companies looking to enter the ukraine. steve clemens, a lot has happened since we last met on this subject. very fast-moving situation. where do you think it stands now, and can this government that's kind of holding on at the moment continue to hold on with the speaker of the parliament basically in charge? >> well, it's highly fragile. there's no one that can watch the events of really the last 48 hours and not be incredibly impressed with the bravery of the protesters and frankly the efficacy and efficiency of that parliament that has moved so rapidly that i think that they've moved very expeditiously, but it raises other doubts because they are in a geographically complex position. they're wedged right in the armpit of russia. and i think the last thing that vladimir putin wants to see is this kind of liberal spring come rushing right in to russia. and so, you know, after the sochi olympics i think you're go

council. the attack on the consulate benghazi, there was a retirement for self deployable, self command and control crisis ofponse force capable protecting u.s. citizens, their interests, and designated personnel's. a marine corps's answer was a special purpose green air ground task force, crisis response, a tailored force of about 500 marines along with a combat command element and .upported by six ospreys during his tour, the crisis response eventuated personnel from the u.s. embassy. deployed around the meditative uranium africa and had bilateral training exercises with the spanish legionnaires, the french legionnaires. colonel benedict is a covert pilot by training and has and time with the infantry serving with both force and italian -- battalion reconnaissance units. he commended a helicopter squadron and is presently a commanding officer of the 24th marine expeditionary unit. he is a graduate of the naval academy, the staff college, and the marine corps war college. please join me in welcoming atlanta -- scott benedict. >> thank you for that welcome. thank you for the opportunity to speak to you. 20 fourth expeditionary unit, commanding officer

council and international security. following the 2012 attack on the consulate in benghazi, we registered requirement for self deployable, self command and control, crisis response force capable of protecting u.s. citizens and interests and designate personal from the area of responsibility. the marine corps' and was a special-purpose, marine air ground task force crisis response amy taylor force about 500 marines of the air, ground and logistics discipline, along with the combat, command element and supported by six ospreys and to casey 130. during his tour of the crisis response evacuated u.s. personnel from the u.s. embassy in sudan, deployed around the mediterranean africa, or contingency response engage in bilateral training exercises with french legionnaires, the single these military, spanish legionnaires at the 13th brigade. colonel benedict as a copilot by training and i spent time with the infantry serving with those for summertime reconnaissance units. in addition to committing special-purpose mac at the command a marine light attack helicopter squadron and is presently commanding officer of the 24th marine expeditionary unit. he is a graduate the u.s. naval academy, they will command staff c

council on this mission. russia is a holdout and there's a message to them that they cannot say they're concerned about the well-being of the syrian people when there's starving citizens the syrians that are responsible, the russians as well if they're blocking this kind of resolution. that's an example of the kinds of diplomatic work that we are engaging in right now. but, mark, nobody is going to deny that there's enormous frustration here and i think the underlying premise to the question may be, is there additional direct action or military action that can be taken that would resolve the problem in syria? i have said throughout my presidency that i always reserve the right to exercise military action on behalf of america's national security interests. but that has to be deployed wisely and i think that what we saw with respect to the chemical weapons situation was an example of the judicious, wise use of possible military action. in partnership with france, we said we would be prepared to act if syria did not. syria and russia came to the conclusion that they needed to, for the first time, acknowledge the presence of chemical weapons and then agreed to a very exte