and development committee >> sproovisor wiener requests this go tooz committee. [inaudible] it will go to committee. >> thank you. and thank you supervisor wiener. i think that your comment [inaudible] for more information are well taken and i think that my view is a little different than what has been put out there. i think that the more information we have the better, but i think in making sure that accurate information is provided to the public we need to make sure different perspectives are taken into account and the realty is there will be some people on this board that may on one side thrf issues and others on the orelt side. i think we need to have a conver saigz to figure what those questions should be because any good lawyer knows how you frame the question impacts the question you get. one concern i have with respect to the request presented is that the jenitous of it came from one side of the this political fight and while i respect the right of individuals to present their view, if want to make sure if you are asking for additional information every s

i am zach marks chairman of the committee. sadly san francisco is the most deadly city in california for pedestrians and on average cars hit three pedestrians. with 21 pedestrians killed last year alone the status quo is dadly and simply unacceptable and with the fourth fatality on gen ess and pacific san francisco is set to exceed 35 deaths this year so simply the numbers are going up and not down. serving agthe representative to the board of supervisors the committee is composed of citizens of parents and seniors and advocates victims, people with disabilities and a muni driver and yes bicyclists. so when i joined p sac and took over in january last year the committee was in some respects in disaway and violated sunshine laws and roberts rules of order and not show up to meetings and the committee was insatisfy and inefficient and served as a rubber room and come in one r once month and this issue is very important and i decided to lead the committee down a new path so you will see a list off the objectives and i will go ove

on peef and the steering committee, the library advisory committee and the master plan steering committee and all the staff members who contribute to the success of peef and further be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco board of education approves a public education enrichment fund spending plan for 2014-15 school year after examining recommendations on peef from the staff and the advisory committee on peef. and be it further resolved that this plan maybe amended during the district's budget development process based on availability of state funding and/or subsequent adjustments to the peef allocation made by the city and county of san francisco. the superintendant is requested to inform the sfusd school board and supervisors that such amendments may occur. >> thank you. seeing no public speakers for this item, comments from the board or superintendant? commissioner wynns? >> thank you, i would like to thank you for the questions and answers that were raised. my question about the increase in in instructional time with ms. flemming and we'll figure out where we c

and you know there's there's committees in there there's a committee devoted just to chemicals there's a committee devoted just to the pharmaceutical corporations that would like greater monopoly patent protections in the p.p. . and there's even a committee just for aerospace equipment and we get just for the equipment not the iris that is there and we get one one for the public interest. in the industry only committees as well get to meet much more often than the existing labor environmental committees with the administration there was a recent letter from a president. criticizing the lack of consultation with the labor committee saying that industry only committees have met more than three times as often ministration there you go so it begs the question is this a real response kind of to the public pressure that we've been seeing or is it just window dressing we see it as window dressing it's too little too late first why is it too little it's too little because well and a system of twenty eight committees in which twenty six of them are dominated by corporate interests and sixteen o

one committee is laughable. this is a much better way of doing this would be to have public interest representatives sitting on all the different committees so that alongside from a sort of corporations you'd have advocates for access to medicines and hollywood you have people advocating freedom that proposal was actually brought to the industry committees back in two thousand and ten they unanimously rejected that proposal yeah they stated that their quote was the fact that the whole purpose of this entire system is to make sure negotiators understand business interests there was a quote from them and so they rejected it instead they created the very proposal that frohman came out with two days ago which is labor have their one committee led environment how they want to be and now in public interest have their one committee it's also too late because p.p.p. negotiations have been going on now for for four years and said it would like to conclude in the coming months so how much opportunities are going to be for

if you're deliberating on the budget and committee, if we notice the meeting as a committee of the whole, which we may be doing already, are we monica? at operations? >> we can. if there is interest by other commissioners to attend the meeting, we can on notice as commission as a whole. >> would you other committee members have objections just noticing it as committee of the whole just in the off chance? because then to your point about folks coming, if it's just as a matter of practice noticed as a meeting of the committee of the whole, folks can come there. and that would be good because there have been a couple things i saw and i remember thinking, oh, man i'd like to go, but it's too late to notice as a committee of the whole. >> so, the question is going to be february 19th is a problem for anybody? i think it would work for us as staff to have it any time that week, but it shouldn't be the week before because we won't have -- >> i'm curious on that point, too, if on the budget, if the work order with the puc was discussed because we have a $600,000 program that we do together with

the homeland committee as well, the house intelligence committee. this is going to take a real bipartisan, grownup effort on the part of members to address this because it is the public and the private sectors and now we see these huge incursions relative to consumers and what that does. we need far better reporting, i think, to consumers, but before we -- that's after something has happened. we need to be able to prevent these things. >> do you foresee this year legislation on data breaches? >> i don't know. i have to tell you, i don't know. i hope so i hope that that will be nearly at the top because we're living with this every day now. almost every week or every month something comes out. and you know, the average person can't fix this themselves. i read that they're writing checks and using cash because they don't trust the system. we need -- one of the most important factors in our economy , and the reason we have the broadest, deepest markets in the world is the confidence factor. and when that is chipped away at, it's not good for us. it jus

the transportation authority code the committee recommended the appointment of citizen advisory committee and you're ready evenly closing closure you have two applications. in told them one for this item you see the listing for the current citizens advisory members now to quality one must be a san francisco resident and poirtd once before this committee for hosing interests. we have two vacancies and they result from the terms of robert from district 7 who is not seeking reappointment and the 8 get district gentleman is here for reappointment. with that we can take any questions >> if there are no questions we'll ask the candidates to come forward. >> i'm peter i've severed on the cac for 6 years and a transportation planner 3 years with the sfmta before any retirement and i've lived in san francisco for 35 years and i'm usually on my bicyclist or muni everyday for transportation. and i'm an active member of spur the sierra club and other associations and the commonwealth club in addition, i have a new qualification i'll be a senior citizen in two months. my optimistic on the cac is helpi

the intel said committee on the service committee. i want to thank him for what he is doing in the affaires. because of the seriousness of this issue and the sensitivity of that, am just going to read my statement. edward snowden isn't a hero. he is a traitor and a criminal. this much is very clear. no matter what opinion the american people hold that the nsa data collection, they would be shocked and outraged to learn that a substantial amount of the information has nothing to do with nsa. the damage he has done to our military and national defense programs is not the mark of a whistleblower. he has given our enemies and edge and put our war fighters at risk. americans should demand he be brought to justice for his clients and dismiss any discussion of filmmaking for clemency is absolutely unacceptable. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> earlier today, congressional budget office director, douglas elmendorf on the impact of the health care law. here is more now. >> i've a few questions about the health care law in resp

reforming fannie and freddie is a priority for this committee. i'd like you to take a couple brief moments to discuss the need to bring private capital back into the market. >> senator, i strongly support and would urge congress to address the issue of gse reform. we've gotten a mortgage system that in a way, be factor sense remains very highly dependent on government backing. and it fails to meet the very important objective of success. securitization without systemic risk. there are a number of different ways in which congress could proceed with gse reform, depending on your assessment of appropriate priorities. in my personal view it's very important for congress to decide explicitly what the role of the government should be in housing finance and there are a lot of possible choices available i think many terms of bringing private capital back into the market, we now have a system where almost all mortgages that are being granted in this country have government backing associated with it, and i think to see private capital return in meaningful

he had a search committee. and, so, we did look at three different search firms that the city has a list of folks that are involved in doing a search as a search firm. and what that basically means is taking a job description, helping to get it out to the entire nation and look at everyone -- anyone and everyone out there and also help to save on administrative time of trying to cull through folks that might not hit the mark with where the commission might ultimately want to go because as you know, we as a commission are in charge of selecting finalists that will submit consideration by the mayor. so, the three different firms, there is one that kind of really stood out during that process. they weren't -- there were three that applied. the firm was not the most expensive. they were not the least expensive. so, you guessed it, they're right there in the middle of the three. they're called alliance. a group of us sat down, including commissioner wan, myself, and deputy director osman. and to kind of review this

old toest committees in the congress, is really the committee of future. its jurisdictions are so broad and so powerful, and it's very exciting. and so to step into that position, which is not easy to do because you have to be elected by your colleagues, i think, is an enormous opportunity to leverage everything that is there not only in communications and the internet and technology, but how that is applied to, increasingly, to health care, the other jurisdictions, the fda, the nih. and so it's very exciting, and i think that i have a skill set that fits with that and the leadership style that can leverage that. so i did announce my candidacy earlier this week and is will work hard at it. but it'll be a long effort as well. and i look forward to it. i think the competition is very important, the competition of ideas the candidates have, and then members will take their decision. >> host: how would you describe your working relationship with your current chair, greg walden, on the subcommittee, and fred upton, the full chair? >> guest: i think we have an e

it is very much appreciated by this committee. i also would like to note to colleagues that director clapper came before us in closed session two weeks ago and went through a series of classified matters and we discussed what the ic is doing about them. he and other witnesses are available to answer classified questions in closed sessions but the point of today's hearing is to focus on the unclassified details of the threat we face and to provide the american people with a better sense of how our intelligence community views them. >> thank you. we cannot let afghanistan suffer the same fate as erect. we must not withdraw from the fight before we finish what we went there to do. recent press articles suggest that we may week behind a force of eight to 12,000 american military personnel which would likely require continued support from the intelligence community. we have come a long way denying a safe haven to al qaeda. and building up the security forces of our afghan partners. we must not commit the same mistake of losing what the

the committee will meet in march. we will have a broad range of data on the economy to look at, including additional employment reports. it's important for us to take our time to assess the significance of this. can you describe what would cause you to consider a tapering cause? many months of bad data reporting? >> i think what would cause the committee to consider a pause is a notable change in the outlook. the committee when it decided to begin this process of tapering, it measured steps. i believe the outlook was one where we would see continued improvement in the labor market, and inflation moving back up towards our two percent target. if incoming data were to cause the committee looking broadly -- >> what kind of data? >> we would be looking at a broad range of data in the labor market, including unemployment, job creation, and many other indicators of labor market performance. we would also be looking at inicators suspending growth the economy, because we do need pace in order to project continued improvement

i'm hopeful that this committee and the appropriation committee will listen. we must do everything in our power to support this agency and its staff. in closing, i would like to thank you for being here today. i look forward to your testimony and working with you and the members of this committee to address these important and other issues. thank you, mr. commissioner. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. lewis. now it's my pleasure to welcome our witness, the honorable john koskinen, commissioner of the internal revenue service. welcome, commissioner. i know this is your first appearance before a -- the ways and means committee subcommittee included and certainly your first appearance since confirmation before congress. so we welcome you. we thank you for your time today. we look forward to discussing many of these very serious issues facing the irs and i want to assure you, we have shared goals in this and we want to -- as i said before, want to clear the slate so that we can move forward to achieve the real reform that is you hope to institute and thi

the committee is adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] and allegeding targeting of an server the groups will air again on sunday. you can see it anytime at www.c- span.org. afternoon the senate blocked a bill that would have extended unemployment benefits by three militants -- months. send this democrats block the third attempt. the vote was 58 -- 20, with 60 votes needed to advance the measure. there is one republican vote standing in the way of a lifeline to these 1.7 million people. senator from nevada voted with democrats to -- that is from "the hill." i think the american public sees the first lady in very glamorous circumstances, , aally, state dinner am a gown. what they may not imagine looking at the white house from the outside is that it is a very --mal life upstairs on that on those two floors, the white lady'sesidence, at first actually lie on the couch and read a book. in my case a cat was always curled up next to

two of the measures in this bill were never reported out of committee and no committee considered this omnibus bill. so much for regular order. madam speaker, we have a number of major time sensitive issues we should be tackling here in this congress. we should be extending unemployment benefits for the 1.6 million americans whose benefits expired on december 28 and the 72,000 more who lose them each week we fail to act. we should be raising the minimum wage to help the too many americans who work two jobs and still struggle to make ends meet. we should be finding common ground on comprehensive immigration reform to finally fibblings our broken immigration system. and we should be bringing to the floor a clean bill to raise the bt ceiling which yesterday treasury secretary lew said we'd hit by the end of the month. default on the national debt risks another downgrading of our credit rating but we are not considering any of these items today. instead we have before us another cobbled together lands bill that goes much further than just expanding hunting and fishing opportunities on publ

the commitsty chair has the discretion to call the item and a special committee meeting. there are a number of options we have to move this forward in a timely fashion >> supervisor wiener >> first of all, if we are going read the rules language, the use of land and economic [inaudible] if this measure doesn't relate to land use and housing and zoning and planning, i'm not sure what it so i think the attorney indicateed it fits in either committee. i tried to be very transapparent in the discussion about my goal. i know this will get approved or not by the board of supervisors. there are 11 and if it makes it to the floor there will be a vote and that is the end of it. my goal is to make sure it gets a full vote. my desire to have it go to land use and economic land use knhitty is because i know i will schedule in a timely way and hopeful we can get it out of committee and to the full board where it passes or not. it is unclear to me why folks are so adimate that it go to the rules committee when it fits into the submat matter jurisdiction of either and why that matters t

committee. i became chairman of that committee. together we met with our colleagues ironing out compromises on acid rain, ozone depalatial, and -- ozone depletion and scores of other issues. senator chafee later became chairman of the full committee. we had agreements but by and large under senator chafee's chairmanship i recall an oasis of civility. that friendship has helped us pass the clean air act of 1990. i'm very proud of that effort. and i was chairman of the committee at that time. it finally passed. it's a small point, but i always respected that he never raised his voice. always civil, always decent, always positive, upbeat, trying to find a solution here. john never lost his temper. he listened carefully to the other person's point of view. he was a paragon of a united states senator. as is my good friend from iowa, another, chuck grassley. chuck and i began our friendship by deciding to meet weekly, face-to-face, his office, my office. it turned out to be 5:30 every tuesdays. we'd bring our staffs together. pretty soon

i served on the committee as we formulated our current policy strategy. and i strongly support the strategy, which is designed to fulfill the federal reserve's statutory mandate of maximum employment and price stability. prior to the financial crisis, the fomc carried that monetary policy by adjusting the target for the federal funds rate. with that rate near zero since late 2008, we relied on to less traditional tools, asset purchases and forward guidance, to help the economy move toward maximum employment and price stability. both tools put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates and support asset prices. in turn, these accommodative financial conditions support consumer spending, business investment, and housing construction. our current program of asset purchases began in september 2012 amid signs that the recovery was weakening and progress in the labor market had slowed. the committee said that it would continue the program until there was a substantial improvement in the outlook of the labor market. in mid-2013, the committee indicated that

advisory committee.at 1, succeeding liz jackson-simpson, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february 19, 2017. vacant seat 2, succeeding winnie yu, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february 19, 2017. vacant seat 4, succeeding dion-jay brookter, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february

ms confer an exchange of church committee to my committee head would be like a 9/11 commission.nd also one that just is not have former government officials but as a civil libertarian so forth. we have to get other questions. >> un question. >> that was my question the frank church in 2014. >> that was why -- unless we can find somebody with the medical ability to bring them back to life and put them back into the senate, i would not -- i would not allow the senate or the congress to do this committee. but when it comes so far. i've been following this ever since the church committee. and the church committee, they took it upon themselves, their mission, there were the beverage win the american public and the nsa or the intelligence community. it is draw said the intelligence committees in congress feel that they are the protector of the agency. not the protector of the public. they argue for a bigger budget for the intelligence agency whenever there's a cut in the budget argue for more freedoms for the agency. where were they doing that here in half years, the times release , t

on the committee she knows the transit system inside and out she's an asset to the committee >> thank you. >> i strongly approve peter being reappointed. >> anyone else public comment is closed. supervisor yee. currently i'm still interviewing people for the district 7 >> i'd like to thank staff for printing the full cac advisory committee list so it give us some sense of the demographics and ms. saks having 3 of 13 women is an important consideration as we try to create the most diverse cac we can. so colleagues, we have a request if our district 7 colleague to continue the discussion on the district 7 appointment. can we have a motion on reappointing the gentleman to the district 7 seat >> so moved. >> and to continue the district 7 seat as well as commissioners, can we take this without objection? >> thank you, ms. changing. item 6 recommended allocation of 1 million plus in prop k funds and 3 hundred and 8g9 2 in prop funds for subjected to the cash flow distribution schedules and the strategic plan and relate to prop k. this is an action item >> and the report is here. >> i'm wit

committees, the defense, armed services committee, the intel committee, foreign relations committee, and any other committee that's relevant to get to the bottom of what happened in benghazi. i have come to conclude that this issue is not going away. it will not die out because four americans lost their lives. and we have compiled an event time line that i think does the following: the story told by susan rice and the president himself shortly after the attack on 16 september and for a couple of weeks later is absolutely collapsed. it is not credible. it is a fabrication. it was a manipulation of the intel seven weeks before an election. and i think it is abundantly clear that the information coming from libya never suggested there was a protest, identified this as a terrorist attack from the very beginning. and on 16 september, five days after the attack, the u.n. ambassador, susan rice, assured the nation that the consulate was subsubstantially, significantly and strongly secured. there's absolutely in the talking points about that. clearly that was not the case. why did she say th

. >> i am going to refer this to the curriculum and the budget committee. thank you. >> let's see. could i have a motion and a second for the next item which is the recommendation of aligning mathematics course sequence for the common core state standards for all students. >> so moved. >> this has already been through the curriculum committee, and so we will hear this and held over for action at the next regular meeting. item r, board members proposals, none, tonight board members report, could i please have a report from the city and school district select committee on january 30, 2014? >> it looks like it is just me. commissioner norton? >> we heard a presentation, and it actually was a great presentation, i want to commend mr. golden for it. and it was, information that the school board members in attendance pretty much knew but had not seen collected in one place and it was basically he went through all of the districts, surplus properties, and oh, good, did everybody get copies, thank you. >> and he went through every single property, surplus property and sort of the status of

i'm asking for an external church committee, a committee that would be like a 9/11 commission. and also went just other former government officials on it, one that has a civil libertarian, a journalist and so forth. we've got to get of the questions. >> that was my question, which was who is frank church of 2014? >> yet. that was why -- unless we could find somebody with a medical ability to bring him back to life and put him back into the senate, i wouldn't put the senate -- i would allow the senate, or the congress to do this committee. look where they have come so far. i've been following this ever since the church committee, and with the church committee, they took it upon themselves. their mission, at least the way to look at it, they with a buffer between the american public and the nsa, or the intelligence community. it's revolved now so that the intelligence committees in congress feel that they are the protector of the agencies, not the protector of the public. they argue for a bigger budget for the intelligence agencies whenever there's a cut in the budget or they arg

ms confer an exchange of church committee to my committee head would be like a 9/11 commission.nd also one that just is not have former government officials but as a civil libertarian so forth. we have to get other questions. >> un question. >> that was my question the frank church in 2014. >> that was why -- unless we can find somebody with the medical ability to bring them back to life and put them back into the senate, i would not -- i would not allow the senate or the congress to do this committee. but when it comes so far. i've been following this ever since the church committee. and the church committee, they took it upon themselves, their mission, there were the beverage win the american public and the nsa or the intelligence community. it is draw said the intelligence committees in congress feel that they are the protector of the agency. not the protector of the public. they argue for a bigger budget for the intelligence agency whenever there's a cut in the budget argue for more freedoms for the agency. where were they doing that here in half years, the times release , t