mr. isaacson is an experienced developer. if he had a sharper, better pencil, ecohe could do this, a we'd certainly like to see a better project with housing in this location. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, miss morgan, please. >> hello, commissioners. elaine morgan, president of cathedral home neighbors, cochair of vanness quarter neighbor coalition, and vice president, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. two of our organizations have sent letters in support of the community alternative to the conditional use and the coalition which is a 30-member group citywide has passed a resolution in support of mixed-use housing over ground floor retail. so you've heard a lot about this. you're going to hear a lot more people talking about this. i think it's contrary that lea were to as a city look at our own personal philosophy that we had just had a conversation on senate bill 827, this would be the poster child for development. transit rich corridor, we could have housing on-site, transit service busi

mr. isaacson, mr. chief justice, i would like to direct my initial responses to some of the questions that justice breyer was asking counsel. he pointed out the fact that there are conflicting numbers before the court regarding what is the amount of lost revenue that the states are expressing. he said what should we rely upon. the most authoritative independent and extensive study was the one that was done by the general, billy office. the general accountability office determined that the private study that was done by two professors at the university of tennessee which was issued in 2009 based on 2006 figures and then updated in 2012 based on 2009 figures, the gao indicated that the figures were only one quarter or one third of the amount of lost revenue. >> that wasn't the problem really. the problem is that your brief is filled with stuff, i mean, for example, go to the website which i went to that they recommend and it seems easy to determine what the sales tax was and you say but my god, even 12 i

mr. isaacson? justice, and it please the court, i would like to direct my initial responses to some of the questions that justice breyer was asking counsel. he pointed out that there were conflicting numbers regarding what was the amount of lost revenue that states are experiencing. and he said, what should we rely on? the most authoritative, independent, and excessive study is the one done by the general accountability office. the general accountability office determined that the private study that was done by two professors at the university of tennessee, which was issued in 2009 based on 2006 figures and then updated in 2012 based gao 2009 figures -- the indicated that the figures were one third ofrter - the amount of lost revenue. >> that was not a problem. the problem is that your brief is still -- for example, go to the website which i was two, that they recommend. it seems easy to determine what the sales tax was, even 12 mistakes in a south dakota. moreover, there are 10,000 different ones,

mr. isaacson, your time is done.if you want to take a little time working with small businesses, and working with the developers in planning the type of neighborhood that we want to have. now i don't want have to tell you that san francisco's the middle of an extraordinary housing crisis, but next to the mission, our neighborhood has the highest number of evictions, so there is an absolute need not only for housing, but housing here, and what our neighborhood needs is housing. this project is counter to mayor ed lee's housing initiative and has countered everything our neighborhood has been working for the last couple years, which is why our coalition of organizations that oppose the project representing the thousands of residents in the area are advocating for housing over retail. i just want to quickly go over some of the graphics that we submitted in the packet. this one just shows here that there's surrounding k4r5i78, t claim, the 1500 jackson, is not served well with a grocery store. this next grafrk can just s

mr. isaacson, i want to ask you a question because you say housing is infeasible here. maybe it is, but if it is, it's infeasible anywhere. i think this would be a great site for it, but i understand construction costs are high. what's that? [ inaudible ] >> president hillis: so i want to ask you, 'cause you've done good housing projects. i told you i often point to the one on franklin and hayes, and so what have we expedited a project with whole foods and you s housing? what if you went and applied for a state density bonus for housing. my point is we're a planning commission. we don't necessarily decide what goes in storefronts commission, and i don't want to look on-site 20 years from now like i do the 24th street in -- the 24th street whole foods and say like this is just a bad planning decision, that we have a whole foods set back from 24th street with a parking lot on it, and where we have a great decision where we made at the s and c foert site where there's a whole foods site with housing above. >> the only thing i can say in 30 years of doing development in san

isaacson? >> thank you, mr. chairman. congratulations on your nomination. best of luck to you and we'll be here to support you in any way that we can. i certainly will. let me start off by saying thank you to the state department and this administration on the open skies agreements which you may or may not be familiar with. if you aren't, they're essential for the aviation industry and for our country. and this administration and the bureau of economic development and state department have done a great job seeing to the open skies is enforced. i hope you'll commit when you get to the state department, you'll continue that help and enforcement. >> i will, senator isaacson, yes, sir. >> thank you very much. secondly, i think ambassador haley is gone. but let me say this anyway. i'm a big fan of africa and i've developed an affinity for africa since i've been on this committee of foreign relations. i've traveled there extensively and i think it's the 21st century in many respects for our country and for everybody else. china is demonstrating they think it's im

but after we vote, because johnny isaacson is not here, i am going to be asking for undull well, mr. chairman, i will not relitigate mike pompeo's qualifications are not but i want to raise the concern that senator raised about motives. i don't think it is in any interests to question each other's motives for how we made a decision and for what we view as our responsibilities on this committee. so i would, you talked about the number of nominees who had very high numbers of votes from the senate and there are a number of people i can think of who the president could have incomenated who i would numbers of be happy to vote for, so i think it is hard to make that case and we are all better off if we assume that we are rying to act in good faith on the nominees and not call into question people's motives for making decision. >> does anyone else wish to speak? a we'll keep going with speeches. i will speak in ottered. i don't really -- i i don't know any other member that is coming, so we no longer need to prolong this. i say, let's vote. i know there is a member. ok. let's go through it

, i'm waiting to hear from both chairman isaacson from the administration, what they believe the way forward should be, and we'll take our queues from them. >> mr. mcconnell, did you meet with dr. jackson? >> so the president says it's dr. jackson's decision, senator mcconnell says it's the white house's decision, they're waiting to hear their queues from the white house. it does sound like they're waiting for jackson to bow out. that this confirmation is not going to go forward, am i right? kevin barron, are you there? executive editor of defense one. i assume the viewers just knew your face and wouldn't actually need an sbintroduction. >> it's business as usual at the white house, so this nomination is already off the rails before it really began. and, yeah, it sounded today like the president gave him an offramp. but he still wanted him. in the same breath, the president said he wouldn't put himself through the process, but he did, he's the president, he knows how this goes. so i'm less worried about the lack of -- i'm not so worried about business as usual, because this is what we have come to expect. it does sounuoes sound like it hands of

mr. chairman. congratulations on your nomination. >> we'll have another break and resume or senate coverage after this. >>> let's get back to our special coverage. senator johnny isaacson of georgia is asking questions of mike pompeo, the secretary of state nominee. >> -- on big issues we need in the united nations. i hope you'll focus on africa when you have the chance and realize what the state government has done. lastly, this is kind of an editorial statement. my experience of the state department is that it has been in a blue funk for about a year and a half. and one of the things i told you when you came to my office, i thought there was a real need for a perk, for an adjustment and for an attitude improvement with the state department. i think you're all for the opportunity to be that catalyst of the department. to your credit, your critics and your complimentors, or whatever that term should be, at the cia give you high marks for bringing that agency back in an enthusiastic motivational mission. i think your words to mike in your opening statement were exactly the seed because all of a sudden the employees had a chance to speak out to you, tell you what they th

recommendation knowing that if isaacson were here, a valued weber, if he were here, if were holding this at 11:30 would gothis nominee to the floor positive recommendation. mr. chairman, we have a great deal of respect for senator isakson. the parliament he has told us that a voice vote that is truly vote, is not a vote that can move forward to the floor, and would create an affirmative on the far as it relates to nominate. it would put us in a position of having to vote yes, when we clearly don't support the nominee. with a positive recommendation. move by recorded vote. >> a recorded vote will still leave you in a tie. vote. >> we have all recorded our votes. every democrat has voted no. every republican has voted yes. mr.siou chairman. >> yes? [inaudible] >> i think that is one idea. the other is everybody has a opportunity to express their vote ask for unanimous consent, notwithstanding the rules of the committee, that a nomination be sent to the floor with the vote as recorded here in the committee. >> reserving the right to object. my is acceptable to do under the rules. we can see if that will be future action. >> that is take a five-minute adjournme