and while the senate appropriations committee has passed eight of the 12 appropriations bills out of committee, the house appropriations committee has approved all but one. and if the senate would work with us, i believe we could pass all of our bills on time. this continuing resolution -- the c.r. we are considering today is a clean bill, continuing the funding of government operations at least year's levels and includes only 26 so-called anumber lease, all within the total -- anomalies all within the total level of funding. this is to address current immediate needs, like addressing the ebola crisis, the aggression towards ukraine and other former soviet union countries and funding to ensure appropriate treatment of veterans and continued oversight of the v.a. in addition, mr. speaker, this bill extends the export import bank through june 30 -- export-import bank through jean 30, 2015. i know some of my friends will disagree with me, but i believe the export-import bank provides a vital service. in an era when foreign governments are subsidizing their industries, our companies are

we shall support the supplemental appropriation. thank you >> thank you, sir dude next speaker >> good afternoon my name is francisco [inaudible] him immigration specialist at this imposes the public defender's office in newly created position as public defender to provide assistance to noncitizens that arrested and accused of crimes. i've also been a part of this improves the legal service provider community and spent 6 years providing deportation and immigration courts. let me say that again a lot of advocacy here in the city that never seen a coalition with such different political constituencies that with such broad support. so not only are legal services providers present. top bar firms in the city are present including -- the bar association of san francisco. the american immigration lawyers association says they're mostly private attorneys and base building nonprofit organizations like --. to me the decision to support the supplemental is pretty easy. 1st, it's outstanding sound and groundbreaking public policy. based on empi

senate is not passing any appropriations bills.ortunately, we have both the chairman and the ranking member here. being ableample of to work together which they did last year and present us one. i very much hope we can do that in november and december. show that and the rest of congress to let them do their jobs, they can get it done. the failure to get it done is resting solely on the senate side. unless they can allow the bill to pass on the floor, they will impact our work adversely. it is hard to get these people to get a bill to the floor under an open role and cast dozens of votes when they know there is not going to be a senate bill that is passed as well. >> as an example of what you just said about the senate, i am told there is one senator who is serving his first term. almost through with his first term. he has not voted a single amendment in his career. almost six years in the senate. what does that tell you? i will yield to my friend. >> i want to be sure you understood -- i understood what you said. only seven went to

we strongly support this supplemental appropriation. as others have said, the need for representation of unaccompanied children families on the rocket docket is probably overwhelming the capacity of nonprofit providers. this is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome . if we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and economic cost to the city. i want to address a particular issue has come up in this discussion which of the role pro bono attorneys in meeting the needs of unaccompanied youth. the short answer is that for crisis of this magnitude the resources of the private bar critical as they are simply cannot close the justice that is why the patient is so essential. in the bay area were fortunate to have a strong proponent community is given the time and resources to a host of issues such as family law law landlord issues we work as a [inaudible] we know that that is an important complement to but never the

of the appropriations committee. the cooperative nature of this committee this year in terms of inserting good government amendments into appropriation bills, it was a real pleasure to be able to work with them and to put some of the oversight results that we've done over the past few years into appropriation bills. and the bill we have on the floor even though the chairman is supporting the bill, it's not her bill. it's a bill that came to her from house republicans. and so any criticism i might have of the bill is certainly not directed towards the chairman of the appropriation committee. but it's important to be reminded of what the congress told the american people less than two years ago, that we were going to go on a diet, and then a year ago when we had the ryan-murray agreement and let me just outline to you where we are with what we're getting ready to vote on. because we're about $47 billion above what we agreed to in the ryan-murray budget. and that doesn't include emergency funding. so this bill -- our ap

>> number 14,ordinance retroactively appropriating $12,292 to overtime and de-appropriating $12,292 in fringe benefits in the public utilities commission bureau operating budget to support the department's projected increases in overtime as required per ordinance no. 194-11 in fy2013-2014. >> and we have mr. restrum. >> general manager and cfo and if i may through the chair request that the next two items also be called, because they all relate to the technical budget adjustments. >> thank you. >> item 15,ordinance retroactively appropriating $79,437 to overtime and de-appropriating $79,437 in salaries in the public utilities commission water enterprise department operating budget to support the department's projected increases in overtime as required per ordinance no. 194-11 in fy2013-2014. >> item 16,ordinance retroactively appropriating $193,935 to overtime and de-appropriating $193,935 in salaries in the public utilities commission wastewater enterprise department operating budget to support the department's projected increases in overtime as required per ordinance no. 194-11 in fy

participants why they hold the views they do about appropriate policy. there are a number of different explanations that participants give. is that view on this there have been a variety of headwinds resulting from the crisis that have slowed growth, led to a sluggish recovery from the crisis, and that these headwinds will dissipate only slowly and that they are dissipating. an example would be the fact is reallyage credit available to those with pristine credit. credit conditions there are abnormally tight. thater thing we see is household expectations about their likely income paths remain quite depressed relative to precrisis levels. that is something that may be holding back consumer spending. the view would be that those times will dissipate over but only very gradually. in addition, we have had slow productivity growth and the slow pace of potential output likely depresses the pace of investment spending. those are some of the things that participants mention as white it will take some time to get back. it's not that the fed is behind returnve in f

the idea they were hike -- they will hike early does not seem appropriate.raphnow we had the showing the economic projections. what are you taking away from that and what are you seeing? >> the most at risk for revision is the inflation forecast. it does not seem to jive terribly well with what is going on in unemployment forecast. we have not seen wage pressers today but we're still looking at 2% year-over-year wage increases. into 2015, the scope for that number to go up in a lot of different areas of the market. we are seeing labor shortages begin to emerge. so i think this is something we will see a bit of wage pressure into 2014, let's keep our eye on the board -- on the ball in terms of what they say the rate will be. hyman.s get julie she is in the bloomberg data center. what do you have for us? >> stocks are back up again. weant to take it back that tend to see volatility in the wake of the fed statement. anything could change once janet yellen begins speaking. but the reaction we have seen thus far, to lisa's point, you're not seeing a tapered catch

>> i think it is appropriate to start the discussion with risk. the state program and the urban areas security initiative are risk-informed allocation decisions meaning secretary of homeland security factors risk into the allocation of the funds and the statute directs in the urban area security initiative program that he put the resources in the highest risk urban areas in the united states. this year fiscal '14 secretary designated 39 high risk areas to receive funding. the risk assessment is done in partnership with our colleagues at department's intelligence and analysis division working with department of justice and intelligence community. we provide the secretary with the best picture of risk we can. we recommend to him allegations based on those risk profiles. we communicate with the jurisdictions about their risk profiles and invite them to submit information to us that they believe we may not have or we may not have taken into account and the secretary makes the allocation decisions. as to how well we are doing i point to the requirement

it's not what we do, on whether it's an appropriate use or not appropriate use. now, i can look at the pictures of ferguson and wince like everybody else in this room. but i think that has to be part of the dialogue and discussion of what we're going to do and how we're going to assess use of equipment. >> mr. kamoy, i wanted to ask -- don't know if i'm pronouncing your name correctly. >> you are. thank you, senator. >> i don't know if you're the appropriate person to ask this question, but on the homeland security front, what type of oversight is there in terms of the 1033 equipment. does homeland have any oversight over the receipt of that? >> we do not, senator. >> is there any coordination between the grants that homeland is giving in light of what the departments are receiving on the 1033 front? >> we don't coordinate in the decision-making about local law enforcement requests. the process that mr. estevez has laid out, we don't coordinate that at all. >> you wouldn't know in issuing a homeland grant what the d.o.d. has done in issuance of equipment to local

it's not what we do, on whether it's an appropriate use or not appropriate use. now, i can look at the pictures of ferguson and wince like everybody else in this room. but i think that has to be part of the dialogue and discussion of what we're going to do and how we're going to assess use of equipment. >> mr. kamoy, i wanted to ask -- don't know if i'm pronouncing your name correctly. >> you are. thank you, senator. >> i don't know if you're the appropriate person to ask this question, but on the homeland security front, what type of oversight is there in terms of the 1033 equipment. does homeland have any oversight over the receipt of that? >> we do not, senator. >> is there any coordination between the grants that homeland is giving in light of what the departments are receiving on the 1033 front? >> we don't coordinate in the decision-making about local law enforcement requests. the process that mr. estevez has laid out, we don't coordinate that at all. >> you wouldn't know in issuing a homeland grant what the d.o.d. has done in issuance of equipment to local

this is part of our assessment of economic conditions and the appropriate stance of monetary policy. in terms of what the term considerable time means the committee decided that based on its assessment of economic conditions, that characterization remains appropriate and it was comfortable with it. i think if you look, for example, at the projections of individual participants that are revealed in the sep, the view of each participant, again, i'd emphasize not a committee collective view, there's relatively little change in the assessment of the outlook by participants between this meeting and the assessment in june. so the outlook is little changed, a slight decline in the anticipated path of the unemployment rate and a very slight uptick in the inflation projection but really quite minimal. so the outlook hasn't changed that much from june and the committee felt comfortable with this characterization. now, you said isn't this calendar-based guidance? i want to emphasize that there is no mechanical interpretation of what the term considerable time means. as i've said repeatedly, the

committee continues to anticipate based on its assessment of economic factors it will likely be appropriate to remain the current target range for federal funds short-term rates for a considerable time after the, asset purchase program, quantitative easing, program end later this year. the vote on the policy statement today was 8-2. two dissents in this statement, voting against it were richard fisher and charles plosser. fisher of the dallas fed, a hawk, said that he believed that the continued strengthening of the economy warranted a quicker reduction in monetary easing than is suggested in today's forward guidance. president plosser of philadelphia, also a hawk, objected to the policy guidance as well. he doesn't like the fact it is calendarer-based. on the new plan updating the 2011 plan for how the fed unwinds this 4 1/2 trillion balance sheet and how it manages interest rates going forward when it starts to raise them, it announced it will formally employ two new tools. without getting weedy, one is what the fed pays banks on excess reserve, interest rate it pays then. the second is s

that is developmentally appropriate, and i think you're going to see more of that. it is going to take four or five years. >> all right, last question. >> this is a good segue from your last one. this is from one of our viewers on c-span. she is currently a fulbright scholar but also a teacher in brookline, massachusetts. she asked what should a teacher do when they catch students bullying other students? you're welcome. >> great. i think it is a great question. i thing number one that all teachers, all members of school faculty, whether it is the custodian, the lunch line person, the school bus driver, any time they find or somebody brings it to their attention, i think they have to stop what they are doing, address the situation, and refer where appropriate to the next person that can intervene. here is why. if they see it and they see the student committing the act of bullying and they don't do anything about it, it sends two signals. one, you got away with it in front of an adult. that means you can do it again, multiple times. to the child who is being bullied,

at some point in the future it becomes appropriate to begin normalizing policy. let me underscore that our release of this information is not meant to convey any change in his stance of policy. as you know, the fomc views on policy are conveyed in up policy statement, which i will now discuss before coming back to our normalization plans. as indicated in our policy statement, the fmoc decided to make another reduction and that pace of the asset purchases. the committee also maintained its full board guidance regarding the federal funds rate project and reaffirmed its view that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy remains appropriate. let me discuss the economic conditions that underpinned these actions. the economy is continuing to make progress toward the fmoc objective of maximum sustainable employment. in the labor market conditions have improved further in recent months. although the pace of job growth has slowed somewhat recently to my job gains have averaged more than 200,000 per month of the past two months. the unemployment rate was just over

it discusses what the appropriate forward guidance is at every meeting. assessment asthe economic conditions and the appropriate stance of monetary policy. in terms of what the term considerable time means -- the committee decided based on its assessment of economic conditions, the characterization of -- remains appropriate. i think to be look for examples at the projections of individual participants that have revealed in the -- it is the view of each participants. committee, aot a committee collective you. it is relatively little change in the assessment of the outlook by participants between this meeting and the assessment in june. was littlelook changed despite the change in the and dissipated unemployment rate and a very slight uptick in the inflation projection but really quite minimal. the outlook has not changed that much from june and the committee felt comfortable with this characterization. said this calendar-based guidance. i want to emphasize the risk of mechanical interpretation of what the term in suitable time means. repeatedly, the decisi

the san francisco development and an beneficial ordinance with the francisco that will have an appropriate or inappropriate for an in fill were the san francisco development and 3 the pursuance to article of the san francisco business and tax regulation code considers the properties surrounding that and the appellant it the east side annexed life's blood to erect a building inspection with 4 hundred thousand square feet plus of ground floor area on august 24th we heard it and voted 5 to zero to continue the matter to the call of the chair to await that for possible appeal to the board of supervisors and then on november 20, 2012, the board requested it to be to the call of the chair for the planning department we'll hear from the requester first who has 3 minutes. >> i called them but they were not able to come i want to. >> he wanted to do some sort of presentation auto a power point presentation. >> i just wanted to show some of the. >> is the mike working. >> we can hold this case off until it's prepared. >> if you remember the project that won't be crucial. >> so my name is herself do

to have -- it's necessary and appropriate to have a somewhat more accommodative policy than would be normal in the absence of those headwinds. >> peter barnes? >> peter barnes at fox business, ma'am. i would like to follow up on greg's question about europe, because tomorrow scotland is going to be voting on independence from great britain, and there's some concern that if it does vote to break from great britain, that this could cause some you are the -- turmoil in global financial markets and the economy. are you concerned about that? do you see any impact if scotland does vote for independence on the european economy, and potentially on the american economy? and if so, is the fed doing anything in preparation for that possibility? thank you. >> well, scottish voters are about to go to the polls tomorrow, and they have had a good debate about this topic, and in light of that, i really don't want to weigh in on this today. >> last question, pedro. >> thank you. pedro decosta with dow jones news wires. my question is about your particular views about whether a gradual approach to tig

of supervisors or the mayor or whether it would be the head of some department and whoever the appropriate officer or body was that 0 could remove that person we make the recommendation to that individual or body >> so i'm not against sending something to the appointing officer or the entity that has the power to remove i'm not sure in every case someone that fails to meet the deadline of 90 days should be removed from office. so i propose modifying commissioner keanes amendment to perhaps notify the officer or appointing body to this person has failed to file after 90 days. in my mind first of all, i'd like to make the recommendation i'm also comfortable with maybe not always dismissals >> let me take our language mr. chair you wouldn't be comfortable with automatically dismissing someone was not filled the form within 90 days that's not what would happen. you don't have to worry about that. our recommendation is not going to have that effect it's going to be our opinion that this is something we consider so important that the person should be i don't know if we going to make - if there's

issued a certificate of appropriateness for this which went back to the 15 foot garage door opening as previously states the c of a submitted a building permit with the 18 foot garage door it was did understand it was appealed and tendon to the charley from then commissioner sugaya to go back to the landmarks board that's not been solved i don't see the decisions that authorizes the door of the width this was done without permit that so given those fangs i respectfully request the board denies this appeal that the denial of the permit for the 18 foot door will stand and we can go through the normal process and have them seek legal stun ution from 9 preservation commission in a various scenarios back to the original proposal or go back to what was a original powerful the 16 foot garage door. >> are you finished. >> so a question has the notice of violation been issued on the property at this point and a good question we've been waiting the outcome of this hearing. >> so the work is performed would the benefit of permit. >> but they came in and i was not able to see in the records to

for the appropriate response >> do you have a copy of what you read. >> yes. not here i'm sorry can you give us a minute please. >> i can agree with that. >> thank you. okay moving right along. a lot of paper here. finding number 6. i agree. the board can't confirm those figures but agree eir respective of the degree such an act would benefit the port and city so for finding number 6 as it relates to the recommendation it will not be implemented the board is no the appropriate city body spearhead an effort, however, it encourages the port to advocate or exemptions from the passing that could benefit the board and city the board will support the port in its effort, however, it know >> i think that's good. >> thank you, thank you president chiu. okay moving right along finding 8 parking lot san diego the city and port lost the city government lost money open the 31st america's cup but san francisco experienced a net benefit the board will defer to the civil grand jury the cities model for the event was speculative and don't even fundraising there was known risk

kitchen was remained and no condition is approved for commission distribution the staff has the appropriate finding the tear 10:30 extension will prevent the housing supply and is consistent with the mayors directive to preserve the housing supply no comments have been submitted that concludes my presentation. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> thank you. project sponsor >> good afternoon, commissioners melinda with rose i'm here on behalf of the italian i ingredient who rents the property to her tenants as mentioned? august 4th hearing a it is a design company for maternity clothing it is next door it is a perm application for her. we feel this is a unique application and appreciate the time the planning department has put i want to reiterate first mass carney is a property owner and she didn't say intend to move the dwrel from the site and secondly, we have community support we've submitted 7 messengers or letters of support 9 from businesses that want to see the development at least temporarily and third as the planner mentioned is an application to convert in na

, health, human services, appropriations will come to order. in march of this year, public health officials reported an outbreak of ebola virus in guinea. unlike past ebola outbreaks that it have been efficiently and effect if there stopped, this outbreak has spread in ways that are potentially catastrophic for the world. due to the gravity of the situation, the danger poses not only to the affected region but also to our country, i have taken the unusual step of calling together this joint hearing of both the authorizing committee i chair and the appropriations subcommittee which funds it, which i also chair. we have come togetherred to to learn what can so we can work together over the coming weeks to stop this daysly plague. the extent of this epidemic is tragic and grows more serious with each passing day. the death toll is already far greater than all other previous ebola outbreaks combined. the world health organization estimates 20,000 people may become infected by dem if current control efforts north strengthened and we know the mortali

senate is not passing any appropriations bills.ortunately, we have both the chairman and the ranking member here. being ableample of to work together which they did last year and present us one. i very much hope we can do that in november and december. show that and the rest of congress to let them do their jobs, they can get it done. the failure to get it done is resting solely on the senate side. unless they can allow the bill to pass on the floor, they will impact our work adversely. it is hard to get these people

, health, human services, appropriations will come to order. in march of this year, public health officials reported an outbreak of ebola virus in guinea. unlike past ebola outbreaks that it have been efficiently and effect if there stopped, this outbreak has spread in ways that are potentially catastrophic for the world. due to the gravity of the situation, the danger poses not only to the affected region but also to our country, i have taken the unusual step of calling together this joint hearing of both the authorizing committee i chair and the appropriations subcommittee which funds it, which i also chair. we have come togetherred to to learn what can so we can work together over the coming weeks to stop this daysly plague. the extent of this epidemic is tragic and grows more serious with each passing day. the death toll is already far greater than all other previous ebola outbreaks combined. the world health organization estimates 20,000 people may become infected by dem if current control efforts north strengthened and we know the mortali

sf 91234 also a request for a certificate of appropriateness.have no speaker cards. >> commissioners, do any of you wish to pull either project off consent? seeing none. any member of the public wish to pull a project off consent? seeing none. seeking approval. >> i move to approve the calendar. >> on that motion, commissioner hyland, johnck, commissioner johnson, pearlman, wolfram and has. that points you to item 10. item 10: 2014.0677a s. caltagirone; 4155 558-66255 1164 fulton street, north side between scott and pierce streets. assessor's block 0777, lot 011. request for certificate of appropriateness to 11 add an elevator penthouse at the roof level; 22 infill the northeast corner of the third floor; 33 replace the wood cladding and mostly non-historic windows at the rear facade with glass panels shaded by aluminum screens. the rear facade would be composed of both fixed and sliding windows and screens. none of the alterations would be visible from the public right-of-way. the subject property is located within the alamo square landmark dis

sherman: we ought to focus on what is the appropriate foreign policy and what is the appropriate role of congress. i rise in support of this amendment. in fact, the amendment is quite similar to the free syria act which was introduced by several of us under the leadership of eliot engel a year and a half ago. that approach of vetting appropriate syrian forces and providing training is -- was a good but difficult policy then. it's a good and even more difficult policy now. we have to vet those we train and it should be only certain elements of the free syria army that we should only cooperate with those who are not only going to stand up for the sunni majority but protect the christian and other minorities. and we have to arm only those who are strong enough and careful enough not to lose the weapons we give them to more extremist forces. this arming of the syrian rebels is part of an overall plan that will include american military action. there's general agreement on no boots on the ground, or at least no boots on the frontlines. but let us speak honestly to the american people. the

president, is what we call the appropriations process. it made sense that it would take up most of our time because, as members of congress, we have a solemn obligation to represent the people and to be faithful stewards of taxpayer money, of the money that many americans spend many months of their lives each year just to earn so that they can send it to washington, d.c. the american taxpayer deserves better. the american taxpayer should be able to expect more out of congress. instead, they've come to expect so much less. but that's how congress used to operate, according to its own rules, according to historical precedent. and more to the point, according to basic principles of common sense. but, alas, times have changed. what congress used to deliberate on for months we now rush through in a single afternoon without opportunity for amendment, without opportunity for a full debate. what used to be the subject of open and robust debate is now trivialized and treated as a mere foremalt, as a -- as a mere formatitlity. mr. president, the am

office provides would be an appropriate first step for the county and ron can speak to that. >> we have started the technical assistance actually a couple of weeks ago and really for us to collaborative reform process is a form of technical assistance so we will build on that. we have in initialial consultations. talked about the next steps and how to engage in community police. the collaborative reform process will allow us to do in depth assessments and organizational and identify devins and come up -- deficiencies. the county is voluntarily going to participate because they provide training for most if not all of the agencies in st. louis county. in this way this effort will not only benefit st. louis county but ferguson and the other 50 plus cities inside the counties. the technical assistance we provide as part of the agreement with the st. louis county police chief makes it open to the highway patrol and the troopers a well. this is about advancing community policing and constitutional policing through technical assistance in a manner that does have an objective independent assess

for nightlife areas and not appropriate. but particularly when you have an area like western soma, which has historically been such a key part of our nightlife in the lgt community, and when you see the news that have historically been nightlife venues that are at risk of or in effectively banned from having nightlife, that's a great cause of concern. one of the concerns that i had with the western soma plan and when and why i voted against it was because i thought it was not sufficiently supportive of the important role of the nightlife plays in western soma and was actually designed to reduce the number of permissible nightlife venues. in the western soma neighborhood. so i wasn't able to support the plan. but i am very appreciative of that were able to move forward with this text. in order to allow this location to resume its role as a nightlife venue. i'm incredibly excited that that [inaudible] formally known as [inaudible] is going to be able to restart on a regular basis as a big benefit for the neighborhood. it's a b

working on culturally appropriate burial practices. so in those bordering countries, that's sort of an urgent priority for us. then across the rest of africa, we're working to kind of harden the country's ability to be able to recognize imported cases to know who is the incident manager, how is their emergency operation center going to work and what are the steps that they would take in order to respond to an additional case. do they know how to do contact tracing. who would be responsible for the contact tracing. where would they isolate the patients. these are things we're working on now in the context of this outbreak. in a bigger picture kind of way, they are basic capabilities that the security agenda, for example, has been calling for and as you probably know, we have been working with a number of countries in a pilot kind of way over the last couple of fiscal years to show the proof of principle of what global health security can mean to detect to respond and to prevent these outbreaks with basic capabilities around laboratory c

it just wasn't appropriate. i was in philadelphia last week.this was the site that had a training program on town halls. they used oscar the grouch in there. i had to talk to those employees about no matter what the intent. no matter what's important. the perception of oscar the grouch, it's not going to be acceptable. they had to dive into the culture and dig. they set the example to do it right. i told everyone to call me bob. i might be bob after i'm done being secretary. that's done because we need to flatten the hierarchy and need people to be like a family. they need to feel comfortable turning in problems. we need to reward people who turn in problems, not chastise or ostracize them. it's hard work, but it's under way. >> quickly, you said you committed the va to acquiring and feeling a modern scheduling system. can you tell me when you think that will be done and the training for employees to use that sn. >> right now we are doing quick fixes on the established system. those quick fixes are coming out president cally over the next few m

hearts also shows up for any complaint it files i shows up for the hearing that are appropriate. and i think in some cases those things are scheduled in such a way to prospective a person from being able to come and receive due process of law. i'll be honest i think my rights were violated by this commission by the executive director by announcing that the day i left and having the hearing the day before i got back and making no attempt to determine whether or not i received notice simply relying on the fact we sent notice but i didn't receive the notice. i think having a separate person to schedule and let people know what is going on separate from the staff who has a personal interest in making recommendations about what this commission should decide is a very, very important thing. it needs to be done so there's no perception as i have that the game was rigged. i've said it before and i'll say it again, it was done intentionally with the purpose of mr. hearts keeps coming here saying things we don't like if we can schedule this while he's out of country it will be good. >> all