it's the housing authority's decision. >> have we seen housing authorities around the country part of rad is that selective? >> as that chart shows there is a huge uptake of housing authorities converting to rad. so is there a lot of interest in the program, 170,000 units is indicative of the units. clearly there is a lot left. as the cap gets lifted and as people have the opportunity to see the authority, we will see more. >> now we see san francisco, are there other cities you can mention or name? >> sure. the top 10, and i will hit a couple of highlighted numbers. chicago is number one, they are proposing to convert 11,000 of their units. el paso, nashville and birmingham and greensboro. >> are we seeing that the cities and counties are doing the same model in san francisco, does that model vary greatly. here i see the list, includes nonprofits or are we seeing for profits and does that skew the models? >> what you see is people tailoring to resources in their community. san francisco has a housing trust fund, and not many cities have that, it's a source for potential financing. an

authorization. 172 units were applied for. that means that obviously there are 112,000 units who are waiting to get access to this program. and unless hud does some things through the budget process and the president does something through the budget process to increase the cap. or through authorizations. it will be limited to 60,000. which is unfortunate, because if we are -- if we are successful in pulling all of this together, we will need more rad. for additional units in san francisco. but we will be behind the rest of the people who have applied today. the other thing about this where we are, san francisco portfolio, though we are not the largest to apply. we were the largest portfolio to apply and be accepted. the chicago portfolio is awaiting. they are behind us. so again the central component of this is preservation. the $312 tenant rent is not sufficient by itself to even cover operating expenses. clearly there has to be an operating subsidy some place to cover operating expenses. to run t

it's both the housing authority and the mayor's office of housing. the housing authority will continue to own the land in this process, again a 99-year lease. the mayor's office of housing will continue to be stewards because of our ongoing relationship at the bond issuer and lender, because we will have debt on these developments. we as asset managers and lenders will be always be involved in how these projects are managed in the future. at this point i will turn it over to the president of the housing authority. >> good afternoon, thank you for having me here. i am here to speak briefly about our employee engagement at this time related to the potential impacts of the rad program. and what it has on the employees who serve our public housing residents here in san francisco. we have developed what is called the care initiative. communication, action and resources for our employees. to make sure that we are providing an effective change management to those who are serving the residents. and we have establish eed dates and milestone its of communicati

if there is an author that you know or a celebrity author, really easy. if you look for of great historical novel or a romance book, and do a search, it becomes tough. you come up with a variety of independent websites tailored to that chandra. today what you get when you do a search is basically three or four amazon searches, search amazon pages, two four good reads pages which is basically amazon, wikipedia is usually high up at the top. doesn't matter what the search is. what has happened is a lot of independents sites are being crowded out. unless you know about the sites you wouldn't know to go there to search. part of what i tried to do is help people spread the word about bookstores, websites that are promoting our literature in particular so one of the things, it has been two years, a site called research. it is the essentially a search engine, it was purely search, no sponsor the adults, no advertising. just information you are looking for. the go to a career search and do something generic, you get results that have been curated, list of sites t

it has to be the author talking. people are interested in the author's personality and life, as you said, and not in sort of, you know, an artificial, like, bits of quotes from the book. there are a few twitter feeds i can think of that work as, you know, quotes and chunks, things like, you know, someone who tweets dorothy parker quotes, that sort of thing. but for the most part, it really has to be genuine and from the author. >> i think that makes a lot of sense. i'm, you know, by far not a social media or online guru, but every expert i talk to and listen to, i mean, it's all about a conversation. taryn was saying earlier, you talk about your kid. i mean, i think if you pound the book down people's throats, they know that you're sort of -- oh, they turn it off. if they hear this person's shelling their book again as opposed to you want to read my book because it's part of life, it's part of the conversation. >> i think that's kind of hard, gene, though because not every author is a great personality, you know? som

i am an employee for the san francisco housing authority. i will start by saying there was a statement made that this will allow better building and property management at the sites of public housing. in my time at the agency, i worked in section 8, i managed my case load and handled another case load and managed workers that are still there as a housing authority. i am a property manager now at robert development, and i worked at potrero hill and sunnyvale. that means i have been involved with the thousands of families in san francisco. in my time here there is shooting and robberies and domestic violence. i had an incident where an employee was attacked by a resident. all things that you won't hear, because there are people that work for the agency that care about the employees and residents that are out there every day doingor :-- doing our jobs to the best of our ability with limited resources. and that statement is a slap in the face to those of us that worked to provide physical assistance. and psychological needs, all things that we h

s past practice or its claimed legal authorities. the department of health and human services simply invoked the claimed powers of the i.r.s. in a wholly distinct context, a context in which it couldn't point to statutory authority or a similar history of past practice. in the absence of clear authority to alter or cancel enforcement, the president remains constitutionally obligated to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. in this case, the obama administration doesn't have a leg to stand on. the sort of transition relief here is nothing like a minor 16-day delay. enforcement to enforce -- or, excuse me, the failure to enforce the minimum coverage provisions will now drag on for three full years past the required statutory deadline. and the administration's fix is different in kind from prior examples of transitional relief because in this case the government did not actually face enforcement difficulties. insurance companies that already complied with the statute by canceling millions of plans, just as the law required the

with the phone records to make sure other authorities cannot be used in a similar way.but i am not satisfied with the bill that does not fully tap called transparency with the provision that the government requests they receive. into molds of government -- government accountable. attorney general holder in james clapper announced the administration is taking action in the number of customer accounts targeted under those orders and requests. but to determine the public interest to disclose this information out out raise the of national's security concerns with the classification. with the american government. that was included in the original u.s. say freedom act. but the language providing it makes a of a great deal of sense. i want to find middle ground and see compromise. this amendment thank you for joining beyond will be a step in the positive direction and a far better course of action they and leading this out of the bill entirely. and beyond was that the technology companies entered into. i yield back. >> will you yield? thank you. also with my a surveillance bil

if we authorize more wraps, we share in that revenue. as you heard, the up side in a previous year was pretty significant and a lot of that due to the wrap. so, there's up side potential that we would be foregoing should the number be lowered between 30 and 15. below 15, that would change the guarantee and that's something that we would want to renegotiate. >> above 15 could mean substantially more revenue? >> right. so, anything above 15 we share in the up side potential of and, really, the market would drive how much that revenue would be. >> how many buses he do we have in our city completely? >> so, we have a little more than 800 buses and 151 light rail vehicles so close to a thousand vehicles. >> so, we have close to a thousand vehicles and we're talking about potentially 15 to 30 vehicles? >> that's correct. >> okay. so, i just think we should leave the contract as-is. at this time i'm not prepared to support reducing the number. i'm prepared to move it forward. my desire mostly with the contract has to do with trade-offs, as i sa

he tried to bring up his bill authorizing 27 new va health clinics.the chairman of the veterans committee senator bernie sanders objected and tried to call up a much larger bill to expand services on cuts and costly adjustment. they debated for 35 minutes. >> madam president, i come to the floor to speak about an issue we should all be concerned about, the state of veterans health care in our va hospitals, our va clinics, our bae systems and around the country. i've been concerned about this for sometime working very hard on getting outpatient clinics bill in louisiana, new ones come expanded ones in particular in lafayette and lake charles. i'm a member of the bar partisan working group on va backlog issues and we've made substantial progress through that bipartisan group. we've also introduced legislation to deal specifically with that va backlog crisis. and as we work as things unfortunately, the news out of the va gets worse and worse, and the need for real progress, including the community based clinics and i talk about louisiana and elsewhere, t

to use the fire code not adopted which give us the authority to widened the streets for fire grounded operations. >> did the fire department every tell me the developers that 26 feet is the time clearance. >> we have when we're asked, however, we've been asked recently the infrastructure maps for the candle stick point last round in october or september or 2013? and from my recognition that's itself fritter we've gotten something more form than a general plan with 72 cross sections of feet to where do they go and where are the buildings and building entrances that sort of thing and how tall >> how are the building being constructed. >> we have a handout that the fire department has given to one develop 501 street widths the san francisco fire code requires the time of 26 feet for new developments where the developments are greater than 35 feet so since we've never adapted the feet why is the fire department telling people it's required. since it's not been electively adapted >> right so again with we go back to the international fire code where we get our authority through section - h

you talked about the secretary's authority.was that intentional distinction between the two that you want to centralize at the congressional level for investigators but at the secretary's good will, at the service-level? >> it was an intentional distinction that runs to understand that, for instance, that discretionary funds for training are easily lost, and paired to have them set out separate exists. one of the comparable programs to responses we're talking that is the family advocacy program. mr. strand can talk about this. one way that congress ensured there were sufficient resources were domestic violence in step we should be clear, incidents of sexual assault can take place in a domestic funds contact do not come under. all the reports were talking about, they are classified separately which is funded separately which is a problem in terms of addressing us as a holistic set of issues because we sexual assault to do take place within families and end up there. but the family advocacy program was successfully funded and sto

congress should consider providing dhs with statutory authority to authorize pso's to make arrests on federal roperty. there are other elements of the federal facility risk assessment and security process not related to pso's that need to be addressed. the decision to implement the civic security countermeasures for facilities. in gsa owned or leased -- or leased buildings, fps recommends which is made up of representatives from tenant gencies. representatives generally do not have any security knowledge or experience but are expected to make security decisions for their respective agencies. with tightened budgets putting pressure to accept more risk it calls into question whether they are making informed, wrist-based decisions. countermeasures should not be projected because either a lack of understanding or unwillingness to fund them. legislation was supported for training members and allowing dhs to challenge the decision not to implement countermeasures. nasco looks forward to working to find ways to support the mission to render federal property safe and secure for federal employ

instead, by authorizing collection of relative records, we authorize the collection of records of persons actually being investigated for or suspected of terrorism. the relative standard was written out of the statue in the the court except did argument that the entire universe of call records because it allows calls associated with actual terror suspects. this fixes the problem by banning all collection and requiring the government to include a specific selection term that identifies a specific account to be used as the basis to request a court order authorizing requesting any information. government toe establish they are tied to it iternate investigation pertained to a specific person. at the same time, the same amendment codifies the metadata reform proposal. it allows the government to obtain a court order, authorizing it to tainted the metadata records it needs in specific cases. company, the government, keep the records which can only be used using specific terms designed to only use those designed for a real investigation. it's limited to call detail records and doesn't expand to

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority personnel committee. my name is supervisor avalos chair of the transportation authority and chair of this committee and joined to my left by commissioner cohen and we will be joined shortly by commissioner mar. our sfgtv staff who are broadcasting today are jessie larsen and john. thank you for your work today and other committees at the board of supervisors. madam clerk would you call the first item. >> item number one roll call. commissioner avalos. >> present. >> commissioner cohen. >> present. >> commissioner mar. absent. we have a quorum. >> we have a quorum. great. let's go to next item. >> item two is approval of the november 12, 2013 meetings. this is an action item. >> okay. we have the minutes. any questions? okay. let's open the minute for public comment. any member that would like to comment please come forward and seeing none we will close public comment. [gavel] motion to approve the minutes. >> move it. >> second. >> i will take a vote. >> on item two commissioner avalos. >> aye. >> hen hum

there's no constitutional authority let alone executive authority. president cannot regulate. >> guest: that's ridiculous. the congress passed a law almost obama certainly bipartisan signed by president george h. w. bush called the clean air act. the supreme court said that if carbon pollution is a threat to human health and the embargo, epa must regulate it. that's constitutional, constitution and the law. it gives the epa the power to start the regulation and move forward. i don't understand why people would say the president can act. he has to enforce the law am and this is the law. >> host: here's a tweet. if it moves you tax but if it keeps moving to regulate it. if it stops moving subsidized. that's a great government. >> guest: that sounds great. i don't know what that means but it sounds great. >> host: will go to dave next. we need to make it real quick. >> caller: a couple of question for congressman. >> host: give us one. >> caller: do you realize that plants need co2? if co2 goes below 200 ppm as measured by german scientists, all the pla

the spanish authorities -- sorry. droppedmy pen. 400 people managed to climb a fence and enter the spanish territory. they will now stay at the immigration center there. some might be transferred to the spanish mainland. authorities say most of them will eventually be returned to countries of origin in sub saharan africa. bbc's correspondent tom burridge has more. >> reporter: we were in melilla in the last few weeks. we crossed into morocco, up into the hills to these makeshift camps where tens of thois of migrants, originally from sub saharan african countries are living in pretty basic conditions. the important thing to note is they're determined, incredibly determined, to cross into melilla, into europe, into spain. they have to scale a border fence of around about six meters. the largest part of it is six meters high with barbed wire. what we've seen in recent weeks, there's been more pressure on that border. what we saw this morning is that groups, large groups of the migrants, in the hundreds, go down to the border fence and

to the state and local personnel have all of the authority authorities and tools that they need to respond to an incident at a federal facility and du have agreements in place with the relevant state and local authorities to ensure that they respond accordingly? >> from time to time sir we do have a problem. if we are responding and there's an impromptu demonstration especially in some of our smaller cities and towns if there is an impromptu demonstration or a national security event that may take place we may ask the local law enforcement folks to assist us. in some instances their response is you know, we can't respond. we would love to respond you but we don't want to be held liable for anything. this is a federal event and we don't have that authority. so if we were able to provide that authority and say listen you are now functioning or acting on behalf of the federal government that would clearly give them some relief if you will on their willingness to help us. steve there have been some concerns about fps staffing levels for some time. in fact language carried in a preparations bil

north korean authorities say megumi is dead. but her parents and japanese officials don't believe them. the two countries arranged a meeting in mongolia for humanitarian reasons. the okutas have asked to see their granddaughter soon, because they are growing old. norika okada, nhk world. >> megaumi's father commented on the developments. he said this was a positive step. he said as the abductees are getting older, he hopes the results of the reinvestigation will be revealed as soon as possible. >>> japan's coast guard is investigating the cause of an explosion on an oil tanker off a western port. they say the captain is missing and four crew members have been seriously injured. firefighters battled the flames on the soko maru. officials have located 7 members among a crew of 8. four are in the hospital being treated for burns and two haven't regained consciousness. rescuers are searching for ando, the captain. the crew had unloaded oil friday at a nearby port. they say someone aboard the ship was using a grinder to remove rust n

infrastructure clearly stated that it was not in any way or the plan in any way should not limit the authority of the fire department in this section. >> those charter sections are the general charter sections that create the fire department? >> i believe so i'll have the fire department present when they talk about their portion. >> so this chart shows some of the major milestones for this project and as you can see starting with 2010 the general infrastructure plan and we continue to work on this this year to continue to work on this massive project between now and the year 20039. the infrastructure network must be engineers to meet the needs and safety of the, you know, most yours of the public right-of-way you such as pedestrians and people with disabled and bicyclists and traffic unloading and this is for persons with disabled and the utilities and emergency phases given to obstruct and pga lanes and parking and other factors. this slide here was referred by my staff is shows how a truck with a wheel base of 40 feet can make the turn of 60 or 34 feet into a street that or 26 feet. next i'

if we were going to actual authorize them to do a task, i would bring that back to you to have you authorize the task and the budget related to that under a not-to-exceed amount. >> okay. and then on the enernex deliveribles are for september of 2014, i heard. is that correct? >> that is the final for all deliverables. the initial deliverable would be within your next meeting or the meeting after. >> okay. and then in terms of by probably the fourth week of may, is that adequate time for enernex for a series of deliverables. >> probably not, just to be honest, but i think it may give them -- i just hate to go back a whole other month. so we'll look at that. they might be able to give you a status report of where they are going and answer some questions that might have and figure out a way that they have a partial draft. >> i think that would be the better way to go about it, to get a check-in and status report. >> right. >> if we can get a partial draft, i think that would be great. and then by june, right? >> right. i know we have a time frame here and so i'm hoping -- >> are we scheduled f

. >> the departments authority to experience any permit in the process is from the public's code the statute makes a clear this is not on thinking limited authority to the department to deny permits the board has the right to say that the proposed obstruction will create a safety problem but according cots senate committee that laws for traffic disruptions the department doesn't find in a simple incidents that any of the proposed locations caused a traffic or safety problem, in fact, the department found just the opposite lynn functioning the department of public works stated that atkins's applications met every one of the technical requirements the basis was for more preferable locations might exist now that they excited but a probability they might that's not say basis for denying encroachment permits the second authorize if all cases the department under section 85 of department of public works has 60 days to deny the permit i'd like to during the course e directing your attention on the 61 first day the illuminates have a right to install their equipment in the right-of-way the l

our author and guest today is steve vogel the author of "through the perilous fight" six weeks this saved the nation and the also wrote a book called the pentagon. he has written extensively about military affairs and the treatment of veterans from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. his reporting about the war in afghanisafghanis tan was part of a package of "washington post" stories selected as a finalist for the 2002 pulitzer prize. he covered the september 2011 terrorist attack on the pentagon and the subsequent reconstruction. he also covered the first gulf war as well as the war in iraq. in addition to the us military operations in the balkans rwanda and somalia. please welcome steve vogel. [applause] >> thank you very much. we are going to make us more instead of a lecture we are going to make it eight cover station about steve's book so first off you might notice the subtitle is 66 weeks to save the nation. i wanted to ask steve hout did this six week save the nation. >> it's a good question and you have to start with you have to imagine the scene that president james madison confro

that's why it's important for to use your title 2 authority as backstop authority. have to settle for a weak open internet rule if you powers. your full and i'm graduated you're looking possibility. let me close by thanking you for seeking comment on the backstop in the proposal adopted last week. i'm committed to working with the commission adopts strong and open internet protections for consumes and while encouraging continued investment in the weine content and services all rely on and enjoy today. i think it's important that we substance right. we tried three times, we meaning f.c.c., because of the concern that the consumer to what is onss the internet and full access to the internet to its greatest maximum potential, to see that net untillity in any way be diminished if we have an under the law as we look at it to make sure that we get the substance right. ohio, the gentleman from mr. latta. >> thanks very much for being here. discussion onome title 2 and i'd like to follow questioning. that central premise of title 2 regulation has been that the substitute fo

. >> item 6 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the port of san francisco to accept and expend $2,970,000 in grant funds from the federal railroad administration for the rebuilding of the quint street lead track for the term of april 1, 2012, through july 31, 2015. >> same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. next item. [gavel] >> item 7 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the fire department to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $7,608,000 from the federal emergency management agency to purchase a fire boat for the period of september 1, 2013, to august 15, 2015. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 8, resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of san francisco to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness; authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to submit an application and related documents to the california debt limit allocation committee to permit the issuance of residential mortgage revenue bonds in

we have preemptive authority over state commissions. >> so states have the same authority you do. it's the same statute. >> i think that it says that both of us have authority but that we have preemptory authority on this issue and i think that's what judge silverman was saying in his dissent. >> these broadcasts talk not only about future broadcasts but pending applications. first, how many applications have been singled out for close scrutiny since the new guidelines have been issued? how many have been approved in those two months? and when might those broadcasters see the resolution of their applications? >> i don't know the answer to any of those three off the top of my head, but i'll be happy to get it for you for the record. >> you can understand these are pending applications under a set of rules you've now moved the goal posts on them. >> yes, sir, i understand your point. what we're trying to do is not move the goal posts, but to open up the process so that everybody knows what the -- >> but that's what you did. you changed the rules with respect to applications already

3305 broadway restrict street are for may 14 and the next case golden gate avenue conditional use authorization and the next at 23 turk boulevard is for indefinite continuance and further on your regular calendar for the next case bona fide eating place we've received a request from the supervisors office asking for a continuance >> i have no speaker cards. >> are there that any comments on the items proposed for continuance? >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm mrs. mcauthor i live on bush street across from tennessee bush street this was brought brought to my attention i said have opposed it i want you to know we have a lot of elderly people on bush street and their concerned about the - ma'am, on this time we're only taking comments on the matters of continued. >> this is continued. >> this is to support the conditions to that continue for a different date for example. >> i'd like to continue and i'll be back on the 22nd i apologize to the commissioners in if i did anything wrong or said anything. >> thank you, ma'am. >> 82 any further comments on items for continuance seeing none, public co

i said, "george, no, not within my authorities, not within my current authorities." and he paused and said, "that's not actually the question i asked you. is there anything more you could do?" i said, "i'll get back to you." >> narrator: hayden got the message. at nsa headquarters, he spread the word. "take the gloves off. bring me an aggressive plan." >> and they asked me, "is there anything that we had that could have prevented 9/11?" >> narrator: loomis told them what he believed was necessary: begin monitoring foreign internet traffic going through the united states. >> the u.s. internet hubs handle so much of the worldwide internet traffic. so i said, "let us allow collection between u.s.-and-foreign/foreign-to-u.s. against the terrorism problem." >> narrator: but others in the agency were proposing much more aggressive data collection. >> what they proposed to do is create a whole new surveillance program without warrants, trapping all sorts of information, taking advantage of the fact that modern communication trunk lines tend to come through the united states

does the commission have authority to act on an issue? what authority has congress given us? is there harm to consumers? is there a solution that will isedy the harm that is done? the solution tailored to the particular problem that we are dressing. , do theh all of those benefits of regulation outweigh the cost? that is how i am approaching each issue. you take each issue as it comes forward. trackyou have an inside or a staffer in congress? >> i had the benefit of working on a number of provisions. the communications act is our guiding statute. i have worked on a number of those legislations. i have had my hands in. i know a number of those people intimately. >> we also want to bring to the table our other guest. commissioner, the fcc has been in the news a lot lately. or so then it is used to. it is mostly about net neutrality proposals. the old rules were struck down earlier this year. proposal that would block websites that have backplanes. what do you think of that proposal? >> i do not want to get too specific, because i am for diluted from doing so, but i want to give

hoover authorized all kinds of surveillance. need another time where somebody under a vague term like clandestine intelligence at remedies, heaven help you if you look over a fence into government secured area, you just engage in clandestine intelligence activity. , youis so broad, so vague could drive a truck through this . for anyone wanting information on american citizens. 1840is also true in 18 usc two, where it says, to obtain foreign intelligence information . that makes me feel better. not concerning a united states person. or to protect against international terrorism. international, good. or, clandestine intelligence activities. -- my amendment makes clear what we were promised in 2005 in 2006. is has to do with foreign intelligence, foreign terrorism. we have plenty of law enforcement to go after domestic terrorists, domestic criminals. we have all kinds of criminal laws to address that very that is why i would like to get rid of the vagaries your by making it specifically pertain to foreign entities. with that i yiel

it has to be the author talking.ople are interested in the author's personality and life, as you said, and not in sort of, you know, an artificial, like, bits of quotes from the book. there are a few twitter feeds i can think of that work as, you know, quotes and chunks, things like, you know, someone who tweets dorothy parker quotes, that sort of thing. but for the most part, it really has to be genuine and from the author. >> i think that makes a lot of sense. i'm, you know, by far not a social media or online guru, but every expert i talk to and listen to, i mean, it's all about a conversation. taryn was saying earlier, you talk about your kid. i mean, i think if you pound the book down people's throats, they know that you're sort of -- oh, they turn it off. if they hear this person's shelling their book again as opposed to you want to read my book because it's part of life, it's part of the conversation. >> i think that's kind of hard, gene, though because not every author is a great personality, you know? some a

ability to use authority for bulk collection of data. still, i believe we must work to better reform this process. in particular we should adopt the review standards outsigned by the president's review group in december. i still strongly believe the national security letter should be issued only upon an additional finding that the information sought is relevant. i'm also very pleased that the gentleman from washington's amendment passed. this was badly needed transparency and i commend the gentleman from washington for including this eafment i'm confident that our committee will continue to work diligently to come to an agreement and i think that today's efforts we are committed to working on a bipartisan basis to solve problems. i wish to once again congratulating the committee to coming to ap agreement. this bill is strong effort helps protect privacy and curtail the national security age sis' authority to collect data ip volved. i'm proud to support the effort and look forward to continuing our work together of keeping americans safe.

at the time. >> who was is authorized. >> the permit says a g f but just a second hammering itself is jury charge just like there's no permit a 4 inch dynamic is a gardening in the background that's how much dust you're going to create it was concrete. >> but the boring itself required a permit. >> right. >> and the boring didn't require a jack hooerm. >> the lot is situated it's a concrete slab but we needed to provide access to the soil to we just a second hammered the locations that were authorized to provide them access to the soil that's what we were doing. >> okay. any questions? >> no. >> okay. thank you, sir >> just for a brief clarification the board did hear an appeal of the large project that appeal was a hearing on that entitlement it looked at itself issue whether to see it's specifically the n m rp and the sequa review was not part of the appeal so the authorization did uphold that the planning commission granted it appraisally and met the plan. again, the issue of mitigation measures there are mitigation measures that is, you must do that before this and that those are

he is the author of a recent essay called "the big scoop here: welcome. chirico -- scoop "the big scoop." welcome. this is the ultimate securitynational story. when it came up i was fascinated with it from the start. when brookings asked me to write this essay i thought it was a great opportunity. i have to admit it was a little humbling. this is the most common. , most difficult, most technical stuff i ever tried to understand. i would like to think i am pretty good at understanding stuff like that. the technology is mind-boggling. the law is incredibly complicated. there's still a lot i don't understand but i hope i understand enough to have written a general introduction for the general reader. you: one of the things talked about was this was introduced to us in mass by edward snowden. guest: edward snowden is what the story has been about or his revelations are what the story has been about. it had is hard to believe it has been almost a year since his leaks started. it has rocked the entire intelligence establishment, it has rocked the security estab

what authority has congress quinn us in the statute? two, is there harm to consumers and a solution that we can actually remedy whatever harm has been brought forward? three, is the solution tailored to the particular problem that we're addressing, and then we not regulate by analogy. and, fourth, even with all those three elements, do the benefits of regulation outweigh the costs? so that's how i'm viewing, how i'm approaching each issue individually. but you do take, you tend to take each issue as they come before you. >> new fcc commissioner michael o'reilly monday on "the communicators" at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> next on booktv, max brooks recounts the first african-american regiment to fight in world war world war i,h infantry regiment, dubbed the hard bell hell fighters. -- harlem hell fighters. he spoke for a little under an hour. ..

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