. >> the mus blum brotherhood are speaking about democratic but inside themselves, they are going to get the power and they're going to be dick tor i can again, they're naive and optimistic about the muslim brotherhood. >> they say it would be much more open, but the 23 year o*els aren't running the brotherhood. >> anne marshal says the hamas -- under the brotherhood. >> hamas is the muslim's brotherhood of the palestinians, they want an election and there's been no election since, and they killed off the palestinian authority opponents. >> and whao's why many coptics may leave, they fear what will come, father al man nao*ut say they'll stay, the church has existed in egypt for 2 thousand years and will survive no matter what happens. >> we are trusting god and we are not afraid. jesus told us that the people against us use the hand of human beings, but we have the hand of god, the one who's covering us will save us. >> gary lane, cbn news, cairo, egypt. >> finally this week, a young mother is a i live today satangs to cbn's operation blessing in china, the 29 year-old traveled to be

and her husband, richard blum, is here. they actually got married in the chambers upstairs. [applause] now, in just a minute, the president of the board of supervisors is going to say the words that will allow you, the public, to know what the vote was in his chambers earlier in the afternoon. but mr. lee, there have been several people from across the bay, from sacramento and other places, who are here to extend their warm welcome. standing next to you is mayor newsom's chief of protocol, my chief of protocol, diane's chief of protocol, everybody's chief of protocol, who's ever had a chief of protocol in san francisco, charlotte schultz. and i hope she sticks around as your chief of protocol. [applause] one of your state senators, and we have two of those, only one is present at the moment. the other one is up working on the budget. but senator leland yee is here to welcome you. [applause] and a man who went to bed on saturday night, a cop with a badge and who woke up on sunday morning a new d.a., george gason. [applause] city attorney twice elected in san francisco, and us

companies that were evolving in that direction, from the private to the public, as an ipo, when they did blum, going public, that they had also left, too. >> correct. we have seen companies leave either directly before their ipo period, or after, when they were looking at a higher rapayroll t. supervisor mirkarimi: is the converse may be an incentive for companies? those companies already going through their economic transition. what about companies that we want to bring into san francisco? promote that we are now undertaking this. down the road, potentially reforming the payroll tax. >> i think it would be valuable. there are certainly many technology start-ups in san francisco, in the region outside of san francisco. i would venture to guess the city's payroll tax option is a disincentive for many. to the extent that this mitigates the problem for those companies, it would make it more attractive for them to be in san francisco, and would be an important signal to the industry that we are committed to maintaining a healthy sector. supervisor mirkarimi: i know presidents chiu and i had submi

. >> my name is jan blum. do we oppose the categorical exemption granted by the planning department to at&t for the installation of these 726 metal cabinets. there will be a cumulative impact from this massive installation, both individually and cumulatively, upon the quality of the public right of way. we could not agree less with this ruling. we believe there would be a cumulative impact upon the quality of the public right of way by impeding travel on public streets, by creating visual blight, attracting blowing trash, and otherwise impeding the use of the public right of way. san francisco tomorrow is convinced that a thorough environmental review would demonstrate the at&t proposal is neither the most viable nor the most environmentally superior alternative. we urge you to return the document to the planning department with instructions to prepare an eir. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> merle goldstone, president of north beach. i am here to join other san francisco neighborhoods in support of

heights soviet troops down flank of the german defenses only vended the defending army led by general blum say fall back now nothing stood in the way of the red army's advance towards berlin. the cost of the assault was a very high. the soviet forces lost tens of thousands of men in a tiny center near the arctic. game oodles of never seen so many dead bodies as i sold the sailor heights thousands and thousands of men died in a very small plot of land with the most terrifying thing of all was that people dying then i knew that the war would be over in a couple of weeks it was but only they were adolescent. after the fall of the seal hides the germans never again offered any organized resistance. some elements of the german army were still trying to fight as an advance and soviet army simply swept them away. as though we didn't stay to defend berlin at south because there was nobody who could project well because many people died it's got to be flat to the west and you give into the americans a meeting got it in. one of the biggest german cemeteries is situated not far from berlin in a small

tillerson will not affect -- we take it away from them, won't raise gas prices a blum nickel. our plan to cut the deficit begins with ending wasteful subsidies to big oil. the republican plan, as embodied by the ryan amendment, which almost every republican in the house voted for, begins with ending medicare as we know it. that's a bright-line difference between our side and theirs. we know what choice the american people want us to maifnlg make. i yield the floor. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that morning business be extended until 8:00 p.m. for debate only with senators -- for debate only with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i want to thank the senior senator from new york who has been a real leader on this issue to bring more tax fairness to the american people and take away the subsidies of companies that -- there's just five companies that absolutely don't need those subsidie