fa council in a conference at baltimore maryland for building local system to improve the after school programs. >> san francisco was one of the few city teams across the country who sent a parent representative to that conference. >> this year, the pac has taken an active role in the education collective of the community based organizations with the parent leaders and the chinese for affirmative action and james town and mission graduates, and to engage the families across the different communities and cultures, and languages and socio economic backgrounds to inform and discuss the key district initiatives. pac members are particularly active this year in a discussion of the new graduation requirements and participation on the new graduation requirement task force for monitoring and implementing the ag requirements as part of that task force we helped to identify the short term and long term goals including contributing to the idea of the agency report card, that would inform parents and students about each students's ag status on a regular basis just like the standard report card and

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building and office ablation. instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest office buildings in america. that's more than a building. that's a living system. ♪ ♪ when san francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state office building. >> this was an old eight-story brown building the state owned and the workers' comp people were in that building. it was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. when i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadn't done anything there and the mayor thought the same. >> if an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. it sat there vacant for quite a while. the city decided to buy the building in 1999 for $2. we worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building for an office building. to build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. >> the san francisco public utilities commission has an important job. we provide clean, pristine public drinking water to 2.6 million people in the san francisco bay area from the hetch hetchy regional water system. with also generate clean renewable energy for city services like publ

about what i was doing over at the department, so they gave me flexibility to build the local and state public health system. we put a tremendous amount of money in that. then, amtrak came. everybody was worried about the threats. since homeland security had not been created yet, the department of health and human services was the place to go. everybody gave us pretty much a blank check to develop the public health system, the vaccine system. we have not spent any money on food safety. correctly, i was passionate about trying to protect food safety, because i figured that was the next ways. spending 200 million dollars in food safety all over america, and we had 80% of the food coming in that was under our jurisdiction. you could see a tremendous possibility for threat, and for any kind of terrorist action. we put a lot of money into that. we also had a vice president biden name of the cheney, who felt it was absolutely necessary to ratchet up all the protections we possibly could. pretty much, put the money in the department of health and human services. every time omb said, you cannot spend it, dick chene

this country, that are controlled in many ways at the local level and that enable communities to rehabilitate buildings, streets and sewer systems that literally lay the groundwork for new business growth and vibrant -- in vibrant, revitalized communities. as the hardest hit americans work tirelessly to get back to work and back on their feet, housing programs also included in this vital bill ensure that they can keep a roof over their heads or that they have the possibility of safe, clean, sanitary and affordable housing in their future. in delaware, nearly 4,000 people were homeless in our small state at least once last year, and more than 200 of them were veterans. all over this country, madam president, i know you and many of our colleagues are concerned about the number of our veterans who fought for us overseas and now face and endure homelessness here at home. for those who felt the despair and loss and loneliness of homelessness, those who live with this fear that they will one day experience it as well, the housing programs funded in this bill are a lifeline, and wayne to particularly thank senator murray for her leader

local university building could also help scientists better understand earthquakes. >>> you want imploding, let's talk tech and financial results. a disaster. >>> welcome back. it is 5:12. it is official. the uc system will have its first female president. yesterday afternoon, the regent ps voted to confirm homeland security secretary janet napolitano. she will take over in september after she leaves president obama's cabinet. napolitano will earn a base salary of $570,000, and also receive perks, including an annual car allowance. >>> san jose state forced to suspend some of its online courses because too many students are failing. the university has put five courses co-developed on hold, because more than half of the students failed to pass the class. san jose state say it is will re-evaluate the courses and make improvements. >>> moving on to business and tech. the failure is a rare misstep for its inventor. they'll have to go back to the drawing board on this one. >> it is a rare misstep. you saw him in that video shaking hands with the president of san jose state university. back when the deal was struck. the name is not a household name, but you're familiar with google street view, google driv

localization of services and data access and the ubiquity of the clout. we're stuck with this old top down i.t. cartel mindset. i say lovingly. this notion that we could build the systems and servers in the world when i had this on demand resource, the clout and you're always getting the great, the next best iteration. you're renting, not even buying and yet we're still building in government spending you are saying it is no longer relevant? you say the clout potential everything. but when you talk about engaging, citizen to citizen, we're talking about a virtual engagement still, aren't we? >> i talk about peer-to-peer i think about -- i think it kick started, i could go on and on these examples where people are saying, kind of fed up with local government, state government, federal government. i'm sick and tired of haggling around filibuster, cloture. i don't know what the heck that is, sequestration. who made that word up? i'm disconnected by want to solve problems i want to engage but i want to make a difference, particularly this younger generation, 30 and younger come this generation tak they call generation of choice, the net generation. we,. >> you have a great

between the effectiveness of response operations and local regional and state investments in training, exercise programs, incident command system, building -- sustaining specialized capabilities, operating emergency operations centers, as well as our longstanding focus on developing regional response capabilities. there are several other key factors that contributed to the effectiveness of response operations. the response relied heavily on specialized capabilities that have been built and sustained through our homeland security grant programs. the response to the bombings was augmented through pre-existing mutual aid agreements. interoperability was a huge success story. the millions of dollars that we have spent over the past years on interoperability ensured effective communitycation. we benefited from a history of using preplanned events like the marathon as reallife opportunities to exercise and utilize our homeland security capabilities and to strengthen personal and professional relationships. we also benefited from investments in regional exercise programs such as the urban shield exercises cubblingted by the boston urban -- cond

ensure teachers, principals, superintendents, state and local officials have more opportunities to build a more responsive and effective education system that better meets the unique needs of every student and in fact, yes, of businesses. a vote for this bill demob strait ours heartfelt commitment to reform, proving mr. milies nationwide, chairman, that the house of representatives will not stand by and allow the administration to micromanage our classrooms or defend the failed status quo. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 5 and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota yields back the balance of his time. all time for general debate has expyred. pursuant to the -- expired. pursuant to the rule the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five minute rule. in life of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on education and the work force printed in the bill, it hall be in order to consider as an original bill under the five-minute rule an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the thevks rules committee print 113-180. that amendment in the

helping you build a better health care system so that your doctors and nurses can then run a hospital, that is actually operating, it does not build dependency. if you are building schools and localpeople are working and maintaining it, no, that is exactly why we need to shift from simply coming in and saying, well, get out of the way because i'm going to do it. worker cooperatives and turned cooperatively with the local population. you are going to do it, but if we have a little bit of money to help you build something to help you do it, we are headed in a better direction. >> i think we have a big round of applause for our very thoughtful commentary. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> jackie was raised as her mother was raised. she was the same kind of wife and housekeeper, the home and the children, the entertaining with style and panache. that was her heritage and she did it again in the white house. right after her administration, during the johnson years, the whole world of updated just like volcanoes. we had women who went to work and got divorces and went to equal

effectiveness of the response operations in and local regional and state investment and training exercise programs in the senate command system building and sustaining the specialized capabilities activating and operating the emergency operation centers as well as a longstanding otas on developing the regional response capabilities. there are several other key factors that contributed to the effectiveness of response operations. the response relied heavily on specialized capabilities that had been built and sustained and homeland security grant programs. the response to the bombings was augmented through the preexisting mutual aid agreements to eight interoperable liddy was a huge success story. the millions of dollars that we have spent over the past years in the interoperable buddy ensure effective communications. we benefited from using the preplanned even slight the marathon as a real-life opportunity to exercise and utilize our homeland security capabilities and to strengthen personal and professional relationships. we also benefited from their regional exercise programs such as the ruben shield exercises conducted by the boston

building and office ablation. instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest office buildings in america. that's more than a building. that's a living system. ♪ ♪ when san francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state office building. >> this was an old eight-story brown building the state owned and the workers' comp people were in that building. it was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. when i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadn't done anything there and the mayor thought the same