thank you commissioner bustos and so moved by commissioner bustos and seconded by commissioner singh. call the vote please. >> >>clerk: we will have two votes. item 5a commission members announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner rosales is absent. three ayes and one absence. >> chair mondejar: motion carries. >> >>clerk: for item 5b. commissioner singh? >> commissioner singh: yes. >> >>clerk: three ayes and one absence. >> chair mondejar: motion carries for item 5b thank you very much everyone for being here and please let me know how to sign up and follow whoever i need to follow. madame secretary please call the next item. >> >>clerk: 5c approving a variance. b) authorizing, pursuant to the transbay implementation agreement, a third amendment to the memorandum of understanding with the city and county of san francisco, acting through its department of public works to increase funding in an additional amount not to exceed $17,966,556 for an aggregate total not to exceed $19,079,347 for the transbay folsom street improvemen >> nicki henry will be presenting on this item.

. >> chair mondejar: commissioner bustos. >> commissioner bustos: this is long overdue. i have had trouble navigating through the website. i am excited about it, so with that comes expectations. you have heard me talk about the wow factor. i would love for us to have a wow factor that when people come on to our will be site they are going to be so wowed by not only the visuals but the content and it will make people want to visit frequently. jennifer as you guys are all thinking about this, know that is something i think this commission is going to be looking for is the wow and i think that is something that will be good for you as a showcase when you go to bid for other projects to be able to say whicthis is what we did for ocid city and county of san francisco that is a wow that would encourage people to come back to a website over and over again for information. i hope we are able to do that. >> we can going to do our best. as time goes by and we are moving to the actually design process; we would love to have you involved in that process as well. we will send you moc

. >> commissioner bustos: i have a question regarding the design. one of the things i am seeing a lot in terms of a lot of projects that are happening in san francisco especially with downtown is removing a lot of the parking spots. we have a huge stretch that i see with a lot of parking taken away, and that concerns me because it is downtown and there are some businesses that have sort of not just with this project but first floor retail space and traffic is already bad enough to find a place to park when more spots are being taken away because prior to this particular project people used the only to park on both of those blocks and so now they are being taken away and i see other things like muni hogging up another whole side of the street. that concerns me. it's i not good. >> there is some parking remaining i think about 22 spaces along the stretch between essex and spear street. currently right now between seconsecond and essex that will remain the same. as a city goal as a a district goal was be to bring in other forms of transit with bicycles

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with congresswoman sherry bustos. with former secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack. with my friend harrison hick, my great democratic strategist and pollster and our colleague, paul bledsoe, we're going to talk about aspects of this challenge. without further ado, i want to say one other thing -- about congresswoman bustos, a rising star in the house she represents the illinois 17th, which is one of the 11 districts that trump won in 2016. held by democrats, right on ground zero. but you know, the parties asked her to look into the attitudes of democrats and voters in general in the midwest and she orchestrated this wonderful report "from the heartland." it's a focus of elected democrats out there. who were struggling to win in competitive terrain and are succeeding and they have a lot to teach the party. so with that, congresswoman bustos, over to you. >> are we sitting at our place here? are you good with that, everybody? just one correction, will, the party didn't ask me to put that report together, i put that report together and i'll tell you why. let me tell you

seth molton, a veteran and sherry bustos. those are people that get the left wing of the party but not beholden to it. it's a good question. it will be fascinating to watch. >> it will. >> somebody young. that's interesting. >> we'll see. while the mid-terms are front and center, democrats should be thinking long and hard on what they will put up against the president in 2020. corey booker is getting some attention. cnn reports that it's his travel outside the corridor coupled with a series of legislative roll-outs in the senate that is drawing the most attention from democratic insiders and political observers that view his frenetic mid-term schedule as a wing and not entry to the 2020 presidential primary. booker himself tells cnn "i'm not going to play coy. i'm sure i'll give it a look. right now, my focus is 2018." so there's a lot of names on this democratic side. everybody from joe biden to elizabeth warren and everybody in between. corey booker is well-respected and tried to walk the line between moderate and left wing

bustos. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. bustos: i rise today in support of my bill the gold star spouses relieve act. this bipartisan bill would support the widows and widowers our fallen by terminating leases in the wake of a service member's death. this came to my attention when i met kyley from farmington, illinois. kyley's life was forever changed on october 19, 2016 when her husband, sergeant douglas riney died defending our freedom. kyley and her two young children, james and ella, were living in texas at the time. this is their beautiful family before tragedy hit. they had moved there when he was assigned to fort hood before eploying in support of deployment. kyley chose to be back in illinois with her family surrounded by those who she loved and loved her so they could mourn together in this inconceivable loss. in the wake, their landlord refused to allow kylely to terminate the lease that she and her husband had signed. it is hard to get those words out. refused them to get out of their lease. the families of falle

. >> commissioner bustos, yes, congratulations to mayor-elect london breed. maybe do it better and meet up with former commissioner, london breed and new mayor-elect london breed. thank you. any other commissioner -- >> i was there with her in sunset district on last thursday, so it's, you know, we open up our office there. >> you were -- >> yeah. >> which office was this? >> london breed, sunset office. >> oh, yeah. >> what you call the campaign office. >> the campaign office, yes, thank you. >> thank you. any other comments? >> i have a question. unrelated. >> but i see that mr. lee is not here i'll ask it anyway, and perhaps get an answer later. does -- does this commission or the prior redevelopment agency, did it have any policy, small business policy that was applicable to our tenants? the tenants -- not our tenants, but the tenants in our developments? like, let's say -- >> i'm sorry, for tenants improvements, no? never? >> it depends on the particular project, but for the most part, the obligations of the builder of the project are for the owners' imp

host: congresswoman cheri bustos, democrat from illinois, looking at the state of the democratic partyon our facebook page, first from cindy -- steve says - - come back to that in a moment. we will go to our twitter page. this is a comment from dave, our friend in new jersey -- -- finally we will come back to the facebook page in a moment. go ahead, john. caller: yes. the problem with the country we have today is nobody is being held accountable for their actions, and nobody is using any common sense. the woman was talking about guns -- what would she do if somebody broke into her house? and who would protect her from rape or murder? the problem with the gun situation here is the guns are not the problem. the problem with the guns are the people who have them in the house, the parents. they are not paying enough attention to what their kids are doing. and they are not protecting themselves against being held accountable for what the kids do with the guns. host: thanks for the call they let me go back to the facebook page for your is from patricia. is centrism dead? she says -- stefanie

bustos. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on further consideration of h.r. 6147 and that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. pursuant to house resolution 996 and prule 19 the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house. will the gentleman from illinois, mr. hultgren, take the chair. mr. hultgren: the house is in the committee of the whole house for further consideration of h.r. 6147. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the department ever interior, environment and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 2018 and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee arose, amendment number 39 printed in house report 118-830 ad been disposed of. the chair: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from seek recogn

is there room for centrists that come from more moderate districts, congressman sherry bustos of illinoisnk she will be a strong voice for the people in new york. also, joe crowley, he served his people by always putting them first. he was an incredible leader as well. alexandria's voice is something spreading across the country. the more people involved the better we are. on the democratic side of the family we have a very big tent and encouraging people to spread their voice. >> you don't think that rising left could light the tent on fire? >> i think the democratic party is about putting people first. when we're talking about people and making a difference in their lives, whether lowering costs with prescription drugs or getting universal coverage affordable and accessible, that's what we're talking about. the difference is we are a party that puts different options on the table and we want to debate those and have a conversation about them ultimately to make a difference in people's lives. i really don't see it will pull any direction or the other. >> i am hearing a lot in your slogan

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that was the same economic trouble people were describing, whether in new hampshire or in cheri bustos'sistrict in illinois, or in madison, wisconsin. this is a way to answer western for folks across the country, if we can have bold, new ideas on how to actually make sure folks have that opportunity. i think, from pulling i have seen in 2018, a lot of folks want to see a check on donald trump. they think he has gone too far. they want that chapter there are 10 states where democrats have seats, but trump won their states. ofhink bill nelson is one them. a lot of those swing voters are donald trump goes to far sometimes. so they want to see bill nelson or heidi heitkamp stay because they can be a check on his most extreme influences. hopefully, that is what we will see in 2018. and in 2020, democrats need to offer something new and future oriented that they can combat donald trump with. host: in matters of health care, your pull looked at the current state of the aca versus single-payer. what did you find? ofst: we found the idea expanding and completing the aca, expanding coverage, teste