please come forwardpublic comme. madam clerk, can you call item 9? >> is there any member ofthe public -- of the public wishing to speak on this? public comment is closed. item 10, adjournment. thank you. have a good day.

please come forwardpublic comme. madam clerk, can you call item 9? >> is there any member ofthe public -- of the public wishing to speak on this? public comment is closed. item 10, adjournment. thank you. have a good day. >> good morning. welcome to the regular meeting of the transportation finance commmittee. i am eric mar, joined by sean elsbernd, malia cohen, and mark farrell. erika cheng is the clerk. i would like to thank charles anfor providing televised access to the meeting. >> for the 2011 meeting -- this is an action item. >> on the minutes, is there a motion? without objection? is there anyone from the public wishing to speak? public comment is closed. >> this is an action item. >> can you call item four? >> this is an information item. >> hearing items three and four. >> good morning. i am the executive director. this is the time of the year, we bring you the state and federal legislative program. this is the set of principles we like to use to follow the legislative advocacy. this has a focus in sacramento and washington, reflecting on h

please come forwardpublic comme. madam clerk, can you call item 9? >> is there any member ofthe public -- of the public wishing to speak on this? public comment is closed. item 10, adjournment. thank you. have a good day. >> and good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for march the first, 2000 leaven. happy march. could you please call the roll? >> [roll-call] mr. president, all members are present. president chiu: ladies and gentleman could do please join me in the pledge of allegiance. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications. >> if you could read the consent agenda. >> these items will be impact upon by single roll-call vote unless a member wants a separate vote, it shall be removed. president chiu: i understand item 4 needs to be severed. are there any other items folks would like to sever? if we could take roll-call vote without item for. >> [roll-call] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: if we go to item no. 4. >> item 4 is amending the police code to amend sections -- to consolidat

part of my mass comm major was that i learned adytum like everyone else.tarted a magazine and was editor of the newspaper. when i got to detroit my goal was to figure out a way to marry the reporter with what they wanted me to do in the graphics field. i tell them something happens i would be going. that was fine with them. i wanted to visually tell a story and that became a valuable skill because not many people were doing that. at the time . >> why did you pick grambling in the first place? >> it is 20 minutes from where i grew up. it is where my mother also went to college. the couple of my brothers went to college there. it was not my first choice. i had a wanderlust and want to get as far away from my time and space as i possibly could. -- my tiny space as possibly could. i have full scholarships and other places. my mother, however could not imagine her youngest son being far away from her. she talked and talked and talked until i relented and said okay. i found it to be an amazing experience in one way. i think this is true of many historical black

ryan alexander, president of the taxpayers for comm sse and often contributor. welcome back.pursuant to the committee's rules all witnesses are asked to be sworn in before they testify before this committee. if you please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm the the testimony you are about to give before this committee will bethe truth, the whole truth and nothing but truth? let the record reflect all witnesses have answered in the affirmative. thank you. please, be seated. in order to allow time for discuson, and as my predecessor would say a longstanding tradition is that you will have five minutes, there will be a green light for as long as you may talk freely, there will be a yellow light to warn you your time is elapsing, and i will be understanding for you to complete your sentence, but not much more once it turns red, and that will allow a healthy dialogue afterwards. the chair recognizes mr. davis for his opening statement. >> thank you chairman issa and colleagues. thanks for the opportunity to testify for you today and i'm doing so in my capacity

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can you take a minute to comme on this very, very important aspect of this report? >> if they would commit thank you. following september 11, there is a lot of focus on protect in the transportation system, particularly the airline industries. wh we were trying to focus on and i think the 9/11 commission was whether the other potential risk for the country? what are other avenues that could be pursued? for example, smuggling information or threats over the border physically. other modes of transportation. but the bio defense areas where we fell for a number of years wasn't getting enough attention and understanding that the threats were for having an appropriate plan in place to be able to do it is like a number of areas that really requires multiple agencies to be involved and they really haven't been a means to coordinate a year and we try elevate this with the homeland security council and the national security council which are well poshard. we have in.net much responses i would like in this to provide for proper leadership. so i do think this is an area where c

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the chair lays before the house a comm speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., march 9, 2011. i hereby appoint the honorable virginia foxx to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father coughlin. chaplain coughlin: of late signs of spring speak of new life, o lord. may the first gasps of freedom stabilize the earth with fresh beauty. may heroic hearts of leadership, the world over, bursts forth with sounds of thanksgiving for your sounds of grace. hopefully, lord, our spring fasting and our renewal in prayer will peel away illusions for the nation and personal self-deception. may rage, violence and anger be drowned out by gentle rains. as with common endeavor, we work for the uprooting of weeds and the planting of new seeds. let destructive forces be silenced by collaborative efforts. by your spirit, lord, renew the face of the earth. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has

you specifically mentioned that you have 40 as part of your organization -- north comm. given the fact we have issues of article 10 and title 32, how is it that you're able to do that? they appear to be utilizing for things regarding our old defense. and there is, of course, through the constitution and various other laws there is restrictions on what the military can do. if you'll explain to me, because this is something i've been curious about, how can we get the national guard working with the military? it's also interesting because you're navey. of course, you don't have any of that. they're under the control of the governors and not the congress or the military. if you could educate me on that i'd appreciate it. >> first, i want to stress that i'm very, very pleased with the relationship i have with the national guard. both personally with my counterpart and the general of the 54 states and territories and washington, d.c. they're good friends. we are very close partners. i think it's a very good news steer. i'm very pleased and proud with the dependents i have on t

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