king said, enormous respect for the ethics committee. it's a job none of us asked for and none of us want. it has to be done to protect the house of representatives. as a lawyer, i also believe in precedent and i have searched this record and find no activity involving moral turpitude or any activity that could be classified as one with criminal intent. therefore, i think a -- an appropriate action that would protect the house as well as punish congressman rangel, would be a reprimand. i think that is the appropriate punishment commensurate with what has occurred here unfortunately. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. scott: i yield to the gentleman from ohio, mr. boss well, one minute. mr. boswell: thank you, mr. speaker. i concur with what was last said, i have great respect for the committee. nobody wants your job. i came here 14 years ago and looking back on years that have gone by, i met charlie rangel as a colleague here and then i learned sometime after that we were fellow veterans and fel

code advisory committee? >> he is on the code advisory committee. we also have james reed. >> i commend my motion to replace henry with arnie. >> just reappointment, isn't it? >> you need a second on that, i will second it. >> right now, the motion would include ken cleavelan, so we will exclude him because he has also resigned from the board of examiners. >> so amended. removed ken cleaveland, and kevin, add arnie. do we have a second on that? >> second. >> all in favor? those opposed? i think it would probably be easier if we score these individuals in as each committee. if we could have arnie and william please step forward to be sworn in for the access appeals commission. commissioner murphy: good morning, gentlemen. >> can you give them a copy so they can read it? >> they do. commissioner murphy: i will start off. you just need to say your name. i do solemnly swear or affirm that i will support and defend the constitution of united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic, that i will bear

committee recommends the authority board appoints members to the committee. we have two vacancies. one vacancy from district 6. at the last meeting, we decided to move that forward to the january meeting to allow the new district 6 supervisor to give input to the appointment. the other vacancy is a result of the term expiration of glenn davis in district 9. he is here today to speak to his interest in reappointment. commissioner campos: thank you. mr. davis? good morning. >> i am here to seek reappointment to the citizens advisory committee. i would very much like to continue to work providing constructive and critical analysis to the numerous projects involving prop k money. thank you for your consideration and i would humbly ask for you to move the appointment to the full board. commissioner campos: great. thank you, mr. davis. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i would ask that we reappoint mr. davis. he and my office have been working closely since his last appointment, and i can tell you,

we at the budget committee said we would ask the curriculum committee to take this up, but i really want the board to be involved in a discussion about the process that we are now using, how we assess the effectiveness, how week -- for instance, one of the things i learned at the committee, years ago, was that there was a pop -- and i should say at least that there is a lot of -- you know, these are services many school districts did not think for a very effective way to spend these federal dollars to help students. it was a process or an opportunity that was presumed to, or known to, largely be the result of lobbying by private providers to the federal government when no child left behind was passed. we were setting up some rules for our own providers and our own schools that seemed logical to me. we asked that services have to be provided at the school site. many other districts were prohibiting providing days of the school site. we thought there was an opportunity to have alignment between these tutoring students as -- is to trim services and instruction at the schools. we thought tha

bay area sports organizing committee that will work with the america's cup organizing committee, mark buell, and dewitt's park to fulfil their obligations to you. several members of the executive committee serve on the america's cup organizing committee, including the president and ceo of captain healthcare west, the managing partner at hanson bridget law firm, and a representative of sunset development. i mention these because it is clear that a point of concern legitimately as you go through your fiduciary due diligence is this issue of the reimbursement of the city. i urge you strongly to have confidence in the mark buell and the america's cup organizing committee and those stellar individuals that are helping him put together a plan. the bay area council will do its part with the executive committee and those members that i mentioned and those others. the bay area council is a non- profit public policy group comprised of the largest private-sector employers of the bay area of this entire region. that is it. that is a fast two minutes. i urge you to support this and move it to the

of the committee recommended censure and the committee voted that he be pay restitution to the taxing authorities. censure is a serious sanction and one rarely imposed by the house the decision to recommend that was not reached lightly. the committee considered the aggregation of representative rangel's misconduct. the committee concluded that his violations occurred on a continuous and prolonged basis and were more serious in character meriting a strong congressional response rebuking his behavior. for the violation, the committee considered not only the amount of taxes he failed to pay over many years but the fact that he served at various times in influential position as chairman and ranking member of the ways and means committee. it brought discredit of the house with this member with great responsibility for tax policy did not pay his taxes for many years. some have questioned whether a recommendation of censure is consistent. it is true that the committee's roughly 40 years of experience, the house has censured four members. it is true that for precedent to be followed, a preced

>> i have copies of the committee's representation. the director of operations is committed to helping. >> but don't want to get into too many specifics but there's more to this process than the scoring. i have some concerns about the public access to the park. i hope that the petitioners will work this out. there's more to this than just the scoring issue. your application was very strong and very well done. i like it and i am sure that many other people like it but there were other factors during discussion that came off that did not score as high. i hope that does not preclude you from a second to go round. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i would like to congratulate commissioner harrison and the staff. it looks like a lot of work went into this and nothing but good is coming out of the other end of the process. congratulations. >> i just would like to echo your congratulations and a time of scarce resources and some challenging decisions we have to make, thi

>> in our committee, in this committee room, we have probably had the best buy partisanship of any committee in the house and of the senate. -- in 2007, we passed the water development act to expand the locks in on the mississippi and improve navigation and build levees to protect against floods and rebuild the wetlands in the gulf of mexico and the east texas 32 alabama. -- through to alabama president bush vetoed that bill. we overrode the veto. that is bipartisanship. it takes 2/3. in the history of the congress, there have been 1170 vetos and only 106 have been over. verwritten. i establish partisanship -- bipartisanship with the ranking member from florida not just when i took the chairmanship but prior to that when i was chair of the aviation subcommittee. we did things together. i established an inclusiveness with the republicans. during the later years that we served in the minority when mr. shuster of pennsylvania was chairman of the full committee, he and i traveled the country in support of a 67 increase in our surface transportation bill that became known as t-21. and then atlant

we received a letter yesterday to the committee and the committee agreed to prod the fund raised before million to reimburse the city. obligations that would cover departmental expenses related to police, fire, public works, etc.. the committee has agreed on this reimbursement, and i want it clear what would happen. i would like to particularly thank the committee and its leadership for the work that has done. frankly i would like to thank everyone around the city who has been a part of this conversation. here on the board there was obviously an important conversation started around budget and city costs. i think depth the supervisor and others have helped to eliminate those aspects of those issues that we have to address and moving that conversation forward in a good way. obviously, the mayor's office and our budget analysts have done so much to move this forward. obviously i would like to thank folks for being a part of this conversation. an intense conversation that we have been helping to push but hopefully the wind will be behind our backs and we will move this forward. >> just a q

i'm joined by a committee member -- joined by a committee member supervisor -- joined by committee members supervisor mar, and supervisor alioto-pier will be unable to join us. before we begin, if we could have a motion to excuse supervisor alioto-pier. before we begin the business of the committee, would like to take a brief moment to recognize the amazing work that has been done by the clerk of the committee, linda wong. [applause] on behalf of the entire members of the committee, on behalf of the staff for the tremendous professionalism and excellence with which you approach your job, we just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for an amazing job. [applause] i do not know, supervisor mar, if you wanted to add anything to that. supervisor mar: i just wanted to add that you are like a diamond sparkling in the sand. supervisor campos: very poetic. i do not think i could beat that. with that, if we could please call item one. >> item 1, hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending december 17, 2011, to the sweatfree procurement advisory group. there are two seats and tw

we have walter and alan newman on that committee. icahn also include ellen on the association of disabled sailors. we have the rear commodore of the st. francis yacht club. this committee has been meeting for about two months. i see this entire proposal as a three-legged stool. the first you will discuss in detail, and it has to do with the port and physical facilities and the trade-offs that the sponsors get for using the port. what do they give, and what is good for the taxpayers? i will leave that to your judgment. the second leg is the america's cup event authority, and that is the authority that is going to raise $270 million to put on a host of regattas are around the world, including the 2012 and 2013 races on the bay. our committee is committed to helping them in that regard, and those are primarily corporate sponsors, and corporate sponsors will make their own judgments about what it is worth for the advertising may get, and we can only introduce them to people who might benefit from that. in that regard, members of the comm

who is close enough to the committee who has a long enough relationship with the committee, a good enough positive enough relationship with enough members to at least have a fair hearing if not be successful in a campaign. we came to the conclusion, i'm sure, uniquely positioned at the intersection of those two requirements. it was a decision that i did not arrive at lightly. i think that the next r.n.c. chairman is going to have enormous challenges on his or her doorstep on day one. as i mentioned earlier, not just in 2012 but in 2001. the first debt payment comes in february. just a matter of weeks art the election. plus, you've got to figure out very rapidly how to keep the party from splintering, how to make sure that twe don't have a third party challenge which i think reelects barack obama in 2012 and how do you prepare the ground game and the convention in 2001 so that by the time -- 2011 so we have a nominee to go. and that requires an operatives for whom there will not be a long learning curve. >> you talk about third-party challenge. tea party here, mayor bloomberg? >> what worr

the committee and the public that shows with the competition is? what other countries they are looking at, and is there something in writing that actually outlines that? supervisor avalos: i saw something earlier today on the computer that showed something in the italian language, getting some diagrams of a potential court citing close to rome, and i was told that san francisco does not want to share its information because that would put it at a disadvantage around bidding, but we have all this information, and we have the discussion here. it seems like what is happening in san francisco is very well known, but what is happening in other parts of the world is not very well known. that puts us at a disadvantage to make a really good decision with the deadline we are being told we are working under. supervisor campos: let me actually ask the budget analyst and the city attorney's office -- do they have written confirmation that in fact there are competing bids? >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, supervisors, we have not seen anything in writ

the committee will endeavor to meet its targets.thereafter the committee shall provide written notice in meeting the fund-raising targets for year two and three. then on page 8 of the agreement, there is a new section which says the city may terminate the agreement if the city fails to meet its target by the time table provided in section 9.4. >> it would not surprise me that there still may be some exploration between now and tomorrow when this comes before the supervisors. >> we would be happy to discuss this. >> than with regard to the rest of the recommendations, do we have synchronous a team? we have a better understanding. >> i believe we have synchronous a team -- >> fair market value. >> and becoming a subset of the existing language. i believe we do not agree on adding language, and i disagree on the assessment or the joint powers agreement as well. >> i like the recommendation. i understand the last one. i think there is something that can be worthwhile. i think it is worth looking at, but in terms of adding that here, it

distributed to the members of the committee as was the members. each member of the committee reviewed the criteria and reported to each other. we took those scores and review each application as a group. the committee came to an agreement about which project best fits the criteria in the majority vote to approve projects. i did not vote on recommendations, and i say that the committee -- several applicants have had questions about the criteria and the wording. the committee has made recommendations to expand the program beyond $500,000 for the first round. we are recommending adding approximately 30%. we wanted to strike a balance and not over fund given it is a pilot round, but there is no reason for good projects to have to reapply for another round and create more. of the projects we have recommended for words, they represent the total commitment of $298,000. that is a 45% leveraged by the recreation and parks department. you have the drawings of the projects and the details of the projects. in the amount of $24,450, it includes improvements to

i want to thank you for sharing the land use committee. supervisor maxwell: it has been great working with supervisor maxwell: you. -- working with you. supervisor chiu: i wanted to echo his comments. we are going to miss you greatly. you have had a tremendous impact of the past, present, and future of our city with regard to land use. there are so many projects in your direct imprint help to improve. it has been a true pleasure to work with you and i think our committee has worked very well together in resolving many of the potential conflicts that we have to resolve here at land- use. thank you so much for that. we will miss you. supervisor maxwell: i think land use and our city will be in great hands. i think supervisor mar an -- thank supervisor mar and supervisor chiu. i think we'll be okay. you're a pretty snazzy dresser yourself, supervisor mar. it has been great. thank you. [laughter] is there any further business before this committee? this meeting is adjourned.

having spent as much time as i have on the science committee, you develop an affection for the committee, for the people, members, and for the staff. so it is with really gratitude that i know that the gentlelady from texas, ms. eddie bernice johnson, is going to be the ranking member in the coming 112th cock and i yield -- congress, and i yield five minutes. the the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas yielded five minutes. ms. johnson: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i do rise in support of h.r. 5116, the america competes re-authorization act. and i'm proud to say that i worked with dr. ehlers, with our incoming chairman, mr. holt, as well as outgoing chairman. we all know that the re-authorization of america competes is to ensure that our future is more prosperous than our past. it is about ensuring america's memories honored by investing in dreams that are even higher. the legislation before the u.s. congress today is a message and a message that makes america understand that we are not here just to compete but to lead the 21st century. as a member of the health -- scien

may we have a committee report from commissioner norton who chaired this committee? >> yes, this is actually a change item. find the change. is very small. we are just simply changing the ability in the board agenda, according to the rolls. present -- according to the rules. president kim: did you approve this? could we have a reading by someone or the designee? >> madam chair, i would like to have one change. p-20. this is the modification of one section in the following manner. section10.1 -- section 10.1 reads a certain way. this would add the following language. alternatively, the board president would be after the business begins as deemed appropriate, and a temporary order can be agreed to in advance by the president and superintended for an individual meeting or for a specified period of time. the remainder of this remains as previously written. president kim: i do not have any public speakers for this item. are there any public speakers? seeing none, members from the board? roll call, please. secretary: [reading roll] six ayes. president kim: the next item is

of the committee recommended censure and the committee voted that he be pay restitution to the taxing authorities. censure is a serious sanction and one rarely imposed by the house the decision to recommend that was not reached lightly. the committee considered the aggregation of representative rangel's misconduct. the committee concluded that his violations occurred on a continuous and prolonged basis and were more serious in character meriting a strong congressional response rebuking his behavior. for the violation, the committee considered not only the amount of taxes he failed to pay over many years but the fact that he served at various times in influential position as chairman and ranking member of the ways and means committee. it brought discredit of the house with this member with great responsibility for tax policy did not pay his taxes for many years. some have questioned whether a recommendation of censure is consistent. it is true that the committee's roughly 40 years of experience, the house has censured four members. it is true that for precedent to be followed, a preced

committee. i wanted to report that. if anyone wants information on what the counties are doing it with a regional approach and transportation from a regional point of view, just ask. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor campos: i wanted to thank the chair of the transportation authority for his leadership over the past year. for me it has been especially gratifying that there has been enhanced cooperation between the transportation authority and the mta and additional participation involving transportation in san francisco. this is something that we should be proud of. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i never miss that i failed in my remarks to outline the fact that this body, all of you, we stepped up to the plate in the contribution to the deficit to help to restore some part of the service reduction. thank you again. seeing that there are no more comments, mr. moskovitz? >> i would ask for your patience for a second, mr. chairman, as i echo your comments to the departing boa

, the financial services committee. i'd like to thank marcy capture. she has been a stalwart not on the committee but working every day because she's in one of the hardest-hit states but so am i, in california. it is unthinkable that we could have used tarp funds for every major corporation, all of the banks, all of the two big to fails, and yet we would deny homeowners in the hardest hit states some assistance. what are we saying? these are people who have followed the american dream and we have found that all kind of exotic products were put on the market, many of them were tricked into signing on the dotted line and now we have whole communities that are being boarded up, that are being foreclose ured, communities that are being driven into the ground because cities can't afford to keep them up. we've done everything we can do. we have assistance to unemployed folks, we're trying to do everything with not a lot of help from the administration or from the regulatory agencies in general. the program simply has not work