augmented budget committee. >> oh, an augmented budget committee, not a committee of the whole. >> it's june 19. >> so i'm whereon on both counts. ok. >> commissioner mendoza. restate it. the budget committee. we were talking about the meeting. fine. we're good. >> can i ask a question about the committee of the whole thing first? the reports we heard at the committee of the whole meeting posted online? the superintendent's reports? the superintendent's own report in particular was comprehensive and different than anything we've had before, much more, i think, accessible, coherent, so is it posted online and if it's not, could it be? thank you. >> report of the augmented rules policy and legislate i committee on may 16. commissioner wynns? >> how come the rest of the agenda doesn't apore here? the informational items are not listed in the meeting in the committee sum mear. >> it's on the next page. >> ok. thank you. ok. so we had two action items, legislative overview. we again had, i want to report first of all that we had, as i've been saying, we have these fabulous lobbyists who come

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the committee. nobody. even the report that was published. therefore, it did appear to us as something negative has to be found to say about rupert murdoch, and no one was going to conclude that either he or his son had misled our committee. and, therefore, this line about rupert murdoch not been a fit person which echoes was stuck on the basis of no evidence presented to the committee whatsoever, and we just could not supported as i said, if there are many, many votes once again likely to view on james murdoch, i would definitely vote for the report had that language not been placed in it. >> david grossman, the beast bbc "newsnight." can i ask tom watson, why was it so important to get in that line about rupert murdoch being a fit person to run a major international company, with the expense has been, or the cost of getting that line in has been allowing opponents of this process to betray it as -- portrayed as political payback or whatever. >> there is a judgment you have to make with these repor

the committee. members were divided over language that said corporate murdoch's unfit to run a major international company. this is one hour and 15 minutes. >> you have by now had time to read the committee. the report. we will make brief statements before we move to questions. i should say that the report concentrates not entirely but in large part on the issue of whether this committee was misled in the evidence it received press of play during its 2009 inquiry. although we go on to draw wider conclusions. it is important to say that the committee has not made any comment about the knowledge or the evidence of any individuals who have been arrested. we have deliberately refrained from doing so because we are conscious of a risk that any comments [unintelligible] might bring a possible criminal trial. the committee did conclude unanimously that les hinton misled the committee in 2009 in not telling the truth about the payments made to clyde goodman and his role in authorizing the them and payments

are we say this is the most pipe committee. always joked that these days that's not a high bar to jump over but we are very bipartisan in the approach. in the bill you have before you today reflects the work of the chairman but every person of this committee and the staff. also a bipartisan staffment we could not do it if we did not work together in that spirit. if we were looking for partisan advantage at every turn there is no way we could produce the quality product we do. i thank the chairman for his leadership in making sure that this committee up holds that that digs. i believe this also sets the right priorities, take care of the troops. most importantly take care of those troops in harms way. we still have 80,000 u.s. groups in afghan. making sure they get the equipment and support. it's the most important thing we do. broadly supporting the force getting another pay raise to the people who serve in the military is important and many other programs designed to make sure their groups get the support that they need to con

did people mislead the committee and are previous committee? i did not see any evidence that rupert murdoch misled the committee. committee. we haven't seen any evidence that james murdoch misled the committee. we concluded that the three individuals that we've already mentioned did mislead the committee. that's why we didn't agree with the conclusion about rupert murder. [inaudible] there was no evidence there to suggest that. >> you've already. it does not done by one party voting. at the end of the conclusions and accept,. [inaudible] so that his comment in the conclusions and that would've stood even without the additional line that he was soaking we have. we had to divide on the whole report. >> were there any objections from committee to one of their members putting out their own version of the book before the report was finalized? what charged you take mr. chote to make sure that no privileged information given to the gain was used in dial m. for murdoch, especially given the finest of report on page 312? >> well, what i would say is tha

committee present at the next meeting. and may be resolved it because they voted against it. >> i also like to ask how many projects that want to get this rule deleted? other projects are designed without this exemption. information on that. -- >> i would have to get you information on that. >> i would think we ought to have more input from coded by three. when i first -- code advisory. when i first read this, i thought it was old warehouses that were converted into live and work spaces. a lot of those places became more live band work. -- live than work. i think one of the issues is zoning. i would like to get something put in planning, how they looked at it, too. >> for the next meeting and if the staff could give us a report on that then, that we will have a discussion. is it just staff? bourdy want someone from the planning department as well? brecht's -- or do you want someone from the planning department as well? >> yes. >> i can help a little bit with the process. the san francisco building code provides that all co

there are many others here on the committee. met with the senator from georgia trying to work out the cotton issue, stacks and especially the inspector at wto and i -- i echo comments made by the chairman. got to keep working together to find way to make that work, that makes sense. and i also want to just thank the senator of north dakota. thanking everybody here, i especially want to thank him. he gave a great statement. a statement i wanted to associate myself with. pointing out a lot of the myths in country about agriculture. one of the best, being giving all of this money to farmers. really, as a senator, so well pointed out, most of the money goes to the nutrition programs. it doesn't go to farmers commodities. a lot of americans don't know that. especially people in the east. they just assume, oh, there they go. farm padding their pockets, which is totally untrue. and second, pointed out as did the senator from kansas, this is a reform from kansas this is a reform bill. we're saving $25 billion, and i agree with the senat

it's really a rare occasion i think in any committee but it's a rare occasion in this committee when we have simultaneously a panel of witnesses that brings together america's top diplomat, our country's top defense official, and our nation's top military officer. your presence here all together powerfully underscores the importance that you put on this issue. our committee shares this sense of importance, which is why i hope without respect to party or ideology, we will begin an open, honest, and comprehensive discussion about whether the united states of america should join the law of the sea convention. i want to underscore the word comprehensive. i've heard from countless military and business leaders for some period of time who believe it is urgent that we ratify this treaty. and i've also spoken with senators and some groups who oppose the treaty. i intend to make certain that the committee does its job properly and thoroughly. we will hear from all sides and we will ask all the questions as we begin the process of educational hearings on this issue. the first since 2007. the s

the committee will now receive the report on the sub committee, pursuant to committee rule 17. we'll postpone all the recorded votes on the amendments in this particular sub committee mark until the end of the sub committee mark. the chair recognizes the je nan from ohio, mr. turner, for my any comments he would like to mak make. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we worked hand in hand with full transparency with the minority at a time when we all open the newspaper and every day hear the threats of north korea and iran and the increased concern that we all have. our homeland at risk. our bill takes up the issue of the defense of our homeland and also the issues of sustaining a nuclear deterrent and the important aspects of missile defense. the bill authorizes defense nuclear cleanup activities. they direct them to a cost analysis and estimate and program evaluation for nuclear war head life extension programs and new facility construction. until the air force provides a report on the acquisition strategy and certifies the strategy maintains a sured ak says to space. achieves cost sa

-- by the rules committee. item 1553 is an item that would reappoint seat eight. >> -- supervisor kim: we had 21 really interested in dedicated individuals who applied. i want to thank the applicants that came before the rules committee. it is interesting to see the plethora of residents interested in serving on a board that we know is incredibly time- consuming and requires a great deal of dedication to transparency and oversight in the city government's. i want to speak in favor of the six individuals for routed out of the rules committee on thursday. [reid' reads names] it was, by no means, an easy decision. there were a number of applicants that could have failed before us today. it was unfortunate, but a number of our uncommon numbers put in -- incumbent members who put in a great time are not continuing. they had done a great job on the task force and i was sorry that they did not continue on, but i am happy to see that bruce is now the chair of the sunshine task force. it is important to have that level

of the previous committee. i certainly have spoken to fred michel. i always adopted a policy of an open door, not just in this inquiry but all inquiries, but if people wish to come to talk to me about, to get the point of you i will listen to the. but the question about whether or not they attempted to influence to the extent that they were putting their capes, but they didn't do anything which was improper, i heard people came to see me who have just a strong view in the other direction. >> i just completely, i was exact with the chairman said, i can put my hand on my heart and say nobody has ever tried to influence what i said in a corporate if anybody knows anything about me they would know it would be -- try to influence what i think the i think i'm sufficiently independently minded, to be completely, you know, i won't be affected by endless attempts. certain i can put my hand on my heart and say i actually -- that actually did not happen. >> that would be counterproductive to try to influence philip in ter

not the environmental committee or the commerce committee. i would get back to one of the people who works for the navy said in they were trying to develop an industry here that resolved around alternative fuels. and i would suggest the sooner the united states government gets out of the alternative fuel business, the sooner the american citizens will benefit from alternative sources of fuel. thank you, mr. chairman. i intend to vote for the amendment. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chair. i speak in opposition of this amendment. we ail know that the pivot is to the pacific, asia pacific. we've heard many sessions in here be my of our military leaders about the concern about the pacific and the rising strength in the pacific. now what that represents for someone like myself who comes from hawaii is the fact that you know a pacific command is housed on the hawaiian islands. we have no, quote, natural resources in fuel. it's not only critical for the stability of the military in the pacific but also for the united states as well. think about it.

of forming this committee. and we met for a long time he banged it became obvious there should be a committee, -- we met for a long time. it became obvious there should be a committee. at that time, 2003, and usually the secretary of the group -- we are one of the few committees that does not have a paid secretary. what i would like to see us do -- first of all, i am a retired professional. that is an important part of what i would like to see us do. when the sfmta wants to provide the bike track in golden gate park, they did not get us involved until it was pretty late and all set. and now it is going to bring back an on site tour of that kind of thing, and a few members are going to be there. i think that is very important. we use to get together at a particular terrible, dangerous intersection and come up with suggestions. i would like to see more of that happen. i would like to see more group agencies. give us drawings. talk to us before you do stuff. we got a little bit involved, i think, in consulting on

this committee was unanimous. therefore, what ever additional statements that proved more controversial, which are included in the report, the main findings of the committee, which relate to misleading evidence to the committee, this committee thoroughly agree. therefore, i hope that is the area where all of those privy to the debate will concentrate. >> >> thank you very much. could i may be asked to explain why they think rupert murdoch is not fit to run a company, and theyer mp to explain why think he is fit? to those that are found guilty willsleading parliament, you take them to the parliamentary sell, or what is the punishment? theell, in terms of what consequences are, to some extent, not for the first time come at this committee is exploring uncharted water. we have gone as far as to say wethere will be others with more knowledge and experience. >> we made the decision yesterday. given an amendment. as you all know, the description is something to consider when deciding whether to give a broadcast license.

scherer and committee members. by way of background, the authority has an 11 member citizens' advisory committee. each member serves 82-year term. the plans and programs recommends and the authority appoints citizen advisory committee members. neither staff are -- on page seven, you can see who has submitted applications to be on the citizens advisor committee. you can see some information on the numbers. to qualify for appointment commie have to be a san francisco resident and need to appear once before the committee to speak to our interests and qualifications. we currently have three vacancies on the committee. this has resulted from it resignation of rosie was from district 11 and the term expiration's of chris jones from district 5 and conrad woo from district 4. i can either take questions or invite applicants. supervisor avalos: i know there is one from district 11 who is here. >> good morning. i have been a resident of district 11, the excelsior district for over 25 years. i currently sir as co-chair of the

a person sits in committee. -- a version sit in committee. supervisor weiner: to vote on that one sentence? >> yes. there is a motion on the floor. president chiu: supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i was not going to speak on this, but i want to follow up on what supervisor avalos noted. i do think it is important for us to address this issue and it is important to note that one of the individuals that this board recently appointed to the small business commission who is precisely working in this industry is someone who had previously had a criminal past but completely turned his life around and has made a point in that business that he has created and has a stellar record of trying to provide employment to the very individuals that would be excluded from this position. i think that i do not feel comfortable voting for something that on its face seemed to exclude the appointment of these individuals and i hope that we recognize there is a need to recommend it, and if we cannot proceed, that we at least amend it. i think it sends the wrong

committee, and for my understand, the code advisory committee still voted to act on the amendment. and now we are asking to remove it. the fire marshal called me this morning about this and he wanted to make sure that everyone understood that this is for high rise buildings only. it would not apply to any buildings that would still need egress windows. this does not eliminate egress windows in low-rise buildings. gregg's which is required in every sleeping room. -- >> which is required in every sleeping room. brecht's -- >> under a certain height. we need to make sure that the intention is there in the different sections of the code. the environmental apartment referred to studies concluding that it had health benefits, but did not say that this is part of the green building code. unless it was added as part of the green building code, it is an amendment to the san francisco building code, which makes the california code more restrictive, -- which makes the san francisco code more restrictive than the california code, and can be removed if it is not part of the green building code

i don't know of any other committee that's done this. we did this previously with the supercommittee, and now we're doing it again. so in terms of deficit reduction, i think we're standing up to our responsibilities. let me repeat it. the senate ad committee draft add bill that voluntarily provided $24.7 billion in deficit reduction. we've eliminated four commodity programs, rolled them into one while saving approximateliy $15t disturbing the safety net. 23 streamline into 13 taving $6.4 billion. $4 billion saved in the nutrition title. 15 program authorizations are eliminated in the rural eliminating over $1 billion of spending ober ten years. two programs combined and yore two eliminated in special pi crops. $1.2 billion in mandatory money to discretionary and the energy title. five programs eliminated in forestry redicing authorizations by at leasts 20ds million and over 60 authorizations are eliminated from the research title reducing authorizations by at least $770 million over five years. madam chairman that is $24.7 billion. writi

as a member of the committee of transportation infrastructure and committee of science based technology i had the opportunity to witness removing unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy and improve our nation's infrastructure and prudent investments, research can yield game changing innovation to make our nation's roads and bridges safer and more durable. i look forward to working with chairman michael and chairman all and all of those in the senate to update our transportation systems and provide the world's best infrastructure, a strong value to the taxpayer and to ensure transportation research projects have long-term benefits. i would like to thank chairman hall for his leadership on research provisions and thank chairman mike and john boehner for the opportunity to be a conferee on this bill. i yield back. >> such a miracle happening. the house just started a vote. what we will do is chairman michael is going to make a one minute close and i will make a one minute close and we will go on our way but i have enjoyed this so much listening to you all and i would like to give you some fee

i also want to thank your staff very much, both the chairwoman and the ranking committee. they worked with me and my office on several important provisions included in the bill that we're about to take up. among these are important colorado priorities, and as you mentioned in the revamped conservation title. including a new emphasis on restoring water quantity, something very important to the west. also important is the inclusion of important provisions that strengthen conservation easements, and i hope to work with the chair and the ranking member today, and as we move to the floor on additional provisions that will help us conserve voluntarily private lands across the country and in my state. i'd also like to thank the committee for reauthorizing the forest services stewardship contracting authority. stewardship contracting allows our federal land management agencies to implement high priority forest management and restoration projects that are critical to colorado. this is an important tool for initiatives that restore and maintain healthy forests, eco-systems and provi

but we'll stay live waiting for the committee to gavel in here on c-span3. and the special inspecto >>> house oversight meeting this morning on inspector general vacancies across the department. later today, leon panetta and martin dempsey will brief reporters today. it's likely the secretary will get numerous questions for his call for the congress to pass the united nations law of the sea treaty. we'll have live coverage coming up at 2:00 p.m. eastern. later in the day, a consideration on u.s.-russian elections. president obama is hosting the g-8 summit at camp david next week and russian president vladimir putin is skipping the meeting. he said he's busy assigning his cabinet. again, the house oversight committee and the hearing this morning a little bit late but they're going to be talking about the inspector general's vacancies in the u.s. government. >>> this is the ray burn house office building, the house oversight committee looking at vacancy at 73 inspector general posts in the government. the ranking democrat is elijah cummings of maryland. he's i

to committee rule 17. we will postpone all of the recorded votes on the amendments until the end of the subcommittee mark. the chair recognizes the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from texas, mr. thornberry. >> my first comment would be to thank the members of the subcommittee not only for their contribution in developing this mark but for all other contributions through the course of the last year on our oversight activities as well as developing this mark. i especially want to thank the gentleman from rhode island. he is a leader in many issues but he is a partner in all issues before the subcommittee. it is certainly a pleasure to work with him on them. and finally i appreciate the work of all the staff arrayed across the table there not only are they very high quality professionals, they are good people and it is a pleasure to work with them as well as the members of the personal staffs who support this subcommittee. mr. chairman, if i were to boil down the emerging threats and capabilities

two committees. item s, the board members reports, the school districts elect committee. commissioners fewer, maufas, and mendoza? the commissioner: where their comments on the previous? -- were there comments on the previous? >> would you like me to report on the school committee? president yee: yes. commissioner: there were the course requirements for high schools, and i think it was very sobering, the data that the district presented about how many students are not to graduate because of the requirements, so this i think is, we, as a board, passed in a graduation requirement. there was discussion about the need and how that would help with credit recovery, and have this could be put towards meeting the requirement. also, we heard about this summer school program, which the city is offering, and also, the district is also offering many summer school options. so we are working with the city. the city is also going to find some of our summer schools, said that is good news. they also have a very robust summer program for a lot of others. and both of these items were conti

the legislation before the committee today does five key things. first, it stops fraud by ensuring individuals are actually eligible for the tax payer benefits that they receive. for instance, we propose to stop fraud in the food stamp program by ensuring that individuals are eligible for those taxpayer benefits that they are to receive. that shouldn't be a partisan issue, that ought to be a common sense issue. second, we eliminate government slush funds and stop the bail outs. this savs billions by eliminating the dod frank too big to fail fund. we need to end the concept of too big to fail, not enshrining it with this guarantee. third, it controls run away unchecked spending. it does this mainly by re-examining some very unwise spending choices made by the white house in the last congress in passing the stimulus and the health care laws. for example, take the health law's co-op program, which disperses government subcy sized loans. according to the omb, 50% of these loans will never be repaid. fourth, the restrains spending on government bureaucr

there's 47 people on the conference committee. many of them coming from very different ends of the political spectrum. so thir going to lay out what their policy goals are for this, and as we discussed earlier, some of quite desperate. >> nathan herst with congressional quarterly. thank you for the update. >> anytime. thanks. >>> again we are live from the senate public works committee hearing room. members of the house and senate, just about to begin discussing legislation on the nation's highways and mass transit projects. this should get under way in just a couple of moments here on c sban 3. in the meantime a senate working on a bill doubling student loan interest rates on july 1st. senate voting earlier today, the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the student loan failed by a vote of 52-45. senator snow of maine voting present. you can see the senate live on our companion network c-span2. the house in right now debating 2013 federal spending. members considering a bill setting spending for the next budget year for the

and i choose an aging committee from the time of the first temple. the content is still in operation magic carpet in 1949. the operation solomon in the course of the last 20 years and other neighbors their russian jews after >>> it's a much easier to look and say where of jews have not come from to israel because religious committees from everywhere. >>> a large persian jewish community and a large engine jewish committee and were from all over. >>> when my favorite activities is is really folk dancing one of the areas with the blending of the different aspects of israeli culture which it i think is most amazing. sissonnes now being made to dentist that have steps from yemen to mind the steps from europe. it's very typical of the writers that grew up in different walks of life describing the immigration waves of the '50s were from europe or people that were born to people that have been in israel for a future iteration of this and it affects the music and dance and move this if any of the people of the lead on netflix look up israeli films to such a

the finance committee also paid for the investor to programs the committee's rely on the downside ofthe highway trust fund namely secure the schools. payment taxes and land of water conservation fund. a short bill is what we could afford. it buys time to discuss what americans want for the 21st century and how to pay for it. significant reform cedras national priorities like the program consolidation, project deliver accommodate the improvement, performance measures, or safety funding and a national network. insurers would leave the construction jobs stuck waiting for certainty to move forward. these are jobs that are needed, projects just like those bypassed in the districts and states that need a green light. so i say let's get to working and pass it. >> thank you, senator. we will go to the representative followed by senator hatch. >> thank you, chairman boxer. i think that we can all agree that the funding improvements to the nation's infrastructure is vitally important to spurring economic growth and creating jobs come and because of that, i believe this is an issue that can and

chairman, ranking member cummings and members of the committee. it's a real privilege to be here today to represent the federal ig community which consists of 73 igs in the executive and

the committee will now receive the report of the subcommittee on strategic forces pursuant to committee rule 17 and a consultation with the ranking member. we'll postpone all of the recorded votes on the amendments in this particular subcommittee mark until the end of the subcommittee mark. the chairman recognizes the chairman of the subcommittee mr. turner for any comments he would like to make. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank also my ranking member ms. sanchez for her cowork on this mark. we've worked hand in hand with full transparency with the minority at a time when we all open the newspaper and every day hear the threats of north korea and iran and the increased concern that we all have for the ability of other states to place the united states at risk and our homeland at risk. our bill takes up the issue of the defense of our homeland, and also the issues of sustaining a nuclear deterrent and the important aspects of missile defense. the bill also authorizes defense nuclear cleanup activities within the department of energy's environmental management program. the mark

there's 23 people on this list that want to be on this committee. if you can't get a quorum of people to show up and i will add when i went to the meeting on may 2 that was called at 4:00, it didn't start until 5:20 because there was not a quorum. so let's get people that are active and want to participate and get involved in this committee and if you don't have the people, then, you know, if you can't make the committee meetings, every board that i've been on, if you miss two or three meetings, you're out other than sickness or other emergencies or something. so what i'll end with is something you won't see on my resume, as i mentioned, i'm a collaborator. i am the ultimate middle child. i like to see -- supervisor farrell's laughing. i like to see all sides of the argument. i don't have an authoritative style. i've tried. i'm not very good at that. i'm a collaborator. i'm not dogmatic. i don't walk in with a certain idea. i've been on many, many political organizational boards where decisions are made and i really gotta say, i don't walk in with a