committee. the committee will come to order. the chair notes a quorum of two members for taking testimony as present. the chair will further note -- well, before i note that, -- consistent with rules and practices of the house without action well, that point has now been rendered moot. so, you have been reappointed to the committee. and all members can participate fully. okay. okay. all right. the chair will recognize himself and then the ranking member for purposes of making an opening statement. the committee on benghazi exists because the house of representatives voted for it to exist. and in the process made it very clear what is expected. if you have not read the house resolution authorizing this committee, i would encourage you to do so pop. for those asking for a road map or a scope of the investigation or want to know what the committee intends to do the resolution passed by the house of representatives i hasten to add, with seven democrats voting yes, answers all of those questions. the

committee. the committee will come to order. the chair notes a quorum of two members for taking testimony as present. the chair will further note -- well, before i note that, -- [no audio] consistent with rules and practices of the house without action, well, that point has now been rendered moot. so, you have been reappointed to the committee. and all members can participate fully. okay. okay. all right. the chair will recognize himself and then the ranking member for purposes of making an opening statement. the committee on benghazi exists because the house of representatives voted for it to exist. and in the process made it very clear what is expected. if you have not read the house resolution authorizing this committee, i would encourage you to do so. for those asking for a road map or a scope of the investigation or want to know what the committee intends to do, the resolution passed by the house of representatives, i hasten to add, with seven democrats voting yes, answers all of those ques

or forming the committee.as the chairman pointed out. on the vote to form the select committee, originally, only seven democratic members supported it because unclear, other than the political purpose, what was the purpose of this select committee and in the reauthorization, which took place as part of the rules package, not a single democratic supported it. in fact, four republicans voted against the rules package, which reauthorized this committee and a big part of the committee is that even now, eight months later, we still don't know wh we're looking for and this is a problem not only in terms of this select committee and investigation going on. it's also a problem in terms of which we can expect to get our document requests responded to. if we had a better idea of what we were looking for, of what was in controversy, then we could narrow our requests and i'm sure we could get it complied with with much more lackrity. part of the reason why i think the charter for this select committee is brought as the ch

i don't know what committee you minded this for the next committee to action so back to the - >> rec board. >> in support of the utility reduction by commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> this will be referred to the grounds and services committee on item f the board members recorded i'd like to ask my colleagues to indicate when you're next committee meeting will be. >> so let's see committee of the whole meeting mr. haney. >> so our next committee as a whole will be next tuesday which is february 3rd at 6:00 p.m. and we'll be discussing the safe and support of schools policy can we have a report from the school district. >> who's going to report. >> commissioner wynns. >> sure the select committee met one item on the agenda an update on the willie brown middle school and honestly the update was very much essentially the same with a little further update as the report we had at the committee of the whole meeting, however the update since that time was about the request for enrollment that is pro tem, in fact, 2 hundred and 16 i'm winging this in other words, more than the capacity of t

of that committee. for purposes of our discussion we are going to focus on the nmai act. the next and more difficult question is why are two easy -- two museums the have paralleled the different procedures for handling repatriation? we have to look at the nature of the smithsonian and the nmai act. although the smithsonian is a single legal entity that operates under the governing umbrella of the board of regents, each of its research institutions has its own mission and in many instances its own procedures. natural history is a scientific research institution that has long collected and studied human skeletal remains for people and cultures around the world and their research continues today. the nmai is a museum about the history and culture of native peoples. its mission is not necessarily related to scientific inquiry. and not surprisingly, these differences also account for variations in the way these institutions conduct repatriation. so, let me dig into a few of those differences before i ask our

it's whether not we can sit as a committee as all. there will be an opportunity. >> okay. >> okay, thank you. >> elect the board to set a committee as a whole because we do need [inaudible] please sit on the board. i think it would be a great idea. thank you >> thank you. other any other members of the public would like to give public testimony at this time? seeing none, public testimony is close. is there any common or is a motion from the floor to move this id the committee as a whole? so, we can take item 35 without objection. without objection we will take this item without objection to sit as a committee is open without objection, this item is approved for us to sit as a committee as all. [gavel]. mdm. clerk, can you please call the item >> [reading] items 26 to 29 comprise the supervisor sitting as a committee is over public hearing to consider a resolution declaring the results of a special election that was approved by the qualified electorate and directing the recording of the notice of the special tax lien and ordinance auth

out of committee. passed the committee 56-0. can continue to run down they passed almost unanimously in each case. but as the chairman said before the bills then went over to the senate the senate is where all good bills go to die even if they pass overwhelmingly in support here in the house. we're beginning the new year saying let's take these bills that passed overwhelmingly. and let's have the senate maybe take them up again, see what they do with them, hopefully pass them on to the white house. >> that was exactly what i would have said in preparations for this hearing, we did understand it was a bipartisan agreement not just to do these bills, but repeatedly on the floor. if i could i would like to back up just for a second. i see mr. sherman has arrived. who intended to be the other persian who wished to speak on the bill. i know mr. sherman is a good friend of mine please hurry also. i understand you're under some time constraint. could i have you come join us up at the table mr. sherman? rather than going through a separ

the committee must adopt the committee rules, authorize the budget.zç the and" before them.lr specifically, they contain a change to rule 18 regarding the posting of transcripts for allmbu1 committeÕ÷meetings. the change willbv allow the committeeo!eu toe continue posting transcripts on the commit website and to ensure that we are not in violation of rule 18 when theylaqny remainli following the date of the meeting. i will now epts tape a motion regarding the rules. >> i w 4h move that the committee adopt the rules. >> is there any debate? seeing none, if2it'Ñ there's no further 90edebate without objection, the committee rules are adopted. the next order of business is to report the committee budget. all senators should have before budget. >> i would move that the committee report the committee resolution concerning the budget at this time. >> is there any debate? if there's no further debate, then, without objection the committee budget is ordered reported. the next order of business is to assign senators to sub committees of this committee. senators

we're really excited to bring this ordinance to the committee on the oversight and advisory committee for the department of children youth and families. this ordinance is the trailing legislation for the charter amendment prop c passed in november with over 70% support from our city voters so we're excited about it. the ordinance speaks to the service providers working group which is also a way to codify how we bring the expertise and experience of our service providers in the city to the department so we're excited about this ordinance. it's the work of many, many people. i want to thank lots of people. i want to thank the mayor's office and maria sue, the director of the commission and others that gave us advice, our city, children committee and finally the childrens' fund community coalition that worked for two years with hundreds of community members, parents, children, service providers to develop recommendations for the board of supervisors. and finally i actually want to thank my supervisor jenn in supervisor yee office. i think that's -- and also tom owen the city attorney who

legislation as it goes through the process and supporting the work of the oversight and advisory committee. thank you so much. >> hello good afternoon prefer supervisors. i am a member of the community coalition and i wanted to start off by thanking all for your work. >> in building up to prop c and all the way through with the trailing legislation. similar to how the community and young people are engaged in the process leading up to the legislation we want to make sure that that continues all the way through and is something that carries over and is sustainable in something which this oversight committee is aimed to accomplish. in particular i am pleaded with the involvement of the youth commission and the advisory board played a role in this and others played a role in this and will have the representation of young people as well and i want to thank you you for that and that we prioritize and as the previous item with the task force we want to make sure that policy making and that the people with experiences are at the table and at the center of the conversations which the composition o

certainly i will commit to you to work with this committee and the intelligence committee to find a way to provide the information that you need consistent with the department's own law enforcement and investigative priorities. >> thank you very much. this particular opinion is important, and it would be useful if we can review it. so thank you. on state secrets, on september 23rd, 2009 the attorney general issued a memorandum establishing new proceed procedures and standards on the state's secrets privilege and litigation. the memorandum stated that the doj would provide the periodic reports to congress on the exercise of these state's secret provisions. only one such report has been provided. that report discussed the two cases in which the privilege had been invoked under the new policy but those are no longer the only two cases. so i would like to ask you, if you could provide the appropriate oversight committees with the second periodic report on the exercise of state secret privileges that discusses those cases, which the privilege has been invoked on since april of 2011? >> senat

it can be done by the finance committee and energy committee on a bipartisan basis.the last point i make, it's important to insure the public gets full value for oil and gas produced on federal lands. at some point i'm going to offer amendment to that effect. having been involved in this for a number of years i've been pushing bureau of land management to add viesz onshore order number nine to reduce the waste of natural gas on public lands, make sure the taxpayer gets full value for public resource. i think i think this is can be tackled in bipartisan way. chair and ranking member, good wishes. i look forward to the session. >> thank you senator widen. and i'm going to use chairman's discretion here and change the order already. if my good friend from idaho will allow me to recognize the sponsor of the keystone excel pipeline to perhaps go ahead of you. i'm looking at you. if you're -- >> i'll yield the floor. i'm anxious to hear when he has to say. >> we are all anxious although we have had years of listening to the well articulated kmebtdscomments from the sponsor

i've had the honor of chairing this committee for two years now and severed on it for 4 years in the running and for 3 of the four years i've that the pleasure of serving with my colleague supervisor cohen that will be stepping into the chairmanship next monday meeting and look forward to work together with the 3 members of the me those will not change and supervisor jane kim will remain under and we'll be in the if you fabulous leadership supervisor cohen madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> there's no further business. >> then we're adjourned everyone. >> hi i'm brandon the mist at sfpuc my role to support the employees between our yosemite location to san francisco and the typical things we deal with are puc recommended and network relate an telecom i like my role it varies day to day it is a unique challenge from providing in that user conclusions i solutions on their computer or a the president on a task they're trying to complete the training is very important there are many things to stay up to date my manager has helped me making sure any skills are up to

the end of this focus year we've been working to implement the strategies so we're going to do a committee own tuesday we're expended an invitation to several of our events this of all their helping to facilitate sort of you sfusd curriculum for the engagement of teachers and parent and looking at and designing sort of implementation on the key elements of vision 2024 they're helping with the sign but we'll work with this this is the end of the fiscal year and in addition helping with the website and working around the infrastructure pieces pieces. >> so i'd like to have it point clarified the corrections submitted tonight included the project for that two fiscal years of the payment in zans whereas in the original the original date of services was july 2014 to december 2014 with an agreement date of services extending to july 31st so i need a correction on what exactly the board is being asked to vote for mr. david. >> timing murase they have staff withdraw this item completely and to correct whatever needs to be corrected and get the board members what exactly what is excluded and bring

the objection committee on both the minority committee is improved. and without objection, committee staff is authorized to make technical changes during the duration of the 114th congress. without objection the organizational meeting is now adjourned. we are now going to consider hr-30. and hr-3. the keystone xl pipeline act. so we will move from the organizational part to the task at hand today. save american workers act of 2015 and hr-3. keystone xl pipeline. good morning. and i would like to wm our newed guests who we will have before us today of some we will recognize. others we will recognize them with a beard. two, two of the members who are here today have obviously been deer hunting. and i'm sure that they will be welcome and recognized by this committee. first of all i would like to note hr-3 would approve the application of the keystone pipe lin. it would create 20,000 jobs directly, as well of tens of thousands of jobs indirectly. it would also inject more than $7 billion into our economy. it would further allow us a closer relationship wi

before it was formed i reminded supervisor avalos to form the committee. i go to uc berkeley for a master's degree and ride my bike to the bart station or muni everyday and i am familiar with the corridor. i chair the ocean avenue association street life and business committee which has been very productive lately. we have a lot of stuff coming on line. dpw has a plan to landscape the corridor and improve pedestrian safety. thank you. >> thank you. any questions? thank you. next up is aaron goodman. >> good day and good new year supervisors. aaron goodman. i'm a resident in district 11. i ride muni and a native san franciscan for years and i applied for seats one and eight but i think i'm eligible for three and six as well. i deal with issues of transit community development, dealing with pedestrian safety,. i have a interest in youth and families. my child goes to school on the corridor and i am aware of the safety concerns for the students and seniors in the district as well as accessing muni and bart to get to the schools in the area so definitely seat

no committee is more ideologically diverse, and none is more productive than this committee. the last congress, 25 bills came to this committee were signed by the president and became law some very important. that's because chairman harkin and i worked to find areas of agreement. i look forward to working in the scene with senator murray. she is direct very well respected by our colleagues on both sides of the aisle. she cares about people. she's a member of the democratic leadership, she's result oriented so look forward to that working relationship. we are going to have an open process which means from every senator regardless of their party affiliation love a chance to participate, full opportunity for discussion an amendment, not just in committee but on the floor. when our bills in the last two congress never got brought up on the floor but the sheer we want a result and that means go to the floor, further amendments, further discussion. that means 60 votes to get off the floor so it will be a bipartisan bill. if it goes to conference. we know the president will be invol

my name is david camp camp, i am chair of the committee, we are joined today by committee member supervisor norman yee, eric mar will be excused. clerk of the committee is derrick evans and we want to thank mark bunch, mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and copies of documents to be included in the file should be handed to the clerk. >> this is the first meeting of this committee in the new year, so happy new year, everyone. before we go on to our items can we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? so we have a motion by supervisor yee without objection, supervisor mar is excused. mr. clerk, if you can please call item 1. >> item 1 is a hearing on proposed hearing shelter rules including but not limited to the reasons necessitating the promulgation of such rules and the imposition of uniform rules and requesting that the human services agency and department of public health and mayor's office on disability report. >> this is a very important item introduced by supervisor jane ki

now, and i'm assuming that for both the intel committee and this committee, that the redactions you make are for methods and sources, is that correct? >> that's correct. again, i'd be happy to provide more detail and in a different setting. we have discussed that with the staff directors from both sides. >> okay. so do you think that the state department shares e-mails between employees that would have methods and sources in it? >> there may be times that e-mails in the state department's possession do include cia information that would speak to intelligence sources and methods. >> between employees? >> or between, say -- >> the state department feels like they're employees that can see methods that members of congress can't see? mr. ruben, i'll ask you the question. are there e-mails between state department employees that disclose me methods and operations and stuff that they can see that members of congress can't see? >> there may be times that they do have nchgs that will speak to intelligence methods. >> between employees? the state department feels like employees and members of con

will be wednesday on february 4th and the student assignment committee will be thursday, february 5th at 6:00 p.m. i have a very busy week. >> reports by other board members. >> any announcements commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you with the support of quite a few of the community members businesses in san francisco we want to replicate the forecasts happening in new york and chicago we've organized the viewing of selma a movie about any member of the public wish to speak on this item for our 7th, 8th and 9th for 10 thousand students for free and so the fund that were raised will allow them to see the movie free of charge only show their stated id or report card and they can see it between now and january the 19 we'll be honoring the birthday the martin luther king and the theatres are the a mc on figure out and mission the a mc on van ness one thousand van ness and kin max and the marina threats on chestnut see the movie as a group please go to the website selma for tickets and tickets are going to be reserve the group ticket and get a list of the theatres and have a full web

no hearing at the full committee. never marked up at the full committee. snuck in among 10 other provisions that received either house approval or committee approval. there it is. snuck in. is that the way we are supposed to do business in this house? i don't know whether title it is good national policy or bad national policy. -- title viii is good national policy or bad national policy. what does it do? it extends until 2019 an exception from the volcker rule. i don't have to tell you the volcker rule is a very important part of dodd frank. not only does it extend the deadline until 2019, but it takes some of the deadline that hasn't been extended that the regulators already extended for three years, but as to another group of collateralized loan obligations, the regulators haven't extended it at all, and this extended for five years. his is a two-year or a five-year -- this is a two-year or a five-year extension on when banks have to comply with the volcker rule with regard to collateralized loan obligations or similar instruments. it might be great pol

it can be done by the finance committee and energy committee on a bipartisan basis. the last point i make, it's important to insure the public gets full value for oil and gas produced on federal lands. and at some point i'm going to offer amendment to that effect. having been involved in this for a number of years, i've been pushing bureau of land management to revise its onshore order number nine to reduce the waste of natural gas on public lands, make sure the taxpayer gets full value for public resource. and again, i think i think this is can be tackled in bipartisan way. again, to the chair and the ranking minority member, good wishes. i look forward to the session. >> thank you senator widen. and i'm going to use chairman's discretion here and change the order already. if my good friend from idaho will allow me to recognize the sponsor of the keystone excel pipeline to perhaps go ahead of you. but i'm looking at you. and if you're -- >> i'll yield the floor. i'm anxious to hear when he has to say. >> i think we are all anxious although we have had years of liste

committee the transportation and infrastructure committee many committees have an interest in this. we will work very closely with them on good cybersecurity legislation to make sure that government is working effectively with private businesses, because that is the key to the solution here. i don't think government by itself can solve this problem and i don't think businesses by themselves can solve this problem. but having the right way for businesses and the government to collaborate on sharing information and setting standards is an important undertaking for the congress to do and we should not waste time. >> with that we are at our time. thanks for doing this. appreciate it. and thank you for coming, mrs. goodlatte. >> looking live at the u.s. capitol, that federal prosecutors say an ohio man has been arrested in a plot to attack the u.s. capitol and kill government officials inside the building. it charges a 20-year-old of green township, ohio to attempt to kill. he was arrested today. he took control of a firearm under an undercover f.b.i.. the public was never in danger and

aderholt welcome to the rules committee. you're normally up here on appropriations time with agriculture. i assume, i've forgotten, do you still have that a chairmanship? >> [inaudible] >> and that you did. that you did. >> but thank you for your -- >> gentleman's recognized. >> thank you. thank you for having -- [inaudible] >> microphone please sir. >> thank you for having me here this evening. the distinguished members of the committee and allowing me to speak on the amendment which i am cosponsoring with congressman mulvaney and barletta to the department of homeland security appropriation bill. i do want to recognize the work of representatives mick mulvaney of south carolina and lou barletta of pennsylvania for their partnership on these important issues. for time's sake, i want to keep my comments brief, but please let me -- can allow me to highlight some of the purposes of the amendment. the amendment that is before the rules committee prevents any funds appropriated or user fees collected by the agency to be used to

this country will be well served if everyone who sits on this committee and the counterpart committee in the other body which i served, were to strive to meet the measure of the portrait. a portrait of a man who, i might add, continues to serve, thank goodness. ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor to be here. john, it's a great honor to be with you and be presumptuous enough to call you a friend. and i think i'm your friend. [applause] >> i'm going to now press my luck. i summoned the vice president of the united states and he showed up. i looked around and said, is the democratic leader of the house here? i had not seen her. so i guess i can summon her now. i'm in talk show heaven. [laughter] i tell you you get to stand here next to all the people, and you look out. there's so many of you. ladies and gentlemen i've got a 14-month-old granddaughter and i just can't wait until she gets of age so that i can tell her when someone says, wears a woman's place supposed to be? i can tell her, anyplace she wants. including the house of representatives. ladies and gentlemen the honorable n

or there's one a citizens advisory committee or concern people a vision for how the board of educationr even more broadly the school district is going to who is at the table i certainly wherewith that piece of around the african-american achievement initiative if that is what we call it apparently boston is going to be mad at us another boston person what we engage with in terms of the structure and thank you >> great question mr. haney the structure currently is by the way the special assistant position was from the african-american design committee e.r. group that met so our thinking at this moment we want to give as much leeway to mr. dick i didn't to serve the landscaping by the thinking is that the position existing in the superintendent office that position will be at 55 franklin what we want and seen in special assistant wong's very, very good work she has access to the decision makers, if you will in the system the superintendents and society superintendent she's the deputy commissioners and her role is to gather and coordinate and really work to have an integrated plan that in

we also have another committee and this our newest committee, the hiv aging committee and this group will determining some very concrete policy issues to bring us to and then to ourselves. the other committees that we have, or other work groups or palliative care, dementia work group and they do the nitty gritty substantive work of the council and we feel it's a very important way to structure our council, so there is particular attention to these subject-matters. we also had a legislative update. all of the city departments have presented their priorities for 2015, in terms of legislation. and i just want to highlight a few of those. one of them is to look at reforming the ssp state portion of ssi with the goal of moving above the poverty level. l also to look at any legislation to support the ombudsman office statewide. funds for aps training all over the state. as you may know, prop 41 did pass during the last election and that is the state-level issue for the veterans. and this is allocating $600 million for rental housing for veterans. so this is an important legislationion that

this is my first committee meeting as ranking member of the health committee. i want to start by acknowledging tom harkin and commend his years. he was a tireless advocate for those without a voice and will be missed as we all know. i also want to acknowledge and congratulate our new chairman senator alexander. i look forward to working with you, as well. we have had a number of conversations. as we both adjust to our new roles we have one belief we mentioned every time we talk and that is we think working together this committee can really get exciting work done in the coming two years. talking to our colleagues i am very excited about what we can do together in the coming weeks and months. i am ready to get to work especially on an issue as important as the topic of this committee hearing, education. in fact this is the issue that got me into politics. throughout my career first as a preschool teacher and then on a school board in my own state senate in washington and here in the united states senate i have been committed to making sure every child has someon

they can vote in committees and the committee of the whole is, of course, a committee of the house.t is not a final arbiter. when i was majority leader i offered that amendment in the rules. it passed. my republican friends took it to court and the court said that it was sustainible. and sustained it. this effectively unfortunately denies representation to nearly five million americans. americans. one of whom is on the republican side of the aisle from american samoa. so this is a bipartisan concern that i have. unfortunately this rules package put forward by the republican majority does not include either change. in addition, this rules package does not live up to the responsible governing the american people expect and deserve from congress. mr. sessions spent a long time talking about scoring. static scoring versus dynamic scoring. dynamic scoring, i would suggest to the american people, is a gamble. it is a gamble that your projection is correct, and if your projection is not correct, as it so often has been, then you end up putting the deficit even higher because you bet on the

. >> madam chair and members of the committee thank you, thank you for your time i know that's a long at a for you i'm trying to be brief 32, 3, 4 clay street i'm east west backwards to the two lots i've just leader by a nearby it was an informal meeting to discuss the project my - i understood the owners on prosecuted were going to build sticks on the roof in order to give us more significance of the project i understand they everybody wants to have a wider home only thing i'm saying this will present for us to have a sun special in the wintertime and the light and peaceful set back of yards thank you very much. >> thank you is there any additional public comment? good evening commissioners i'm allen am architect and being retained by the arguing men's to review the plans and hopefully support their dr request >> sir as part of the dr requesters team your opportunity to speak is contained within the 5 minutes, however she can afford the 2 minute rebuttal at the end. >> you'll have two minutes if she wishes to give you. >> okay any is there any additional public comment okay. i'm sorr

committee. this is a very important saying as it has been in the past and i want to pay tribute to to the distinguished senator from oregon and the way he ran this committee hopefully follow his example thin i am grateful to you and will work with you and all friends on the democratic side and on the republican side as well. welcome to the first hearing of the senate finance committee with jobs and a healthy economy despite those differences in washington regardless of party affiliation we can all agree that job creation and a strong vibrant economy are good things. the senate finance committee has a long history of bipartisanship given the size it is only a program one of the main goals of this committee is to continue that tradition to allow the committee to function and produce results as it has so many times in the past. that is why we chose the topic. today hoping to have the discussion into confined consensus on today's challenges rather than highlighting differences i will be sorely disap

in this instance the judiciary committee will look to work with other committees on ensuring that the new conduct is worthy of the criminalization and that the attached criminal penalties are a properly drafted. i believe this small codification will allow us to address many of the problems associated with a tangled web of federal criminal laws. we will also focus on reforms to discourage frivolous litigation and keep u.s. patent laws up-to-date. the strength of our economy relies on our ability to protect new inventions and build on innovation in the 21st century. last congress the house passed with overwhelming support the bipartisan innovation act. this legislation which also had the support of the white house is necessary to protect american businesses large and small from abusive and litigation but despite the wide range of support from the innovation act, the senate refused to act to i look forward to working with the new senate to get patent reform enacted as quickly as possible. additionally the trend by will continue the important work we began last congress with our comprehe

this ought to be corrected, be done by the finance committee and energy committee on a bipartisan basis. and the last point that i'd make is that it's important to ensure that the public gets full value to the oil and gas that's produced on federal lands. on some of that, i'll offer an amendment on that. pushing for land management to revise its on shore order number 9 to reduce the waste of natural gas on public lands. make sure that the taxpayer gets full value for the public resource. again, this is something to be tackled in a bipartisan way. again to the chair and ranking minority member, my good wishes and look forward to the session. >> thank you. senator wyden. and i'm going to use chairman's discretion here and change the order already. if my good friend from idaho will allow me to recognize the sponsor of the keystone xl pipeline. to perhaps go ahead of you. but i'm looking at you, and you're -- >> i yield the floor. >> all right. >> anxious to hear what he has to say. >> i think we all are anxious although we have had years of listening to the well-articulated comments from t