we are parents at daniel webster and petrillo hill. we are here to talk to you about supporting efforts to keep families in san francisco. it's well documented that one of the san francisco's greatest challenges is retaining middle-class families. the two reasons for family flight is affordable housing and public schools. i would like start by telling you the story of our school. back in 2005 the san francisco school district slated daniel webster for closure. at the time it was underenrolled and in the dire need of repair and of being isolated. a group of parents, their kids just babies, rallied the neighborhood and convinced the board of education to keep the school open. today it's a magnet for families of our attendance area. it started with incredible capable parents, now daniel webster has a pre-school onsite, and emersion program and requests on the rise. it's integrated portraya al of petrillo hill. what a san francisco family success story, we have demonstrated how a high quality, integrated public school can overcome family f

adams called daniel webster the man with the rotten heart. it was daniel webster who blocked john quincy's adam's one major aspiration, to be a united states senator. daniel webster did not want his other delicate to be john quincy adams, a former president whom he couldn't manipulate. he wanted somebody less threatening and got somebody less threatening. for the rest of his life, john quincy adams resented webster for that particular action. they hated each other. they also loved each other. it was daniel webster who wrote -- who wrote the inscription that is on john quincy adams about the accomplishments. about hisfin accomplishments. >> hated and loved each other? >> plof/hate relationship. another one. clay could be savage. there was a fistfight on the senate floor. who was benton? >> a democrat from missouri. henry clay was a whig. they could be opposing parties. he was a large bullying type of man who was remembered for pulling a -- pulling a -- for moving down the senate aisle in 1850 against a senator from mississippi. a foot -- a foo

adams called daniel webster the heart.h the rotten it was daniel webster who adam's onen quincy's major aspiration, to be a united states senator. did not want his other delicate to be john quincy a former president whom he couldn't manipulate. e wanted somebody less threatening and got somebody less threatening. for the rest of his life, john webster ams resented for that particular action. they hated each other. they also loved each other. daniel webster who wrote -- who wrote the john ption that is on quincy adams about the accomplishments. loved each other? plof/hate relationship. another one. savage.ld be there was a fistfight on the senate floor. who was benton? from missouri. was a whig. they could be opposing parties. type of large bullying man who was remembered for ulling a -- pulling a -- for moving down the senate aisle in from gainst a senator mississippi. a foot -- a foot. and the foot was so intimidated presence of thomas hart benton that he pulled a silver pistol out of his inner coat pocket and pointed it at benton. 1850. >> where. >> in the floor of the senate. in the

. >> henry clay of kentucky, steven douglas of illinois, han ball of maine, daniel webster of massachusettslouis cast of michigan, calhoun, and this was just the beginning and this was the april ex of the golden age of the senate. the modern visitor goes into that chamber, everything is clean and fresh smelling. if you were to bring back a senator from the 1819 or 1830 period, they would double over in laugh ter. it wasn't like that at all. this was like the floor of a stock market merchandise exchange just before the closing bell. this is the only place where people had a place to work. there was paper everywhere. a senator's desk in the senate chamber was his office. there was no other place to go. >> imagine, no electricity, no furnaces. and you see the spitoons as well. the new carpets wouldn't have looked like that. looking at them sitting in the chamber. every senator had one. there are patterns all over the floor. >> you know who charles dickens. if he dropped money in this he would use a glove to pick up the money. think of all the arguments that led up to the civil war. >> this is

>> people used to line up at dawn to get into the senate chamber to hear daniel webster speaker he hadn eloquent manner about him. everybody felt that even if it was not the greatest speech they had ever heard, they could tell their children and grandchildren that they heard a great daniel webster speak. he could speak for days on an issue. they somehow were able to get to the nub of a what the issue was and remember him today not for the length of the speeches but for ace -- but for certain telling phrases. >> henry clay is to sit in the back of the senate chamber. people ask why he did not move down toward the front as a got more security? henry clay never wanted to turn his back on his enemies or friends. he became synonymous with compromise. he represented the west and was trying to reconcile the interests of the north and south. he was able to keep control over the senate. people charged him with being a dictator. he said i am not a dictator. i'm just one of the member senate doors. whenever john c. calhoun came into the chamber, there was a buzz in the gallery because he was a dr

it ties in with the daniel webster concept of keeping the parents happy of the tech boom who will find this a culturally vivid and challenging and beautiful hill. where they can see international opera and classical music. because this stuff does happen here really high-quality arts. thank you. >> good evening, i am lance burton. i will read this, i am happy that you have chosen to share your budget plans. this is a community that needs more than just jobs, we are advancing the momentum towards careers. the industrial age has passed. the waterfront that sustained our community in the 40s and 50s is gone. construction is merely a hopeful opportunity. in this building we are preparing competent and reliable and productive citizens to run their own businesses and skills and launch their creative talents on to the global stage. our mission is to build on our innate work ethic. we see the work-based knowledge and opportunities that are here. but we refuse to allow our southeast community to be left behind from opportunities and wealth in san francisco now. we recognize that environmental co

wong served as principal at daniel webster elementary school for about eight years and as a former school principal at the elementary middle and high school level since 1989. mr. wong's work shows his commitment to education. he has worked as a special education teacher in hong kong, chinese bilingual teacher at golden gate elementary school and sfusd [speaker not understood]. under his leadership at francis scott key it earned california title 1 achievement eight times, 2001, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. [speaker not understood] he has increased student enrollment. mr. wong was also selected adds one of two principals by the assistant superintendent in 1998 to serve as a principal mentor and he has actually continued to provide that mentor ship to many other principals for the past 15 years. and in 2011 mr. wong received the mayor's principal of the year award. so, i could go on and on about all of mr. wong's accomplishments, but what i think is actually more fascinating is the level of respect, admiration, and appreciation that his colleagues and parents have of mr. wong. many who have work

distinguished, i think, and other people, the congressional leaders, henry clay and so forth, daniel webster, they were very, very substantial people. but there was by the late 1820s the beginnings of the null if by case movement -- nullification movement and this theory t this theory that a state that chose to do it could simply declare that federal laws were not applicable in that state. and this was the position adopted by south carolina and the chief south carolinian politician of the time, john c. calhoun, who was the vice president of the u.s. under john quincy adams and then in andrew jackson's first term. and jackson declared the formula whereby slavery would be tolerated south of the missouri compromise line of 36-20, it'd be tolerated, and even encouraged or protected. but secession or even reduction of the prerogatives of the federal government opposite any individual state would not be tolerated. and he carried that proposition in south carolina, and he carried it out, and that effectively -- and i don't think this, there's no evidence this was in andrew jackson's thinking a at t

>> people used to line up at dawn to get into the senate chamber to hear daniel webster speak good hes eloquent manner about him, and everybody felt even if it wasn't the greatest reach ever, they could tell their children and grandchildren they heard the great daniel webster speak. he could speak for days on an issue, but they somehow were able to get to the nub of what the issue was. we remember him today not for the length of the speeches but for certain telling phrase -- as i speak today, not as a northern man, not as a massachusetts man, but as an american. >> henry clay used to sit in the back of the senate chamber, and people would say, why didn't he moved down towards the front where the leaders sit? i think henry clay never wanted to turn his back on any one of enemies or friends for that matter. synonymous, representing the west, trying to reconcile the issues of the north and south. he was able to keep control over the senate. people charged him with being a dictator. he said, i'm not a dictator. i am one of a number of senators. he knew that he wasn't the dictator. when jo

it was daniel webster that wrote the encryption that is on john quincy adams coffin about his accomplishments. >> later on in the book, clay himself could be savage. clay and benton good benton -- engaged in a shouting match. >> benton is a democrat from missouri. benton was a large kind of bullying type of man who is remembered for pulling for moving down the senate aisle in 1950 against a senator from mississippi named henry foot. foot was so intimidated by the president of thomas heart benton. it was benton at that point, opened his jacket and told other senators trying to put this to an end, stand out the way. let the assassin fire. fortunately the assassin did not become the assassin. >> were they ever fired in either chamber? >> not in the senate. i don't think in the house. everything short of that. >> you have any idea how many senators and congress people carried pistols. >> in that particular time period, i don't have any hard evidence. it wouldn't be surprising is to say 20% or more. >> let me read some more. clay denounced alabama's william king for making false and cowardly remar

i recently ran across daniel webster's first bunker hill from 1825 where he said the last hope of mankindrest with us. meaning americans. if it should be proclaimed that our example had become an argument against the experiment, the experiment being our democracy, he continued popular liberty would be sounded throughout the earth. i'd like those of you who represent our country overseas to react to those thoughts and explain where in the range of hard military power and soft economic power and diplomatic persuasion you think of the example that america represents to the world stands in the assets that we bring to bear in support and have our support around the world. >> senator, thank you. human rights first has stenciled on their wall a quote from one of my favorite presidents, dwight eisenhower.whatever america hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of america. do we want americans to be represented with a young man who or do we want america to be represented by a man who had just built a large and actual chicken farm in an african country? as a soldier

people used to line use to line up at dawn to get in the senate chamber to hear daniel webster. >> great this eloquent manner about him and everybody felt even if it wasn't the greatest speech they had ever heard they could tell their children or grandchildren that they had heard the great daniel webster speak at one time. he could speak for days on an issue but they somehow were able to get to the nub of what the issue was and we remember him today not for the length of his speeches but for a certain telling phrases. i speak today not as a massachusetts man but as an american. >> henry clay used to sit in the back of the senate chamber and people would say has he got more seniority? why doesn't he move down towards the front where the leader said today? i think henry clay never wanted to turn his back on any of his enemies or friends for that matter. clay became synonymous with for my sins he was trying to reconcile the interests of the north and the south and was able to kind of keep control over the senate. people charged him with being the dictator and he said i am not the dictator.

don't learn about civic history, the struggle for justice which in his better moment senator daniel webster called the great work of human beings on earth. so what i'd like to do is just do a few excerpts of some of the columns here. the nice thing about a weekly column is it meshes beautifully with a low attention span of the culture. [laughter] and i'm only actually going to read half of one column. it was april 18, 2011, and it's called "waiting for the spark." and usually, you know, speakers are so deep into the diagnosis and the factual narratives of injustice that they run out of time before they say to people what do you think you can do about it. so i'm going to start with "waiting for the spark." and let me just read a few paragraphs. what could start a popular resurgence in this country against the abuses of concentrated, avaricious corporatism? imagine the arrogance of passing on enormous corporate losses to already-cheated working people and the jobless. this is achieved through government bailouts and tax escapes. history teaches us that the spark usually is smaller than expect

i recently ran across daniel webster's first bunker hill from 1825 where he said the last hope of mankind. meaning americans. if it should be proclaimed that our example had become an argument against the experiment, the experiment being our democracy, he continued popular liberty would be sounded throughout the earth. wholike those of you represent our country overseas to react to those thoughts and explain where in the range of hard military power and soft economic power and diplomatic persuasion you think of the example that america represents to the world stands in the assets that we bring to bear in support and have our support around the world. >> senator, thank you. human rights first has stenciled on their wall a quote from one of my favorite presidents, dwight eisenhower. whatever america hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of america. do we want americans to be represented with a young man who or do we want america to be represented by a man who had just built a large and actual chicken farm in an african country? as a soldier, i would far be

. >> william henry seward, stephen douglas, hannibal hamlin of maine, daniel webster of massachusetts c. calhoun of south carolina and sam houston of texas, and that is just the beginning. this was the very apex of the golden age of the senate. modern visitor comes into the chamber everything had been cleaned. if you were to bring back a senator from the 1819 or 1833, they would probably double over in laughter. it just was not like that at all. this was like the floor of the stock market merchandise exchange just before the closing bell. [inaudible conversations] it was the only place where people at a place to work. paper everywhere. as senators desk and the senate chamber was his office. there was no other place to go. >> imagine, no electricity, no furnace. and spittoons here as well. >> pristine, cleaned do carpet would not have looked like that for very long. looking at those spittoons in the senate chamber tells you a lot. every senator had as the ten and proudly disregarded trying to hit the spittoon. the result was patterns all over the floor. >> drop his money back. he would

what if daniel webster was right that if the example of our great democratic experiment ever became an argument against that experiment, it would sound the knell of popular liberty throughout the world? what if our political and moral failure to address carbon pollution became in fact an argument against our american example? an argument against our american example punctuated by the ex-clam medication points -- exclaimation points of local climate change happening right there in towns and barrios, hills and hamlets, on coasts and farms all around the world? what if the world takes notice of that? what if the world takes notice of what is already happening all around them and takes notice of how we blew it at dealing with carbon pollution? and as a result, turns away from our great american experiment because of this conspicuous and consequential failure of american democratic governance and leadership. let's really push it here. what if abraham lincoln was right, was not just making it up when he said america was the last best hope of earth. the last best hope of earth. he wasn't alon

i hereby appoint the honorable daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. wolf, for five minutes. . wolf: mr. speaker, today i've come to the floor to raise the seventh in a series of critical but unanswered questions about the terrorist attacks on the consulate in benghazi last september 11, 2011. the american people still do -- september 11, 2012. the american people still do have w if the answers been questioned. i'm increasingly concerned that none of these questions will be answered by the

history of this chamber and our democksitch etched above the speak ears rostrum is a quote from daniel webster that speaks to the need to end political games and to focus on issues that are important to the american people. in part the words read, quote, let us see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered, end quote. in 2010, i was proud to play a central role in the passage of the affordable care act. i spaced -- faced a lot of vitriol, my district office was vandalized, the lives of my grandchildren were threatened. yet i remain dedicated to passing the law because at the time health care costs were approaching 20% of our nation's g.d.p. and an unconscionable number of americans were being denied basic health care because of the cost for pre-existing conditions and in eight states in this united states and the district of columbia, violence against women, domestic violence, was considered a pre-existing condition. no more. before voting on the legislation, the democratic caucus read the bill three times, line by line. by the time it was sign

the quote up there on the wall, daniel webster's quote tells us to develop the resources of our land and calls us forth to do something great, to not invest in science and the future really takes america backwards. i strongly oppose the gentleman's amendment and i urge my colleagues to do so and i yield back. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. hastings: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. he amendment is not agreed to. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. hastings: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report. he clerk: amendment offered by mr. hastings of florida, page 26, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert increased by $223 million. page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount insert reduced by $223 million. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. hastings: thank you very much

publicly i think the appropriators in congress are the best legislators since henry clay and daniel webster. you can quote me on that if you like. [laughter] >> we may have touched on this before. there is of the recurrent subject of the hot bench. a hot bench is one asks a lot of questions. as someone who follows the court with the greatest interest, the supreme court bench seemed to get hotter and hotter. there are more and more questions coming from the justices. i wonder if the lawyers are able to get in a word in edgewise or whether the adversarial process has become one of more dialogue between the justices as opposed to the clash of views between the lawyers. i have the same concern at the court of appeals. the lawyers have spent weeks and months preparing their case. the oral argument means everything to them. they sometimes come to court and leave and feel like we have not gotten it out because we have been bombarded by questions from the bench. i know if the bench is too passive, they wonder if the justices have prepared the case. this seems an exceptionally hot bench in historica

i recently ran across daniel webster's first bunker hill memorial from 1825 when he said the last hopehad become an argument against the experiment, the experiment being our experiment in democracy. he continued that popular liberty would be sounded throughout europe. so, i would like those of you that oversees react to those thoughts and explained where in the range of hard military power, soft economic power and diplomatic persuasion you think the example that america presents to the world stands in the assets we bring to bear to support and defend our interests around the country and around the world. >> senator, thank you very much. human rights first has stenciled on their role. a quote from of my favorite presidents dwight eisenhower whenever america hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of america. do we want america to be represented by a young man with an end for carving or to be represented a man that flow back with me from africa who had just built a very large industrial chicken farm in an african country? i will tell you that as a soldier

publicly i think the appropriators in congress are the best legislators since henry clay and daniel webster if you like. [laughter] >> chief, we may have touched on this before. there is of the recurrent subject of the hot bench. the hot bench is one asks a lot of questions. as someone who follows the court with the greatest interest, the supreme court bench seemed to get hotter and hotter. there are more and more questions coming from the justices. i wonder if the lawyers are able to get in a word edgewise or whether the adversarial process has become more one of dialogue between the justices as opposed to the clash of views between the lawyers. i have the same concern at the court of appeals. the lawyers have spent weeks and months preparing their case. the oral argument means everything to them. they sometimes come to court and leave and feel like we have not gotten it out because we have been bombarded by questions from the bench. i know if a bench is too passive, they wonder if the justices have prepared the case. this seems an exceptionally hot bench in historical terms on the supreme