as david baker once talked about -- is important that these look like cleaning shops. i was the community organizer, when i heard this proposal. it's not to say that this was not a good one, other than the interior design. they had all been evicted and this was in perfect shape. he said needed to be turned down and the group wound up fighting this for six or seven years in court. but initially, this had the support of my own organization. he was mentioned -- and this was the other topic. i want you to be thinking about who they have served, and what kind of neighborhood that this really has. sugaya, this is a neighborhood with mixed economics. there will be people who will really like this. this is a good store as it is, a limited, specialty store. but what i collect signatures, i am reminded, more than when i am shopping their of how many people who are shopping there, they may be coming from chinatown or the tenderloin, hispanic people and chinese people and also the low-income people who will not be well served at all, if this stohr is there -- i think that perhaps

former republican secretaries of state james baker, henry kissinger and condoleezza rice, former defense secretary robert gates, admiral mike mullen and general david pet trace. there is -- petraeus. for eight long years during the previous republican administration, republicans on the floor arguing time and time again that it was inappropriate, some said unconstitutional, for congress to ask a basic question about the bush administration's policies on issues like iraq, torture, waterboarding and warrantless wiretapping. time and again we were told that congress should defer to president bush, our commander in chief. let me give you one example. my friend, senator lindsey graham of south carolina on september 19, 2007, said -- and i quote -- "the last thing we need in any war is to have the ability of 535 people who are worried about the next election to be able to micromanage how you fight the war. this is not only micromanagement, this is a constitutional shift of power." end of quote. now with a democratic president, obviously some of my colleagues have had a change of heart. they think it's not only appropriate but urgent for congress to limit