making a fun ambassador at large and chairperson of the world you know school world heritage committee. eleonore we've talked about the possible political consequences on. the church of native e.g. to the nascar list of world heritage list but let's speak about about legal consequences well what basically. changes for for a site for a cultural site or a natural site when it appears on this list what happens how. first of all it's great for the country to inscribe it means that international society is that this site is very important for the whole world that it has outstanding universal value will the whole planet and it increases the moral value the sentimental as i don't want you can't the second that it's open for you. the international expert dies yes and then it's. these sites will be all the time supervised by the international society. in person by walter to come in and any step for i don't know for new. construction or new mining for it has to be first discussed there and they have to propose ways to avoid the damage for this is a very sizable body was it all it's about civil j

heritage committee. as a chairperson and the country who receives the main point is to organize properly it's the first task of the country and for me like. chairperson it's very important to be within this kid you all and give the possibility to our guests to see the beauty saw some pictures. speaking of st petersburg the international youth forum which has become already an annual event was held prior to the you know school world heritage committee session in st petersburg the main theme of this you thought of was i quote water and world heritage white water what soon portland about water in the context of what you do. you know yes it's true we have to use events this year in one in a novelty for four to four months of this committee first we have in. in the south of russia in luck so-called. laxey so it's small. our than one thousand five hundred children participate in this event why water no first of all their walled heritage in any case is connected with the nature and heritage and nature of herita

they are the cumulative efforts of the asian pacific heritage celebration committee. ounder and chairman of the heritage celebration committee you did not get to rest at all, come on back. >> thank you for being here. thank you for joining us. i know it is a little tough right now, but when you have a chance, look around you and look at the people sitting around you. you can see the diversity of our city. it is very diverse with over 50 ethnic groups, and how we can see the vibrant fabric of our communities, and i will take this opportunity again for thinking the whole of our members and elected officials bringing ideas together. we provide the perfect opportunity for the community to protect the communities, who won the betterment of the community. but we want to connect with everyone. that is why every year, and a crew of volunteers come together and think about the best way to promote awareness so that everybody knows, it is celebrated as asian-pacific heritage month. the mayor was very generous in thanking me, but it is not about me at all. it is a committee of vol

they are the cumulative efforts of the asian pacific heritage celebration committee. ounder and chairman of the heritage celebration committee. you did not get to rest at all, come on back. >> thank you for being here. thank you for joining us. i know it is a little tough right now, but when you have a chance, look around you and look at the people sitting around you. you can see the diversity of our city. it is very diverse with over 50 ethnic groups, and how we can see the vibrant fabric of our communities, and i will take this opportunity again for thinking the whole of our members and elected officials bringing ideas together. we provide the perfect

." ♪ >> i am the founder and chair of the heritage committee. today is may 1.applause] many of us have said every month of the year should be asian- american month. we're very happy to have legislation so the entire country can celebrate the contributions and history of pacific asian americans in this country. we would not be here today or have this celebration without having a major that has always made time for us -- without having the mayor that has always made time for us and been so supportive everything we do. without further delay, and like to invite our mayor to help launch the celebration this year, mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you, claudine, for your wonderful work. it is my pleasure to join the board president chu, jane kim, eric marrs. have i missed anybody? school board members, yes. norman yee, everybody. [applause] [laughter] you know, i am getting up there. 60. it goes downhill afterwards. it is great to join everybody to kick off. we could be elsewhere. we could be protesting today on something. but we're here celebrating our asian paci

heritage month. the mayor was very generous in thanking me, but it is not about me at all. it is a committee of volunteers meeting since november to make the celebration happened. a one has to thank those that are with us, you are helpful in joining the leadership team. and our co-chair of the committee. i want you to know that i think you from the bottom of my heart. this year, the team is celebrating heritage. i am so glad that many of you turned out to celebrate individuals and organizations that have dedicated their time and efforts events in opportunities in education. and there is a myth out there that asians are all doing very well in education. but this is really not quite the case. there are many in the immigrant population that really need a hell. and they can use more opportunities that many of us have seen. i want to thank the nominees for this year. thank you for your work. before moving forward, i would like to invite the former press a -- the president david chiu. last year, david said the landscape in san francisco is different today compared to 15 or 20 years ago when we wer

committee. i want you to know that i think you from the bottom of my heart. this year, the team is celebrating heritage. i am so glad that many of you turned out to celebrate individuals and organizations that have dedicated their time and efforts events in opportunities in education. and there is a myth out there that asians are all doing very well in education. but this is really not quite the case. there are many in the immigrant population that really need a hell. and they can use more opportunities that many of us have seen. i want to thank the nominees for this year. thank you for your work. before moving forward, i would like to invite the former press a -- the president david chiu. last year, david said the landscape in san francisco is different today compared to 15 or 20 years ago when we were wondering who were the next asian pacific americans running for office, getting elected, and appointing the city offices. it is very different. >> do we have asians in the house tonight? thank you for being here. as she said, we have a very different picture in city hall today. we have the asian-america

committee. when this heritage month represents is a solidarity had togetherness that we seem to have mastered in san francisco. it is honor to serve the community. he is from my district. i love you, thank you. i want to acknowledge everyone, it is a pleasure. >> i would like the members of the board tuesday for a few minutes. every year, we put on this campaign, which is a great reception up to the ceremony, we could not have done it without the support of the major sponsors. i would like to invite some of them to come up, and they will be making brief remarks. >> i want to thank our presenting sponsor, mr. liu? [applause] >> think you, good evening. i am honored to be part of this celebration of the asian heritage month. i am the son of immigrants that came from taiwan, a look at asian heritage month as a way to celebrate happy accomplishments of our parents and the bright future that our kids have. this is a story i tell my kids frequently. she came here with no college education. during her first week, she was visiting the gross restore in the maze of all the things you can buy the grocery s

> taking the chronology forward in 1993, in paragraph 80 you remind us that the national heritage select committee on privacy media intrusion reported on the 23rd of march, 1993. you projected the recommendation for statutory tribunal but recommended a statutory press ombudsman might be set up, but also recommended legislation to introduce a sort of criminal privacy infringement -- which were in line with before the human rights act which didn't come into force until october 2000, so there wasn't a common law right of privacy as such. when you take the story forward in paragraph 81 and 82, particularly about paragraph 82 the difficulties you saw at the time in relation to the definition of the new tort of privacy. could you tell us about those, please? >> there were several difficulties with the tort of privacy. one of the difficulties was that it was very easy to portray a tort of privacy as being a piece of legislation that favored people who were relatively well off and relatively well organized. but without complete access to legal aid for everyone, would not be available to be used by the vas

. >> taking the chronology forward in paragraph eda, you remind us of the national heritage select committee on the media intrusion reported on the 23rd of march, 1993. it rejected the recommendation for statutory tribunal but recommended the statutory press which might be set up also recommended legislation to reduce the sort of infringement privacy in the new criminal offenses. of course at that stage we would look at the human rights act so october 2000 there wasn't a common law active pervvijze as such. we take the story forward in paragraph 8182 particularly about paragraph 82, the difficulties you salles at the time in relation to the definition of the new privacy. can you tell us about those? >> there were several difficulties with the privacy and one of the difficulties is that it was a sort of privacy as a piece of legislation that has favored people that were relatively well-off and relatively well organized but without complete access to legal aid for every one wouldn't be available to be used by the vast majority of people so it was in the words one of my private secretaries put

> congressman jim jordan is somebody that we worked with closely at the heritage foundation and the chairman of the study committee, he leads a group of house conservatives who are working on a number of issues to cut spending and lower taxes, prevent tax increases and solve this fiscal challenge that our country faces. we heard about his background as a wrestling champion in high school earning a career record of 150 to 1 and went on to wrestle in the ncaa and came to congress as a fiscal warrior and somebody who led the budget in spending task force for assuming this new role. he as i understand comes directly from the oversight committee and we appreciate you making the time to be with us. join me in welcoming. >> i tell every group, don't clap. i haven't heard me talk yet. it's a great day. the sun is shining and davis found jesus and came to the republican party. god bless you. not that we are right all the time. we're not. much more. exactly right. the american people are going to say so on election day. i did come from the oversight committee and i appreciate a chance to be with you. i will be brief and you

in 1993 -- for word -- forward in 1993, in paragraph 80, you remind us that the national heritage select committee on privacy and the intrusion reported. is recommended legislation to introduce a tort of infringements of privacy and due -- and new criminal offenses. of course, at the stage, we were before the human rights act, which didn't come into force until october 2000. you take the story forward sit 81 and 82. can i ask you particularly about paragraph 82? and the difficulties you saw at the time in relation to the definition of the new tort of privacy? could you tell us about those, please? >> there were a couple of difficulties with the tort of privacy. one of the difficulties was it was very easy to portray a toward up privacy as being a piece of legislation that favored people who were relatively well off and well organized, but without complete access to legal aid for everyone would not be available to be used by the vast majority of people. it could be portrayed as being a piece of legislation for you and your pals, but not for the public. and that was a real concern, that we were very

committee. thank you for making this possible and making this an incredible kick off to our apa. two months. -- our apa heritage month. [applause] >> the main reason we're gathering is to find out the winners of the heritage award. we will be announcing them. as the mayor and everybody has said there are many celebrations in the city in the month of may. we have three very important partners in this celebration with us. we have the director of the asian-american museum, the director from the asia-pacific fund. ted is not yet year. we've been like for them to come up. and say a few brief words about their activities. would you like to say anything else? >> i am delighted and honored to be here. the asian art museum shares the same mission as apa heritage month, to honor asian-american contributions to the culture that we're making every day. i am very pleased our museum will be among the first to act this month. this sunday, we will have our first free sunday collaborating with the asia pacific fund for the program called growing up asian and american. we're very pleased to partner with them. throughout the mont

standard and laughlin mark a investigative reporter with the heritage foundation new study out by the congressional joint economic committee joint as in both bodies i'm assuming and bipartisan whatever found that the paul ryan budget raises taxes on working americans if you make more than a million dollars a year like mitt romney does you see a three hundred thirty one thousand dollar annual tax cut but if you make under one hundred thousand dollars a year you make you see a four thousand four hundred dollars tax increase this is the scoring of the paul ryan budget which has been endorsed by grover norquist so rich people get the tax break working people get a tax hike does this mean that there's an unwritten exemption to the to grover nor to the multi-millionaire lobbyist grover lower costs pledge that tax cuts don't tax hikes don't matter if they're just working people like this study by the g.e.c. is actually done by the senate democrats who run the g.e.c. of the senate side of the g.e.c. and it's not so it's not nonpartisan i mean they've maybe got some nonpartisan economists to check it off and say yes it's nonpartisa

committee, i thank you for joining us, please join me inning welcoming him. >> i tell every group don't clap, you have not heard me talk yet. it's a great day, we are at the heritage foundation, and artur davis has found jesus and come to the republican party. not that we are right all the time. >> more than the other side. >> i did come from the oversight committee. i'll be brief and you can ask questions of both republicans in just a few minutes. it's amazing, this hearing we have done a series of hearing in our sub committee of the department of energy loan guarantee program. if you talk about what is wrong with government right now, it's stuff like this. 26 companies, 26 different projects got your tax dollars, loan guarantee, 22 of the 26, it's a $15 billion program, 22 of them had a credit rating of double b minus, which a fancy way of saying junk, but it's okay to put your tax dollars behind these companies. solyndra went bankrupt, it's amazing and we had another hearing today, we have e-mails, think about this, and the american people are figuring this out and again, it's why i'm very optimistic of what will happen in november. we have got e-mails from bri

timmons, at a hearing before the committee a couple of weeks ago we heard from one of the think tank folks out here from the heritage foundation, analyst who said that u.s. companies are free to exploit the deep sea bed right now and they have all the legal certainty necessary to support investments to drill in the deep sea bed. the analogy drawn by that witness is it's just like fishing. you go out and it's everyone for themselves. in light of the fact that you have 160 nations and all the parties to the convention, it seems odd to sort of suggest every person for themself approach to this. i wonder, you've addressed it somewhat here, you've talked about the certainty. i want to be crystal clear whether that's an alternative. is that viable? >> well, senator, i would -- mr. chairman, i would say it's an alternative but i don't think it's viable. we could proceed as a nation. i think it's very important to recognize that the world today is extraordinarily different than it was 40 years ago. we are, again, a global economy. we have multi-national companies that have the means to develop these resources but they simpl

would like to place in the record without objection a letter addressed to the chairman of the committee on heritage action stationary, by numerous former government officials including mr. rumsfeld and many others. they reach a very different conclusion. >> without objection, that will be made part of the record. >> there are so many parts of this. i am going to focus on just one and will pick up right where you left off. i have to testimony in front of me. this, my i, so i am going to focus on it. the fourth paragraph on page 10, you state "some have argued that the condition might obligate the u.s. to comply with international environmental agreements such as kyoto protocol saw to which the u.s. is not a part. i don't believe it might, i believe it will. ." the terms of the convention do not require parties to comply with other international environmental treaties. that was your conclusion. i know you are familiar with this, but i wish you would take the tree in front of you there and open with me to article 212, section one. it is on page 175. have you got that in front of you? the very first pa