hope stands for housing opportunity housing engagements. today we'll be hearing from the mayor's point of view on housing. we'll discuss proposition c, the affordable housing trust fund to expand on affordable housing in san francisco. it was the hope of many that the proposition c trust fund would replace the funds lost by the elimination by the redevelopment agency. while that maybe true in the long run, there may be likely declining budgets for the next several years. therefore it's of great concern for housing issues and interest in the presentation that i'm pleased to introduce trees i theresa i -- yonga. >> thank you for inviting us. i have a powerpoint presentation that i will put on the screen and try to describe to the best of my ability. so my apology in advance. the affordable housing trust fund as council member, thank you for the very good introduction was an initiative proposition c passed in november. we wanted to pass a little bit information about that about the problems that we work on and that what we have to work with in

i never been in housing, living housing, but i need help now 'cause i'm not working no more. so the -- the apartments i'm living right now -- i can't afford it no more so i'm here. please, i need help, i need apartment. i don't wan homeless, i don't wanna live on street. i been on waiting list four years now. i need help please. that's what i'm here for. >> thank you. normally the way it works, we hear what you you have to say, but i know someone from the agency will follow up with you. >> thank you so much. god bless. >> next speaker please. >> good afternoon commissioners, my name's carmen and i'm representing the coalition on homelessness and i'm here to talk about families that are homeless. she said thank god that right now i'm housed, but i go to outreach and i visit the families in shelter and i think about how they need housing right now. so today i'm here to let you guys know there's so many families in need in shelter and we should be opening up the wait list for section eight so other people can be housed just like i am. she said that to see families living in shel

, we have been on the ground at sunnydale and other public housing sites. any recommendations issued from my office will take into account the perspectives of our over 12,000 residents who live in public housing across this great city, including some of the most vulnerable families and seniors. the residents in our public housing deserve a higher standard of living and that is agreed by everybody. if you want to have a great city, one where all of the residents can share in our economic recovery, we'll need to stabilize our housing authority and position it as the important first step in the rung of our housing ladder. and then this ladder will help to lift people out of poverty and position them to benefit from the great economy we've created here in san francisco. thank you. >> our final question of the day will be from our district 11 colleague, supervisor john avalos. >> thank you, mr. mayor, thank you for being here. i don't have a haiku for you today, but i do have a question about housing with so many other questions we have. our economic policies ha

the other thing i want to talk about is that housing authority, like probably most housing authority needs to keep better track of occupancy. one of my /khroeupbts went to actually add her new husband to her lease. first she got a lot of grief in her management office. then they lost her paperwork. and as she was trying to cope with this and do the right thing and get her rent raised because her husband had moved in, a janitor said to her, why are you bothering. everybody here has people living in their unit that aren't on the lease. and i think you're going to find that probably significant portion of the [inaudible] people aren't on anybody's lease. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good morning supervisors, madam chair, supervisor cohen and thank you david campos for calling this timely hearing. i grew up in public housing also. my brother currently stay in public housing and the one thing that i notice in my 44 years here in san francisco, a lot of times commissions or committees or whatever we put in place as task force, they may have goodwill or may not, but then

through its two housing programs which are public housing and section 8, the housing authority served approximately 31 thousand san francisco residents. you can see it broken out here. funded almost entirely from federal monies, the housing authority is technically separate from the city of san francisco, although the mayor does appoint seven member board of commissioners. for fiscal year ending september 30, 2013, the housing authority has a budget of 210.6 million -- sorry, can you hold on a minute. folks that are sitting on the side, i have to ask you to sit in the chamber. there's some overflow seats in the chamber, we don't have room in the committee room right now. thank you. give me a second. there's seats in the overflow room in the chamber. maybe you don't hear me. sir, in the back standing up. i need you to either take a seat -- take a seat in the chamber. thank you, continue. >> so as i was saying, the budget for this fiscal year which ends september 30, 2013, the housing authority has a budget of 210.6 million dollars with nine departments and 289 full-time positions. we s

[inaudible] house housing authority's being reorganized. but let me say there needs to be an audit of the phta because that is part of the resident services. now, everything has been monitored, but nothing said about the phta. it took me months to find out who controls them. i had hud dig and they sent me a letter and i will send it to you, but it also says that there has been no oversight of the phta. we don't know how much money is there. so that's kinda, like, -- kinda put the hamper into what the tenants have to say, the input. the tenants should be out there knowing what's going on. that's not taking place. also this reinvention that the mayors put together. let me say there is a problem here. the hud, city and county -- well, somebody has to be responsible. everybody's pointing the finger at hud, hud points the finger at city and county. they have to be /aeu /koupbdable. it's not the tenants that have the problem, it is public housing, it has been hud. i want to let you know that i will be on the case and continue to be. i want to tha

and in terms of our affordable housing pipeline projects that are funded through our housing funds there's 14 million allocated in the first year. that's barely enough to complete one housing project. we prioritized those promotions that have been in the cuing for several years like a state grant or a hud grant. or other reasons where they have to be funded this year. i can talk about that more. i wanted to - >> supervisor avalos. sorry >> just a couple of questions. i was under the awe assumption >> in the first two years there's no attempt to bopped. number one we have considerable fund balances over at the redevelopment agency we need to spend down. many of that debt service once it is retired there will be lessen an impact on the general fund. additionally we are getting a lot of other sources and funds right now. i mentioned earlier in our

, our housing crisis. this is actually something that we've been discussing for many years. certainly in the african-american community. now, there are three key factors that really factor into my decision today. first, i'm looking to provide support, relief, if you will, to tic current owners. the interest rate that they're paying on their mortgages, very burdensome. almost like the industry created this and then created the tic industry, little niche market and then created a special loan package for them and there are few banks that offer loans for tic owners. and i believe they're in a difficult position. the second issue that's important to me is that we definitely need some structural reform to the lottery system. i think the legislation begins to extrapolate and pull out the discussion that needs to happen around this. and one of the third and final issue is when we think about the constituency that i represent, largely working class community, i'm looking at an area that is not -- doesn't have a si

now it's over to the house. with all 100 senators present and voting from their desk and vice president joe biden presiding, the senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill. undocumented students watching in the senate chamber cheered the vote. >> yes, we can! yes, we can! >> sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. >> after the vote, republican members of the gang of eight urged the house to consider the bill. >> my father had someone actually phonetically write on a little piece of paper the words "i am looking for work." he men rised those words. those were literally the first words he learned to speak in engli english. >> to our friends in the house, we ask for your consideration and we stand ready to sit down and negotiate with you. >> to our friends in the house, i understand you may have a different approach. speak with your voice. speak in a way that you feel comfortable. just don't ignore the issue, that's all i ask. >> house republican leaders are making it clear they plan to ignore the s

the housing authority is in crisis right now. there's a family homelessness crisis in the city as i'm sure you know. our shelters are packed full. these two problems are connected. for one thing, a lot of families in shelters are on the wait list, have not had the opportunity to get on the public housing or section eight wait list because they've been closed for so many years. that cease something that /aeu carding to hud /tpwaoeud lines we need to and open again so that homeless families is can have opportunities. the vacant units -- this is tragic that there are several hundreds of vacant units while our shelters are packed to the gills. the vacant units are a threat to security. one of the issues i heard -- one of our clients living next door to a vacant unit [inaudible] so that's still an ongoing issue. absolutely imperative that we get those issues resolved. this audit -- the results have been a vindication of what we have been seeing for years and i'm so glad it's finally coming to light. it's a shame on our city that we've

house same call? this ordinance is finally passed. next item. >> item 8, ordinance appropriating $55,064,799 of proceeds from san francisco public utilities commission water revenue bonds to fund the water system improvement program calaveras dam project and re-appropriating $77,271,241 of wsip project appropriations to various wsip projects consistent with the revised april 2013 wsip program budget adopted by the sfpuc. ~ projects. >> colleagues, same house same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 9 is resolution retroactively approving the feeder agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the bay area rapid transit district for repayment for transfer trips, with a term from july 1, 2010, to june 30, 2020. >> madam clerk, can you call item 10 as well? >> item 1 is a resolution retroactively approving the special transit fare (fast pass) agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the bay area rapid transit district, with a

it's an old cable car house. guy who lived there in the early 1960's, he had a boyfriend named cliff. they paint it yellow. when he got a new boyfriend named dennis, they painted it red to get rid of cliff. but it was a beautiful little car. he still remembers it. it disappeared, we think, sometimes in the 1970's. but this is what keeps my hopes up. this actually isn't in carville. this is in the richmond district on ninth avenue. people say, are there any car houses left? are they all gone? have they disappeared? this is an example of how one can surprise you. this is on ninth avenue in the parking lot behind the old coliseum theater. before that park being lot was there the city was looking for houses, spaces, near merchant corridors to create these little parking lots. they bought this house from a mrs. suggs because they wanted to tear it down and put the parking lot in. when they started tearing the house gown, they realized that this kind of boring house was made up of three old cable car trailers. even tho

the housing. and there's other costs that were set aside that the city is now absorbing. like construction management work-related to the hope project. and fund for work for the bay view opera house that was discontinued. and those costs are essentially absorbed in the costs. >> thank you. could it be possible though to provide kind of a controllers work that can provided a year by year showing of what we're paying for across the city last year and this year. so we could measure the impact of the property c and what your overall goals are? >> thank you. and that's something the controllers office can do? >> supervisor we can workup a presentation of what you're after we'll need to do some work with the mayor's office and implementation. i think we want to maximize our housing >> he can i say that perhaps we wait until the mayor's office of housing makes their presentation this afternoon and after that the controllers office can augment it. so to close out this particular slide the state department

the first affordable housing project, the [speaker not understood] which is a family affordable housing project, first one we did in mission bay. it includes a head start child care program on-site. affordable housing is under construction currently, 150 units again of affordable housing for families. it's going to be targeting the older age group, so, teens would be on-site teen activity room. there is also two units which are being set aside for in-house child care. ucsf also has a child care center on-site and then also we've been working actively -- one of the big issues with child care and making sure we have adequate outside space. and, so, we've been -- as the new larger projects come in, for example, block 40 has a map actually, if we can do the overhead. block 40, here's block 40 is down south. you have the ballpark to the north, first street, 16th street. so, block 40 is one of the newest -- it's the newest office projects that we just approved the design for as part of the project we set aside for child care and design incorporate the outside space. also a the larger future p

what's the frontage on this house? hyde is this house? -- how wide is this house? >> i believe it's -- it's 34 feet. >> 34 wide. it's a little wider than most. but adding to the rear, you come up with the idea -- it was pointed out about the windows would have to be replaced, but then you also have the instance of adding hallways unless you make these rooms like sun rooms where you have to walk through one room to get into the other room. so, it's a little bit difficult sometimes to do that kind of an addition. so, i see there are other commissioners that have some comments. i was going to move to not take d-r and approve the project. >> commissioner hillis. >> i just have a couple comments. i think we've got a high bar here on d-r, exceptional extraordinary circumstances, which is hard to reach. some comment on the design, though, and you showed a lot of projects of like 3-story buildings in the neighborhood or addition. none of which look great. we probably regret these years later if i was on the planning commission and approved some of these. my comment is abou

we ask that the housing authority dismiss these actions and that they allow us and the housing rights committee and their legal aid to handle this in a more cost effective way to figure out a way for these folks to pay their back rent and maintain their housing while the housing gets their stuff in order. >> thank you. my name's erin, i'm an attorney with the homeless advocacy housing project. we receive referrals for some of the most difficult eviction cases and otherwise. half of our clients are families with children, the other half a disabled adults. i won't repeat all the habit ability problems. you've heard them all day. what's the point when you impose fee when they can't pay them anyways. how big of a source of revenue can that possibly be? these are the most venerable members of the community and it's not their fault that the housing is in such bad condition. we are strongly against that proposal. for whatever moments i have left, i'll give one example of a mold case that i recently worked on. a husband and wife, two small children and the wife is pregnant. there's mold all o

house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the eas are -- the chair: on this vote the yeas are 194. the nays are 232. the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 32 printed in part b of house report 113-117 by the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. tierney, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: part b, amendment number 32 printed in house report 113-117 offered by mr. tierney of massachusetts. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the

and the rear of the house, even if our houses are detached. so, it's sort of a bonus if you're on a hill and there also is a staggering hill because then you're getting light because of the fact that you have the elevations that cause degradation of houses. there can be plenty of lights to the homes the front and the rear. and i frequently drive through midtown terrace on my way to work and i'm very aware of the different streets and the light it gets particularly in the morning hours. and i notice that staff did not feel this would have been referred to the commission under their new policy if that policy were to. been in effect where the staff would have made the decision, but that's not the case. this [speaker not understood] has been here for a long time. he's been an owner since 1998. ~ owner realistically he has a family that's growing and getting older. they need separate bedrooms. it certainly makes it nicer to have that kind of thing. you know, the fact that it's over 2000 square feet is not that extraordinary. the idea is we have to

she lobbied the house. and i will let bill tell why it failed. >> before we do that, she also enlisted the help of a former first lady. >> harriette lane. she brought her in and she also used the name of george washington and how this would be, you know, a fitting memorial and so forth. >> he had built the house. she was just making it work. >> right. >> and hadn't washington also envisioned that it could have been added on? >> he did. in years to come. >> so, she won the senate but in the house she ran into a formidable foe which was the speaker reid. >> speaker tom reed from maine. he was a great adversary of benjamin harrison. they fought a lot over bills. and someone from california was mrs. harrison's great ally. and he spent the night sleeping in the cloakroom, hoping the appropriation would go through. but speaker reed, he was a very razor-tongued kind of sharp guy, and he cooked up this story that harrison had appointed a postmaster in maine without his approval and he crashed the whole thing. he wo

as you can see from this slide in 2012 the housing authority paid 490.10 for security per housing unit, as compared to an average cost of $210 per unit for other comparable housing authority. with regard to the housing authority's memorandum of understanding with the san francisco police department we found that despite its having been if place for ten years, performance has never been measured or effectiveness been determined. we believe the police department could continue to provide sufficient and effective policing at these properties using regular work shifts. we also recommend that the housing authority get a staff person toover see public safety and conduct a needs assessment of those needs. those are the key highlights from our report. we would like to thank the staff and management of the housing authority for all of their assistance, including the new housing commission. we'd also like to thank the housing authority clients who participated in our survey and we're happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. holly, any questions on the findings? none? okay. let's op

a real house built in 1921. it's a big house, over 4,000 square feet.r for $1.6 million, which is pretty good considering what they did in the movie. >>> look who's visiting from fargo. finish the lyrics to this song made popular by the group "madness." ♪ ♪ ♪ our house >> is a very, very fine house. >> that would be crosby stills nash and young, but i figure you're just going to enjoy this party animal. that's me, hodi in the chicken outside. >> real quick, though, "our house in the middle of the street." >> a one-hit wonder. >> we actually make all of our homeowners sing that. >> no, you don't. >> no, we don't. >> because it gets stuck in your head like it is now. >> thank you for joining us. >>> our man of the house, lou manfredini has some tips for us. we love our lou. uh-oh! guess what day it is?? guess what day it is! huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike mike mike mike mike... what day is it mike? ha ha ha ha ha ha! leslie, guess what today is? it's hump day. whoot whoot! ronny, how happy are f

housing because no housing is available. with no increase in affordable housing many people are forced to move into their vehicles and as have you heard and will continue to hear that many of the people living in the vehicles are working, many people have disabilities, and many are born and raised in san francisco, and many have already tried to find resources through the city that either did not qualify or had a horrible experience with those services. mta continued enforcement of over night banning of large vehicles will only increase our collective that is homelessness and adding to the trauma and suffering the experience

a provision that adopts the house-passed resolution, house con.res. 25. as an interim budget enforcement measure, until an agreement may be reached with the senate on the budget resolution for the coming fiscal year. i'd like to read an excerpt from that letter. it says this, this is from chairman ryan to chairman sessions, ruleses committee chairman, as you know, the budget passed by the house reduces spending by 4.$4.6 trillion and achieves balance by 2023. all without raising taxes on the american people. in contrast, the budget resolution adopted by the senate raises taxes by over $900 billion, increases spending by $265 billion and never, ever, ever balances. while i continue 20 work with my senate counter part to find common ground, we have not been able to reach an agreement. then another part of that says, until such time as we are able to reach agreement and consistent with the practice in previous years when the house and senate have been delayed in completing action on a budget resolution, i am asking that the rule include a provision that adop

you must you fund affordable housing. the mayor made it online to help with the housing issues. you must help with the safe shelters. last year the board individual and we saw more staff. let's go fester and meet the shelters to have them save >> i'm with community housing partnership. when i turned 18 i could go to college or be homeless. i was lucky enough to go to college but one year later i was homeless. we're asking for $100,000 the first and $300,000 for the second year. we have to have the money we don't have families to go back to live with. a lot of folks leaving college are moving in with their families if you don't have that opposition we need to step you tell and help. 1 hundred thousand for the first year and 3 hundred thousands for the second year for housing >> thank you. next speaker, please >> i'm with the community housing partnership. we're here to ask for help for our youth. i wake up and see lots of youth on the streets we need $100,000 for the first year and $300,000 for the second year. thank you >> thank you, mr. tracy. >> good morning community housing

i cannot agree with the cost for the housing authority; the officers at work housing authority it offers likability to keep those area safest. recommended in year two we agreed to 716,195 recommended reductions but can't agree to the 1 million for the officers. >> supervisor farrell: okay, thank you chief any questions for the chief? whether we go to the revised report. >> mr. rose: recommendations are on page 16, and in 13-14 result is- i'm on the wrong page excuse me - page 24. the recommended reductions total 1 796,016 and 1, 842,643 and in 14-15 the total recommended reductions are 1,016,195. my understanding is, if i understand with chief is stating, he agrees with the recommendations except for on page 26 of our rerport the 1,016,195 regarding the san francisco housing authority, item under contention is on page 26. >> supervisor farrell: to be clear it was a 2.6 million number inclusive of the million dollar housing authority, now whittled down to 1.8 million, inclusive of the housing authority. >> mr. rose: actually really unencumbered closeouts it's a -0 if you would subtract it

white house question.hey do that. >> again, i said in the talking points memo quite clearly there is no evidence linking president obama. >> thank goodness i'm glad you got to that there is no evidence. you are exactly right. let me ask you a question. >> bill: no, no. >> hectoring? isn't this just going after. >> bill: we are doing our job here, juan, trying to find out what happened. >> find out what happened but at some point it becomes wishful filament by republicans he is not a successful president and stop him from doing anything in the second term. >> bill: that's totally absurd. mary katharine, wait. was shulman doing at the white house 157 times? >> they were looking at excessive spending. >> bill: he was there trying to reign in the executive spending. >> talked about the healthcare legislation and tax implication. they also talked. >> bill: 1507 times. >> they had 157 different meetings at different times. he is the head of the irs. >> bill: how about secretary of state? how many times was she i

they both are still in this house. they both love the country, love the congress, and love the constitution, and i'm confident that once again they will bring together that coalition of republicans and democrats. they may see things differently as relates to the ideology, but together they can bring the same forces that we had in 2006 to make certain that we restore the rights that the supreme court has taken away from us. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, today i rise to pay tribute to the life of lieutenant general richard j. sykes of junction city, kansas, recently. he became one of the first paratroopers from the jump school. he was promoted to be the army's youngest battalion commander and led its battalion throughout its historic operations in world war ii. mr. huelskamp: he ended the war with a silver star, two bronze stars and a purple heart. during his lifelong army career, including 37 ye

housing is not economic input. it is consumption. >> john said it is bad nows for housing and that is a good thing. >> did i say that bill baldwen is a clever guy. let me take that back. >> see how fickle. >> i think emachas it right. if you want to get in the housing market and sitting around when rates couldn't be lower, you get what you pay for. they better get in there now. it is only going to go one way. nemac, this begs the question. this is a short- term shot-in-the-arm. people will get in and banks will be reluctant to allow too much renegotiating of the mortgages. >> i hear what you are saying about the renegotiating with mortgages and again, we have that shadow inventory and i think we have leeh way time to get rid of and people are going to refinance and i agree with john tamny. the federal reserve is trying to deflate the bond bubble. it is hard to control the ten year yield and 30 year yield when you are trying to deflate the bond bubble. it is like having a balloon whip around back wards. >> it is co

she lobbied the house. and i will let bill tell why it failed. >> before we do that, she also enlisted the help of a former first lady. >> harriette lane. she brought her in and she also used the name of george washington and how this would be, you know, a fitting memorial and so forth. >> he had built the house. she was just making it work. >> right. >> and hadn't washington also envisioned that it could have been added on? >> he did. in years to come. >> so, she won the senate but in the house she ran into a formidable foe which was the speaker reid. >> speaker tom reed from maine. he was a great adversary of benjamin harrison. hey fought a lot over bills. and someone from california was mrs. harrison's great ally. and he spent the night sleeping in the cloakroom, hoping the appropriation would go through. but speaker reed, he was a very razor-tongued kind of sharp guy, and he cooked up this story that harrison had appointed a postmaster in maine without his approval and he crashed the whole thing. he wou

live to the house floor. of the senate on june 6, 2013, at 9:32 a.m., that the senate agreed to senate resolution 161. signed sincerely, karen l.a. haas. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 243 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h.r. 2217. will the gentleman from illinois, mr. hultgren, kindly esume the chair? the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h.r. 2217 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the department of homeland security for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, the bill had been read through page 93, line 11. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order -- amendment b

she lobbied the house. and i will let bill tell why it failed. >> before we do that, she also enlisted the help of a former first lady. >> harriette lane. she brought her in and she also used the name of george washington and how this would be, you know, a fitting memorial and so forth. >> he had built the house. she was just making it work. >> right. >> and hadn't washington also envisioned that it could have been added on? >> he did. in years to come. >> so, she won the senate but in the house she ran into a formidable foe which was the speaker reid. >> speaker tom reed from maine. he was a great adversary of benjamin harrison. they fought a lot over bills. and someone from california was mrs. harrison's great ally. and he spent the night sleeping in the cloakroom, hoping the appropriation would go through. but speaker reed, he was a very razor-tongued kind of sharp guy, and he cooked up this story that harrison had appointed a postmaster in maine without his approval and he crashed the whole thing. he wo

on the house floor. both parties tried to blame the other. >> what we saw today was a democratic leadership in the house that was insistent to undue years and years of bipartisan work on an issue like a farm bill and decide to make it a partisan issue. >> the majority leader continues to want to blame the democrats for his inability and the republican's inability to give a majority vote to their own bill. >> you're in charge of the house. you have 234 members. 62 of your members voted against your bill. that's why it failed. we didn't whine when we were in charge when i was the majority leader about we didn't pass the bill. we got 21 votes for our bills. >> steny hoyer all fired up. kelly o'donnell joining us now. how much of a surprise was this defeat for the farm bill to republican leaders specifically? how did this happen? >> well, it was a surprise. in part, the top democrat on the agriculture committee had told the top leadership on the republican side that 40 democrats could be promised votes. that

there is considerable debate in the house committee, and the house committee, house armed services, came up with a bipartisan approach to the sexual assault issue and it was inserted into the base bill and in fact it is consistent with president obama's view and the pentagon's view on this issue. so i understand that the gentleman may differ, but it was certainly a bipartisan product that was in the bill and i hear the gentleman in terms of procedure and perhaps the characterization of a vote, but i do think at the end the minority was afforded the the n to recommit, and characterization that we believe is a procedural vote, the gentleman takes it another view, i understand the subject matter was the same as these amendments. these amendments that were not brought forward on the floor was heavily discussed in committee, resolved in a bipartisan basis. again, i understand the gentleman's point and look forward to continuing to do all we can to safeguard the women in our military and make sure that we protect all american citizens, which i do think this bipartisan resolution of the issue w