if the treaty is valid, this statute implements the treaty word for word implementation of the obligations of it. >> you would rather have the court determine if we're concerned about intrusion on police power whether the treaties are valid or not, and determine whether the particular implement in legislation is valid or not? >> no. because it is conceded in this case that the treaty is valid and the petitioner has not elaborated any argument that would allow this court to make a judgment about when an exercise of the treaty power is valid and when not, you have to take as a given -- >> the point of the hypothetical is in trying to get your general principle. i can imagine treaties you would ,ay are within the treaty power particularly in the post-world war ii era. there is a structure of .imitations, as i said earlier the two thirds ratification requirement is we'll -- real with respect to one of the treaties your honor just referred to, convention on civil and political rights. when the senate ratified it, it did use its power to make reservations to preserve our federal system. there ar

the treaty and implementing legislation stood or fell together. that is not the case if i could reserve my time. >> thank you, cal. >> mr chief justice made please the court. the framers gave the federal government exclusive control of the greek functions selected did the nation together and local limit on treaty power can't be squared with the judgment framers made. this court's precedent or consistent historical practice since the time of the founding and it would compromise foreign affairs and national security interests of the first quarter. >> let's suppose there is a multilateral treaty, international convention to assure that national legislatures have full authority to carry out their obligations, the national legislature has the police power and congress passes a statute saying we have the authority to prosecute a purely local crimes pursuant to this international convention the president has signed. any problem with that. >> there may well be. let me walk through the analysis you have to go through. i would make a point that it seems uni

for compelling reasons for implementing this need for implementing the standards in the united states, legal reasons, political reasons, social reasons and environmental reasons and i just want to go through them with you briefly. my first reason that i have for the need for implementing these standards in the u.s. is the need to strengthen the federal indian law and policy and i've already talked about that. there is a need to reform the dark side of the total indian law to root out fell law of colonialism, the doctrines of the conquest, the jurisprudence of racism that carry these antiindigenous functions, the need to resolve the internal tension between the protective features of federal indian law and the antiindigenous features to try to inject for the very first time that human rights principle into our in mortal body of law. and this is especially true as we see the supreme court eroding many of our native american rights today. so we have a stronger legal reason here and the declaration addresses each and every one of these concerns that i just listed for you. it shows us how

implemented it on several prescription drug categories. i wanted to give you some results from the prescription drug side as well. program has our own pbm, so we use kroger prescription plans to help us design a very similar initiative that we had in the medical world in the pharmacy world as well, so we took three categories of drugs in 2012 -- in 2013, we added the category and that really focuses on education at the point of sale, so when someone is in our store, they're at a pharmacy and talking to a pharmacy tech or pharmacist, really being able to get that education because if you think about some to have -- we're just trying to see that with lipitor last year and not a high variation in effectiveness in that drug category. so, we've seen some really great results on the pharmacy side as well and here is just some statistics on what we saw in unit cost. in the prescription drug side. you can see significant cost reductions in 2012. utilization was not significantly -- individuals might forgo a medication. cost may end up with them if

we have not seen many of the infrastructure projects the plan has implemented. in some cases the key transit improvements are under review. we have all agreed that most of the development is needed and appreciated. at the city we must live up to our end of the bargain and provide infrastructure to support those that are living here as well as the future for those that will live here. last month we were at the meeting for the eastern neighborhood plan and the questions i heard were the promised benefits for streetscape and infrastructure improvement. we knew there was a funding gap. we hope to begin to develop a multi-agency strategy to address the funding gaps and some of these projects implemented before we entitle hundreds of more units in the neighborhood. we have done a good job in the development community has been successful in moving the projects forward. i think we as a city have done a good enough job finding and implementing the infrastructure needed to insure these neighborhoods stay walkable and livable and transit first. i don't expect we'll have al

we've actually implemented, we had a tracking system in 1997. that tracking system went way in 2009. we have not had a tracking system sense them. i took over the monitoring system. we started looking at all the issues that we brought forward on the audit and we addressed those issues. what we found out is, we have jurisdiction on 14b is our contractor for not following up the practices. we manually did an intensive investigation. and what we found was that there were some personnel issues that happened at these two dements. departments. >> in one sentence can you give me an occasion about why the program went away? >> the program did not. it was the tracking. it was the decision that was not to have it anymore. >> who made that decision? >> i believe it was the x director at that time at 2009. we can go into detail as to what happened. >> we don't have time. >> but now we instituted a new tracking system that began with contracts advertised after july 2013 which is going to assist staff with day-to-day revenue review. with this particular audit

>> it's been implemented. the first year of implementation, we were given access to the people who need it. basically your question, how does it work, where do you get the information? this is a web based service, it's available online and you have to be online and available for practitioners to have access to the information. we have customized so the product allows for a vast amount of customization. we were meeting with our stake holders and non-profits and city representative as to what do we want to collect on our forms, what is necessary, what is valuable. >> was that tool used during the homeless count? the homeless use ccms which is different. no. >> no problem. >> supervisor tang? i had a separate question in response to the civil grand jury. it's in response to your closing remarks. i want to acknowledge that it's very important to be measuring performance and outcomes especially when the city is providing funding to our non-profit agencies. we commend that and appreciate the controllers office to op

implemented and risk and needs assess many. -- assessment and using based practices. we developed risked base policies and currently upgraded to a new electronic management system that will replace the old one. all of these reforms have resulted in 2013 in july received the award for the american probation award which is as far as you can come from where we started out so many years ago with all the of these deficiencies. the city has realized the significant return on this investment. >> okay. two

again as the behavior chart continues to implement. you have the cohort they're currently in and as we begin this is going to be a process as schools develop what look likes i can tell you to get it to go school wide and to think consistent and to get even though pier one supports in place is really a major undertaking. i want to emphasize sometimes the simplest things can require a lot of coordinating. i commend them for trying the new system. i want to thank thomas when you at the end of the day when you leave this district people want to be able to follow leaders. i think that thomas and the other person have set a positive tune. i'm pleased of what i'm hearing around the enthusiasm to moving this work deeper with more consistency. thank you for the opportunity. are there any questions you may have >> dr. >> i just really want to thank staff in particular the teachers. as i recall when we had a presentation on r ti there was a lot of confusion it was very abstract it was hard to get our hands around this. but having a specific examp

how will this all get implemented? well, the recommendation is for a long-term care implementation body to be formed that will include dos the human services agency the department of public health, the three health plans i mentioned and the long-term care coordinating counsel as an advisor but it's not set yet and i want to read something it says in our strategic plan -- the make up of the implementation body needs careful consideration and consist of those that can influence the implementations of the recommendations representatives -- well it doesn't matter but there's a variety of groups. some of your organization may want to be on that body -- it's not set yet is what i'm trying to say. what will happen is that there will be implementation work groups below this body and they will be given charge for some of the recommendations and that's how the recommendations will be rolled out into implementation. so the state's goal is to expand calmedi connect project in the 8 counties. it will most likely come to san francis

under this convention and the implementing statute. one of the very things we are trying to sort out right now in syria under the chemical weapons convention is where the line is between peaceful uses a and warlike uses. the phrase peaceful uses is not only in the chemical weapons convention. it's in the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and we are engaged in sensitive negotiations right now under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty trying to draw exactly the same line and it would be terribly unfortunate i would submit if the court went to announce in the context of this case petitioners asking the definition of what warlike constitutes it could happen unfortunate airing on those -- steve can you tell us what the line is we are trying to get to? >> the framers of the convention and congress implementing the convention made a judgment that there needs to be a comprehensive ban and you can't draw these kinds of clients. >> could i ask why that is because this convention and the implementing legislation is very broad in its broad because i

implemented on several prescription drug categories. so i wanted to give you a little bit of the results from the prescription drug side as well. kroger has her own tv him, so we just kroger prescription plans to help us design a very similar target pricing initiative that we had in the medical world in the pharmacy world as well. so we took three categories of drugs in 2012 and that's the ppi's and the blood glucose test strip. and 2013 we added another category. that really focuses on education at the point-of-sale. when someone is in our store, the added from us and talking to a pharmacy tech or pharmacist, really being able to get that education about the choices that they have, because if you think that some the drug categories, that an act example, huge variation in cost or we are just starting to see that drug category kind of settle out with it going generic latch up with that huge variation in cost, and not a high variation ineffectiveness in that drug category. so we've seen some really great results on the pharmacy site as we

implement a plan that would sit on a shelf. this is meant to be a working documented. we created a strategic plan that had hundreds of actions that we needed to execute in order to achieve the objectives to align to the four goals of the plan. we identified key performance indicators to go for the objectives and that was approved by you when you adopted the plan and we've been providing updates and we've taking those actions and embedded those in the individual performance plans of employees throughout the agency. in our first year, we got 60 percent of the identified actions either in progress or complete or to be completed by the end of the current fiscal years. some things we won't get 100 percent done, and we focused in the first year of the baseline and you'll see that when we talk about the employee survey. just to walk-through the goals. goal one, we deliberately -- you deliberately chose safety as the number one goal. it's fundamental to what we do. i have a picture of our parking instructors in front of an at and t par

it is important to remember now as we implement the affordable care act. five weeks ago the end -- the administration launched www.c- span.org -- launched healthcare.gov. it was to be the premier website for the affordable care act. needless to say, it has been a rocky rollout. problems have plagued the let me say right off the bat that this is unacceptable. it has been disappointing to your members of the say that they did not see the problems coming. secretary sibelius, last time you came before this committee i used to year -- two words about my worryrds to relate over the law's implementation. make no mistake, i believe in this law. i spent two years of my life working on the affordable care act, there is nothing i want more to succeed. that ifgo i warned implementation did not improve, the marketplace might struggle. other senators voiced similar concerns. updates on theor market places, the responses we got were completely unsatisfactory. we were told multiple times that everything was on track. we now know that that was not the case. forward. time t

the term executive officer control implementation of the state programs. i was a surprise is going on where the programs now being implemented what needs to be done he should join your conclusions from what i said the government meeting i told you that people should know what is done. moreover there's almost no information about the housing construction savings bank information which is available is quite obscure. that is why community sector to work harder implementation of the programs and recommendations on the unproven of the work of the government ministries and agencies. the concern is the ideology cool service in the country work of the mass media in the inspector's of the executive office of the president who should know everything about what is going on in the region in each village district and city of chester. the work of the metropolitan. our dorm for most of all. thus it has to suffer for its overworked resort features. state inspectors mentioned by assaulted as a buyer for the officers of the department of the state control and organization o

for example, 10 states have already implemented or are implementing their own market- based programs to reduce carbon pollution. more than 35 states have renewable energy targets. more than 25 states have energy- efficiency targets to cut energy waste. and more than 1000 mayors across the country have signed agreements to cut carbon pollution. we want to learn more from their experience and ideas and yours, as we begin this important effort. today's listening session will focus on the best approaches to reducing carbon pollution from existing power plants and how those can help us develop guidelines under the clean air act. if you would like to comment on our proposed standards for future power plants, and i hope you will, there is information in the back of the room to get you started to submit those comments. the clean air act gives us separate frameworks for addressing new sources and addressing existing sources. before i turn things over to my colleague john to give you more details about the existing framework, let me remind you why it is so important you are here today. climate

and before, the implementation of the pilot, on july 15th, the san francisco homeless out reach team from the public health department did for the out reach for a month and a half until the rec you lacings took effect. and now the parking control officers, also lead the areas and with the fliers, and giving the information about the program, as well as the areas that they can go to for the resources for, you know, if they are, housed, and ways for them to kind of address their needs, to be dislocated or disrupted. we did issue two citations prior to july 18 and they were caught and dismissed. >> so these are the two pilot areas. the west half of the city and also the south east sector. and so the pilot, has been in the pilot areas, have been and they have been pretty effective in reducing the number of those type of vehicles is that were previously observed. and from the before study, we found that about half of them were commercial vehicles and the other, a little bit less than half were for the camper type, that could be, conceivablely be ha bitable and so after the pilot went into

no. 4, the sfmta should implement only a few of these recommendations in increments to evaluate which ones working and why. i don't think you should try to do all of this at one time, you probably should do it in implements and see that it works. i'm a veteran and this will be an unwelcome act to many disabled veterans returning home and visiting this beautiful city. i have attended many meetings with the african american seniors in bayview hunters point in omi listening it complaints about the inadequate service from mta paratransit service for those who drive any more and depend on these services and pulling the death certificates monthly and comparing those to the placard cards up for renewal will remove fraud from the system. san francisco is a city of such resources that it does not need to impose hardship on the seniors and the disabled who are struggling to survive each day. with the bicycles taking up so much parking space and the busses we need to pay homage to those who have worked to make the city what it is today. therefore i submit the petition, i have some petitions, 5 p

it was already implemented and 2.2 would not be implemented since it was unwarranted. the controllers office audited division and has coordinated the development and implementation of the citywide fiscal and compliant and using the same utilized. she is here to talk about the monitoring process in greater detail. >> good morning supervisors, i'm peg stevenson from the controllers performance group. the joint monitoring process has been in place for several years. it's largely an out growth of 2009 task force in measuring how to city improves and manages the community base non-profit organizations. in essence, it's characteristics are that i this i we now have 9 city departments who administer and grant the bulk of the money that goes to non-profit community organizations work together. there is a quarterly steering committee process. all non-profits that receive granting from more than one of those agencies together and they are over a certain threshold dollar value and into a pool, all of those contracts are listed. some organizations have more than within as you migh

. >> in your judgment, does the fcc have the authority to implement the disclose act or to otherwise regulate political speech? >> um, as i have said before, that's an issue that i look forward to learning more about. there is a pending proceeding on that exact question, and i need to look at that proceeding and to become informed. but i do not miss the expression on both sides of this as to the strong feelings, and i know this is an issue of tension. >> well, mr. wheeler, as you know, every republican on this committee along with minority leader mitch mcconnell sent a letter to your predecessor on this issue. and you and i visited in my office, you said you need to study the issue more. i would ask you to submit in writing an answer to this question. and i would note as you and i visited privately this is the one issue that, in my opinion, has the potential to derail your nomination. and i don't want to see that happen. i think the commission has a very important role. but should the commission leave that role and get into the business of regulating political speech, we've seen with

this focus lions perfectly with the implementation plan and it's the reason we embrace this. speaking of the staff last year, i lived in denial of claude i can't see retirement. i honestly started to panic i wouldn't find anyone to lie down the work and when i learned others were coming over to my department i panicked. this jazz name kept coming up. hoover middle school i was able to convince him a wireder audience was in need of his leadership. we have a u.s. sf leadership and i'm pleased to turn this over to thomas grade in >> doesn't even know how to use the microphone. thank you, kevin that was kind. thank you for this late part of the evening. before i share a couple of specific things i want to thank everyone particularly the other principles and staff one who is waiting to share their story with you. and most recently our partners in i see f has worked hard to overcome some of the aspects of our universal screening that's come to understanding and we'll be moving forward together and eyewitness i'm appreciative. the reason why i like the program is exactly why and the

implementation of modified code 3.1. it means timely information about iranian nuclear activities. parties that attend these talks are iran and iaea. on the other hand, eu-3 dialogue is dealing with possible lifting of sanctions, possible limitation of enrichment activities. the parties involved are different. russia, china, and the united states. they are negotiating with iran. an important meeting will take place on the seventh and eighth of november next month. >> as you pointed out, the two tracks are separate from each other. hasn't iran said very clearly that there can be no progress in vienna until there is progress with the p5+1, and doesn't this inject a politicizing of the iaea? >> i have not heard that since president rouhani started. sometimes there was indications, sometimes there was no indication. i can tell you that after the coming of president rouhani, we had a meeting, but we have not had this linkage. >> that would be a truly substantial change, if that is the case. >> i think so. there is some substa

this case is being prosecuted under the implementation act, a separate act of congress implementing the treaty. two different things. so when we come to the disability act what is the implementation at under the convention for disabilities? there is none. the only implementation act is the americans with disabilities act which has been on the books for 20 years. and we tested that for 20 years. has it eliminated homeschooling mr. farah's? i don't think so. has it mandated abortion across america? dr. yoshihara? no it hasn't. the americans with disabilities act is the implementing act that we adopted ahead of the treaty for disabilities. the bond case is dealing with the implementation act on the convention of weapons treaties. two separate actions by congress one of ratifying convention on chemical weapons and two passing a law on the implementation act, the loss law of the land. now the supreme court decided that law is proper. so conflating these two and saying it's all about the same thing. one of our scholarly colleagues the junior senator from texas said in a piece in the "washingt

it is being prosecuted under the implementation act, a separate act of congress implementing the treaty. two different things. when we come to the disability act, what is the implementation act under the convention for disabilities? >> there is none. the only implementation act is the americans with disabilities act, which has been on the books for 20 years. we tested that. hasn't eliminated homeschooling? i don't think so. has it mandated abortion across america? no, it has not. the americans with disabilities act is the implementation act that we have adopted ahead of the treaty on disabilities. this is dealing with the implementation act on the convention weapons treaties, two separate things. one ratifying the convention on chemical weapons and two passing a law, the implementation act, the law of the land and now the supreme court will decide if that law is proper. so conflating these two and saying it's all about the same thing, one of our scholarly colleagues said in a piece in "the washington post," "if it can be used to prosecute americans regardless of the ramifications could

hearing implementation of audit recommendation status. >> thank you so much. okay. so let's sorry. sir. we have a meeting to continue. this is a quarterly update for our city service auditor. i believe we have a representative from the department. great. okay. we are ready to begin. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm the director of city audits for the controller city's service auditor and the associate auditor. today we'll speak about my offices audit follow up activity in the last fiscal year. why and how we do follow up process and how promptly city responds to us and some outcomes of the work that we have performed. although many do not like being aud autdit audited -- follow up occurs for a select high risk report. during our regular follow up process, departments must report to us on the implementation status of recommendations at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years. and in the field follow up process we go out and we gather evidence and we a test to determine where the recommendations were implemented. however do -- due to the number of resources, we have audits that require follo

in your zeal to implement this law, not warnings, not advice, not counsel would deter you from implementing the exchanges there you said america should hold you accountable. that is why today, i repeat my request for you to resign. >> thank you, senator. >> madame secretary, thank you for joining us this morning. the problems we are facing with the marketplace website are unacceptable, they need to be fixed immediately. i would like to put things in a historical perspective. the age-old plan is facing hurdles. problems the set show soul security. medicare is facing trouble. new problems in medicare bug trend it -- drug benefit. those are headlines from the early part of this decade. major programs that have come below in terms of the social safety net in this country and health care security. while this is an excusable, it is a challenge that has been faced time and time when any program has been unveiled. i find it amazing that those that seek to ascribe blame have spent every waking hour of the last four years working to dismantle, destroy, obstruct, and impede the success of the affordab

plans -- federal implementation plans that will implement it. therefore, it is vital that the implementation -- therefore, it is vital that the emissions adopted in the rule be measurable, verifiable and enforceable in the subsequent implementation plans. thank you. >> thank you. our next two will be jane -- [inaudible] and joelle -- [inaudible] >> i'm here representing myself. thank you for hosting this session on standards for carbon emissions. your generosity is not lost on me. we like to add things up and evaluate the consequences, and by my reckoning you're going to be sitting through one or two thousand of these three-minute testimonials, so i hope you have a deep bench. and thank you for accepting mine. i'm a middle-aged mother of two with a busy job as a clinical research scientist. i work on tuberculosis and the search for a biomarker that will help us better diagnose and treat this disease which kills 1.4 million people a year, most of them outside the u.s. but still poses a grave threat to our population given the advances of drug res

are we going to implement that? they have provisions about making sure that it's protecting intellectual property laws that do not constitute an unreasonable barrier to access persons with disabilities. that seems to me to say that you shouldn't enforce and electoral property rights if it gets in the way of helping people with disabilities get access to ibm products why should they insist since the convention is saying you shouldn't do that. the last thing i want to say is we have previously not ratified human rights conventions. this is a big step beyond that. it's much more like the covenant on economic and social rights, which we have through a succession of presidents would say we are not going there. that isn't what we understand about human rights. if we ratify this convention we are saying anything and everything could be something brought to us in the name of human rights and we could connect to it and we could share with other countries what decisions we make about how to regulate our economy and how to tak