baldwin: madam chair, i seek a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from wisconsin will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 4 printed in part b of house report 112-111. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from wisconsin seek recognition? ms. moore: madam speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 4, printed in part b of house report number 112-111, offered by ms. moore of wisconsin. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 316, the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore, will have -- and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from wisconsin. ms. moore: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. moore: my amendment would ensure that we have the proper data to identify and work with sectors of the u.s. economy that are participat

>> madam chair, yes, we are. supervisor chu: yes, i would be supportive of supervisor mirkarimi's position. perhaps we can make a motion or take action on the $24,900 in budget closeouts and accept all the recommendations from the budget analyst except the $10,000 for the animal control section? can we do that without objection? ok, we can do that without objection. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor chu: the department of technology. >> good morning, supervisors. john walton, director of the department of technology. i am here to give you an update on our discussions with the budget analysts office. we are in agreement with them. these 16 recommendations of the total value of approximately $800,000. unfortunately we are not in agreement with the budget analyst on several other items related to travel, training, equipment maintenance, other expenses to cover unforeseen expenses throughout the year. they add up to a total of $823,041. 16 of the 22 cuts we do agree to add up to -- the

>> we do not have to take any action, madam chair. supervisor chiu: i want to quickly echo our colleagues. you do a lot of this work. we know it will be a very complicated set of analyses, and i really want to thank our controller and our economist for the work they have done already. supervisor chu: thank you. thank you, mr. controller. >> thank you for your support, supervisors. we appreciate. supervisor chu: moving on, the next department is a general city responsibility. i believe the outstanding item we had was the neighborhood transition funds of $300,000. >> madam chair, members of the committee, on the last item, we do have one alternative suggestion on page 64 of our report. the committee has already taken our recommended reduction of $24,000 on this item. $300,000 or remain, which we consider to be a policy for the mayor's transition plan. we ask that the board of supervisors consider placing the funds on the budget and finance committee reserve. it would not be a board reserve. it would be reserved we are suggesting as an i

>> thank you, madame chair. i agree. the department of technology is about to take a leadership position in moving forward some of the strategic initiatives around consolidation, working together, finding ways citywide for folks to come up with solutions that do not replicate procurements as solutions. it is hard to say at this level of production where we would be. what i can say, when we agreed to doing eight of the 10 strategic initiatives, we did not anticipate these additional cuts. there will be some impact if you decided to take these additional recommendations from the budget analyst. we would have to reassess how many exactly we could continue to support. we have been cut back the last three or four years fairly significantly. we are a bare bones operation. at this point, at this level of cuts, though perhaps necessary, would be significant to us and we would have to frankly ss our leadership -- frankly reassessed our leadership position on some of these things. not to belabor the point, but every i.t. investmen

>> madam chair, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. bishop: most people are clearly not aware that national security on our border is accomplished on public land that have the ability to deny agents access to those lands. most people are not aware that we are putting money in for homeland security only to see it's transferred over to another agency without congress seeing or understanding what that transfer is or where. we have had transferred of at least $9 million, though the numbers are not clear. if you add up what homeland security spends, we may up to $15 million spent on this program this money can be used for land acquisition. if we really want land south carolinaation -- acquisition, we put this money in the interior where it belongs, so we know why it is there an can track for what it is used. this becomes a secret slush fund from homeland security to interior and congress has no idea or clue how this money is being used. let me give you a specific example. border pa

farr: to rise in opposition, madam chair. the chair: the gentleman moves to strike the last word and is recognized for five minutes. mr. farr: thank you, madam chair. if you like dirty air you'll like this amendment. if you like dirty fuels you'll love this amendment. what this provision does, it strikes the requirement in law that says to the government, which is a big purchaser of fuel, look, don't buy dirty fuel. you buy something that is clean. i mean, that's what we're trying to do is stimulate clean air, fuel efficiency, alternative fuels. this strikes this down. this is going back to the old smokestack, fill the air full of dirty air. this is -- this goes back to all the traditional people that doesn't like the fact there's competition out there and that the federal government has to purchase that competition. . i don't understand why in a competitive world where fuel and efficiency and engine development, where we are going to have to lead that or have our clock cleaned, this is exactly what creates markets for that. y

>> madam chair, one item that mr. wagoner did not mention was the $4610 closeout of the incumbrances. i believe he agrees with that but he didn't mention it. >> the $4,000, that would be fine. >> so we've got agreement both on the recommended cuts as well as closing out those projects. we'll take both of those sets of recommendations without objection. and then with regard to the transition plan, that's snag we can pick up the following week. and if i can ask you perhaps to follow utch with supervisor kim on that -- >> i would be happy to and with anybody else to talk that through. >> supervisor wiener? >> i would love to follow-up on supervisor kim's comments and i agree with what you said and when i read that in preparing for today, i thought that was my assumption and i think that -- it's very important for a new mayor to be able to hit the ground running and not have to take significant period of time if they want to try something different or -- or focus in a different way. so i don't know that it should have to

>> madam chair, one item that mr. wagoner did not mention was the $4610 closeout of the incumbrances. i believe he agrees with that but he didn't mention it. >> the $4,000, that would be fine. >> so we've got agreement both on the recommended cuts as well as closing out those projects. we'll take both of those sets of recommendations without objection. and then with regard to the transition plan, that's snag we can pick up the following week. and if i can ask you perhaps to follow utch with supervisor kim on that -- >> i would be happy to and with anybody else to talk that through. >> supervisor wiener?

whitfield: madam chair, how much time do i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has five minutes remaining and the gentleman from california has 4 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. whitfield: at this time i would like to -- would the gentleman like to go? i would like -- i would let the gentleman go at this time. mr. waxman: i didn't hear the times that you said. the chair: the gentleman from california has 4 1/2 minutes and the gentleman from kentucky has five minutes. mr. waxman: ok. does the gentleman from kentucky wish for us to complete our time and then are you prepared to -- mr. whitfield: i have one additional speaker and then i'd like to close on my side. mr. waxman: i'm going to close on my side so why don't you yield. mr. whitfield: at this time i'd like to yield to mr. scalise, a member of the energy and commerce committee. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for two minutes. mr. scalise: thank you. i thank the gentleman from kentucky for yielding. i rise in strong support of the jobs and energy permitting act of 201

richardson: madam chair. the speaker pro tempore: curp -- the chair: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. richardson: i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from california will be postponed. are there further amendments to the pending program? if not, the clerk will read. the clerk: page 21, line 21, state mediation grants, $3,550,000. dairy indemnity program, for necessary expenses in making payments such sums as necessary, agricultural credit insurance fund program account including transfers of funds, $1,5 00,000,000,000. the congressional budget -- $1,500,000,000. in addition for administrative expenses to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $2 68,634,000. funds appropriated to the agricultural credit insurance program account may be transferred, risk management agencies, $68,016,000. corporations, the following corporations are authorized to make expenditures within the limits of funds and borrowing a

the district attorney is here. >> good afternoon, madam chair and board members. i want to start while we are loading up the power point, i would like to thank everyone who helped me work on this budget. i want to take you very quickly through the review of what our workload is and the historical perspective for funding our department as well as other agencies not only in the county but in comparison with other counties. then i will get into the workload analysis. this was put together as an analysis of funding for various public safety agencies in the city and county of san francisco with a comparison of two other counties in a larger part of the state. the district attorney's office, if you look at this assessment from 1996 through 2008, it has the lowest proportion of inquiries. when you move to the next slide, this is adjusted for inflation. if you look at this particular table here, i'm looking at san francisco. you will notice our agency, adjusted for inflation has less resources today in terms of dollars and sense than it did in 1986. most of us would agree

. >> thank you, madam chair, committee members. chief proa big officer. it's my pleasured to a vance before this body my seventh budget on behalf of all of our dedicated staff, particularly allison mcgee and katherine mcgwire who are here that had a lot to do with directing and preparing a very thoughtful and responsive budget. but most importantly, i am here on behalf of the youth and families who rely upon the work otojuvenile probation -- of the juvenile probation department. i have a presentation and i have provided folks with copies of the power point but i'm going to proceed with this. the work of the juvenile probation department essentially is designed to hold youth accountable while facilitating opportunity for them to develop pro-social competencies that ensure long-term safety and identify and utilize the lease restrictive placements and quite honestly, the least expensive placements and interventions that do not comprise public safety and produce positive outcomes. the contribute to the overall quality of life for san francisco residents in th

>> madam chair, for the record, it is $52,981 all general fund recommendations. >> we have that amount for the cuts being proposed that the health service system, mostly in staffing adjustments, some copy machines and specialized services cuts. the department is in agreement with that? >> efp president chiu: can we take that without objection? ok -- supervisor chu: can we take that without objection? ok, thank you very much. the next department is the public library. >> good afternoon. i am the city librarian. we are in agreement with the analyst recommendations and very much appreciate the support and the help we received from javier and kate. we're pleased with the proposed budget. supervisor chu: thank you. >> madam chair, members of the committee, the total recommended cuts are $264,486. they're not general fund reductions. supervisor chu: thank you. and to the comptroller, because these are actually savings from the library baseline, these would remain within the library's budget department. correct? ok, thank you. given that we are in agreement, can we take these cuts without obj

>> no, madam chair. supervisor kim: if there is nothing further, this meeting is now adjourned. >> if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encoura supervisor chu: good morning peter i am joined by supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor cohen, supervisor renner, and supervisor chiu. the clerk is victor young. we have members from sfgtv here. do you have any announcements? >> yes, please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, turned in a speaker card to myself. if you present documents to the committee, please provide a document to the clerk. items from today will appear in the board of supervisors agenda on june 21, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. call item one. >> and to consider release of reserved funds for the supervisors in the amount of $34,515 for the temporary relocation of the board of supervisors meetings. >> madam chair and m

farr: madam chair, how much time does each side have? the chair: the gentleman from california has six minutes remaining, and the gentleman from georgia has 12 minutes. the gentleman from california. mr. farr: the gentleman from georgia has how much? the chair: 12 minutes. the gentleman from georgia. mr. farr: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from georgia. mr. kingston: madam chair, i want to go back over this food situation and the gentleman from california, the ranking member and i have had 11 hearings on this -- excuse me. we've had 11 hearings on the agriculture bill. not on feeding programs, specifically. but i wanted to again remind the chair that this bill represents a net increase in funding largely driven by the increase of $5.6 billion in food stamps and in the school lunch program of $1.5 billion. but i also wanted to remind members of the many federal feeding programs that we have. for a 3-year-old child, there are 12 different feeding programs. for a 10-year-old child, there are nine different progr

supervisor wiener: thank you, madam chair. i am submitting an amendment, and i have distributed it. i will hand it to the clerk. this has been a really productive process and conversation, and people will recall that two weeks ago i agreed to remove a voter- initiated the initiatives. in other words, signature-drive initiatives, recognizing that that is, in many ways, the most pure form of democracy. voters to get in their own hands in place something on the ballot. it has already been removed from the charter amendment. we have had a lot of conversations about people being concerned about particular ballot measures, and there has been, of course, a suspicion about -- what are you trying to go after, even though i have consistently said that i do not have any agenda and in terms of which ballot measure to try to amend or repeal. but i am wanting to be sensitive to those concerns and also put my money where my mouth is and when i said that it do not have any particular ballot measure that i am somehow targeting. so this amendment makes the charter amendment purely perspective. it wil

. >> that was the agreement, madam chair. that is unique in america. and the state legislature voted by a 236-4 vote to say no, we do not think it is in the best interests of the people of the state of vermont. they want vermont yankee shut down. vermont wants to mover in a new way in terms of energy. we are number one in the country in terms of energy efficiency. we are moving in a positive way in terms of sustainable energy. that is the direction the state of vermont wants to go. the question is what is the role of the n.r.c. in that discussion? is it appropriate for the n.r.c. to get involved with one of the largest utility companies in the united states of america, entergy, a $14 billion a year coming, pays his c.e.o. $18 million a year. entergy wants to stay open. they want to make more money. i understand that. the people of vermont want to shut it down. i agree with that. why should you be involved in that in what disturbs me very much, and i want to purse this later, is my understanding is that yesterday by a 3-2 vote, this commission decided t

madame chair, this concludes my statement and now dr. jesse will discuss the administration views on the pulse related bills on the agenda. >> thank you very much. dr. jesse? >> thank you, madame chairman and ranking members. [inaudible] i appreciate the opportunity to be here before you today and provide comments on the veterans of administrative related bills on today's agenda. i am accompanied by mr. walter hall, who is the general counsel, and i apologize for the tardiness of our oral statements and appreciate your indulgence. the va supports s. as 90 for the coverage of children under the program until the age of 26. this would bring the the va health care benefits for children at the line of coverage available by the private-sector under the affordable care act which was enacted last year. this is an important program and would potentially benefit almost 60,000 children of veterans. we appreciate the intent of s. 666, the traumatic brain injury act which would require the secretary submit a report on the advisability of establishing

i look forward to working with you, madam chair. >> i think gentleman and the chair recognizes mr. stearns for two minutes. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. obviously as pointed out by yourself in the ranking member, mr. waxman, it's important we try to get a bipartisan support for this. when i was chairman of the subcommittee, introduced the data act in 2005, six years ago, established to protect unauthorized access to consumer data. this bill is cosponsored by both sides. when market outcome is reported on the full committee by unanimous consent. obviously i would've preferred he started with my bill, which has i think a bipartisan support product of a broad understanding of security issues and back in 2005. now are working with possibly a third of the different focus though, which could be good, that addresses the recent breaches have occurred and sounding apps on. we have to be concerned, not that we overreact based upon those two cases in both 2006 in 2009 commend bipartisan support for the data act. now weta act, a bill and concerned has very good points, but also may go too fa

. >> thank you, madame chair, supervisors. we did work with the legislative analyst's office, and they did complete the review. also, you requested a breakdown of how we expect public financing expenditures in 2012 to pan out. i did forward the document to all of you with that breakdown. the only other thing i would highlights while i am here today, last week, i told you the total funds distributed under the public financing program was $1,674,000, and in the seven days since i gave you that figure, an additional $826,869 has been distributed in the last week, bringing us up, that much closer to our estimate. i do not know we will hit the $3.1 million by this thursday, but we're going to come very close. at this point, we are just over $2.5 million in expenditures for this fiscal year on the mural public finance program. supervisor chu: with regards to the campaign fund, we have a balance sitting there that will be carrying forwardthe mayor's s an additional amount in the budget as well. to the extent that, come november, afte

madam chair, i yield babbling. the chair: the gentleman yealeds back. >> -- yields back. >> i move to strike the last word. . ms. jackson lee: i rise in opposition to this amendment and i heard a very instructive quote , even as important as this legislation is, in actuality it appears that my friends on the other side of the aisle simply want to zero out this whole appropriations for the important agricultural work that is done in this nation. just zeroed out. the amendment seeks to zero out a very important program which includes zeroing out food for peace. and it apparently ignores the basic purpose and the crisis that we're facing dealing with food, insecurity -- food insecurity in the world. the united nations world food program acknowledges severe acute malnutrition affects an estimated 20 million children under the age of 5 worldwide and is responsible in whole or in part for more than half of all the deaths of children. malnutrition kills approximately one million children each year or an average of one ever

>> thanks, madame chair. general petraeus, in listening to the president last night, i was somewhat disappointed with the scale of the drawdown particularly in the short term. and the reason that i was disappointed is because i have visited with you on any number of occasions where you've been very attentive to making sure that we understood what your goals were in afghanistan particularly with of the now halfway complete surge from a timing standpoint, and you often talk about needing to make gains of homeland and kandahar provinces as you just talked about, and ultimately making gains in the eastern part of afghanistan. as i look back at your testimony in june of 2010, just after the president made his west point speech, you talked about him and giving to messages in that speech, one of commitment and one of urgency. and i want to quote you. he said the urgency was the july, 2011 peace. noting that what happens in july, 2011 is a beginning of a process for transition that its condition based in the beginnin

would you like me to do that, madam chair? as you know, supervisors, the annual budget process for the city and county requires that the board of supervisors approved an interim appropriation ordinance and annual salary ordinance. that is for fiscal year 2011- 2012, on or before june 30, 2011. as the chair indicated, the purpose of these interim ordinances is to provide expenditure authorization for various departments during the time that the budget and finance committee is reviewing the mayor's recommended budget for 2011-2012. on page 7 of our report, regarding the revisions that have been proposed, the administrative provisions of the interim manual -- and from the annual appropriation ordinance and salary ordinance, those revisions are described on pages two through six. there are two items that we consider to be policy items. one is section 8.3 of the administrative revisions, the appropriation ordinance, and that would delete an existing requirement that the comptroller report to the board of supervisors on the revenue

thank you, madam chair. i want to come back to something that the representative from wyoming has said. i was not a member of the congress in 1982 when i think the congress voted, basically saying they would have a repository. i was with congress later on when a vote was taken. this is for the depository or repository. for the most part, the elected officials, and the congressional delegation, they have opposed this. this was done by a number of years, democrats and republicans looking at the establishment of a repository. i know we can do better. if we had to do this all over again, if we had to do this all over again, we should be smart enough to do what they did in france, and what they did in france was considered about beating repositories and to provide really terrific economic opportunity is for the communities. if we can have side standing in line to be prisons, if we can do that, to be a host for inmates from all over the country, we should be able to provide a system so that states would say they p

chair: the gentlelady from wyoming. mrs. lummis: maim chairman, i yield to -- madam chairman, i yield to the gentleman from oklahoma, the gentleman from the ag committee. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lucas: the wildlife services use biologically sound and -- the chair: the time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma rise? mr. lucas: to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. the chair will alternate sides. the chair would prefer to let the gentleman from oklahoma finish his statement since he was in his statement. the gentleman from oklahoma five minutes. mr. lucas: thank you. the wildlife services used biologically sound to resolve these issues when agriculture or public safety is at risk from wildlife. if you own a pet you benefit from the wildlife services. they reduce rabies in wildlife populations which prevents the spread of that terrible disease to domestic animals and humans. every time you get in a car you benefit from the wildlife services. they work to reduce automobile collisions with deer which

. >> madam chair, and members of the committee, we have recommended reductions of $74,744, but we will adjust that for the reasons just stated by the department. we would just advise this morning -- and this recommendation, supervisors, on page 7 is the last times on page 7 where we say "disapproval of the interim exceptions for these four positions that do not perform revenue-generating and critical department functions." we were just advised this morning that those positions are actually existing positions in other departments that will be transferred to this department. on that representation, we withdraw that recommendation, and we will adjust our total recommendations for the salary for that one month as well as the mandatory fringe benefits. supervisor chu: thank you. if i understand correctly, there was a series of recommendations with regard to reclassification, and the department is in agreement with those recommendations. >> correct. there were down with substitutions for the three positions and one remains the same period supervisor chu: with regards to the -- the same. supe

. >> madam chair, members of the committee, on the bottom of page five, as shown in attachment 2, on page 16, the estimated total debt service requirement -- between july 1, 2011 and june 30 -- a period of 24 years -- that is an annual average debt service of $8.2 million a year. that includes $240 million in the principal $189.2 million in interest. we also point out on page 6, on a five under thousand dollars home, this bond would result in an increase of property taxes of about $37.33 annually after deductions, however, as the department pointed out, the timing of the issuance of the bonds would occur such that increases in property taxes from the proposed bond would be offset by reductions in property taxes as the city's existing general fund is redeemed. so there should be a neutral effect in terms of increased property taxes. on page 9 of our report, we point out, the mta has its own debt authority to finance the cost of the transit street signal infrastructure improvements, irrespective of the mta's current financial standing. we also point out on the bottom of page 9 we consi

. >> madam chairs, members of the budget and finance committee. angela calvillo the clerk of the board. as you recall in january, the committee directed me to repair a budget that provide for the five core functions in the budget, to maintain records both curn and historical to provide access to the record to the public, provide for the administration and operations necessary. to support the board and its official duty including legislative and analyst services. in addition the board has described other responsibilities to our department which require budgetary and administrative resources such as the assessment appeals board, the youth commission, the sunshine ordinance task force, and the clerking of the revenue bond oversight committee. please neat while the proposed budget necessary states necessary funds resources for these core service area, we have recognized the city's financial constraints and included cost savings where savings would not negatively impact the public these services. now to the details. thank you sfgtv. i've included a six

. >> good afternoon, madam chair, supervisors, i appreciate the opportunity to be here. i just gave you a handout. it's kind of an update on the status of the election campaign fund. to this point this year we've been going on the asurpgs that there would be eight qualified candidates. in all likelihood that number is going to be nine. so we have some updated figures for you on that particular issue. i don't have a formal presentation. the budget analyst has no recommendations for the commission this year, a position with which we concur. and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> can you speak a little bit about what we're anticipating for next year and just walk us through you're expenses. one thing that i'm particular in knowing about is what's the current balance in your election campaign fund, what your drawdowns have been where you're expecting to be next year. >> we expect spending with nine candidates a total of $8.1 million. but that's based on a few assumptions. the first is that each of the nine candidates will raise the maximum amount neces

>> good afternoon, madam chair and the committee. first of all, my name is carl alexander. i served as the pastor of technology for the true love church. i am honored to address the fact that san francisco is a world- class city. that makes the board of supervisors a world-class body of supervisors. i would like to personally thank the chair for this opportunity to speak briefly about this historical moment. i would like one of my colleagues to share the information. a lot of times, documentation beats conversation. what we are going to have it is a brief that is handed out to you that kind of explains who we are and what we are charged to do, and many of the questions that were asked could be answered in this document. while you were getting a copy of that brief, first of all, who we are is part of a collective body of constituents which was recently mentioned in a brief from the university. hunters point shipyard citizen'' advisory committee. mr. jacob moody. that makes up the collective body of our implementation committee. only the core group is legally bound by the com

. >> thank you, madam chair. i will just briefly note if anyone has any comments why the hydrogen exploded. obviously the venting process is to avoid the plant damage. obviously that didn't happen in japan with the three hydrogen explosions. i also wanted to note that i think it is very important that a lot of research be done on different models of nuclear reactors and particularly on mod ular systems. that would have made it irrelevant whether power had been knocked out to a plant or irrelevant whether it was flooded with a tidal wave. i doubts about nuclear power being competitive when you take into account costs and potential terror threats, natural disasters and human error. i also think it is very important to look at all options as we wrestle with ways to generate non-carbon power. any comments in that vein would be helpful. thank you. >> thank you very much 3678 senator lautenberg, we haven't heard from you. >> thanks very much, madam chairman. i'm pleased that nuclear rate -- commission is here to presen