madam president. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. mr. johnson: madam president, i'm pleased to recommend to the senate james d. peterson to be the united states district judge for the western district of wisconsin. jim has deep roots in wisconsin, having earned a bachelor's, master's and ph.d. from the university of wisconsin-madison before his first career as an associate professor of film studies at notre dame university. after a number of productive and successful years of academic life, his restlessness for intellectual challenge was energized when his wife, sue collins, interested him in the law as she was teaching legal writer at valparaiso university law school. they both returned to wisconsin where they each obtained their law degrees from the university. jim is currently the leader of the law firm godfried and khans international litigation working group and has handled a wade variety of commercial and constitutional disputes. he's worked as legal counsel in nearly two dozen patent disputes in wisconsin. in addition, he has appeared before the

madam chair - >> partner. >> i'd like to close the public hearing i keep forgetting you didn't get the elbow so i'd like to close the public hearing at this time madam secretary call the next item. >> madam chair we - am i messaging this up? madam chair the next action is consideration of the following resolution which will call for the property owner to have item 5 l >> we're not going to read out the motion anymore because it's confusing is there a motion? >> all in favor, say i. opposed? extensions hearing none, the item is adapted i said i in mire ahead do head please open the battles and announce the relatives of the property ownre. . madam chair 36 votes were cast none cast against the measure >> at least 2/3rd's of the property owners are in faithful and madam chair the next item is 5 m. thank you very much a motion on 5 m thank you very much a second. all in favor, say i. opposed? extensions the item adapted unanimously. madam secretary the next item >> is item 5 n and thank you very much do we have a motion on item 5 m thank you very much. all in favor, say i. opposed? hearing none, the item is adapted unanimously nejs next item >> the next item is item 5 o. >> thank you very mu

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madam president. madam president, i want to comment on the vote that we took earlier today on whether or not to proceed to a bill that would increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. now, madam president, it has been several years since we have increased the minimum wage, and i support an increase in the minimum wage, but i do not believe that at a time when our economy is so fragile as is indicated by the very slow increase in g.d.p. that was reported this morning that we can afford to increase the minimum wage by some 39%. i would note, madam president, that just a year ago, president obama was suggesting that we should increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour. i don't see any change in the economic conditions that would have caused him to abruptly change his position and now be advocating $10.10 an hour. i know, madam president, that there are many low-income families that are really struggling in this country, and i believe that our economy could accommodate an increase in the minimum wage, but the congressional budget office, a nonpartisan entity, has told us that the consequences of going to $10.10 an hour would be a loss of some 500,000 jobs at a time when our economy

madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: thank you, madam president. madam president, i come to the floor again to urge consideration and a vote and a positive vote on my no washington exemption from obamacare proposal. you know, madam president, i think the first rule of american democracy should be that whatever congress chooses to impose on america, it lives by itself. whatever laws washington passes, it lives by itself. and that should be the rule across the board and that should certainly include health care and obamacare. but, madam president, that is not the case, that's not the case at all because there is a washington exemption from obamacare, there are special interest washington subsidies under obamacare that the average american doesn't get in any way, shape or form. so as it relates to health care and obamacare, i think the rules should be simple. the baseline plan, the fallback position for all americans are what we live by, and under obamacare, that was first during the debate called the public option, but then it came to be known as the excha

madam president? madam president? madam president? the presiding officer: under the previous order, there are two minutes equally divided prior to a vote on the adoption of the conference report. mrs. boxer: madam president, can we have order. can we have order. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mrs. boxer: colleagues, i'm going to take 25 seconds. this is a great day for the united states senate. for every single member in this body and our states, for jobs, for business, for ecosystem restoration, for our oceans. it's a great bill. and i hope we will have a great vote on this bill, senator vitter and i agree and i would yield my remaining time to him. mr. vitter: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: i urge a yes vote also. this is a strong bipartisan bill. only four no votes in the house. a strong, positive editorial in "the wall street journal." vote for infrastructure and jobs. the presiding officer: if theree is no further debate, the question is on the conference repo

madame. very wrong, madame. very wrong. you speak like that, madame? yes, you speak like that. but how's that? never been better. it would bring a comic relief into the crudity of the situation. yes, you speak like that madame. it'll be absolutely wonderful. wonderful, and why not? when you're hear a certain sort of suggestion made to you in a lingo like that there isn't much doubt about what your answer is going to be. it almost seems like a joke. you feel inclined to laugh when you hear that there's an old senor who wants to amuse himself with you. an old senor, madame? not so very old. not quite so young, yes. and if he does not please to you, well, he has prudenza. you old devil. you old witch you, madame! no! please! calm yourself. calm yourself. what are you... and sit down here just for a minute. please, take that woman out of my sight. it is impossible for my mother to remain here. oh, they can't be here together. that's why when we first came in, that woman wasn't with us. if they're around at the same time the whole thing will inevitably be given away in advance. it doesn't matter. it

madam clerk, madam clerk, please call the roll. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. president chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. mr. president, all members are present >> ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all >> colleagues we have our april 8th can i have a motion to approve the minutes. we'll take that without objection. minutes are approved >> any communications. >> for the appeal parcel map as the street address on waller streets we've received a communication open april 30th, 2014, from the appellant withdrawing their appeal therefore with the consumption with john gibner, deputy city attorney their doomed tamped by operation of law. >> madam clerk, why not our if 2:00 p.m. special order. >> the policy discussion brown with the honorable mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors for district one. the mayor may address the board up to 5 immunes and the chair will recognize the speaker up to 5 minutes >> thank you madam clerk, mr. mayor week to question time. >> thank you and thanks for having me today supervisors that is a special week in san francisco the national small property owner week we're celebrating our open spaces highlighting their contributions to our economy and neighborhoods and this week is a good reminder to support of the open spaces and shop 0 locally we're supporting our small businesses with our initiative that provides customized assistance to meet the neighborhood and their commercial corridor we're providing grants and technical assistance and loans and tentative improvements to be job creators no our city and streamlining our permitting premises. for the san francisco small property owner week i'm ho

madam director. >> madam chair, i'd recommend that we continue this item to the call of the chair in light of the hour and the need to leave the room at 5:00 due to another commission. >> okay. thank you very much. we do not need to vote on that item. we will continue this item not only because it's late, but i also heard parameters of this transaction may have changed so we'll have more information at our next meeting as it is. we'll continue this item to our next meeting. let's see. madam secretary, next item. do we need public comment on this item? >> yeah. >> sir, i'm not trying to -- >> it's okay. that's a learning curve for anyone that wants to aspire to something better. let me state it this way. what i feel about this is that the city engineer [inaudible] and we have a woman fire chief that's admired all over this nation, others experts agreed that the width of our roads now, because of what happened with mission bay with the huge fire should be 26 feet. this is what the experts say. what i dislike is some supervisor coming over here and trying to put pressure on ya'll that is 20 feet whatever, you know, which works in boston or new york that that should be implemented in san francisco. if that is so, go back to new york, go back to boston. we don't need you in san francisco. let me further say this, when you get this conception plan and you get some road map, if i ask you or anybody ask you what type of building will be at the corner of this and this, nobody can

madam director. >> madam president i voted yes. >> we continue the item we didn't take a vote we - >> ma'am, boo he. >> thank you pardon me commissioners, thank you to the members of the public i appreciated our continuing to stick around for this item as you heard those ten items the public hearings the resolution and the ordinances those are implementing actions under the terms of the f d da and is financing related actions you've taken a number of steps related to cf g 7 and open park maintenance and those are important implementing steps related to that and time is of the essence the letter of credit expires in september and those are a series of steps along with other items the oversight board take into account the dennis pulled the approval the bond issue especially and it was pulled for review it's a 60 day review but nonetheless it's important to get through on the subject commission reviews those next 10 related items so with that, i'd like to ask the hunters point shipyard project manager to present this item we have under writing team present and available as well as the staff to answer any questions you the public may have. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm with the hunters point shipyard. today, the commission is considering 8 actions to the facilities district 7 and 8 cf ds including holding elections of the shipyard and conducting the reading to cover taxed. it will cover the shipyard and taxes >> items 5 f through g j it is related to the public hearing under which the commission will hear any hearing the reapportion and g and h are the elections after the election it will conclude the presentation to the commission on april 1st. and item j will be the final act it is the levy special taxes. items 5 k through o are the same actions but it will venezuela have an effect under that f d. those actions are in phase one of the shipyard project it will be developed under two phases 3 were excused in 2003 and 10. those cover the same geological boundary those are $35 million in bonds to pay for streets and parks for phase one of the shipyard and in 2008, that was amended to update the documents to reflect the program at the time and increase the bonding. also in 2008, a cf d was formed. on april 1st and 15 of the this year, the commission approved the reflection of the affordable housing and the affordable housing block in the project and to adjust the taxes for an overlay amount of taxes that was authorized to assist staff in the refinancing process and select an underwriter and escrow you purchase agreement and lastly the commission authorized the $40 million in a bond issuance they must be paragraphed by the oversight broadway board so they gave their approval. in addition to the r m a changes on april 1st the futuristic adjustments are noted to the parks are exempt and the second to administratively change the affordable housing parcels in phase one in the effect or event they wish to make changes in the future. the oversight board approved several changes in the month of april and today we'll they'll hold an election i've described earnestly. following today's reading it will also follow on may 20th and in july we'll follow that to call up a line of credit a to issue the bonds. this concludes the staff part of the presentation we'll go to the election >> thank you very much we're going to move on to the public hearing we'll start with any public comment if there's any on changing procedures cf d number 57 questions or comments protests from anyone. >> there are no written protests madam chair. members of the public i'm looking for the speaker cards i have to speaker cards dr. espanola jackson and corbin woods >> thank you. what we truly are looking at is i want to advocate that you're not doing a good job but i'm advocating that the community must be involved. must be involved we're the impacted community. we got nothing out of this. we got nothing. and being the impacted community i've listened to everyone that came up here and boy they soft shutd a lot of hard questions in terms of participation, decisions that be made behind the voucher system and everything it is something that their need to be more sensitivity on the mayor's office of housing, it sound as if you're staff is dictating to you instead of you dictating to your staff i think this is your staff and their dictating to you yes. you listen to them it's all right to listen to them by be wise and smart enough to ask the hard questions and get the right answers instead of it being soft shutd bach balk to yo

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. mr. coats: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. the senator is recognized. mr. coats: i thank the president. madam president, according to the recent national federation of business study, obamacare and its tax increases will result in the reduction of up to 285,000 private sector jobs. let's say they're wrong. let's say they are exaggerating. after all, cnfib, they have not been in support of obamacare, so let's say it's 250,000 or 225,000. let's say it's 200,000. anything -- any piece of legislation that causes one job to be lost i think is something that we ought to take a sector look at, but let alone 285,000 private sector jobs. and even though the administration has moved the goal post more than 20 times in terms of how this legislation is enacted, it clearly has hurt far more than it's helped. now, the majority leader famously said that all the stories that had been stated on this floor

madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, madam president. madam president, i want to tell a story of a 57-year-old man from boyars town, pennsylvania. his name is dean astadt. he's a self-employed, self-efficient logger. he's the kind of guy like a lot of americans out there who sort of grew up to believe that he could do everything for himself, that he didn't need a lot of help from people around him in order to make a living, in order to provide for his family, in order to keep himself healthy. now, he's been uninsured since 2009 and he had some particular thoughts about the affordable care act. he knew he didn't want anything to do with obamacare. now, in 2011, dean had a pacemaker and a defib later implanted to -- defibrillator implanted to help his heart pump more efficient. and not long after he got these two implants, this 6 6-foot, 285-pound guy was back out in the woods. but last summer his health worsened again and it was taking him about 10 minutes just to catch his breath after he fell a treatment. and by the fall, he was winded after

madam speaker, continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: continues to reserve. the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte. mr. goodlatte: madam speaker, at this time it's my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. holding, a member of the committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina s recognized for two minutes. mr. holding: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of h.r. 3610, the stop exploitation through trafficking act. i'd like to thank mr. goodlatte and the gentleman from minnesota, mr. paulsen, for their hard work on this legislation. as we have noted today, sex trafficking of minors is a terrible and unfortunately growing crime. according to the f.b.i., sex trafficing is the third largest criminal enterprise in the world with as many as 300,000 children at risk of being sexually exploited in the united states alone. while i strongly support all efforts to stop this crime, especially those being considered today, it is also parent for congress -- important for congress to foe couns the victims of minor sex trafficking. 3

madam speaker, i just -- mr. goodlatte: madam speaker, i just have one speaker remaining and i don't know if the gentleman is prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman prepared to close, mr. scott from virginia? mr. scott: yes, madam speaker, i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: you're recognized. mr. scott: mandatory minimums have resulted in bizarre sentences being imposed. today girlfriends of drug dealers are serving decades behind bars because their sentences were based on the weight of the drugs involved in their boyfriend's drug dealings. many other people are serving times clearly longer than required because of mandatory minimums. under this bill if a website is raided this bill do require -- could require the judge to impose 15-year sentences on each and every employee from receptionist to computer maintenance personnel, no discretion, no consideration of an individual's role in the enterprise. everybody gets 15 years. so if a sentence violates commonsense, the judge is required to impose it anyway. if we're ever going to try to address the problems created by mandatory minimums we have to stop passing bills like this one that can require sentences of at least 10 to 15 years,

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: madam president, i want to thank the senator from illinois for his comments about a problem that we're just seeing how extensive it is across the united states. i don't think there's a senator that probably isn't looking into that and wanting to make sure something is done. i looked at the resources that have been allocated and noticed we've increased the resources 60% in the last five years. i think there's a severe management problem and from some of the emails i've seen i'm very concerned about that. but i want to talk on a little different topic today. because recent headline from a capitol hill newspaper declared that our current congress could be the worst ever. another said negotiating political agreements is a lost art. the whole country knows something is wrong with our government. the problem is that senators are being prevented from doing their job. common sense is ignored because bills are being made in a political vacuum. this results in more lengthy, complex, incomprehensible

okay so we are going to move on to item 5 b and we already had a read out of that, madam director. >> thank you, madam chair. this item is related to your approval actions and you took a series of approval actions related to the 706, mexican museum project last summer and the developers continued to diligently, move forward on that project in concert with the city and the staff and however there were two outstanding pending lawsuits of which this is one of them and there is a proposed settlement agreement for your consideration and also, available for the general public on the informational table. and so with that, i would like to ask, jim morales to present this item. >> thank you. >> johnson and members of the commission. i am here to report to you on a proposed settlement with the petitioners. this is from july when you approved a purchase and a sales agreement when you, conveyed a undeveloped parcel on mission street, between third and fourth and the jessy square garage and a small air space parcel to millennium to develop as a 43 story residential tower and a 50,000 square foot mexican museum. an

madam president, if he won't act, congress must. it is the very least that we owe our veterans. madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: madam president, this congress, particularly this year, has not been noted for much of an accomplishment of anything. we've been at cloture-atrophy and political-atrophy. but we're about to change that for a dayi want to pause for a moment and acknowledge the hard work of a number of members of the house and senate on what's known as the water resources development act, which soon will be on the floor of the senate and i understand will be on the floor of the house today for its ratification. the water resources development act is "the" authority of the united states government to move forward on infrastructure across the country. i want to congratulate chairman shuster in the house and chairman boxer in the senate for their hard work on the conference committee, ranking member david vitter has been an untold hero for us working hard for the senate, as well as others who i want to give thanks to. sylvia burwell a

madam -- madam chairman, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from florida is recognized. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: without objection. ms. wasserman schultz: first, i want to thank chairman rogers and my ranking member, nita lowey, for the commitments they made to regular order, which is why we have our second appropriations bill on the house floor by may 1. it is my hope that we can stay true to this commitment throughout the remainder of this year. i also want to thank my friend, the gentleman from oklahoma, tom cole, who really i couldn't say enough good things about what an incredible partner he has been. we really have an i'll say that several times throughout my remarks worked cooperatively, collaboratively, and i think the finest compliment i can pay another member is that they are an institutionalist. someone who has incredible respect for those that came before us, and the history and led ion and all that has to us being the finest democratic institution in the entire world. we are stewards of the capitol come plecks in the legis

madam president, i yield the floor. mr. cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. cornyn: madam president, i was here on the floor, as you were, listening to the distinguished republican leader's glowing tribute to this fallen warrior and was moved certainly by that. he preceded those comments by talking about what's happening to the united states senate and the fact that even though we are here debating supposedly the first energy legislation to come to the senate floor since 2007, that the majority leader, majority leader reid, who has the power under the senate rules to basically be the traffic cop to decide who -- which amendments get heard and voted on and which ones do not, his comment was to the effect that the majority leader has essentially shut the senate down and denied the minority an opportunity to offer their amendments and to get votes on amendments. now, i know people listening to this must say well, here they go again talking about the prerogatives and the rights of senators, but that's not what i'm talking about. i'm talking about the rights and prerogatives of

madam president, thank you very much. i yield back. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. ms. cantwell: madam president, i come to the floor this afternoon to thank my colleagues who have signed on to a letter to the nfl asking that they change the name of the washington football team. i'd also like to thank leader reid for his leadership on this issue and trying to accentuate the care and concern that he has for 22 tribes in the state of nevada and the fact that their interest in seeing the dignity and respect of those tribes with the name change as well. i also come to the floor and ask my colleagues who have not signed on to that letter to sign on to a letter asking the nfl to take action as aggressively as the n.b.a. took action and to move on this issue. i'll be sending a letter to each of my colleagues asking them to either sign on to this letter or to write their own letter, as one of our colleagues did. because i'm convinced that if each member of this body speaks on this issue and is forceful in their resolve, that we can help initiate change. madam president, i know that not everybo

i thank the chair, madam president thank you. >> madam president. >> the senator from massachusetts. >> madampresident i am proud to stand here today in support of raising the minimum wage. no person in america should work full-time and not earn enough to be above the poverty level. the poverty level in the united states in 2014 is about $23,000 for a family of four. today, if someone works the minimum wage for 40 hours a week they are still in poverty and no one should work 40 hours a week and be given a salary but does not lift them and their families up and out of poverty. that is just absolutely wrong. millions of people in our country have been trying to climb into them in -- middle-class but no matter how hard they work they are stuck in the same place. and in america it's that they nearly half of those whose families are in the bottom fifth of income earners will stay there as adults. tens of millions of americans labored tirelessly for years to scale the economic ladder but they can never get off the ground. that is unacceptable. it is immoral and that needs to change. raising the min

madam director. >> thank you madam secretary. commissioners, as you know, there are a number of actions, change proceedings to community district 7 and 8, the infrastructure and maintenance districts specifically. this is for a dongs as was specified in the revised agenda and revised packets and available for for the public. we will take a series of steps and this is the first significant step before all funds are due in september so we have a few more of these proceedings left to go. with that, i'd like to ask [inaudible] who's the hunters point shipyard project manager to present these items. >> thank you. good afternoon chair johnson. today the commission is considering adopting ordinances to levy special taxes for the phase shipyard facilities districts, cfds 7 and 8. this is the second reading of these ordinances. that is how we'll proceed today. the commission will provide this waiver with moves to adopt the ordinances. the ordinances before you today had a typographical error and have been revised to reflect the fact that

madam president, i would yield the floor. mr. enzi: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: thank you, madam president. i rise to offer rebuttal to the claims my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are making about their proposal to enact an unprecedented increase in federal minimum wage. i come at this issue from a former small business owner and an employee who once worked for the minimum wage. i once started as a stock boy. another time i was a window washer. i learned some important things while i was doing that. i learned some work ethic. i learned to show up on time. i learned to do the job well. and to learn what the other skills were that went with it so that i could advance. and eventually i got the schooling and the skills and the work ethic to own my own business. my colleagues gloss over the fact that minimum wage is for entry-level employees, unskilled workers. young people and those new to the work force are those who typically earn the minimum wage because itbecause it's their fir it's their first opportunity to gain career skills. this is evidenced by the fact that a majority of mi

madam clerk, call item 6 >> introduction to new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues, any additional items. okay. take public comment on number 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay madam clerk, can you call item 7 >> item 7 general public comment. anyone wish to comment on general public comment is closed. >> item 8 adjournment. >> all right. we >> 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 encou >> hello, i'm nona along with the legacy of voters in san francisco i'm here to discuss 19th street only june 3rd the city and county of san francisco through it's port commission mfrtsz 3 and a half miles of waterfront along the bay and it currently regulates the maximum allowed heights they run from 40 to 84 feet they usually need approval by the planning commission and the board of supervisors those changes don't currently require the voters to approve it prop b has height limits in effect unless the city voters approve the height limit any ballot question to there those must specific the proposed height limits in you vote yes. you want to prevent the city from port

madam president. >> objection is heard to the senator from the state of florida. affair objection. >> madam president. >> senator from florida. >> i want to address a couple of points. the first is on the issue of politicizing. for example, i have not come forward. sometimes in this process there are times when that is important. there are people who are clearly not doing their job. our job to step forward and say that. let's give the secretary of a chance to see what happened.

madam secretary >> other commission business. >> commissioners. just one item at the attraction we'll have the commission think the environment madam secretary oh, call for public comment seeing none, madam secretary next item >> the report of the general manager. >> first item i'm doing i'd like tooz give an update on the water supply steve ricky pursue. >> the general manager if i could have the slides this is a regular update on our water supply conditions here at the puc our total reservoir storage is 3 hundred and 6 of architects the water bank we talked about is working for us in terms of having the supply the precipitation at hetch hetchy is normal we don't expect any more water this junior year. the demand response is variable for the 10 percent reductions. this table shows the current reservoir storage the two are hetch hetchy is almost 91 percent at the capacity which is a again thing the reason it is so high we have served the needs of the turlock with the water banks you see 42 percent of maximum capacity it's working the way it should with hetch hetchy as normal we're not out of the drought, however. this is the precipitation chart i've shown you see the 2014 level is approa

jessie railroad madam clerk, any address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> okay. we have one item on our agenda madam clerk call item one. >> establishing the latino district. >> and he item one is co-sponsored by mayor ed lee and supervisor campos. thank you and happy monday to everyone. i want to invent by thanking the land use committee for hearing this item and also by recognizing members of the community in the mission who have been working on this for a long time. we're going to hear from some of them and you can imagine this is a very momentous and historic momentum for us and we believe this is something that will not only mean grateful to our community but sets and precedent for that the the rest of the city how we preserve is culture character of our neighbor harvey milk said this is a san francisco of the neighborhood that's true today. this features the vibrancy that is unmatched anywhere in san francisco this resolution to establish the latino district and celebrates the richness of our culture and his and the chirping that this community has had human resources the latino culture distri

madam speaker, and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. wolf: madam chair, i make a point of order against the amendment because it provides an appropriation for an unauthorized program and therefore violates clause 2 of rule 21. that states in pertinent part, an appropriation may not be in order for an amendment for an expenditure not previously authorized by law. madam chair, the amendment proposed funds for a program that has not been re-authorized. it was last authorized in 2009. the amendment therefore violates clause 2 of rule 21 and i ask for a ruling of the chair. the chair: does any other member wish to be heard on the point of order? jeff mr. fattah: i'd like to be heard, if the gentleman will reserve his point of order for a second. r. wolf: i will. the chair: do you wish to withdraw the point of order? mr. wolf: out of courtesy, sure, absolutely. the chair: the point of order is reserved. mr. fattah: thank you. i move in to strike the last word. since -- the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. fattah: since this program has not been re-authorized by the congress, so let's go back to this, this is a program that was created to provide support to local communities to be able to hire one million additional police officers nationwide. and it was put into place, it operated well and in every sense this became the law of the

madam clerk, call item 6 >> introduction to new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues, any additional items. okay. take public comment on number 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay madam clerk, can you call item 7 >> item 7 general public comment. anyone wish to comment on general public comment is closed. >> item 8 adjournment. >> all right. we the meeting order. this is the tuesday, may 13, 2014. meeting of san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee. our clerk is ms. ivory can chang. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor kim. absent. supervisor mar. supervisor yee. we have quorum >> thank you. please call the next item. >> the serious committee report this is an informational item. >> we have bryan. good morning, committee members we shared 3 action items and passed them amazing it was our items 8, 9 and temple item 4 for a clean air program and peter in the committee asked for the transit would cause spill over into parallel streets it was anna said there's a request to the transportation authority thirty to study the issue. item number 8 was a strategic action report for local and resemble bike sharing original models and there was some discussion of entity and the staff is working with the bicycle coalition to identify and get any issues item 9 was a request for 4 hundred and 6 i6r thousands of prop a fund pardon me prop k funded for the safety related requests and there was no discussion on that item which i think is a

madam clerk, call item 6 >> introduction to new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues, any additional items. okay. take public comment on number 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay madam clerk, can you call item 7 >> item 7 general public comment. anyone wish to comment on general public comment is closed. >> item 8 adjournment. >> all right. we (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are gre

madam clerk, call item 6 >> introduction to new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues, any additional items. okay. take public comment on number 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay madam clerk, can you call item 7 >> item 7 general public comment. anyone wish to comment on general public comment is closed. >> item 8 adjournment. >> all right. we >> good evening and woman to the wednesday, may 14, 2014, meeting of san francisco board of appeals this preceding officer is board/19. >> joined that i commissioner fung and is commissioner honda and to my left is deputy city attorney ryan he'll provide the legal advice i'm cynthia and we're joined by the department that have cases before the bystander board and we have a representative of the planning board and the bureau managed 40 forty cents for the department of public works and representing the building inspection. two houses keeping items item 7 which the the appeal number a surveillance protest the parties have joinl requested this be rescheduled for july 2014 in order to allow the settlement term we need a vote to move it >> so moved. >> okay. thank you commissioner fung mr. packing check call the roll. on that motio

madam president. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. cornyn: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: madam president, shortly after i arrived in the senate in 2002, republicans, my political party, became the majority party and i quickly learned a few important lessons. first of all, being in the majority is better than income the minority. but part of the price of being in the majority is that sometimes you got to take some tough votes. via the amendment process. in other words, when the senate is operating the way it was originally intended and which it always has until recently, any senator has the right to seek recognition and offer an amendment on almost any topic on almost any bill. my colleagues told me at the time, they said it's always been that way and it's the way it always should be. if we're serious about protecting minority rights. so why should i care being a member of the majority about protecting minority rights in the senate? well, in the intervenin

madam clerk -- i mean, i guess madam chair, we want to close public comment and then hopefully move this forward. >> okay, thank you. so, public comment is closed at this time. [gavel] >> and president chiu, thank you so much for leading the effort on this opportunity for -- to ensure that many of our programs are working together, especially our workforce programs. that was one of the frustrations i had when i first started as a supervisor last year, just trying to understand the numerous job programs and opportunities and how they all work together and how i could make sure that constituents in my district had access to these opportunities. so, i was meeting with different department heads and i was sending them to the puc, sending them to dpw, talking to rhonda. rhonda was sending job announcements to me and things were kind of all over the place. and the ability to try and work together and make sure that all of these areas, opportunities that exist all over our city are coordinated so that they are easily to access from the residents of our city is just really to be commended. and i appreciate the work that rhonda simmons has consistently tried to do to work with all these various layers. i know it's not been easy with the very limited staff, but i think we're on the right path. when we think about employment opportunities in san francisco in general, we think about -- well, i know that there are job opportunities at the airport, job opportunities in hetch hetchy. job opportunities not just within san francisco, but outside of san francisco. how do we ensure that there is a more coordinated effort, that we're all working together, that folk who are attending high schools in san francisco have a pipeline to get to these employment opportunities, that folks in various places that watch people work around their communities and wondering, how can i get that job? how can i have that opportunity? i mean, this is definitely taking us a step forward in the right direction and i'm happy to work with you on this. of course, happy to add my name as a co-sponsor, but more importantly, willing to participate in any way that i can to make sure that this is successful. so, thank you for your leadership, president chiu. are there any other comments from any other members of the committee? okay. seeing no comments, do we have a motion on this particular item? >> so moved. >> okay. item is moved and without objection, without objection, this item passes. [gavel] >> thank you. madamclerk, can you please call the next item? >> item number 2 is an ordinance electing to study the feasibility of implementing a community choice ag he re gaytion program for the benefit of electric customers in san francisco through an agreement with marin clean energy. >> okay. i think we have supervisor avalos is expected to be joining us. okay. is there someone here from mea to present? ms. hale -- >> [speaker not understood]. >> okay. so, do we want to give folks a little bit of time? >> [inaudible]. >> okay, come on up. >> we're just in the adjacent office. sore by that. [speaker not understood]. yeah, so, i'm with mce, [speaker not understood] and i wanted to give you a little update on our program and then answer any questions you might have about the ordinance that's been presented and kind of next steps we might contemplate. our program has been up and running since 2010. we're currently serving about 75% of the customer base throughout all of the cities and towns of marin and

madam chair. >> thank you. senator whitehouse. >> thank you, madam chairman. welcome, chair yellen. thank you for being with us here today. many reports on the economy show continuing improvement. the stock market is high. unemployment continued to go down. there are elements of the economy that are flourishing, but i urge you to remember that there are locations in the country where the recovery really has not been experienced much. minus my own state of rhode island where unemployment is still at 8.7%. although that puts us in the unhappy position of being the leading state in the country, there are similar geographic areas in larger states that are experiencing similar difficulties. we are a long way from the boom of wall street. we are a long way down the pipeline from the natural gas boom. we are a long way from the big interventions like the auto industry rescue that were so beneficial in the midwest. and i guess two things. one, i urge you to not be beguiled by the national numbers that are forgetting the a's were it's still very difficult locally. and second, to ask you what policies you think might be helpful for those states that are still in areas, geographic areas that are still suffering economically? >> well, so i agree completely with your characterization of the national situation. there are pockets of the country that are doing extremely well in parts of the award energy, energy production is very strong, and some other areas as well. but i think your description of the situation in rhode island, many areas of the country share the problems that you describe. our objective in monetary policy is to continue to maintain and accommodative monetary policy for as long as necessary to see recovery of the labor market to a state. it's hard to know exactly how to characterize it quantitatively, but what the federal reserve act calls maximum employment, or we used to call full employment for short, and the many ways we are far from that. and that's part of the reason why, not only is there a shortage of jobs, but also i think wages are rising as slowly as they are, and our mission is both to make sure that inflation moves back up towards its objective but also to one of foster continued recovery in the labor market, help rhode island and other states like it. >> one of the ways that i find i can help at home is to support infrastructure projects, particularly since we have a national infrastructure deficit in a great number of areas. highways, water facilities, so forth. from the sort of high perch that you look down on the economy from, is there a difference between spending that goes out the door in the form of a century expense and spending that results in a tangible asset that remains in the united states of america as a highway or a water treatment plant or some other facility? >> so i guess the way i would look at it in the short run in terms of creating jobs in the economy and for trying to get the economy, getting output back up to the potential of what we can produce, it doesn't matter where the spending occurs. it doesn't matter whether it's for a capital investment or -- >> it's a valuable either way. >> but from the standpoint from long run growth, it does make a great deal of difference what this thing is on, and investment spending in capital formation helps not only create jobs in the short term but to promote growth in the long-term. >> so there's an immediate value to spending in either direction in terms of economic recovery, but the long-term view is for the spending that is on infrastructure that creates the lasting asset? >> right. and i think one of the reasons we've seen the decline in the productivity growth over the last several years, and one reason for it is that firms have been spending less and doing less capital formation. so this holds not only on the public investment side, it holds on the private investment side as well. and that is in a way one of the ways in which this shortfall, this recession we're still recovering from, has served harm, the growth of the economy over the medium our longer-term spent my time is a. thank you for being with us. >> senator johnson. >> thank you, madamchair. welcome, madam chair. it's nice to meet you. my background is in education, as an account and as a manufacture so it's in my dna to go to root cause analysis and i also like numbers. you mentioned earlier the 30, 40 or outlook and that is unsustainable from the debt to gdp ratio. have a look at just the dollar amount that deficits we are going to be, that's going to be driving that debt? >> i guess i have but i often focus on what is the ratio of debt to gdp and stable or rising. >> one of the reasons i go to dollar deficits, something people can understand better understand better. cbo seems to be resistant to put the projections so i've done it for them. they like percentage of gdp. i like dollars. their baseline projection over the next 30 years, i think it's pretty relevant timeframe, we have a demographic bubble, show $66 trillion in deficits. that's the baseline. the alternate scenario is $127 trillion of deficits. let me break that up by decade. it's a trillion the first

madam president, anyone concerned about liberty and the rule of law should be deeply concerned about a judicial nominee who embraces courts as a tool of power and the president disregarding the law. madam president, i urge my colleagues to oppose this nomination. i yield the floor. mrs. boxer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: what is the order? the presiding officer: we are in morning business until 12:15 p.m. mrs. boxer: i ask that i be able to speak for as much time as i will consume until that time. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: madam president, senator cruz makes an impassioned plea against a nominee who is considered by some to be exemplary, and it's his right to do that. but let me just say before my friend leaves the floor, as impassioned as he is, calling mr. barron a liberal, i've heard many call mr. barron a conservative. so he must be doing something right. and i think it's interesting. so let's keep politics out of this and look at someone's record. madam president, with all the argument and debate that goes on around here and in a very legitimate way, it's fair. parties have grown very far apart, whether you look at the minimum wage with the democrats wanting to raise it, the republicans, some of

madam clerk, call item 6 >> introduction to new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues, any additional items. okay. take public comment on number 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay madam clerk, can you call item 7 >> item 7 general public comment. anyone wish to comment on general public comment is closed. >> item 8 adjournment. >> all right. we good morning. and welcome to bike to work today, i'm rita i'm your executive director find san francisco bicycle coalition i'm thailand to wish you happy anniversary the 20th anniversary and what a long way we've come how many people have been biking many the city for 10 years. you you know how much our city has changed and the biking has changed our city for for the better i want to share a few examples i remember personally biking here two years ago i was left hand lane i was one of the few women out there biking hold on one second (sirens). i'm not left hand lane biking in san francisco anyway those of us biking make up 2/3rd's of the biking on market street in has a valley and the lower hate more than 10 percent of traffic on our streets 0 o is biking we see literally thousands of people ridding literally as for bike to wo

madam chairman -- mr. cantor: madam champlee, let me begin by voicing my admiration for the chairman of the subcommittee, frank wolf. the committee and individuals around the world owe chairman wolf a deep debt of fwrattude for his years of service. the positive impacts of frank wolf's efforts literally span the globe as he has been a leader in the fight for and defense of human rights and he will jouse freedom around the world. chairman wol san francisco a principled leaders than -- and i and the rest of my colleagues will miss his leadership in the house in years to come. madam chair, i also rise to address the shosh of funding for research through the national science foundation. i believe the federal government has an important role to play in basic research, including the research conducted by the national science foundation. the dollars we invest in research in the physical and biological sciences in particular have the potential to cure diseases and create new innovations that will become the building blocks for future economic growth and prosperity. but i have been troubled that the administration has been spending scarce federal resources allocated to the national science foundation, not on these hard sciences but instead on political and social science research. including, for example, the attitude of americans on the filibuster. studying what makes politics interesting. and how politicians change their websites. the national science foundation even spent $700,000 to fund a usical -- a musical. not research. on climate change my colleague, lamar smit