madam president, -- well, mr. president, there will be important legislation coming to the floor of the senate today or maybe tomorrow. and i would hope that we could do the right thing, do the moral thing, and do something that history will look back on in a very positive legislation. let us go forward. let us pass the dreamers bill. let us deal with border security. and then in the near future let us deal with comprehensive immigration reform. ee dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. cortez masto: thank you. mr. president, like my colleagues today that you're hearing from, i also rise to talk about the importance of protecting dreamers, not just in the state of nevada, but across this country. i want to talk specifically about a term that i constantly hear during this debate on how we need to

madam clerk. are there any communications? >> there are none to report. >> okay. please call the next item. >> let's see here. item no. 1 is an ordinance to appropriate 1.1 million consisting of a combination of fund balance in the airport forfeiture and asset seizure fund and from other budgets and to reappropriate that to the improvement budget in support of the airport commissions, police training facility, capital projects at the san francisco international airport. >> roll call? >> ronen. supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor fewer? supervisor kim? supervisor peskin? there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinance passes on the first reading. next item, please. >> item no. is to approve conveyance and acceptance of interest in real property from the state of california department of general services consistenting of'sments for sub surface tiebacks, access, and maintenance over property located at 100 armory drive for the san francisco public utilities commission water improvement program funded project

p thank you, madam president. i yield my time and note the absence of a quorum. >> madam president, let me begin ngby congratulating chloe kim, e first generation american who won a a gold medal for the unid states in the women's half pipe snowboarding event this week. her father immigrated from south korea toro the united states in 1982, became a dishwasher at a fast food restaurant, studied engineering at el camino college after working at low skilled jobs, and then became an engineer. he left his engineering job to support his daughters snowboarding ambitions so that he could drive her five and half hours to the mountain for training. congratulations to chloe and to her entire family. you make the united states proud. madam president, the whole debate that we are now undertaking over immigration, and the dreamers, has become somewhat personal to me because it has reminded me in a very strong way that i and my brother are first-generation americans. we are the sons of an immigrant who came to this country at the

gabrielle giffords thank you, madam speaker -- ms. gabbard: thank you, madam speaker. over 120,000 japanese americans were incarcerated on american soil during world war ii. on the annual day of remembrance, we're reminded of the brave men, women and children who lost everything. they lost their homes, their belongings, their businesses. really keeping only what they could carry with them. but their spirits were not broken. countless stories of bravery, courage and resilience defined an entire generation, including infantry regiment. becoming the most highly decorated unit in army history. the anniversary of this shameful blight on our history remains a powerful reminder of the from a jillity of civil rights -- fragility of civil rights and the threat that bigotry continue to pose to our way of life today. we must follow in the footsteps of those japanese americans who volunteered to serve this country, even with their loved ones incarcerated on american soil. and find the light and love of the aloha spirit to stand up and fight against intolerance, bigotry and hatred.

two-thirds, madam president. that was a harvard poll put out a few weeks ago and there are others that actually corroborate that. this bill also addresses the backlog, something that wasn't being discussed before we brought this bill. this bill ensures that primary families of immediate citizens, and some of these are recent green card recipients and new citizens, are trying to get their families in. there's a backlog. and we brought that in this bill and assured that the backlog would be taken care of and these families would be reunited, which is what most americans want. fourth, the secure and succeed act ends the archaic visa lottery program. this failed program is dangerous, filled with fraud, and has proven to be an avenue for terrorists to enter our country. we simply must fix these national security flaws and close the loopholes in our current immigration system that incentivizes illegal immigration. if we don't deal with these problems that got us here in the first place, we'll be right back here in just

madam president, or mr. president, there will be important legislation coming to the floor of the senate today or maybe tomorrow. i would hope that we could do the right thing to the moral thing to do something that history looks back on on positive legislation. let us go forward, let us pass bthe dreamers bill, let us deal with border security and then in the near future let us deal with comprehensive immigration reform. thank you and i yield the floor. >> thank you, mr. president. prosecution begins with three very simple,it very powerful words. we, the people. it's the mission statement for our nation, for our constitution, a vision in which decisions are made of, by and for the people, not for the privileged and not for the powerful. and who wrote those words? will it happen to be a group of white, wealthy, landowners and the powerful and the privileged.

madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call] cohen not present. [roll call] [roll call] tang not present. madam president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> madam clerk, are there any communication s communications? >> clerk: yes. supervisor tang requested to be excused. >> is there a motion to excuse supervisor tang? can we take that without objection? without objection, supervisor tang will be excused. madam clerk, let's go to the next item. >> clerk: approval of meeting minutes for january 23, 2018. >> supervisor breed: colleagues, can we take that without objection? those meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. all right. let's go to the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 1-11 on consent. these are considered to be routine, however, if a member objects, an item can be removed and looked at separately. >> supervisor breed: seeing none. please call the roll. [roll call] after supervisor cohen, we'll good to superv

madame clerk, are there any communications? >> yes, madame president. we're many in receipt of correspondent from the office of mayor mark ferrell. communicating the mayor's appointment to fill the van -- vacancy in district two, our newest member of the board of supervisors, supervisor catherine stephanie effective today 1259:01 p.m. welcome, supervisor. [applause] >> and colleagues, without objection, we will give supervisor stephanie an opportunity to say a few words. >> thank you, madame president. i first want to thank mayor mark ferrell for playing his confidence in me. this is really an opportunity i did not see coming and i'm so honoured to be here with all of you today and to join you as a colleague on the board of supervisors, a life-long dream of mine. i want to take time to talk about why i'm prepared to represent district two on the board of supervisors. i know how to do the jofnlt i know my community and i know the issues. i know how city hall works. and i'm going to hit the ground running. i spent nine years as a legislative aide serving

you, madam secretary. commissioners, it is that time of year again when we take the steps necessary to submit a recognized obligation payment schedule to the california department of finance. we will be seeking oversight board approval later this month but we would like to give you an overview of what we anticipate our spending to be for fiscal year 18-19, and so deputy director for finance administration will provide you with a presentation that will involve the staff you see before you today. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is prima horreder, the deputy director for finance and administration, and we are here to talk about the rops for 18-19. since we only do it once a year, it's a good opportunity to go over the origin and the general schedule and what the funding sources are. required successor have an obligation schedule, and layman's language, a list of obligations we need to make and funding source for the fiscal year 18-19. signed by the governor in the fall of 2016 made some changing, ra

madame director? >> thank you, madame secretary. for the chair, this item you've seen various verptions -- versions of this over the year. and for the release of the a.i.c. and then in the fall of last year you also selected the developer and it's a partnership between [inaudible], housing corporation and community housing partnership. and today what you have before you is the approval of the exclusive negotiations agreement as well as the predevelopment loan in connection with the block nine development within the mission bay south area. and again, this will be 141 units. many individuals were excited and looking fortoward to completing this milestone and taking this through the next various stems. for now, we're asking that you approve these two agreements. we have development partners here as well in the audience and i'll turn it over to kimberly, a development specialist, to present on this item. >> thank you, director. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm kim obsfeld, a development specialist with the ocii's housing team. as she

madam clerk, let's go back to roll call for introductions. >> we have that madam president. i'll move to supervisor fewer. >> thank you very much. today, colleagues, it's my pleasure to introduce this with the department of environment and the planning department to prioritize city wise biodiversity goals to for the c. we all depend for food, health, clean air and clean water. preservation of our natural environment, city departments developed policies that pertaining to the conservevation of natural resources. there is an inter agency working group who have met to create a citywide biodiversity vision which includes biologically rich ecosystems, equitable access, awareness and experience of nature, community and ecological stewardship. ecological planning and design. the department of environment and the planning department have worked for many months on this resolution with 13 other relevant city departments to articulate goals and develop next steps for making a bio diverse policy real in san francisco. urban areas we do not always prioritize our natural environment or th

i yield the floor. >> madam president. >> senator from north carolina. >> thank you madam president. i would think my friend and colleague, the senior senator from north carolina and his words about reverend billy graham. i will only add a few comments. minor very personal. i a justling someone yesterday that i have two very distincth memories of times with my father. one was watching walter on kate and the other was watching billy graham. i was talking to my mother earlier this week and she talked about how much my father loved billy graham. i remember vividly sitting in front of booktv on the floor with my father, watching him as he preach the word of god. this week, it's amazing because i find when you lose someone so precious, it is a very sadas time, but in his america's pastor brought so much joyev to everyone's life that it really is the celebration. earlier i got an opportunity to offer our condolences to the graham family. what was remarkable in the faces of everyone of them was a hint of sorrow but a fullness of joy. knowing what their father did on this earth and now knowi

madame clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you, madame president. [roll call] supervisor safai >> present. president breed? here. supervisor cohen? present. supervisor fewer? present. supervisor kim? present. supervisor peskin? present. supervisor ronen? present. supervisor sheehy? present. supervisor stephanie? present. supervisor tang? present. supervisor yee? present. madame president, all members are present. >> president breed: please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisiblindivisibl and justice for all. >> any communications? >> none to report. >> president breed: colleagues, today we're approving the minutes from january 29, 2018. are there amendments to those minutes? seeing none, motion to approve? moved by supervisor tang. seconded by supervisor yee. can we take that without observation? those minute meetings approved after public comment. madame clerk please call the first item. >> the first item is the sp

thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. kildee: mr. speaker, i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. kildee: thank you, mr. speaker. here we're. again. on thursday, the government runs out of funding because the majority has not yet been able to reach across the aisle and negotiate a long-term budget agreement that reflects the priorities of the american people. one party controls the house, the senate, and the white house. but there is not a functional majority in the hands of one or another party. the majority is comprised of thoughtful members who on both sides of the aisle if we chose to could sit around the negotiating table and work out the differences that we bring in a way that in a way that moves the could be -- country forward, adopts a budget that is reflective of the priorities we were sent here to address. so long as one party takes the approach t

>> of course, madam chair. so december 2015 you took this in my view, a very good decision to -- >> thank you. >> to lifting the u.s. oil -- as we look after the global energy security it's a positive contribution to global energy security. so it came in 2016 was a year when the u.s. oil industry had a difficult year because of at low prices and low oil prices, therefore that year we have seen the exports just under 600,000 per day. but 20017, last year, we saw an increase in the exports. about 1 million per day, most of the time but certain weeks it went to 2 million per day. a significant contribution. the important area here is that the -- not only the size but the quality of the oil is very important. that you are exporting. it is light and sweet the quality which is very much in demand and therefore, it can be used in many countries again, now, 600,000, 1 million barrels so when you think about where we have been historically with world conflict that comes about because of the virtual advantage that some n

now, madam speaker, mr. hill's bill has two very important pieces that help our families and also help our economy grow. first, in title 1, section 101, this bill allows title insurance companies to accurately disclose the premiums they charge for their service and also the discounts that are available to our homebuyers across the country. right now the cfpb does not allow such disclosures, which is unfair and confusing for our homebuyers. madam speaker, secondly, in title 5, section 501, this bill includes the eliminating barriers to jobs for loan originators act, of which i am proudly a co-sponsor. this bill, madam speaker, allows mortgage loan officers at a bank to move to do the same work at a nonbank financial institution, without sometimes waiting weeks or months for redundant and unnecessary relicensing. that's just not fair, madam speaker. to the folks who are trying to help our families secure mortgages so they can move into a new place to work. so, i encourage everybody on both sides of the aisle t

madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> madam clerk, can you please read item number two. >> item 2 is the approval of the lafco meeting minutes of november 30, 2017 workshop, and the november 30, 2017 regular meeting. >> thank you. do any of the commissioners have any changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes? >> yes, i do. >> under opening remarks and proposals presented by the commission, i recall it says rise chair pollock provided the following two proposals, broad band and revisiting an affordable housing study. i believe there was also a third, an expansion of clean power sf. >> supervisor fewer: okay. are there any other changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes? all right. seeing none, i will open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. seeing none, item 2 is now closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner rhenown, those minutes are approved. madam clerk, can you call it

p thank you, madam president. i yield my time and note the absence of a quorum. >> madam president, let me begin ngby congratulating chloe kim, e first generation american who won a a gold medal for the unid states in the women's half pipe snowboarding event this

thank you, madam president. >> madam president, today we begin our immigration debate and senator mcconnell has kept his promise to bring an immigration vehicle to the floor. this week will take a series of votes on daca, border security and other related subjects. i like to take a few minutes of where i'm at on these issues in writing this debate headed and i made it very clear, mr. president, madam president, that i believe we need a legislative fix for daca. we cannot continue to keep people in our country and grant them work authorization. daca recipients deserve certainty. so to do other immigrants who enter our country legally and have done their best to follow the rules. we also need better border security and interior enforcement. there years ago we granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants and the result is for the next two decades was a surge in illegal immigration. we need to prevent that from happening again and i think it's fair and equitable to give daca recipients a pathway for lawful status because they came to our country through no fault of their own but i als

waters: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today in opposition to h.r. 1153, the so-called mortgage choice act of 2017. unfortunately, this bill is yet another attempt to undermine the strong consumer protections democrats established under the dodd-frank wall street and consumer protection act, taking us back of the days of the subprime bubble. while some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have forgotten those days, i haven't. i remember how predatory lenders targeted unsuspecting homebuyers by hiding fees and obscuring loan costs, tricking them into exploding mortgages and locking them into loans that they really couldn't afford. millions of homebuyers were steered into high-cost subprime loans even when they qualified for prime mortgages. and lenders didn't even bother to verify whether or not borrowers had the ability to repay their mortgages. they weren't required to do that, and so they didn't. the end result was rampant fraud on a massive scale to millions of foreclosures and a tremendous loss of gen

madam president? >> supervisor breed: thank you. seeing no other members of the public that would like to comment. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, before we go to closed session, please read the items for reference. >> clerk: items 42 and 43 are being considered for adoption without reference to committee. an item may be removed and considered separately. >> supervisor breed: we're going to call them both separately. please call item 42. >> clerk: resolution to oppose the repeal of the clean power plan and urging the united states environmental protection agency to continue to implement the money's critical policies that requires states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate cleaner energy. >> supervisor breed: colleagues, you have a resolution before you that urges the e.p.a. to upheld the obama administration clean power plan. the clean power plan was created under the leadership of president obama in 2015 and established the first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution from stationary sources like p

, madame clerk. it is not past 2:30. we're going to do three commendations starting with supervisor kim. >> i'm very excited about this one. i want to bring up tran to the podium. come on up. [applause] >> supervisor kim: so many of you have probably already read about din, but we're so proud to have you in chamber today and i'm grateful to stuart hall, your school, for letting you come during the school day. to receive this commendation from the board of supervisors, that as many of us are excitingly watching the winter olympics, and seeing those representing the american team winning, on behalf of the country, we have our own champion here in san francisco. born and raised in the tenderloin neighborhood that i represent. din tran is a sophomore at stuart high school and lives in the tenderloin with his mother and three brothers. and recently, won our local championship down in san jose, the silver medal in the 2018 u.s. figure skating championships with a total score of 199.95 in the 4-day competit

thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: madam president, i'm pleased to announce that our bipartisan, bicameral negotiations on defense spending and other priorities have yielded a significant agreement. i want to thank my friend, the democratic leader, for joining me this afternoon and for the productive discussions that have generated this proposal. the compromise we have reached will ensure that for the first time in years, our armed forces will have more of the resources they need to keep america safe. it will help us serve the veterans who bravely served us. and it will ensure funding for important efforts such as disaster relief, infrastructure, and building on our work to fight opioid abuse and drug addiction. this bill is the product of extensive negotiations among congressional leaders and the white house. no one would suggest it is perfect, but we worked hard to find common ground and stay focused on serving the american people. first and foremost, this bi