madam clerk, next item? >> clerk: item 12 ordinance to amend police code to allow law enforcement officials to provide a verbal warning before a written warning to ensure access to reproductive health care facilities. >> president m. cohen: all right, colleagues. same house, same call? supervisor ronan? -ronen. >> supervisor h. ronen: thank you. like elsewhere in the police code it allows the police to enforce the buffer zone law without first providing a written warning. it make it's consistent with the rest of the code but emboldened by this president and increasingly pro-life supreme court, the protests outside of planned parenthood have become bigger and more aggressive. i have been working on this legislation for a long time. my predecessor first created a 25 foot buffer zone which was overturned by supreme court in massachusetts. we then amended the ordinance to prevent people from harassing and following women within a buffer zone in front of a reproductive health clinic and that law remains on the bo

madam clerk, are we ready? okay. want to welcome you back to the september 4, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. thank you for being here with us today. madam clerk, could you please call the roll for attendance. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call] >> clerk: madam president, you have a quorum. >> president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me by rising and placing your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: there are none to report, madam president. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. today, colleagues is a special day, because we are going to be approving minuting from the july 10, july 17, july 24 minutes from the full board meeting, is there a motion to approved those minutes? motion made by supervisor kim, seconded by supervisor yee. colleagues, can we take that without objection? all right. without objection, those minutes

madam clerk? >> clerk: next is supervisor brown. >> i'm going to propose three resolutions today to -- [inaudible] >> -- the code for america gift will pilot a new approach to audio mated criminal record expungement for eligible convictions under prop 64. the pilot -- [inaudible] >> -- were the least able to afford an attorney in order to access the relief contemplated by the voters. the urban institute gift will fund creation of a justice dashboard to help manage and analyze and share data with key decision makers, the public and san francisco sentencing commission to support a reduction in incarceration rates. the governor jaez grant will add over 5 -- governor's grant will add over 500,000 to the fund. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor cohen? >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, do i need to come down -- >> clerk: no. >> president cohen: thank you. so colleagues, today, for roll call introduction, i want to share some exciting news. i'm thrilled to introduce a concep

madam clerk? >> clerk: madam president, you may now ask a follow-up question directly related to the opening question. >> president cohen: thank you. so my initial question, at least it struck me when i was listening to your response is, is there anything we as a board can be doing to assist with the steam lining of the permitting process? >> the hon. london breed: i think what we need to do here is -- and this is what i'm working with my departments to do -- is provide legislation options for you to pass at the board of supervisors that remove barriers because some of these policies that we pass here in this chamber, some of them are redundant, some of them are complicated, some of them are contradictory to one another. so we want to provide you and your assistants, push forward legislative changes so that we can move housing production forward faster. >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk? >> clerk: president cohen, you may respond to the mayor's first question. >> president cohen: i have n

rush: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise in the tion to h.r. 4606, ensuring small scale l.n.g. ertainty and access act. madam speaker, this bill is unnecessary, as the department of energy has already finalized a rule that will make any -- that will approve any application to import or export million cubic feet of natural gasper day if no environmental reviews are required. . acontiguousally, madam speaker -- additionally, madam speaker, i offered an amendment to this bill that would have protected the property rights of landowners but that amendment was refused by the rules committee. madam speaker, my amendment uld simply have ensured that eminent domain would not be exploited for the construction of any pipeline used to import gas through this expedited process. madam speaker, members from both sides of the aisle have en bombarded with complaints from their constituents who have been forced to defend heir own property rights due employed ve tactics by companies seeking to appropriate their land in or

madam clerk. i believe it's 2:33?clerk: that's correct, madam president. >> president cohen: let's go to our special order. are you ready? all right. colleagues, today's board meeting, we're celebrating latinx heritage month. [cheers and applause] this is an absolutely exciting and historic moment. this is the first time we have ever in this chamber celebrated latinx month and i am hopeful that it will be just the beginning of many future celebrations. and with that, i'd like to bring forward supervisor stefani -- supervisor ronen. sorry, hillary. supervisor hillary ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. [applause] thank you, president cohen. it is such an honor to welcome you all to the first annual latinx heritage month here at the board of supervisors. and as the supervisor of the mission district, which i could not be more proud of, representing the historic and cultural center of the latino community here in san francisco, i felt like it was incumbent upon my office to organize the event today, but since i am not

thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, recently i met with a constituent who works with the grassroots organization, nothing but nets. which raises awareness in the fight against malaria. as you may know, malaria is transmitted to people through mosquitoes carrying the disease. in 2016, there were 216 million new cases of malaria worldwide, and 445,000 deaths. 70%, which were children under 5. malaria takes the life of a child every two minutes. most malaria cases and deaths occur in the sub-saharan africa and southeast asia, latin america, and middle east are also at risk. malaria is a treatable, preventable disease, but half the world's population lives in danger of contracting the parasite from a simple moss createo bite. bite.- mosquito we have helped to create and expand lifesaving interventions like long lasting insecticide, treated bed nets, bite. indoor residual spray, and rapid diagnostic tests. our continued leadership is critical in finally eliminating malaria around the world. i look forward to t

madam speaker, -- madam president, the evidence reveals the following. it shows the arrival of two individuals traveling under the name of alexander petrov and another to the u.k. from russia. cctv and other evidence records their travel to and from salisbury and crucially there are images which clearly place them in the vicinity of the skripal house at 11:58 a.m. on sunday, the 4th of march. this was moments before the attack took place, which involved placing the substance on the skripals' frontdoor handle. madam president, should any council wish, we can share copies those images. further, testing of the hotel revealed the presence of traces of the novichok substance in their hotel room. based on the thorough analysis of our intelligence, the u.k. government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police investigation are in fact officers from the russian military intelligence service, also known as the g.r.u. this is a body of the russian state. madam president, we previously, when we briefed the council before, atrnted -- attributed resp

madam clerk. next item. >> item 38 is an ordinance to amend the planning codes to allow limited non conforming specified zoning districts to operate between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. with conditional use and authorization to the determination and to make the appropriate findings. >> madam clerk, on the question of should it be passed call roll. >> item 38, mandelman. >> aye. >> peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor ronan. >> aye. >> safai. >> aye. >> steph. >> tang. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> brown. >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor fewer. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >> aye. there are 11 ayes. >> this ordinance passes unanimously. item 39 and 40, please, madam clerk. >> clerk: item 39 is a resolution to determine the prem advertise to premise transfer of a type 48 on sale general public liquor license for business development inc doing business as executive order located at 868 mission street will serve the public convenience and to request that the california department of alcoholic bev

>> eduardo: with madame lynch. >> anthony: madame lynch was fond of, uh, things like french, uh, couture anthony: madame lynch might've been good for business. i'm trying to put this at a light i could be enthusiastic about. like, how clearly forward thinking my relatives were. his customers, as a hat maker, the very people who treated madame lynch with such utter contempt. did they live in the colonial homes, the old mansions that we see still in asuncion, that type of residence? >> eduardo: yes. >> anthony: times were changing in south america, too, in those days and society ladies craved the latest in haute courant french fashion. there was money to be made, there w- eh, bump. >> peter: short after this episode with the new bordeaux group came the triple alliance war. >> anthony: jean bourdain died in 1858. >> eduardo: yes, before. >> peter: it was a good time to die because this way you hadn't to join this horrible war. >> anthony: he'd miss the war? >> peter: yeah. the old lopez died, the young lopez got in power. >> anthony: our man becomes, uh, president. >> guido: yes, francisco

thank you, madam president. mr. flake: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. flake: madam president, i rise today to say a few words about the two human beings who will be providing extraordinarily important testimony before the senate judiciary committee tomorrow. dr. christine blasey ford and judge brett kavanaugh who will testify in that order. two human beings. it feels a bit odd in this political setting to specify their humanity. but we need to. and i admit it feels strange to have to do that, but we in this political culture and in this city and in this building, even in this chamber we seem to sometimes forget that before this woman and this man are anything else, they are human beings. we sometimes seem intent on stripping people of their humanity so that we might more easily den grade or defame them -- den grade or defame them or put them through the grinder that our politics requires. we've seen -- we seem sometimes even to enjoy it. for the past two weeks we've certainly seen that happen to both

mada madame director. >> commissioner: thank you, madame secretary. benjamin brandon will be presenting on this item. this is block three. this is part of the temporary terminal and this is just a preview. it's the second part will be building as o.c.i. the developer and this is an m.o.u. we're proposing to select public works to provide engineering and project management services. with that i'll send it over. >> good afternoon, vice chair bustos and executive directors. i'm here today to seek the approval of a memorandum of understanding with san francisco public works in the amount of 3,895, 613 and representing is my colleague project manager kathleen o'daye. i'd like to begin with some context regarding the trans bay redevelopment area. as you're aware the plan divided it into two zones. o.c.i.i. oversees development of zone one and the san francisco planning code governs in zone two. block three, the block in question for trans bay park is highlighted in the center right middle of the screen in math -- magenta and sandwiched in between block four

i was asked a number of questions madam president so with your permission i will respond briefly i was asked about the investigation i would just like to recall for colleagues that in the united kingdom the police are independent of government the investigation has been independent the one into the merger of two in sturgis which is ongoing is independent we believe it is methodical and comprehensive i was asked about inconsistences madam president in the evidence identifying the two russian individuals as russian g.r.u. operatives we have c.c.t.v. footage magine president we are happy to share those images with colleagues to take one instance the russian ambassador mentioned that there was a time stamp in the same college or for both individuals i don't know if the ambassador has been to get we cap or we have been to get we camp or there are multiple identical corridors through which people can go this is what happened to the two russians we are confident madam president in our evidence and i am very happy to. talk to any colleague or indeed any un member of the general assembly who ha

madam clerk. >> clerk: item 24, madam president, item 24, supervisor mandelman. [roll call vote taken] >> 11 aye. >> president cohen: without objection this ordinance passes unanimously. thank you, madam clerk. next item, please. item 25. >> clerk: item 25, ordinance to amend the planning code to prohibit cannabis retail and medical cannabis dispensaries in the chinatown mixed use districts to affirm the determination and make the appropriate findings. >> president cohen: colleagues, i would like to make a few remarks on item 25 and i will just let you know that to begin my remarks with the quote, it's a bit long, i would like you to please bear with me. this is the beginning of a quote, we will all defer to one another in each other's district overland use matters. and while this generally is true, we have to be very careful when we go down that road because sometimes society is wrong and elected officials have to be brave and stand up to what is right. proposed same-sex marriage may we some day as it relates to gun control in the united states of america where

brady: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and their remarks include extraneous material on h.r. 4318, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. brady: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. brady: i rise in support of the miscellaneous tariff bill act of 2018 which the house passed in january by a unanimous vote of 402-0, and passed the other body, the senate, by unanimous consent in july. through the m.t.b. bill, we would temporarily suspend or reduce tariffs for certain products that aren't made in the united states. requiring u.s. manufacturers to pay tariffs for products that are simply not made here runs up their manufacturing costs and puts them at a competitive disadvantage compared to manufacturers in other countries. this bill, it's bipartisan, and it will deliver much-needed temporary tariff relief to american manufactu

all this is good news, madam president. i only scratched the service on a lot of the provisions that are in this bill. it is a comprehensive bill, it is bipartisan. it represents the work of several our committees, including the senate finance committee, which i proudly serve on. i urge my colleagues to support this legislation and let's increase the federal government's role in partnership to deal with this crisis in all parts of america. with that, madam president, i would yield the floor. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: madam president, over the last -- over the past few days, new allegations have come to light about president trump's nominee to the supreme court, brett kavanaugh. these allegations ought to be treated with the utmost graffiti. the allegations are extremely credible. they were made by someone who voluntarily submitted to a lie detector test and had been discussed in the past, long before kavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court with a family therapist. i believe her. many, ma

madam president, the list goes on and on. we still have some work to do, but we should be able to get this done in the coming days, and i'm going 0 keep working until we do. however, madam president, i'm very concerned that president trump continues to threaten to refuse to sign these bills and shut down the government. just this week we saw new reports that he's talking once again about shutting down the government to try get the money for his ill-advised and wasteful border wall. madam president%, president trump told his voters that mexico was going to pay for his wall, so maybe he's talking about shutting down the mexican government so he can get money in mexican spending bills. but if he's talking about trying to get american taxpayers to foot the bill, well, that's not going to happen. so, madam president, i hope republicans in congress continue to stand with us, stay the course on these bipartisan bills. we've come far in this process by putting families first and rejecting attempts to insert partisanship and poison pi

thank you, madam chair. mr. speaker, again, i want to thank congresswoman brooks that's doing an outstanding job. we both served on homeland security and we chaired the subcommittee prior to energy and commerce. she's doing an outstanding job. i rise today in strong support the pandemic and all-hazards preparedness act. from storm-related injuries and illnesses to delivery and logistics issues, last year's historically costly hurricane testimony tested the health delivery system and i'm pleased to see children, seniors, and other at-risk patient communities being addressed in this re-authorization. this bill also encourages innovative partnerships and coalitions like the nicholas children's hospital and the florida international university to continue to develop novel approaches to health care delivery and ultimately save lives. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this critical piece of legislation. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new jerse

thank you, madame president. ithank the representative from poland, i give the floor to the representative from the weight. translation: , thank you, madame president. we have listened carefully to the important and detailed briefing by the representative of the united kingdom, regarding the result of the investigations into the salisbury incident of march four, 2018. and, which has recently identified the people behind this incident. i would like to commend the comprehensive and professional investigations to identify the perpetrators of this heinous crime, i reiterate our confidence in the measures adopted by the united kingdom as part of the investigations into this incident. in line with our principled position, we condemn the use of chemical weapons by any party at any time and wherever it may take place. asa time and wherever it may take place. as a grave violation of international law. we stress the need to hold accountable those responsible for such abuse, whether individuals, entities, groups or governme

madam clerk. moving on. could we go to committee reports. -- he was able to save five lives by donating his kidney and liver and heart, and his kidneys were successfully transplanted. one of the recipients is a 44-year-old woman from california and another is a 50-year-old man from alabama. and someone -- a woman from southern california was able to benefit from edward's pancreas and all of these recipients are looking forward to healthier and more active lives free of dialysis. and also the recipient of this look forward to the diminished effects of diabetes. the recipient of edward's liver is a 32-year-old female from southern california and his heart to a 70-year-old father from the bay area. and he impacted the lives of many through tissue donation. i would like to acknowledge as well jacob hergren, a 28-year-old male, who was able to save three lives by donating his kidney and liver and heart. kidneys successfully transplanted. and the recipient of his heart is a 66-year-old man from southern california

madam clerk, next item? >> clerk: items 24 through 27 kpriez the third special order today for a public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a conditional use authorization for a proposed project at 143 corbett avenue to legalize interior alterations and horton tall additions at the rear building walls, bay window, and decks and the addition of a unit within an existing single-family dwelling. >> president cohen: all right, colleagues, we have the project at 143 corbett avenue which is in district eight. before considering this appeal, i'd like to give our supervisor rafael mandelman the opportunity to supervise some comments. >> i and my office have been in contact with the parties. i am hopeful that if we can get these parties into a room together. we may be able, together, we may -- together, we may be able to work out something, so i would ask to continue this until september 22. >> president cohen: okay. before we vote on this, i'll open this up for public comment. is there any public c

madam director? >> okay. commissioners, the first item, which is -- we're requesting was proposing an issue for a developer to develop block 56. if you have no objection, we'll release that this week, and then, we'll do this conference, get the responses back, put together a panel, and come back to you with a recommendation for approval. so this is just the first phase. it's still again in parcel a, but it's a lengthy process, so we want to start the process. and then, the next two items, marketing outcomes, and we have sam simms here to speak to those. [inaudible] >> but this was ownership -- a home ownership program, and that was impressive, that we had two c.o.p. holders, and it's out of the nine inclusionary units within the building. also, 51, 52 innes. it's for sale, and we don't want to see fore sale units very often. if you have any other questions, we're available to respond. we now have an extensive marketing outreach program, and you can see that in the staff materials that's provided. so if you ha

madam president, you suggested that we hold a security council meeting today in an open format. all the better because we wanted to join the attention of the council to the fact that russia, china, and other members of the council have, on many occasions, since the time there has been an outlying progress in korean conciliation, we have tried to initiate any kind of positive reaction from the council to these events. just to remember that have a year ago, we used to meet here sometimes twice a week in order to discuss yet another ballistic launch by pyongyang. today, we are talking about the prospect of signing a peace treaty and the final rapprochement. i would like to have the american delegation explained to us and other members of the u.n. , why are you against a council presidential statement in support of these developments? you are blocking such a reaction and reject any kind of positive statement. we have said many a time that we are fully in support of the negotiating process which started between the interested parties the beginning of this year. russia welcomes the ou