>> madam chair, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. scalise: thank you, madam chair. it cuts $2.5 billion below the iscal year 2013 enacted level. it's -- mr. boustany: thank you, madam chair. it cuts $2.5 billion below the fiscal year 2013 enacted level. that's an achievement of the environment we're working in today. what i find impressive of the bill and what's been done by the chairman is the bill sets some very good priorities. in fact, there's $2 billion for navigation projects and studies to advance american competitiveness and our ability to export which is critical for growth in this u.s. economy. it includes $1 billion of appropriation from the harbor maintenance trust fund. this is a record level. this is $200 million more than what we saw in fiscal year 2013. something that's absolutely critical because we know that our federal ports, our harbors is essential if we're going to be able to ship goods overseas. getting a dredging fund is absolutely necessary because w

madam chair, i wreeled back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio seek recognition? ms. kaptur: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. ms. kaptur: i rise to express my opposition to the gentleman's amendment and my support for a river system that works. the water resources development act of 2007, which was passed with such bipartisan support that it overcame a presidential veto, authorized the corps to undertake the missouri river ecosystem restoration plan and develop the missouri river recovery implementation committee to consult on the study this authority provided a venue for collaboration between the 70-member stake holder roup of tribes, stake holder groups and others to develop a shared vision and comprehensive plan for the restoration of the missouri river ecosome. by prohibiting the corps from expending any 2013 funds on the study and the committee, we continue the delay that started

madam chair. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union, having had under consideration h.r. 1582, direct mess to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 1582 and has come to no resolution thereon. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on the motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. the recorded votes on postponed questions will be taken later. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, you i move the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1897 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: h.r. 1897, a bill to promote freedom and democracy in vietnam. the spea

i yield back, madam chair. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from texas. as many as are in favor will signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 10 printed in house report 113-170. and for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition? mr. blumenauer: madam chair, amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 10 printed in house report 113-170 offered by mr. blumenauer of oregon. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 312, the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. and the chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon. mr. blumenauer: thank you, madam chair. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment that i'm introducing with my colleague, ms. gabbard from hawaii, that would simply restore funding to the fiscal

tonko: thank you, madam chair. first i would like to thank representative welch and representative sablan for working with me on this amendment and thank the gentlelady from ohio for the opportunity to chair the amendment in the house. madam chair, this bill would be fine if we were still living in the 1950's. in a world where we had few energy limitations, no knowledge of the fact that burning fossil fuels would alter the chemistry of our officer, and the trajectory of our earth's climate. we lived in a world where energy was much more affordable. in a world where the united states was the dominant economic and manufacturing power. it was also a time when there were two nuclear powers and we believed that nuclear weapons were a guarantee of security. well, it is not the 1950's. and this bill does not meet our present or future needs. the overall funding level is too small. and the funding distribution reflects the wrong priorities. our amendment addresses just two of the important programs that are grossly underfun

seeing none, public comment is closed or madam chair can we close it >> yes, this was a heartening item so action is needed. supervisor march would you leukemia to make a motion >> yeah. i want to thank the chair for this and all the community reps i appreciate all the time and work. especially the department reps that came today. i want to continue to see the language access as a priority for the city. i think lots of great points were made and a putting our money where our mouth is in priorities to the city. i see how we're a disrupting english culture by helping our folks and it's great that san francisco and oakland p are leading the way on this. i want to say that by a number of the points raised increasing the translation and bilingual staff hiring was critical and also utilizing partnership and expanding the outreach by departments is incredible as well. i think highway the city complies with the departments it's uneven and i think better consistency. and also continuing the great partnerships and a leadership programs by occ with community based groups is critical. and as a fina

thank you, madam chair.gentlemen, appreciate your time. we talk about fraud, waste, and abuse and we talk about transparency and oversight. we talk about this a lot, but we never hold the person accountable. with the money we look at spending in iraq, i think $6 billion is what we have come in close to $100 billion in afghanistan, without the ,versight, when we go back american people are tired of that. we have got to change our foreign policy. germany, they surrendered. no one surrendered here. you have an unstable government and trying to rebuild is almost insanity. we need a clear, defining goal. now we're looking at syria. alan asked specifically what you see as the role -- i want out specifically what you see as a role of the government in the middle east? different way we can approach the middle east instead of going in there and bombing and people dying and we have to look at rebuilding with the waste, fraud, and abuse? get the question is if you could take us a scenario of how money howiven to this a

thank you, madam chair. mr. cardenas, most utility companies have a presence on social media but pse&g has been a trailblazer in that regard. what differentiates public services, social media efforts from others in the utility industry? >> i think the key differentiator is that we had real people speaking with real people. our employees live in our service territory. they were expensing the same exact things our customers work. we were very transparent. our people on twitter have the latest information. they knew about our challenges. they knew about timelines to restore certain communities. they did the best they could up front when we have individual responses. later on they turn to more geographically encompassing messages. we were in pathetic. i think we were very well-connected to each of those who send us a tweet comment and we did are very, very best to get timely, very real information out to the public. >> have government entities responsible for disaster relief reached out to pse&g to add their experti

. >> good morning madam chair and tj and directors i'm at her . i'm terry, d u.n. nigan there's going to be -- there also is a great outreach to the people of the community that's business owners and small business owners i urge you to pass this budget you have done a great job in getting local residents to work as well as veterans. thank you have a good day. >> are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? >> i'm with the electrical workers. our members suffered through an extremely difficult time. projects like these have gotten us back on our feet it's important for our local economy and therefore important for san francisco i is of san francisco ans please approve the budget. thank you. >> any members of the public. >> public comment is closed. i want to thank everyone for coming out today and the diversity on our workforce i appreciate. i just want to reiterate that i think i can speak on behalf of the board we just want to thank the staff for their credible ly hard work and we asked a lot of questions the last couple months and a

so, i yield back my remaining time, madam chair. the chair: the gentlelady from ohio yields back her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? >> strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> i want to rise in opposition to this amendment as well. as has been noted here, this was created in 1965 as the a.r.c. and it is has -- it has a real proven track record of success in creating economic development. in an area of the country that faces unique challenges. mr. aderholt: again it creates economic development and i think that needs to be stressed. it's not a handout but the a way to try to make an investment into the region of the country that really can use some economic development encouragement and that's exactly what this program does. as a result of a.r.c. funding, the regional poverty rate has been cut almost in half. infant mortality rates have been reduced and job-creating infrastructure has provided new and improved water and sewer services to over 11,000 res

supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you, supervisor avalos, for your leadership in calling for this hearing. i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of ti want to thank all the members of the community who are here, not only the students, but i see many of the faculty. i see our teachers union here. let me just say this. i don't know that anyone disputes the importance of making sure that city college has its financial house in order. the problem that i have is that i don't think that having your financial house in order means that you actually lose the character of this institution. san francisco and our city government is a perfect example of that, has a long history of being able to respect and adhere to the values that we have as a city and still have a government that is fiscally and financially responsible. the concern that i have and where i hope that we get to a point where the entire elected city family is on the same page is that some people are talking about having this financial house in order, but saying that th

>> no, madame chair. >> okay. seeing that there is no one from the public with any more questions, you guys it is exactly 2:00 and we're going to take a 15-minute break right now. 10-minute break. i'm sorry, a 10-minute break right now, and we will be back. thank you very much. thank you for >> thank you everyone and welcome back to the second-half of our meeting; which is going to be exciting. welcome back, council members. we are pleased to have five presentations on this next half. we're going to ask if you would keep your public comment until after the presentations are done. and then we will take public comment from the council first and then the staff and then the public. this month is mental health awareness month, and we are so glad to have so many different presenters this month. and it is a pleasure to have language matters, resources, mental health veterans and on and on. so you guys, today to start it off, we have language matters, doing the presentation today is terri byrne the solve program coordinat

thank you, madam chair. mr.cardenas, most utility companies have a presence on social media but psg and has been a trailblazer in that regard. what differentiates public services, social media efforts from others in the utility industry? >> i think the key differentiator is that we had real people speaking with real people. our employees live in our service territory. they were experiencing the same exact things our customers were. we were very transparent. our people on twitter have the latest information. they knew about our challenges. they knew about timelines to restore certain communities. they did the best they could up front when we had individual responses. later on they turned to more geographically encompassing messages. we were a pathetic, i think. we were very well connected to each of those who send us a tweet, and we that are very, very best to get timely, very real information out to the public. >> have government entities responsible for disaster relief reached out to pse&g to ask their expertis

>> madam chair, if i may, yes. i would like to just mention that i've gone ahead and issued a new policy directive to all of our contracting officers implementing this right now. once the rule is effective we'll re-send that and of course follow the rule. >> okay. what about section 843, requires to establish a chain of authority for policy -- execution and contract support. part of this is -- when i began realizing how bad this was, there was no way you could find somebody who was responsible. it was so disparate and so many tentacles of al of this based on -- i know other things -- do you feel like that you are getting at the operational contract support? do you think you're getting there? >> yes, ma'am. if i could, your last question, i am still in coordination so the report has not left the building. >> we have 30 days so somebody needs to get it out. >> yes. i refer to this -- i've heard you in earlier hearings. i refer to this as who is in charge question. >> exactly. >> i believe, one, dod directive 20.39 is

. >> thank you very much, madam chair. i rise in strong support of the amash amendment.as the person who has a principal author of the patriot act in 2001, who got that law through quickly after 9/11, and who supported and managed the 2006 reauthorization. let me make this perfectly clear. unlike what we have heard from speakers on the other side of this issue, this amendment does not stop the collection of data under section 215. the people who are subject to an investigation of an authorized terrorist plot. what it does do is prevent the collection of people who are not subject to an investigation. now, relevance is required in any type of a grand jury subpoena, or a criminal collection of data for a criminal trial. this goes far beyond that, and what the nsa is doing. the time has come to stop it. the way we stop it is to approve this amendment. >> the settlements time has expired. the gentleman from michigan is reserved. the gentleman from florida is recognize. >> i continue to reserve. >> he continues to reserve and the gentleman from michigan is recognized. the gen

thank you, madam chair. with that, i would like to reserve the plans of my time. the chair: the gentleman from florida reserves. who seeks time on the amendment? for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? mr. visclosky: i seek the additional 10 minutes on the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 11 -- for 10 minutes. mr. visclosky: i appreciate the time and appreciate the gentleman offering the amendment. i would point out in my opening remarks that i think that fundamental responsibility of this body is to be engaged. in these types of situations and make determinations relative to our constitutional responsibility, particularly in dangerous situations where it involves military action. syria, for example, is report to have had the fourth most sophisticated, integrated air defense system on planet earth and reports in the media indicate russia has kept the systems resupplied and up to date technologically. it's but one of many thing we was to consider as far as the safety and well being of those who are in our military forces as well a

. >> thank you, madam chair. and thank you and the ranking member cochran for having this really important hearing. this is something that we've all heard about for a while and you know, we are concerned, the american public is concerned so it's good to have a discussion. i think all of us are really concerned that you have a huge company in the sense of controlling a good part of the market and then again what is that going to be the effect on consumers, what is that going to be the effect on the american worker is the bottom line. tell me, mr. pope, my understanding of the recent china wants to do this is in the sense that assess been alluded to, they need protein. they need to fork. -- pork. they don't have the green to do that over there. it takes for a five pounds of grain to make a pound of pork so it makes sense to raise the pork where the grain is that. i mean, is that true? >> senator, i think that's exactly true. that's not any different than the way pork and meat is produced in this country. meet is la

. >> madam chair, members of the board. my name is kevin wagner, i represent ers as a member of the team. what i want to say is that our team has worked very closely with the tja staff and we feel this is a prudent budget. the project reserves and contingencies that are represented in that budget i believe are the appropriate amount based on the position of the project and the amount of time left for construction in the actual project itself. i'm very glad to hear that there is not any interest in delaying the approval of this budget because any delays in the project at this stage are sure to cost this project millions of dollars. so i'm very glad to hear that the intention of the board is to move forward with this. also want you to know that the entire team has spent countless hours of reviewing the alternatives in this budget to make certain we have presented to the community a project that is responsible. that we've looked at in in terms of not only the actual project cost itself, but also the long-term impact on the ope

. >> thank you very much, madam chair. i rise in strong support of the amash amendment. i do so as the person who has a principal author of the patriot act in 2001, who got that law through quickly after 9/11, and who supported and managed the 2006 reauthorization. let me make this perfectly clear. unlike what we have heard from speakers on the other side of this issue, this amendment does not stop the collection of data under section 215. the people who are subject to an investigation of an authorized terrorist plot. what it does do is prevent the collection of people who are not subject to an investigation. now, relevance is required in any type of a grand jury subpoena, or a criminal collection of data for a criminal trial. this goes far beyond that, and what the nsa is doing. the time has come to stop it. the way we stop it is to approve this amendment. >> the settlements time has expired. the gentleman from michigan is reserved. the gentleman from florida is recognized. >> i continue to reserve. >> he continues to reserve and the gentleman from michigan is recognize

the items will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated >> thank you madam chair i ask as we begin this committee we have a brief moment of silence we had on a leader pass last night so if we could cabin the committee meeting with that. >> absolutely. thank you >> thank you. >> thank you everyone. are you employed call item one >> it's a hearing on the public works utility meeting. i'd like to thank the chairman for hearing the items i'll asked. this is an item i'm asking us to continue until july 25th. the public utilities committee is working with us to make sure we have the tap water promotion. there's a mayors conference going on and they need nor time to this. i'm president this moved until july 25th. before we do this let's take public comment on this item. if there's any me up member of the public who wants to speak and you have two minutes >> good morning. i've lived in san francisco for 61 years. i would be in support of the motion by supervisor mar. as you look at the agenda i noticed this is sacked for no action with 5 most with the land use and economi

. >> madam chair and commissioners. i'm here with 3 of the partners that will be a recuperate and lodge. this is b.a. luck inc. last known as - this is basically a major amendment that was requested be brought before the commission but i think everyone will agree this is a change for the better. this was a type of 47 it did have food there was a cook back there but if you walked back there you wouldn't see anybody eating. we have - when mike quan owned the majority interest his other partner was bruce and he started the majority partner in a restaurants called foreign cinema. and has been one of the 10 or 15 high grossing restaurants and it's on the top one-hundred list. it's a beautiful restaurants people thought they were crazy to go in there but mr. mcdonald has been a significant owner of this place for a number of years but a silent partner. he is now bringing in a real restaurants into the area. the bar across the street is proven it's ready for a restaurants. a they've hired randy lewis he's a chef and he was vot

yes good morning (calling names) >> madam chair you have a kwoum any directors new or old business? then we ca

madam chair i'm here with the person in charge of this particular establishment. i'd like to first state i've been in talks with southern station and we have - we would request that the after hours portion of this application be continued. until the next meeting. the police feels officer chan feels we have to have more discussed this is 6th street. we would like to have more discussions with the police department. >> our next meeting will not be until the first day of august and you're just like 16 accounting is off-site so i want to tell you that. and so is that okay >> we're fine with that. there's going to be some rehab >> why don't you stop for a second and let's take care of that first. >> okay. so let's move for a continuance of the extended hours permit to the first meeting no august. is there a public comment on that? >> seeing none, can i have a second to my motion somebody. >> second and we have a second. come on up >> good evening. we would like to revisit this 6 months into the operation >> because of the location of the premises and because it's histo

yes good morning (calling names) >> madam chair you have a kwoum any directors new or old business? then we can move on. >> good morning directors and public. today in light of the bars strike you want to brief is board on the transportation option. so i've asked my colleague to talk about that. >> good morning directors. i'm here with the management team. i've got a couple of quick slides to show you at the temp terminal that alleviate the conditions at the bar strike >> so the map you see in front of i is the law out of the temporary terminal. most of you are familiar with that. we have greyhound open folsom and golden gate and on the internal they have two buses. and then if you notice we have one near the beagle street entry. we're going to use that for some additional transit operations. so that's my first bullet. we have 5 additional buses and they're going to use that unallocated lay over position. and they're to run 5 additional to maintain their bus ways down highway 80. ac transit is going to provide additional service as well as operators as available and also springs and

. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. smith is from fort mort, my hometown in texas, just happy to have him on the panel today, and judy is the vice president at the center for climate and energy solution overseaing very many important aspects of that organization including the analysis and promotion of innovation in the major sectors that contribute to climate change including transportation, electric power, buildings, and industry. in addition to the 0 year -- 30 years of working on environmental and energy policy, she has a strong texas connection and worked with many organizations and individuals in our great state, and i welcome her here this morning. thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. , and now we'll go to our witnesses. as you may know, spoken testimony is limited to five minutings each, after which the members of the committee will have five minutes each to ask questions. we welcome you here today, mr. smith. you are recognized first to present your testimony. my favorite boot store in all of america is in fort