>> madam chair i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: if the gentleman will explain what page and line his amendment is on. >> page 9 line 19. the chair: the reading has not progressed to that point. the clerk will read. the clerk: page 7, line 1. financial management capital, $1 million to remain available through september 30, 2017. cybersecurity initiatives. $7 million to remain available through september 30, 2017. office of civil rights. $9,600,000. transportation planning, research, and development $5,-- $5,976,000. working capital fund. $181,500000. minority business resource center program $336,000 as authorized by 49 united states code 332. in addition, for administrative expenses $597,000. small and disadvantaged business utilization and outreach $4,518,000 to remain available until september 30 2017. payments to air carriers, airport and airway trust fund, $155 million. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report

madam chair, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman has one minute remaining. mr. price: -- mr. denham: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman is the only one with time. mr. denham: if my colleagues in california if the minority body of this body would like to continue on, where is the $87 billion? i don't see a proposal from them nor do i see a proposal from the governor for $87 billion. we are going through a big drought in california. we would love to create jobs. let's utilize the money that would be spent on high speed rail on projects to help our infrastructure and agriculture as well as people throughout california. there's a good way to spend taxpayer dollars this is not it. we cannot afford to leave the next generation with an $87 billion hole that will not only continue to put california in further debt but continue to show our priorities are misguided. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed

argue with with you. >> it's in the government data. >> okay thank you very much you're welcome. >> madam chair, i wanted to is that the in coming chair of the american heart association we consume more from the generation and the calories are coming from sugar sweetened beverage but i want to ask the dietician if she could clarify i know that supervisor wiener said what is your relatively with the american association when you were here last april what's our relationship. >> they're one of my clients i'm a xhoinlt for the food and beverage add industry. >> are you a rep for the american beverage. >> i'm not employed by the american beverage association i conciliatory with them and trade association and interface with government agencies and help professional organizations with all due respect i i know the prelims i'm saying that because i'm paid by the american association i went to school and worked in the perform for 25 years. >> i appreciate. >> well (multiple voices). >> you're saying you're not representing them here today. >> no, no i am i said that earlier. >> okay. thank you. >> thank

. >> thank you very much madam chair thank you madam chair for your leadership on this issue we have had a difference coalition in many respect i appreciate the opportunity to move us in a healthier direction i'd like to focus on the protective i'm supportive of all 30 pieces of legislation but the legislation to require health warnings on advertise times for swkd today requires that all advisements for the print billboard that advertises those have a prominent health warning on it similar to the warnings that are required for decades on advisements for cigarette the purpose is to give people clear information when you're seeing an advisement shows happiness and rainbows and unicorns there's a down side those drinks are making our communities less healthy and helping to accelerate disease in our community type 2 diabetes the research is very, very clear about those health impacts the negative health impacts on sugar sweetened beverages a few facts accumulation of those doctrines are linked to type 2 diabetes tooth decay and liver diseases it is the number one source of sugar what one

argue with with you. >> it's in the government data. >> okay thank you very much you're welcome. >> madam chair, i wanted to is that the in coming chair of the american heart association we consume more from the generation and the calories are coming from sugar sweetened beverage but i want to ask the dietician if she could clarify i know that supervisor wiener said what is your relatively with the american association when you were here last april what's our relationship. >> they're one of my clients i'm a xhoinlt for the food and beverage add industry.

madame chair thank you. after comments we have several speakers >> thank you i want to announce the north light court is the overflow recommend. avenue loss sn >> thank you chair cohen colleagues we're united on one thing ewith want san francisco to be and feel safer this past weekend as i was walking home from the bus someone threatened to harm me. i didn't know who he was he didn't know who i was i understand that a lot of you feel such threats on our streets i have had my car broken into two twice since i was supervisor one time at m clak mark and one outside of my house i understand what a lot of residents feel having your car broken in to or being physically threatened or harms puts fear in your daily life. often the response to that fear is greater police enforcement i understand that you know police enforcement is a necessity. we have to have the folks that work very hard at the ris why of their own lives to support our safety i'm just not clear that the best approach to looking at what the size of ou

. >> i believe that madam chair, i thought supervisor mar has minor amendments. >> actually notice it is reintroduced as a subsequent motion for the medical purposes everyone everything is fine. >> so we have all the time 3 and two i don't believe there is amendments for item 4 let's go ahead i should have called altogether. >> supervisor wiener. >> colleagues thank you, everyone that helped to put those pieces of elastics and jeff is did a lot of work on the health warning measure i think those 3 measures individually and together are significant step forward in our city's effort to departure of having an guard of addressing the products that is contributing to serious health problems in our society and i with all due respect to the dinetion who spoke for the american beverage association i don't august it is not relevant whether or not i agree but whether basically the entire health care and health science worsened agree or drawing when you look at the world the eventually consensus those drinks contribute to the heartache problems and we have an obligation to move forward and try t

madame chair i will ask the committee the to su porlt the legislation first i would like to move the amendment i described in the beginning which i distributed i move the amendments. >> okay. there is a motion to move the amendments i think these amendments can be accepted the unanimously thank you mr. chair. >> i move to forward item one as amended to the full board of supervisors with positive recommendation >> okay seconded by supervisor kim and this moves forward with a positive recommendation. thank you supervisor weiner responses to item one with kim. >> resolution of intention. greater rincon hill community benefit district >> okay so supervisor kim is the author of this item. supervisor kim will lead the discussion at this point. thank you. >> thank you. so before us today is the resolution of intent for the fordaegs of the greater rincon hill community benefit district. thanks too the hard work of the executive committee and just for the public knows there is been much rapidly changing ownership of the property in the area making it more challenging 200 petitions which forms

i see madam chair, i have additional questions for the dietician is

>> madam chair i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. mullin of oklahoma. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following. section, none of the funds made available by this act may be used to enforce subpart b of part 750 of title 23, code of federal regulations, regarding science for service clubs tissue signs for service clubs and religious notices as defined in section 156-p of such part. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 28 , the gentleman from oklahoma and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. mullin: churches and civil

lee: thank you, madam chair. i want to thank the chair and ranking member for your leadership on this subcommittee and for your interest and support on this amendment. i recognize the point of order and plan to withdraw. recent events in ferguson, staten island, baltimore and around the country illustrate the need for significant reform in police interaction in the communities that they are sworn to serve and protect. that's why this amendment would require the states receiving funding from the department of justice's edward burn memorial justice system program put academy students and law enforcement officers through sensitivity training on ethnic and racial bias, cultural diversity and police interaction with the disabled, mentally ill, and new immigrants. as you know, d.o.j.'s program is a primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions, supporting a wide range of law enforcement and court activities. our law enforcement agencies and officers play a critical role in protect

bass: madam chair, as the economy continues to recover, .5 million americans are still unemployee. meanwhile the effectiveness of local transportation agencies to spur job creation in their local communities is unnecessarily obstructed by restrictive department of transportation

to your point, madam chair, on needing decisive evidence in order to initiate the first rate hike, how close do you feel the economy is to full capacity now, and given that employer costs and monthly wages are at a pace that's at a six-year high now, what is the risk, how has the risk changed inflation could strengthen quicker than you're expecting? >> so the committee estimates that the longer run, normal level of the unemployment rate is 5.0 to 5.2. at 5.5% we have an unemployment rate that still exceeds the committee's best attempts to estimate what is normal unemployment rate for this economy, and as i mentioned, there appear to be unusually large elements of slack, over and above that, in the form of somewhat still depressed labor force participation and part-time work for economic reasons. so i think it's fair to say that most members, most participants in the committee wouldn't judge yet although some might, that most judge a, quote, maximum employment. increases at a slow level, but have been tentative signs with wage growth we're picking up seeing an increase in the growth rat

the important aesthetic environmental ben pits that our street trees bring to our neighborhood madame chair with that we have deogo sanchez from the planning department here he can let us know the department's view. >> thank you welcome >> thank you supervisor diego for the -- in the case of certain types of development planning department to the effort between department of public workses and planning department to maintain the trees in development and will expand the street tree population in a fair matter after deliberating on the matter the commission adopted a resolution with the following modification one to amend. planning department 101 c one that the party is responsible for the planning and maintenance of street trees it will read as follows maintain -- [reading] this concludes my presentation i'm available for questions thank you >> if i'm not miss taken we did make that amendment in substitute legislation if there are no other comments or questions i suggest we open up to public comment. aye team three. from friends of the urban forest you can come on up if r are here. >> chair

madame chair and members of the committee my name is laurn post arret of transbay part of district six which is part of the proposed greater rincon hill community benefit district as you know there are thousands and thousands of newer residential units planned for this neighborhood one benefit of this district will be maintenance of all of the new neighborhood parks to serve all those new residence supervisor kim knows too well. her district has the lowest amount of green open space that is only going to get worse as the thousands of new property owners move in without the cbd there will be no funding for our neighborhood parks including the park on top of transbay terminal so no cbd no park funding no parks. 181 fremont you heard earlier today and a number of others in short this neighborhood is rapidly becoming the densest and busiest in san francisco without the distribution it's will stay one of the grittiest in san francisco. a neighbor loved in the high-rise area in the yurga buena area they said the difference with the cbd is night and day. so i support the establishment of the

madam chair, good to see you. you mentioned that the dollar has stabilized, and in fact since mid-march, i believe it has given up a good bit of its gains from last summer. to what extent now do you think that there will be an ongoing drag from the dollar, taking into extent this dollar retreats, and overall, how important is the dollar exchange rate in monetary policy these days, relative to the past? i think wen: well, still are, since last summer, have seen an appreciable increase in the value of the dollar, th the city -- vis-À-vis most of our trading partners in emerging markets, and i think we have seen that it is had the negative effect on net exports, and so served as something of a drag on the economy, and probably that drag is going to continue for some time to come. so it is a factor affecting the outlook. forddition, import prices non-oil imports continue to fall. i think that is serving to push down a core inflation a little bit. eventually i expect that impact to ebb, but it is a factor affecting the

. >> madame chair i will continue. i was actually pleased to hear supervisor avalos he supports the police academy in the budget i he'd something i felt different in the from the xhner >> i questioned how much money it was that is all. >> just to be clear the police academy we have right now will get us back to where we were years ago if we keep it up 2 to 3 years we will get back to where we were in terms of police staffing years ago when we had neighborhoods now that didn't exist then so the academy classes we're budgeting now are critical by getting back to where we were back in the day before we ent have population growth is not going to get us where we need to be. it's not just about saying that because the population is x therefore increase the minimum staffing level from 1971 to x that is part of it but that number of 2200 officers we don't just get there from the population growth we also get there by looking at the perf report from 2008. which recommended a higher number we averaged the all citieses in the mid

. >> good afternoon commissioners and madam chair i'm sebastian i'm here to speak on behalf of the project i'm a student and rely on my bike i think this is tremendous bike assess as outlined in the eir it has over 3 hundred valet spots in the office building and dozens more around the site it will be more bike spaces on 16th street street thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm scott van horn thank you for the opportunity to have me speak today on the draft eir i live in dog patch a cooperative of blocks from the site i'm actually, one of the if any, that is going to get my view of bay bridge blocked as others talked about this document it is critically thorough i applaud the city for looking at the issues i'm pleased about the businesses and parks that will be within walking a dance implementing i implementing the warriors and city has been working with the neighborhood and incorporating the community segsdz suggestions into the plan as a result they've come up with a project that perjuring fits to restraining order into the mission bay and dog patch and on the community most o

poe: madam chair i recognize -- yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: madam speaker, congress in the last several sessions has done i think, an admirable job of dealing with this crime of sexual assault in the united states. several pieces of legislation have passed the house under several administrations going all the way back to the violence against women act. and more recently, under the debbie smith act, safer legislation, here's what's taken place. we now know because of d.n.a. that old rape kits can be analyzed to determine who the suspect was that committed that sexual assault. generally against females. and that is a good development. so because of that legislation -- because of that, the debbie smith act was passed and the safer act says that debbie smith which grants funds to do rape kit backlogs, that 75% of that money of those grants will go to actually analyze backlog rape kits. if those backlogs analyze go after the bad guys, find out who committed these crimes and bring those 400,000 rape ki

madam chair good to see you. you mentioned the dollar has stabilized. in fact since mid-march i believe it's given up a good bit of its gains from last summer. to what extent do you think there will be an ongoing drag from the dollar, taking into account this dollar retreat and overall, how important is the dollar exchange rate in monetary policy these days relative to the past? >> well, i think we still are, since last summer, have seen an appreciable increase in the value of the dollar, vis-a-vis most of our trading partners including emerging markets. it's a significant depreciation of the dollar. and it's had a negative effect on net exports and so served is something of a drag on the economy and probably that drag is going to continue for some time to come. so it is a factor affecting the outlook. in addition, import prices for non-oil imports continue to fall, and i think that serving to push down a core inflation a little bit, eventually i expect that impact to ebb. it is affecting the outlook that said, we, obviously, have no target for the doll

madam chair, i'd like to come back to the topic of consumer spending. consumer spending has been very disappointing for many months in the u.s. economy. i'm wondering, do you think there has been a meaningful shift and one that will persist in the behavior of households with respect to spending and savings? or would you be more inclined to look at the recent more encouraging retail sales figures and see perhaps the return of the american consumer there? >> so in recent weeks we've seen data that suggest that consumer spending is growing at a moderate pace. i'd say, you know car sales, for example, were very strong, part of it probably represents a back for weak sales during the winter months. but nevertheless the pace of car sales has been strong, and recent readings on retail sales and on spending on services have suggested an improvement in the pace of consumer spending. there are questions at this point about just how much impact we have seen of lower energy prices on consumer spending. the decline in oil prices translates into improvement in househo

. >> so colleagues is there a motion by madam chair rosales and supervisor farrell it has been rescinded at this time i'll recognize supervisor cowen. >> i have several questions about the policy discussion we have before us on this particular item a lot of the questions are district towards the staff how proximate causes and units will be impacted and schedule are affordable how many units will actually be affordable? >> the question is how many projects and units will be impacted by this legislation and any of the proposals are affordable. >> thank you very much in emry rogers sorry for the delay in our notes. >> our current pipeline in the area of the moratorium effected by the proposed owners this is a total of one thousand net new units that on the line of those we have the inclusionary requirement that is 12 percent he know with the malice at this point there's a limit number that is affordable and in addition some of the projects in this area are subject to hire requirements than the inclusionary okay it is really late normally i'd able to follow it is 1216 to. >> excuse me we're

bridenstine: thank you, madam chair. madam chair the bridenstine-posey amendment transfers $250,000 from the finance and management activities to the office of commercial space transportation. s that small amount but it is extremely important if we are to support the booming commercial space flight industry. madam chairman, the f.a.a. office of commercial space transportation's mission is as follows. to ensure protection of the public, property, and the national security and foreign policy interests of the united states during commercial launch or re-entry activities and to encourage, facilitate and promote commercial space flight transportation. to carry out this mission, a.s.t., as the office is known, is tasked with overseeing commercially licensed launches, test launches on ex-permal permit, licenses and permits for new vehicle designs, supporting nasa and commercial crew contractor, taking the lead role in coordinating space traffic at the white house's request and many other duties. over the past few year, the numb

>> thank you very much, madam chair. i wanted to follow up, dr. rice. the statistics that i've seen say that 78% of african-americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired plant. and that an african-american child is more likely to go do the hospital for asthma than a white child. is there a connection between the coal-fired plants and the higher death rate for african-american children? >> the health effects from coal-fired plants are very well documented. and it's now well-established in the scientific community that air pollution causes increases in hospitalization for asthma, asthma attacks, more medication for, to treat the asthma symptoms. and there are also inequities in where people live and where the services are located. that's environmental injustice and communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from coal-fired power plants and others. if we reduce the emissions, those communities stand the most to benefit, right there where the pollution is emitted. >> so to summarize, you're saying yes th

or not. >> good afternoon madam chair and supervisor wiener and chair. chris gargs and [inaudible] here today to present on a resolution authrising the mayor to cast a assessment ballot in a-term fv on the satey and county of san francisco as a owner of one parcel of property subject to assessment in business improvement district to be named the greater [inaudible] the board of supervisors june 9, 20 passed a resolution to [inaudible] community benefit district and there been nishiating the ballot process. june 12, department of elication mailed ballot to the proposed district with one ballot being sent to the sate and county of san francisco. the sate can vote on the parcel. a list of the parcel is attached. the one parcel has a total assess of 318,.13 cent. if you have questions on the ballots or the proposed resolution i or my manager [inaudible] can consider questions. thank you >> supervisor kim any last remark snz let's take public comment on item 3. public comment is open >> thank god for public comment. i have been doing public comment for 25 yea

installed at 181 fremont we have representatives from the department of public health and inspections madame chair if the there are no initiate comments or questions i will call op paula keho. from the public utilitieses commission. >> okay. >> good afternoon. i have a power point i just want to pull up. paula keho the director of water resources with the san francisco public utilities commission as weiner mentioned weiner mentioned i will talk about the not portable water program how it works and examples of on-site water treatment systems happening in san francisco the nonportable water program is part of the san francisco local water program which consists of a conservation program i think you know we have been doing conservation for many decades you aren'tly the residential per capita is 44 gallons per day in the system that is one of the lowest in california that is because san francisco is responding for our call reducing demand especially during the drought today we are building grand water wellings in san francisco where we will pump ground water with our surface supplies we will also have

. >> madam chair, i wonder if you might character the progress made toward fulfilling the fed's truet confidant? not confidant at all? some improvement in the labor market? a lot of improvement? and how should we judge when those criteria have been fulfilled? >> it is judgment the committee will have to make. it will depend on a large range of data and not on any simple indicators. it is not as simple as saying if this declines at x it will be stable enough to increase. we have to look at the pace of job creation what is happening to labor force participation, to part-time employment for economic reasons, to job openings, to the pace of quits, to wage inflation and other indicators of the state of the labor market. i said we agree the slack has diminished to some extent and over a longer span of time. over the last several years, we have made progress in moving toward the goal of maximum employment. there is some progress on that front, but the committee wants to see further progress before feeling it will be proposed to raise the rates. on inflation, there has been some progress in

senator cantwell. >> thank you, madam chair. well, i think the hearing is about the new normal that we're seeing in drought conditions and that we need new solutions, so i thank mr. connor and mr. laureniger were talking about the solutions but my colleague got you to be specific on legislation, and i wanted to get your specificity on whether the next parts of the basin project, things like reservoirs, building fish ladders and things of that nature, do you see those as the logical next step? >> i do, senator cantwell. i do see those as logical next steps for moving forward the plan that exists addressing water supply and environmental issues and trust issues. it represents a very good strategy that seems to have been moving forward with broad -- i would not say consensus, but broad of support as you can get from a number of different constituencies. i think, you know, to be blunt, there's always going to be a question of what's the appropriate federal role in the strategy versus state and local entities, and i know the state ha

the speaker pro tempore: madam chair. the chair: the committee of the whole house having had under consideration h.r. 2577 directs me to report it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the committee has had under consideration h.r. 2577 and has come to no resolution thereon. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition? >> i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 303. providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 268 making appropriations for the department of defense for the fiscal year september 0 2016 and for other purposes and providing for consideration of the bill h.r. to amend the agriculture marketing act to repeal country of origin labeling requirningtse and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that congressman amash be removed as a co-sponsor of h.r. 198. the speaker pro

associated fees >> thank you supervisor weiner is the author of this mergs >> thank you very much madame chairring this item and hearing it today i also want to thank supervisor chicagos sen for cosponsoring this with me as you know i in my office have been working with a great coalition of tree and park and environmentalists in san francisco our program and our approach today is not working we don't plant enough trees

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. senator kaine. >> thank you madam chairman and thank you for the witnesses for being here today and your testimony. i noticed earlier today it was announced that the house appropriation bill was released and it proposes for the fcc in ny 16 a $315 billion budget which is a cut below fy 16 and $70 billion below the president's f of y 16 budget request and we have a lot of budget requests but this demands vigorous fcc enforcement and at the very time when we need it for this challenge and otherle chaenks dramatically reducing the fcc budget seems unwise to me. that is a personal opinion. i want to talk about the issue of consumer education. i would assume that that has to be a key part of this. there is the enforcement strategy, the technical approaches to solving the problem and also on the consumer education side. and miss blaze i'm interested in your testimony. you started to get this log because you knew the calls were scams. what is the best way to get information out to seniors or