mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. and i'm -- mr. davis. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker, and i'm pleased to join my colleague from illinois in discussion and debate of h.r. 2530, the taxpayer transparency and efficient audit act. and i yield myself as much time as i may consume. mr. speaker, since 2010, the internal revenue service's total budget has declined by 8%. this may not sound like much, except that the number of individual tax returns has gone up by 11%. and the number of business tax returns has gone up by 23%. what happens when you combine a larger work load with fewer employees? you get more unanswered mail, more unreturned phone calls, and the closing of taxpayer assistance centers around the country. i recently had the pleasure of welcoming the new internal revenue service commissioner to the ways and means committee. he painted a very bleak picture of the challenges the agency's facing. over the same four-year periods that the internal revenue service's budget has been slashed, the number of phone calls the agency received has gone up by 40%. over

mr. davis, would you please read out. >> i'm sorry, could we get some clarification, no. 1 and no. 3. >> no. 1 is commissioner moffit's and no. 3 is myself. mr. davis would you like me to read these names? >> i will read them. >> thank you very much. if you can give the names and when the term will expire. >> okay, so seat no. 1 has been assigned to commissioner months of moffit's. that is held by guerrero, that term expires june 2014. seat no. 2 has been assigned to commissioner haney. it's currently filled by franco, the term expires june 2015. seat no. 3, has been assigned to dr. murase. it is currently filled by jim fong and the term ends june 2014. seat no. 4 is assigned to president fewer, it is currently filled by jenny lam. the term ends june 2014. seat no. 5, is assigned to commissioner norton. it's filled by michelle parker and the term ends june 2014. seat no. 6, is assigned to commissioner wynns, it's filled by jamal watkins and expires june 2017. the seat is assigned to commissione

. >> all i remember hearing the doctor say is mr. davis, i'm so sorry, we were unable to revive -- >> and then he made that long walk a parent would rather die than ever take. >> and i asked to see my son. they said wait a minute, we don't want you to see him like that. and so they pulled a sheet up to his neck like that. when i saw him, he was laying there peacefully. had a little blood on his nose and his eye was open just a little bit. and i walked over and they told me not to touch him because it was a homicide investigation. and i said i'm going to touch my son. i'm going to hug him and squeezed him and i smelled him. it's funny how you smell your children, you know? you want their scent in you. i smelled him for a long time and i touched him and i kissed him. and i saw his little eye open. i said i know you see me. i said you're going to heaven. you're going to find out about that belief that i told you about. you're going to find out. you're going to see god and i kissed him again and i just broke down. >> still warm? >> still warm.

mr. davis will go through lottery procedure, right? are you doing the lottery right now? >> yes. >> i think you need to be present to win. >> we are going to have a hat with 7 pieces of paper. each piece of paper will have one number, one through seven and we also have a schedule to pass out to you so that once you pull your number, you will know which seat you have chosen. >> okay. this is more exciting than i thought. i should have read my horoscope today. >> while we are doing this could i make a comment? >> yes. >> i just wanted to say for the public and we talked about this before, but the issue is when these seats come up for reappointment and how they overlap each other. so it isn't so much an issue of who fits in them since all of these people have been approved by us anyway, but rather how we will make this process more workable for the committee as to the terms. >> all right. we are going to start with commissioner haney. >> can i ask a question. if you select a date that goes beyond

without objection, so ordered and joined by mr. davis to be identified after mr.onnolly because he is on the committee and not the subcommittee and then alphabetical order and hear from them next. mr. connolly, you are up. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing to examine the federal response to state marijuana laws. i want to be clear from the outset. i'm not unsympathetic to the concerns raised by skeptics on decriminalization. as a child of the '60s, i witnessed firsthand the ravages of drug abuse on so many friends, so many idols my generation had in both hollywood and in the music scene. i count myself, frankly, a skeptic. further, as a former senior professional staff member, one of my jobs was the authorization of the international narcotics matter bureau of the state department and traveled the world looking at production and distribution of illicit drugs and saw the damage caused. but it must also be noted simply ramping up criminal penalties through the narcotics control act of the 1950s did not prove effective in countering t

without objection, so ordered and joined by mr. davis to be identified after mr. connolly because he is on the committee and not the subcommittee and then alphabetical order and hear from them next. mr. connolly, you are up. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing to examine the federal response to state marijuana laws. i want to be clear from the outset. i'm not unsympathetic to the concerns raised by skeptics on decriminalization. as a child of the '60s, i witnessed firsthand the ravages of drug abuse on so many friends, so many idols my generation had in both hollywood and in the music scene. i count myself, frankly, a skeptic. further, as a former senior professional staff member, one of my jobs was the authorization of the international narcotics matter bureau of the state department and traveled the world looking at production and distribution of illicit drugs and saw the damage caused. but it must also be noted simply ramping up criminal penalties through the narcotics control act of the 1950s did not prove effective in countering

again, and we agree with mr. davis on this point, ron davis, there was no winners, everybody lost something in this. the davis family lost their son. their son's birthday was supposed to be tomorrow. and that's going to be hard for them. so i think tomorrow there's going to be two sets of families that are going to be grieving because of what happened here tonight. >> angela corey just said she does not think the zimmerman case had anything to do, or any influence on this case. what do you think? >> i don't know. i'd love to get into the jurors' minds. i'd love to get into what was going on. i know you guys asked her about political statements and things like that. i think what i originally said in my press conference is you have to ask miss corey. i said i know what her answer is, and i expected her answer to be that. it is hard. you don't know what goes into factors. the fact that jury was back there deliberating again for over three straight days and we don't know what was being said. the fact that they didn't come

. >> mrs. davis is lying on the bed with the covers up to her stomach, she appears the to have a gun shot wound to her right temple. >> it was believed that there was no forced entry in the house. and the davis' children were asleep in the bedroom, whatever happened did not wake them up. there was no evidence of an argument, or altercation. >> what it looked like is that dorothy was literally lying in bed as if she were sleeping. >> in the bedroom, investigators found a bottle of anti-depressants and three sealed envelopes. one was addressed to her husband chris. >> my darling love, as said many times, it's the coward's way out. so i'm a coward. for i could see no other way out. i asked god to for give me. >> the second note was also addressed to chris. and the third was to had her sister. >> deer patty, i'm sorry. but the time you get this, i will be gone, i didn't know what else to do. >> she could see no other way out, she acknowledged the difficulties in her marriage, and how she felt that her hu

. >> i said, mr. davis, i'm from the houston police department. his demeanor changed drastically. he just stared at me. >> ramsey pulled out a photo of diane's car. davis didn't want to look at it. >> he said, i've never, ever seen that car. well, that's strange. that's a red mustang. you've never seen a red mustang? then i pulled out a picture of diane that david had given me and i handed it to him. but he wouldn't take the picture. i tried to hand it to him, he wouldn't take it. >> davis initially denied any involvement. but when told of the fingerprint evidence, he confessed. >> i'm sorry that it happened. and i've cried and i've prayed what i did wrong. >> he had been out of prison five days when he killed diane. and his life was a lifetime of crime. >> after more than 30 years, the mystery was finally solved. >> well, my father was ecstatic. it just was a huge boost for him, you know, that they knew who it was. >> i've worked scores or hundreds of murders. and they're all important to me. but it's not very often that you're personally touched

that of jordan davis. >> ma'am, again, i'll ask you, is your medical examiner number underneath mr. davises of documentation? >> yes, it is. >> this photo was 138 for the record. before conducting the autopsy, was jordan davis measured for height? >> yes, he was. >> what height was roared for him, 5 feet, 11 inches. >> was he weighed? >> yes, he was. >> was he weighed with clothing or without? >> was weighed in what we call the as-is state, in the body bag with some sheets and his clothing. >> as he had come to you from the hospital? >> exactly. >> what was his weight with the clothing and the other items that were on the tray? >> 145 pounds. >> would you expect based on your experience that jordan davis weighed less than 145 pounds considering the amount of clothing and sheets? >> yes, i would. >> where was the autopsy conducted? >> at 2100 jefferson street in t the morgue. >> was there also a toxicology screen done? >> yes. >> explain the purpose of a toxicology screen to the jury? >> we look for anything from drugs of abuse to drugs that are prescribed but in inappropriate amounts to a

. >> thank you, mr. davis. is there any further public comment? >> okay, seeing none, item 4, election of the bic president, and vice president. >> and madam secretary, if it is okay with the fellow commissioners and until melgar gets here, we can probably go to because item 7, and we could take that then we could get here we could go back to that. >> okay. >> if that is okay with my fellow commissioners. >> yeah. >> we are moving to director's report, update on dbi's finances, 7 a. >> good morning, my name is gale, and i am the acting chief financial officer for dbi and i wanted to talk about our finance report, and our revenues are continuing to come in quite high. so the revenue projection that i gave at the last meeting is actually slightly higher by about 2 million dollars and we have received the first installment of the information and it comes into the installments that we would expect to get about 60 percent in the first and usually about higher and 50 percent in the second and that is about what we except and we received 80 percent of wh

just crying. >> finally, mr. daviske when he was at the house that day? >> i don't recall tommy coming the same day for some reason. i don't recall it. he could have been there. i don't recall it. i do recall him later on. >> your honor, i have no further questions. >> anything further? you may be excused. >> yes, sir. >> thank you, mr. davis. take a seat. next witness. >> quick break. will michael dunn himself take the stand? we'll be right back. go to angiet to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. [ mala body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body i

mr. davis, asked that we set up a satellite, i am wondering if there is a place in between that there might be a time for bic to go out, to the south east, and make a presentation, in these critical areas, about what is going on, with reinforcement or enforcement to talk about the neighbors about our plan. >> and this seems like a good idea, i think. because we have done some presentations with mostly what working with the supervisors, and in the respectful districts. so maybe, if the supervisor cohen out there might want to host a meeting, i am sure that the department staff and other folks would be happy to go out there. >> yeah, commissioner mar. >> actually, in the background, i am working with the supervisor cohen, and trying to for the out reach, you know, in the bay view area around march and you know we did not set up the time yet and maybe that is set up for kd and then my goal is slowly go to each district to wish them for the different ordinance, like the soft story, or the illegal u

. >> reporter: of the mr. davis could not provide details but the suspected ms. cut that was a grave. misconduct was grave. >> pam: with google glass expected to be officially on the market in the near future you need to get used to seeing people wearing them. as our tech reporter gabe slate tells us not everyone is comfortable when someone is wearing google glass in their presence. gabe? >> reporter:this is sarah solcum a social media consultant who lives in the bay area. she wears her google glass almost everywhere she goes over the weekend her glasses got her a lot of attention at a bar in san francisco. she captured some video of to share what the experience of what it is like when wearing them. >> reporter:she says most of the time when she wears her google glass it is received well but sometimes it can bring her un=welcomed attention. >>"it was weird, i literally ended up saying 'i can't again " >> reporter:sarah was out with friends when they entered a bar in the haight ashbury area in san fransico. >> reporter:this is video she captured >>"we were there m

there were that the minute that mr davis said the message and do what he should have done it said that the grand coalition didn't work. it made too many mistakes. it's gonna be the same. you obviously know we are friends is a drawing and energy. i won't be enough to change things. many italians also seem unconvinced by the revolving door of prime minister. ritz bits but it's a really bad idea. nothing will change the role the same. it was for brenda's wednesday. we don't know what his policies on watch for the day. one prime minister takes the money another rise may take hold you back again. it was opinion poll showed that just would prefer to go back to the ballot box. if nz is confirmed as a new town and he and you'll be the third in the road to be appointed without winning an election correspondents say that the hasbro for marin. the two days to put it on those things that caught some fish and all that difficult to cope representatives in on him and he's got a very tight schedule he gets his chance at the table. and of all seem to be those that i bought all that we thought she was i

young mr davis being a we know that he told his girlfriend that he hated this music all of that is basic code language in a rachael kohn we have only about a minute left but you know despite civil rights legislation we talk about there is stop and frisk there's a stand your ground laws shocking statistics that a high school i'm sorry that a black male without a high school degree is more like that in a prison and with a job how can we expand the consciousness of americans to realize that we don't have true equality of opportunity the african-american community has taken upon itself we have to we have to turn to our organizations such as the n.w. c.p. and we have to create new think tanks and other types of organizations that are going to speak to him and that are going to be able to articulate these issues so that we can bring affective pressure upon the upon the political process the same way that alec the the think tank the conserve of think tank has done that and brought us stand your ground brought us right the voter id laws and so many other incredibly bad pieces of legislation that

back now with more from mr davis doc and now david i'm going to jump right in now ask you do you share ben bernanke and janet yellen deflationary fears. deflationary fears absolutely not that is just a canard that they constantly trot out when all else fails to justify continuing to run printing press at these crazy rates even sixty five billion a month after all we're in the fifth year of this so-called recovery look at the last twelve thirteen years the c.p.i. is averaged two point four percent if you take the one they prefer you know the p.c. e deflator less food man or g. assuming no one has had to eat their own or eat for twelve years but even then it's one point eight percent. the rates do bob a lump and down a little bit by a month or quarter depending on what's going on in the world economy commodities or a lot of other things but on trend there is absolutely no a whiff of deflation in the air and besides that where was that ever written that if you don't make two percent inflation you're failing to help the economy i mean inflation is all for debtors and it is a huge negative

guy said, mr. davis was leaning over. there will be testimony that as dunnsell mr. -- saw mr. h for the gun, everybody in the card duct. you know who did not dock? jordan davis because he was getting out of a car with a weapon after telling michael dun bitch. are dead, this is going down now." you have four man against one. you know what jordan davis did not realize? the other man was armed, and gode is an expression -- did not make all men equal, cold did, and that is a firearm. it is a tragedy. we are not here to change the law, to say anybody deserved to lose their life, but under the law it is justified. >> cory strolla attorney for michael dunn, the man on trial in florida for shooting dead 17-year-old jordan davis after an argument about loud music. again, none of the four young man got out of the car. jordan davis was killed in the car. to talk more about the trial we are joined by michael skolnik, editor-in-chief of globalgrind.com. he has been closely following the case and has been in contact with jordan davis' parents. he serves on the board of directors of the trayv

he was convicted of the attempted murder of the three mr. davis. it is troubling, in trayvon martin where he was killed and jordan davis, there was nobody held accountable for their deaths. that sends a terrible message to society. nobody goes to jail for their death. >> right, and i think we still are wondering what it is the jury, what was on the jury's mind since we haven't heard from the jury yet on the dunn case. i just want to say that mr. zimmerman did come forward over the weekend, he did give an interview to another network but he didn't talk about the dunn case. quick listen here. >> i want to professional reply continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. i think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. i don't think it should happen to anyone ever again, not one person. >> what was the miscarriage of justice? >> the fact that two law enforcement entities stated that i had acted within the laws of our nation in self defense. >> you don't think it was about the l

mr. davis? was there an answer from what the juror said? >> well, this juror gave everybody a lot of insight into what went on in that jury room. you had 12 people that had to deliberate and listen to the evidence and then apply the law to the case. and what we hear from this juror is that two and then eventually three jurors were convinced that they had a reasonable doubt about self defense. in other words they bought this self-defense argument which includes the stand your ground instruction. that was what was preventing them from coming back with a guilty verdict. so you ended up having a hung jury. so the insight from this juror is very helpful to the defense and the prosecution, the next time that this case gets retried in front of a new 12-member jury. >> which we do anticipate will happen. i want to read something that juror number 4 said. she said, "we looked at a lot of evidence and myself, it was where the gun slots were, the timing. could he have had other options? to me, the shooting was unnecessary." now she did say that she fe

mr. davis, jordan davis and mr. dunn. we have seemingly an opportunity to leave, and that's stand your ground and retrieve. we'll talk about that. >> can i break in with news? the state just rested its case. wow. >> wow. >> wow. i am a little floored. i didn't expect it was going to go on a whole lot longer than today, perhaps. >> maybe they should have done what they did in the zimmerman case. >> let's listen in. >> we'll resume at 1:30, please do not discuss the case among yourselves or with others. >> i think we just -- we've lost the audio, sadly, from the courthouse feed, which happens on occasion. but, again, a little astounding. are we missing something? >> i think they may have learned a lesson from the zimmerman case. i was very surprised they had put in the evidence of george zimmerman's statements in their case and chief. the very least, i thought they should have waited and forced us to make a decision about putting on mr. zimmerman. in this case, they know they have to put mr. dunn on the stand. there is no w

. >> and mr. davis was getting out of the car. she tried to kill or hurt with a deadly weapon michael dun. the olympic games in sochi have come with a lot of controversy. and chief among them, gay rights in russia coming up how athletes and activists are approaching the games and the pope's harley went on the arc -- on the auction block today, did you know he had a harley? wait until you hear how much someone paid for it. that's next. >> program with more on that story,, for us, michael? >> if you are looking to support or maybe protest a initiative, you have to find a bigger stage than the olympics. throughout the course of modern history, sports has play add role when it comes -- either here in the u.s. or abroad. and the olympics have not been excluded in that trend. most gay rights believe the same should be the case this year for sochi. >> more than three decades hosting their last olympic games russia again finds itself at the center of another international controversy. during the 1980 summer olympics the issued involved ar

that's what -- and that's as mr. daviswas getting out of the car to try to kill or hurt with a deadly weapon, michael dunn. they backed up behind him, right behind mr. dunn's car. mr. dunn puts his gun out the window with his door open and as they drive away, doesn't want fire back. because now they've got a perfect shot at the back of mr. dunn's head. and he puts two bullets low into the car. and as you can see, the bullets go up. and you'll hear it. bang bang bang. quick. no long pause. >> with a white defendant and a black victim, the trial has generated national attention, because of the parallels with the trayvon martin case. martin, a black 17-year-old, was shot and killed by george zimmerman who is white, in early 2012, during a dispute in sanford, florida. zimmerman was acquitted. following verdict, president barack obama surprised many by commenting from the white house on the case that captivated the country. >> when trayvon martin was first shot i said, "this could have been my son." another way of saying that i

. >> dunn is charged with first degree murder of mr. davisee counts of attempted murder, the other three teenagers in that durango suv. jurors have ended deliberations for the time. a lot of people across the country are bracing themselves for the pobltd of another not guilty verdict just seven months after george zimmerman was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of trayvon martin. joining me now is lisa bloom, author of suspicion nation. lisa, what's going to happen here? i know you can't predict the future, but you've been watching this trial closely, it seems like the facts on their face are so damning, the testimony is so damning, what is your thought on which way this is headed. >> there are a lot of similarities, including two of the prosecutors from the trayvon martin case prosecuted this case. they've been afraid to talk about race in the courtroom. it's a key element of the case, including, this is a defendant who wrote explicitly racist letters from prison. he said, the more i get to know those

and that's as mr. davisf the car to try to kill or hurt with a deadly weapon michael. >> reporter: reminisce he want of the george zimmerman trial, there was a small group of protesters outside the courthouse this morning. they say they, quote, want justice for jordan, we they don't want a repeat of the zimmerman case, and they believe this is another reason why the stand your ground law should be repealed. >> natasha reporting. and joining us now to talk about the trial our legal contributor jamie floyd. hi, james. >> i hey, john. >> what are the big legal issues in this case? >> stand your ground is again front and center in florida. and it is really just a self-defense case, but stand your ground makes it a very, very critical case in the state of florida and makes it a national story. >> so how is this dunn case -- how do you compare it to the case of the shooting at the theatre in florida? >> that is a case just now getting going, they are having the bail hearing in that case. i see the cases as quite s

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mr. michael davis? >> thank you, the subject is ratification of agreement between the san francisco unified school district charter schools operational memo of understanding, in the action i need to make a slight correction in the second line where it says and facilities use agreements fua that should not be there. and you actually ratified those and september 24, of 2013. so the requested action is that the board of education of san francisco unified school district ratify the memo of understanding for the 2013, 14, school year, negotiated with the charter schools by the superintendent or his designee as set forth below. >> the schools are city arts and technology high school, creative arts charter school, thomas edison, charter academy, five keys adult school, five keys charter school, five keys independent high school, gateway high school, gateway middle, and timp bay view academy, and san francisco bay academy, and san francisco college prep academy, and leadership high school and life learning acad