rebecca: i'd like to have the lessons here if it's o.k. with you and mr. wang. yes, here is fine.uch will the lessons cost? oh, nothing, free of charge. vincent... ( speaking mandarin ) my mother says we must pay. oh, no, really, i don't want you to pay. uh, vincent... ( speaking mandarin ) o.k.? she said, "wait a minute." she'll be right back. ( phone ringing ) hello. mrs. wang: hello, shi wo, mei-lin. hi, mei-lin. ( mrs. wang speaking mandarin ) o.k. ( mrs. wang continues ) mm-hmm. ( mrs. wang continues ) is that o.k.? o.k., o.k., for vincent, fine. mrs. wang: yes, bye. o.k. bye-bye. please, for you. oh, it's beautiful, but i... i can't accept this. vincent... ( speaking mandarin ) my mom said she wants you to have it. thank you very much, mrs. wang. vincent's father is very happy about the guitar lessons. vincent: yes! vincent... ( speaking mandarin ) ( continues in mandarin ) vincent: my mother says you're a very good person, and she's happy that you came to our house today. thank you. i'm happy to do something for vincent and alex. it's important to keep friends together. my

mr. secretary, it's a pleasure to see you here. >> thank you. >> mr. secretary, i yield back a minute with your help, i yield back 58 seconds. >> thank you. the chair recognizes mr. lance for five minutes. >> thank you very much, madam chair, and good morning to you, mr. secretary. it's my honor to meet you here today, sir. the innovative u.s. pharmaceutical sect or generates high-quality jobs and enormous economic output and exports for the economy of this country. as i understand it, nationwide, the total economic output from the biopharmaceutical sectors direct, indirect, and induced impacts was almost a trillion dollars. the sector supported a total of 4 million jobs in 2009, including 700,000 direct jobs. the district i serve in new jersey is arguably the medicine chest of the united states. what is the administration doing mr. secretary, to retain this country's global leadership position in biopharmaceutical r&d and manufacturing? >> i know generally your district, and we are seeking to advance u.s. pharmaceuticals through the international trad

mr. mcdonnell: actually, i'm going to invite you back up here. ms. tidwell: okay, i'm sorry. >> can i ask a question, meantime? since i had to write during the break, what about any changes? it mr. mcdonnell: i'm not sure. what do you propose? to make non substantive changes in their discretion mr. mcdonnell: okay, any discussion? done. >> thank you. >> were we going to put a logo on it with the names and cover letter. mr. mcdonnell: what do you propose? >> i would propose a short-term letter from the mayor to the board -- from the board to the mayor, either sing this is the report, or have that being the intruder -- not the intro, but something that looks relatively official, we are doing a thing here. mr. mcdonnell: done. ms. tidwell? ms. tidwell: yeah, and good after i make this one on it. mr. mcdonnell: we will not include this item. all right, for purposes of the agenda, we're going back to item number 4, mapping, for purposes of a final review and approval of the final map. if we could switched the view to the final map, that would be helpful. m

mr. secretary for being here. now that i have three minutes instead of five, i'll try to move through this as quickly as i can. but thank you for your attendance today and appreciate your time here. i'm very fortunate in my district to have a very aggressive knhk development university in my district in mississippi state university. they realized a long time ago that a major land grant institution can serve as a strong catalyst for a lot of economic development from generating spinoff advanced manufacturing companies from research, but also assisting in attracting major industry into the state by providing that cutting edge research that's available. and it benefits not only the university and the state but private industry as well. you mentioned the advance manufacturing partnership or a.m.p. will universities like mississippi state be able to play a role in that partnership, and will a.m.p. expand on what mississippi state and other universities are already doing? >> yes. the idea of this, what's called nnmi, th

mr. barney still here? >> mr. president, i am not here to of but -- to rebut the settlement agreement. it is what it is. the nob hill association will proceed in the best interest of the membership, and the people who live on the hill, who might be affected by this issue. we thank you for the time you have given us on this hearing. president chiu: colleagues, any questions to any of the parties we have heard from today? item 16 has been held and is closed. items 17 through 19 are before us. i want to thank all of the various parties who have been involved in this, not just for the last couple of weeks, but for the last couple of years. i know only about half of us were president in 2010, when we heard the first set of appeals with regards to this matter. in 2010, these involve the very hotly contested issues, and subsequent lawsuits that are still ongoing at this time. as you have heard from the planning department, they are engaged in an environmental review heard by a superior court judge, which overturned the decision of this body, with regards to detective coracle exemption which a

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren mr here in washington d.c. easier headlines for april third two thousand and twelve u.s. president barack obama gave a speech accusing republicans of social darwinism with the budget in its cars that they passed in the u.s. house of representatives lot. of political tour turned history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody was going to work for but how much opportunity is there really left exactly in the u.s. we speak to dr marc father a publisher of the gloom boom and doom report who says well destruction and social unrest may be on the way for western economies and yesterday wall street had a strong start to the second quarter with the s. and p. five hundred marking its highest close and mid may of two thousand and eight and then today we saw that come down as apple m c minutes came out and revealed that the federal reserve is holding off on more monetary easing unless u.s. economic growth falters or inflation goes below two percent so is this risk gone risk on and what does that mean for

i want to turn a little bit here, mr. tanker leany to you. how did you get this job? >> i was asked by the white house to step in. >> what were you doing prior to this? >> i was the assistant secretary for management and chief financial officer in the treasury. >> do things in treasury work the same in a gsa? >> based on what i have seen just through this report and the little i have seen, no, they do not. >> i have a question. you made a command decision. you cancelled 34 conferences. what was your criteria to determine those were wasteful? conferences for personal and professional employees isn't necessarily a bad thing. if they are done correctly and that internal personal development i see it in myself as a teacher, while we didn't go off staff and why we had coffee somebody made in the back room, that gathering together was certainly valuable. i would make in the long run they were improved by those. how did you determine those 34 weren't going to live up to the standards of development? >> we cancelled those actions pe pending the outcome of people providing us

mrs. bush also met with them. here at their home they had lunch with them. it was a really exciting time because solidarity just won a landslide election in parliament. and then we went to 10 downing street with mrs. thatcher. i think what she's saying is who is that woman with all the cameras around her neck and why is she in my living room? i had barged my way thinking i would end up in a holding room. but then mrs. thatcher looking out through their cabin on the side there. this is what you would call the family room of the white house. watching the president announce the beginning of the operation with her daughter doro and press secretary anna perez. and the bushes had invited the reverend billy graham to join them. here in her camis. this is in the saudi desert on thanksgiving day. before the start of operation desert storm. i think mrs. bush was on her fifth thanksgiving dinner at that time. here we were at a beauty salon in new hampshire. that is not helen thomas. i know it looks like her. i'm not that cool. and on the campaign plain with marvin bush.

can we -- >> can we keep in those listed here? mr. mcdonnell: ok. the proposal to list each of them. any objection to listing them? any objection? we move forward. district 6. from the consultants, we remove all of those. referring to ms. tidwell's list. >> we left the tenderloin out entirely. that was one of our primary concerns. mr. mcdonnell: we are on 6 now. so, tenderloin. >> we look at district consultants now? where are we? mr. mcdonnell: we are on district 6. this is the consultants lists list association. all of those will come off. we will now refer to ms. tidwell's list. mission bay, south beach, rincon hill, treasure island, filipino community, and the tenderloin just added by ms. melara. >> are we keeping it together in district 6? >> we did not fully achieve that for the mission, either. mr. mcdonnell: we will not include the tenderloin. >> there is a planning department-recognized neighborhood. correct the spelling. replace "n" with "p." mr. pilpel: could i suggest combining those and saying south of market? that seems to be more of a

here legally. i would propose that if mr. pearce and myself were walking down the street and you asked law enforcement to pick out the person who they suspect would be here undocumented, they're not going to be pointing at mr. pearce. they're going to be pointing at me. they have to use race in order to enforce senate bill 1070. that's the unfortunate part. and mr. chairman, if senate bill 1070 was so popular, why did the sponsor get recalled out of his own legislative district? at the end of the day, this bill is bad public policy for the state of arizona. it has put a black cloud over the state of arizona. it has given us a negative image that's going to take us years to get out from underneath. it is poor public policy as well. >> legislation, as you know, is before the supreme court tomorrow. we reached out to many arizona officials. i'll say this for mr. pearce, he was the only one who would come. if you believe in the law, if you voted for the law, if you're enforcing the law, why can't you come and defend it? but mr. pe

mr. duffy is here. mr. hansen has reviewed this and determined that this is sound and is an attempt to misuse this process to gain leverage over the permit holder. we have been offered for -- on four for three months. we have no intention of building a building that is unsound. i challenge anybody to prove otherwise. this building will be more structurally sound that is because of the code update and the support that is their that were planned to support the roof deck and now there is no extra roof deck to way down. there are no new facts. there is no reason to have another rehearing on something that suspended work for three months. the plans are going to provide for a structurally sound building. we have lvl's running to the exterior walls and they just move from the roof to the attic. the ceiling instead of on the roof. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. today i met with -- i have the contractor come into dbi with the approved plans, he looked at the details, he spoke to the design engineer for t

thank you for being here as well. mrs. lee is here.ughter] >> yeah. >> of all, today has been a very active day of the just wonderful announcements, of decisions being made that really reflected the values of the city. i have another one that reflects the value of this city, someone that i have spent privileged to work with for so many years, one began her career as a special assistant, worked her way up as the purchaser, director of purchasing. before that, one of the most difficult task, kind of reminds me of my dpw day is, she had a difficult task of being the director of the taxicab administration. [laughter] so she has earned some strides there. going on to director of purchasing and becoming deputy city administrator. most recently, and acting city administrator. and now my nominee for city administrator for the next five years, naomi lelly. -- kellyl. [cheers and applause] ayman >> to first and foremost to thank her family who have been part of her life. throughout this time, she even raised a family and keep harlon and kelly ou

mr. chairman. >> senator johanns. >> let me just say, thank you for being here. mr. giddens or judge freeh, either one of you may be equipped to answer this. i'm trying to get a perspective here just in terms of time. you said when i think mr. giddens, that when former senator corzine came on board, there were problems with this firm. they had liquidity problems and that sort of thing. and as i understand it, that would have been in the scope of $200 million at that point in time? is that what you found? >> no. no, senator. just alluding to the fact that the evidence we see is from 2008 on. mf global was either losing money in an operating sense or was highly leveraged. it was a firm which had financial difficulties when mr. corzine came in. that's simply to say the liquidity crisis was not as severe as it was in the final weeks of october 2011. >> that's what i was trying to get at here. that everything i've heard through hearings like this and reading testimony, et cetera, was that in the final weeks of mf global, the sky fell in. now, my understanding -- to me it s

can we -- >> can we keep in those listed here? mr. mcdonnell: ok. the proposal to list each of them. any objection to listing them? any objection? we move forward. district 6. from the consultants, we remove all of those. referring to ms. tidwell's list. >> we left the tenderloin out entirely. that was one of our primary concerns. mr. mcdonnell: we are on 6 now. so, tenderloin. >> we look at district consultants now? where are we? mr. mcdonnell: we are on district 6. this is the consultants lists list association. all of those will come off. we will now refer to ms. tidwell's list. mission bay, south beach, rincon hill, treasure island, filipino community, and the tenderloin just added by ms. melara.

my name is paula bahama, and i am here on behalf of mr. ross mirkarimi. i have sat here and listened to everything that everyone had to say on behalf of him, and we as the people when we elective him, we knew exactly the type of person that we were putting in office, which is mr. mirkarimi. my children or all born in the western addition. i have eight children. in all of the years of living in the western addition, i've never seen a mayor or a supervisor or elected official get out on the streets and do what he has done. i think he is the best thing that could have happened to the western addition. i feel that he has gone through enough pain and suffering. he should be allowed to return back to work with pay. to suspend him is one thing, but to suspend him about the date is a total different thing. he has a family. he has a child to support, and one thing i am asking the commission to please do is to have his wife returned and the year to be able to give her testimony, because she is the only person that can actually tell you guys what you want to know wha

mr. buhl which is here as well and it's tough work which you're going to do but we appreciate it and thehe city and will be supporting this resolution moving forward. supervisor campos: on the motion to amend item 4, we can take that without objection, motion passes. colleagues, unless there is an objection, we can take items 4 and 5 together and madam clerk, if we can have a roll call. >> on item 4 as amended and item 5, supervisor kim? supervisor kim: aye. >> supervisor mar? >>i. >> supervisor olague? >> aye. >> supervisor wiener? >> aye. >> supervisor avalos? >> aye. >> avalos, aye. >> supervisor campos? >> aye. >> president chiu? >> aye. >> supervisor chu? >> aye. >> supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor elsbernd? >> aye. >> supervisor farrell? >> aye. >> 11 ayes. president chiu: the resolution is adopted. congratulations. [applause] president chiu: with that, colleagues, why don't we go to our 3:30 special order. i know we have a couple of individuals here that we want to recognize but why don't we give a minute for the room to clear. dd >> ladies and gentlemen, if we could please

mayor, thank you so much from taking time -- is here to address us. mr. r, thank you so much for taking time. >> welcome to san francisco. thank you for meeting here. the northern california mlu that you have before you charts ecorse of our caltrain -- charts a course of our caltrain corridor. i just want to give the nod to the empty seat -- mtc for putting this together. in san francisco, we consider caltrain to be the transit spine that connects the city to san jose and san francisco to silicon valley and all of our partner cities. caltrain electrification has had a broad regional support for many years. caltrain is the most important thing we can do for generations to come. here in san francisco, i am working hard to make sure we continue to be the innovation capital of the world. cities across this country and other nations are looking at its cities for solutions to everyday problems. transit is our number one concern because we are a growing economy. we cannot increase roadways and airport runways there. that will not be a part of solutions for the fu

mr. chairman, could i correct a couple of dates here? i just want to be really clear about the record. we put mr. neely on administrative leave on march 19th. i removed steve leeds and bob peck and resigned on the -- on april 2nd. i just wanted to be sure that's in the record correctly. >> thank you. >>> on june of last year -- michael robertson is your chief of staff, correct? >> he was my chief of staff, correct. >> he wasly an son to the white house before that. >> he was in the policy shop before that. >> he did work on senator obama's staff before senator obama became president obama? >> yes. >> did you ever have subsequent meetings with the administration? >> first of all, i learned that -- that yesterday in the testimony i did not realize he had informed anyone at the white house. >> did you ever inform anybody at the white house? >> we held meetings with the white house after we received the draft report. >> after may 3rd. >> so far? >> when the report came out last year. >> no. i did not talk to the white house until after the final draft report was delivered to us in late febr

mr. chairman. i want to thank all three of you for being here today. mr. secretary, you come here with unique qualifications to be here today. general dempsey, your record is exemplary, and i want to congratulate you on having children that followed you in service. it is quite an honor to be here with all of you. i would like to preface comments based on what you talked about prior with three years of trillion dollar deficits. it is a concern. i appreciate you bringing that up. i just want to read something from another relatively famous general, dwight eisenhower and said another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. as pe peer into society's future we must avoid the impulse only to live for today, pluntderring for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. we cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. we want democracy to survive for all generations being to, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. a wonderful warning

mr. brashov ? are you all right ? yes, i'm fine. i was just-- thinking about jess. i miss him, too. - hi, jihan. - hello. is jamal here ? - i think he's in the back. - thanks. hello, mr. brashov. hello, jihan. everything okay ? yes, everything is fine. oh, jihan, what are you doing here ? - i was just on my way home. - how has your day been ? well, i went by the office and cleaned out my files, picked up our airline tickets and found a company that will ship our things to egypt. jamal ? yes ? why are you unpacking the same boxes you've already packed ? because i don't think we should move back to egypt. ah, henry, nice of you to join us. i'm not that late. tell that to mrs. tracy. she is waiting for her lunch to be delivered. since when did you become the boss around here ? i don't have to be the boss to know when someone is not doing his job. thank you, henry. i have been very selfish. you would have to give up everything you've accomplished here. but we've been through this a million times. i thought that this was what you wanted to do. this was supposed to be our decision. i know that i was just offered a good job, bu

mr. mcdonnell: any objection to the list as presented here? mr. pilpel: yes. mr. mcdonnell: ok. go ahead. mr. pilpel: ok. what are you proposing it is in? mr. mcdonnell: propose what you want, it does not matter. mr. pilpel: silver terrace, candlestick, the central waterfront/dog patch, showplace square. mr. mcdonnell: any objection? it ms. tidwell: yes. i was attempting to be helpful by adding neighborhoods. with 16th street, i don't think we have included potrero, and the ones we have highlighted with issues. mr. mcdonnell: okay, that is what objection. ok, list them off. one more time. >> silver terrace, a little hollywood, candlestick. ms. tidwell: isn't candlestick -- isn't that an institution? >> i think there is a candlestick neighborhood. ms. tidwell: you think, or there is? >> ok, we will exclude candlestick. bayview hunters point, potrero hill, and showplace square. ms. tidwell: i don't think -- sorry, what ever. ms. lam: i think there are concerns including potrero hill as an interactive neighborhood. could we show you the map? mr. pilpel: i suggest we just excluded.

mr. neely, do yous repraeut, inhale oxygen, exhale carbon dioxide? >> on the advice of council, i decline to answer. >> jon: i've had experience dealing with these fellows before. here's i handle these rep roe baits. mr. neely, did you know people who respectfully decline to answer on their advice of council eat doody? >> on the advice of council i respectfully decline to answer. >> jon: boom. that will teach a doody eater. still got it. look, little message to the g.s.a., you don't want to screw with the government. are you forgetting what happened when google tried to stole wall these maniacs? if you don't remember what happened in the google case, you could always... (laughter). remember? >> google is coming under fire in a new battle over privacy. >> google's facing heat for its previous program. google also got access to e-mails, passwords, internet usage history using unsecured wi-fi fete work access. >> jon: google, i am shocked. you stole people's personal information without their permission? that is facebook's job! (laughter) the f.c.c. investigated these shenanigans and that's when (bleep) got real. >> the f.c.c. saying they wanted to know from google who a

mr. secretary. generals, it's great to have you here. mr. secretary, i know that my colleague mr. price asked you earlier about funding levels for israeli missile defense. could you -- i wasn't -- i apologize. i wasn't here when he asked that question. would you mind repeating and explaining what those numbers mean in terms of our overall security cooperation with israel and also explain those numbers as it relates to the numbers in comparison to previous administrations. >> yeah. what i said was and first of all, obviously our support to israel is unshakeable and we've reflected that frankly in our budget request. the budget request, by the way is done in collaboration with very closely with the israeli government. since taking office, we have -- the administration has requested money for a number of missile systems that they have. the missile defense systems as well as the iron dome system which is a very effective system for defense against short-range rocket attacks, the total amount of assistance that we provide israel is $650 million, which is more than double what was provid

here in her cammys. this was in the saudi desert on thanksgiving day before the start of operation desert storm. i think mrs. bush on her fifth thanksgiving dinner at that time. and then once the campaign started, it was nonstop. here we were at a beauty salon in new hampshire. that is not helen thomas under there. let me clarify that. i know it looks like it. i'm not that cool. greeting well-wishers in pennsylvan pennsylvania. bowling for votes in ohio. and on the campaign plane with marvin bush. he was always fun to have around. it must have been -- yeah. here with marv, and we were also on a whistle stop tour through georgia. this was several weeks before the election. and after the third debate, after the crowds all come around and everybody shakes hands and takes pictures, mrs. bush beelined for ross perot because he made accusations the campaign had maligned his family and daughters, and mrs. bush wanted to set the record straight at that that just was not true. here she is with her newly adopted son, governor clinton -- soon-to-be adopted son, still governor at the time. it's customary after the elec