themselves you cannot use technology to make a bad candidate good you can only elect a good candidate and mr read let me push you on that you just said that four years is not that long of a time but i think what you are saying i want to. happen big country can get through and you know like look at syrian for you know difference between life and death so a lot can happen in that period if that's what you have to make sure you elect the right president how do you really make sure if as you just agreed that you are applying all that marketing tools to the political campaigns you're making a jump and i think this is an important jump distinction is that even with a product if we're talking about a product i can say that this is the best stereo and i can use all the marketing in the world but if the stereo sucks it doesn't matter how much money i pour into marketing i think that happens a lot with candidates where you have candidates that aren't very good and you have candidates that are very good and the people largely choose which one they want regardless of the marketing the marketing helps get the

mr. givner who worked on this language to explain and read into the record as is necessary. mr. givner. >> deputy city attorney jon givner. the amendment that supervisor avalos is referring to is on page 16 line 22 or begins on page 16 line 22 of the residential dnc ordinance, and very similar provision but begins on page 4 line 10 of the nonconforming uses ordinance. we would recommend a few little tweak to some of the language that was adopted in committee to make it more clear. and in committee there was a discussion yesterday of how to handle a situation where a tenant was evicted under one of the no-fault temporary eviction provisions of the rent ordinance and then chose -- the tenant chose not to reoccupy the unit. the intent of the committee and supervisor avalos, i believe, is to exclude from the prohibition landlords who were in that situation or property owners in that situation. and the question that the committee what discussing was how exactly should we -- how can a property owner prove that a tenant voluntarily chose not to reoccupy. ultimately, supervisor avalos's

[gavel] >> madam clerk, can you read the in memoriams? >> mr. president, before i read the in memoriams, supervisor cohen would like to be re-referred. >> supervisor cohen. >> we lost sergeant nevil gittens from the police department last week. i have so much to say it's hard for me to organize my thoughts. what i want to say is there is a me norial planned thursday, december 12, 11:00 a.m. at joins me norial united methodist church. the address is 1975 post street in fillmore. sergeant gittens was an asset to the community and a true gentleman and true professional. he worked very hard particularly with the domestic violence community. thank you. i'd like to make a motion that we close out the board meeting in honor of sergeant nevil gittens. >> can we do that without objection with the full board? [gavel] >> that shall be the case. >> today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of president chiu for rhonda [speaker not understood]. on behalf of supervisor breed for the late melvyn holmes. and mr.

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 commissioner mcdonalds and that will go through june 2017 once it's appointed. >> can you just clarify both

mr. gibb in her read before recommending to temporary evictions due to repairs donate not currently in the files is it? >> currently, the ordinance would has a provision about tenant reoccupying the unit. >> but that's 4i6. >> you could make it amendment today. to speak to supervisor avalos residential hotel provisions we can definitely look at that over the next 21 hours. i would want the land use experts in our office make sure we can draft that in time and not require another hearing happy to look at that if the committee wants us to but i can't promise those amendment will be go-go to go and the board can pass those tomorrow >> okay. but i'll give it the old college try. president chow >> from my prospective if there's clarity on the hotel issue and we're all not wanting to mess up what we currently have do you think that will come back to committee and a i don't believe that will require come back to the committee but i'm g speaking on the fly and i would want the attorney who drafted the legislation to look at that. >> one thought i had i know we want to try to get this stuff before

mr. reid: i ask the bill be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, that there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask consent the veterans affairs committee be discharged from further action on s. 1434 and that we now proceed to that matter. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 1434, a bill to designate the junction city community-based outpatient clinic located at 715 southland drive, junction city, kansas, as a lieutenant general richard j.sytes community-based outpatient clinic. the presiding officer: is there objection to the request? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, and there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i am told there are two bills at the desk. i ask for their first reading. separately. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the bill for the first tim

. >> madam clerk, could you read any communication? s? >> yes, mr. thv, i have two communications. the first is from the director of the department of elections, mr. john arnst certifying the vote and results of each of the races shown in the sum have i report of the municipal election of november 6, 2013 to be true and correct. specifically, calling attention at another time contest for member of the board of supervisors representing district 4, that katy tang won the most number of choice -- first choice votes cast for that seat. >> congratulations, supervisor tang. [cheering and applauding] >> and, madam clerk, if you could read the second communication? >> yes, a communication was received january 2nd from the controller, mr. ben rosenfield, submitting a certification of surety bond for the newly elected supervisor katy tang therefore meeting the requirements necessary. >> thank you, madam clerk. congratulations again, supervisor tang, on your achievement of being elected district 4 supervisor. madam clerk could you please call the next item? >> the first item of business will

mr. president. >> can you read our special order. >> the first item is the policy discussion by mayor edwin lee. sfitem 140022: [formal policy discussions - january 14, 2014] pursuant to charter, sections 2.103 and 3.100077, and administrative code, section 2.11, the mayor shall answer the following eligible questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 1, 5, and 9. the mayor may address the board initially for up to five minutes. discussion shall not exceed five minutes per supervisor. 1. mayor lee, we are in the midst of a housing affordability and evictions crisis not seen since the venture-capital tech surge and real estate speculation frenzy of the late 1990s "dot com boom." your response in the last two months certainly deserves credit - - first, in supporting the preference legislation for ellis evictees from private-owned rental housing to get into city-subsidized affordable units, and second, your executive directive prioritizing approvals for affordable housing projects in recognition that the real estate market is leaving out more and more low and moderate income sa

mr. president. >> then can you read the consent agenda? >> yes, items 1 through 10 are considered routine. if a member objects you an item can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items? if not, roll call on the consent agenda. >> supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those ordinances are finally passed. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 11 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the sheriff's department to amend the existing contract with global*tellink for inmate telephone services from june 1, 2010, to may 31, 2013, to june 1, 2010, to may 31, 2014, with an additional one-year option to extend the term remaining, which will result in an anticipated commission to the inmate welfare fund of more than $3 million over the four-year contract term.

mr. mackie, remember reading the same name your great book says the mass of ordinary the thought of war became the european statesmen and some beneficial some new, but a half a generation earlier bomb in the time of bismarck, sells very, europeans and stayed out of warm , but the preservation of balance and peace at a much higher level. what happens to european statesmanship in that half generation that made war so much more likely in 1914 to iraq. >> that is a very good question. i think partly he have to remember what people are remembering. and what you have is a generation says. people who remember the napoleonic wars and what they have done to europe and how they really gamay's european society. i think there was a willingness to invest a lot of peace and stability. by the time you reach the second half of the century that's gone. they come out of the second world war and want to try and build a new world order to prevent such things from happening again and then of course that generation does not have the same as rory action because they simply have not experienced it. think the passage

mr. gates got things wrong. i remember when he published his first memoir it wasn't a great read but a good read. it had a lot of details and took on the agency and took on the clandestine agency. i had many disagreements with mr. gates. >> a point of view about what is coming out so far? >> i haven't seen anything in the "washington post" piece you would consider surprising. >> i think he thought both wars were bad. i think he was pretty intent on getting the united states out of both of them and getting them out of the united states and reducing america's global foot print. >> again, i think that's wrong. he called iraq ahead of time a dumb war. during the campaign he kept talking about afghanistan is the war we need to fight. before he even met with the chiefs to look at the strategy he basically doubled the number of troops. and then after they fired mckeernen without checking with him basically then they brought in a new commander. when you bring in a new commander he asked for more troops. and then obama said i will. they leaked the number that he had asked. to me, i would have fired gates r

mr. more ll, particularly for your ears, i think what we thought in reading the report and in listening to the testimony was that the group didn't want the program to continue. and then i read your op-ed piece in the wall street journal. -- excuse me, in the "washington post" and i would like to read parts of it and see if the committee agrees, if i may. several news outlets have reported that the review group has called for an end to the program. we did not do that. we called for a change in approach rather than a whole sale rejection to better protect the privacy and civil liberties of americans key values of our republic and we recommended that the government no longer hold the data and that it be required to obtain an individual court order, which i want to ask about, for each search but make no mistake, the review group reaffirmed that the program should remain a tool of our government in the fight against terrorism. then you go on. another misperception involved is the review group's view of the efficacy of section 215. many comment ators have said it found no value in the program. t

[gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read our in memoriams for today? he >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late bishop otis charles and mr. paul williams. and at the request of supervisor kim, avalos, president chiu, and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, for the late mr. [speaker not understood], mr. donald yazi, ms. sophia lou, mr. eng, and ms. isabelle [speaker not understood]. >> madam clerk, is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our business for today, planning departmentthv. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. welcome back. congratulations, supervisor tang. and we are adjourned. [gavel] man: 60-inch screen, high-definition. football season is coming up. you can watch it right here. what do you think? i'll take it. huh! huh! now, that's what i'm talking about. you're right. i don't need it. >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular locat

mr. dickens, is never so alive when it is read by its author. >> thank you. mr. dickens. mr. dickens. >> you are an admirer of my husbands's work? >> at the moment, i am enraptured by copperfield. glad. >> every human creature has a profound secret. >> until that secret is given to another and then perhaps two human creatures may know each other. so earlye you up october >> i must go to london. >> a last-minute impulse. >> what will you do with your winnings? >> i hope to spend it all at once. youngdaughter is a fine woman. i'm anxious for her future. >> if i may be of assistance in any way. looks do you love him? >> he is married. >> you cannot keep her a secret. >> yes, i can. me.e cannot marry >> he cannot. >> it is insanity. you have been in every line i've ever read. you have been a part of my existence and in the last hour of my life, you remain part of my character. >> everyone has a secret in this is ours. is here.fiennes also felicity jones. i'm pleased to have both of them at this table. you just saw felicity and a remarkable performance. -- director >> she was rema

mr. president, i would ask consent that the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent that the mandatory quorum required under rule 22 also be waived and the vote on the motion to invoke cloture occur at 5:30 p.m. on january 27. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask, mr. president, unanimous consent that we proceed to a period of morning business with senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent we proceed to s. res. 335. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 335, designating january, 2014, as national mentoring month. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there being no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without

mr. chairman, before i yield i would also like to comment on the letter you want to put in the record. i was hoping after reading it that you would have some testimony or give the people opportunity other than a 24 hour showing of this letter. but you don't have to take my word on this. mr. kennedy's own document reads this report is for public use your the report is not a scientist has one and -- he did not give us testimony in time when late yesterday after and presented his report out of the blue. and i'm guessing your counsel told him to make it a better because we routinely accept outside with some groups and experts all the time with minimal notice. so the -- address to you and me. however, i cannot remove another time when a witness for the committee also felt they had to write us a little. i think it is an elaborate way to try to get testimony before the committee in violation of the 48 hour rule. as the substance of the report commit includes what amounts to testimony from experts who are not appearing before us. it is against the practice of the committee to accept testimony from people who are not per

mr. mayor. president david chiu: our next question by supervisor cohen. i understand she's stuck in traffic. i will read her question to the mayor. mr. mayor, many of us at the board of supervisors have worked with legislation to increase job access opportunities for residents in our city. while there are some integrated in the work force development system, i think we can do a lot more to bring a broader range of prior employers to bring residents to complete a job program. you have recently launched a techs to work and can you describe how that's going to fit with the outreach and what is the plan for this outreach tool. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you for supervisor cohen's question. as you all know we are living in an extraordinary time in an extraordinary city. we are seeing economic recovery all around us, new homes, offices, neighborhood developments and homes built and getting back to work. as i took office in 2011, today unemployment is 5.3 percent. making san francisco the fastest growing county in the nation. this nation is not result of one industry. san francisco is facing job growth in every

>> guest: oh, yeah, which is -- should be pretty clear to you if you read mr, william safire's headlines. he's sort of famous for pushing to the limit the pun-ability. or -- i remember he wrote one not too long ago about paul tsongas. now it was about the womanizing question, the bad conduct -- no, the womanizing question something else and paul tsongas, and it was called wine, women and tsong -- t-s-o-n-g. and i almost called him and said, "all right. you win this year." c-span: what about your column, though, that goes out beyond the new york times? do you also write those headlines? >> guest: no, they do that themselves. but the times' ones -- what you see on the times op-ed page, we've done our headlines ourselves. c-span: how long has that been a tradition? >> guest: as long as i know of. i mean, i got to tell you, i was never so blindsided in my life as when i filed my first column, and after i had filed it, the copy editor called me and said, "well, what's your headline?" i said, "wait a minute. i don't write headlines. editors write headlines." but once i got used to it, i got to

no separate branch to execute the obama to read mr. the government. congress and all the power and all the responsibility and failed that they. today we often hear about this function. our dysfunctional government. let me tell you in the 1780s there was dangerous and dysfunction. the confederation congress failed miserably in its attempts to legislate and administer the new republic. specially constituted committees by congressional committee, nor congressional reappointed administrators had been able to execute the law, to lead minister our new government. one of the big reasons and summer of 1787, shipped to philadelphia, we came to direct our constitution, our second constitution, a crime in that mission the framers formally separated executive authority from the congress. the congress were stripped of executive function, executive responsibilities, the head title. executive powers were transferred through what came to the article 2, a president a single individual achieved executive, chief administrator, commander in chief. congress was left with

mr. superintendent, may we have a reading of your recommendation, please? >> yes, and to do the reading, i would like to ask for david golden to do the reading. >> good evening, commissioners it has been quite a while since i have spoken before you let me preface this for those of you who have been on the board before you, because i have been appearing for a few years. we have been struggling with what to do with surplus properties for over the past year, the real estate working group which comprises of the general counsel, davis and grasiovis and elizabeth lee, and chris, arm atrout and myself and jay shol from cvre have been working very closely are the mayor's office of housing and in particular, olsen lee and his staff on a complicated multiparcel transaction. that parcel, that transaction and consequences and possibilities around it, have generated several building and grounds meetings, and numerous, discussions among board members and staff. and at this point, negotiations which have been spearheaded and led by deputy superintendent lee over the past

mr. reed: i would scu ask unanimous consent to waive the reading of the amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reed: madam president, my amendment would require the federal emergency management agency to study and report on the advisability of establishing voluntary community-based flood insurance policies under the national flood insurance program, the nfip. the government accountability office would require to review and comment on the study. the study will help answer questions about how such voluntary community-based policies could be implemented within the national flood insurance program. it does not commit fema, the congress, or local communities to take any action. it simply calls the fact-finding and analysis that could provide the basis for improvements to flood insurance program. the idea of community-based flood insurance is to assess the risk fof all properties -- for all properties within a community and collect premiums from the community rather than from individual property owners. by purchasing insurance at the community level, will

. >> let me read one of e-mails from mrs. mcdonnell. need talk to you about inaugural clothing budget. i need answers and bob is screaming about the thousands i'm wracking up in credit card debt. we're broke. >> jon: we know somebody needs to sit them down and give them straight talk about financial responsibility. >> you can't spend more than you have. >> spending is out of control at a lot of levels of government. >> we have to live within our means. >> until we manage the government's money like people manage their own money. >> jon: you have to wonder what was going through her mind around that time. perhaps jessica williams can enlighten us with this. ♪ >> dear diary, vitamin boy better come through with that dress i will (bleep) shove those horse pills so far up his ass he will wish he never paid for my daughter's wedding or other daughter's wedding. those plane trips and incredibly effective and much needed [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back to the program. now this week we celebrated martin luther king, jr.'s birthday as

tonight we'll read the names of five who gave that last full measure of devotion. mr. president, before i turn to my colleague i -- it is very hard for me to fully understand or appreciate what the loss of a loved one means when they lose their life in war. we often turn, to quote lincoln or the scriptures and they're both appropriate. one of the best descriptions i heard was by the songwriter bruce springsteen. he was writing songs in the aftermath of 9/11, and he had one song where the refrain was "you're missing." and of course it could apply to a family who lost someone in war. one line goes, "you're missing when i turn out the lights, you're missing when i close my eyes you're missing and when i see the sun riers a sunrise you're missing." i can only turn to words like that because i've never walked in those shoes's a being a part of family who lost someone u so tonight we pay tribute to those pennsylvanians who gave so much of their country and their family as well as given so much to their country. so i am honored to be joined by senator toomey who will goin rea

s. 19311 tiew for a second reading i'm told, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. the clerk: s. 1931, a bill to poir thprovide for the extensiof certain unemployment benefits and for other purposes. mr. reid: i would to b to furthr proceedings i we have not forgottening about unemployment compensation for 1 .5 million desperate americans. mr. president, i want to just spend a minute or two on this issue. we have not forgotten this. i want to direct everyone's attention to an editorial in one of the nation's leading newspapers today. here's what they said. "republican senators are pulling out every fake excuse they can to think of for filibustering extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. the majority leader, harry reid, was mean to us, and wouldn't let us offer amendments, they say." and we've heard that. irm i'm really a mean person. "democrats refuse to pay for the benefits. it's president obama's fault because people can't find work because he won't approve ke

mr. durbin: i further ask the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of h. con. res. 75, which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 75, providing for a joint session of congress to receive a message from the president. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the pream about he wilpreamble be ae motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of senate resolution 337, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 337, expressing support for the desig

mrs. kennedy traveled with him on the campaign trail as much as possible. this is a readingcopy of a speech he presented in ofhington state in june 1959. mrs. kennedy was with him at that dinner. president kennedy obviously had a speech writer, but he would often rewrite and edit his speeches up until the moment he was about to deliver it. at this particular dinner, as he was waiting to speak, he wanted to close his speech with some verses from "ulysses." mrs. actually asked kennedy, give me the last lines from "ulysses." and the following in her h is the rest of the poll him which she knew from memory -- is whichst of the poll em she knew from memory, giving him the words. lovea young age, jacquelyn to write. she would often create poems as gifts to her parents. on christmas and birth a's come she would write a poll him and illustrated. we have some early examples when she was about 10 years old. while at school in connecticut where she went to high school, she wrote a really wonderful essay called "be kind and do your share." " be kind and do your share, that is all there

can't help solve the syria question what is being discussed with moscow and we'll hear read name in continue with mr to find out first hand. drawn is on the verge of a diplomatic breakthrough. nuclear program may be over. the grip of crippling sanctions seems closer than ever and world powers are even asking for iran's help ending the war in syria on top of that there is a new billion dollar trade deal with moscow in the works. is the islamic republic into the international sea. turning into a lasting spring. for a minister it's really great to have the on our program today. so you just came back from damascus you've spoken to president bashar have you talked about and see concrete have you come up with any concrete solutions. really i just come from the middle east. i was in lebanon i was in jordan i was in iraq and i see a common thread among everybody. concerned about the spread of widens spread of extremism and. that is brewing in the region and the need to contain it now. but there is no guarantee that if we do not. now we see the consequences. we see the situation in iraq which is really. beca