mr. yaki. and so basically any questions that i could be asked about how the settlement occurred, the process of the settlement and it could not be disclosed. in the public session. >> and so for that reason, i think that we have to go into closed session. >> and one question, and i believe that we can discuss this openly. when this is has been brought to us by the city attorney's office. but it certainly is something that falls within our jurisdiction as well. but when something is brought simultaneously to the ethics commission and the city attorney's office, as i understand it, then we have... i don't know if it is... >> normally... >> if it is just a process? or if we are bound to let the city attorney's office take over? >> there are occasions when we have done the joint investigations but generally speaking when there is a complaint filed in two places we tend to defer to the higher authority, mostly no resource and issues, but that has been our regular process. >> and this fell within that boun

i still feel that way. >> mrs. so, who is 83, and mr so who is 91, are hanging on to their chicago home, resisting a move. >> we did not sell the house because we are waiting for siblings, brothers and sisters, and we wanted a house where they could live. >> this woman thought she'd be spirited from her father for a week or so, when he sent the family away from the north. she never saw him again, and doesn't know if her brother is still alive. >> we have lived with a black hole in our heart. i have stories to tell. millions of people took their stories with them. >> over the past decade there has been a handful of reunions. stan field made it her mission to get americans involved. she lobbied congress, and made corian american unions a strong possibility. it looked close in 2011, buts then kim jong-il died and everything stopped. >> we were so close. is crashed. the hopes crashed again. i was worried. >> stan field says to be close and not reach an agreement has been devastating. the gratitude felt has been replaced b

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so talk to me, a little bit more mr. st. croix about the lobby fees that we, they jump so quickly. >> and we were able to, we only budgeted for 27 and it is 53. and are they or is it just because it is a particular year? or if it is an election year? and is it just because more people have identified that because there is more enforcement and more folks feel the need to register as lobbyists in. >> or else, i would say, if you are going on, like you do the budgeting year over year and you look at what the past was and you put in a conservative number in there. and we are already with only two months into the year, or however far we are in the year. >> 7 months. >> we are 53, but we budgeted for 27. >> yeah. >> so that is great. >> but i was just wondering if you saw some kind of... >> go ahead. >> i don't know when the budget for that or this year is fixed, but last year, we had a significant increase in the number of people who were registered as lobbyists due to various efforts. everybody has to register in january and rere

to the state of israel there is no visa between ukraine and israel so definitely we call upon jews if there is a danger to come to our mr house gave the c.e.o. of the world form of russian speaking jury thinks so much for sharing your views with us here on our international. i don't example of how split the feelings of ukrainians are is the way police officers returning from kiev were received in the south of the country while the opposition in the capital or proclaiming the ryerson as heroes other parts of ukraine are firmly on the side of the law enforcers. now in the crimean city of sebastopol returning officers were given a rapturous welcome by cheering crowds they had been sent as backup to help stand the violence in kiev from the start of the uprising in the capital and it's drawing a little support from the southeast of the country where people fear the rise of radical movements up to twenty policemen are said to have been killed in the turmoil of curing the past. and europe and the united states have played a highly visible role in ukraine's rest but in the eyes of most western media as pressure from moscow that

apart from beer discussing conscious capitalism with one of the moments founders rush the thirty and mr so did i think what you're really talking about is the idea of social responsibility of big businesses and this idea may be fairly new for an american business and but in many countries around the world including in russia it is often perceived as a vestige of the old communist regime companies want to be efficient they want to focus on that bottom line but instead they are mandated to spend their valuable resources on various social programs and they feel that it may actually hold them back what do you think about this idea of the obligatory here for your employees i think any action that is undertaken voluntarily. through a sense of doing the right things for the right reasons always has a lot more power behind it where you mandate certain things it takes it takes that purity of intent out of it to be real example in india just passed a new companies law where they have essentially mandated that you have to spend two percent of your profits on c.s.r. corporate social responsibility def

so, mr. speaker, raising the debt ceiling is in fact the fiscally responsible thing to do here. if we default, the cost to american families will be significant. 26 million americans won't get their social security checks on march 3. i'll repeat that. 26 million americans will not get their social security checks on march 3. there are 1. million seniors, children and disabled people of new jersey who receive social security to help make ends meet, and many of them will not see their check if this is not followed through. nearly four million veterans may not receive their disability benefits, including 50,000 veterans in new jersey. now, the other side of the aisle needs to take these things seriously. they talk about supporting veterans. they talk about supporting working families. they talk about all of these values, but if the debt ceiling is not raised, these families will not get the support and the benefit that they need to make ends meet. so, mr. speaker, it is incumbent upon the member

mr. vice president that concludes my report. >> so i see mr. erick if there's no other any public comment? there are no speaker cards >> a very good afternoon i'm eric i'm representing the local. i'm also one of the members of the sierra club bay chapter committee and i want to take you back to our last meeting. and also a or some of you may have seen in the newspapers a report about deacceleration i want to make sure that that report took comments out of the context and made it a lot look we were supportive of deacceleration we don't support of the bay area deacceleration project that's still the case. let me read from the sierra clubs guidelines deacceleration shouldn't be used for water supply needs that can be reached from other water efficient practices. so a project like the bay area deacceleration he promise is not necessary. xhifl we over estimate how much water we were going to need decades ago we thought we needed more. and so what that statement from the sierra club and all the groups that contacting you deacceleration should be the

so, mr. speaker, this is one of those inflexion points in american history and i hope that the house of representatives will insist on real reform in our budget before we vote to increase the public debt one penny. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the entlelady from florida rise? ms. ros-lehtinen: request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady from florida is recognized for one minute. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you so much, mr. speaker. i'm so glad to rise to congratulate a miami teacher who is going above and beyond for our south florida students. mirna betancourt at culinary arts teacher at the south dade education center is miami-dade county's 2015 teacher of the year. working out of her kitchen in the chapman partnership homeless center in homestead, mirna is giving hundreds, thousands of often disadvantaged, special needs or homeless m

so mr. president, i hope you'll see how much we san franciscans value our french county to our character and the quality of our city. you have a standing invitation to visit whatever you want and our doors will be open to you. it's with great honor i hereby present to you the key to the city of san francisco (clapping.) mr. president, >> ladies and gentlemen, i know that in san francisco everybody don't speak in french so i will speak in french. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> mayor ed lee and san francisco thank you for the warm representation and gavin newsom thank you for your kind words and for the support in france. i would like i to greet mayor brown who unfortunately wasn't able to be here because of the circumstances. but >> (speaking foreign language.) >> mr. shooults wants to thank you and pay transcribe to the work he did he's a wonderful man and did steering wheel work and would like to pay transcribe to the work he did over the years. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> in the

so if mr. polis is one of the most -- so -- mr. polis is one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable people in this area of anybody in congress, but if we go through the work arounds we in business would do, i can find no scenario whatsoever in which this would stop the consumer from receiving an unlocked phone if they chose to even if during the -- in the interim basis there were many transactions of 10 or 00,000 phones of bulk sales. it does not prevent the sale of unlocked bulk phones being sold and resold. it does not prevent the bulk sale of locked phones. so you only have to ensure, as i understand the law and i've checked it gevpbs the language, that the unlock occurs in support of the consumer. so though i share the opposition's concern, i believe i've looked through, vetted it, and like mr. polis, as a businessman, i found that it stops no business plan and hurts no consumer. i thank the chairman for bringing this legislation. i urge its support and yield ack. mr. goodlatte: i yield an additional minute to the gentleman.

so, mr. president, by improving the retirement -- private retirement system, bolstering social security, we can do a number of things that take away that dark cloud. we can tell people, we can assure people that they'll be able to save and have a retirement benefit, an annuity every month for as long as they live. secondly, we make it easier for businesses to set it up. third, it creates jobs in our economy by long-term types of investment. so i just say that during this time of economic insecurity, it's more important than ever that working people have the opportunity to prepare for retirement. so i urge my colleagues to help rebuild the pension system in this country by supporting the u.s.a. retirement funds act. mr. president, with that, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to speak about rapid advancements in health care information technology, or health i.t.. health i.t. holds a

so moving on mr. president, next is missouri shall s missouri shall is a chemists chemists and he's been with the city since 1980 and working with the plant he's been a chemists he's a fine individual and a acknowledgingable and working on this project he's a respected and committed employee to our department. he's approached his work in a professional manner i'm sorry to see missouri shall retire and congratulations from all of us missouri shall (clapping) >> good afternoon. >> ma'am, and commission thank you for the principal of service. it was a great honor to serve the city and it was wonderful people and wonderful environment and i hope i had a chance to complete something for the city >> thank you very much for being here (clapping.) >> congratulations. >> thank you, congratulations. >> so next item on my reporter is the water report mr. rich i didn't. >> thank you, steve assistant general manager for water the slides is an update on our water situation looking forward. you know, the total reser

mrs. ludemeyer, thank you so much for joining me today. thank you so much. (cheers and applause) now mrs. ludemeyer, thank you so much for having the courage to speak with me today. i hear you have some damaging revelations about what david wildstein was like as a first grader. >> yes, stephen. he was an untrustworthy little ruffian. one time he said he needed to tink but once he was in the bathroom he just played with the soap dispenser. >> stephen: okay, did you also teach chris christie? >> christopher? (laughs) oh, he was a joy! kids like chrisy are why i teach! definitely presidential material. a born lead we are executive experience. (laughter and applause) mrs. ludemeyer, you're reading off of note cards. did chris christie's people get to you? >> yes. he closed off two lanes of the lunch line. (laughter) i wouldn't endorse him and a week later the class goldfish dropped dead! (audience reacts) i could be next! >> stephen: stay calm, mrs. ludemeyer. >> can i stay here tonight? >> stephen: of course you can! we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) ev

the first time since i have been here and so we don't have a backlog fines from the years coming in any more. >> great. >> and congratulations. >> yeah. >> and mr. st. croix, so you are the 100,000 dollars projections you think that you could capture a quarter of tha. >> we are projecting 73 and change. >> and that 73 and change, is of the $100,000 that was to balance your budget, right? >> we are not a revenue, department, and so, the, anticipated revenue does not impact our budget, like i am forgetting the words, the departments that are... >> okay. >> revenue, and the departments which are revenue producers, we are not. >> and so that does not impact our budget, and just as a point of information, too, when we do our budget, revenue projections for next year, we will probably turn them down to that 77, 75 change. >> what is the reason why those things are not being paid? we have it with the enforcement? >> under the city law, once a revenue is more than 70 days old, we refer it to the department of the revenue and they pursue this in court and what i will do is for example chris jackson was making payments for a while and then stopped and so

mr. litvinenko had met inland in an apparently administered the poison. the plane that they were on the radioactive material traces were found on the plane so i don't think nyone disputes the fact that people came, somebody came from moscow carrying this polonium and that they met with mr. litvinenko and subsequently he got very ill and he died. probably wouldn't have been discovered. it was only discovered at the very last moment that was polonium otherwise he would have just died and no one would have known. there are other people who believe that this was a conspiracy manufactured in britain and boris bear soft sea sea -- boris berezovsky who fled to england that he was somehow involved in all of this although it's never been clear how he was. what makes it even more difficult is the british government which was conducting an inquest was deciding it did want to publish the evidence it has about this particular murder for national security reasons, unspecified -- a unspecified. the assumption is that is because it was somehow implicates some part of the russian government. who knows what? one will know -- never know the truth and when mr. berezovsky app

. >> mr and mrs so, 83 and 91, a heading on to their chicago home for one reason. >> translation: we did not sell the house because we are waiting for or siblings, brothers and sisters from north korea, and we wanted to have a house where they can live. >> like the sos, this woman thought she'd be separated from her father for a week, when he sent the family away from the north. she never saw him again. she doupt nee if -- doesn't know if a brother who also stayed behind is alive. >> we live with a black hole in our hearts. i have stories to tell. millions of the people took the stories with them. >> over the past decade there has been a handful of reunions amongst divided families. years ago stanfield made it her mission to get korean americans involved. she lobbied congress, making korean-american reunions a top priority. it looked like the goal was closer than ever in 2011, but then kim jong-il died and everything stopped. >> we were so close. hopes crashed. i was worried. >> if they don't - their goal. their hope. >> stanfield says to be close and not reach an agreement is devast

so, what have you got for me today ? - rice, olive oil and tomato sauce. - ah. very good. thank you. see you next week. excuse me, mr. week, so i've got to get your order now. oh. just a minute. i'm sorry, jess, but this is going to take a little longer than i thought. in that case, i'm going home. - but what about our game ? - no. we can play some other time. i'll tell you what. why don't we leave the board the way it is... and after the party tonight, we can finish. all right. it really shouldn't take me more than a few minutes to beat you. very funny. so who is going to win the game ? between you and me, i don't think i have a chance. mr. brashov, this is a wonderful party. i wish jess and carol were here. i think carol had to work late, but i'm sure they'll be here any minute. and besides, jess and i have our own business to attend to after the party. ah, the big game. smiles ! i don't want to make the decision. i want us to make the decision. i am just afraid that whatever decision we make, one of us is going to be unhappy. may i have everybody's attention, please ? i would like to take this opportunity... to tha

so, mr. president, that speaks to the funding of this legislation, and i would hope that we would have strong support from all of our colleagues, and with that, i yield the floor. mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, let me thank the distinguished chairman of the veterans' committee for his remarks and for the relentlessness, the enthusiasm and the passion with which he has pursued putting together this extraordinarily strong bill for our veterans. i look forward to supporting it and i commend him for his excellent work. i'm here because every week that the senate is in session, now for 59 weeks, i give my climate speech hoping that someday spark will hit tinder. i could give a whole separate speech about the evil done by the supreme court citizens united decision and i could give a whole separate speech about the gridlock that bedevils the senate. but this week's climate speech will touch all three: citizens unite

so, mr.ry year, participating, offering your reflections. it means a lot to the national prayer breakfast. we're grateful to you. [applause] and to michelle. [applause] and also the vice president has been here every year. and when he was a senator, participated. so, mr. haven't, thank you for -- mr. vice president, thank you for honoring us. [applause] let me read a pass am from scripture and then offer a prayer to conclude. and i want to read the beatitudes because i think it does reflect what world leaders need to be thinking about. these are jesus' words. blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see god. blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of g

discovered then you may say it was a plot but if that is the case it's not clear what was so important about mr. litvinenko to take chances. the russian soldiers use polonium. there were many cheaper and easier ways to get rid of this little kgb hoodlum. so there was a major informational scandal and huge uncertainty that the russian government decided to use nuclear material to kill somebody in london. we don't really know. is this correct? >> guest: i think it's correct. the problem is all of these things again are shrouded in obscurity and mr. berezovsky was largely responsible for putting mr. putin in the kremlin. he then fell out of approval when it became clear that mr. putin was going to take charge and mr. berezovsky was not going to be able to do what he was doing before so yes i think nobody really knows. no one will ever know and i think we are in a situation where it it partly has to do with the way that people made their money in the 1990s. you can refer back again to what was going on politically and behind the scenes. nobody really knew so that's it period about which many people

mr. lopez helped to organize. while tensions continue to be high, so far it's been rather peaceful. >>> moving to president obama, issued a warning to uganda today. in a statement mr. obama said i am so deeply disappointed that uganda would shortly enact legislation that will cril criticallize homosexuality. uganda gets more money from the united states than any other nation, over $400 million a year. >>> hydrouponic, the expensive approach to help feed the hungry. >>> plus a heartbreaking consequence in colorado, rebecca. >> we are in the midst of a historic avalanche cycle. we have an avalanche advisory and warnings in other states. i'll show you how much snow is moving in next. the most important money stories of the day might effect your savings, your job or your retirement. whether it's bail-outs or bond rates this stuff gets complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real. >> secretary of state john kerry says the world must work together to tackle climate change. he dismissed those who refused to recognize

mr. speaker, but that we have replaced taxation in this country with regulation. so rarely does someone come down and say i want to tax an industry, what they will come down and say, i want to regulate an industry. in my great state of georgia, mr. speaker, we are regulating jobs right out of existence. we don't have to tax them out of existence, we don't have to outlaw an industry, we just regulate it out of existence. perhaps there's some industry this is a need to be regulated out of existence. we should have that full, open debate on the floor of the house. but what is absolutely certain is that the american people need to be able to understand the power of the regulatory process, the impact it has on jobs and economic development in their community and today in statute, mr. speaker, there's a requirement that the administration twice a year publish a notice of all those regulations that are being considered and what their impact is anticipated to be. but we have had instances, as recently as 2012, mr. speaker, where the administration just ignored that statute a

mr. sanchez, not so much mr. norwood. you show no remorse to the family here. that is unfortunate. >> what you both did late in the evening in the dark at dodger stadium was cowardly. >> your lack of regret makes me dystopias you more. >> the years you get in prison are what you deserved. >> louie sanchez got eight years, marvin norwood. bryan is permanently disabled. >>> we learned some prime cuts of meat will no longer be in bay area stores, betty yu has the story. >> reporter: all of this is because of a huge recall involving a bay area slaughterous. >> we have to have these slaughterhouses available for our local farmers or there is no way to get the product to the consumer. >> reporter: they know what they are talking about. they are part of the grass fed beef industry. but the closing of the slaughter house means it will be harder to get this beef to your dinner table. >> the impact, we probably won't survive. >> reporter: they are sits on more than 100,000 pounds of frozen meat from over 400 cows and out $300,000 because of the rancho feeding corporation

mr. snowden. so now we are at a point where we are working together and we have to work together in syria, but where president obama himself has said we have to take a pot of and how you want this relationship to move forward. president obama surrogate a lame-duck president. >> when we talk about democracy, one problem in my view at least we have that the russian government more broadly with the russian political elite that almost nobody believes in american sincerity. it goes back as far as i'm concerned to the clinton. particularly elections in 1996, i remember vividly meeting with secretary of state and i think you are there where i said they just came back from moscow, that yeltsin was found to win this election. a couple of people and state department officials did not like what they said. they said what is your evidence? i was taken aback at them asking this question. he late to work the bush administration at that time in moscow and they were reporting objectively how yeltsin with their electi

so, i'd like to ask if mr. frye can do a little bit more research and inform us of the process to, once again, reopen that part of the registry so that we don't have this problem 20 years from now, that, you know, the same issue is going to come up, that we need to remove the maple trees for whatever reason. i think we can clear it up right now, that would be the better alternative to go. >> thank you, commissioner. anyone else? commissioner johnck. >> gentlemen, i got an e-mail from jerry [speaker not understood], long time reporter for the san francisco chronicle. he and i have been friends a long time. he said, ellen, do you know anything about the sale -- do you know the sale of the concord ia, ~ the corner of sutter and van ness, there is a for sale sign up. thank you. and want to know when a for sale sign goes up on a potentially, you know, on a resource, potential resource, what to do about it, what information is available on it. i guess i didn't know how to answer him. ~y -- want to know how to answer h

saying that ukraine's not national security structure she would not include nato membership so why on earth didn't mr rasmussen so something like you know ukraine has opted for non-alignment and we need to respect that decision ok instead of the fact that we could be a recognition of reality he kept up this idea that nato must be new credit must be part of nato you know there's a lot of criticism of nato is that either it expands or it ceases to exist how do you react to that characterization i wouldn't see the tradeoff whether it expands or seizes to exist actually i think it can keep on going if it does not think it can save loose steps like like offering again to ukraine or even georgia the prospect of becoming a member. would like to pick up on what martin was saying i mean it's true nato has no single pole pose any longer as it used to have during the cold war of course it has now i mean it has been suffering a sort of crisis away don't it for twenty years and even more now but i said think that nato is even though it now it is more so. of a car is still relies on a very strong bargain i mean. a