mr. brooks? >> good evening, one more time, green party and local grassroots organization and city. and so it is really awesome to see that this is happening. and i would urge you and caution you to leave yourself plenty of time that night to run late because i don't live in the bay view, but because of my work, i have stood in herings and many other venues side by side with the bay view residents and especially around the toxic waste sites and just i must have been the scores of hearings at city hall and the board of supervisors and other agencies, and san francisco public utilities commission and the residentses of the bay view gets up over and over and over and over again. and raise very serious issues about impacts on their neighborhood. and rarely get listened to. and so you are going into a community that is very frustrated and has not been heard much. and that includes on the votes for things that go down in the neighborhood. and it took, i don't know, how many decades it took to get the w

mr. brooks? >> i am eric brooks and it is spec tack lawyer to see that the department is doing the accident job of reducing the waste even though the volume is going up, and similar cases in cal where electricity is going up and we are kind of keeping the production flat by doing a lot of conservation but the department has gone beyond that lowered the waste and that was accident and there was one part of the presentation that needs more, and that is the part regarding recycling plastic. it is very important that the public watching this understands that plastic recycling is largely ineffective. the previews on this is that over all plastic, only 5 percent of the plastic that you put in those bins gets recycled. and even the most recycled products which are kind of the pvc, coke bottles, ten percent or less of those get recycled the rest of that plastic material, much of it ends up in informally as the narrow developing countries overseas, and in the landfills because we don't have enough landfill

mr. brookes. next speaker. >>> hello, commissioners, judd holtz man again from 350 bay area. i won't take too much time just to point out that mr. brookes and the advocate coalition and lafco would be the two entities who have worked the longest and the hardest on making this program what i understand the commission also wants it to be. and i would urge the commission to look at the representative of lafco and the representative of the advocates and listen very closely to what they are urging you to do as folk who didn't last check in on this in september, but have been doing this day in and day out. i also would just support commissioner wald's comments that it's all of our responsibilities as citizens, as advocacy organizations and certainly as the commission on the environment to make sure that this happens and that convincing ourselves that this could be a one-top check box everything is going to be okay and then we stop paying attention is both unrealistic and will probably result in negative program outcomes going forward. thanks. >> thank you. other speakers? >>> [spea

mr. brooks? >> hi, eric brooks, san francisco, pride and local grassroots organization in the city to speak in strong up support of this motion of all of the building trade in this city and i think that you know the building trades and the environmentalists don't always get on the same page of that stuff, of all of the building trades in the city the limit is most often on the same page and willing to stick its neck out for environmental issues is local 261. and this is a great union, that often can be relied upon to step out and do the right thing on the environment. and i just want to add a little bit to the part of the resolution and i will comment on the part of the resolution, or it is about forming a relationship with the local 261 and getting more work together with them because i try to say this politely rec and park and even though they made use of this program has not maximized the use of union labor in their programs and has sought at times to outsource instead of using all of these ga

mr. brooks. >> any other comments? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and perhaps since we are still handling logistics through the operations maybe we can move this to off line, i would be happy to help around scheduling but that does souped sound like we are down to one of two dates and we have great ideas from donny and some insight tonight and is sounds like there is a direction to find the resources to do this and the support from the public and unless there is any other discussion, i don't know that there is any action to be taken. seeing no further discussion, thank you, everyone. could we look at item 11. >> discussion and options for the commission of the environment annual retreat and policy committee input and continued from the august 6th meeting and sponsor and speaker gravanis and wald and it is a informational and report and discussion item. >> thank you very much. first i need to say that on behalf of commissioner gravanis who i have not actually talked to but she is of course very sorry to miss this meeting. she almost never misses any

mr. brooks' comments about the financial workshop, this would really provide an avenue for convincing the puc staff that we do have large amount of funds available to support the buildout that we all want. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. seeing no -- yes. >>> for the public record, mr. hunter stern has submitted public comment and some ibew local 1245 asking that the commission do their duty and in the weeks ahead demand the [speaker not understood] environmental review that will calculate just how much a shell contract will increase [speaker not understood] and other pollutants. ~ monica. >> okay, thank you, monica. now we had this quick clarifying, which was about the sfpuc position with respect to said environmental review, or c-e-q-a analysis, i guess was [speaker not understood], commissioner wald. >> i won't comment on the merits, but i will say that the city attorneys are aware ibew's claim that c-e-q-a applies before the commission can make a decision. and i am following their advice on that in whatever i do. i would also add that marin energy authority, the cca in marin co

mr. brooks? this is what every one of you ought to be doing. why do you call yourself a republican if all you want to dupe is lay down and agree with obama and the democrats why. don't you switch parties if it is so much better over there. what in the world has is he supposed to do. he was isn't there to stop this. he was sent to washington, specifically, to try to stop some of this. and the popular assumption, mr. brooks among most republican voters that's what the republican party at large is supposed to be doing. >> nbc news is reporting tonight that as of now -- the kamikaze mission is likely a go. the latest house republican leadership plan is to pass a bill that continues funding the government at a lower level and -- and defunds obamacare. joining me now is former economist for vice president biden, jared bernstein, congressman steve latourette, and crystal ball. former congressman latourette, don't you miss the place, wish you were there to work this one out? >> the good news i left in january. after watching it i decided i really wasn'

mr. brooks? >> good evening, again, eric brooks, san francisco green party local grassroots organization. and our city and san francisco clean energy advocates, first i want to second commissioner king's proposal and there is new evidence coming out that the tire chrome that goes under a lot of these artificial turf fields is very, is more toxic than was previously believed, and particularly for children and wild life. and we need to analyze that much more closely. because the new evidence on that is showing that we should not be using this stuff. >> and there are all, there are alternatives to the tire crumb. >> i am against any plastic turf and there are alternatives and i think that the best one is grass. >> and then on the clean power sf, issue, and i just want to make sure that to reiterate yes, the, the advocates want in the next meeting, and i mean hopefully not taking a lot of time in that meeting if it is in the bay view and the next meeting for the commission to take a stand on this iss

mr. brooks? >> i apologize for being a serial commenter but you have so many important things on your list today that i want to chime in on this one. doing such survey and analysis in the bay view hunter's point can't come soon enough. you know, as i am sure that you all know that the neighborhood that been under high stress for a long time because it is targeted for a lot of different environmental ills and factories and the waste disposal and sewage processing and you name it. and maybe, it used to be there. and as it happens, just over the weekend, the green action for health and environmental justice, hunter's view, mothers and father community for the health and environmental justice, 350, and san francisco, green, party, treasure island health network and we all had an event around the big and you noticed that there was a national 350 event and talking about getting rid of the keystone xl pipeline and what all of the scores of communities and in the united states that took putting that were

mr. brooks? >> good evening, again, commissioners, sorry but commissioner wald opened up the possibility to comment on this and so i am going to take the opportunity because it is important when you raised the issue of clean power sf i was glad to hear that and i i would add to that to explore what the staff for the staff to work and not only with the sfpuc and the board of supervisors but specifically with the local agency formation commission in san francisco. the reason that i say that, is that there were two big times and other times in the past when clean power sf was halted by the sfpuc and the advocates felt that both time in the unwarranted fashion, and one was in 2004 when the original ordinance was passed to start the clean power sf and the no comment, this is no comment on the current, and but the staff then, literally refused to draw up the implementation plan for the program and it took, when it was form, it was largely formed to accept pardon the clean power sf as a city agency proj

mr. brooks. [inaudible]. welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioners, if i understand correctly, the only bidder for the contract when that contract was let go was with shell and it is a transition contract, a small p-e-r-c-e-n-t-a-g-e time you as an organization could be full speed ahead with local jobs, local people, even developing rec that could be purchased by other groups, one week ago today i walked into my classroom, my first course is environmental science, we won't focus on the science, i want to comment on some policy and politics and i would love to walk into that classroom and discuss with them the progress that the city is making in moving towards 100% renewable, clean energy, make no mistake, we will discuss the policy x the politics on the issue and i hope that's what i'm putting in front of them, i'm going to be teaching my 10th graders meteorologist, they will be seeing what's known oz a hock ke stick graph, the increase in carbon dioxide and we will talk about policy, and i hope this group mo

mr. rogers: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from indiana, brooks. mr. brooks: over 10,000 jobs have been lost o'announced loss. the tax on medical innovation since the beginning of this year has killed these jobs. jobs like 1700, and boat labs, 300 to 400, cook medical in indiana, zimmer, 450. 20,000 people of indiana are employed by the medical device in indiana. many across the country. the average wage is $60,000. this tax can result in a loss of over 45,000 jobs nationwide and it is hurting people with diseases and these innovations that these companies produce helps save lives. they do help people with their diseases with their debilitating -- things that are happening with their bodies. it's not an exaggeration to say this tax has deadly results. for months, i heard there is bipartisan support. where is it? i yield back. mrs. lowey: i'm pleased -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: i yield one minute to the distinguished the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison. mr. ellison: this bill shuts down the government. the

mr. brooks, all your charges been dismissed, you're free to go." that was exciting, like, "ooh."it felt so good. and forensic experts, like dr. west and hayne, they should not never be able to practice no more med... no nothing, in this state, in no kind of state, because of what they did to us, and maybe other people. >> bergman: citing ongoing lawsuits, doctors hayne and west declined to be interviewed. in 2008, the innocence project wrote to the mississippi state medical board, stating that dr. hayne is "a danger to the public" and should not be allowed to testify. dr. hayne is suing the innocence project for defamation. the case is expected to go to trial later this year. meanwhile, he continues to testify. among the various qualifications he cites is a certificate from acfei. >> there she is, guys, we got her, you can see her, she is coming out the front door right here. unbelievable... >> bergman: after 33 days of testimony, the defense prevailed. casey anthony was found not guilty of murder and released. >> this case utilized every single type of forensic science. they thr

mrs. brooks: i rise today, madam speaker, to discuss the economy and jobs.he white house believes we're moving in the right direction, but for most americans, especially those 4.3 million americans who've been out of work for more than 27 weeks, that is just not good enough. progress is not happening. sadly, our nation's labor participation rate now stands since %, the lowest rate 1978. the dues for our younger americans is even more sobering. student debt loan toppled $1 trillion, and a recent poll found that 41% of recent college graduates were underemployed relative to their education, making paying off those student loans extremely hard. and what can we do to speed up job creation? well, folks from the indiana chamber of commerce visited me this week and they said we must reduce uncertainty. washington can do that by solving our fiscal challenges, reforming our regulatory system and stopping the job-killing taxes set up by obamacare. house republicans have a clear plan to create jobs and stimulate our economy and it's time for our friends across the aisl

mr. brooks, for ive minutes. mr. brooks: mr. speaker, president obama, without consulting congress or the american people, intervened in libya civil war, resulting in the murder of four americans, including our ambassador in benghazi, while creating yet another fertile terrorist recruiting ground. repeating the libya mistake in september, 2012, the obama administration declared that america will intervene in syria's civil war and work, quote, to support a syrian opposition to hasten the day when assad falls, end quote. shortly thereafter, i stood on this floor, stated my opposition to america's intervening in yet another civil war, and argued that, quote, america must stop spending our treasury and risking american lives for those who neither appreciate our sacrifices nor believe in basic liberties like freedom of religion and freedom of speech, end quote. i have participated in classified hearings with secretary of state john kerry, national security advisor susan rice and many others. i have listened to president obama. the ar

mr. brooks for five minutes. >> mr. speaker, president obama without consulting continue or the american people intervened in libya civil war resulting in the murder of four americans including our ambassador in benghazi while creating yet a lot recruiting ground. repeating the libya mistake in september 2012, the obama administration declared that america will intervene in syria's civil war and work, quote, to support a syrian opposition to hasten the day when assad falls. end quote. shortly trft i -- national security adviser susan rice and many others. and i have listened to president obama. the argument for attacking syria are on unpersuasive. and substantially different circumstance consistent with my 2012 opposition to intervening in syria's civil war, i will vote against attacking syria if and when congress has that vote. there's not the required pub. lick. americans oppose attacking syria by a two to run ratio. alabama's fifth congressional district 1,272 citizens have contacted my office about syria. 1,267 citi

mr. brooks: as chair of the homeland subcommittee on emergencied preparedness communications and as congressionalo-chair of the national preparedness month, i urge all members to promote preparedness activities in their districts. encourage your constituents to build and maintain emergency kits, develop an exercise emergency plans and participate in local preparedness activities. i also urge members to learn more about how local response organizations are using social media and encourage your constituents to follow local responders on twitter and facebook. national preparedness month is also a good time to thank our firefighters, police officers, emergency managers and their families whose persistent sacrifices make our country more secure and more prepared. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, a report released last week by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration examined the relationship between climat

mr. turner. >> good afternoon. i'm brooke turner. many of the concerns that the organization have or had are addressed by ms. new. one that wasn't addressed was our concern about the hardship exuding of non-liquid assets. you may have a tenant who's cash poor but own property but don't have the cash, of course, to address or to pay for that rent increase. we certainly understand by is that something that's part of this legislation of people who may be somewhat weight would be given a havrp because their cash poor. that's a question i have important you >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please mr. collier. >> good afternoon. i'm with the toirpd housing client. the same assets for standards would apply and those standards are already laid out in the mayor's office of housing protocol and i don't think you can oppose property and retirement accounts should be exempt because people won't have no retirement money and get evicted for not having the rent. so we're going feeling in a time of rising rents. my history of doing this for

mr. brooks: i would like to recognize medal of honor recipient from the state of a ama and to honor colonel constituent of mine. colonel myes was in the united states army, third infantry division and awarded the medal of honor for courage in 1953 in korea. his company was responsible for the defense of a vital position that was attacked by a well organized enemy force. colonel myes he rescued a friend who had fallen. following the successful rescue, he returned to his post and dug in. although under duress, he held the line fighting to keep his men safe. the colonel protected his fellow soldiers, called in artillery support and led a successful counterattract. for his courage and valor that i'm proud to honor and remember the actions of the colonel and the fourth district of alabama, the state of alabama and united states congress is very honored to recognize the work that he did in korea. i yield back. . . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker.

.> we will see mrs. brooks will be recognize. >> thank you, mr. chair. respect .o the location issues as we look at the reauthorization of the perkins act i'm curious what you think the most important thing the federal government can do to help ensure that all students -typeaccess to cte programs. as the mother of a son who graduated high school a few years ago, i wish he had done more cte programs. then i have also been employed in the community college system. going back more with respect to my son, a large public high school, yet these programs are typically located at career education centers far away unless you have a fabulous technical high school. not every child is going to choose that. as they are exploring ideas, if they leave and go off-campus for that half day for those programs , they are missing the other college prep and advanced placement they need to go to college. we have a very big disconnect between our other academic rogue rams and these academic programs which people don't call them academic programs but i think they should. we had

an old friend and senior fellow at the brookings institute. mr. kagan. now you and i over the years have talked a lot about iraq and you are a learned scholar and incredibly prolific writer. in the end when you look at this today, hat the administration not lost ground in the past week when they tried to sell this war, justify the war and maybe even circumscribe the length, the duration and commitment in this war? >> i think they have clearly lost ground and not just this past week. the public mood really shouldn't be that surprising when you consider that for five years president obama has been telling the american people that they should be nation-building at home, not involved overseas. we should be be getting out of the middle east and we shouldn't be doing this kind of thing. now he turns on a dime and says it's a big threat and we have to do something about it i'm not at all surprised that the american people have whiplash in this situation. so, he has a huge job to do and they are not doing it very well to try to explain to the american public wha

mr. edgar, if that's agreeable to benjamin wittes is a senior fellow in governance studies at the brookings institution. he is editor-in-chief of lawfare, how they regarded nine ideological national security law blog. this blog is regally read by members and staff come and understand that mr. wittes has, on occasion, consulted with our committee staff. so thank you for your frequent commentary and/or availability. you are the author of several books, a member of the hoover institution task force on national security and law. you have previously served as an editorial writer for the "washington post," specializing in legal affairs. and as a reporter and news editor at legal time. ur graduate of oberlin college. tim edgar is a visiting fellow at the watson institute or international studies at brown university. and an adjunct professor of law at georgetown university law center. he served under president obama as the first director of privacy and civil liberties for the white house national security staff. focusing on cybersecurity, open government and data privacy initiatives. from '06-'09 h

mr. speaker, i rise today to honor dr. clarence brooks, a man dedicated to his family, community and friends. mr. veasey: dr. brooks was a generous man who committed his life serving community. his life spanned 61 years and two generations. he graduated from howard university in 1975 at the age of 24 and as the youngest member of his class, he was recognized as the number one student medical family practice. >> the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: please take your conversations off the floor. mr. veasey: he returned to his hometown of fort worth and joined his family practice, brooks clinic, which was founded by his father and uncle. dr. brooks acted as a medical director of two nursing homes, delivered babies and worked hospital rotations at two local hospitals. in 1976, dr. brooks was named president of the texas sickle cell anemia foundation and talked about the benefits of being tested. he believed in giving back to the community. dr. clarence brooks supported young people, realizing their passion in medicine, music and

mr. capnerhurst? >> yes, sir. >> having young brook parker testify was controversial but her aunt knew brook believedr was innocent and wanted to take the stand. >> she had some information that needed to be given, and she did what she felt like she needed to do. >> she wanted the jury to hear her story, no matter how difficult it was to tell. >> i witnessed them talking about how he was giving the gun to bryan. i'm not lying about that. i was there. i remember. >> it was a tragedy that had stirred up the quiet waters of this carolina community and soon a jury would have to decide who was to blame. but before they did, the defense wanted them to hear from the only person alive who really knew what happened in the house that day pr that day, brett parker himself. >> never hurt her. i would never hurt tammy. never have. >> but would the jury believe him? the verdict, when we come back. >>> what really happened inside that ascot estates home? in court brett parker confidently took the stand, eager to tell his version of the events. first he wanted the jury to know he's marriage was hardly the wreck the

mr. speaker, i had meetings with others in addition to my duties, i will have more today. >> annette brooks. >> i am sure the whole house will wish to associate themselves with the prime minister's comments on this anniversary. we are haunted by images from syria. millions of people needing aid, children guiding. i think the prime minister for his leadership at the d -- g-20. will he now prepare a concrete ton of what steps to take gain international support prior to the united nations general assembly later this month? i think the lady is absolutely right to raise this issue. syria becomes a refugee -- a syrian becomes a refugee every 15 seconds. there are millions of people in need of assistance. the u.n. appeal is only 44% subscribed. there is a shortage of money. we have a plan. between now and the assembly, to encourage other countries to come forward with money and also to back up amos and her campaign. that means including priority humanitarian routes into the country, cutting bureaucracy and humanitarian pauses in the conflict so it can get through. she will have our backing and sup

joining me from washington, a senior fellow with the brookings institution, specialist in russian studies. co-author of mrin operative in the kremlin. good to see you. >> thank you. >> so, what is mr. putin's motivation here for supporting syria? is it simple? >> it's not simple. there are a list of interests that russia has in syria, but there are two main reasons why putin regards what's happening there in the threat of a strike as particularly risky for russia. >> what are they? >> it's all about russia. russia first and russia last. the first is the fact that the u.s. seems to be a serial interventionist for putin, going around toppling regimes and not thinking about the consequences. none of these iraq, libya, even attributing what happened in libya in the united states has ended up well. it creates instability and leetds to a strengthening of radical islam. the second risk that putin sees is more to him personally and that is the precedent for interference in the domestic affairs of other could countrie. he is a project for russia. he wants to create a unique russian identity with russian values. he

mr. president, i believe that supervisor breed. >> thank you. colleagues i just wanted to be relieved because i'd like to introduce my resolution for marcus brooks on the actual complif agenda since this board of supervisors has taken a real interest in making sure we move this through and it's effective for the family who is currently struggling to work out the details >> the supervisors i want to thank. thank you all so much for supporting this and i'm asking colleagues to move this forward as an item to move on today in the agenda. >> madam clerk is that the end of roll call. mr. president, that includes the right to life pr i know there's a number of folks here as well as for general public comment why - >> those items require an 8 vote threshold and supervisors must meet two thresholds with an is the finding and the brown finding. so with the imperfect agenda item we need to make several items first year first, i want to say that supervisor breed has made a motion. first on the motion there is a series injury can i have a second to that motion? >> and let's take a motion on the brown act finding that supervisor breed has made. before we ado

mr. seiko, you need to respond to me. so we know you are all right. let's go a little bit more. okay. okay. >> joel brooksing 12 years for assault. his adversary, john seiko, is serving a six-year sentence for sexual assault. our cameras were there when officers interrogated them about the fight. >> what was this all about? >> well, he's a rapist. i was talking with an inmate in the meal line about it with him. >> you were talking about his crime with a prisoner. >> i was talking with a prisoner about him being a rapist. he said, you aren't [ bleep ]. i said, you're not. >> i told him to stop talking about me and i repeated it. and he said, what are you going to do? and i repeated it again, stop talking about me. and then he walked up to me in my face and said, now what are you going to do? >> five minutes later he bum rushed me. >> don't come at me. >> slammed me against the wall. >> i put my hand in his face. i don't know what i did after that. >> he starts scratching my face. i grabbed him around the waist and threw him on the floor and hit him twice in self-defense to get him let go of my neck. i have

brook. our second when this is mr.stanton dodge, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for dish network. he is responsibresponsib le for all legal and government affairs for dish and its subsidiaries. he received his bs in accounting from the university of vermont. third witness is mr. gerald waldron, partner at arnold and porter. he has spent more than 25 years in public policy, has practice focusing on communication and technology. mr. walberg received his ba degree from university of virginia. chairman goodlatte has not permission and it is our next witness. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's my pleasure to welcome our for the witness and my constituent, mr. earle mackenzie, executive vice president and chief operating officer of shentel cable testimony on behalf of the american cable association. with 35 years of telecom experience, he is response before shentel's day operations of its many subsidiaries. is received his ba in accounting from the college of william and mary. welcome. were glad to hav

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brooks will be recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i should think i know where congresswoman davis was going because i'm curious with respect to the location issues. as we looking at reauthorization of the perkins act, i'm curious what you think the most important thing the federal government can do to help ensure that all students have access to cte type of programs. as mother of a son graduate from high school a couple of years ago, i wished he had done more cte programs, but as you've mentioned, and then i also been employed at the community college system but my point is going back to more with respect to my son, large public high school, and they get cte programs are typically located far, their career at centers far away from the traditional high school in much of a feckless technical high school, which i love that concept, ma not every child will choose that. and as their explained careers and ideas, if they live in go off campus for that half a day, for those programs, they are missing the other college prep and advanced place