mr. brooks from alabama. mr. brooks: i want to emphasize a few points about america's immigration situation. the first point is this, america has been far and away the most generous nation in world history when it comes to allowing foreigners to come onto our soil, when it comes to allowing foreigners to receive our most cherished right, citizenship. in that veen, i would like to share with you some information from the department of homeland security aufings of imdwration statistic, it covers data from 2011 going backwards. first, with respect to legal status, the numb of people we as a country allow to have permanent legal status in the united states of america, in 2011, was 1,062,000 foreigners in that one year were fwiven legal status who had not previously had legal permanent resident status. let's go back 50 years to 1963. it was 306,260 that were given legal permanent resident status. i.e., today, we're even more generous than we were a half century ago. today we're giving three times as many legal permanen

mr. brooks. next? >> hi, again, i'm (inaudible) of the local clean energy alliance and i am here to speak in support of the most competitive program possible and in bringing down the rate cap to 11.5, moves us to being more competitive and so we support that and we are very happy to see it come down from where it was at 14.5, and really we want to thank the sfpc staff for working with advocates to do that and like i mentioned this morning it is a victory for the staff and for the advocate groups that we are looking at a proposal of 11.5 today. and you know, this morning, i want to remind you that this is not-to-exceed and this is the cap that protects the consumers from price increases and the actual rate can be much lower and as we look around regionally, we are seeing the power and launching for the plan for the early 2014, where they got 11 bidders for the rfp and four finalists and looking at ranges in the 78 cents and the pg&e and offering 11 percent clean option to the residents and the priority

mr. brooks. >> good afternoon one last time. eric brooks representing san francisco green party local grass-roots organization "our city" and as coordinator for the ceqa improvement team and make sure and i think we reached an agreement and eyes wide open here and i don't believe and maybe the city attorney can confirm and anything in the new text and with the amendments says that we can't use this process for a subsequent modification, and if we are not able to appeal subsequent modifications i don't think we would support this but i don't think it says that so i wanted to clarify that so you supervisor are aware of it. >> i don't understand the point you're making. can you restate -- >> in your remarks you seemed to indicate we're only able to use this once on one modification -- >> no, no. >> okay. then we got it, and so the main thing i wanted to say it's amazing nine plus months. all sides were playing some hard poker at the very beginning but i think as we got through this process we finally realized for the first time in 1

mr. brooks: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 72 printed in house report 113-170 offered by mr. brooks of alabama. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 312, the gentleman from alabama, mr. brooks, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama. mr. brooks: mr. chairman, my amendment prohibits funds to implement or execute any nontreaty executive agreement with russia regarding missile defense or to provide russia with information about america's ballistic missile defense systems, both classified and unclassified. the reason the amendment says classified and unclassified is to prohibit the administration from declassifying missile defense technology to skirt the law. a similar amendment was passed with bipartisan support to this act last year and is included in the current continuing resolution that is funding our government during this fiscal year. multi

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mrs. brooks: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank my friend, the gentleman from colorado, for working with me on this amendment, as well as my colleague, mrs. mcmorris rodgers, for her thoughtful comments, particularly with respect to her state. and for their support on this issue. i believe this will go a long way toward guaranteeing our students are ready and that our teachers are ready to teach our students that they can be ready for that 21st century job market. i encourage all members to support this bipartisan amendment and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman from indiana right fields back the balance of her time -- indiana yields back the balance of her time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from indiana. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it's now in order to consider amendment number 17 printed in house report 113-158. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek rec

mr. brooks. >> you just love... >> yes, i do. >> thank you very much. i just wanted to... >> you represent 6,000 members? >> yes, i do, i am here representing 6,000 san francisco club members and member more supporters in addition to that. i just wanted to remind the president torres of the comment that you made this morning in the lafco meeting that he wanted to wait on passing the not-to-exceed rates so that we can have a few more weeks of conversation with labor and if we can't come to the agreement. >> then, well, we want to have a very healthy discussion and hope that we can all come to a place where we work forward together and i am glad to see that the advocates and the staff are pushing for ward at this point for the same goal. but i would love to see the advocates for the program of labor do the same and i just want to remind you that you wanted to have a couple weeks to have a discussion. >> i am reminded of what i said. i know what i said. >> i want to put it in the public record. >> i just did when i said it. >> if we can't come to an agreem

mr. brooks. >> good afternoon supervisors. eric brooks representing san francisco green party and the local grass roots organization "our city." one of the issues that we worked on was formula retail and getting a lot of restrictions put on against it so i want to definitely applaud supervisor kim for going after interim protections. just from a global perspective i would say even though i'm a californian and i spend time in the midwest where there is no protection against formula retail and it's like living inside of a cement shopping mall. it's a real drag and the best way to ruin san francisco economy is not put restrictions on formula retail. another issue is no matter how good a formula retail installation is for a neighborhood, no matter the face lift it gives, you still have the issue that a large amount of the money made at the business, even if hiring local people, a large part of the money leaves the economy and doesn't come back and the more it's with local businesses the money will stay in the area and that comes t

mr. brooks. >> good afternoon supervisors. eric brooks san francisco green party andow city. i just want to make sure we put forward our thanks to supervisor chiu for doing this in the first place and as soon as you're ready to fight this again we will your back again. there are lots of us in the environmental and neighborhood communities are are ready to g don't be shy and let's fight this to the best extent that we can. >> is there any additional public comment on item nine? seeing none public comment is closed. is there a motion to forward this with recommendation to the full board as a committee report? >> so moved. >> without objection? that the order. madam clerk can you please call item 10? >> item 10 is for the administrative code for the environmental review officer and determination of exempt modification. doesn't require a new decision under ceqa. >> supervisor kim you are the author of item number 10. >> thank you. so we're coming to the end of a very long ceqa journey that was initiated by supervisor wiener. this is the last piece of what i believe is a compromis

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

mr. brooks from alabama. mr. brooks: thank you, mr. gohmert. i have a firm belief that if the people understand the truth, then they'll make the right decision. there have been a number of arguments advanced by the other side on this immigration/illegal alien debate that are misleading at best. i'm going to touch on a couple of them, with your permission. first and foremost, there is the argument advanced that our economy is going to do better and hence americans will do better. half of that is right. bear in mind that the senate gang of eight bill legalizes, at a minimum, 11 million illegal aliens who are now present in the united states of america. also bear in mind that over the next decade, according to the department of homeland security report, the senate of -- senate gang of eight bill will bring into america, lawfully, roughly 33 million foreigners. who are not here presently. now put those numbers together. 11 million legalized plus 33 million coming in, lawfully, and that totals 44 million lawful workers added to the american work for

mr. brooks told us earlier, mr. speaker, about $1,300 a year is a-- is attributable in lost income strictly because wages are depressed because illegal aliens are working for less than the american people. i say, mr. speaker, it's the american people first. it is american wages first. it is american benefit packages first. what in the world are we doing, mr. speaker, if we aren't thinking about how we can create more jobs for the american people first? and higher wages for the american people first, and more benefits for the american people first. why did the president two weeks ago have to unilaterally have a press conference, release a press statement, that's a way, apparently, he governs these days, and say that he his employer mandate for big businesses will have to be delayed a year. why did he have to do that? because he knows it simply doesn't work. and yet, if we have legalization for illegal aliens in the united states, we will see that very quickly, we will have literally tens of millions of new people who

mr. brooks is basically a repository of knowledge about parks. he basically said he couldn't even remember when there was a discussion. it was pretty obvious now that we have this debate anyway. i want to tell you two things with respect to substance. first, you and i have talked about this question of trying to make sure you get the money where the need is and be more creative the better. i want you to know i'm going to work with you particularly with the respect to the issue i touched on earlier because the fee revenue expires in december of 2014. that would be one place to really look very concretely that one of the ideas that you have been there. apparently her efforts are underway to make creative ways to do it so we will look at that. on this endowment issue you basically have -- because this is an area i am am convinced where there just won't be one champion in the united states ,-com,-com ma there will be a lot of champions and we are going to pursue that very vigorously and i've already begun some of that discussion. so thank you. i thin

mr. mandela is in a critical but stable condition. brooke, we heard from mr. be uncomfortable, very few times he is in pain. she is saying today that mr. mandela is fine. so that's why i have to stress, brooke, that this document, it seems, was written on the 26th of june. so we don't know whether mr. mandela's health has improved since then. or, you know, we should be asking questions about the information that we've been getting from the presidency, brooke. >> i know it's been difficult getting information from the hospital. but, you know, it's a family and their loved one is ailing and it's a confidentiality issue i know as well. we'll be right back. h mikel-claire. so you check all the weekly ads to get the best sale prices? i do! do you think you can get the same great prices all in one place with walmart's low price guarantee? let's see. ok. every bbq's got to have... chips! walmart's always working to lower costs so you get more savings. hot dogs! you're going to knock it out of the park. you found a lower advertised price but walmart will match that ri

. >> joining us now is michael o'hanl o'hanlon, a senior fellow the brookings institution. mr.ours, both sides have agreed to a nine-month timetable but what is the specific goal here? because as you just heard, nobody, nobody is suggesting anything but that this is probably al impossible assignment. >> yeah, it's a great question. you know, i think it's tough. it's maybe near impossible. but i wouldn't rule it out. there are a couple of reasons to have hope. one is that, of course, even prime minister netanyahu of israel who is seen as a hawk has to worry about a couple of trends in security. one of which is, of course, that the palestinian population inside of israel proper is growing. if he believes in keeping a jewish majority state forever as he surely does, then the idea of a two-state solution has to be of some appeal because otherwise, palestinians can outnumber israelis some day in the broad area that he or his successor would govern. secondly this temporary lull in terrorist activity won't last forever. and the broader region's con fla ration could affect israel if th

mr. brooks is basically a repository of knowledge about parks, basically said he couldn't even remember when there was a discussion. so it's pretty obvious now that we have this debate underway. i want to tell you two things with respect to substance. first you and i have talked about this question of trying to make sure you get the money where the need is and in particularly being more creative about it. i want you to know i'm going to work with you or to go do with the respect to the issue i touched on earlier because the fee revenue expires in december 2014. that would be one place to really look very concretely but one of the ideas you have been there apparently are efforts underway and there may be creative ways to do it so we are going to look at that. on this endowment issue, he basically had me at hello because this is an area i am convinced where there just won't be one champion in the united states, there will be a lot of champions and we are going to pursue that very vigorously. i have already had some of that discussion so thank you. i think you've seen the interest among the sen

mr. payne for five minutes when opening statement. >> chairman brooks, ranking member payne, and members of the subcommittee, you for the opportune to speak with you today. my nana's jason payne and alito collective ingenuity and at palantir technologies. palantir technologies is a silicon valley software country. we build data integration and analysis software for the government to private and public sectors. in the context of emergency preparedness response and recovery our technology on laptops and smart phones leverages one of the most scarce resources during disaster. information. developer partners get the right physical resources to the right places as soon as possible. above here's a screenshot of our technology displayed on the 10th of an emergency operation center in oklahoma city. this fusion your senior of public data, of governmental data also show did and mobile data allows users to build the common picture to improve the efficacy of response efforts. one of our partners in oklahoma city direct relief is a nonprofit the donates over $300 million of medicine every year. they

turn to fiona hill, director of the center on the united states and europe at the brookings institution. her latest book is "mroperative in the kremlin." fiona, is this just another trial of a pesky opposition figure or is it something more significant than that? >> for putin it might be just another trial of a pesky opposition figure but if you look at this in the broader opposition movement, the piece we have seen tracked beginning with the falings fiction of the december 2011 parliamentary elections in russia then the protests of putin essentially telling the country he was going to come back as prime minister, making sure that happened during the presidential elections, what we have seen this last year was the concentrated pressure of putin, and alexei navalny was being diss. ed with from the kremlin's point of view. in a humiliating fashion, what they have turned around on navalny is the accusations he has been throwing on the system, you are no better than we are, you while you have a five year jail sentence to contemplate your role in this movement. >>suarez: if we were to walk on russian urban streets

brooks. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you so very much to all of you for coming and sharing. and that's actually what i want to talk about and, director leiter, you mentioned that there may be a hack of training. you mentioned we might have even had some fbi agents -- which causes me great concern. because after 9/11 we did extensive training. certainly, communities like new york, maybe los angeles, chicago knew a lot about terrorism. those of us in central indiana and throughout the rest of the country probably didn't know a lot about terrorism on 9/11. but then for yours led by -- for years led by the fbi and the federal government we went out as u.s. attorneys and worked to train our local law enforcement and our communities about prevention and te text of terrorism. -- detection of terrorism. and i'm concerned that we've very much gotten away from that, and i'm curious whether or not, you know, professionals like dr. hoffman and other experts who study are are actually brought in whether it's to conferences, whether it is to the training of new agents or agents that are b

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. payne for five minutes for an opening statement. >> chairwoman brooks, ranking member payne, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. minus jason payne and only the philanthropy engineering came at palantir technologies. it's a software company. we build data integration and analysis software for the governmental private and public sectors. and the contents of emergency preparedness, response, and recovery, our technology on laptops and smartphones leverages one of the most scarce resources during disaster. information. to help our partners with the right physical resources to the right places as soon as possible. above here is a screenshot of our technology displayed on the 10th of an emergency operation center in oklahoma city. this fusion that you're seeing here of public data, of governmental dictum of social data and mobile data allows users to build a common picture to improve the efficacy of response efforts. one of our partners in oklahoma city, direct relief, is a nonprofit that donates over $300 million in medicine every day. day.

mr. blair, welcome. let me begin with -- >> glad to be here, brooke z. >> let me begin with edward snowden. we've all heard he claims to have more secrets to potentially leak, how will president obama's relationship with vladimir putin change? >> i think that so far the -- what president putin has said has been pretty sensible. that he does not approve of the -- those who, you know, violate their -- publicly violate their security clearances. and so i don't know. but president putin so far has seemed to not be trying to use this issue in order to -- in order to do something anti-american. >> so far that is what he said. we'll see if he changes his mind. meantime, speaking of some of these leaks, on capitol hill yesterday things got testy. there were lawmakers who were grilling intelligence officials on the nsa's surveillance programs. listen to this. >> think a program of this magnitude, gathering information involving a large number of people involved with telephone companies and so on, could be indefinitely kept secret from the american people? >> well, we tried. >> i understand. >> there

maryland, a senior fellow with the brookings institution's sabine center and author of the world through arab eyes arab public opinion and the reshaping of the middle east. mr. telhami, it is a pleasure to you have on "viewpoint." >> good to be with you. >> john: we have a lot of ground to cover. does the white house's refusal to "make a determination or label the events in egypt" pass the smell test for you at least in terms of u.s. policy and law? granted interim government led by a civilian has been named but if this isn't a military coup, what is? >> well, look, there are two sides to this. one side is of course the technicality. obviously if the administration makes that determination then you know, congress is really obligated by law to cut off aid to egypt which obviously the administration doesn't want to do. that technicality is important. by the way the aid to egypt which obviously is the subject of this law was never given because of democracy. that aid was always a strategic aid. >> john: indeed. >> it was buying peace between israel and egypt. it was buying cooperation between the u.s. military and the egyptian military. the intelligence forces

brooke? >> martin savidge for us in sanford, florida. thank you so much. i want to bring in now daryl parks, the co-counsel for the martin family. mr. parks, nice to see you tonight. let me begin with today, which was absolutely the most dramatic day of this trial with these two mothers testifying both in the morning and then in the afternoon, and here you -- i can't help but think of these six female jurors, five of whom are women, and my question to you really is i know what side you're taking here, but how is the jury to determine which mother to believe? >> well, i think this jury has to weigh all of the evidence in this case. i think that they've heard from various family members in this case and i think one of the witness testified that he heard the screams but didn't hear the other tv audio that took place. they'll have to weigh that evidence in this case. >> we know that the state rested its case and the prosecution ended with this medical examiner who changed his mind, was all over the place, has really been criticized for much of his testimony. powerful witnesses here though because you have the defense today starting with

mr. red eye, gregory. >> can we roll that? yes, it is greg's the bachelorette recap. it was devastating. it was part one of the finale. three dudes involved. she was really in love with brooks the bad hair, tells her you know what, i have an itch behind my ear, then she starts crying some more. then he says i don't love you. then she says but i love you. he's like what am i having for dinner tonight. she's thinking will you ever love me, she cries some more. then he's like i can't wait to get back. maybe i'll hug her. then he hugs her. then his head gets weird and sweaty, and she cries. and that's the recap! >> wait, is that true? >> yes. >> what you just said? >> everything i said is true, he dumped her, and she loved him. >> why are they hugging. >> because she's crying, he is trying to comfort her. do you know what he said after that, he said that was a lot harder than i thought. i love the bachelorette. >> delightful, dangerous, dana. >> i didn't have a one more thing. because greg -- it is july 30, he is wearing a pink sweater. here is the question. i believe american couples are having this confusion when they talk about air conditioning. if you say turn the air condi

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brooke alcohol of 18, that's roughly double what would be legal in missouri and had marijuana in his system. >> investigators later learn the gunman was once a soldier in the mexican military. there was mrswarraalso a war his arrest at the time of the shooting. >> the handgun he used had been stolen. >> he carried a weapon frequently. he had a couple bullets in his body from a previous gunfight. >> after the incident, mcginnis and turner are recognized for their valor and courage, they appreciate the praise but are more grateful to be alive. >> i think that's what he expected he picked the time, chashled through that he would be able to carry it off. >> when i look through at this whole thing, this guy was going to kill a police officer, take his car and drive on out of there. it's just unreal. >>> coming up. an officer is nearly dragged to death. >> i remember thinking that if this vehicle runs over me, i'm probably going to die. >> when caught on camera, dash cam diaries, continues. help the gulf recover, and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i've been with bp for 24 years. i was part of the team that helped deliver on our commitments to the gulf -

mr. goldberg. let's take the race issue first. what's the general headline for you. >> the general head library was it was a highlight of his presidency, the remarks he made. it was a -- performance and david brooks of the "new york times" said on television that it was a sem phone, i didn't think it was any of those things. media covered accurately what he said. but they didn't analyze it all what he left out of his speech. i have a column on my web site on precisely that topic what he didn't say. the president could have said and i think should have said what while racism in america is not yet dead and buried, in the year 2013, white racism is the least of the problems playing plaque america, the least of the problems. babies having babies is a much bigger problem. kids dropping out of high school at alarming rates winding up in poverty and too often in prison is a much bigger problem. but if you listen to the african-american elites on tv yesterday and in the days following the verdict, you would think that the biggest problem facing young black men in america today is white guys with guns who are out to kill them. this would be laughable, bill, if it wasn't so damn pathetic. >> bill: but, in