mr. brownnd his group have not been able to come up with any reason that withstand the test of analysis. and that is why we are hopeful that the supreme court going to do what so many other courts have done will stop guest: the reality is, the court that counts mainly is the court of public opinion in the ballot box. when we disagree on an issue people should have their votes counted and respected. mr. wilson going before the supreme court, that is not winning the law -- winning in the court of public opinion. only three states through a public vote have in any way moved in the direction of same-sex marriage. to say 37 states have same-sex marriage is simply to say that in 37 states, judges that they had the right to trump the will of the people to impose their public policy views. and luckily, one circuit got a red -- got it right, the sixth. and the picture that evan is painting is simply untrue because one of the circuits did make very strong argument saying whatever the judge's policy prefe

mr. chairman. >> senator brown. >> i'm down to my last two amendments, mr. chairman, you'll be glad to know. beyond that i'm not responsible for the lateness of the evening. the first amendment is number 52. first amendment's number 52. >> okay. >> and i'm not committed to doing them consecutively. senator cardin has some amendments -- i'll start with 52. this amendment says that congress should identify by a vote in finance and ways and means that an agreement has met the negotiating objectives as spelled out in fast track. certification occurs within 90 days of the president sending the agreement up. if the vote fails in either committee, the fast track is stripped from the agreement in that chamber. in the underlying bill the president certifies that the agreement meets the negotiating objective. when he sends the agreement to congress. but of course the president's going to say his agreement met the standards required by congress. that shouldn't be good enough. congressman writes this committee and the ways and means committee and the congress, write the

mr. brown? aye. mr. bennett? mr. warner? no. mr. chamber? no. >> clerk will announce the results. >> mr. chairman, seven ayes and 19 nays. the amendment is defeated. the senator from pennsylvania. >> i have good news and bad news, mr. chairman. >> i would like the good news. >> the good news is i am not offering all of my amendments. good news for you but bad news for others. i would ask for a voice vote on the buy-american. this is amendment number 203. it is in this series for me i guess amendment number 2. what i am trying to do with this amendment is insist the buy america provisions that have been in effect for decades adhere to this agreement so that the effect of the amendment if it were to pass and be implemented would remove fast track privileges from many agreements that weakens or undermines the buy american act. in particular and this is the basics of it, in terms of the impact, it would simply mean in a trade agreement, we would insure the agreement itself does one of three things. it doesn't weaken, it doesn't undermine, nor wo

for you and one for me ♪ ♪ it's as clear as a-b-c ♪ ♪ share alike for victory ♪ ♪ get the point mrs. brownidly. it was really a seller's market rather than a buyer's market. and this became increasingly so as the war went into the third year and fourth year and fifth year. they restricted the amount of material that could go into a woman's skirt. and the skirts got tighter and tighter and shorter and shorter. soon we were in tight, short skirts. the idea of a lot of barbecue parties was not to use beef, but horse meat. it didn't work very well. but there was a very strong feeling at the time that this was a patriotic thing to do. they were trying to use horse meat and other beef substitutes. most americans agreed that these shortages were trivial compared with the crusade to win the war. they cooperated with the emergency programs. they saved their money to buy goods after the war. the controlled market carried out its necessary functions, and defense goals were met. it was a very successful experience. there was no inflation in world war ii when the economy doubled in output. although the

mrs. brown, are you ready? >> [inaudible] it is one thing to anticipate a death- >> there you go. >> madam clerk can you kart the time from the beginning? is it working? >> okay, here we go. it is one thing to anticipate a death because of old age or sickness. if is quite another to experience the sudden violent death of a loved one. >> my son [inaudible] >> since 2004 san francisco experienced a unprecedent number of homicides. >> need to do something about these unsolved homicides. my sons case is still not solved. he was murdered august 14, 2006. >> homicize victims are people of color. their loved one >> me standing over my son. >> must deal with their porenl tragieds while at the same time face the crime and violence or the unsafe neighborhood that surrounds them every day. >> my son was shot with a sem iautomatic done. 30 rounds of bullets went into the gun while saving someone elses life. >> thauj mrs. brown. next speaking, please. >> my name is sola huqueea chandler and my son was murdards in a quadrupl

mr. brown was a civil rights attorney who worked against racial discrimination and was credited in a 19 -- in the 1950's with filing the first civil rights lawsuit in mississippi. a native of oklahoma, mr. brown attended illinois state university, indiana yoompt and the texas southern -- university and the texas southern university law school. in the 1960's, he was one of only four african-american lawyers in mississippi and one of three who took civil rights cases. in 1962, he worked on behalf of james meredith who's successful lawsuit allowed him to be first african-american student to enroll in a university of mississippi. later, mr. brown worked to fight against discrimination in transportation and other public accommodations. given his dedication to the law and civil rights, it is appropriate to name this courthouse after him. thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves his time. the gentleman from indiana is recognized.

mr. brown: thank you. madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: senator sessions wants to take the floor in a moment. i will be brief but i wanted to thank senator booker for his always stirring words and for his sense of justice and fair play and leadership in so many ways. i met jim about a year ago and had a brief meeting not too long after the court decision by judge black in the cincinnati southern district court in ohio. i spent a half an hour with jim in my office. he never wanted or he never expected to be famous. he never expected to come to washington to meet with senators. he never expected to travel the country giving speeches. he was once a high school teacher. he jokes that -- or people who have been with him as he traveled the country have joked when he would speak to crowds of hundreds or even thousands about his experience with his beloved john and what's happened, he wishes the students had listened to him so closely. without a pin -- you cannot hear a pin drop when he spoke to hundreds, not necessarily always the case alwa

mr. brown. aye by proxy. mr. warner. aye. mr. chairman. no.mr. roberts .senator roberts: i would like to be reported as aye. clerk mr. chairman. :18 ayes. the eyes have it. >> i would like to change my vote to know. senator hatch: what change the outcome? >> no. senator hatch: without objection , it is changed. any further debate on this bill? >> my understanding is that it was on final passage. didn't want to forego the possibility here. senator hatch the considered -- senator hatch: we will consider a bill to extent african growth opportunity. and the generalized preferences and the duty treatment program for haiti. and for other purposes. we are pleased the committee is considering legislation extending and renewing several of our programs today. let me say through months of hard work and toughing inations ranking member whiten and i were able to reach agreement on the bill with the ways and means committee chairman ryan. identical legislation is being considered in the house. and i hope that we can pass that into law for a short order. we call up that

mr. brown's son in the neighborhood is still unsolved there's an unanimous tip 4154454444 still a $250,000 regard for the persuasion prosecution in if case thank you, ms. brown for coming. >> i'm part of c pad i want to say i want to thank the captain president chiu son for being copy and tall ones active to our needs and thank you for engaging with our neighborhoods and also our groups and want to is that you've been great to learn from and full of ideas on the crowd controls i also want to echo my issues about the redistricting we feel that we should redistrict at border from fulton and want to appreciate the ideas and captain son your wife is good. >> can i echo that second that that's amazing thank you for bringing that up. >> oh, i'll get there. >> dr. joe knows now welcome. >> i needed to come up here and commend the captain and all the officers in the district i'm a merchants i'm a board member for hate ashbury born and raised and i live in walling lever for the last 12 years i want to commend the captain and all the officers last year in september i believe it was over successful b

mr. brown, aye. mr. bennett, aye. mr. casey, aye. mr. warner aye. mr. chairman, aye. >> clerk announce the vote. >> 26 ayes and zero nays. >> the amendment is granted. >> distinguished senator from oregon? >> this is amendment 70, and i'm sponsoring this amendment with my colleague senator brown. it reflects a critically important value. that is the elimination, once and for all, of forced and enden indentured labor, including child labor. you want to thank senator brown on his work on this issue and nora todd for the hard work she's put in. it's worth noting our former colleague has previously championed this issue for years. currently, u.s. law permitted the importation of goods made with indentured or forced labor if the goods are not made in the united states, in sufficient quantifytyies to meet demand. this is direct. it says there is never, never a time when forced labor is acceptable. this is 2015. there is absolutely no room in our trade policies for any exceptions to that principle. ought to be supporting reform in countries where children are e

mr. brown: thank you mr. president. this amendment that i asked to -- about which i asked to instruct the conferees passed by voice vote. i appreciate the acceptance of it by senator enzi and senator sanders during the vote two weeks ago. we know that -- we know that too big to fail is still with us. we know that it's really all about those meg ga -- megabanks. that is what my amendment speaks to. in the six and a half years since wall street pushed our economy to the brink of collapse the biggest banks have gotten bigger. think about this statistic. 18 years ago the six largest banks in the united states had assets equal to 18% of our nation's gross domestic product. 18 years ago the largest six banks made up 18% in assets of our gross domestic product. today the six largest banks have assets equal to 63% of g.d.p. with an average these banks average holding 5,000 legal entities each operating in 57 countries. so these institutions aren't just massive too big to fail in terms of size. they're risky they're complex. in

mr. brown and his group have not been able to come up with any reason that withstand the test of analysis. and that is why we are hopeful that the supreme court going to do what so many other courts have done will stop guest: the reality is, the court that counts mainly is the court of public opinion in the ballot box. when we disagree on an issue people should have their votes counted and respected. mr. wilson going before the supreme court, that is not winning the law -- winning in the court of public opinion. only three states through a public vote have in any way moved in the direction of same-sex marriage. to say 37 states have same-sex marriage is simply to say that in 37 states, judges that they had the right to trump the will of the people to impose their public policy views. and luckily, one circuit got a red -- got it right, the sixth. and the picture that evan is painting is simply untrue because one of the circuits did make very strong argument saying whatever the judge's policy pre

mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate that. it's been a year since, more than a year since the food and drug administration issued its proposed tobacco deeming regulations. these regulations would give the agency the same regulatory authority it currently has over cigarettes traditional stick tobacco cigarettes to other unrelated tobacco products like e-cigarettes. these regulations are critical for public health, especially for children. yet they've languished within the administration for more than a year. a year is too long to wait because we know what's been happening. according to a report from the centers for disease control the f.d.a.'s own center for tobacco products, in the past year e-cigarette use has tripled -- tripled -- among teens. absent any regulation, more and more of these potentially dangerous products have found a way into the hands of our children. after just a few years on the market children's use of e-cigarettes has now surpassed the use of traditional cigarettes. think back when the first time you hear

mr. brown? >> thank you. i want to thank the disability commission, the mta for these new boxes that are disabled accessible and seating for seniors and used in a number of route. i saw a poster on a two command bus the other day who say they plan to include these in the next few years. i hope they service all the people. now bad news, i was at the library 2 weeks ago and noticed on the men's floor that the two stalls that served accessible people are out of order and two2 units were out of order there. i would hope that the library, i know the funding is over for the year now but i hope they can get funding to maintain these facilities for the comfort and safety of all people going to the library. i commented on this a few years ago and you did a great job in getting this rectified. i hope you can do it again for the safety and comfort of the public. thank you. >>> thank you, is there any other public comment at this time? come forward. >> hi, my name is keith dennis. i'm a long time resident of san francisc

the officers discharged their firearms were in fear that someone 0 would be injured or killed so mr. brown did not survive here jourdz yesterday we were at garfield 3w4r5urgd and obviously in the past few years have activated did garfield mission district for the officers in playground as trying to make the mraurgsd police friendly and have a success story we want to model across the city friday we began to activate no campus and southern station b will open at third street are saturday are morning at 6:00 a.m. and the modification will be set to do business an april 13th we've been doing tours of the building is a spectacular structure and it is the power noun the place couple of days 96 hours of sustainability so we can literally run a police department out of this building it equals with the safe earthquake it is a public building we'll graduate your first candidate k can do he did class and we'll take young people going to school in and around san francisco and the cloosz look like san francisco and young 0 people that are interested in about law enforcement they have a full load of po

. >> i have a comment card for mr. brown. is this the item you want to comment on? okay. so later today. later in the meeting. thank you. >> all right. thank you very much, we are going to move on. our next agenda item is an update on the development of the new affordable housing data portal. we have mr. chiu ms. yanga and ms. sallee. >> good afternoon, brian chew director of community development and mayor's housing and community development. i think as many of you may recall we gave a presentation i want to say last fall was the time when we were preparing comments on our annual consolidated plans that we sent to hud and we solicited input from you, the council, as best we could toen corporate in our plan and what we spoke about was the creation of an online housing data portal in our attempt to make access to our unfortunately somewhat limited affordable housing more achievable by the broad range of san francisco residents. we are here to give you an update on the process. i will give you a little bit about where we are and who we worked with to get to this point and t

>> aye. >> mr. brown? >> aye. >> mr. bennett? >> aye. >> mr. casey? >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. mr. warner? >> aye. >> mr. warner aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> the chairman votes no. mr. chairman, 12 ayes, 14 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. any other amendments for the taa bill? senator cantwell? >> mr. chairman? yes, i wanted to thank you and ranking member wyden for including my amendment to approve collection of labor statistics in the chairman's modified mark on the customs and enforcement bill. i filed two amendments that i believe are critical to our competitiveness. one amendment is the expansion of the apprentice program and work force development which i think is a very important one as we talk about how we're going to open up economic opportunities in other countries. we also have to talk about how we train and skill a work force. we had two witnesses yesterday at the hearing. both labor and business supported the apprentice program. so i would hope that we can look at this moving forward so appreciate looking at that. the othe

. >> i have a comment card for mr. brown. is this the item you want to comment on? okay. so later today. later in the meeting. thank you. >> all right. thank you very much, we are going to move on. our next agenda item is an update on the development of the new affordable housing data portal. we have mr. chiu ms. yanga and ms. sallee. >> good afternoon, brian chew director of community development and mayor's housing and community development. i think as many of you may recall we

mr. brown held a roundtable yesterday in sacramento. he wants to make sure the business community does its part. he has ordered cuts on campuses, golf courses, cemeteries and other large landscapes. the business community says there will be noticeable effects. >> you're going to see brownout areas and turf grass removed put in there with some landscape that's tolerant to the area. >> governor's order also requires cuts in watering of plants and grass on public street medians and if the standards are not met, local water districts could face steep fines. >> that's why they call him governor brown. >>> continuing the same theme with regard to the drought, the deaths of hundreds of tule elk at the national seashore may be because of the death. the population of free roaming elk at point reyes increased by a third. those elk had access to water, the ones who increase. tule were reintroduced to the coast decades ago. they were almost hunted to extinction in the 1800s. >> everything needs water. >>> we have a little bit of rain in the extende

>> i would hope that this would be the result of the killing of mr. brown -- i mean mr. scott, that we will have the justice department in now and they will go back and look at some of the cases. we have had a recent killing that we believe that evidence was planted in that. we've had where video existed and by the time the video was released that parts of the video had been edited out. we have had a serious problem. the racial profiling has not only been done but had been publicly condoned that this is the way we do the policing. as long as that continues, these are the actions that empowers officers that are not of goodwill. they will continue to treat -- i agree with gwynn. what we see on this tape as with her son is tantamount to predatory behavior on african-american men, and they are treated like animals in terms of the way they're being shot killed and for the most part they have been getting away with it. >> yes. >> we are really grateful for this. >> beyond the shooting there's the cpr issue. this man is now on the ground. there is a lot of debate. i think we ca

with mr. brown, it is a little unclear whether he did attend mit, but he does travel abroad. he is in paris with her hee was a member is unclear. the exact date they team up is unclear. there are a couple different dates when they are out there. they begin to do houses such as this, the salem house. it is a sort of a federal revival. this is our turn little -- ar hturrthur little's own house. again, using this federal revival type of style. this is the one photograph that historic new england was able to find for me. i should say that this is his sister and younger brother and that neither little or brown ever married. or they move have -- or they might have what you call a boston marriage. they do team up with a team of architects. here are a couple of zone examples of their work in boston. this is an area that was landfilled in the late 1850's. these are both on commonwealth avenue. you get the elite putting up houses. here on the left, stylistically is the call list. may be a federal, but a sort of renaissance. this is a at an english and revival type thing. one house that

everybody knows you. >> i have a leahy. >> what on erlsarth happened to mr. brown> senator brown's sign is missing. >> that's okay. >> senator brown. >> i lost my trachbin of thought. but thank tu for holding this hearing. one question, mr. secretary. talk to me about what this means, what trade restrictions mean to a state like ohio in terms ofwoízu agriculture exports. >> for a stitate like ohio, what current restrictions mean, it means that it's difficult to get agriculture products into -- from a state into cuba. we're at a tremendous disadvantage. the playing field's not level. because we're not allowed to do marketing programs like other countries do. we're not allowed to extend credit like other countries do. so the playing field is not level and it creates a great deal of difficulty for us to compete against those countries. >> tell me what it will mean as we ease them. >> well again, i think that as we ease the restrictions it is going to be easier for us to get products in there. again, i went through the list. right now the corn's coming from brazil and

mr. brown. no. mr. bennett. aye. mr. casey. no. mr. warner. aye. mr. chairman. aye. chairman votes aye. >> report. >> 20 ayes six nays. >> the ayes have it and the resolution is ordered reported. ask consent the staff be granted authority to make technical, conforming and budgetary changes to all the bills reported today and without objection, it is so ordered. before we adjourn, if i could have order. if i could have order. i want to thank all of my colleagues for their participation today. and i especially want to thank senator wyden for his efforts throughout this process. we've worked very closely together and i've really appreciated it. as we noted today was a long time coming and i want to give credit for senator wyden for his leadership and willingness to reach across the aisle on these important issues. while the day didn't go off as well as i planned it we got a good debate and covered a lot of ground. believe me i recognize there are passively held beliefs on all sides of these issues. i commend all my colleagues for their willingness to work with senator w

mr. brown. by proxy. awe. and mr. warner. awe. and mr. chairman. mr. roberts. will announce the vote. mr. chairman. 18 ideas. 8 nays. yeah. mr. chairman. i would like to change my vote to no. want to change the outcome? no. it will not. my understanding is that it was a final passage. yeah. when you asked if there was further amendments. talking about. enjoying this so much. didn't want to forego the possibility here. all right. we will move along here. and considering the chairman. and a bill to extent african growth opportunity. and the generalized preferences and the duty treatment program for haiti. and for other purposes. considering legislation extenting and first let me say that during months of hard work and toughing inations ranking numbers were able to reach agreement on the bill with the ways and means committee chairman ryan. and ranking member 11 the result of the legislation to be considered in the house. and i hope that we can pass that into law for a short order. and i hope that the member left side support it. so, um. we will call up that parti

we placed mrs. brown under arrest. >> she pleads guilty to assault and aggravated menacing. she serves five days in county jail even though fullmer's video is useful to the police, hendrickson warns once again against taking matters into your own hands. >> confronting the suspect in this type of situation isn't advisable. if you can keep your distance. >> as for simon, he has second thoughts about his actions. >> i should have let it go and just kept driving because it wasn't worth all the hassle. it wasn't worth what it was. >> it's not good to lose your cool with another driver. you really should take a deep breath before you scream at a police officer. >> are you [ bleep ] crazy? i wasn't even speeding [ bleep ]. who? >> july 16th, 1992. lincoln, maine. state trooper steven hurry is patrolling a busy expressway when a red suv zips by. >> saw that he was going 30 miles over the posted speed limit. the vehicle was coming at me at 75 miles an hour in a 45 mile an hour zone. >> he stops the speeding vehicle. the dash cam shows the officer walking towards the suv when the driv

brown: thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. sen. roberts: i'm going to ask one quick question before we ask the second panel to come up with all due respect my colleague. director smith, in lieu of the questions asked by senator brown , i like the term risk appetite. where did you come up with that? have any u.s. financial institutions set up correspondent accounts with the financial institutions in cuba? how many businesses do you expect to utilize this type of account with a bank? mr. smith: i'm not sure where i came up with risk appetite. i'm sure i heard it somewhere. as far as i'm aware, no u.s. financial institutions yet have open correspondent accounts. i think what we do is that we all the rest certain activities, but we don't require financial institutions to engage in any activity. sen. roberts: if that were the case, how many u.s. businesses do you expect to utilize this type of account with their bank? do they have the risk appetite to do that? mr. smith: the more u.s. industry wants to trade with cuba, the higher the tra

name that my mother gave me thank you (clapping). >> so how in the world does anyone follow willie brown mr. mayor we're so proud that building that be fitting our legacy so thank you for honoring us today, there maybe a lot of folks that drive over the bridge that don't call it the willie brown bridge but under will be a lot of the kids going to the willie brown jr. middle school before i turn it over to principle hobson ladies and gentlemen, this didn't happen without enlightened people policymakers people that are elected and i'm very, very proud to introduce the members of the board of education our president emily murase and our commissioner shamann walton and our immediate past president of the board urban forestry and hydra mendosa thank you, thank you for being here (clapping) i want to thank someone he likes to work behind the scenes and didn't wear his hard hat but david golden with that i'm going to turn it over to principle hobson we'll go through the rest find our program. >> thank you all very much. >> thank you supervisor cowen, superintendent carranza mayor ed lee and mayor

everybody knows you. >> i have a leahy. >> what on earth happened to mr. brown. >> senator brown's sign is missing. >> that's okay. >> senator brown. >> i lost my train of thought. but thank you for holding this hearing. two questions, mr. secretary. one question, mr. secretary. talk to me about what this means, what trade restrictions mean to a state like ohio in terms of agriculture exports. >> for a state like ohio, what current restrictions mean, it means that it's difficult to get agriculture products into -- from a state into cuba. we're at a tremendous disadvantage. the playing field's not level. because we're not allowed to do marketing programs like other countries do. we're not allowed to extend credit like other countries do. so the playing field is not level and it creates a great deal of difficulty for us to compete against those countries. >> tell me what it will mean as we ease them. >> well again, i think that as we ease the restrictions, it is going to be easier for us to get products in there. again, i went through the list. right now the corn'

. >> mr. brown, you've heard all the testimony today about what people think should happen to you. what do you want to have happen? >> i understand i resisted law enforcement. and me being back in that room for two weeks, that really got to me. i know i tested like positive for marijuana but that's something i did like back in july. and i thought i was going to be clean by the time i came to court. >> i know some people might say using a little bit of marijuana isn't like shooting somebody but at the same time, do you understand the significance of that one use of marijuana what it had on your family and your life and frankly, on the underlying charges that you already had pending against you? >> well, i take full responsibilities for my actions and i just feel like i let them down, you know? like miss sarah and bob and my mom. i just want to like go home and take care of my responsibilities. >> rodrick, do you rememberer judge bonaventura asking you about taking a drug test? >> yes, ma'am. >> do you say you probably should be clean, something like that. >> i probably should. >> so

what happened to mr. brown? anyway. we will -- >> he lost my train of thought. two questions. talk to me about what this means what the trade restrictions means to a state like ohio in terms of agricultural exports? mr. scuse: 4s they like ohio what do current restrictions mean? it means it is difficult to get agricultural products into the state -- in from the state into cuba. we are at a tremendous disadvantage. the playing field is not level because we are not allowed to do marketing programs like other countries. we are not allowed to extend credit. the playing field is not level and it creates a great deal of difficulty for us to compete here it against those countries. senator: but tell me what it will mean. mr. scuse: as we eased restrictions, it will be easier for us to get products in there. i went through the list. right now courtney is coming from brazil and argentina. i think that we should be the number one supplier for recording. we is coming from the european union and canada. that is no reason why that should not come from the united states. 50% of rice is comi

brown jr. middle school neksz next our superintendent mr. richard korans korans. >> good morning, everyone i can't think of a better occasion to be here at the new willie brown jr. middle school in the heart of the bayview and part of reason why we're so excited you're not going to be able to within the scope the miles. >> off our faces we closed the old willie brown facility we made a promise to rebuild this school and it will be the premier middle school not only in northern california but in the state of california perhaps the country (clapping) i think that when you look around although principle hydro hydrowould be embarrassed of the dust it is appropriate because willie brown jr. middle school in the future will leave everybody in its dusts that's how much we believe in the school he's been long time what is contained in the school i want to emphasize san francisco has a fully choice enrollment system and ladies and gentlemen when we have 3 hundred sophisticates available at the brand new facility we've received over 3 hundred and 65 re

what happened to mr. brown? anyway. we will -- >> i lost my train of thought. two questions.alk to me about what this means, what the trade restrictions means to a state like ohio in terms of agricultural exports? mr. scuse: what do current restrictions mean? it means it is difficult to get agricultural products into the state -- in from the state into cuba. we are at a tremendous disadvantage. the playing field is not level because we are not allowed to do marketing programs like other countries. we are not allowed to extend credit. the playing field is not level and it creates a great deal of difficulty for us to compete here it against those countries. senator: but tell me what it will mean. mr. scuse: as we eased restrictions, it will be easier for us to get products in there. i went through the list. right now, corn is coming from brazil and argentina. i think that we should be the number one supplier for corn. wheat is coming from the european union and canada. that is no reason why that should not come from the united states. 50% of rice is coming from vietnam. we shou

mr. chairman and members of the committee. senator brown: we thank you, sir. mr. matthew borman, currently serves as deputy assistant secretary of commerce for export administration. in this position, mr. borman is responsible for implementing the bureau of industry and security controls. on the export of dual use items for national security, foreign policy nonproliferation and short supply reasons. welcome, mr. borman, and i look forward to your testimony. i thank undersecretary seuse for being on time. just would remind the witnesses that most senators can read all of their staff can read, feel free to summarize your statement, sir. mr. borman: thank you, mr. chairman and thank you, ranking member stabenow and members of the committee. it's a pleasure to be here. of course i'll address the role of the department of commerce in regards to agricultural trade with cuba. as you know, in terms of the cuban embargo the congress is responsible for regulating exports to cuba and the treasury department is responsible for financial transactions including travel. as you k

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