mr. brown: by temperament, by experience, by commitment i find , myself in this presidential campaign, offering what i believe to be the only viable alternative for 1992 to restore stability and opportunity to this country. it is the premise of my case that the governing elite is stuck. it is paralyzed. it can't take the necessary corrective action to restore vitality to this country. the level of despair and suffering and injustice has no historic president -- precedent in the history of our nation. folks in washington are acting as though there are some problems out there, but it is pretty much business as usual. two interpretations of 1992. one is there are some problems that ought to be corrected. but things are pretty much on track. there is another view, there is something profoundly wrong with what is going on in the politics and governing processes of this nation. i take the second view. i believe the social fabric is unraveling. that the central state is aggregating to itself authority

mr. brown: but if you are lowering your federal taxi will save enough money that you will come out ahead when you net out the loss and adaptability. the increased savings. the other point of this, you're getting hung up on very small issues. this country is losing its capacity to save and invest. every economist says we need to find the savings and investment. they say that the business tax i'm proposing will be the most efficient collector of revenue. it will be progressive. if we have to cover the first $15,000 in income we can do that with a slight adjustment so that if you make only $15,000 you won't have to pay any tax. this is a large collector of revenue. that is why some people like the added tax. the flat tax is my own idea and i combined them because for most people the payroll tax is the most progressive. you cannot deduct state tax against your social security and medicare tax and for most of the people in the world that is the biggest tax burden. it is only the high income people t

mr. brown: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: mr. president, one year ago today the president nominated adam szubin to serve as under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes at the treasury department. mr. szubin's nomination was pending in the banking committee for more than 11 months before we finally acted on it. so far in this congress -- not this session, but the entire congress, the senate has not acted on a single nominee from the banking committee, even those who play critical national security roles like mr. szubin. we've not even acted yet on certain nominees eligible for expedited consideration by the full senate. in the past the senate acted on these privileged nominees -- quote unquote privileged nominees -- as a routine matter. the hardworking people of ohio, arkansas and georgia expect the senate to do its job. part of our job is giving the president's nominees fair and respectful and tim

mr. brown: by temperament, by experience, by commitment i find , myself in this presidential campaign, offering what i believe to be the only viable alternative for 1992 to restore stability and opportunity to this country. it is the premise ofca

mr. brown: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i find it ironic. this is the first time we've actually heard specific reasons all seeming fairly recent, mostly seeming fairly recent about objections to mr. szubin. i also find it interesting that they talk about sanctions are not being fully enforced. well, don't you need someone in place that has the full appointment to the position, not just nomination and serving as interim, full appointment with confirmation. i just stand puzzled by that. but i also understand the partisan nature of this. i understand -- i remembered my colleague's letter to the 46 republican senators signed to the country of iran with -- saying for all intents and purposes don't negotiate with president obama. i mean, this is a lot about president obama. but i don't care about that. what i care about is he's the acting -- he's acting in that position and not confirming him makes no sense for our country. i -- a full year has gone by. i intend to continue to press for approval of adam szubin and others be

mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. on tuesday the world lost a courageous activist for international workers rights, harry wu. harry wu spent 19 years in one of china's prison labor camps. that word is pretty much unknown in english, laogai. it's the word that the chinese made famous at least in its part of the world as the terribly brutal labor camps where they sent political prisoners. mr. wu was imprisoned in 1960 at age 23 because he spoke out against communist china's ally in that year in 1960. the soviet union after its invasion of hungary. over those 19 years from 1960- 1979, mr. wu was brutalized. he was sent to work on farms and mines and prison camps. he was beaten. he was forced into concrete cases. he survived on food, as he has written and told us, he survived on food foraged in rats' nests. after his release, following mao's death, harry wu dedicated the rest of his life to exposing the horrors in his -- that his homeland leaders inflicted on its own citizens. he risked haste life to return to china under

mr. miller and ms. brown will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. >> mr. speaker, i ask all unanimous consent and all members will have five days with which to revise remarks or add

. >> it is and she is the daughter of mr. brown who is in topeka and he was a welder. >> he was also a part-time teacher. in some you see he's wearing his collar which adds another dimension to this case. >> is very powerful. but he's approached by the naacp. the reason that thurgood marshall chose the brown case and not the other case was to avoid a dispute about whether or not they were equal. it was confusing according to marshall and that's why he picked a school where there was no allegation of separate but equal. he was assessing the fact of what she said of her upbringing. the fact that she had to walk six blocks to a school bus and take a ride to another school which was seven blocks from her house. for her and her father it was an and it indignity. >> it was filed in 1951. the argument was represented by carter and greenberg. they were arguing for lester caddell. the judge wrote the opinion. can you tell us anything about that opinion that we should know about the stories. >> i would say that although the judges rejected t

mr. brownh family and children that did not agree. apparently prince did not have a spouse, did not have any children that survived him. his parents are deceased. so as to who's entitled, it is simple. whether they agree with how the estate should be handled and get along, that remains to be seen. >> and if people want to continue visiting the paisley park compound, i heard that perhaps it's planned to be a museum. who would decide that? >> first thing that the family needs to do is get together and appoint someone to be the legal representative of the estate. a personal representative to handle essentially what the executor would be doing if there's a will and make the decisions not in the air but on behalf of the beneficiaries or the heirs of the estate. >> i can only imagine, lots of fans would like to go to paisley park and, you know, pay their respects for years to come. louis levenson, thank you so much. >>> next, donald trump, he isn't just hammering john kasich, he's going after the gov

mr. brown's letter into the record. >> without objection. >> it's time to have a conversation about improving the aca and the lives of our constituents. i yield back the balance of my time. >> i now recognize the chairman of the full committee, mr. upton for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this hearing does continue the subcommittee's thoughtful and necessary oversight of the president's healthcare law. the $3.5 billion question is why cms is now diverting taxpayer dollars to insurance companies without any legal authority to do so. health law statute plainly states that a portion of the contributions to the reinsurance program must be given to the u.s. treasury. still, cms has chosen to violate the law by prioritizing reinsurance contributions to health insurers rather than allocating the required portion to the u.s. treasury. initially, cms followed the letter of the law. according to its final rule issued on march 11th, 2014, similar to its rule the prior year, cms planned to i'll indicate contributions to the reinsurance company between the health insurers, the treasury and admi

. >> reporter: whole foods filed a lawsuit saying that the cake was in control of mr. brownarket until he posted a video showing the slur and publishing his false statement to the public. he's damaged the reputation of whole foods market. they say that the label is on top which brown says was at the bottom. secondly, they point out that the writing was visible through the clear portion of the packaging. in a statement from brown's attorney, he says at this point, we're aware of the whole foods press release, the security video and the counter suit against pastor brown and we're investigating these allegations. brown is pastor of the church of open doors and lbgt welcoming in austin. on the facebook page, there are posts in which he says moving to a new location and asking for donations to help expand. we went to the address listed for the church and found nothing, just an apartment complex. >> if it did happen, then it's awful because love does win either way. but if the person deliberately sabotaged his own cake for some kind of money or whatever shady situation, that's wro

pilpal the by a lyric the levels of came back should be given out i predicted are mr. brown this no mayor ed lee and no huge $9 million, $4.02 millions all the housing bond initiate on the initiative not one is getting an auditing yet all the oitdz of 50 and 20 and 10 i'll figure out exactly what percentage of the $26 million will get an audit because i don't think that the auditing you know mayor ed lee - mayor ed lee has 3 eggs that have been convicted and sentenced for illegal mayor campaigns and all those people are not going to be audited because you can't audit the mayor well, i'm sorry you could but you wouldn't your two budget committee hypothetical to them on appointments or whatever happens to be the citizens of san francisco really ought to watch the sfgovtv and especially those meetings and isle like to see more come here and call you out for your dishonest and your lip service to doing something that will actually make are elections more fair every single election the city for the last 12 years i've served is a field election deputy or a poll inspector i believe

good evening mrs. brown, welcome. >> holeo good evening everyone. my name is poly brown and as usual i'm here to talk about my son and like to use the overhead. as i was here last week i brought my son arbry murdered august 14, 2006 shot with a sem iautomatic gun and to this day no closure or justice. his case remains unsolved and i want to bring awareness to the last time i was told that i would have a private investigators rehired to investigate the unsolved homside. i have want heard from anyone i would thrike hear from someone to work with me about solving our childrens cases. we just left sacramento concerning victims voices up there with jerry brown and was a good meetic with mothers and fathers like my self who are still suffering and the caseerize not solved. we want that. we talk about police killings and again as i say, it doesn't matter where the bullet come from, the mothers and father are still in pain. i brought up that-all these case squz homicides are still on solved. what do we do about it? we hire the investigators to help us get s

mr. brown's letter into the record. >> without objection. >> it is time to have a productive conversation about improving the aca in the lives of our constituents. >> the gentle lady yields back. i recognize the chairman of the full committee for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this hearing continues the subcommittee thoughtful and necessary oversight of the presidents healthcare law. the three and a half billion dollar question is why cms is diverting money to taxpayers about any authority to do so. the portion of the contributions to the reinsurance program must be given to the u.s. treasury. still, cms has chosen to violate law by prioritizing reinsurance contributions to help insurers rather than allocating the required portion to the u.s. treasury. initially cms follow the letter of the law. similar to its rule the prior year cms planned to allocate contributions to the reinsurance program between the health insurers, treasury, and administrative costs. less than two weeks later cms switch gears and issued a different proposed rule completely reversing their previous positi

good evening mrs. brown, welcome. >> holeo good evening everyone. my name is poly brown and as usual i'm here to talk about my son and like to use the overhead. as i was here last week i brought my son arbry murdered august 14, 2006 shot with a sem iautomatic gun and to this day no closure or justice. his case remains unsolved and i want to bring awareness to the last time i was told that i would have a private investigators rehired to investigate the unsolved homside. i have want heard from anyone i would thrike hear from someone to work with me about solving our childrens cases. we just left sacramento concerning victims voices up there with jerry brown and was a good meetic with mothers and fathers like my self who are still suffering and the caseerize not solved. we want that. we talk about police killings and again as i say, it doesn't matter where the bullet come from, the mothers and father are still in pain. i brought up that-all these case squz homicides are on solved. what do we do about it? we hire the investigators to help us get some cl

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good evening mrs. brown, welcome. >> holeo good evening everyone. my name is poly brown and as usual i'm here to talk about my son and like to use the overhead. as i was here last week i brought my son arbry murdered august 14, 2006 shot with a sem iautomatic gun and to this day no closure or justice. his case remains unsolved and i want to bring awareness to the last time i was told that i would have a private investigators rehired to investigate the unsolved homside. i have want heard from anyone i would thrike hear from someone to work with me about solving our childrens cases. we just left sacramento concerning victims voices up there with jerry brown and was a good meetic with mothers and fathers like my self who are still suffering and the caseerize not solved. we want that. we talk about police killings and again as i say, it doesn't matter where the bullet come from, the mothers and father are still in pain. i brought up that-all these case squz homicides are still on solved. what do we do about it? we hire the investigators to help us get s

mr. miller: ok. thank you very much. ms. brown. senator brown: thank you, mr. chairman. -- ms. brown: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, it seems like you've been here longer than nine months. the problems we're having with the v.a. goes back more than 10 years. you know, i've been on this committee for 23 years, so we've had problems with the v.a. over a long period of time and it would be a misnoemer to act like these things just occurred. but what i would like to ask and i'm very concerned about is the g.a.o. report has once again just a couple days ago put v.a. on the high risk list. explain that to me and what we're doing to take care of this problem. i want to get to the standdown what you all have done and the positive things you all have done but please tell me about this because i'm really concerned. secretary shulkin: yeah. i believe the v.a. was placed on the high risk list well over a year ago because it was prior to my confirmation but the g.a.o. has been very clear about the reasons they put the eason on the high risk list. we have inconsistent policies nd pro

mr. miller and ms. brown will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. >> mr. speaker, i ask all unanimous consent and all members will have five days with which to revise remarks or add extraneous material. >> without objection. >> mr. speaker, i yield myself time. >> thank you. i rise to urge all members to support this bill. this bill was introduced by our colleague, representative nick sally of arizona, ensuring that active-duty designees including women air force pilots are eligible for internment with full military honors at arlington military national cemetery. they are members who served alongside the regular armed forces during world war i and world war ii. these brave men and women were often located in combat zones where they risked their lives to protect the freedom that we should never take for granted. their contributions to the war effort were so vital that they had been granted the most title our nation can bestow, that of veteran. they are eligible to be laid to rest in any cemetery adminis

mr. cardin: but if they are civilians, it would be even more complicated. dr. brown: correct, i think so. mr. corker: back to the pressure you were talking about earlier, where you have these expanded peacekeeping needs that are complex. you have pressure for more of that to occur. i mean, i look at the types of populations, generally speaking, that are being quote, "protected." and, i mean, is there some institutional disrespect for the types of people that these peacekeeping missions are being sent out to protect, is there something there that we need to understand? mr. yeo: i think the disrespect that occurs is between individual soldiers and the disrespect that comes as a result of individual actions they are taking, the crimes they are committing as a peacekeeper. but having visited many different peacekeeping missions around the world, i am honestly shocked by the willingness of these peacekeepers to serve away from their homes for some time, maybe months, years on end, protecting people they do not even know. and they are doing it at great personal risk when y

brown: i do not recall. sen. cotton: the obama department of justice suggested what is routinely required on federal forms. mr. rdray: i would not speak to any internal deliberations. sen. cotton: we do not have to speak to them -- sen. brown: i agree. we are not doing something differently than the department of justice in this case. we are acting together, on the same page. but then again i do not think you committed fraud. sen. cotton: did you personally declined a department of justice recommendation on penalty of perjury? mr. cordray: i do not believe i did. but i do not want to characterize internal discussions with them. i do not believe i did. i have no recollection of doing that. i do think -- let me say, i stand by and believe this was a reasonable approach to how to get relief to hundreds of thousands of consumers who were discriminated against under the theory i know some people disagree with but the supreme court has reaffirmed it is the law of the land. sen. cotton: 330 members of the house of representatives that include the congressional black caucus disagree. my time has expired. sen. merley: t

pilpal the by a lyric the levels of came back should be given out i predicted are mr. brown this no mayor ed lee and no huge $9 million, $4.02 millions all the housing bond initiate on the initiative not one is getting an auditing yet all the oitdz of 50 and 20 and 10 i'll figure out exactly what percentage of the $26 million will get an audit because i don't think that the auditing you know mayor ed lee - mayor ed lee has 3 eggs that have been convicted and sentenced for illegal mayor campaigns and all those people are not going to be audited because you can't audit the mayor well, i'm sorry you could but you wouldn't your two budget committee hypothetical to them on appointments or whatever happens to be the citizens of san francisco really ought to watch the sfgovtv and especially those meetings and isle like to see more come here and call you out for your dishonest and your lip service to doing something that will actually make are elections more fair every single election the city for the last 12 years i've served is a field election deputy or a poll inspector i believe

mr. cardin: but if they are civilians, it would be even more complicated. dr. brown: correct, i think so. mr. corker: back to the pressure you were talking about earlier, where you have these expanded peacekeeping needs that are complex. you have pressure for more of that to occur. i mean, i look at the types of populations, generally speaking, that are being quote, "protected." and, i mean, is there some institutional disrespect for the types of people that these peacekeeping missions are being sent out to protect, is there something there that we need to understand? mr. yeo: i think the disrespect that occurs is between individual soldiers and the disrespect that comes as a result of individual actions they are taking, the crimes they are committing as a peacekeeper. but having visited many different peacekeeping missions around the world, i am honestly shocked by the willingness of these peacekeepers to serve away from their homes for some time, maybe months, years on end, protecting people they do not even know. and they are doing it at great personal risk when y

good evening mrs. brown, welcome. >> holeo good evening everyone.y name is poly brown and as usual i'm here to talk about my son and like to use the overhead. as i was here last week i brought my son arbry murdered august 14, 2006 shot with a sem iautomatic gun and to this day no closure or justice. his case remains unsolved and i want to bring awareness to the last time i was told that i would have a private investigators rehired to investigate the unsolved homside. i have want heard from anyone i would thrike hear from someone to work with me about solving our childrens cases. we just left sacramento concerning victims voices up there with jerry brown and was a good meetic with mothers and fathers like my self who are still suffering and the caseerize not solved. we want that. we talk about police killings and again as i say, it doesn't matter where the bullet come from, the mothers and father are still in pain. i brought up that-all these case squz homicides are still on solved. what do we do about it? we hire the investigators to help us get som

mr. mayor, willie brown, walks in and says, i love watching you guys on "the 9". >> nice. >> we like having as a guest. >> what we did on friday, talking about prince. then i saw "beach blanket babylon." >> that is a san francisco night. >> i like that. >> i go big. i had to bring you that song and that picture. thank you for joining us this monday morning. a lot of news to cover. we are going to start with something happening in san carlos. a crash you're monitoring? >> that's right. it was a result of a police chase northbound el camino real. this ended up at el camino and arroyo in san carlos. there is a big police presence and the fire department and medics. el camino is not usually this crowded this time of the morning. it's crowded. don't get me wrong. this is time to find other ways. perhaps stay on 101. we have crews on the way to get us nor information. >> okay. >>> sheriff's deputies in contra costa county are investigating an early morning robbery at a casino. >> the robbers didn't take cash. weapon understand they may have taken casino chips. >> this happened at the california g

before i move and block on the following nomination senator brown give a statement? >> i do. >> mr. jay lerner at the illinois, i move at this time to vote and block on the following nomination. mr. jane l. lerner of illinois the inspector general, the federal deposit insurance corporation. mr. garrity of connecticut assistant secretary of the treasury, mr. matthew jepsen of florida to be director of united states mint. lisa m. fairfax of maryland to be a member of the securities and exchange commission and ms. hester first done a member of the securities and exchange rates and exchange. >> before the vote and exchange rates enacted for the both of a few remarks and a couple people on my site at least three brief remarks t. first i think the chairman for convening the executive session to consider these nominations before the committee to these people up and asked to take on important jobs and it's incumbent on us to act on them promptly today and before mr. lerner's nomination was pending for 500 days mr. ear gates was pending for almost 400 today hope we do better with her name --

mr chairman, ranking member brown, thank you for the opportunity to be here and discuss the work. we will continue to listen to our stakeholders and attend to your oversight to ensure all americans can be sure of fair treatment in the marketplace. i look forward to your directions. sen. brown: thank you, director cordray. i would like to summarize with the direct lending and auto lending then get your impressions. you do not have any statutory authority to regulate auto dealers. dodd frank prescribes that. in mr. cordray: we have never brought any action against a single auto dealer. sen. shelby: you have the authority or indirect auto lenders? mr. cordray: not only the authority, but we deal the responsibility. sen. shelby: you recently approved an enforcement action using the theory of the spirit -- theory of disparate impact. you argued that the lender's policies created a significant impact, your words, resulting in disparities on race, national origin, and potentially other prohibited races. i presume you presumed the disparate impact vendor because the lender has no idea whe

brown and mr. yo.. if you would move on. we thank you both for being here and the strength of your testimony here today. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is miranda brown and i'm a former australian diplomat. i joined the u.n. office of high commission of human rights as the chief the eastern southern african section in december 2012 and occupied this position until december 2014. i have first-hand experience of monitoring and reporting human rights violations including sexual abuse in a peacekeeping environment. i'm going to give you an insider's perspective. from my experience in the field, and as the chief of the eastern southern africa section at ohchr i know sexual abuse in peacekeeping missions is vastly underreported with bottlenecks of reporting at various stages. there are multiple barriers toin reporting sexual abuse. victims, many of whom are minors, know there is high t likelihood the perp tritetores will go unpunished and fear discrime news, stigmaization, retaliation if they report abuses. u.n. human rights

brown. even though mr. kerry described what he described as gut-wrenching, there was no apology. there was never going to be an apology. >> that's right no. apology was going to beforth coming here. that was something that was never really on the cards. certainly, mr. kerry's japanese hosts weren't expecting that. still, this was a very, very significant day. john kerry becomes the first to vicinity the piece memorial garden and lay a either. more than 140,000 people frwhen that atomic bomb was sdrobd on the city the foreign ministers who were with him toured the peace museum that. contains photographs that were taken in the days and weeks after the. mr. kerry as you pointed out said he found those pictures absolutely gut-wrenching. he said they touched all sensibilities and said i urge all people to come here, including the president of the united states, he said, when he was pressed by a reporter. but also he added the caveat that it's unlikely that will president obama would come here because he has a very, very busy schedule during his remaining time in power. the reason why

brown, and then mr. yeo if you'd move on. thank you both for being here and for the strength of your testimony here today. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is miranda brown, i'm a former australian diplomat. i joined the u.n.'s office of the high commissioner for human rights as the chief of the eastern southern africa section in 2012 and occupied this position until december 2014. i have firsthand experience of monitoring and reporting human rights violations including sexual abuse in a peacekeeping environment. i'm going to give you an insider's perspective. from my experience in the field, and as the chief of the eastern southern africa section i know that sexual abuse in peacekeeping missions is vastly underreported, with reporting at various stages. there are multiple barriers to reporting sexual abuse. victims many of whom are minors, know that there's a high likelihood the perpetrators will go unpunished and fear discrimination and retaliation if they report abuse. u.n. human rights offices and peacekeeping mission

brown, do you have a statement? you want me to go ahead, ok. in j lerner, i move to vote nominations. mr. lerner to be inspector fdic, -- to be an assistant secretary of the treasury. miss lisa fairfax to be a member of the securities and exchange purse ton, ms. hester be a member of the -- >> i have a few remarks. a couple of people on my side have remarks. i think the chairman for convening the session to consider these nominations for the committee. tose people have been asked take on important jobs. it is incumbent to act promptly today and on the floor. was pending for 500 days. for 400.as pending i hope we do better with nominees. hopeful chairman shelby and all of us who support -- will go to leadership and ask them to move on this. he is qualified. he started with president bush. i would also ask that we move , thely on the nomination confirmation of the import export bank nominee. its agency can carry out entire mission. thank you. you for the courtesy. i am going to take a minute. on the blockte no of nominees. not because of three of them, but because of the two fcc nominees. i

brown. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary it seems like you've been here longer than nine months. this problem that we're having with the va goes back more than ten years, you know, i've been on this committee for 23 years. we've had problems with the va over a long period of time. and it would be a misnomer to act like these things just occurred. but what i would like to ask -- i'm very concerned about -- is the report have once again, just a couple days ago put va on the high risk list. explain that to me and what we're doing to take care of this problem. i want to get to the stand down what you all have done and the positive things you all have done. please tell me about this because i'm concerned. >> yes. well, i believe the va was placed on the high risk list probably well-over a year ago. it was prior to my confirmation. but the gao has been very clear about the reasons they put the va on the high risk list. we have inconsistent policies and procedures. we have not systematized best practices or best processes

brown. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary it seems like you've been here longer than nine months. this problem that we're having with the va goes back more than ten years, you know, i've been on this committee for 23 years. we've had problems with the va over a long period of time. and it would be a misnomer to act like these things just occurred. but what i would like to ask -- i'm very concerned about -- is the report have once again, just a couple days ago put va on the high risk list. explain that to me and what we're doing to take care of this problem. i want to get to the stand down what you all have done and the positive things you all have done. please tell me about this because i'm concerned. >> yes. well, i believe the va was placed on the high risk list probably well-over a year ago. it was prior to my confirmation. but the gao has been very clear about the reasons they put the va on the high risk list. we have inconsistent policies and procedures. we have not systematized best practices or best processes

brown (clapping.) any further public comment. >> good evening mrs. scott welcome. >> i'm maggie scott i'm the executive director for human and mothers in charge i want to say i've heard good news and bad news we're trying to move forward and it is hard we are going to agree and disagree i travel all over the country and see things not in place people don't get and they don't get in other places we're not perfect but all can citi looked at everyone i love each and every one of you my heart is ac for ms. woods i lost my son to gun violence we want justice for everybody and able to have our children to come home at the same time but our officers to get home safe and work with the officers of justice and other folks the community with the gun buy back in the 16 we hope you come and 200 and 46 guns off the streets and it is good to hear those young people go to africa with the police department we need more yes, we want many woods to be heard he hear you paulette brown and this is about to be implemented a new program we're moving forward and hang onto ea

stand with me. [ applause ] i want to express my heartfelt thanks to three mayors, mayor willie brown, mr gavin newsom and mayor ed lee for having the confidence in me and giving me this opportunity to serve. i want to thank city administrator naomi kelly and her team for their support and guidance. city attorney dennis herrera and deputis for their sound advice and our community collaborators and friends and the dedicated and talented staff at olse. amany of you know and has been mentioned today olse was create by ordinance in 2001. with the vision of stan smith, who is here with us today. >> hey stan ! [ applause ] we were created to enforce one law, which was prevailing wage on the city's public works construction contracts. and i have kind of seen it since then, coming from construction, like building a high-rise. in 2003, the voters approved one of the first in the nation's minimum wage ordinances. the living wage ordinances were moved into our shop. the sweat-free ordinance was passed by the board in 2006. the voters passed the first in the country paid sick-leave ordinance. you pas

the officer and james brown was rushed to the medical center and both later died. you can see mr. dermeyer a former marine who leaves behind a wife and two young children. more now on the suspect james brown. >> i am con everyone ised that he is able to obtain a gun. we know that the gun was bought over a year ago. it was not bought by brown. it's troubling he would have a gun. it's troubling that he is out having history that he has. alison: there are many suspects about james brown and how he obtained a firearm. 143 rounds of unspent ammunition in his possession. they have looked at the surveillance video from inside the bus station. a lot of investigating to do with the particular crime. it's been revealed today two other women were injured in the incident yesterday. they have been identified. no but a 21-year-old woman from new york and a 47-year-old woman from north carolina. both just passing through that greyhound station yesterday. both still recovering. a lot more as this is a quickly developing story getting more information. stay with us. we have more coming up at 5:00.

mr. chris mihm, stajic issues team, miss nicky clowers, miss williams brown, community investment team. mr. phillip herr, physical director, physical infrastructure team. ms. barbara boberg, managing director, education workforce and income security team. mr. seto, forensic audits and audit team and mr. pouner. my apologies if i didn't get all of those names proper. we also have mr. john dalrymple, deputy commissioner at the irs at united states department of treasury. mr. david tillotson, chief management officer at united states department of defense. and dr. patrick conway. doctor, you've got -- you've got a title here. acting principle director -- acting principal deputy administrator, deputy chief administrator for innovation equality and chief medical officer at centers for medicare and medicaid services at the united states department of health and human services. so, i thank you, again, for all of your good work and being here. pursuant to committee rules, all witnesses are to be sworn before they testify. those on the panel as well as those that accompanied mr mr. dodaro, if you

mr. percy pinkney, and ms. claudette brown a. the at suggestion of supervisor campos on behalf of the entire bird board of supervisors on the victims of terrorist attack in brussels belgium and in memory of mr. welton flynn. >> that concludes our business today >> . thank you, colleagues, we're journeyed [ gavel ] >>> the meeting will come to order. >>supervisor norman yee: this is the regular meeting of government audit oversight committee. today i'm chairing this meeting. i'm joined by supervisor campos. president breed is out. >> i would like to thank sf govtv jim and leo who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. >> madam clerk, do you have any announcements? city clerk: yes, please silence cell phones and other electronic devices. anything to be submitted, should be given to the clerk. >>supervisor norman yee: before we get started, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor aaron peskin from this meeting. >> so moved. >> without objection, motion passes. also supervisor david camp

senator brown, democrat in the senate, with mr. vitter in the senate last congress proposed $5 billion as the appropriate evel for this effort. additionally, mr. speaker, concerning the ranking member's comments about raising the threshold on carte blanche relief under the policy statement that might lead to unsafe conditions, that's in my view not correct, mr. speaker. there are numerous other restrictions and criteria that continue to apply, and the federal reserve retains the right to impose capital standards if it determines it necessary to protect the safety and soundness of the institution. mr. hensarling: i yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. mr. hill: this bill is about main street and economic growth and it surprises me as just a member of congress that our president, president obama, would issue a veto message on this bill. i applaud the efforts in this bill and i urge my colleagues to support its commonsense design and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from texas re

mr. chris mem managing director, ms. nikki clower's the managing director healthcare team, ms. soares williams brown managing director of financial investment team. mr. philip , ms. barbara, managing director director and education workforce and income security team, our forensic team my apologies if and i did not get all of those things proper. we also have mr. john, deputy commissioner for services for the internal revenue service at the united states department of treasury, mr. david tillotson, deputy director of defense and chief management officer of the management of defense. and doctor patrick conway, doctor you have a title here, acting principal director, deputy minister, deputy chief administrator for innovation and quality and chief officer at medicare and medicaid services i thank you for all your good work and for being here, pursuant to all witnesses, please rise in racy right hand. >> do solemnly swear and affirm the testimony you are about to hear it will be the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. >> thank you. you may all all be seated please let the record be seated let

their heads were smashed against the concrete walls and left to a bloody stain which turn brown over the decades. mrroosevelt: i thought the description of the lake in your autobiography was one of the most compelling parts of it, and it is an atmosphere you convey in "allegiance," including the stockades in the mistreatment of prisoners. a couple things struck me as so amazing about the lake and it is the way in which things just keep getting repeated over and over again. there is a jail within a jail, for instance. also, the government keeps trying to figure out the dangerous people are, with the bad people are and keeps getting it wrong. although in this case, in the lake, there actually was a pro-japanese element. another thing the lake demonstrated to me was at least, you can take a population that is very level, intensely loyal which the japanese-american population was and you can mistreat them and call them enemies and it will eventually make them into enemies, at least some of them. that is something we should bear in mind in the present day. we have about five more minutes or so to talk, a

mr. duncan: nor state officials based on the governor's testimony because she and governor brown aback sent a letter asking. mr. thompson: we have no idea. there is 80 detainees that potentially could be coming. we don't know who of those 80 are coming. there's 26 set for release but cannot be released because they don't have a home country. there's 44 that cannot be released at all. then the 10 or seven being prosecuted and three have been convicted. are we getting the seven, three, the 44, the 26? we don't in a moment how can we even feasibly understand what type of threat any one of those people could bring to our community and what we would have to do to strengthen our border around fort leaven worth, increase our law enforcement cost, increase our safety. we have no idea because we are not being talked to. that's one of the things i would want and i would want for our community or any community that would look at having these detainees. mr. duncan: have any of you gentlemen visited the prison at guantanamo bay? mr. thompson: no. mr. gude: no. mr. bouchard: no. mr. duncan: mr. thompson,

mr. pinkney was born macomb,mississippi. he began his career as a social worker, specializing in gang intervention and diversion programs for san francisco's youth. in 1975 he served as special assistant for governor brown and before joining senator feinstein. mr. pinkney was a loyal friend, family member, distinguished leader and fierce advocate for social justice worldwide and his friendship was a special gift that touched the hearts of many lives and changed california for the better. he had an impact on every person he met, his contributions, his smile, his general spirit and loyalty will be sorely missed. he has joined his son percy pinkney and survived by his family. colleagues without objection, i would like to adjourn the meeting on behalf of the entire board of supervisors in mr. pinkney's honor. without objection, we will do that on behalf of the entire board. [ gavel ] and madam clerk, the rest i submit. >> thank you, madam president. and now supervisor campos. >> thank you. my apologies. i misheard the name earlier. i simply ask that to my colleagues if we can adjourn the meeting on behalf of the entire board in memory of the tragedy that happened in brussels and in memory of those folks on