mr. carpenter? >> i am also a member of the new council we have in hunters point. representing the >> in the neighborhood. one of my issues is jobs and construction. this is an area that i think improvements is going to be made, can help us economically. we need representation, represent the need and not agreed. that is part of what we do as volunteers. for many years, we have been missing out on economic opportunities. we have been gentrified out of the neighborhood. this is our opportunity to -- improvements are going to be made to let some of the dollar's trickle-down. that is another reason why it is important that we have the committee that can hear some of our concerns. it is kind of hard to express what it is like to be economically deprived when it comes to opportunities or to upgrade economical standards in two minutes. that is about all we get. i thought that is what good- faith effort means. the two minutes to get at the microphone. but diane has suggested, the commission should take that into consideration. the committee can sit down with some of the le

mr. tony camera dash carpenter? >> i welcome everybody to our community. i am a lifetime resident. i was born in hunter's point in 1945. i think that it is important for us to understand what economic development is all about us because it develops our community. not only did it develop our community, it developed our city during the time i have lived here. the redevelopment process, i thought, when it came to hunter's point, it was to benefit the residents. but over the years i learned different. it wasn't a plan for the residents. it was a plan for the city of san francisco to upgrade, and modernize our neighborhood. but in the course of upgrading, they failed to give us an opportunity to upgrade economically. when i was listening to what they were saying about the housing authority, and they mentioned a preference for 25% hunter's point residents. when they were rebuilding the development area and remoleding -- remodeling, i stood up for the residents of west point. you can't divide a community along project lines. now i find that is being done. it saddens me, because what we ar

mrs. obama will speak to supporters in richmond at the center stage carpenter theatre at 2:00 this afternoon. then she will head to fredericksburg where she'll speak to the campaign's grass roots. >>> the president meanwhile is trying to gain some ground today in one of the most hotly contested swing states out west. president obama arrived in aurora, colorado, last night after a campaign speech in las vegas. later today he will speak at a grass roots rally in golden, colorado. golden is located in jefferson county, which helped the president to win in 2008, but was previously considered a red county. that is making it a popular battleground with both mitt romney and paul ryan having visited in recent weeks. >>> d.c. councilmember michael brown's former treasurer is denying brown's implications that he stole more than $100,000 from the brown campaign. brown came forward about the missing money earlier this week. he also said he had fired hakeem sutton as treasurer when he realized most of the money was gone. sutton's attorney says his client didn't steal anything and even suggested the counc

mr. speaker, h.r. 5044, the andrew carpenter tax act, was introduced by the gentleman from tennessee, mr. desjarlais, in honor of lance corporal andrew carpenter who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of this nation's freedom while serving in afghanistan. and i'm a proud co-sponsor of the bill. mr. speaker, i'd like to thank the gentleman from tennessee for his leadership in addressing a tax problem facing families of deceased service members who have had their student loans forgiven. right now our tax code considers forgiven student loans co-signed by the service member's family as taxable income. this is just wrong for our nation's military families and that's what the gentleman from tennessee's bill is all about. it would change the tax code so that i.r.s. will no longer be able to hit families of deceased service men and women with a tax bill on a forgiven debt. you see, mr. speaker, the life of a military family is not easy. it's admirable and we must never forget that when one member of the family serves, all the family serves. in a small but important way this bill is really ab

mr. speaker, i don't think there's anybody on this floor who has any objection to what we tried to do here for the carpenters. i think that the question really is, why do we not have regular order in the house of representatives? this bill was so hastenly drafted that the original version did not even cover the car pen terse. had -- carpenters. had to be amended to cover them. now, that comes because you don't have hearings, that comes because you don't have witnesses come in and tell you how it works. we witnessed a rather sad event in libya just the other day. i was a foreign service officer, and i felt very strongly the feeling of sadness and grief when foreign service officers died. suppose one of them had an outstanding student loan signed for their parents while they went to georgetown school of whatever, the fact that this bill covers that line of duty? no. so now we're taking one little narrow class and we're drawing one narrow little bill when in fact a lot of people who in the line of duty it killed and debt forgiveness makes sense as it does for the carpenters and for the families who co-signed th