mr. aderholt. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. aderholt: we would be happy to accept your amendment and be happy to work with you and yield back. the chair: does the gentleman reserve his time? mr. flores: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. price: i rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. if we are talking about common sense, the balance of common sense is against this amendment and with section 526 of the energy independence and security act. it is a straightforward provision intended simply to ensure that the environmental costs from the use of alternative fuels, whatever they may be, are at least no use than the fuels being used today. why shouldn't that burden of proof. it requires the federal government do know more harm when it comes to global climate change than it is already doing through the use of unconventional fuels. this is a commonsense provision. it escapes me why we would want to vio

mr. latta. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for 1 1/2 -- i'm sorry -- the gentleman from ohio is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. latta: well, i thank you very much. i appreciate the gentleman for yielding and, mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 4480, the domestic energy and jobs act. this bill comes at a critical time as consumers, farmers and small businesses are facing high fuel prices and the president is restricting federal leases from oil production while at the same time considering releasing only from the united states strategic petroleum reserve. i represent an area of the state of ohio that has the largest number of agriculture producers, manufacturing jobs and small businesses. when you look at these numbers, we have a very high disproportionate hit for my constituents because of high oil prices. and this bill requires all regulations to be subject to a thorough analysis of cost benefits and hurdles to implementation. the gasoline regulations act of 2012, which is part

the chair: the gentleman reserves. mr. markey: would the chair inform us as to the time remaining on both sides? the chair: the gentleman from utah has three minutes, the gentleman from massachusetts has 30 seconds. mr. markey: could you inform me once again? the chair: the gentleman from massachusetts has three minutes remaining. mr. markey: i yield one minute to mr. filner. mr. filner: i rise in opposition to the bill, especially the border parts of the bill, and the grijalva amendment that will be coming. i know how harmful this bill can be. as i read the exemptions from laws, i can see, i don't know, undumonted child labor filling in wetlands. come on, our natural beauty depends on these protections. these laws protect us. and the department of homeland security, as i understand it, is not in support of these provisions. they testified in july of 2011 that the border patrol, the border protections agency enjoys a close working relationship with the department of interior and department of agriculture that allows us to f

mr. chairman. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. holt: i ask unanimous consent that the house dispense with the reading of this amendment. the chair: is there any objection to the dismissing of the reading of the amendment? without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. holt: thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank the chair of this subcommittee and the ranking member for their work they've put into this. i rise with an amendment that is designed to ensure that our rail and transit systems have the additional resources or at least some of the additional resources that they need to help thwart any potential terrorist attacks on buses and trains. now, just over a year ago when our forces raided osama bin laden's compound, they discovered materials in his hideout indicating that he was planning attacks on rail and transit systems. and we have no reason to believe that al qaeda's recommend nance -- remnants have abandoned any such plans. as we've seen repeatedly, the threat is very real. since 2004, terrori

mr. chair, i ask for your support. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from iowa is recognized. mr. latham: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. latham: i tell the gentleman we accept your amendment and yield back. the chair: the gentleman from iowa yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from michigan. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it, the amendment is agreed to. mr. clarke: thank you. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from iowa seek recognition? mr. latham: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that the remainder of the bill through page 134 and line 11 be considered as read, printed in the record and open to amendment at any point. the chair: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. any amendments of that -- to that portion of the bill? >> mr. chairman, line 14, so whenever you're there i'm ready to go. the clerk: page 134, line 11. page 134, line 12, section 234 of title 2 o

mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h.r. 4480 directs me to report it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h.r. 4480 directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of the chair. >> the only thing that we knew outside of the government program was that guns from when government was sanctioning these >> sunday night at 9:00, part of "book tv" this weekend on c-span2. >> how do you report book interviews than news interviews? >> i see it as gathering history. i think of interviewing when i'm working for the news side as gathering contemporary information. >> how difficult is it to remain impartial in your reporting and not get caught up in the hype of one campaign or another? >> i'm going to try to as best

mr. scalise of louisiana. the chairrsuant to house resolution 679, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana. mr. scalise: thank you, mr. chairman. the amendment that i bring forward zeros out the open world leadership center. this is a subset of the library of congress. this is an agency that's received millions of dollars over the years. in fact, $123 million over the past 10 years to bring foreign government leaders from countries like russia and others to the united states, something that might be a good idea but frankly when you consider the fact that we're running massive deficits, have a mountain of debt that keeps building up, we have to cut back programs that we just can't afford to do and clearly this is one of those programs. and i do applaud the chairman in the committee for reducing this account. and although it's been reduced, there's still $1 million remaining in the account and ultimately what we do i

. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you dr. elmendorf on health care. health care is mentioned as significant factor in increased spending and your testimony certainly reinforces that as well. . .

mr. markey. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. markey: may i inquire from the chair how much time is remaining? the chair: 1 1/2 minutes. mr. markey: i thank the gentleman. yes, the reason that mr. fortenberry and i are making this amendment is that it would address a wrongheaded plan by the department of energy to build a facility to produce dangerous, highly radioactive nuclear fuel that no one actually wants to buy. the department wants to take uranium and plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs and make fuel for commercial nuclear reactors. this plan will cost taxpayers $2 billion. it is a nuclear bomb budget buster. it is the most expensive way to boil water that has ever been proposed on the planet. it is also unnecessary. no electric utility in the united states wants to buy this fuel. and it's also a serious threat to human health, the mox, the mixed oxide plutonium fuel, is actually more dangerous than existing commercial nuclear fuel and in the event of a nuclear disaster the releases from a mox-fueled reactor will cause

mr. chairman. the chair: yields back his time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized, five minutes. mr. olver: at this time i would be short. i wish the gentleman from minnesota great luck in solving this one and i am so happy for the people on that side of the aisle who must be just ecstatic to say they will take all these things off the table. what are you going to do when you have to have jobs and a robust economy in this largest economy in the world? i yield to my chairman. mr. latham: if you remember also during the hearings with the secretary, i asked that very question of the secretary, and you take the gas tax, vehicle miles traveled off the table, i said let's find a way to do this. well, he said we need to sit down at the table and discuss this. i said, mr. secretary, you are at a table, i'll be glad to come around and sit with you, and we'll discuss it. you come up with some ideas. he came up with zero ideas, if you remember that. i yield back to the gentleman. mr. olver: reclaiming my time. at my age i can't re

mr. richmond from new orleans. the chairrom louisiana may yield but not blocks of time. mr. scalise: thank you. the chair: does the gentleman yield? mr. scalise: yield to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. richmond. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized. mr. richmond: i thank you to my colleague from louisiana. we have a great honor and awesome responsibility of representing the coast of louisiana. mr. chairman, the coast of louisiana -- since 1950 had sent to the american treasury almost $150 billion, and up until 2006, we didn't receive any revenues back from the federal government for drilling on our out outer continental shelf. what we do today is ask for the ability to help ourselves, protect our citizens, and make this country safer. at the end of the day i'd like to remind the chair that our state has over 40% of the nation's wetland losses, but we have 80% of wetland loss but only 40% of the nation's wetlands. but if you look at what we give back to this country, i think that you will see that a $10 mi

mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union, having had under consideration h.r. 5855, directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 5855 and has come to no resolution thereon. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: motion to instruct conferees offered by mr. flake of arizona mr. flake of arizona moves that the managers on the part of the house on the --s in the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses of congress be instructed to receive from this agreement with the matter to be inserted as section 104-1-b by section 1105 of the senate amendment that reads as follows. for each state, the amount of combined apportionment for the programs shall not b

the chair: the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas for five minutes. mr. burgess: the passage in this house back in 2007 of the energy independence and security act was something that has caused a great deal of difficulty across the country. iffer heard from tens of thousands of my constituents on how that language will affect their lives, take away consumer choice for what kind of light bulbs they use in their home. and you know what? they are exactly right. when the government passed energy efficiency standards, they never wept as far as they did this time, they lowered the standards drastically and the technology is years off in making light bulbs in complying with the law and affordable for the consumer. light bulb companies have talked about their new bulbs that are compliant with the existing law and are available now but at what price? a four-pack cost $2.97 at a hardware store last december 31. now a single bulb will cost

the chair: the gentleman from alabama. mr. aderholt: i yield to the the gentleman from texas to talk about an important immigrant enforce problem. the speaker pro tempore: the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. carter: i thank the chairman for yielding to me. i would like to bring to the attention to my colleagues the recent change made by the department of justice to the state criminal alien assistance program also known as scap. while this is under the jurisdiction of the d.o.j., it is the government's failure to secure our borders, which is why i bring it up during this debate. it would reimburse states and counts for incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens. i want to emphasize, this program does not come close to fully reimbursing our states or our counties for the full costs for incarcerating these individuals. recently d.o.j. announced they will offer no reimbursement for what they consider to be unknown documented aliens. ile being an unknown documented aliens means that d.o.j. has no information on that individu

mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h.r. 5325 directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chairman of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 5325 and has come to no resolution thereon. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. record votes on postponed questions will be taken later in the day. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition? mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 241 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: ouck number 140, h.r. 241, a bill to authorize the conv

. >> thank you, mr. chair. and i believe everyone has a copy of a couple of different documents that we will be using for a reference for this item. so the main was is the latest draft of the report itself. there's a separate document that is entitled, sf redistrict and task force, neighborhoods intact 4/11/2012 draft and a third document which says lessons learned and recommendations from individual task force members. >> one second. the task force draft i have. the second document you referenced -- >> that was sent to us -- >> in my stack. >> too many papers. overloaded. it's here somewhere, i'm sure. >> there are copies, i believe, on the table as well. so some some respect it was not entirely clear to me how to incorporate some of the content. so if we can talk through that as needed. it seems like we have just one additional section of content that member tidwell submitted that we don't have in our hard copy. so if we can take that up as well. so just to begin with the mane report document itself, again, i

i will yield back mr. chair. >> now recognize my friend and colleague, mr. davis, for any questions he may have. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman and let me thank the witnesses. the department has been championed its see something say something campaign for the last couple of years. how does your membership report or collect data on the reporting of incidents? >> the see something say something is basically a slogan, ad campaign. we're involved in the first observer program. the first observer program has a call center. we have over 160,000 program members. last year, we received over somewhere near 4,000 calls. some have been referred for further action, so the see something say something campaign is basically a ad campaign. the first observer has training involved with it and tells people who to look for. >> mr. blankenship. >> we train our entire workforce to report any instances and we have a 24/7 operation terrcente manned to take those calls. there's a call down tree or notification tree, so the more serious incidents get raised up quickly. it's di

supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. chair. i have to say, unless i missed something, and i am hearing this new issue, which i find surprising, i am looking forward to hearing in the coming weeks and how this unfolds, because obviously this is a pretty critical piece of information. i think for those of us for whom it is extremely important that st. luke's remain open and a viable hospital, this is pretty critical. we have been led to believe that the 1% was very theoretical because it was so far from what the reality was of any projection for what the margins remain in the coming years, so that may not be adequate. i think it is very, very important that this issue be resolved. and if the measures stays the same, we will obviously have to know what those are, and if there is a renegotiation and a different metric that is going to be used, i guess my question will be when is that negotiation going to happen, and i know everyone is sort of an awkward place here, given whatever confidentiality restrictions exist, but i hope every

chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. broun: madam chair. the chair: the gentleman from georgia. mr. broun: i ask for the yeas and nays. the chair: does the gentleman ask for a recorded vote? mr. broun: yes, i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia will be postponed. the clerk will read. the clerk: page 39, line 6, railroad research and development, $35,500,000. railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program, the secretary is authorized to issue direct loans andoan guarantees pursuant to sections 502, 3504 of the railroad revitalization and regulatory reform act of 1976, public law 94-210. operating subsidy grants to the national railroad passenger corporation, $350 million. capital and debt service grants to the national railroad passenger corporation. $1,452,000,000. next generation high speed rail rescission, $1,973,000 are hereby permanently rescinded. northeast corridor improvement program rescission, $4,419,000. administrative provisions, federal railroad administr

mr. terry of nebraska. the chair: the gentleman from nebraska, mr. terry and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from nebraska for five minutes. mr. terry: thank you, mr. chairman. and my amendment is a rather simple one and i hope all of my colleagues can support it. many of us can remember the devastation brought on by the hurricanes, katrina and rita but folks remember the rise in gas prices and the threat of having no gas at all. when supplies are interrupted, it is critical to restore fuel for consumers as soon as possible. we continue to operate within a environment where the requirements set by the e.p.a. in another market, the fuel in chicago may be different from the fuel in st. louis, especially in the summertime. the supplies of fuel are disrupted, whether from a national emergency or a simple equipment market can adversely consumers. when they run out of gas, our constituents suffer. when there is a shortage, the constituents suffer. not ever supply disruption is covered in in this. the admi

president chiu: thank you, mr. chair. i would also like to hear about that. supervisor: when we talked about going to a runoff, with all of my colleagues, i shared the same sentiment that i wanted to maximize voter turnout. inherently with two elections, one would have a higher voter turnout than another. the ea of the september election, that is to say that in a general election, we will have the highest voter turnout. i understand however. when you look at the mayor's race, this did have higher turnout. but when we were talking about broader city-wide offices, we wanted to maximize turnout. that is what brought up the construct of this september election. because this has not happened before in san francisco, and i think there was a generic fear of the unknown, we wanted to make sure that it was very difficult or a little bit more of a burden for someone, when potentially voter turnout would be lower. i think we would all agree. to what degree, we do not know, but there will be lower turnout in september than in the november general election. i think we can

polis. >> thank you, mr. chair. i'd like to follow up on my colleague, mr. cohn's questions, and i want to try to get a clear answer to make sure the drug enforcement administration's aware of some of the evidence. is crack worse for a person than marijuana? >> i believe all illegal drugs are bad. >> is methamphetamine worse for somebody's health than marijuana? >> i don't think any illegal drug is good for -- >> is heroin worse for someone's health than marijuana? >> again, all drugs -- >> i mean, either, yes, no, i don't know. i mean, if you don't know, you can look this up. you should know this as the chief administrator for the drug enforcement agency. i'm asking you a straightforward question. is heroin worse for someone's health than marijuana? >> all illegal drugs are bad. >> does this mean you don't know? >> heroin causes an addiction. >> okay. >> it causes -- causes many problems and is very hard to kick. >> so does that mean the health impact of heroin is worse than marijuana, is that what you're telling me? >> i think -- i think you're asking a su

in closing, mr. chair, i want to express my hope that we not leap to conclusions either good or bad about either of these programs. we should be cautious about these programs, but it appears that nothing staff learned in preparing for this hearing and nothing in gao's testimony lead us to condemn either program or to conclude that things are off the tracks again. i thank our witnesses for being here today and sharing information and providing the sort of in-depth discussion that is absolutely required and i look forward to their testimony today. thank you, mr. chair. thank you. a yield back. >> thank you. i appreciate. i don't know if we're off track and it's one of the most bipartisan communities in this very bipartisan with the overall full committee and appreciate that, and i just want to get some information and both sides to do just the same. just as we've got to do with the question and answer period we'll recognize not only the chairs and ranking members of both subcommittees before we go to the res

. >> thank you, mr. chair. i represent a district in los angeles county where three years ago a young rising star, an elected official in my district was murdered by the mexican drug cartel when he was visiting relatives there. this tragedy is why my colleague and i worked on legislation to allow law enforcement to more easily freeze the elicit proceeds of the criminal organizations in u.s. financial institutions in hopes of preserving the assets for future seizure. it corrected the situation where they can freeze assets of those engaged in criminal activity when the situation was being made and our legislation was signed into law allowed u.s. courts to freeze assets when there was evidence of criminal activity. so what role has this lobby preserving for forfeiture act played in assisting the de a's financial investigations and getting them and laundering operations. >> let me thank you for bringing us that legislation. it has helped already. i'm aware that more than $50 million has been frozen because of that.

mrs. capps of california. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 691, the gentlewoman from california, mrs. capps, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. mrs. capps: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. chairman, it is my hope that we can all simply agree to this amendment. among this bill's many provisions is one that creates a new interagency committee to do the impossible. it is charged with conducting an analysis of the e.p.a., air quality rules, that have not been proposed using data that does not even exist. i'm concerned this new interagency committee is being set up to fail. first, the bill before us requires the new committee to examine the potential impact of several e.p.a. air quality rules on gasoline prices. there's one significant problem. these rules have not yet been proposed. now we can argue about whether they have been initiated, contemplated, discussed, mulled over, considered, and so forth but the

clerk johnson: no, mr. chair. chair elsbernd: ok, with that, this meeting is adjourned. ♪ because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this keeps scum from building up. >> on this end in the liquid end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product

chair hur: is that acceptable, mr. kopp? >> yes. chair hur: great. thank you. >> i would only say for the record that that does not cure the defect for not having spot -- filed specific charges at the outset, and we would like to make that for the record. chair hur: your objection is noted. thank you. mr. m milledge -- mr. emblidge commissioners, anything else we need to address tonight? ok, then we will take public comment. public comment will be limited to two minutes. i will leave it to officers to identify where people should stand. ok, i have been told that everyone needs to line up on that side. officer, i am going to leave it to you to manage that process. again, public comment due to the number of people who are commenting will be limited to two minutes. i am going to concerts -- instructed the staff to turn off the microphone at the end of two minutes. you will get a 30-second warning. that is the first ring. after the second ring, the microphone is going to go off, and we will invite the next speaker of. as a preliminary matter, i want to t

the chair: without objection. mr. visclosky: i appreciate the recognition and i want to add my voice to the chair's in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. we just had a colloquy on the house floor with several members from the state of pennsylvania, relative to the fate of 230 lock chambers on our inland waterways that carry hundreds of millions of tons of cargo. if they fail, we would need, as has already been mentioned this morning, 24 million additional trucks that would cost billions more in fuel and generate millions of tons of pollution. these locks that are the back bone of this nation's inland waterway system were built with a 50-year design life. many of those that exist in western pennsylvania are now over 100 years old. relative to cuts, i want to emphasize to our colleagues that there was a lot of work that the chairman, the members of this subcommittee, the staffs, put into this bill to make very discreet, discerning decisions and in many instances to make cuts. i would take simply one program as an e

mr. franks of arizona. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any vote after the first vote in the series. the question is on the unfin -- the request for a vote on the amendment offered by mr. grimm. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. grimm of new york. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of a request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: the yeas are 218 and the nays are 198 and the amendment is adopted. unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 8 on the

chair hur: mr. keith? >> well, i think this goes back to an issue we raised at the last hearing, which is the duty of a representative to cooperate, and these materials would have normally been provided to us. they would have been given to us by the employee, and if the employee did not want to cooperate, they would resign. this is typically the way these things go, and this one has not gone that way. we have been going to the court. from our standpoint, most significantly are the telephone records described in the criminal action. our hearing is not until june 5, so we are on a very tight timeline. what i would like to do is get discovery of this telephone records. chair hur: a stick, hold on, before he speaks. -- ok, long on. you are willing to go to the evidentiary hearing based on the -- >> quote-unquote, they used the term "discovered." it should be a package of information that they have. they should not have to search their records. it is there. we but like to get that. various witnesses. it is impe

clerk johnson: no, mr. chair. chair elsbernd: ok, with that, this meeting is adjourned. ♪ >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states. the public art program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the addition of five new commissions that are as bold and dynamic as the new building. >> this project was completed in record time, and we were able to integrate the artist's early enough in the process that they could work with the architect said that the work that is completed is the work that really helps complement and instill the space as opposed to

mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union, having had under consideration h.r. 5855, direct it's me to report the same back to the house with sundry amendments, with a recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and that the bill as amended do pass. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 5855 and reports the bill back to the house with sundry amendments adopted in the committee of the whole. with the recommendation that the amendments be adopted and that the bill as amended do pass. under house resolution 667, the previous question is ordered. is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the committee of the whole? if not, the chair will put them engross. the question is on the adoption of the amendments. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have. it the amendments are adopted. the question is on engrossment an

mr. leigh? >> for the same reasons that -- and chronology that vice-chair lam described, i will also vote no. >> mr. alanso? >> this is too many people too late. i'm sorry, no. >> thank you. >> ok. moving then down our list. mission bay, someone place mission bay. >> decided not to. >> thank you. don't worry about it.let's go 1. >> could you describe that? >> i could not. >> what we heard is that we are ready to kick between san jose, cabrera, and coconut and moved that into 8. the request is to keep that as is. i will keep some of the other blocks east of tiffany. it is bounded by guerrero, san jose and duncan. if there was an interest in the broader move of that area into 8, it would be the broader rotation that i saw the other day. this is already in 8. >> we are good on 3919. moving down to the potential block of sunnyside, the overlapping block of sunnyside and glen park. >> what are the streets that this block is bounded by? >> mangel and congo. >> that is correct. >> is that the correct block? it is a population of 135 people. it would bring the population of district 8 to 3.22%. deviatio

. >> actually, mr. chair, if i may suggest that we do this next time, because you made a lot of changes today, and they are small enough that a lot of the areas that we proposed to look at, we actually now need to revisit and make sure that the lines are where they were last time. >> i am open to that, but if you could explain the implications of what we might be required to do, just as one example? >> ok, for exampl

mr. chairman. >> the chair recognizes mr. mcinernie. we'll get back to that question before we leave. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. holdren, thank you for joining us today. in your testimony you mentioned a few new projects such as the website about manufacturing data bases, and the robotics initiative. would you please discuss how these and other initiatives create jobs locally, and how they advance our leadership in the world with regard to innovation? >> all of the initiatives that we've been pursuing in this domain, advanced manufacturing, robotics, nano technology, and others, are aimed, as i mentioned before, at accelerating the transfer of fundamental advances and discovery in science and engineering into commercial processes, products, services, and therefore, into economic growth and jobs. and the fact that all of these initiatives are constructed around partnerships, with the private sector working together with the public sector and the academic sector, is in fact leading to success in accelerating the transfer of these ini

i have faith in you, mr. chair, as i have known you for a very long time, and i do keep in touch with you from time to time, and i admire what you do. i watched you at budget sessions, here in the chambers, at the committee meetings. you bring your experience, having worked for the san francisco unified school district, and other places, and you represent district 9 well. so i am proud of you, and i hope that you cast a shadow, one that is bright enough, where there is documents, there may be light. commissioner campos: thank you. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk, please call item for. >> executive director's report. this is an information item. >> good morning, commissioners, maria lombardo. i will be brief, highlighting primarily some upcoming community of reach. i do want to follow on a few remarks that the chair just made. we are still in limbo about a federal surface transportation bill. unlike our committee, the confere

president chiu: thank you, mr. chair, i would suggest that this portion go to that portion or at least be expanded to go to an expanded portion of that ami so the we can assure the we are addressing different parts of the need. i happen to think that if you have $2 million that go to the low part of the spectrum, that provides in the less pressure for us to use moneys elsewhere, but i will make the amendment with the suggestion in comments that we have heard today. chair: supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you. i am still not sure what we are doing here. just as we need to deal with the housing, we're talking about luxury housing, and not just for the wealthy but very wealthy, the impact on low-income housing is pretty significant, so i am still trying to understand what exactly it is that you are proposing through this motion. i am supportive of adding $2 million, but i am not sure where this is going. chair: president chiu? president chiu: let's be clear about where the votes are going. this is to contribute a

-- mr. chair? >> we have amendments. could you please let us know what the amendments are. >> certainly. before you today is an amendment. there are some indications of ought -- documents. there is an amendment on the bottom of page 3 that clarifies that one of the approvals concerns the widening of mariposa street. clarifying language about the mission bay south infrastructure plan modification. it clarifies what the status of that is today. supervisor mar: colleagues, can we take these amendments without objection? thank you. can we move this forward as a committee report to the full board? thank you. >> item number four, resolution authorizing police amendment for 720 sacramento street for the department of public health. supervisor mar: -- >> this item before you is the least of 720 sacramento. it provides mental health counseling and treatment to the chinatown community. it includes portions of the ground floor, the basement, and the entirety of the second and third floors. 9200 square feet of leased space. the poli

. >> mr. chair, we have the deviation. it is negative 4.997%. >> are you comfortable? >> i'm comfortable. >> thank you. thanks for that exercise. let's visit now the less again attempting to move fairly swiftly through each of these considerations. let's go to the question of d-60 border, at the same time we will secondarly visit the maria manner. >> i don't know where they are continue may affect it. if you can tell us where they are. >> sure. give us the other two. so we will look out -- so the next -- the next one is between districts 10 and 9. bart line we would align to. this is an area that has three people so the line would move west from bayshore to the freeway, between 280 and depaul to confirm to the bike district. we're going to highlight this right now. >> i'm going to put the bart district layer up as well so i'm sure to highlight the correct area. so the highlighted area represents three people and this population is moving from nine to ten. the deviation of district 10 would become negative 0.78 pirs% and district 9, 4.8%. >> district 9 becomes 4.8, is t

the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? mr. broun: i request a recorded vote on this amendment. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia will be postponed. the clerk will read. the clerk: page 74, line 10, housing. $396,500,000. mr. broun: madam chair. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. broun: madam chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment by mr. broun of georgia, after the first dollar amount, insert decrease by $5 million. page 59 line 12, after the dollar amount, inseert increase by $5 million. mr. broun: my amendment again would cut the spending on salaries of bureaucrats here in washington by $5 million this amendment, as well as all of my amendments will not cut the programs. will not cut the programs one iota. what this does is it reduces the salaries. i just heard my good friend from massachusetts talking about federal bureaucrats getting raises. i have froze then s

. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> mr. stutzman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. elmendorf, dr. elmendorf for being here. i always enjoy your analysis and your testimony. i'd like to talk about interest rates, and then segway that into taxes. on page 32, one of your points under interest rates says an increase in government debt tends to raise interest rates by people allocating their savings by crowding out investment capital goods such as computers. can you talk a little bit about, or does your report here touch on why our interest rates are at record low levels right now? >> we don't talk about that here, congressman. we will in our august regular forecast update. the principal factors seem to be weak economy, and thus weak private credit demands, and a flight to relative safety from financial markets, particularly in europe, that are in an especially fragile state right now. >> qe-1, qe-2, is that going to be -- that's obviously playing a part of that. if that expires, are we going to see interest rates increasing in the near future? >> certainly for short-ter