the chair: the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i'd like to yield four minutes to the distinguished gentlelady from missouri, ms. hartzler. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for four minutes. mrs. hartzler: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman, for your leadership. as a member of the budget committee and the armed services committee, i am proud to support a balanced budget that stops spending money we don't have, provides regulatory relief, and provides for a strong defense. our federal debt costs an astonishing $17 trillion. this is unacceptable. it's irresponsible to take more money from hardworking families just to spend more here in washington. our path to prosperity budget balances in 10 years by cutting wasteful spending and reforming government. just as importantly this budget gets our priorities right again by providing for the common defense. it replaces $274 billion in scheduled defense cuts to ensure the american people have a bright, safe future. it is imperative we do so because since taking offic

. >> mr. chair, we have a quorum. great. let's go to our next item, please. >> item no. 2, approval of the lafco minutes from the january 24, 014 regular meeting and march 3, 2014 special joint meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. >> colleagues my comments or questions of the minutes? okay. seeing none, we can open this item up for the many people who are in our audience -- wait, there is no one there. welcome. and we'll close public comment. colleagues do we have a motion to approve the minutet minutes? motion from commissioner breed and seconded by commissioner schmeltzer, without objection. next item, please. >> the community choice aggregation activities report. a, status update on the cleanpowersf. b, status upare date on the proceeding at the california public utilities commission and c, status update for the request for proposal to provide build-out strategy and plan for cleanpowersf energy-efficient, facilities and local jobs policy. >> we have a presentation from barbara hale. >> thank you, co

mr. mulvaney of south carolina. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 544, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. mulvaney, and a member opposed, will each control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina. mr. mulvaney: thank you, mr. chairman. i reserve such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. mulvaney: thank you, mr. chairman. it's good to be back this year to once again offer the president's budget as an amendment to the republican budget. it's the president's budget that i'll be offering, again, this year. you may recall, mr. chairman, i did this two years ago in an effort to try and drive a debate over what i thought was a misguided document, a document that the president had offered us that i thought offered bad ideas for the future of this country. i came in, offered it as an amendment as none of my democratic colleagues sought to do so and for various reasons failed to get a single vote on that particular amendment. my collea

i think the place i was at was ultimately - >> mr. chair. >> supervisor wiener. >> just one thing to clarify in terms of in response to supervisor breed's question i believe when you're referring 0 those drinks whether you call them sugary drink or soda that's all it includes sports and sugary snap he lives it's not just quote/unquote all on the sugary beverage. >> i definitely got that but i'm trying to because we're specifying and asking kids if they drink soda i'm trying to understand the numbers around the diabetes and what kids in would easier in particular. i see a lot of different information and i'm not sure how to read that information so i guess i'm just a little bit confused about the overall proposal based on the data >> so perhaps many wilson can clarify the day the soda consumers can you clarify that and for example, we know that among teenagers in california sugary beverage consumption a going up and the industry is behind that. >> in the california health survey the question was yesterday humidities did you drink a can or bo

is that okay mr. chair? >> great. we will call a handful of names and you don't have to speak in order that i call you but if you could line up when i call you, and if anyone needs special accommodation for whatever reason let us know and steve cooklyn -- i apologize for mispronouncing names. (calling speaker names). sorry, i cannot read the last name. michael giewtenburg. autumn [inaudible]. hi. >> good afternoon supervisors. i am steve and representing the owners of an existing storage sight in the bay view on gerald avenue. we think the goals are of the legislation are laudable. creation of this space is critical to maintain blue collar jobs in san francisco and cross subsidy with other uses is the most efficient way for the city to construct new space. in 2011 my client submitted a planning application for mix use pdr and storage facility to do just that and create 28 spaces averaging 1400 feet along with wholesale and public storage on a site that contains 68,000 feet of public storage. the new storage would make

mr. pocan. the chair: how much time? mr. van hollen: a minute and a half. the chair: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. . mr. pocan: thank you, mr. speaker. this is the fourth year in a row the republicans have introduced their road map for the future. who are the winners and losers? the chairman of the budget committee said this is a win-win budget. it's a win if you're in the top percent aisle, it's a win if you're in the second percent aisle. but the rest of us, the 98%, certainly aren't winning. we lose 1.1 million jobs in 2015 and three million jobs in 2016 in the republican budget. that's like firing every single person in the state of wisconsin. we lose by slashing investments in infrastructure and science, transportation and education and our seniors and the middle class taxpayers pay for it and we also lose on the fact that this has fuzzy math and the logic is terrible. the status actually balances in -- to say this actually balances in 10 years is saying cheese whiz is like real wisconsin cheese. they cut the affordable c

mr. chairman, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i rise today to bring the house attention to an important issue. the veterans retraining assistance program, also known as vrap, has helped our veterans retrain to develop the skills they need for jobs of today expired on march 31. ms. brownley: i planned to offer an amendment today to provide funding for the veterans retraining assistance program, however, i understand the amendment would have been subject to a point of order. nevertheless, this critical issue is deserving of the house's attention. as a member of the house veterans' subcommittee on economic opportunity, i know well the struggles our unemployed veterans face on a daily basis to re-enter the ork force. in my home district of ventura county, where i'm proud oto represent naval base ventura county, we have a large group of veterans who have sacrificed for our country around deserve every effort we can to ensure they receive the training they need

>> thank you, mr. chair, please be sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices and completed speaker cards to be included in the file and should be submitted to the clerk and the items acted on upon should appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> this is an item that is introduced by supervisor weiner and i am proud to be a co-sponsor, before i turn it over to supervisor weiner so that he can make his remarks and i will make mine after he does, i want to begin by simply thanking... >> sorry mr. chair, but we need to call the item. >> call item one. >> hearing to formally accept the recommendations of the lgbt aging task force for the board of supervisors and consist of final recommendations and include action plans for implementations of recommendation and time lines and estimated cost and potential funding sources and additional information to implementation. >> once again, this is an item that is introduced by supervisor weiner myself and before i turn it over to sup

mr. mcclintock. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes -- california is recognized for two minutes. mr. mcclintock: i thank the gentleman for yielding and kind words. mr. chairman, the question before the house is whether we are going to continue to ignore the economic consequences of the major actions that we take, or whether we are going to start recognizing that incentives matter. and if the legislation we pass has profound economic consequences, it must be taken into account. why does am der stamm have the narrowest houses on earth? because they tax by street frontage. incentives matter. what happens to our revenues if we tax all of a person's $100,000 income? the static scoring on which we now exclusively depend says that that would raise us $100,000. but we all know the correct answer is that we would raise zero dollars because that person now has no incentive to work. macroeconomics gives us tools to anticipate the real world effect of major policy changes, and we ought not to

. >> good morning, mr. chair, and supervisors. director of the liaison unit and mr. mana has filed an application with the california beverages seeking a type 21 license for 300 kearny street and he has been operating with a type 20 which is just a beer and wine. the application has profp to be with the community and he reaches the people that live in the area and the residents of the hotels in the area. during the 2013 january to december, police calls reflect that had only had four police calls and they mostly involved trespassing, which he needed some assistance and just a removal of patrons. and the police reports and the plot is 160, which is considered to be a high crime area. and the census tract is 117, which has a minimum population of 1783. the off price licenses both for on sale and off sale, prove to be undue concentration, and however, there were no letters of protest filed with the department of alcoholic beverage control and besides the retail operating standards and the san francisco deemed approve ordinance and we are not putting any special conditio

. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> i'm sorry supervisor breed - >> thank you, mr. chair i will be joining my colleagues in supporting eddy he's one of the hardest working and atheist advocates and along with his organization of bright line i've found their work for green jobs and hiring and for building important community partnerships to be instructional in moving forward for significant project. i know that the support he has on the ground from representatives from dr. espanola jackson to a b u confirms the work he's done i'm happy to support him >> thank you supervisor breed. >> i want to add a few more comments i've not worked with eddy but what i've experienced with my midtown. i don't have a large laundry list of experiences but i felt the judgment of bright line and it was problematic for the residents that's the reason i'm making a decision like that for clarity purposes i heard a lot of great things about eddy and his work and i'm glad that are other great experiences and maybe in the next couple of years this might change bow for now i'm concerned about th

>> i think that mr. chair, that mr. pilpal was reading my mind because i was going to interest at our next meeting for those of us who were not around in 2012, that we take up and get a report on the status of the, the case that is before the court of appeals, on for the oral argument and relating to our challenging, various, matters in the sunshine, san francisco sunshine ordinance. and if we could have a report from staff on the history of that? >> and also, get into the way that it looks at this point and there were a couple of questions that i would like to raise, at that time and so if we could just discuss the case, that could go, on and get some preliminary report beforehand, from staff. >> i think that a discussion of pending litigation would have be to in closed session, right? >> that is fine. >> i just want to... >> and i just brought it up. >> that i think is great. >> you should add it. >> any other items for future meetings? >> is public comment? >> last one for tonight, david pilpal and i am not sure that

mr. chairman, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, i'm glad to join my colleague from pennsylvania in co-sponsoring this important amendment, but i must admit it is regrettable, actually no, shameful, we actually have to be here today discussing this topic. as a member of the house veterans affairs committee, i have heard over and over and over again of stories of abuse, neglect and mismanagement within the v.a. mr. huelskamp: but the one thing i never hear about is accountability. in fact, under the leadership of the current secretary, a senior executive service employee who has presided over mismanagement at the v.a. is more likely to receive a sizable bonus than to be disciplined or fired. the culture of anything goes has got to stop. and the best way to stop this is to send a strong signal across the department of v.a. that congress means bills. it is obvious from the headlines about the sizable bonuses received by v.a. administrators in georgia, south carolina, pitts

mrs. black. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs.lack: i rise in support of the house republican budget plan. unlike the president's budget, this is a serious proposal that balances our budget and helps our economy grow. our nation is $17.4 trillion in debt and if we want to pro serve this country -- preserve this country for our children and grandchildren, we must reform the way washington works. everyone knows that medicare will soon go bankrupt and that's why i'm so happy that this budget proposal save this is important program for our seniors and future generations. by transitioning to a premium support model, we can preserve medicare for those in or near retirement and strengthen medicare for younger generations. furthermore this budget ends obamacare's raid on the medical -- medicare trust fund and repeals obamacare's independent payment advisory board to help ensure our seniors get the care they deserve. and despite what some critics say, this does not eliminate traditional medicare. instead, it ensures that americans will alw

>> thank you mr. chair. good morning. mr. chair, members of the board, obviously this what we are contemplating today is the culmination of about 8 years worth of work, really tremendous work by mta staff by planning department staff, the city attorneys office and many others. it really is a once in a generation opportunity for us to look at and make improvements in muni service that so many people rely upon and that really is one of the english ines of the san francisco economy. i'm really happy to be at this point and i would like to thank the staff for the incredible work they have done and gotten us to this point. we have a presentation that we'll walk through focusing a little bit more on the capital changes that are recommended in item 8, since those have been a little bit less before the board and then we look forward to hearing from the public and from the board. >> thank you, dr. riskin. ms. chris baum? >> good morning, thank you for having us today in a time to a milestone in this project. today you have three calend

. >> excuse me mr. chairhe department submit it to the office before 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> could we do that? >> okay. >> great. could you call item four. >>resolution approving the port commission's third amendment to lease no. l-15169 with autodesk, inc., a delaware corporation, for the lease of unimproved shed space at pier 9 in the northern waterfront with a 111 month term, to commence upon board approval. >> okay, thank you very much, supervisors. >> good afternoon, jeffrey ballum the port's leasing manager and seeking your approval for the item as read by the secretary, it is an amendment to an existing lease, and it adds 3400 square feet of currently unimproved shed space that is currently used for parking, and will invest no more than $2 million to develop their robotics research lab, pier nine, and they have, and this will bring them up to 30,000 square feet and they are doing 3 d printing, and software development, and currently, employing about 120 persons at pier nine, and the amendment is

the chair appoints the gentleman from florida, mr. webster, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 4486 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for military construction, the department of veterans' affairs and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and or other purposes. the chair: the committee will be n order. pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read for the first time. the gentleman from texas, mr. culberson, and the gentleman from georgia, mr. bishop, each will control 30 minutes, the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. culberson: it's an honor and privilege for me to present the mill care construction and veterans afairs and related agencies appropriations act today. this is a bill we produced together with the unanimous support of the committee and subcommittee ten sure our veterans and our men and women in uniform have everythi

>> cowley. >> somebody had to sign off. >> mr. chair, similarly, i believe the contact at the time was amanda cowley. >> i do not have that information today. i can get that for you. >> amanda cowley is the director of state exchanges. she was -- we also had a state officer who dealt with day-to-day responsibilities for making sure all the elements were approved. >> amanda was a point of contact. we were in constant contact with the entire cms team. >> mr. matsuda, i don't think you are there at that time. >> i will provide that on the record later. >> we have a document, and i will get your copy of it, it says for policy development, this is a piece that walks through, as far as how you're getting the core, as massachusetts was walking through this. again, i want you to get a copy of it. we can talk later. this is an august document, talking about the website and how things are working. browsing anonymously was a good. submitting an application was ago. eligibility determination no go. shopping, no go. enroll, no go. quoting informatio

>> yes, mr. chair, committee, orphan page 11 as explained, on pages 11 and 13, the port proposes to [speaker not understood] 189,250 dollars and that's from the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks general obligation bond funds. and that de appropriation includes 619,63 3 in project savings from the bay front park project, 459,089 [speaker not understood] site improvements project. and then the balance of 10,528 in savings from the blue greenway planning and design cross. those funds then would be reappropriated if you approve this request for a total of the 1,089,250 and the estimated savings would go to two port projects including 444-625 for the tulare park project as shown in table 3 on page 12 of our report, and 64 4,625 for the bayview gateway project as shown in table 4 on page 13 of our report ~. the port has provided us with sufficient details. we recommend that you approve this proposed ordinance. >> okay, thank you, mr. rose. colleagues, any questions? okay, thanks very much. seeing none,

mr. chairman. as a schoolteacher i thought the students there were three branches of the government. legislative, judicial, and executive. checks and balances. they should have taken my class because they keep writing checks and the constituents get the balance. i also told my constituent bills were brought to the floor, went to committee, and brought to the floor again for debate and considered passage. passed befores congress can read and debate the bill. shame on congress for allowing this to happen. circumventede who the congressional procedures that allows billions of dollars spent and the divisions it is costing this country is inexcusable, because congress passed a bill before it was read and debated. this is shameful. it seems here, listening to all these debates, the good, the bad and the ugly, the money that was spent, and all we have is billions spent and division in this country. hearing -- well, let me say this, in congress we are the fiduciaries of the public's today, after hearin

mr. chairman. the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union has had under consideration, pursuant to house resolution 536 -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has under consideration house concurrent resolution 96 and pursuant to house resolution 544 reports the concurrent esolution back to the house. without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on adoption of the concurrent resolution. under clause 10 of rule 20, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, this five-minute vote will be followed by a five-minute vote on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal, if ordered. this is a five-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

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