chu for his leadership. thank you, everyone. >> thank you, mr. mayor. some 13 years ago in 2005 when they established the legislation to take what were known as public trust lands owned by the state to turn them over to the authority of our port department for stewardship, i want to thank elaine and her department and commissioners for bringing this to our attention for so many years. i championed the earthquake safety emergency response bonds. there were two of them over the years. unfortunately, we were not able to the bonds to develop or create the assets to protect what we have here at the port. with that i'd like to bring up elaine forbes to tell us where our seawall infrastructure needs to go. >> thank you so much, assembly member chiu. i'm representing the port staff. we have the port commission president by my side and she'd she's been a steward of the waterfront for 20 years. i can say this is a dream come true day for us. it's remarkable to see the leadership behind me embracing and supporting the need for investment in the waterfront. as our

great reporting, david. >>> dom has something positive for us now to focus on, mr. chu>> we are talking a little about the positivity, but we can focus on what's happening with the marketover all we decided to take a look at parts of the market doing pretty well overall we looked at the s&p 500 and said, hey, which ones are actually still holding up relative to where they have traded historically? we ran a screen and looked at s&p 500 companies and took a look at exactly which ones have been trading still within their recent highs and 23 they have been, are they still positive year to date? turns out only 25 of those companies fit the actual bill we're talking about there. as things shake out around the close. among the names you talk about, they're the ones that maybe some investors look rat for some signs of momentum or at least sustained support. we're talking about interesting ones, like the likes of northrup grumman, which is 4% away from recent highs yum brands on the restaurant side of things within 4% tapestry, formally known as coach, about 3.5%. conocophillips

mr. schenn. chair chu. >> thank you, madame president. other commissioners? commissioner lee. >> on this issue or to present another amendment? >> either. >> add -- madame chair and madame president i rise for to amend section a, subsection 1 on line 17. sorry, cain see -- by deleting the last sentence or an organization with which he or she is associated. i agree with chair chu that we are here with a common gold of eradicating -- goal of erad -- eradicating corruption and pay to play and his ordinance, especially this section as currently written will have unintended consequences on non-profit organizations. i started my public service career starting with the elderly over 40 years ago. today the organization still serve the area vulnerable and diverse population. and during the last 40 years i have the privilege of working with numerous non-profit organizations in the city serving the under served and vulnerable population here in the city. whether they are small organizations with a budget of less than $100,000 or a large organization with multi-millions

mr. announce to the crowds that the republican party will look to be fielding a candidate of chu state i now how it does seem to be with the people of robin first you will come out zero balance of. pope francis has offered his condolences to the grieving parents of a british toddler who's died after a divisive legal battle the alfie evans case sparked a medical ethics debate that's resonated far beyond the u.k. had a hoax that explains why my gladiator has laid down his sheryl's and gained his wings at two thirty am after a evans father took to social media to announce his twenty three month old son has lost his battle and passed away on saturday morning the parents added they were heartbroken and thanked all their followers for support. the toddler had spent the last eighteen months of his life in intensive care being treated for red to generative brain disorder doctors ever seen his can argue further treatment for the terminally ill child was futile prolonging his discomfort and that he should be able to die peacefully. under british law courts can intervene when parents and doctors di

mr. nadler: and the gentleman from virginia? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia has two minutes remaining. on that -- i now yield one minute to the gentlelady from california, ms. chu. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for one minute. mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of the music modernization act. as co-chair of the congressional creative rights caucus, i'm proud to stand with my colleagues to support this consensus bill that aims to modernize our copyright law. music is at the heart of how we experience life. we count on the right song to help us express a moment better than we could ourselves. for music creators that work to help them support their family, keep a roof over their head and food on the table but far too long i heard from songwriters whose compensation was less than pennies in digital plays from number one hits and music legends touring well into their 70's because their work creative before 1972 is not eligible for royalties on digital broadcast. this bill will help bring our copyright law into the digital era and address the gaps that prevent creators from receiving fair compensation for their work. i urge

chu, sudden, theld off, nixon willaa negotiations came to a halt. >> undercutting president johnson. >> and he was furious at this. harlow,alked to bryce who was close to mix -- mr. him this isold going to be publicized. mr. johnson decided not to tell this to anyone. -- whyixon were elected not? elected, itn were would be a treasonable offense. -- if nixon were elected, it would be a treasonable offense. he didn't tell everyone -- anyone. we would've had a peace agreement before he left office. -- agreement it was a torture last year for lyndon johnson. what was he like? what was he going through with regards to vietnam and the election of 1968, and the assassination of dr. king and senator robert kennedy? in january, right off the bat, you had two instances that caused real problems. there was a spy ship captured off of north korea. offensive.as the tet terms -- theitary north vietnamese were defeated. in political terms, it was such a shock. it was considered as a win for north vietnam. when you get to april 1 or april 2, dr. king was assassinated. these opportunity assassination, june 4 or sixth, it was a very disruptive year. caused more demonstrations and

mr. speaker, i now yield two minutes to the gentlelady from california, ms. chu. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for two minutes. ms. chu: after years of irresponsible -- irresponsibly adding to our national debt in order to make the mr. richmond:er, republicans are now -- the rich richer, republicans are now trying to couldn't american people with this insincere balanced budget amendment. i say indiana -- i say insincere because republicans have been the greatest contributors to our national debt. they eagerly supported and even extended president bush's 2001 tax cuts, which added more than $5 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. and at the start of this congress, they rushed head-long into another $2.3 trillion tax scam that the congressional budget office says will put our deficit over $1 trillion within just two years. and what do the american people get for all of that? very little, if you're not already rich. since 80% of that $2.3 trillion goes straight to the top 1%. and here's why i say this is insidious. first, the

mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> no other items. >> meeting is adjourned. you. >> today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum (clapping.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much mo