mr. clark, please call item no. 2. >> item #2, resolution approving a ten-year landfill disposal agreement and facilitation agreement with recology san francisco under charter section 9.118. supervisor chu: thank you very much. this item came before us some time ago. we have the presentation from the department of environment. and we did have the report provided by our budget analyst, mr. rose, on this item already. if i could direct the department to speak more about the follow- up items from the last committee hearing. my understanding of the conversation in committee was that it circled around agreements on transportation options regarding the port. i know that between then and now there has been a commission agreement between the apartments. if we could hear the conversation towards those new information items, that would be terrific. i would like to record -- recognize the supervisor campos has joined us for the committee. >> thank you for the opportunity to present today on the proposed l

mr. clarke, but mr. bratton, can you talk about the effect these operations have in the community? >> from a law enforcement effective, stings are part of what we do whether it's internal affairs issues, directed at our own police officers, or in the traditional criminal world directed at criminals. in the nypd, we created sting operations, hundreds of them directed against our officers even, and they were required we effectively set up stings to see if our officers were accepting citizen complaints. charlie points out correctly they have to be done appropriately in a way that they are not subject to criticism. the use of stings in this new paradigm, the new crime in particular the sensitivities of the muslim population, that it is a thin line that has to be followed. i think the bureau, my understanding of their cases without having details of them other than the ones in l.a., i think they've done a very good job here, but what has been missing is the relationship between whether it's the bureau or local police to be able to explain, to be trusted if you will to explain and to hav

mr. clark, do we have any other items before us? and you, we are adjourned. good d gentlemen. i want to call to order the meeting of the entertainment commission for tuesday, march 22, 2011. do you want to call the roll? secretary: sure. [reading] commissioner roja and meko and perez are not present, but we do have a quorum. president newlin: ok, we go to public comment, where members of public comment may address the commission on items of interest to the public better within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. you had two minutes. ok, any public comment? seeing none, what i would like to do, commissioners, is, as you know, we are at 7:30 having a combined meeting with the commission, so i would like to call the items out of order and take the action items that we have so that members of the public do not get stuck here later than they have to be, so you said two were dropped, jocelyn. which ones? secretary: correct. commissioners, we're going to call item five. is that correct? 5, hearing and action, so item b and d have requested continuances until april 12,

mr. clark, do we have any other items before us? and you, we are adjourned. >> good evening, and welcome to the 31st annual mfac awards. [applause] hello, everyone. i am your mc tonight for the good government awards, and i'm so excited tonight. we have such great winners, exciting guests. first, i want to quickly acknowledge some of our fabulous officials in the house. we have supervisors chu, elsbernd, wiener, mar, mirkarimi, chiu, former supervisor alioto-pier, our treasurer, the mayor's chief of staff, and our controller. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] the mfac awards have become sort of like the oscars of city hall, and you're going to have a great show tonight. before we get to that, i want to think -- take a quick moment to thank the folks that really make it possible. we go to a lot of events and see a lot of folks who sponsor these, and i can tell you it is amazing who is always the first folks to step up when it is time to support something really valuable. i want to take a few minutes to thank all the fol

mr. clark, do we have any other items before us? and you, we are adjourned. supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the transportation authority san francisco city and county. >> item 1, roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. supervisor mirkarimi: 90. please read item two. >> item two, approval of minutes of the february 15, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: any comments on minutes? seeing none, public comment on minutes, please? seeing none, public comment is closed. may we take this without objection? or we do need roll-call. we have a new house order. >> on item number two. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. there are 11 aye. item passes. item three, chairs report. item four, executive director's report. these are informational items. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. this past month, we had quite a bit of activity in the transportation of grain. -- transportation arena. i went to washington, d.c., march 13 through 15 for meetings on

mr. clark, do we have any other items before us? and you, we are adjourned. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the transportation authority san francisco city and county. >> item 1, roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. supervisor mirkarimi: 90. please read item two. >> item two, ap

mr. clark, do we have any other items before us? and you, we are adjourned.

mr. clarke: yes, sir. mr. garamendi: in h.r. 1, the republicans redeuce the research budget for energy research here in america, cutting out vital research at the department of energy, at the laboratories across this nation. and what are they thinking? i yield back to you. mr. clarke: you're right. this makes no sense at all. and i'll tell you what's disturbing is that the british national science academy predicted that if we go on this path that we're going on right now, which we're going to ask the american people to back us up because we've got to put more research and development dollars in building these great manufacturing products, but if we don't do that, if we don't change, china could overtake us in scientific output in just a couple of years. that's not acceptable. we want to make sure that the best products are imported from detroit, not from china. i yield back. mr. clarke: thank you so very much. how correct you are in laying out this strategy of how we can move the american manufacturing industr

mr. clarke: thank you, mr. speaker. i wanted to talk on behalf of the people that i represent in michigan, many of them lost their jobs and when they become seniors, they're likely to have to survive on a fixed income and if they get medicare on a voucher that won't fully cover the costs of their health services, they're going to have to pay for that out of pocket. you know what, folks on a fixed income, they don't have the money to pay for these services out of pocket. they'll likely end up bankrupt. the other issue is this. a lot of folks that i represent, they've got multiple health conditions. heart disease. diabetes, arthritis. they all go to different doctors and very few of them actually talk to each other, the providers, that is. nor do they coordinate with hospitals and other long-term health care providers. all of these services, the medicare providers, these services will be coordinated under our new affordable care act. that's why we need those provisions in place to better coordinate health care so i urge y

. >> thank you madam clark and mr. mayor, on behalf of the legislative body of san francisco, i want to welcome you to the chamber for this historic occasion. when the idea of their regular appearance by the mayor was first proposed some years back, i think we would all agree it was in the context of more challenged relations between the executive and legislative branches. we are now, fortunately, i think in a more amicable era. that does not mean we will always agree, but i think our colleagues will share my perspective that the lines of communication between the mayor and the boards of supervisors is much more open. as the voters have asked us to do, why don't we began our public discussion of some of the policy issues now facing the city. as the clerk laid out did procedures today -- , we have questions previously submitted by the supervisors representing the odd numbered districts. i would first like to call upon our supervisor from district 1 to read your questions. -- my apologies. i realize i did not give the ma

mr. clarke: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm here to talk about the american dream, the american dream. that's what motivated the asian american hotel owners to come to this country. many of these hotel owners came here under circumstances similar to that of my dad. they came here to live the american dream but not just for us, but by providing over a half a million jobs to americans throughout this great country, the asian american hotel owners association helped to provide the american dream to all of us. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, by direction of the committee on rules i call up house resolution 223 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 31, house resolution 223, resolved that at any time after the adoption of this resolution the speaker may, pursuant to clause 2-b of rule 18, declare the house resolved into the committee of the

mr. clark, you also put the logo of give me five which i'm an active member, i appreciate that. but now we're going to lose everything. >> anybody want to comment? we have another question, please. if you'd just introduce yourself. >> i'd like to add a new dimension for our panelists. what is the role of higher education and all of these critical concerns? and it's not just having one event, but thank you for this event. but we need to build seriously curriculum in our higher education institutions, with all departments again working together, using our community resources, labor is an intricate part of our society and if we must provide the early education to our young people as well as some of our faculty in regards to labor, not just the movement itself, but labor as an intricate part of our society. and i hope that we will begin to talk about that from all of you professors on the podium. number two, we would be remiss if we did not say what's happening at wayne state university. wayne with state university, afghanistan c.i.o., has unionized -- aflcio, has unionized its part

mr. clarkcally, the political forces that be here have an open policy or philosophy or whatever when a caller tends to or is designed to maintain property prices at a high value. which there's nothing wrong with that. but it seems that if one's political forces were removed from any kind of pricing assistance, that, and letting the real estate prices, the real estate market sink by the true market value, this would be of benefit to persons selling because they would be selling more property. maybe not as much profit. but that lower income persons would have more access to housing, buying housing. could you comment on that? guest: well, one of the issues here is sort of overhauling the whole government's role in the housing market, particularly what do you do with fannie and freddie? which are the sort of mortgage giants that are currently run by the government. housing prices are still down and they're down from a year ago. foreclosures play at least part of a role in that if you talk to econom

mr. clarke: too many of our young people are dying. many high school students in metro detroit, the area that i represent, many of whom are african-american, are being hit by an epidemic of hiv-aids. i urge this congress to support a piece of legislation sponsored by the national black clergy for the elimination of hiv-aids to address this issue, save the lives of our young people and provide them with hope for a promising future. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? mr. yarmuth: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. yarmuth: madam speaker, i rise to honor a giant of kentucky's legendary bourbon industry. the recipe first got bourbon invited to the top shelf. his godfather was jim beam. bill's career path seemed obvious but obvious was never bill's path. everyone agrees distilling bourbon isn't rocket science but only he can make the claim with authority. he excelled for both. he graduat

mr. leonhart and from commissioner hamburg and their colleagues. doctor wesley clarkpam hyde not be here today, but she had the pleasure of co-chairing a committee across dhhs the trustees services around substance abuse. i want to acknowledge sarah wattenberg and the deputy assistant secretary and at banks and admiration to karen perry. the error was and she has displayed to turn personal pain into power is extraordinary, and we want to thank you for being here and sharing your story. you have heard from director kerlikowske about abuse of courage and drugs representing an alarming crisis. i can accept that this crisis is suffocating our society. you have heard several startling facts, and let me add to those facts. we know that the accused of legal drugs now account for 1 million members see department visits a year, matching the number of visits achievable to illegal drugs. we know that nearly one-third of people who use illicit drugs for the first time began by abusing crash corruption and drugs. as the director has noted, seven out of 10 of these people get the d

mr. leonhart and from commissioner hamburg and their colleagues. doctor wesley clark, pam hyde not be here today, but she had the pleasure of co-chairing a committee across dhhs the trustees services around substance abuse. i want to acknowledge sarah wattenberg and the deputy assistant secretary d at banks and admiration to karen perry. the error was and she has displayed to turn personal pain into power is extraordinary, and we want to thank you for being here and sharing your story. you have heard from director kerlikowske about abuse of courage and drugs representing an alarming crisis. i can accept that this crisis is suffocating our society. you have heard several startling facts, and let me add to those facts. we know that the accused of legal drugs now account for 1 million members see department visits a year, matching the number of visits achievable to illegal ugs. we know that nearly one-third of people who use illicit drugsor the first time began by abusing crash corruption and drugs. as the director has noted, seven out of 10 of these people get the drugs

mr. cleaver: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from new york, ms. clarke. the chair: the the gentlewoman from from new york is recognized for one minute. ms. clarke: i rise in strong support of the congressional black caucus budget proposal, which i believe to be a more responsible way forward in stark contrast to the budget proposed by representative ryan, the c.b.c. budget proposal recognizes that not only can we not slash our way to prosperity on the backs of the most vulnerable, it creates jobs, invests in our future by supporting programs that make education from the cradle to college more affordable and protects the most vulnerable americans. madam speaker, it's time we have an honest conversation with the american people about where we are. the greatest wealth transfer from the poor and the middle class to the rich and the wealthy in our lifetime. how we got here. bush tax cuts. subprime scamming and financial sector greed. and how we get to solvency, by supporting the c.b.c. budget alternative. we are the conscience of the congress. the chair: the g

clark we talked earlier, the seamstress that wrote the books about the white house. and her mom was there. they felt privately that willson really should not have been staying on as president, that mrs. wilson was doing so much but basically he really was up to the job and they were hiding in from the country. over the years it's very interesting that the household staff, african-american and white were keen observers, and they gave some fascinating pictures with the president would be like behind the scenes. to fast forward to herbert hoover people might be surprised to learn that hoover wanted to have some private moments when he was president and he didn't want the staff to see him and he didn't want to see them. he would insist when he heard his footsteps and heard him coming they would hide from him so that no matter what they were doing and there were cases where the staff would tell stories about the president is coming. they would open the closet door to hide from him and there would be somebody in there with a tray of glasses and linens just hiding from the president, but that's the way he wanted when harry truman took over, his reaction was why are these people peeping at

mr. sulieman said he went hunting with. they will also be speaking with the couple's children. george? >> thanks, yunji. >>> for more on this, let's turn to sheriff clarkof barlow county, georgia. what's the status of the investigation? >> we're where we started. we've gathered phone records. we're interviewing people that we can. we're pulling walmart video. we're doing everything we can. this is one that's a little different than other missing persons. we work on them as hard as we can. >> why is it different? >> it's dealing with a 30-year-old woman who stepped away from five kids. and we found her vehicle abandoned yesterday. it escalated it a little more than just a missing, endangered person. we're trying to do everything we can to find out just exactly where she is. >> you said in yunji's piece that something just isn't right about this case. i got the same feeling watching her husband as he spoke to yunji. do you have any reason to show that he had anything to do with her disappearance? >> we don't have any evidence to show that at this time. he's not a suspect. he's not a person of interest. we're trying to rule out that she stepped away from

mr. burbank. meg garvin is currently the executive director of the national crime victim law institute, clinical professor of law at the louis and clark law school. she also chairs the oregon task force, serves on the legislative policy committee, the oregon sexual assault task force, serves as co-chair of the american bar association criminal justice sexual victims committee, under graduate of the university of puget sound, master's of the university of iowa, law degree from the university of minnesota law school. i don't have to remind senator klobuchar. i'm surrounded by people from minnesota today. go ahead, ms. garvin. >> thank you. it's a good way to be surrounded. mr. chairman, distinguished members, thank you so much for having me here today. it is quite an honor to be here on the 30th national crime victims rights week. i want to talk about the theme of this year's week, which is reshaping the future honoring the past. i want to spend time on that theme because we've made commitments to victims. the history of victims in this country, going back more than 30 years, if we go back to the founding shows that victims were an inte