mr. cohen: to ask that the amendment be consented to as read. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 9 printed in house report 113-88 offered by mr. cohen of tennessee. mr. cohen: moved that it be considered as read. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the amendment has been designated. mr. cohen: thank you, sir. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 228, the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen is recognized for five minutes and someone in opposition will be recognized. mr. cohen: this requires transcanada and future owner/ operator to submit its oil spill response plan to the governor. the current law requires the department of transportation to maintain current copies of the oil spill response plans and provide any person a copy. however those copies are allowed to exclude information like specific response resources and deployment plans and information on worst case scenario discharges. i understand there are concerns about broad distributions of the pl

that could involve sac alone being indicted or mr. coheneing indicted or both. >> reporter: well, we're going to have to leave it there. we don't know the answer but, john, thanks for coming. one thing about john coffee, you start out confused, after he talks to you -- liz: you get it. just an end run around what could be a statute of limitations -- >> reporter: on the regular charges as john pointed out. liz: thank you very much, professor coffee and charlie. closing bell ringing in 28 minutes. oklahoma sifting through the rubble after yesterday's killer tornado rips through the state. what's the business community doing to pitch in? there's a huge business community in oklahoma city and the surrounding area. we get reaction live and exclusively from continental resources' ceo and oklahoma native and billionaire harold hamm. he is coming up in just a moment. we've got to hear what harold hamm has to say. ♪ muck we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them s

i a encourage mr. cohenand his agency for what they're doing that is what we should want to see happen now that it is the of lot after they lost the last election in the last chance to repeal. >> chairman neil cpac. you are aware they are holding the investigative hearing and have the testimony under oath you have any objections? >> no sir. the chair advises under the rules of the house and the committee you are entitled to be advised by counsel so please rise you please -- where the testimony about to give is the truth, the vultures, nothing but the truth? thank you. you are now under oath and subject to the penalties of the united states cut and now give a five minute summary of your written statement. good morning chairman murphy and ranking members i appreciate the opportunity to tell you about cciio accomplishments over the last year a lot has happened since the implementation of the affordable care act i will describe the progress made and how i know we're on track for open enrollment this october. we

do we know yeah or nay whether mr. cohen has received a subpoena? >> there was talk of it last week. >> larry ckudlow is in the hous. if that wasn't enough, we have danica patrick coming up ahead of her big race this weekend in charlotte. power lunch is back in 2. [ male announcer ] what?! investors could lose tens of thousands of dollars in hidden fees on their 401(k)s?! go to e-trade and roll over your old 401(k)s to a new e-trade retirement account. none of them charge annual fees and all of them offer low cost investments. e-trade. less for us. more for you. at bny mellon, our business lois investments.nts. managing them, moving them, making them work. we oversee 20% of the world's financial assets. and that gives us scale and insight no one else has. investment management combined with investment servicing. bringing the power of investments to people's lives. invested in the world. bny mellon. >> back now to the queen of breaking news this hour. mary tompson with yet another update. >> hurricane season starts on june 1 and runs through november

he had a phone call with mr. cohen right before he traded those stocks.tigators think, believe that phone call essentially, they discussed what could be inside information. that's really what they want. they think it's a much easier charge to get matthew mart tom ma to flip on that phone call than it is to basically do a rico charge. the rico charge from what we understand, and we're talking to legal experts, who are pretty plugged into the justice department. the u.s. attorney for the southern district led by braah they think the rico charge is plan. about. that will be a difficult for a rico charge. we should point out when you file a rico charge, you need eric holder, the attorney general to sign off on this like you said you have to find several predicate actions. you have to go through and find years of corruption and, it's hard to establish that. but once you do stash that, i would say this, this is why it was so effective bringing down the mob, if you're part of an organization, if they can prove you're part of an organization, for example, if ther

mr. cohen: the see questionser needs to go. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following purge request. -- the following personal request. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. flores of texas for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the request is granted. under the speaker's announced the of january 3, 2013, gentleman from iowa, mr. king, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. it's my privilege to be recognized to address here on the floor of the united states house of representatives. i know that there's issue after issue that comes before this congress. some calculate those issues in the thousands. but i'm also aware that across america we talk about the things that we see in the news, the things that are in the news, or the large topics that are emerging here in congress. we heard the gentleman from texas speak about the benghazi incident and how that is unfolding here. and th

mr. cohen, i know this is a hot issue with you. how important is it?, and how damaging is it to america? >> it's critical, because in most ways, the nrlb is a floor, it's not sufficient, but for 80 million american workers in the private sector, it's all they have. not just union workers, but workers who speak out in places like starbucks or mcdonald's, fast food workers. if they speak out and are fired or intimidated in any way, the only place they have to go is the nrob. that's really what's at stake here. the floor for the american workers is destroyed by republicans who have an 18th to 19th century view of laissez-faire capitalism. they think markets are enough. lindsey graham said it, flat-out, i don't believe in any kind of labor union protection or protection for american workers. we don't need the nrlb. that's what they really believe. >> mr. greenhouse, what resource do workers have in your opinion? >> well, if you're trying to -- if you think your wages are too low or you think for boss is mean or mistreating people and you try to set up a un

every time we ask mr. cohen, who are premiums going to go down for, he couldn't tell us. he couldn't tell us the premiums were going to go down for anyone. are they going to go down for the young, old, women, men, he had no answers. we'll have to wait and see. that's a far cry from the promise that the president made of lowering costs and making health care more affordable. mr. griffith: that was the promise given to so many americans why they supported this image. and look, we as republicans, we know there are a number of things. mr. murphy: we want to make sure we are preventing illnesses and make sure we are caring for those who are ill. the high-risk pool, the door was close odd that, many people will not be getting additional care. we want to make sure that doctors can be paid for coordinating care. making sure there is follow-up and the patient can call with a question, nobody gets paid for that. they do get paid if they have more tests and fee-for-service plan and tough for doctors to try and help reduce costs. we would like to see the costs go down even more and w

mr. cohen: today was one of the saddest day this is house of representatives has ever seen. 40-hour workweek, a great part of our heritage since 1938, destroyed. don't get overtime, get tomp time. employer decides if you get comp time. when you get it. hen he wants you to have it. assuming everyone working 40 hours and wants extra time doesn't need that extra money that time and a half overtime, they've got time to go out and play 18 holes of golf or something. most americans need that overtime to take care of their families and get through day-to-day. today this house voted to take away that opportunity for employees to have a 40-hour week and overtime thereafter. it was a shameless day. we need to look out or our workers and not take control away from the 99%. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. without objection, the -- like to request without objection that the gentlelady's first one-minute be vacated. for what purpose does the gentlelady rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to

mr. cohen: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to share my grave concern about the keystone x.l. pipeline and h.r. 3, the northern route approval act which unfortunately passed through committee this past week. and allowed accelerated building of this pipeline and gives certain advantages to a foreign country, canada, against our citizens that otherwise would have rights in the court. the world's most foremost climatologist was one of the first scientists to warn of the dangers of burning carbon fuel. he's likened the building and use of the keystone x.l. pipeline the lighting of the fuse to the biggest bomb on the planet. nothing left. dr. hanson warned the completion of the x.l. pipeline will reinforce our dependence on fossil by furthering our dependence on fossil fuels, we only push earth farther and farther to the point of no return. just last week the highest ranking of carbon in our atmosph

mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. there was a recent survey of about 9,000 outstanding high school and college students and graduates. asking them where they would like to work. they had 200 companies that were all in the "fortune" magazine list of top companies and that group of students from ages 15 to 27, the number one choice was st. jude's children hospital in memphis, tennessee. it seek -- it speaks well of that group of young people that they want to work to help others to find a cure for cancer and to work at st. jude which is such a wonderful institution in my home city of memphis. eight of the 25 sites selected by the young people were in the health care field. i think it's admirable and commendable that so many young people want to help others and do it through efforts in the health care industry, not necessarily in ways to enrich themselves. i am proud they chose st. jude because it's just in my district. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to addre

mr. cowen. >> good afternoon peter cohen. you know that affordable housing covers a lot of rage we have affordable developers who are doing the process and the bureaucracy like a marketing developer. and so the process side of environmental review and the system is also something by the respect terrifically. as you move into the web enter face there's some folks who engage better through methods of traditional paper notification. so it's important we try to insure both of those methods. we had a chance to have supervisor wiener office and supervisor kim's office and we hope that a couple items are obviously very quick and line up well. we also had a particular required amendment. we've actually written that up and submit that and would ask that you consider that as an amendment as this goes forward in the process. of course, there's an implementation questions. on that note we notice that one ordinance is going to planning commission and we hope they'll all line up on the land use committee at the same time >> thank you very

mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. last night there was a historic and important news from the mideast. for the second time the israeli and turkish governments met and feel they're close to having an agreement to renew their diplomatic relations which for three year han existed there could be nothing more important to peace and america's interests than the israeli and turkish governments working together. having that historic relationship mened came about because president obama urged president netanyahu to apologize for the problems with the flotilla. at was a midge step on prime minister net an yahoo use -- netanyahu's part and it was a big step for the turkish leaders to accept it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: wogs, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. celebrate k we public charter schools week. it is important that we continue to create and develop this importa

we've got about two months, joe, before the statute of limitations comes up on mr. cohen. >> i guess we understand why the firm decided to not be completely cooperative with everything. what was that, monday's news? >> friday's news into monday. now it's starting to make a little more sense. interestingly, it sounds to me from the reports and a couple of sources i've talked to that they may not go after steve cohen personally. now we're talking about perhaps charging the firm itself with a crime. >> but how much of his money is in the firm? >> it's virtually all -- no, but effectively, what it means is they could shut down the firm to outside investors and he could continue investing his own money. so, it's -- anyway, we'll see. >> just like saying rico. rico, johnny. i guess you don't remember. that's from -- rico! johnny. when you say rico, it's just a cool word. >>> in washington news today, the house oversight and government reform committee's going to hold a hearing on the irs targeting scandal. the irs official at the center of the controversy isn't going to testify

same call. >> i would like to first recognize our district 10 colleague supervisor cohen. >> thank you, >> thank you mr. president. i am not sure is judge nunneley in the chambers? sir, why don't you come to the podium and let me shower you with praise. for those who don't know, this gentleman is judge troy nunneley and if i may to take a moment to share how proud i am and excited to hear that the senate confirmed the judge to serve as district court judge for the eastern district of california. now judge nunneley brings with him a wealth of jiedial experience to the bench. not long before he was nomnated by our president obama last june he spent time as a child in the bayview-hunters point of san francisco, which is why we come to bring him today to honor him, because of the shining example of a person that has risen above his means at the beginning part of his life. i would like to take an opportunity not to just honor our superstar athletes, but honor our intelligencia. i want to present to you his background. end iting bay area areas receiving ba from st. mary's college and professional experience

mr. president. i would like to begin by thanking my colleagues who are co-sponsoring this item with me today, supervisors cohen, kim, avalos, wiener, mar, breed chiu and tang. we have had a hearing on this item, and one of the thing has there i want to highlight is the courage of all of the women who have come out to testify to talk about their own experiences and fears as they were trying to access health care at this clinic here in san francisco. i also want to acknowledge the courage of the workers at planned parenthood who on a daily basis for more than a year now have been dealing with a very difficult situation. as was demonstrated during that hearing, the current laws that we have in place, and specifically the bubble ordinance, the white zone ordinance, do not do enough to protect the people, the women that want to access health care at this clinic. we have had a situation where a number of individuals, have stepped over the line, and crossed the line of not just expressing their views, but actually harassing, intimidating women who are expressing their rights. the clear guidelines established by the f

mr. benson. >> brad benson with the port of san francisco, the concern was raised by peter cohen, san francisco information clearinghouse involved in the broader citywide discussion about the potential use of ifd in other areas of the city. the policy constructs are different for the port; we are using all of ifd to pay for new infrastructure; in a broader city context there was discussion to use

mr. benson. >> brad benson with the port of san francisco, the concern was raised by peter cohen, san francisco information clearinghouse involved in the broader citywide discussion about the potential use of

mr. president and thank you to supervisor mar, cohen, avalos. i think the very thoughtful comments made on this issue, i've don't know that this is a simple situation. to be honest, city college has been facing issues for quite some time. and certainly when i was working in a school district , city college and the school district were facing very similar challenges. unfortunately, because of the administration that city college had many years ago, some bad choices were made in terms of management. . that said, i don't think this is a simple as some have described. the reality is that city college has to do with the fact that it needs to be accredited, and he needs to get its financial house in order. no one questions the necessity for that . i know there are many on the board of trustees who have been working hard to make that happen. that said, it is appropriate for us to point out that in the process of doing that, , of getting its fiscal house in order that you may reach a point where you are fundamentally changing that which you are trying t

the chair now recognizes the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair. firstly, general, i want to thank the work of the civil rights division. i guess mr. perez was responsible for that for first working with the liberty bowl stadium in memphis and working out our accessible capacity feeding arrangement, and also working on the juvenile court issue where the division saw to it that our juvenile court will be a model for the nation and protect the rights of young people which was so necessary. also want to thank you for working, mr. scott and i, to see the tax division file suit that took advantage of people with fraudent tax preparations. i thank you for that. i would like to question you about a few issues that bother me. one is the former alabama governor who was the governor of alabama and probably the last democrat statewide official there in the past and maybe in the future for a long time, he tried to get a lottery in his state which i did in tennessee and i know how difficult it is, in so doing he found

breed present, campos present,chew present, supervisor cohen present, mar present, tang present, wiener present, yee present. mr. president, all members are present. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? could i madam clerk, are will any communications. >> i have no communications. >> if you could read or consent agenda. >> these items are considered routine unless a member on thes. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items. seeing none, roll call vote. >> chew i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, supervisor mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos i, breed i, campos i. there is 11 i's. >> those ordinances are passed and approved. >> item six is an ordinance recognizing small business month in may 2013 amending the planning and building codes to waive fees for the month of may for improvements /-fpt . . >> this ordinance is finally passed. >> this is an ordinance authorizing the settlement of a lawsuit -- the wireless association versus is city and county of san francisco. >> roll call vote. >> chew i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, avalos no, bree

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increasing influence is getting noticed which is probably not good for mr dimon at all an embattled hedge fund mongul stevie cohen continues to face pressure for possible criminal insider trading charges this after he recently had to pay six hundred million dollars to the f.c.c. to settle civil charges borne of senior executives were given subpoenas to testify before a grand jury many are looking at this case as a bellwether for the largely unregulated hedge fund industry it seems the top dogs in this finance sector are not too big to fail. and finally japan's money print money printer and shiva said he would do more to her own as domestic bond market commencing the most aggressive program in the history the yen has more than thirty two percent of its value relative to the dollar and bond yields have a spiked the most in decades with a new stock index is also up substantially until recently that is when it crashed in eye watering at seven point three percent in a single day as a tough gig for central bankers who want to have their cake and. here's what's in your primitives. as you may be well aware last week prim

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cohen. thereafter they sell the stock and profit $276 million. meliss yeah. >> so what they're trying to do to get martoma to say, mr. a tell me about the conversation you had with steve cohen. isn't it in fact true that steve cohen told you to dump the stock? martoma hasn'tdone that. melissa: there is one main reason he might not be flping on steve cohen. >> which is? melissa: maybe steve cohen didn't do anying. >> tha is possible. what happened they were sitting around at a joint meet and they were deciding what to do with those securities you mentioned having to do with the zheimer's drug andhey turn and around and went with mart tomema. said sort of like code, he is closest to the situation. let's flow him. and that right there is the crux. working off his point, if ey get him to come in and say, yeah i was closest to the situation because i had specific inside information. i spoto steve cohen. that's what they need. that's what they don't havep a parently. >> as doug said the bottom line marm toma probably, that probably did not happen. martoma may have had a conversation with cohen. he may not be in a position t

mr. nice guy presuming that he once was. this is steven cohen. he says he is no longer going to cooperate with a federal investigation into him and his company. sue? we got that story covered. >> we start with a new club member in the record high club today. year to date, it's up almost 18%. since the march 2009 bottom, it is up almost 200%. if you bought in near the lows in 2009 you were up a whopping 135%. >> that is a picture of david carp. he just sold tumblr for $1.1 million. his share is about 200 million of that. that will be okay. we certainly don't share in the winnings to this. >> we don't get a part of the tumblr fortune. >> tell us a little about how we know him. what we need to know about him and how he did what he did without finishing high school. >> david carp was just one of these kids with a great idea. let's have a blogging service that is super easy. you can do super short posts and that is very social this is back in 2007, 2008. i remember buying the kid beers. >> was he 21? >> don't want to get him in trouble. >> he can buy

mr. martin, i am inclined to support the contract and i will not be supporting a continuance. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. like many members you heard speak today, i too waffled back and forth on this item and john martin, i've always enjoyed working with you and your staff. i have to say the deliberation on this item -- i deliberated for a while. i didn't understand why this contract is being treated so differently than other contractings and you've answered those questions. thank you. but in my conversations with the airport staff, i've also decided to support this item, largely because we need a different advertising structure. additionally, as i mentioned before, i believe that mr. martin -- that if we were to require both a ten million dollar minimum annual guarantee and percentage of revenue, that we will receive the [inaudible] that we did and the /pwaeuls base minimum will be less. i'm happy to see there's so much discussion about this and that we are committed to ensuring that we are not leaving any money only table or supervisor avalos might argue that we are leaving mon

regard to my attempts to visit mr manning with a trophy top attorney say he'd know the newbie innocent but a hero former president of the national lawyers guild moultrie cohen thanks so much for coming on to testify on military hearings on the two to disobey on little folders how does this apply in. case of money he went to his superiors and reported what he had seen on these videos including on these this information from wiki leaks including the collateral murder video and he was basically rebuffed this is civil disobedience but he had a duty to under nuremberg and under the army field manual as well which inge drawings these principles from nuremburg he had a duty not just to obey lawful orders but also to disobeyed unlawful orders and the order not to reveal the commission of war crimes is an unlawful order prince going to miss munnings revelations have brought no home to troops for boma the crime is potentially more serious according to wiki leaks money has exposed cover ups by the administration including israel and us planning total war in the middle east thousands of us. pashto by the us hillary clinton knowingly signed an illegal spoil documents an

mr. president. i would like to begin by thanking my colleagues who are co-sponsoring this item with me today, supervisors cohen, kim, avalos, wiener, mar, breed chiu and tang. we have had a hearing on this item, and one of the thing has there i want to highlight is the courage of all of the women who have come out to testify to talk about their own experiences and fears as they were trying to access health care at this clinic here in san francisco. i also want to acknowledge the courage of the workers at planned parenthood who on a daily basis for more than a year now have been dealing with a very

>> campos, avalos, chiu, cohen, present, supervisor ferrel, present, kim absent.mar absent, supervisor tang present, wiener present, supervisor yee. mr. president you have a quorum. >> ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> colleagues we have our meeting minutes. approved. madam clerk, any communications? >> i have no communication, mr. president. >> first item is the policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee this week representing the even may 8. item 1:30443: [formal policy discussions - may 21, 2013] pursuant to charter sections 2.103 and 3.100077, and administrative code, section 2.11, the mayor shall answer the following eligible question submitted by supervisor representing district 8. the mayor may address the board initially for up to five minutes. discussion shall not exceed five mayor edwin lee this week representing the even may 8. sf 11234 >> thank you. welcome back. ask if you have any preliminary comments would you like to make? >> thank you, are good afternoon. thank you president chiu and mexican -- members to the board of supervisors. i would like to thank every member for j