mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank ms. sewell for having the foresight to bring -- foresight to bring this proposal. this is fitting we honor the foot soldiers, they were americans, all races, who came together and saw injustice and wanted to right it. they risked their livesers some died in the efforts. ms. leos. so was killed after the march. thousands of people came to the south to see the people got the right to vote. it's hard to believe that people were denied the right to vote in this country but they were. and i was touched by the remarks of my colleague from alabama. it was historic, but you don't just have to see the movie and experience it to honor these people and give them a gold medal. you need to live it. and people are being denied voting rights today in this country, and the supreme court emasculated the voting rights act recently. it needs to be reinstated. there are civil rights that can be performed and enacted in america today, the movement isn't over. the movement continues. a medal is good. but the s

. >> okay, we can hear from mr. cohen. >> mr. chu put in the two rooms downstairs for the house *it. they were not intended to be rental unit, one was a play room and the other was to be a bedroom. there was a storage room which is where the stove top kitchenette is in now, and they're not in the bed rails the other occupant is moving out, mr. bell will work with to move out we j*uts want to get a permit to put the house back together and put it in the possession of the family, and that's it, mr. chu at this point in his life is not in a position to be a landlord anymore, he has a baby, he has elderly parents, he has a brother with disabilities woman he's the caretaker for. we just ask the board to dismiss the appeal. thank you. >> anything further, mr. sanchez? >> scott sanchez, just to reiteratefinger this is not subject to the directive, there's no requirement for a discretionary review, there's no bbn, thank you. >> mr. duffy, anything further? commissioners, the matter is yours. >> commissioners, this case is way different t

if they lose their housing they are gone and i'm afraid i have to disagree with mr. cohen, i really don't like to do this, but we have senior housing, we have new senior housing in the broadway family housing, we have new senior housing in the solomon project across the way from that, and we have lots of senior housing at north beach place, which is not brand new but it's pretty new. and we have always welcomed affordable housing in the northeast quadrant. many of us have worked to make those things happen. but now our friends and our neighbors are losing their housing and if we can't have housing for moderate income people who are making $45,000 a year, we are not looking at having a city that is diverse. what we're looking at is a city that has very wealthy people and very poor people and it doesn't matter how old they are. that is the bifurcated city of the future if we're not providing moderate income housing. and seawall lot 322 is a great opportunity to do this at this point, let's try it, let's see how it works, let's learn from this and build some more mod draft in

speaker, to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you for the time. the gentleman said this is the time to pass it. it's not the time to pass it. the time to pass it is after all the reports and studies are in. and the state department hasn't completed its study. it's kind of like what we're doing in this congress. we're not going by our regular procedures. and not having bills in committee and not having opportunities for amendments on the floor. because we bring things up here to make it the political issue du jour. this is not the time for the bill. just like it's not the time for the prime minister to come and speak from that well. it should be after his election and after the negotiations with iran are over. and this should be after the state department has told us what their opinion is and then let the president make his decision. we should go back to regular order. i yield back the balance of my time. an

mr. conyers. this is congressman steve cohen from memphis. steve cohen is a fourth generation memphian who has dedicated his life to public service. as a child, the challenges of living with polio taught him how to overcome obstacles through persistence and determination, values which would shape his career as a legislator. thank you so much for joining us, mr. cohen. [applause] >> thank you very much. to mr. conyers, mr. rangel, and others in the house, everybody in the big house, it is an honor to be with john conyers on the stage. julian was referring to it, but some people did not know my district when i was elected. my district is one of the greatest districts in america. let me -- edit that out. my district is the greatest district in america. [laughter] it is 65% african american. in a democratic primary, it is 80% african american. they have sent me here five times with numbers that are outstanding. but at first, people did not know if they would elect me. then they did not know if they would reelect me. some people thought i was sidn

mr. cohen: to ask for passage amendment 18. the clerk: amendment number 18 printed in part b of house report number 114-29 offered by mr. cohen of tennessee. the chair: the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. mr. cohen: i rise today to offer an amendment to h.r. 5 to add a section on justice and conflict resolution allowing states to award grants. this amendment allows more flexibility to states by expanding the types of training that can be paid by title 2 funds to make sure teachers and administrators have sufficient training opportunities. it doesn't add any costs to the bill. once students enter the juvenile justice system, they will probably be arrested as adults. students away from the classroom because of suspensions, they are more likely to get in trouble. many have moved away from zero tolerance policies because they have been expeled. an example, a student who used his hand to simu

mr. cohen said we've got to know who is in and who is out, 36 states said no deal.had the administration worked with governors, we might be talking about different -- >> have the governors worked with the administration. not even your state, which i think is a crazy state. mr. burgess does not have the time. i have the time. [indiscernible] >> i reclaim my time. i think that is the procedure in this body. >> a defamatory statement about my state. i will not stand here and listen. >> you do not have to listen. you can leave if you choose. i told you what i think about texas. i would not live there for all the tea in china. i know what my state did, which is in many states coming close to being just as crazy. they did not expand medicaid. for that reason, i particularly take umbrage with all the thought about the number of people, 860,000 people in my state, that are left in the lurch. i feel that it is because we are not being reasonable as democrats and republicans with each other. with all the brainpower that is here we could have done all that is necessary to ensu

mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank ms. sewell for having the foresight to bring -- foresight to bring this proposal. this is fitting we honor the foot soldiers, they were americans, all races, who came together and saw injustice and wanted to right it. they risked their livesers some died in the efforts. ms. leos. so was killed after the march. thousands of people came to the south to see the people got the right to vote. it's hard to believe that people were denied the right to vote in this country but they were. and i was touched by the remarks of my colleague from alabama. it was historic, but you don't just have to see the movie and experience it to honor these people and give them a gold medal. you need to live it. and people are being denied voting rights today in this country, and the supreme court emasculated the voting rights act recently. it needs to be reinstated. there are civil rights that can be performed and enacted in america today, the movement isn't over. the movement continues. a medal is good. but the s

one more question mr. cohen, on this. doesn't this set the table for discrimination?oesn't it set the table for playing favorites? if the boss likes you, you're going to get the raise. isn't this a union busting tool here? >> i think he thinks it will be a union busting tool, but again the problem he runs into is that the other more than 90% of american workers in the private sector don't have collective bargaining. this is how they do get paid. when they discuss pay with each other, they can be reprimanded and fired for doing it. his intent is clearly solely to put the focus on those 6% and try to bust the unions that we do have. the lowest percentage of any democracy in the world. >> that is an amazing statement in itself. john nichols, what's the political play here for marco rubio? why now? >> he has a book out. he's trying to position himself for his hoped for presidential race. the problem is he is way behind in the polls nationally and in iowa and new hampshire. marco rubio didn't count on scott walker coming in so strong and pulling all of those people looking

mr. cohen writes in part we fully embrace the open internet principles that have been laid out by president obama and chairman wheeler and have now been adopted by the fcc. he goes on to say we don't believe statutory provision is adopted when franklin d. roosevelt was president should be stretched to govern the 21st century internet. our coverage of today's ruling continues at 5:45. we talk live to a professor thea the university of pennsylvania about what it all means for you, the consumer and that's all ahead as we said at 5:45. let's go back to the weather, the same system that brought parts of the area's storm. >> that storm clobbered places that were hit hard just last week. check out the scene in raleigh, north carolina. six inches fell here overnight and neighboring cities got even more. the weight of it proved to be too much for trees and power lines. at one point more than 200,000 customers were without power across north carolina but for some transplants from the north, they didn't s

mr. supervisor cohen. >> yes that's correct. >> and colleagues take that without objection. thank you. >> congratulations. >> [gavel] >> congratulations. this is a committee report as well so colleagues thank you without objection. short pause. we will do two minutes. is two minutes all we need? i need to go to my office real quick too. >> okay. we are back and madam clerk if you would could pleads call the next item. >> item number 7 is considering appointing three members of equal terms for the equal pay advisory board. there are three seats and five applicants. >> great. i would like to open it up with some comments from supervisor campos' office. she is not able to be here but asked that i go over a little bit of what the appointment seat is going to be about. supervisor campos as you know spearheaded the legislation that created the equal pay advisory board and asked me to read this statement because he's not here and when i say short it's his short. i am excited there are five incredible applicants for the board of supervisors seats on the equal pay advisory board. the

. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen professor legomsky you said that -- how many different professors and attorney specializing in immigration law thought this was appropriate and constitutional? >> 135 immigration scholars and professionals, not even counting practitioners. >> do you know how many people in that similar class, although the class is hard to define, said it was unconstitutional? >> i am aware of two. >> 135-3. >> i don't want to represent that every immigration professor has opined on the issue. but of those who have, those are the numbers. >> if you are a professor of immigration law for 30 years? and you have written a textbook that was in hundred 83 loss goals -- 183 law schools? these people have done a lot of work, but you are the most expert person that we have today. you are the expert, and none of these other folks have written textbooks on immigration law. their main work has been on property law, constitution law and health law. you believe this is 100% constitutional? >> i do. i have a great d

and it's been a mr. cohen is actually expected to be at the white house later this week for consultations with dr. rice. under monday sherman -- wendy sherman, the principal negotiator has repeatedly met with the israeli national security advisor, as well as the israeli minister of intelligence on a number of occasions. those times and consultations are going to continue. at the same time, we have also been very clear about the fact that the united states is not going to be in a position of negotiating this agreement in public rate particularly when we see there is a continued practice of cherry picking specific pieces of information and using them out of context to distort negotiating positions. there is an obligation when you are participating to ensure that those consultations and negotiations are carried out in good faith. that means giving negotiators the room and space to negotiate. at the same time, i can tell you that there is -- at least on one assessment i have heard it is not a real precisely to qua

mr. william. [applause] >> okay everyone. we have some very anxious individuals here today all who are worthy to be honored. we are gathered here to celebrate as supervisor cohen and mr. williams from the african american historical and cultural society have all made it clear. we have something to celebrate; our history, our culture. and these individuals that we are highlighting today are people who have done a lot for the community, not to be recognized but because they care about making a difference for their neighborhood. and so we ever going to begin with the supervisor cohen who is first on the roster for roll call today and she will be honoring her individual first. >> yes, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, for the record, in the interest of full disclosure, this is not favoritism. it just happens to be this day so we're not dominating the mics today. i'm really excited because i have an opportunity to acknowledge and honor a beautiful human being, honorable judge terry jackson. she's here today in this beautiful red suit. thank you judge jackson for being here. [applause] >> i kid you not, this lady is absolutely remarkable. so smart, and so talented. i

and in fact i understand mr. cohen is expected to be at the white house later this week for consultations with doctor rice. i can tell you that under secretary of state and the sherman, who is the principal negotiator for the united states in these talks with the p+1 has met with the national security adviser into the minister of intelligence on a number of occasions and those kind of consultations are going to continue. we've also been very clear about the fact that the united states isn't going to be in the position of negotiating disagreements in public. particularly, when we see that there is a continued practice of cherry picking specific pieces of information and using them out of context to distort the negotiating position of the united states. so, there is an obligation when you participate in these kind of initiation is to ensure that those consultations and those negotiations are carried out in good faith. and that means giving negotiators the room and the space to negotiate. but at the same time, i can tell

. >> mr. cohennd jerry's. >> i do want to update people on dupont shares not doing much right now but we have our latest foray in the ongoing battle between trian and dupont. the latest a letter and presentation sent to dupont shareholdersp. if you are out there as a shareholder take time and read it when you get it. centering on the debate about who is responsible, if you will for what has been fairly good if not excellent, performance of dupont share price over time. i've said this many times as has jim cramer when we talked about this situation that it is perhaps the hardest hill that trian has to climb is trying to articulate to shareholders of dupont as to why it could do even better. and one of the arguments they have made is that, in fact, the stock price's performance is in part responsible or a result of their being in the stock and so as you might expect dupont taking aim at what it is calling these trian myths, a myth being dupont only takes action in the face of outside pressure and ther

cohen. >> thank you very much. mr. updike could you tell me what activity is going on there now? >> yes supervisor cohen. we are currently using the property for storage of materials for the department of technology, public safety swigz as well as central shops and vehicles awaiting for repair and actively used under the lease agreement with the ownership? >> how long have we been in that agreement? >> since the summer of 2013 with this board. >> correct me if i am wrong mr. harvey rose -- or we directed harvey to direct you to renegotiate the terms of the purchase? >> that's correct. >> and you were successful in some way getting it reduced down -- not much -- >> very nomally. yes. >> if this item was approved today could you say what the future is for the property? >> this property would be secured for the crime lab and moving from hunter's point and surrounded by development as [inaudible] moving forward with that project and traffic investigations as part of the hall of justice moving out of that facility as approved in the general obligation bond. >> okay. colleagues i too ha

mr. reid supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent oar the amended item passes. >> thank you mr. clerk, call the next item. >> item 67 adopt the fiscal year 2015-2016 transportation fund for the clean air transportation this is an action item. >> okay. colleagues if there are no questions or comments we'll open up for public comment any public comment on item 6 seeing none, public comment is closed mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on item 6 arrest commissioner avalos mr. reid supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor malia cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> so item no. 7. >> item 7 appoint angela miller to the advisory committee this is an action item. >> supervisor mar thank you, colleagues. i want to thank the programs and policy committee for forwarding ms. page millers name reporting the responding district she's been a great leader in the district 0 not only form

mr. clerk can you please call the roll on item 10. >> supervisor breed. >> aye. >> supervisor campos. >> no. >> supervisor christensen. >> no. >> supervisor cohen. >> [inaudible] >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> no. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> [inaudible] >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor avalos. >> no. >> there are six aye's and four no's. >> okay this item is approved. mr. clerk can you please call item 11. >> item 11 is ordinance to modify the public works code for personal wireless service facility site permits and amend the fees for such permits. >> roll call. supervisor avalos. >> thank you madam president. since 2007 the city has required a permit to install a wireless facility on the utility or street pole in the public right-of-way. i sponsored legislation to move these to article 25 of the public works code and set certain esthetic guidelines as well as requirements on tier level based on size. shortly after the legislation passed a number of wireless carriers use the city -- sued the city and challenged our authority to require such permits as well as claims based on new federal law

cohen. with that i will submit. >> thank you. supervisor wiener? >>supervisor scott weiner: thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, a few things. first as supervisors cohen and farrell mentioned we are doing a few things around public safety. first, we've requested that the city controller analyze what full staffing of our police department means in san francisco. we know that many things impact public safety but one important factor is how many police officers we have. and one of the most common things that i hear from constituents is why don't i see police officers in my neighborhood. and it is a frustration and a lot of parts of the city and if you, as we all know that department is under staffed. the charter sets full staffing at 109 1 officers due to years and negligence that was dropped to 1700. we would like to bring it back up to 2000 officers. even before it was put in the charters in the 80s. we have a larger city now and neighborhoods that didn't exist and more larger events in the city and it's not g egg to stop. we are going to continue to add more population and will have more events in san francisco and i don't th

cohen. >> thank you, thank you mr. chair district 10 e 10 as a significant challenge i know my protective aid has been in touch with the staff while we've done a significant amateur of work my ielgdz i have a cold so i'm really. >> you and the rest of the world. >> we've done a significant amount of work the planning department and mta as well as other city departments for the transportation in potrero hill and visitacion valley i'm going to be requesting a strategic analysis report for the rest of the city and an important i'd like to also look at in the east west travel from the mission 16th and mission bart station to the mission bay neighborhood dog patch neighborhood as well as overall cocaine activity to the southwest community i want to look at developing a scope of work for this study and also want to thank supervisor tang for inspiring me. >> knew supervisor cohen. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i'm actually very interested if that work as well i didn't quite hear it by the lady the connectivity excludes

mr. wells welcome. >> [inaudible] for the opportunity supervisor avalos cohen and tang. as a long time resident of potrero hill for three years i have worked with many neighborhood associations and part of the potrero hill starking open space board of directors. i have also served on the -- well, currently on market street railway and their board of directors also san francisco beautiful and muni advisory group when it came to graffiti. i am a long time advocate of not just living in a city, but the quality of life in the city. i have been really pleased to be part of this process, and have my candidacy among four really good candidates for the neighborhood representative, and i feel that i best qualify for that because of my experience long-term in the broadcast and media industry where i am very familiar with and worked closely with a lot of venues in san francisco and in the surrounding areas. i want to address a couple of things they bring to the table in terms of that and that is the ability to communicate with large groups of people, in front of people, and to cons

mr. secretary cohen, was at $19 billion. it is now closer to 60. how do you sustain that? we have to show this is a vibrant democracy, and we can make decisions, and then we can create a credible basis for going to the chinese to say we are still a strong military power. you do not want to challenge us. or, to india, and say let us work with you. you are a major player and will be a major player on the international scene. they want to know what are we credible? the way things are going right now, we have a credibility gap. that is why i say it is political malfeasance that has been taking place. people are so locked into their ideological spectrum, that they plant the flag in the summit of the right or the cement of the left, and they see that as a badge of honor, and they degrade the notion that compromise has become synonymous with abject surrender. when that takes place, then what we have is this the generality. we have sclerosis. so, i hope, in the next two years, we will see some change in that. frankly, i am skeptical. we are already now lining up saying? what will

cohen. >> let's just call -- put it to a vote now. thank you. >> okay. we were just joined by supervisor kim and so we are voting on item number 17. mr. clerk can you please call the -- oh supervisor kim. >> just in advance i want to explain my vote. based on what i read and seen in voting committee i will vote against the item today. i didn't get to hear the answers. if there are follow up answers to the budget analyst report so i want to make clear the basis for my decision. >> thank you supervisor kim. mr. clerk can you please call the roll. >> on item 17 supervisor breed. >> aye. >> supervisor campos. >> no. >> supervisor christensen. >> aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >> no. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor avalos. >> aye. >> there are nine aye's and two no's. >> okay. this resolution is adopted. mr. clerk can you call item 18. >> item 18 is ordinance to amend the arcades in the upper market street neighborhood. >> okay. can you call the roll. >> (calling roll). >> there are 11 aye's. >>

mr. clerk, the rest i submit. city clerk: thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. >>supervisor mark farrell: thank you. i would like to introduce that will be here by a homeless count. this is a requirement of hud to receive funding for homeless services and programs and helps the federal government better understand the scope of the issue here in san francisco. it captures information around our homeless population. i thought i would list a few of them out to include basic demographic information including age, gender, race, ethnicity, homelessness. problems that causes homelessness. employment and income and criminal justice system. data around chronicle and subhelp population and all the data points i mentioned above in my opinion are vital information marcus for us as policy makers and better for us in the san francisco. i think in my opinion this account is going to serve as a report card as how we are doing in san francisco and also a road map going forward. we are going to be able to see whether our numbers have decreased or increased over the past 2 years. obviously there is though one size fit

, very happen that a group of over one hundred stakeholders heard from supervisor cohen and from mayor ed lee and from mr. also from mr. blackwell and myself and had the opportunity to talk about head talks about conversations that are built around the life course challenges for the men and young boys and girls of color we discussions our next steps i want share with the community not just a reaction to the president obama's call but a system tisk goal we're working hard with the city partners and in conjunction with the city family to make a reality so look forward to share more information with the community in that regard this ego ladies and gentlemen, as part of our commitment to this endeavor we conducted a national search we've been unvfbl to close the gop gap i'm proud to say we've hired a special assistant for african-american assistant that reports to the instructor of the schools i'm happen this evening to introduce him to our community his name a mr. dick i didn't i'm proud to say he's a product of the san francisco unified school district where he was a student and a at lake shore and he's a