>>> mr. costa? item seven a. >> you have my card, right? >>> yes. >> very good. >>> we seem to forgot that when we had a bond measure last time around not this time but before that, the it was agreed by the commission that we would address the clean water and waste water, right? nobody mentions that and the reason why you stuck with the clap weird because they took the fancy name water system improvement project is because of discrimination blatant discrimination that is what i write in my bloggs when i send to you all and your e-mails don't work. now, having said that, we have a task force who do you think commission suggestioned that the digesters would be one person? -- [inaudible] learning the word liquid action and unthe sites and before this goes before the public utilities commission and you gregariously said look let us take this up bay couple of years or whatever. in the deliberations gather up, presentations, nobody mentions the historical facts. nobody really gets credit to the community. now, the chair because of his working in

mr. costa welcome. >>> i wanted to come over here and speak in a manner that is forthright. so, some of you received my articles and if you read my articles, the many point is that we serve the community. and what is hooping in the various departments including the s f g o c is that in certain areas, we lack standards. new commissioners know because of your experience that ethics, morals, standards, count. when we do not pay attention to that, and matter go before the ethics commission, then a can of worms is opened and we don't want that. now, many of us have come from the community and explained to you that the southest sector is not only a bay view but district 910 and 11 has been adversely impacted. and, we know just because of the nature of the water system improvement project, that type of project and that type of outreach was different from what is what should be done with the sewer system improvement project and i have been saying this for a long time and i really miss the gentlemen who was on the commission richard straw, i really miss him because, when you spoke to

ammunition, i think we should put on the website a history of what has happened in the bay view and have mr. costa or somebody lune him to talk about a narrative or something on the website that we are aware of the history that has occurred there and that we are concerned there about what history will be made later because it's a major project and it's going to have a major impact on the community that rate pairs in the city of san francisco will benefit from the sacrifice of some of the members of this community and so we aught to do that because so often which, is why i hate term limits is because so many you have young legislatures that don't have the history historical frame of reference and don't know how to stop the issues from happening again and these two commissioners here have had a huge impact including to the they have gotten things done and so they taught to be recognized for that just some thoughts. >> i think that is great and one thing that i did want to bring up is that we will be instituting the register task force which includes neighbors and residents and they will be participa

gentlemen, let's comment on some of these discussions with mr. costa.t to tell you, i really see some duplictous movement by the white house. this is what this is about. >> i don't think it's about that. i don't think they set up this deal. bob costa gave the game away, they want to go after food stamps. fine. that's what you want to do during a recession be honest about it. >> why can't we trim them back. food stamps have gotten out of hand. >> this is what i would say. >> we all know it. >> you worked in treasury, you worked in government. omb. you know about the super committee. you know it is a bipartisan problem that neither party wants its name on cuts. so this republican game of saying let's kick it back to the white house, you do our work for us, you take the hit for cutting things, military bases are popular all over this country not just in blue states and so they got a big problem here because they can't actually pinpoint things they want to cut. that's why they are running around trying to blame the president. >> i think the republicans woul

all right, mr. costa, so he's writing a book. what's so important about that? >> sure, larry. it's years before the republican presidential primary actually starts. but we're in a period right now that i like to call the book primary. and if you're looking seriously at running for president, you better be writing a book, and it looks like scott walker is not only writing a book, but he's teamed up with mark thiessen, former chief speech writer for george w. bush, working with a heavyweight and someone we have to consider looking at 2016. >> all right. so just let me follow through on this. jeb bush wrote a book. what does that mean? >> jeb bush wrote a book about immigration and about immigration policy. interesting book. wasn't a big best seller. got a little bit of attention. but why scott walker's book is a little more interesting from a political perspective is scott walker's book is much more an autobiography, talking about his experience in wisconsin, battling the public sector unions, battling it in the recall, and to me that tells me as a political reporter that walker

will cut against her for those who want to make that out to be some kind of carpet bagger, which mr. costather party has figured out at this juncture whether this works. republicans are making all this news because they want to scare her from entering, which means they do fear her. that's the first sign that there's a real fear here. because otherwise, they'd welcome her in. the water's warm. democrats, on the other hand, are concerned, because they don't necessarily have to care who wins the big race. they expect mcconnell to normally be re-elected. they're much more worried about coattails and whether she has reverse coattails and she's going to hurt these down-ballot dems. it's one of these places where people want to find a conventional wisdom. we don't know the answer. and i have to agree with robert that the attacks against mcconnell's wife are a double foul. obviously, the race is out of bounds, and on top of that, this whole idea that, you know, where she's from, the origins, and then going after family generally. even if it was a legitimate with her policy stances, elaine cho is h

mr. costa: the san joaquin millions of es dollars' worth of produce every year. they feed -- each farmer feeds 144,000 people more than ever before. it's important to remember that the agricultural economy touches every aspect of our life. think about the hand that picked the tomato and thank them for the glass of milk. these are among the hardest-working americans i know. let me thank the farmworkers and producers for your hard work in putting the food we eat on america's dinner table. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to address the serious budgetary issues facing our nation. it seem miss in this town have forgotten what a budget is, so i thought i'd provide a quick reminder. webster's dictionary defines budget as a plan for coordination of resources and expenditures. a plan

mr. costa: friday is world water day when we focus on how to meet me water needs of all the people regardless of where they live in on -- on this planet. in our valley we have learned much about ways to conserve water, convey it over long distances and put it to use effectively. nonetheless in california this year, we will have to deal with another partially caused regulatory droukt that was unnecessary. water has and will continue to present both challenges and opportunities. we must choose the side of cooperation and collaboration if we are about to solve the world's long-term water needs. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from nevada rise? f without objection. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise tissue ms. titus: i rise today as a member of the hellenic caucus to recognize greek culture this holiday separate -- celebrates the 1821 victoy of this oh the fwreek people's struggle for ndependence from the ottoman empire my great gr

mr. unit, were dressed in plain clothes when they noticed a suspicious car and found it stolen. the president a stolen car is now facing several charges. >> costaost accountincosta coe crews were working to contain a house fire at a home in bethel island. the to alarm fire broke our early this morning at 1480 taylor st.. the cruise are having a hard time containing the fire due to at pyrolize area. the ginnie says some lies there are down at this hour. crusade to loans to the solder and danger due to those lines. kron fours jackie sissel is in route and will have an update coming up. >> authorities in san jose a surging for student was lasting capping monday night. lorette smith is considered at risk. he was sighted monday night by police for legally camping at henry cowell state park but has not been seen since. he has brown hair and brown eyes his 5 ft. 10 and weighs 150 lbs.. >> a man accused of killing three people in a drunk driving crash in daily seatedaly city pleaded not guilty. >> >demacedo is accused of crashing into a car carrying four people. three of them two brothers and father were killed. the four passengers remained in hospital

mr. sandusky didn't take the stand because he didn't need to face the prosecutor in cross-examination because he faced the most -- the toughest prosecutor in the world in bob costasl silliness. he looks and he seeks for attention. he's narcissistic. he can't accept his punishment. and he's looking to tell his story again. he's looking to tell it in a friendly forum and i'm sure he was convinced that this would be a friendly forum. >> how does that make the victims feel? >> terrible. enough is enough. my client insists that he testify at the sentencing hearing, which he did. he faced mr. sandusky, and he told him all of the things that he did to ruin his life. i am quite sure that every victim feels the same way. >> do you think he'll admit some of the things he says right now against him if you take this to civil court try to get some money out of it will this help you anything he says from behind bars? >> nothing mr. sandusky says or doesn't say is going to affect the civil lawsuits in my opinion. he, as a convicted felon and in fact mr. paterno's family and mr. paterno back when blamed mr. sandusky. penn state blamed mr. sandusky. everyone believes that he is t

we appreciate what you guys do and mr. costa, you guys don't realize that it's all over the world. i support issues in australia so we are all in this together and we are here about justice. i wrote a little book called more than an american because what we are, we are the first human beings. i'm an american this and i'm an american that but in the end we breathe the same way and we are human beings. the reason i say that is because i do a lot of my work at the united states university and there were two students doing a book report or some report on immigration. they were like, why do we have to do this? this is what they said. they said we should kill them all. i looked at these young people and i said are you kidding? and that is why i'm in this thing. i graduated from phoenix union high school. some of you they remember that. anyway, so i do that and wear t-shirts and anything that can support our students because just like when they say something about the immigrants or to legalize them. the first thing i hear is they have to go to the back of the line, which there isn't. one