mr. courtney for your work on the commission and also your support of the labor unions and creating local jobs. when you invested in asian neighborhood design and invested in go solar sf you've invested in me and it worked (clapping) >> so i'd like to thank everyone for coit and enjoying this project that it dear and special to the puc and we wanted to thank you for coming out and thank you. >> we're here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. we have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why don't we capture that to support the mission youths going to college that's for the food for thought. we didn't have a signature font for our orientation that's a 40-year-old organization. mission graduates have helped me to develop special as an individual they've helped me figure out and provide the tools for me that i need i feel successful in life >> their core above emission and goal is in line with our values. the ferraris yes, we made 48 thousand >> they were on top of

mr. courtney for your work on the commission and also your support of the labor unions and creating local jobs. when you invested in asian neighborhood design and invested in go solar sf you've invested in me and it worked (clapping) >> so i'd like to thank everyone for coit and enjoying this project that it dear and special to the puc and we wanted to thank you for coming out and thank you.you. >> hello san francisco holly lee here with another activity there's loose to do. take time to smell the roses and admissions to the concerto of flowers is free the first toou did you have every month with rear and exotic plants the conservative is having something for everyone where you're a native san franciscan. discover the joy of so i on the fourth toy food festive in japantown that free festive as so i education and audience games and live entertainment and the highlight the soy and 80 food competition. get ready to swing that sunday at lindy in the park with a museum with the streets of golden gate park are closed and the dancers take over take a free lesson at noon. and that's the weekly bu

mr. courtney? >> first of all for those who have not had a chance to speak with tommy, i highly recommend to try to get a hold of him because it's a wealth of information and knowledge. and he and karen and -- it's a great honor for me to work with them from time to time and i always find myself getting more and more educated about the great work they do that oftentimes it goes unnoticed. but with respect to the linkage between the two commissions and two missions, we spoke earlier about the pesticides and to what extent that runs off. for those of you who don't know another shame less plug for the labors union that we represent the staff for the sewers. being a sewage worker on a hot day, think of doing that job for not just one 1 day but for 30 years. i have the utmost respect for those men and women. vice-president king would talk about flushing the medicine down the toilet and why it's not a good idea to do that and we talked about some of the pesticides because we have one of the facilities ou

mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for being here today and secretary hagel who laid out in the powerful testimony that laid out that not every choice in your position is black and white and that you have to weigh in all of the factors and one of the factors that i want to re-emphasize is that in terms of deciding this back on may 27th, i mean, it wasn't like you had a lot of other options, and there was no plan b or c that was sitting on your desk in terms of how to get this american soldier back in our jurisdiction, isn't that correct? >> that is exactly correct, because there was no option. >> and there are members who have been on some of the shows saying, well, we should have sent the special forces in to get him, and we were actually not clear where he was -- >> that is right. >> and so there was not a place to send special forces to recover him. you also, again, and this is alluded to the earlier that in terms of the risk mitigation of the five transferees, taliban transferee transf

mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for being here today and secretary hagel, for your powerful testimony, which again laid out the fact that this is, not every choice in your position is always black and white. you've got to weigh a lot of factors. one of the factors which i just want to kind of maybe re-emphasize, in terms of when you were deciding this back on may 27th, i mean, it wasn't like you had a lot of other options. i mean there was no plan b or plan c that was sitting on your desk in terms of how to get this american soldier back in our jurisdiction, isn't that correct? >> that is exactly correct. there was no option. >> there are members who have been on some of the shows saying, well we should have sent special forces in to get him. well were not totally clear where he was? >> that's right. >> so there really wasn't even a place to send special forces to recover him. you also, again, this has been alluded to earlier, is that, in terms o mitigation of the five transferees, tali

are right to highlight the french sale of the ships that ought to be cancelled, and i echo what mr courtney said. we don't need to see more from russia, it invaded neighbours, we move the goal posts away from russia saying "if you do something else we may impose sanctions", or "now if you do something on top of that", we'll impose sanctions. it's time for the west to pull together, put him out now. as it is, i think russia feels it has a green light. >> president obama is expected to come face to face, despite avoiding each other on thursday. they should see each other at the commemoration of the d-day landings, the 70th anniversary on friday. vladimir putin said on thursday, in the end, it's his choice, and i'm always ready for dialogue. if they see each other, ambassador courtney, can dialogue aecom flish anything. >> probably not. conditions now - it says that russia is involved against ukraine. it's useful to look back when president kennedy has a meeting with the russian president. there'd been problems with cuba, berlin and lagos. kennedy was perceived as week and started building the

mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for being here today and, secretary hagel, for your powerful testimony which, again, laid out the fact that this is -- not every choice in your position is always black and white. you've got to weigh a lot of factors. one of the factors which i just want to kind of maybe reemphasize is in terms of when you were deciding this back on may 27th, i mean it wasn't like you had a lot of other options. there was no plan b or plan c that was sitting on your desk in terms of how to get this american soldier back in our jurisdiction, isn't that correct? >> that's exactly correct. there was no other option. >> there are members who have been on some of the shows saying, well, we should have sent special forces in to get him. we actually were not totally clear about where he was. >> that's right. >> so there really wasn't even a place to send special forces to recover him. you also, again, and this has been alluded to earlier, that in terms of the risk mitigation of

mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for being here today and, secretary hagel, for your powerful testimony which, again, laid out the fact that this is -- not every choice in your position is always black and white. you've got to weigh a lot of factors. and one of the factors which i just want to kind of maybe re-emphasize is in terms of when you were deciding this back on may 27th, i mean it wasn't like you had a lot of other options. there was no plan b or plan c that was sitting on your desk in terms of how to get this american soldier back in our jurisdiction, isn't that correct? >> that's exactly correct. there was no option. >> there are members who have been on some of the shows saying, well, we should have sent special forces in to get him. we actually were not totally clear about where he was. >> that's right. >> and so there really wasn't even a place to send special forces to recover him. you also, again, and this has been alluded to earlier, is that in terms of the risk mitigati

mr. courtney: but there's still work to be done. for many who have private student loan debts at 8%, 10%, 12% interest, they are still not getting relief. a few days ago we introduced in the house the bank on students emergency refinancing act which would allow students with those loans to finance down to 3.%, those high rates. something which middle class families do with home mortgages and credit cards. we need to provide that assistance particularly for young americans starting out in their professional employment careers. let's come together as we did last august. let's support the bank on students emergency re-- refinancing act. let's pass this measure which is a critical problem for middle class merps. the chair: the gentleman's -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek reck snigs? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> on january 1, 2008,

mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for being here today and, secretary hagel, for your powerful testimony which, again, laid out the fact that this is -- not every choice in your position is always black and white. you've got to weigh a lot of factors. one of the factors which i just want to kind of maybe reemphasize is in terms of when you were deciding this back on may 27th, i mean it wasn't like you had a lot of other options. there was no plan b or plan c that was sitting on your desk in terms of how to get this american soldier back in our jurisdiction, isn't that correct? >> that's exactly correct. there was no other option. >> there are members who have been on some of the shows saying, well, we should have sent special forces in to get him. we actually were not totally clear about where he was. >> that's right. >> so there really wasn't even a place to send special forces to recover him. you also, again, and this has been alluded to earlier, that in terms of the risk mitigation of

mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, last december in stafford springs, connecticut, warren mill, a textile mill that had been in operation for 161 years, sadly closed its doors and laid off its workers. it was a day where many were sort of writing obituaries for the textile industry in new england, but for many the memory and the reputation of the high quality of that factory lived on. fast forward to this past wednesday, a new owner, american woen, will reopen the plant, the looms will be humming by the end of the month, hiring back the workers whose quality workmanship, again, resurrected this industry for new england. again, it was because of the combined effort of my office, which worked with the parties to bring them together, the governor, who provided some low interest financing to help the transaction move forward so that then it all came together so that, again, by the end of june 80 workers will be back at the looms producing wool and delivering it with a made in america stamp which is not just a drea

mr. cruise. >> thank you. >> i saw a speaker card downtown. >> nicole do you want to speak to this item or wait on the next item. >> thank you president courtney, commissioners. i thought it was important to speak on this item given it's in response to our comment letter. i appreciate the pc staff effort to reach out to us to work through our comment letter, understand the issues we were raising and to discuss their proposed and adopted recommendations for addressing them. and for the most part, i understand them. and i think they go in the right direction, but i would highlight a few things for you to think about. echoing commissioner caen's concern about the schedule and wsip, that is our concern is that this program be completed on time and on budget. are we at the point where we will not see any further skedz you'll ex pensions or budget increase. the program does not have the flexibility within the budget to accommodate budget increases as evidenced that you had to increase the budget increase. it wasn't able to be accommodated within impacts. our concern is what happens the next time. something has to happen. i remain very concerned abou

mr. north is on the floor is that it would mean that the assailant is standing above him, bleeding on him, after he has been attacked. so it puts a sequencing to the events. >> max courtneyut the stain and submitted it for dna testing. investigators found five other drops of blood at the scene perfectly round in between darrell's body and the door. >> i said, why not let's just test these five particular drops of blood that we know or we feel like didn't come from darrell north. >> tests confirmed the blood was not darrell north's. there was only one question that remained. who left the blood? one of the two suspects or someone else? [male vo] inside this bag is 150 years of swedish experience in perfecting the rich, never bitter taste of gevalia. we do it all for this very experience. [woman] that's good. i know right? gevalia. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yeah. everybody knows that. did you know there is an oldest trick in the book? what? trick number one. look-est over there. ha ha. made-est thou look. so end-eth the trick. hey.... yes.... geico. fifteen minutes could save you... well, you know. narrator: these are the skate