mr. hunter, is recognized. mr. hunter: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield the distinguished gentleman and chairman of the full transportation and infrastructure committee as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the member from pennsylvania is recognized. >> i thank the speaker and thank the gentleman from california. i rise in support of h.r. 4005, the coast guard and maritime transportation act of 2014. the united states coast guard enforces all u.s. laws on u.s. waterways and when necessary on the high seas. this service saves the life and property of those who sail on our waters for recreation and commerce. they protect our marine natural resources and secure our borders against illegal drugs and against human trafficking. they have a huge job and they deserve our thanks. mr. shuster: h.r. 4005 provides the service with our support. this bipartisan legislation authorizes the coast guard to carry out all its vital missions, improves its mission effectiveness, helps replace and modernize aging coast g

mr. james hunter representing international brotherhood of electrical workers. i am proud to have reunions here , what did you all do and a perspective they bring to this issue is very valuable. misters that hill, president and chief operating officer of count by corporation. thank you for being here. finally cannot revert to, we thank you for your views from the clean energy environmental defense fund for your perspective that you bring to this issue as well. if we can start with you, commissioner, and really we will all do well to four minutes of that we can have a very robust line of questioning. >> thank you, chairman, ranking republican, members of the committee. i'm a member of the federal energy regulatory commission since 2006. thank you for holding the hearing on this important topic. we have gone through quite a winter, complete any reference pastry of the staff and out with particularly starting january january 5th. i think we need to ascend appreciation to the thousands of people look up the system running, mr. hunter's members, people who made decis

mr. hunter?>> i think it is a great point these to hearings are very much alike as we closed down more and more of the plants we depend more on the transmission grid looking at the grid coming from the substation we have a foldable grid in the make it more vulnerable the board that we close down. these epa rules affect nuclear as well we are beyond talking about 60,000 talk about the possibility of shutting down nuclear or super critical call. it needs to be addressed i had in my comments that the coordination and the cost of these new rules that end are cds to cut into the picture. they have significant cost impact jimmy you're not looking at those. >> just to offer one thing it is important going forward with a future epa rules to allow that analysis to have been and we will be the first to speak up and again this is about time we gave to make the time to make the changes we will make the transition. >> we have all these plants shut down by 2015 that 89 percent is needed as mr. hunter said you

mr. hunter, and then to the ranking member on that subcommittee. we are pleased to have this hearing today. without objection, the members of the subcommittee can submit their opening remarks for the record. and now i yield myself as much time as i may consume to present my opening statement, and i want to start first and foremost by thanking my colleague, chairman duncan hunter, of the transportation and infra surkt subcommittee on the coast guard and mary time transportation and his staff for working with me and my time to convene today's timely and important hearing on confronting transnational drug smuggling and an assessment of our strategy and regional partnerships. recently the u.n. issued a report naming latin america as the most violent region in the world with 13 countries in the region listed among the top 20 worldwide in homicide rates. in fact, the top six most murderous countries per capita are all right here in our own western hemisphere. transnational criminal and narcotics trafficking organizations are becoming more sophisticated i

mr. james hunter representing ibew. i'm proud to have the unions here and the work that you'll do. and the perspective you bring to this issue i think is very valuable. mr. thad hill, president and chief operating officer of calpine corporation. thank you for being you. and, finally, ms. cheryl roberto, again thank you for your views from the clean energy environmental defense fund for your perspective that you bring to this issue as well. so if we can start with you, commissioner moeller, and really we will hold you all to four minutes a we can have a very robust line of questioning spent thank you, chairman landrieu, ranking member murkowski, members of the committee. i'm philip moeller, a member of ferc since 2006. thank you for holding a hearing on this important topic. we've got through quite a winter, particularly and eastern interconnect of the to reference on page three of the staff and out with particularly starting january 5, the polar vortex events. we need to send appreciation to the thousands of people who kept the system running, the control room, mr. hunter's members,

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mr. hunter talked about all of this having to do with the coast guard budget and the effect of the budget and the lack of a good budget is having on the coast guard to do its work and quite possibly the reality that maybe we really don't care that much because we don't seem to be putting sufficient money into the effort. it appears as though the current situation would further diminish the coast guard's budget and its ability to do its job. and so all too often we look at this problem from the point of view of america. and not often from the point of view of the countries and we need to look at the perspective. we need to look at this and the work that has been done there and this includes the people that we are partners with in this problem. at some point, i know that we have this issue from that point of view. it was from the american point of view. perhaps the ambassador from mexico might want to give us their point of view of this or columbia or other countries that are the partners in this problem. and so i recommend that we listen to their point of view and how that will affect our

mr has. martina confirmation not just from hunter pence but find the new rate will be attending either and unfairly trying to turn this into a rethink our respondents to the accounts committee from both parties' is seeking they're not going to be attending tomorrow and it is perceived relationship into occurrence. the sisters informed the committee that you too can happen on medical advice he she will not eat any. he also told the committee that i'm the last of the last year in the twenty seventh of every that she was subjected to over seven hours of questioning which is one short break and it was unfair they came today. we also encourage back and her son was two hundred and fourteen times and you get into see her sisters had a fun packed day that she didn't ask when she knocked at the time. if there had been a reduction in per cent this year the sisters have to be chic itchy and thirty two he answered no and that this was not correct and that she apologizes for the mis understanding that this may have caused. now in relation to fry curry and very very tedious and very hard hitting response to the

>> well, david is probably one of the most respected wreck hunters in the world, along with people like mr. ballard. he found hms sidney off the west australian coast. he is very experienced with the sort of forensic clues that you will get. and he is combining those, the inmarsat satellite pings, the hand shakes. the refined data that was refined several times. they sent the ocean shield out to this very spot and guess what? they get very strong pings. for him, for a wreck hunting expert, that is proof positive. he was probably about to say something similar when he stepped back and said we're very confident. there is a very high level of confidence that they are onto the final resting place of flight 370. >> all right, hello, now, to mary schiavo, the pings have likely gone dead. did we get enough information from those to warrant this type of confidence? >> well, actually, ordinarily you would want to have a lot more for a greater extended period of time. but i think the confidence comes from the fact that they had just four hand shakes, and then a partial fifth from the satellites. and

>> david is probably one of the best and most respected wreck hunters in the world, along with people like mr. ballard. he found the hms wood, he found hms sydney off the australian coast. he's very experienced with the forensic clues that you will get. he's combining those inmarsat satellite pings, the hand shakes. the refined data refined seven times and they sent the ocean shield to that spot and get four strong pings. for him for a wreck hunter that is proof positive. and i think the prime minister, tony abbott, was about to say something similar last week when he stepped back and said we are very confident can. there is a high level of confidence they are on the final resting place of 370. >> hello to mary schavio. the pings are thought to be from the black box have likely gone dead. did we get enough information from those to warrant this kind of confidence? >> well, actually you would ordinarily want more for a greater extended period of time. but i think the confidence comes from the fact they had four hand shakes and a partial fifth from the satellites. that last one, as they sent th

mrs. jackson, because when i come to a commission meeting, i come with facts. what we are going through in bayview hunters point and what i see now that i will have to do is request that the rico act be enforced here in san francisco. you made a statement about corruption. this city is so corrupt and it became corrupt from '96 up until now because of what is going on. and i've been watching. i'm 81 years of age, but i've been watching the politics of san francisco for the last 55 years. i have walked these halls like i own them. but i want to make sure that at your next meeting -- i'm finished with that. at your next meeting -- you're the director, correct? when you go over the minutes -- i've already talked to the attorney -- to make sure that he look up the responsibility of the chair. and before you make your motion to support the minutes that's going to be presented to you, you will have to make adjustments because i don't want to see you in trouble on an action that you have taken because i have been chairman of many boards and i have been on many commissions and i had to learn robert's rules of orde

hunter's view. thank you so much (clapping.) i'm so sorry for our last speaking that has to follow that. however, i would like to introduce our mr. jon stewart. oh, my god see you all i need to look at the program. indeed. so jack garden is going to come up here and talk about this from the jon stewart company (clapping.) well, that's what you get when you work for a company that's named after a man they call all of us jon stewart all the time and it was producing for me when someone called him jack. let's rearrange the next time for speakers thank you ymca so i'm honored to be able to say i was one of the village people with the leader the speaking and mayor and bust a circled move on behalf of everybody up here. thanks to mechanic and thanks to the mayor and commissioner torres and nancy pelosi and all the previous speakers for their comments and support it's hard to revoke all the supporters we're very honored to have the housing authority and commissioners and former ocii commissioners the director of planning and so many help us celebrate the grand opening of the new hunter's view. phase one we're celebrating here today one

hunters point shipyard. i want to recognize some seniors of the advisory committee. chair i think you're standing already if you stand if you don't mind. so mr. vincent and ali and scott madison. thank you guys for taking the time to come out her and see the commission. today, the commission is considering authorizing the issuance of a special tax refunding bond for the city and county of san francisco community hunters point shipyard and in an unanimous not to exceed $40 million and he approving an screw all the time and body purposing agreement and 3 will sxhier the shipyard and give you an overview of the documents getting approved and give you a forward look at the process coming back to you. we're financing the variable rate bonds you began the chain procedures and approve the procurement and separately the commission has to approve the action and this begins the action process that 0 won't be final until the department of finance comes back in july. the shipyard is a multiple project it includes land on the shipyard and candle stick park and it totals one hundred 8 acres. the disposition were approved in 2003. one of the important fina

hunter pence into right field. uh-oh. here come the giants coming -- from behind to lead 4-3. and then 6th inning, mr. big time.ter posey back away. he gone. his fifth of the year and the giants extended their lead to 355-3. bring on -- 5-3. bring on the closer, search owe moe row. -- sergio romo and he gets the groundout to crawford to end it. the giants win it and go for the sweep tomorrow. >>> and on this day 1989, kevin mitchell -- incredible one handed catch. can you believe that? here it is again. that is a thing of beauty. and i'll tell you story years later, he was the manager of a minor league team up in santa rosa and i asked him to do it. went ahead and did it again like it was nothing. >> wow. >> that was terry kennedy behind the plate by the way. catcher. >> you looked that up? >> tk with a home plate view of it. >> there you go. that was amazing. >> great grab. >> thank you so much. >>> thank you vern, as he mentioned the worm's top female -- world's top female golfers are in town. most don't wear skirts on the town but that's -- course but that's part of the name. why it's raising some eyebrows a

mr. ahn and for the bright line defense project. that group helped us stop a natural gas power plant from being built in the bayview hunter's point and close the last natural gas polluting power plant in san francisco. with that said, i think it was very appropriate that supervisor campos pushed this point of clean power sf because we need to make sure that the people that are actually working on work force policy are very dedicated to making sure we do a real large green new deal for san francisco rapidly to address the climate crisis and also to address our jobs crisis in san francisco, which really hasn't gotten that much better. the lues daition that i wanted to add is that bright line defense project over the past decade has worked pretty closely in many positive ways to support clean power sf and that working on making sure that especially a build out that's going to hire people gets underway. back last august when the sf puc voted on the rates, which would have started the program, the other grass roots groups that were involved in this agreed that the project should move forward, even though we had had many criticisms similar

mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, we ask this court to uphold the sixth circuit decision to reaffirm the doctrine that's expressed in hunter-seattle, and to bring the 14th amendment back to its original purpose and meaning, which is to protect minority rights against a white majority, which did not occur in this case. >> my goodness, i thought we've -- we've held that the 14th amendment protects all races. i mean, that was the argument in the early years, that it protected only -- only the blacks. but i thought we rejected that. you -- you say now that we have to proceed as though its purpose is not to protect whites, only to protect minorities? >> i think it is -- it's a measure that's an antidiscrimination measure. >> right. >> and it's a measure in which the question of discrimination is determined not just by -by power, by who has privilege in this society, and those minorities that are oppressed, be they religious or racial, need protection from a more privileged majority. >> and unless that exists, the 14th amendment is not violated, is that right? so if you have a banding together of various minority groups who disc

it's exactly what the court said in hunter that it didn't want, which is agents hesitating before they did their job. >> mr. gershengorn, suppose it's originally set up by the police, the motorcade is coming down, each side has roughly equal access. then the secret service comes along and said -- clear the anti-bush demonstrators. suppose that, that those were the facts. would there be a valid bivens claim? >> your honor, the question would depend on whether there was a valid security rationale. i think in the context of a motorcade >> the rationale is just it's more likely that the people who are against the president would be harmful to him than the people who are for him. >> your honor, i think that would be a much more difficult case in the context of a motorcade where the security of the president is much different than when the president is on an outdoor patio separated only by a small fence. and i do think that that is one of the major differences between where the the treatment of the pro-bush protesters and the anti-bush protesters here is that the an allegation that could be based on differential

hunters redevelopment plan. the planning department determined that the proposed vacation of the streets and easements includes with the plan. the survey and representers team are here if you have questions. >> thank you mrs. moy. >> supervisor cohen, do we have another presentation? >> yes, we do. we have one coming from ocii. >> good afternoon supervisor, my name is wells larson. i'm the president. thank you barbara for your presentation. we approved the shipyard candle stick point redevelopment plan in 2010. one of the actions that was noted in those documents at the time and in our conversations was the vacating of these streets that barbara has discussed. so this is indeed the next step. it's required to move forward with the transfer of lands in furthering of the project. as supervisor cohen indicated, we have received a grant. an exceptionally win for the city of san francisco but it comes with strings. it requires that we move forward with this project to make sure that the existing resident are in their new homes by september of 2016. you can appreciate the tight timeline that we have been under and this is many steps we take to meet that deadline. that concludes our presentation. i'm available i

hunter on a road side ditch. the defense attorney filed a motion saying the fact he has "murder" across his neck is irrelevant and extremely prej dish shall to mrchapman if introduced at trial and observed by the jury. now to "red eye"'s chief legal correspondent. >> it looks like bob beckel in the green room. beckel, right? >> all right, baker, you have a tattoo on your lower back of the cia emblem. >> i do. >> was that a trick to get people into thinking that you weren't in the cia? nobody in the cia -- is this a weird trick. i would never put "murder" on my neck and then kill somebody. >> you read my book about the -- all the dipsy-do. so it is "murder" but he thought he was clever because it is a mirror image. if you just look at it and if you operate in the circles he operates in, you will never get it. >> it doesn't say "murder" it says redrum. >> here is my thought. everything gets so complicated. everything is so difficult. why don't you just put some freaking duct tape around his neck and go through the trial? why are they agonizing over something as stupid as this. the guy killed somebody for goodness sake. >> how do you know that a?