mr. jackson, mr. washington -- >> delivering this sermon. >> when you hear people say the men in black, they don't give a care, they don't have no love, i tell you yes, they do. understand, mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington, this is your opportunity at this time to make a choice. >> it was almost like a warning, and then as i was listening to him and it just got loud somewhere more impassioned as he went, i realized he was making sure that everybody, all of the inmates, knew what was going on, these three guys were getting a second chance. >> now, i want you to show them, i want you to show this department that you can stand and make a difference. i know you might say, big sam, i don't think he's talking to me right. i just want you to know, that's just the way it is. nothing personal. this is a jail. you got a life ahead of you. what you do with it is on you. >> at one point in the speech, big sam was warning these inmates that because they were being let out of the situation, they may be viewed

mr. jackson, the main thing on your mind is looking for that car, where could that saab be?s that fair to say? >> not in that moment where i was driving on a scenic route at the beach. >> wait, wait, a scenic route? >> yes. >> your concern was scenic routes when the mother of your 8-month-old son is missing? >> lewin also wanted to get andre's thoughts about why marcus testified against him. >> are you aware as you sit here of any motive that he might have for trying to say that you're responsible for his mom's death? >> yes. >> you are aware. and what is that? >> the influence by many who pretty much tainted him and telling him negative things about me over the years from his relatives to the law enforcement people who interviewed him. >> finally, lewin asked a question that seemed to get under andre's skin. >> isn't it true, mr. jackson, that marie told you that she was leaving you? >> absolutely not. >> that same day? >> november 11th. >> absolutely not. >> had she ever -- >> after three months in court and 18 years after marie's death, co-prosecutor pat kerry gave the pr

mrs. jackson after i talked to her, she said you need to make sure that you're at the budget committee meeting on july the 16th at 10:00 a.m. to talk about your concerns because people come up here and do not tell the truth. maybe you all can believe in the health department, but i gave you information about what happened with the health department and the epa, dealing in my community. co-hearsting with the people and lying. did anybody go to jail? no. there's a lot of people that need to go to jail, about what they are supporting and being a rubber stamp. don't nobody make anything but the developers. they're the ones that's getting the money, and you all are just sitting there. and your workers are going to be dead in ten years, and you're talking about growing vegetables. if you grow vegetables in the southeast sector, all the toxins that goes up and comes down, i wouldn't eat no vegetable grown out there. i'm going to tell you just like it is. but the thing of it is that i'm more concerned about is they're talking about digging feet feet and then go lay something and we have earthquakes in

mrs. jackson, who are arriving from chicago are not familiar with the upper west side. we are going to show you about our knowledge of the upper west side. we have businesses that are, for example, american eagle recently came on, and they started using it in a really interesting way. they started putting on, you know, the outtakes from their photo shoots. we are flying down here with a bunch of people modeling denim jeans in costa rica and telling the backstory behind the scenes at the shoots. so this is very different from what you would do on another location base product, like where you would be, where you would be kind of advertising deals or that kind of thing. >> i need to interrupt and end your interview on television. i would like to take a couple more minutes and we can talk about this for a couple minutes, but for tv viewers, i'm going to toss to a commercial break. on the internet, on our website, we will talk a bit about etsy, but in the meantime, if you're watching television, we'll take a closer look at amazon and book publishers when "press here" continu

jackson lee: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. amendment offered by ms. jackson lee of texas. page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert, reduce by $500,000. ms. jackson lee: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that the amendment be considered as read. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman. the chair: is there objection? mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman's amendment. the chair: point of order is reserved. without objection, the reading is dispensed with. pursuant to house resolution 628, the gentlewoman from texas and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from texas. ms. jackson lee: i thank you very much, mr. chairman. this is a daunting time to be on the floor of the house with the defense appropriations and i add my appreciation to the chairman and to the ranking member for the bipartisan approach that they have treated our men and women. as we speak, there are solders who have left our soil and they

mr. decosta? >> when dr. jackson comes here. she's 81 years old. what she's really trying to tell you, commissioners, is that each of you commissioners when the sf puc wants to participate in any type of deliberations which are part of ceqa or anything you all need to carefully evaluate site by site projects. so way back in the year 2000. i brought to the attention of the department of toxic substances control a number of sites that i knew were very toxic. the department offered toxic and substances control got some money from one of the owners from this site and did some testing. after there there were plans to build a home depot that did not go through because some of the advocates in the visitation did not want a home depot. now we have this site chosen for 1700 -unit building. there have been some meetings. but as dr. jackson stated to you, the redevelopment did not grandfather this project. but a couple weeks ago, maybe i think weeks ago, the supervisor and the mayor and a few others from the planning department were there for a conference sho

mr. christian. >> i would be glad to deal with you directly on that. >> thank you. >> the gentlewoman from texas, sheila jackson lee. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am excited to see so many of you i have been happy to work with. i want to call the roll. this cash, thank you for the work of your father. thank you, mr. christian, paul williamson died -- we have seen each other so much. thank you for your work, what you do for children, teaching children about music. chris harrison -- i believe your name is -- did i add a t-e on it i should not have? >> that is perfect. >> let me just say i think it would be appropriate if we have a hearing on the directv-at&t merger. to the witnesses, my delay was provoked by the fact that this is a year anniversary of the shelby case, the united states case that, in my opinion, dismantled the voting rights in the united states. there is a hearing, and i would almost say that many of the --ist that you represent were affected by that. i apologize for my delay. that is one of the reasons that i dashed in here. i have made it clear -- i think we have an issue that should all, andin

mr. dennis kelly and liz jackson-simpson. so two minutes each, please, and then we will take public comment right after that because we're at 7:30 and then go into our regular agenda. thank you. >> thank you very much. i have asked you to pull -- to look at 19 of the 81 consent to degree items which you have, and starting with k 1, k 12, k 3, k 5, k 8, k 9, for instance, you're doing a lot of things here that are describing people that are not in the bargaining units doing what is our work. now, sometimes people are very careful to say that and they say that they're teaching teachers how to do this and that's a careful way of saying it. k 3 for instance, however, says they're going to work with children doing hands on work. that means that it's our work. that's teaching and para professional work and should not be farmed out to other people. you look at k 8 and k 9, there you're calling for early ed, you're paying some money for three full day sessions of professional development. unfortunately early ed only has two professio

jackson. our next speaker, mr. decosta? >> commissioners, first and foremost i would like to commend you on the meeting. many of the aspects of the meeting were important. of course i don't want to speak of them right now, but i speak about them later on a different date. >> i'm here because we have to pay careful attention to the outreach linked to the sewer system improvement project. one of the ways that we can set the standards and the goals is to evaluate the outreach linked to the water system improvement project. so commissioners, you should get some report as to how the outreach was done with the water system improvement project and really how that can be evaluated and what mark of grading or standards you can learn from that if those reports are with you. you know we spent $4.6 billion on that project. and even though it hasn't come to an end, it's coming to an end. now back to you sewer system improvement project. this is not easy. i will tell you why it's not easy. when i went to europe, rome, florence, serena, t

jackson lee: mr. speaker, i rise today as a mother, as a senior member of the homeland security committee which was created in the backdrop of the horrific tragedy of 9/11. today the president and america confronts a heinous group in iraq, the isis, that are beheading persons and proclaiming one religion over another. and again an op-ed appears in the "wall street journal" from the former vice president who wants to blame everything on president obama. whose administration has just brought into justice one of those who perpetrated the violence and killed our americans at ben gazzy. this is not an american issue in iraq. we gave them an opportunity. we gave 4,000 in treasure. this is really an international issue that calls upon the united nations and the nations surrounding iraq even maliki to have a coalition government. it's the same in nigeria with boko haram that the beheading persons, kidnapping girls, we need a coalition that faces down these terrible horrific tragic terrorists. these are thugs.

espanola jackson and last but not least particularly a tireless advocate a lawyer and community advocate from bright line defense mr. eddy young and thank you mr. mayor for this great achievement >> so next i'll call up my boss the president of the puc commission. he's been very instrumental in actually broker the relationship with the department of public works and the puc to perform the work on the rooftop installing the solar panels so i'd like for mr. courtney to say a few words >> good afternoon it's a beautiful backdrop it kind of shows me that still is committed to green energy and green jobs everybody is doing a shout out so it's hard to shout out to the building trade and others but i'm lucky i've been here my whole life he everyone is shouting out to dr. espanola jackson but espanol in addition to all the many, many things she does in san francisco she's my doctor. in all seriousness i'm proud to stand with mayor ed lee he understands the vandals of moving in the direction of those clean power installations and understands the commitments of our labor organizations and how it really changes life but putti

we went to naacp meetings in jackson, mississippi, when mr. dayton's sister. i met meg evers a man who communicated with us at the age of 14, he could make me understand that i was living a life that was not fruitful in the sense that segregation had its limitations, meaning we didn't have sidewalks, pafed streets, we couldn't sent down in woolworths, although we go downtown to pay bills and we couldn't stop at the kourn. i remember buying pea nut brittle, and going to segregated toilets. i figured white ladies and colored women. white water fountain and the colored water fountain and after graduating from high school, i went to jackson state, i was president of the dorm council. was called in after prayer, called into the deans office and wanted to question me about a prayer. i couldn't understand that and coming from palmers crossing, where i had not participated in anything political to my knowledge, organizing so forth, the prayer was questioned, so dean gills said, we want to know about this prayer the matron had told him, so i became very adamant, and th

mr. chairman? >> per committee rule, we continue with memberships, we go to ms. jackson-lee. so, mr. cook, colonel, united retired.rine corps you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> omar bradley wanted to talk the m-16. i told him, it's a piece of crap. it's 1967. most of the people weren't even born then. he was 80 ow, something years old. he was taking notes. suddenly after that there were all kinds of changes to the system to change it so that no one else would die because of a weapons failure. that weapon is still being used today in the u.s. military, the had.est weapon we what if general bradley were here now, the last five-star general we had. kind of ironic, next week, of june, nvasion, 6th i just don't feel that there's a a sense of mand or urgency. you know, i'm not going to go over all of the things that have everything like that. but my feeling is who's going to and correct these things and, you know, i know you had a busy weekend, but if it's -- people are dying there, you got to work through the weekend. it's a 24-hour day. it's a seven-day --

jackson for being here. is there any more public comment on item no. 3. >> mr. brooks? good afternoon. >> item 3, public comment. i -- i'm mr. brooks. representing san francisco the various aspects have worked to launched the clean air program. which thankful the lack of lack of local agency formation in san francisco did not get finished to plan the build out of hundreds of mega watt of clean energy in san francisco to put thousands of people to work in san francisco over the next 10 years, around a thousand or more per year with the local 261 which is well represented in this room right now. and i just want to note that the reason i can talk about clean powersf in public comment is that it's not on your agenda at all. we've gone before the subcommittees and the commission or the environment commission recently insisting that the cleanpowersf plans and program be put back into climate action strategy. that the mayor pressured the department of the environment to remove from the climate action strategy when previously the department of environment staff said there's no

jackson lee: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 9 printed in house report 113-493 offered by ms. jackson lee of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 641, the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee will control five as well as a member opposed. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from texas. ms. jackson lee: i thank the chairman and i rise today to set a standard for answering the call of 500,000 to 800,000 jobs being created by 2020 that addresses the work in our ongoing and growing energy industry. i'd like to thank the natural resources committee chairman, mr. hastings, and ranking member defazio for their leadership on diversifying our employment base. and i also wish the chairman well as he moves on to other endeavors. he'll be missed on his insight. mr. speaker, i rise to support -- in support to the jackson lee amendment, number 9, to h.r. 4899. congress has the need for participation of veterans, women and minority for employment, ownersh

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mr. chairman. my time expired. >> chair recognizes ms. jackson lee for the purpose of entering statements into the record. >> i ask unanimous consent to submit the american immigration lawyers association statement dated june 24, 2014. statement of the women's refugee commission dated june 24, 2014, and finally, a "the washington post" story, younging my rants stuck in limbo mexican border, children stuck alone in shelter basis june 22, 2014. unanimous consent. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. i would also ask unanimous consent to submit statement from the first focus campaign for children facinging my rant children and families. >> without objection, so ordered. >> mr. secretary, thank you for your testimony so far today. everything you've done so far to address the issue we are discussing in today's hearing, and i'd like to commend through you your director in el paso for ice, adrian mesias, your assistant director. there have been not accompanied alien children butting my rant families transported from the rio grande valley to e

mr. chairman. my time expired. >> chair recognizes ms. jackson lee for the purpose of entering statements into the record. >> i ask unanimous consent to submit the american immigration lawyers association statement dated june 24, 2014. statement of the women's refugee commission dated june 24, 2014, and finally, a "the washington post" story, younging my rants stuck in limbo mexican border, children stuck alone in shelter basis june 22, 2014. unanimous consent. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. i would also ask unanimous consent to submit statement from the first focus campaign for children facinging my rant children and families. >> without objection, so ordered. >> mr. secretary, thank you for your testimony so far today. everything you've done so far to address the issue we are discussing in today's hearing, and i'd like to commend through you your director in el paso for ice, adrian mesias, your assistant director. there have been not accompanied alien children butting my rant families transported from the rio grande valley to e

mr. heart that was a personal friend what was labor union and to the pga of mary and the pga of jackson mississippi gentleman and detroit's general barker many people have passed and to reflect on that i went to a place in district supervisor farrell strict in the presidio i focused on the old tree in the presidio with one of the tremendous groups and branches and i was thinking will uy and the others i've mentioned i thought about the roots that are enter tweend in the roots and rooting the trees in the ground and look at the amazing trunks pointing out upwards it made me happier as he think about folks like carl and others uy was a giant in the asian-american movement and a friend of mine as she moved out west from her harlem residence for over 40 years years in the late 90s i got to know her. she was amazingly strong and himg and clear on what we need to do to make changes. uy also inspired many generations from young people today she's been speaking with to the 60s generation as well were yuri passed away at the age of 93 she was a tireless activist and p making change that improve people's liv

jackson, good morning. caller: good morning. .ost: go ahead an that president obama conducted with mr. bergdahl and absolutelyon was outrageous. host: and why is that, jackson? he put into the field 5 gitmoous terrorists from who have killed and will kill americans, american military personnel, and innocent civilians. i know this firsthand. . worked in special ops long leave. just got back from indian country. i cannot believe what i've seen. sir.s what i have to say, on ourrett in indiana line for democrats. caller: morning. i agree, they gave the wrong 5 terrorists away. they should have given george bush, dick cheney, karl rove, donald rumsfeld, and condoleezza rice. i think the terrorists would be a lot happier with those. host: brett in indiana. jackson talk about the exchange and who was put back in the field. "senator cruz says his legislation is a response not only to the bergdahl controversy but after hearing of other potential prisoner releases." that story in politico if you want to read more on that. also from "the hill" newspaper on the same topic, "some senate democrats sa

mr. harkin: i ask unanimous consent elisebeth larson, casey brendino and jackson o'brien, interns in my office be granted privileges of the floor for today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i thank the chair and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. mccain: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be suspended and that senator graham be allowed to engage in colloquy with me until such time as we may consume. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: i thank you. i come to the floor this morning with great sorrow and great concern and an even deep alarm about the events that are transpiring rapidly in iraq. isis, the most extreme islamist organization, radical terrorist organization, now controls at least one-third of iraqi territory and is rapidly gaining more. the areas of fallujah, mosul, tikrit on the outside of samarra, with these victories, isis controls ter troer from the syrian turkish frontier in the north to the euphrates river to the iraqi city of fallujah, 40 miles we

jackson lee: mr. chairman, again to the chairman and ranking member, i thank them and certainly the ranking member of the financial services committee for her leadership. my amendment is simple. it would preserve existing law with a legal challenge is reviewed by the district court and following an opinion by a district court judge and a appeal. let me refer my colleagues to the joint report by the agricultural committee where specifically it says that the general review provisions of the a.t.a. requiring parties to file a claim before u.s. district court and goes on to give those particular details so existing law. and then it goes on to indicate that follow the the review , the ions of the a.t.a. general counsel indicated that he would not object to a change. i would make the argument that it is not -- the general counsel but the individual consumer who should have the opportunity in a district court either in their district or in the district of columbia to be able to make a record and ensure that

as justice jackson once said, the constitution is not a suicide pact. but we've never -- this is -- this is consistent -- mr. president, i would ask for one additional moment to conclude. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. sessions: so they have to be treated properly and that sort of thing but they don't have to be released. we captured, for example, nazzir hamed rouka last year for conspiring with bin laden. he goes back to yemen and somalia in the 1988 bombings in east africa that killed 224 people before 9/11. he's a treasure-trove of intelligence. our group went in and captured him, took him away at risk of their lives and they took him out on the ship. he said he was sick and not doing well and so what happened? they took him to the united states justice department, turned him over for civilian trials. so the purpose of capturing him was to get intelligence. this is a warrior. you want to talk to him, we want to see what we can learn about him. he was immediately placed in federal custody where he gets a lawyer, a speedy trial, a public trial and the things that prisoner

jackson west. previously a volunteer member of the task force. i wanted to come and support the previous members i worked with, mrs. washburn and mr. wolf, also support the other mr. wolf, but particularly to support mr. hepner and [inaudible]. i understand directly how frustrating the process at the sunshine task force meetings can be, the ultimate frustration has been in the lack of effective independent council, independent that is of the city attorney's office, especially in the absence of the ethics commission taking up task force complaints, so as a former member, i wanted to endorse hef ner who i know will be effective attorneys to speak on the task force both within and without meetings. cheers. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm richard. i'm a member of the task force and i'm speaking here as an individual. i have a question to raise about the candidacy of topra who is on the new american nominee. first let me say that i have nothing to say about topra and good things about new american media. i talked with topra on friday and i'm sure if he's appointed, he'll do a good job on the task force, but my concerns are that he m