mr. johns. both or one or the other, the second characteristic is demonstrate all -- the billeted demonstrate this experience, which he has clearly shown he fits that specific qualification. >> through the chair, mr. johns has explained exactly what the charter says in terms of requirements for this seat. it is up to the committee to decide whether his qualifications meet that standard. it is within your discretion to make that decision. supervisor alioto-pier: ok. supervisor campos: anything else? supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you for your service and telling us about the history of the work you have done for the city. not just for the cross on mount davidson but for the historical work as well. i wanted to say that my interpretation of seat no. 4, i look at it as a way to the best and most easily qualified person that has at least two years of full-time experience in teaching, writing, with a demonstrable professional and historical agency has almost critical for a position like this.

mr. johns was selected because of his knowledge and background of the bay area in california history. we worked together on numerous endeavors, including fund- raising building organization and preserving landmarks like the mount davidson cross and historical waterfront peers and businesses. mr. johns has always been a committed, hard-working and affect a board member, officer, and leader. mr. johns has an enduring passion, as you have heard, and appreciation for san francisco history and preservation of historical assets. he has a polished, keen legal mind that is balanced with a sharp wit, a sense of humor, and common sense. all of them useful attributes when interpreting the national park standards of rehabilitation and other documents that the historic preservation commission will use as a basis for its decisions. most importantly, he appreciates the honor and responsibilities of public service. particularly when it comes to preserving treasures for future generations. [tone] i believe he w

i can attest to mr. johns vision i am leaving the board and acting as a client to the design team over the past several years. i know that his interest and commitment to history, particularly that of san francisco and the bay area, goes back much further than that. this experience qualifies him for this commission. he would be were the commission to the historic preservation commission. i hope that you will act on his behalf. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. peter warfield. i would like to echo what supervisor morris said earlier. one wants to look at the best qualified. while the projects of mr. johnson seemed to be worthy and i would like to talk with him about who he knew, there are others who i think have of standing qualifications without having to rely on the and/or clause. including a name that has been mentioned and not to be forgotten, the current holder of that seat, james buckley. in the meetings i have been to and being concerned with, i have found

mr. johns, good morning. welcome to the rules committee. happy new year to you. >> and to all of you. supervisor campos: please speak into the microphone. >> got it? thank you. i thought the best way to do this would be the focus on section 4.135 of the charter, describing seat number four as to be occupied by a historian meeting the professional qualifications of the secretary of the interior with specialized training, and this is important, demonstrable experience in north american bay area history. you can determine my qualifications based on what i have done. beginning with the controversy over preserving the cross on mount davidson. life -- i first investigated that cross, its history, the predecessor, the rule in the community that those crosses provide. i did that in order to raise money for the preservation of the cross. the first things the owners want to know is why should i. i also did it to convince the museum and city of san francisco, of which i was a director at the time, and the

thank you. >> i am speaking in opposition to mr. johns. i was appointed to the original landmarks board. i served on the board for 13 years under four mayors. after leading the board in 1980, i started my own preservation business during which i served over 200 clients. perhaps more important, i was on the steering committee for the development of prop j. we specifically did the qualifications for each of the seats except seat 7 so we would have a qualified, professional group of people doing this work. if you look at the language, you will see that the clear intent was a professional historian. i don't think he has any of those qualifications. i have to ask you to find someone else or ask the mayor to find someone else. there some historic preservation officials on staff. most young people don't even know how to do research. they don't know how to thoroughly evaluate other historians' intent with architectural surveys. we have to send word to the mayor that he needs to live up to the charter. and this appointment and others did not go thr

appointment makes sense, and having listened to what the individual indicated -- and by the way, mr. johns is a very reputable person, who i think should be committed for wanting to serve san francisco. on balance, i think there can be better appointments that can be made, and i was especially struck by the testimony of people in the field who felt that notwithstanding meeting the basic threshold to the extent you could make that point, the there could be better appointments, and it is for that reason that i will be voting against this nomination, but i do not think that it is as clear-cut as it has been made out to be. but i do think that we have an obligation to give everyone a fair chance, a fair hearing and then decide if on balance it is the right appointment for the city. i think there are enough people who, notwithstanding this individual's experience, can provide a lot more expertise to the city and county, which is why i will be voting against it. thank you. supervisor weiner: i will be supporting the nomination. i agree with supervisor campos that a reasonable argument can be mad

i agree with mr. johns.

it became very clear that there were passionate people on both sides advocating for and against mr. johns and i wanted to acknowledge his strong work as an attorney and also a community leader as well. from my perspective, a number of community advocates and preservationists made clear points that seat number four should be an historic meeting the secretary of interior with demonstrable experience in north america or bay area history. another candidate had come forward at that meeting as well, a historian from san francisco state, and it was clear that there were many other people that more clearly meet those qualifications, so i will be voting against mr. johns, in favor of having a stronger historian on the commission as well. supervisor chiu: colleagues, for the discussion? if we could take a roll-call vote on the motion. >> chiu no. chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar no. mirkarimi no. weiner aye. avalos no. campos no. there are 6 ayes and 5 no. supervisor chiu: of the motion is approved. item 20. >> item 20 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for reap

on behalf of president chiu, for the late rose santimno, for richard johnsonton, mr. john crawl, on behalf of supervisor campos for mr. jimenez. >> i want to thank everyone for your hard work in 2010. certainly this month as well as obviously the entire year we only have one more meeting of our session but i hope everyone has a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you over the coming weeks. madam clerk, do we have any more business in front of this board? >> that concludes our business today, mr. president. >> at this time we are adjourned. preside vietor: i would like to call this meeting to order, at the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission, december 14, 2010. thank you, mr. secretary. next item, please. secretary housh: roll call. commissioner caen is excused. madam president, the next item is the approval of the minutes from november 23, 2010, and i will call your attention to a minor amendment to clarify the intent of summer marks. -- the intent of some remarks. president vietor: may i have a motion to approve the minutes as amended? all i

. >> what i did say to mr. john is if you already know that 30 percent of your pipeline is on document of all, you should start now and do the kind of testing that is necessary in those areas where you have high consequence, where there's high percentage of population or their high- rise buildings. i'm hopeful that he will take that recommendation to move forward. >> the california public utilities commission has ordered that state utility pg&e produce reliable records for their gas transmission lines by march the 15th. one man suspected of kidnapping and robbing to live in is on the loose. a second suspect is in custody. police said the to grab a woman in the parking lot of the sun valley mall as she was walking to work. that's when they allegedly rob her and made her take money from her atm account before leaving her in oakland. the official say they also rob the second person. palo alto 91 dispatch center got 566 phantom emergency calls in five hours. the calls to the emergency communication centers started at 8:

supervisor dufty: i just wanted to reiterate that based on no doubt of the way he has conducted himself, mr. johns is going to do a great job. i feel very strongly that richard would be an excellent commissioner in this role and be a dynamic historian, providing a law of personal talent to the work in the preservation commission. i do recognize the presence of the action of other nominees and i respect that it appears at this point that that is what might happen in terms of this nomination continuing. supervisor campos: great. yes, just wanted to fill -- the clerk has given me a note to make it clear that the agenda items one through six contain the same clerical error. they should read historic preservation commission, not historical preservation commission. wanted to make tax address. -- i wanted to make that address. i see the point that has been raised and the point raised by supervisor duftymar. that said, even though my reading of the language is that though there may be different -- differences of opinion, i do think that this individual meets the qualifications as written. and i certainly

. >> let me now introduce to you mr. john p. wheeler, chairman of the board of the vietnam veterans memorial fund. >> reporter: yet, in the hours before he died, caught on surveillance tape looking confused and dazed walking with one of his shoes in his hand. then, murdered and thrown in a dumpster. dumped like trash in a landfill. >> the fact that he's in the landfill is the most disgraceful part. >> reporter: who would want to kill wheeler? nobody yet knows. the police say it's homicide. but won't say how he died. so many questions. police don't even know where the murder took place. now, a small 60-man police force in a town of about 30,000 that averages 1 or 2 homicides a year and sometimes none, must unravel a puzzle with missing pieces. wheeler worked in washington as a consultant and recently focussed often national security, including ways to combat cyberattacks via the internet. on wednesday, december 29th, wheeler arrived to wilmington, delaware, from washington to head to his home in new castle about 20 miles away. it

mr. speaker john boehner. >> maybe he wanted a big gamble to show how hard he intends to hammer president obama's program. >> we cannot kick the can down the road. the people voted and we began to carry out their instructions. >> those instructions they believe include repealing president obama's major achievement, health care. that could be blocked by the senate. introducing spending cuts and holding hearings into the conduct of what they branded the corrupt administration. >> qehud tea party demonstrators are as -- pew tea party demonstrators are as flamboyant as this. -- few tea party demonstrators our as flamboyant as this. >> the new members want to change america's direction. >> my mission is to ensure that congress lives like every family in america. on a budget. >> the change at the white house. spokesman roy gibbs is leaving and that many will follow. there will be pious talk about working for the sake of the american people. the republicans and president obama are poles apart. the stage is set for a battle royal and the blame game that will prepare for the presidential election

[laughter] mr. john kerry and mrs. theresa heinz-carry. -- mrs.heresa heinz- lerry. >> individual members of congress have come down to rhetoric. we have come to a final compromise. the cannot expect to do the nation's business. people need to look at a way of getting things done. in a way -- >> thanks. anyway -- >> thanks. >> ms. barbara streisand and mr. dreams borland -- mr. james rolin. >> now, here is a look at president obama, first lady michelle obama and chinese president hu jintao as the dinner begins. we will follow this. evening, everybody. please have a seat. >> on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. thank you for joining us as we we payesident whhu and tribute to the bond between two great nations and it two it brought people. [speaking chinese] >> there are too many distinguished guests to mention all of you tonight, but i do want to acknowledge a few who have championed relations between our nations. first of all, president jimmy carter and his wonderful wife rosalynn carter are here. [applause] as well as pre

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that was followed up with the hiring of mr. johnbrummet as my principle auditor -- >> and when did that hiring occursome. >> that hiring actually occurred the first week of january of 2009. that is when mr. brummet actually reported aboard. but we commenced the process of bringing him aboard, of course, much earlier than that. >> and you had been at the agency how long when he actually joined the agency? >> i had been at the agency -- >> since july of 2008, correct? >> that is when i was sworn in, yes, ma'am. >> okay. now, in the audit plan that the law requires, i'm sure that -- i hope the first thing that you did was to look at public law 110.181 and look at the statutory requirements of your job. that plan that was required lays out that it must be consistent with the requirements of subsection h. which are the audit requirements that the congress placed on sigar. are you familiar with the audit requirements in subsection h, general? >> in general, yes, i am. >> could you, could you tell us what those requirements are? >> that we

if we have a situation, if it is being read militarize as mr. john selected, of more dangerous situation. civilian leaders have ultimate control and this kind of behavior, they need to calm down. >> thank you so much. the gentle lady leads back and we recognize the ranking member designates on released and south asia. >> the chinese have always been bad actors. the national focus of being exclusively the world number one recluse until richard nixon came along and decided to have an intervention and decided it was better policy to try to engage the chinese rather than continue with china bashing which to some seemed counterproductive to reaching the particular policy and behavior change. now we have noticed a small club of recluse nation's. the chinese and north koreans have found each other and have formed recluse anonymous with china being a recovering recluse, trying sometimes very unsuccessfully to affect the behavior of the north koreans. both seem to be engaging in a very provocative activities on and off especially of lake. can the chinese affe

all right john mr joseph dana bash joining us live from jerusalem thank you. thank you now back to our breaking news this hour here on r.t. there's been a blast at moscow's don't know yet over airport in the international arrivals hall there are reports of at least two people having died and at least twenty others have been injured the main airport building is being evacuated we'll bring you the latest developments on this story as soon as we get it this is breaking news right here on r.t. . the man accused of shooting u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords in the head will be in court for a preliminary hearing on monday jared lee went on a shooting spree at a public event on the eighth of january in arizona six people were killed and thirteen others wounded this a high profile case is just one of a string of violent incidents involving guns in the u.s. on sunday two people were killed and two policemen injured after a man began shooting at them outside a department store in the state of washington that same day a gunman went into a police station in detroit an

mr. chairman. johnmend, the offshore policies is based on some similar assumptions as i understand it. one was the blowout preventer's actually work. that was an assumption. the assumption was the industry have the ability to contain spills. the assumptions were that spills offshore won't ever hit onshore. there was an assumption based at our rate operated as safe as possible. and as they read through your report, that brought into question those assumptions. and so as a result and just for both of you gentlemen, don't we have two be right our offshore policy based on the fact that we don't have assumptions we can make right now? senator? >> well, i think some of the assumptions are that drilling in the offshore is going to be a continuing and increasing part of america's energy supply. number two, that its acceptability to the american people will be closely aligned with the safety. you may recall that when three-mile island blue almost 25% of america's electricity was coming from nuclear power and the

again, i say to my republican colleagues, i congratulate mr. john boehner on his victory, mr. eric cantor on his taking a title that i would really like to have -- you can keep calling me that if you want. i will not object. elections have consequences. the fact that the matter is, the american public wants to see progress, not division. they want to see jobs, not just political rhetoric. they are not interested in just hearing about us reading the constitution as will be done on thursday. they are hopeful that we will accomplish what the constitution envisioned, and that was the betterment of the general welfare of all americans. so i congratulate the speaker on the apartment of debbie and henry as a vice chairs of our policy committee and joining in george miller and rosa who cochairs the policy committee. thank you very much. >> and thank you very much, mr. leader. i congratulate them for their new responsibilities and thank them for their leadership. we all look forward to working with them. how proud we are of their leadership, debbie and henry. with that, we would be ple

mr. potato head. john came to me down at my house, said, listen, don, you're going to be this mr.t do cartoons, leave me alone. now 16 years later, i got a house, hunting doings, the whole [ bleep ] thing. he always says, you know, you should see it, it's for grownups, too. but when i first started, i was the kind of guy, i just wanted the check. he said, listen, don -- the band can't see me. >> jimmy: i'm sorry. [ applause ] >> so i said -- >> jimmy: now you lack like you're on the toilet. >> jimmy: i don't know what to do. >> anybody got a magazine? the son don't want to laugh until the old man okays it. god bless you. i spoke to border bah troll, you're going back. hey, there's no voting. you got in here free. there's no voting. gee. anyway -- >> jimmy: the guy who wrote -- >> yeah, to do the thing, you just say, you sit in a booth, there's nobody there, with a microphone. he says, don, you have to understand, when the duck gets sick, mr. potato head, you have to feel sorry for the monkey and the elephant is tired and the bird -- i said, it's 6:30, i want to go home. i don't gi

and i know john is here with his family. his father. mr. osaki and his daughter, san and wife, julie, let's give it up to john osaki. [applause]. >> before i say anything. can we real quick give it up for john adachi. you know. i really want to think jeff for his leadership. his willingness. you have extended your office and given us this opportunity to create positive change in your schools, in our streets and i really want to thank you for that. i want to just make a couple quick announcements. to my colleagues. i am show proud what we have accomplished. we have given a voice to many who have suffered in silence. i want to acknowledge 2 individuals who have carried out our mission. you met angela chan from the asian law office. can you give it up for them. i also want to say to be members of the safety america partnership. our efforts have been over lookd and unappreciated, but i know what tremendous contributions we have made to the quality of life in our neighborhoods. i am looking forward to continuing that in the future. it feels acwar

mr. obama's 2008 foe john mccain lauded the president as a patriot writing we should mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. already there is a small step toward that unity. >> so tonight i'm proposing specific steps -- >> reporter: as the president prepares to deliver his state of union next week, many members of both parties say they will cross the aisle that runs down the middle of the chamber and listen to the speech alongside their political opponents. >> that's symbolic, but maybe it sets a tone and everything gets a little biltmot more civil. >> reporter: there's a fuel schedule of events at the white house this week. on wednesday he hosted his hosts his chinese counterpart for an ofisht state visit. lester. >> thank you. >>> from overseas a story of nuclear politics and intrigue tonight involving iran and allegations that the united states was involved in a sophisticated attack on iran's nuclear program. it comes as iran tries to gain an edge before sbernlinternatio talks on its nuclear program later this week. john yang has the latest.

that was followed up with the hiring of mr. john as my principle auditor. >> when did that higher occur? >> that hiring actually occurred the first week of january of 2009. that is one mr. brummett actually reported aboard that we commence the process of bringing him aboard of course much earlier than that. >> you at been at the agency how long when he actually joined the agency? >> i have been at the agency. >> since july 2008, correct? >> that is when i was sworn in, yes maam. >> in the audit plan the law requires and i am sure, i hope, the first thing you did was to look at public law 110, 181, 122 statute 235 and look at the statutory requirements of your job. that plan that was required lays out that it must be consistent with the requirements of subsection h which are the audit requirements that the congress placed on sigar. are you familiar with the audit requirements and subsection h. general? >> in general, yes i am. >> could you tell us what those requirements are? >> that we would conduct thorough audits of the spending a

mr. speaker, my good friend, john arresperez. we do go back 20 years. susan did say just that, that there was no way that you would come down here. thank you for being here in these times. i do go back to our days at cal. in the late 1980's and early 1990's, we were also facing budget cuts. this threat of contract that the people have given to families and students, that you were going to get a high quality of moral education starting in kindergarten, all the way through college, if you could stay the course. we saought start to the road bak then. that is something that we continue to fight for. i want to thank you for your leadership. i cannot imagine someone who is more capable, strong, a willing leader at this time in the budget. so thank you, john, for your leadership. if you ride muni, if you send your children to public schools, if you use public parks or any of our libraries, you have felt the impact of the office of the assessor-recorder. someone told me yesterday that it is the office that most people have ever heard of. there is some truth to

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mr. vice president, members of congress, distinguished guests and fellow americans. tonight i want to begin by con gaj lating the men and women of the 112th congress as well as your new speaker john boehner. (applause) >> thank you, mr. president. thank you. (applause). >> and as we mark this occasion, we're also mindful of the empty chair in this chamber and we pray for the health of our colleague and our friend gabby giffords. (applause) it's no secret that those of us here tonight have had our differences over the last two years. the debates have been contentious. we have fought fiercely for our beliefs. and that's a good thing. that's what a robust democracy demands. that's what helps set us apart as a nation. but there's a reason the tragedy in tucson gave us pause. amid all the noise and passion and rancor of our public debate, tucson reminded us that no matter who we are or where we come from, each of us is a part of something greater. something more consequential than party or political preference. we are part of the american family. we believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found we are still bound together as one people. and we sha