mr. lawson what you like to say a few words? >> i would like to say a few words knowing we have limited time it's dog years those 6 years have been incredible and it's an interesting time in my career i want to thank e and commend the people in the room who are the people in the commission who took on this winding down agency that's not doing much is completely not true my family and people behind me helped me to have those years that's been critical to be able to do that specifically director boo he for acting as a mentor and it's an incredible once upon a time, opportunity one of the things when the agency start over at city hall and the - we were throwing out all the records from the 50s and 60s and 70s the work is awesome when you have an opportunity to look at the legions of the shipyard managers and the all the people who have worked here the work is awesome it's incredible the type of impact and only for the hoults of the people this is a major lifetime opportunity and very, very hard to leave i have to tell you but i app

mr. lawson co- murdering the interdevelopment for the hunters point shipyard and the candle stick point activity need of the hunters view area together referred to as the project. the project will transform more seven hundred land into 10 thousand housing units and up to 3 million acres of new parks to the southeast san francisco and as well as new bus rapidly and other activity to the city he was you instructional part of sf r a to the bayview hunters point plan and creating an urban framework that sets forth the site coverage and set backs and building modulation and open space and establishing overarching strategies for the open space types to insure quality to the development it is through a private-public project and the master cpl lp nope as lanar and is with the d da and lead the analysis including financial feasibility of the projects and geting for the affordable housing costs and, etc. against anticipated revenue from finished land sales to insure the benefits to the 76 he lead the implementation efforts for the analysis of the transportation improvements over the life of the project a

we expect roll call votes on the carnes nomination and voice votes on the lawson and reddick nominations. mr. president, it's such a shame that we have had to go through this stalling on michael anderson lawson to be ambassador of the council of international civil aviation. there has been a terrible tragedy take place in the world, that shooting down of the malaysian airliner with 298 innocent people, killing every one of them. that's his job. we tried to get it confirmed last week. no, they can't do that. they said no, we can't do that. we try to get him confirmed for months. they have held it up every step of the way. it's really untoward that this is happening. they are holding up these nominations out of spite, and it's too bad. it's a perfect example. mr. president, it's my understanding that s. 2631 is desk and due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. the clerk: s. 2631, a bill to prevent the expansion of the deferred action for childhood arrivals program unlawfully created by executive memorandum on august 15, 201

mr. president and today, i'm honoring an out going member of our city family wells lawson. come on up. colleagues, i know many of you know and have worked with wells over time. i'm sure you're aware of wells was with the redevelopment agency and ocii since 2007 as a senior now a senior project manager with the redevelopment of hunters point shipyard with the candle stick park you know how critical this is the largest project happening in san francisco 10 thousand 5 hundred housing unit a third below market rate and a 3rd of redevelopment space and 3 hundreds acres of new parks and 11 though permanent jobs and new academic activity and wells unfortunately is leaving and going down cigarette to the other part of the state has played a critical roll in keeping the project a mega project to keep it moving forward. he's played a key roll from the negotiations every step of the way. the approval process the community process working with the advisory committee and drafting the benefits plan resulting in $83 million in benefits for san francisco. he played a key really in the adaptation of th

mr. president, on monday, there will be votes on confirmation of carnes, lawson, and reddick. we expect roll call votes on the carnes nomination and voice votes on lawson and reddick. if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask it adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until monday at 2:00 p.m. the 11 circ. senators will be notified when an agreement is reached. mr. president? the distinguished president pro tempore of the senate who just opened the senhas bn just opened the senhas bn >> mr. president, the distinguished senator has been for many, many years the chair of operations subcommittee on appropriations. mr. president, i've wanted to know that while he is on the floor the past two weeks poker players from las vegas have -- poker players have flocked to los vegas because the world series of poker. i do not know how athletic it is, but it is on you as pian -- espn and draws a lot of attention. poker is important and popular. this tournament is the most prestigious, high-stakes tournament in the world. here