thank you. >> thank you. . >> mr. lee, you have three minutes of rebuttal. >> commissioners, i have personally made the point to contact the appellant and said if there's anything we can do to get it on a larger scale, he mentioned the good point, where's the funding coming from? i staid you can get the funding i'll work with you for the overall picture, not just piecemeal. his idea was to refurbish the entire facade of the building and again of course again, i spoke to him tonight. we worked again on it we take care of the entire fa facade in the near future. in this project we must move forward because the funding is fairly limited and the space is fairly limited for our graduates. tomorrow we have a graduating class of 20 people in the culinary area. they all come to participate and this culinary graduation runs parallel with the cooking school. credibility -- we have a 20 week training program and it's for graduates and classes tomorrow so i'm looking forward to the future of ccsc and appreciate your time. >> mr. lee,

mr. lee: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendments. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate is in a quorum call. mr. lee: oh. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendments and call up my amendment number 71. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from utah mr. lee proposes an amendment numbered 771. mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to suspend further reading of the amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president on a different matter, i rise today to pay tribute to becky lockhart former speaker of the utah house of representatives who tragically passed away on january 17 after a brief battle with a rare and devastating disease. becky lockhart was the first woman to serve as speaker of the house in the state of utah and she did so in

. >> mr. lee, we can hear from the permit holder. >> currently we're using someone else's restaurant and it's all pro bono. by expanding to 735 we double the size of the training area. the areas of the door, we have no choice but to have accessible ada requirement and we're replacing one door. currently you have two doors of equal with. the new door we have one slightly larger wider than the other one, but in terms of the facade, the area looking from the front area is identical, the same color, exactly what's exposed today. the bottom line is that we do need the space here and the funding comes from the city, the federal and of course i have a do nation. we've been here for 32 years and currently we have graduated over 10,000 students. today we have students standing behind me and i believe one will be speaking, with your permission, before your board. at this moment i'm going to ask engineer to come up here and he can show you more details in the plan and permit and what the exterior facade. i'm

duffy and mr. lee. >> mr. lau you're nodding your head so you agree. >> i believe that the commissioners are in in agreement and the appropriate motion would be to grant the appeal and to condition -- it's actually a site permit -- to condition is site permit on the new drawings provided, dated -- >> today's date i think. >> december 17. and to allow the building department to review the foundation for code compliance upon completion of demolition . did i miss anything? >> and on the basis of the agreement -- that is on the agreement of the parties? >> that is unusual, but yes. >> okay. >> we have a motion to withhold this permit with adoption of revised plans. a further condition that the dbi review the subject foundation for code compliance upon completion of the demolition and this motion is on the basis of an agreement between the parties. on that motion to up hold with revised plans and further conditions, president lazarus. >> i. >> commissioner honda. >> i. >> commissioner wilson? >> i. >> thank you. th

mr. lee: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president i stand today to encourage my colleagues to support my amendment amendment number 71. this amendment would solve a problem that has severely hamstrung oil and gas development on federal lands a problem that's particularly severe in the western united states and that involves excessive delays in the issuing of permits by the united states bureau of land management. federal law requires the b.l.m. to approve or deny these permits within 30 days. they've got 30 days. they can go one way or the other. but according to a report issued last year by the inspector general within the u.s. department of interior, b.l.m. took an average of 228 days to approve each drilling permit in 2012. 228 days. that's 7 1/2 months. that's a lot longer than the 30 days contemplated under federal law. in mowab and in salt lake city, utah the average processing delay is around 220 days

next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon mr. lee. >> good afternoon mr. nolan we have a rain we're very happy not only sharing the ride we're going to share the wife and the husband sharing the children sharing the housing everything coming very soon we're going living in a high tech world so the clean energy everybody follow clean energy and they take away our business and enter the airport and everybody high tech everybody say it's good not in china very, very good related our taxi business that step by step now but finally i want to see like a lot of cities in the world like london and taiwan and hong kong and india and they don't have color scheme there taxi is taxi taxi should be servicing to the public from the taxi driver to the public that's what uber is doing only two years from technology i hope you'll provide this 6 hundred medallion owner we want to lower our expenses fee to driving our cabs and lower we pay too much fee a lot of drivers are single operator the airport is hooded up with the uber and they don't inspectors their car i don't know

no meeting with one or more retro atrocities and new 68 or 7 or 12 i know we've got new people and mr. lee right making this simpler this is a tedious process for the principle to so experience this is the only way i could do this is if i severed thank you all for hearing me out i thank you all for being a lot better about retro atrocities and going forward thank you. >> thank you very much let's see commissioner wynns severed one. >> thank you okay. so this is a $77,000 item collective invention we're going to pay them the money i'm skrndz about that more than that that is the organization we used for facilitating the vision but there's a difference between mr. haney and strategic implementation and i honestly would have liked some discussion someone talking to us before the strategic implementation what the plan would be and if this is the group that you think should facilitate this i have a lot of concern about somebody saying we're going to pay this group for two years in the current year i'm - i don't want to be unkind i have no basis on which to be convinced that is the right way. >>

i said, mr. lee, we have 200 million dollars invested in your company, and all you have is 21,000 shares. where do you invest your money? you have a better idea than we do. he was a friend of mine, sort of. [laughter] we served on the executive committee together. he said, you are embarrassing me saying that. and i said, why do you not own more? he said, i put it someplace else. that is what i said. you like another investment better than the one you are running. that has changed. that part has changed in. and people running these companies know you have to get results. you cannot sit around with a company evaluated at $100 a share and give yourself 30. because they're going to say when are you going to get us something closer to 100 than 30? this corporate america better off in 2014 at 10 it was in 1984? yes. is a perfect? no. the way they pick boards of directors is wrong. >> what is more important is life. which i want to ask you about. the atlantic ran a story last month by dr. ck manual saying t

where do you invest your money mr. lee? you have a better idea than we do. he was a friend of mine, sort of. well, we served on an api executive committee together. he called me and said you are embarrassing me saying that. hi said why don't you own more? he set i put it someplace else. i said, that is what i said. you like another investment better than the one you are running. that has changed. people running these companies know that you have to get results. you cannot sit around and run a company's violated at $100 per share and you sell it for 30. when are you going to get us something closer to $100 than $30? that is all good it is corporate america better off in 2014 than in 1984? yes, by far. is it perfect? no. still the way they pick the boards of directors is wrong. >> so corporate america is important, but what is more important is life, which i want to ask you about. "the atlantic" ran a big story that said people should hope to have a natural -- >> they should do what? [laughter] i thought i heard you right. are you telling me this is my final a

we've achieved the goals we hope our experience what about informative to them thank you thank you, mr. lee and members of the board. >> thank you director for being the first vocal champion it's apprehensive to be and thank you director reiskin we've had something done impressive and been a model for other agencies i know we have people complain about the inspectors and how we wait for the busses i appreciate them so much this is important it also makes the business feel safer and sometimes great so thank you. great presentation and congratulations for our work. >> i have a - >> director lee. >> question are reable to e equate. >> we've looked at our online performance there's been growth in the city it's hard to necessarily isolate all the factors into ailment performances last week the does the vehicle start do we have enough the time in our schedule we didn't want to make a leap in drawing conclusions with that aspect knowing about the factors. >> well, thank you thing i think that let a lot of us to support the requested it's one of a 3 legged stool, if you will to get on time frequent

haney and mr. lee. >> thank you for your presentation commissioner fewer and i were able to spend a few hours with ms. wong i wanted to let the following commissioners know we're blarng on bringing up this to the commission committee and also additional data we're hoping to see and chat about. >> couple of things to flag we are that interested in for the commissioners to know one is that i think commissioner fewer brought up some of the languages we have high numbers of els but don't have the language we were looking vietnamese and i think you flagged it in some of the data making sure we have an eye towards equality as it relates to race and who has assess i think with iowa do i am taking up a lot of space here and you know how we can intentional where we put our language programs how to increase the comboerlt for groups that don't have access and what we can do around that it relates when we look at the different factors that led to a languages pathway a program to be introduced some of the different

i have a question about think tank experts and mr. lee talked about supplying false information and false assessments. if you could offer a suggestion now that i'm a think tank and this provides to me too, if you could offer a suggestion to north korean experts in washington, d.c., perhaps if there's as you're reporting you hear everybody's assessment if there's gaps you noticed in their understanding, different experts see north korea with a different lens for whatever reason they do, is there something -- is there a lens or something about north korea understanding that you wished some american north korean experts new or had and perhaps make their assessment either more accurate or well-rounded for example or if there's a suggestion or certain area of north korea that you wish think tank experts in d.c. could work on or something that they are missing, something that if these people knew fact x about north korea i think their understanding of north korea might be better or more whole? >> all right, thanks. >> just on that point regardi

lee soon after he had returned from the war to the house where mrs. lee was living. d within a few days of lincoln's death. i thought a lot about why lee posed for the famous photographs. he apparently agreed almost the instant he returned to richmond. you can imagine how weary he must have felt in every single way, and his son wrote later there's nothing he liked so little as having his photograph made. but lincoln died the day that lee returned to richmond. and i suspect there was some sense that he had some sense of responsibility to present that calm visage at this dangerous time in the nation's history. i'm sure you're all familiar with these photographs. this particular one where the -- part of the door behind him makes him look like christ on the cross, had some resonance in the south for years afterwards. still as many as 10,000 civil war photographs are attributed to brady or his studio, how can that be? here's where things get a bit complicated. brady began his career early in the degara type air remarks opening a portrait studio on lower broadway in 1844 ju

mr. mayor lee and laura to come up here. laura has spent 25 years understanding the world fair, she started when she was ten and it's been a lifelong process. she would like to make a presentation and afterwards we will all exit and i give you a truly amazing scholar and phenomenal woman deeply dedicated and passionate advocate and this book that was brought into world is one of the shining stars to this centennial. >> thank you so much, cynthia. mayor lee, may i beg your presence on back of the historical society and myself i would like to present you with a copy of my book. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, i hope you enjoy it. thank you. >> all right. mayor lee, you have to come up one more time. this is an official badge. c'mon up. thank you for the honor of making me the liaison for the centennial. i'm thrilled. i would like to present you with this original badge from the 1915 exposition, the opening day. can i pin it on you? mayor edwin m. lee: sure. >> this is what would have been wo

leahy mr. lee... >> ...and that's about all. i just... i'm sorry that i have such a... >> mr. reed of rhode island, mr. reid of nevada... >> you know, i think my psyche was just kind of letting in little bits at a time, it was just all so... such a whirlwind of craziness for me. >> mr. schumer, mr. scott, mr. sessions, mrs. shaheen mr. shelby... >> narrator: also watching in the gallery, tucson survivor pat maisch. >> i went from being sad to being mad. they're all down there in their good ol' boy stance, shaking hands, chatting. >> mr. wyden... (gavel banging) >> on this vote the amendment is not agreed to. >> like people's lives aren't in the balance on this, and i just thought they needed to be shamed. they should be ashamed of themselves. i stood up and said, "shame on you." shame on you! >> there will be order in the senate. >> because they needed to be shamed. shame on them. shame on me if after what i've gotten to witness i choose to be quiet. >> i'm surprised that she was the only one, actually, that burst out... because it was so intense and so charged. >> the gallery

our pat collins will have more about the life of mr. lee coming up right here at 5:00. >>> a state senator from our area is making a push in richmond to decriminalize marijuana. adam ebbenen says his legislation is about responsible adults not being overpenalized. >> millions of americans use marijuana and we'll got to start having our laws reflect reality, prohibition on alcohol was not something that worked so reducing it to a civil penalty is a step in the right direction. >> the aclu, the naacp, and the national organization for the reform of marijuana laws joined eben in calling for decriminalization. >>> accused serial killer charles sevrens is headed to a hospital. kor kor was in the courtroom during today's herring. he made several outbursts telling the judge husband attorneys don't represent him. he's not cooperated with doctors in the passed. he's accused in murders of nancy dunning, ron kirby and ruth ann lodato over a ten-year period. >>> the ohio man accused in the capitol bomb plot just pleaded not guilty. christopher cornell

. >> reporter: now a short time after firefighters arrived on the scene, they found mr. lee unconscious inside. they pulled him out of the house. they tried to save him, but it was not to be. >> they removed the victim from the home. the medics were waiting for the victim. they immediately began treatment and then initiated transport to virginia hospital center. >> reporter: and after that? >> after that he was pronounced dead at virginia hospital center and the medical examiner determined that the cause of death was smoke inhalation. >> reporter: now, one of the things untouched by that fire a gigantic dallas cowboys flag outside near the front door. there's a story behind that flag and i'll have that story coming up for you at 6:00. live in arlington, pat collins, news4. >>> for the second time this week a fire at the capitol hillton on 16th street northwest. d.c. fire told news4 it happened in the duct work in the basement. nearly 12 hours later, crews are still on the scene as a fire watch staying in case it reignites. just two days ago the hotel was evacuated for a simi

mr. leeieves smart household appliances connected to the web, the so-called internet of things, is now the future for the company. >> well, a smart phone is a tool. it's a means to get there. i think we're hitting a very natural point where the early adopters and the early players are really making it available with different options to many fast followers. so i don't really see this as a setback. i see this as a natural settlement of the industry. so we're looking for the next big thing the next innovation which happens to be that we believe in internet of things. >> and do you believe then that if you succeed in this internet of things business, people will stop talking about whether you're losing out to i don't know, cheap chinese rivals and apple, in the smart phone area? >> well nothing stays forever. what we're striving to do is to really lead the market and push the envelope of innovation. we surely believe the internet of things is the next envelope for innovation and we're very confi

mr. mayor ed lee and ms. huggins, and stewards of this powerful place of fine arts and from at & t, our exhibition sponsor the hertz corporation, fred is here. centennial sponsors, wells fargo, ecology, town school and so many people have sponsored this organization. the may beck foundation, richard pet ler is here right over there in that lovely blue shirt and truly a genius and you will hear from dan shine, the ceo and curator of innovation and an additional sponsor is scott of sterling bank. there he is, thank you, sir. i also want to extend a very special welcome to the job corps, two incredible women of esteemed presses kristin shine and mary and all of you who braved the elements in joining us. we are bring together p pa 100.org. this went live a couple minutes ago look on your phones, as long as they are at & t phones. we are bringing businesses that will participate in the ppa 100 to participate in huge varieties of exhibitions, thrilling events, lectures, dances, the list goes on. these partners incl

. >> mr. lee? >> aye. >> mr. flake? >> aye. >> mr. gaines? >> aye. >> mr. cassidy? >> aye. >> mr. gardner? >> aye. >> mr. hovn? >> aye. >> mr. alexander. >> aye. >> aye by proxy. >> miss cameron? >> no. >> mr. wyden. >> no by proxy. >> mr. sanders. >> no. >> no, by proxy. >> mr. franken? >> no. >> mr. manchin? >> aye. >> mr. heinrich? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> ms. warren? >> no. >> on this vote, the ayes are 13. and the nos are nine. >> the -- >> and the bill is reported. >> the bill is reported. i thank members for that. i know that there are several of you who have not yet had an opportunity to speak and would like to welcome your comments at this point in time. and again, apologize that we don't have the full committee here to hear your comments but know that they are equally important and considered. >> madame chair, i just want to make the point, we will be filing minority reports to the bill. >> we intend to file minority views. >> minority -- >> we'll have three days with which to file them. >> i appreciate that. i think we left with, i believe it was senator heinrich,

mr. lee: madam president excessive litigation under the endangered species act has become an obstacle to the act itself and the good that it promises to do for the american people. according to the department of justice, more than 500 endangered species act related lawsuits were filed or opened against the federal government since 2009. as a result, federal agencies have to spend their time, their energy and taxpayer-funded resources fighting lawsuits instead of protecting endangered species. one of the primary reasons for this excessive litigation is the potential for massive awards of attorneys' fees under section 11-g-4 of the endangered species act. these awards can be granted regardless of whether the party seeking the attorneys' fees awards prevails, and there is no limit on the hourly fee that can be collected. these attorneys fees can reach upwards of $700 per hour, madam president. in one case involving a series of lawsuits related to the operation of hydroelectric power facilities i

. >> mr. lee? >> aye. >> mr. flake? >> aye. >> mr. gaines? >> aye. >> mr. cassidy? >> aye. >> mr.ardner? >> aye. >> mr. hovn? >> aye. >> mr. alexander. >> aye. >> aye by proxy. >> miss cameron? >> no. >> mr. wyden. >> no by proxy. >> mr. sanders. >> no. >> no, by proxy. >> mr. franken? >> no. >> mr. manchin? >> aye. >> mr. heinrich? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> ms. warren? >> no. >> on this vote, the ayes are 13. and the nos are nine. and the bill is reported. >> the bill is reported. i thank members for that. i know that there are several of you who have not yet had an opportunity to speak and would like to welcome your comments at this point in time. and again, apologize that we don't have the full committee here to hear your comments but know that they are equally important and considered. >> madame chair, i just want to make the point, we will be filing minority reports to the bill. we intend to file minority views. we'll have three days with which to file them. >> i appreciate that. i think we left with, i believe it was senator heinrich, who is up next. >> thank you, madame

mr. henderson. miss lee. >> this is assuming the tests are able to purport what they purport to measure and i want to argue that teachers assess every day in multiple ways and these standardized assessments that you speak of can only measure right or wrong type questions and kind of answers that we want our students to be able to solve are much more complex. so to be able to quantify it i think is difficult. another point is that in new york state at least these tests have changed from year to year. the cut scores have changed from year to year which makes them flawed and invalid. i wanted to put that out there. >> mr. lazar. >> senator collins agree what we need to be focused on is growth and not growth as where this kid is in relation to where fourth graders are supposed to be but the student is compared to where they were. the thing i want us to be careful about is that it's the learning driving the assessment instead of the accountability driving the assessment. i think we do need to assess regularly. li