and mrs. lee. mr. alysis patient and he's probably in his 80's and every time we would drive up to buchanan street, the hospital, mr. lee would say, "good job, fine driver number one driver" and he would go like this [thumbs up gesture]. and then as brian would be helping him off the van, mr. lee, i heard him so often say "brian, if anybody gives you any trouble you send them to me and i'll take care of them." and here great big old brian would say, "henry, you're the first one i would try to get help from." and he says, "the second one is elsa." [laugh] so we knew that we were being relied on by brian. a few weeks back, mrs. lee called brian early in the morning to tell him not to bother picking them up because they were already at the hospital. mr. lee was ill and she had taken him to the er. the next day or so, brian, on his lunchtime, found out that mr. lee had been admitted to the hospital and he went up to mr. lee's room and just stuck his head in just to say hello. and the minute mr. lee saw him

murase. >> 6 i's. >> (clapping). >> mr. leeit you want to come up and say a few words. >> i'll try to limit this to a minute. >> i guess david just left and there should have been an abbreviation to what he stated earlier i'm honored and embraced what i've been doing in 21 years and worked in atlanta, georgia it is part of my job i really, really appreciate you superintendent carranza and may want present and deputy superintendent gerrero my great staff put a lot of work into making this possible they surprised me during my retirement dinner i had no clue that was happening you you know a lot of secret meetings going on in the conference room i was very, very surprised and danielle and others are a great teacher the pe department the head of the social committee spearheaded this my sister jeanette that was a school teacher retired as lowell high school as the principle and all of us don't a great job i grew up in the chinatown north beach i worked with kids from all over the city francisco served kids in 25 zip codes whether ch

mr. lee's report is excellent in what we brought out but it doesn't range a reflection and special relationship your staff and the developers staff have with certain general contractors. it is not reflected in these reports and how certain contractors have been black listed and discriminated against because we come down here and give you testimony as to really what is taking place. it is not reflected in the reports what all the statistics and numbers. [inaudible] what is the reflection. even some of the people they describe as small business or contractors who graduated from the status of being small contractors because they overstepped the financial boundaries which makes thome a small contractor, but between the developers staff and your staff they are allowed to have a relationship with the contractor where they give them a past overlooking the smaller contractor who is trying to [inaudible] they may be able to go past the thresh hold and become a larger contractor too so it doesn't show al

>> mr. lee. >> sooner rather than later. >> you may want to consider what the city has >> i don't want to wait a year. i may be off the commission. i agree, there may be a timeframe for us to come back -for you to come back and for us to consider the amendment. >> i can at least give you a status within a month if we don't have firm recommended language, but- >> can we push that a little bit and come back in a month with firm language? that is what i would like because we can-- >> with draft language for your consideration and if possible [inaudible] >> the city has a good template i think. any other--i had one also additional point on page 2 of footnote 2 there is a reference that according to the sbeau policy first consideration is given to project area sbe, san francisco based sbe but based on the report we see is & the testimonyed we received, i think there is potentially a practice, i'm not clear on this yet, a practice that when local firms either are not competing or are competing are dee

mr. lee's report is excellent in what we brought out but it doesn't range a reflection and special relationship your staff and the developers staff have with certain general contractors. it is not reflected in these reports and how certain contractors have been black listed and discriminated against because we come down here and give you testimony as to really what is taking place. it is not reflected in the reports what all the statistics and numbers. [inaudible] what is the reflection. even some of the people they describe as small business or contractors who graduated from the status of being small contractors because they overstepped the financial boundaries which makes thome a small contractor, but between the developers staff and your staff they are allowed to have a relationship with the contractor where they give them a past overlooking the smaller contractor who is trying to [inaudible] they may be able to go past the thresh hold and become a larger contractor too so it doesn't show al

mr. lee's report is excellent in what we brought out but it doesn't range a reflection and special relationship your staff and the developers staff have with certain general contractors. it is not reflected in these reports and how certain contractors have been black listed and discriminated against because we come down here and give you testimony as to really what is taking place. it is not reflected in the reports what all the statistics and numbers. [inaudible] what is the reflection. even some of the people they describe as small business or contractors who graduated from the status of being small contractors because they overstepped the financial boundaries which makes thome a small contractor, but between the developers staff and your staff they are allowed to have a relationship with the contractor where they give them a past overlooking the smaller contractor who is trying to [inaudible] they may be able to go past the thresh hold and become a larger contractor too so it doesn't show al

. >> following mr. lee is janet and sandy good evening, commissioners i don't have my notes with me i'll speak out but you know hello and you know i'm here today to support momma's restaurant i am a resident of san francisco for the last 65 years and i spent 28 years of my life a block away from the location where momma's is hopefully going to be occupied and great for the neighborhood i'm also still a property owner down in that district i think this is good for everybody good for the tax basis and the people that are visitors coming to san francisco to come and visit momma's they are one of the highlights of the whole city i hope you all approve that thank you very much. >> thank you for coming out next. >> who explicit love momma, huh? >> greetings. i'm janet although i can't i've been living in san francisco for 50 years i've been here a decade and pga by the neighborhood in north beach i thought that was sad to see a building go entry and find a business that is san francisco born and family run that i

i believe mrs. lee suzooky is a qualified person because of speernss but because of the language we have built fl to the ordinance making sure no one that is part of a staff receiving funds from dcyf can serve on the committee. we want to make sure that language is retained and that is a a legal requirement so we would have to submit to take her name off. i would like to send this one seat, move the rest of the motion forward but this one seat back to the committee where it will be heard with the seats that the mayor is going to be proposing and then we can look at along with the names and people that the mayor presented we can consider someone for this remaining seat from the board of supervisors that can assure we get to kind of diversity and representation we want on the committee. ilegal we we'll have someone that is a native cantonese speaker who is chinese. we also need representation from someone who is spanish speaking as well. that is my motion to change the language on the motion and send this

mr. lee: mr. resident, i ask unanimous consent to call up and make pending the lee amendment number 2162. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from utah, mr. lee proposes an amendment numbered 2162 to amendment number 2089. on page -- mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to suspend additional reading of the amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent that senator paul be added as a cosponsor to my amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president parents and teachers all across america are frustrated by washington d.c.'s heavy-handed, overly prescriptive approach to public education policy. i've heard from countless moms and dads in utah who feel as though anonymous federal government officials officials living and working 2,000 miles away, have a greater say in the education of their children than they do. one of the most frustrating issues for parents is the amount of standardized tests t

with that mr. lee >> director [inaudible] commissioners. the intent this particular agenda item is to look at amending the small business enterprise policy for the agency. the last amendment was 2009 where we changed the size standards for suppliers but now we are talking about amending the policy not on a substantial basis but add clarifying language and make it administratively convenient in terms of size standards, convenient also for understanding by the contracting public. there is really 3 significant changes with 3 changes we are looking at. one is the fact that we want to modify the small business size standards as mentioned in my previous presentationism the city of san francisco has amended in the size standards, what is recommended is harmization. the second is look at clarifying language regarding joint ventures and association and mining administrative changes to the the policy itself. first the definition of small business. there is a size standard in place currently, those being professional personal services at 2 million sup

for office or like hillary clinton, okay, how it can be zero, people not die on the street -- >> mr. lee, this is about the short range transit plan. >> okay, thank you, this is about the transit safety you say you have to build a tower at market and van ness at the intersection, who die dpr the bicyclist and any accident puts their face so people look at every day, they will always care for, it's better than you do -- like make a change because you need a lot of tax money from us to make this happen. every day, you are talking about but you -- the traffic, all the cars on the street because -- i like muni, i take muni, muni system is so far, so good, but vision zero is impossible, anyhow people die, you have to educate more people, a lot especially asian old people, you have to find -- that's why i bring it before because i missed your public comment, so sorry about that i would like to bring my own view, but don't forget, bicyclists so easy to die. don't be coo coo even the faculty of the state, he was running with bicycle he got hurt, he can't do his job now he's an important people,

but also to the panel in general, which is, mr. lee, you mentioned at the beginning a little bit about specialty drugs and that's an issue i'm working on in the office. i know that california recently was trying to reform the policy regarding specialty drugs and especially with a new wave of cholesterol medicines that have the potential to impact millions of people, what ideas do you think could be implemented at the state and national level in order to regulate the cost of drugs and impact on the system. >> great question. i know in california they have benefit designs. we don't make many changes each year. for 2016 we made a couple of changes. one is we -- instead of having two silver plans, an hmo and ppo, merged that into one. we think that choice is great but too much choice is not healthy for consumers. but in terms of specialty drugs that are costing as much as $25,000 a month, what we're seeing asee is consumers -- preventing them from getting care. we established a cap on monthly out-of-pocket for any specialty drugs across al

>> guest: mom was unwell mr. lee began to decline after the book. alice's declared she was tired of the business connected with family life in harper lee's success and wanted her sister to shoulder some of the burden. >> host: mel's friends say it is ordinary and once you are inside the curtain, and in the inner room, it is very nice and pleasant, but outside of that, alabama it seemed was always striking me the afection reception for the book. it came out right in 1960 and alabama was not changed by it. selma is just up the road in montgomery. you go right by there when you fly in. all of the stuff after that the bombing of the birmingham church revered the lessons in the book but didn't learn from it. >> guest: realize "to killing a mockingbird" was not talked about until 1984. and asked why it wasn't taught early and they said it offended too many people. >> host: this is one of the reasons perhaps why they didn't care for the overall town. they have a play that is poplar of "to killing a mockingbird." >> guest: it is a license to be an amateur pr

pimm: that was charlie rose speaking to mr. lee mystics you can watch the entire interview tonight on bloomberg tv at 6:00 eastern and i :00 eastern. inrts agent may be for a rude awakening. sportjobz has signed up more than 500 athletes. profilescreate free listing their statistics are recruiters can find them in the hopes of finding their next target betty liu joins me now with details. how does this work? betty: jerry mcguire does not have to worry yet. pimm: that's just dating us all here. betty: when my favorite films, by the wicked this is genius -- one of my favorite films, by the way. this is genius in my humble opinion. what linkedin has done for the job market -- matching employees to jobs and being a place for recruiters in the business world is what they are trying to do with this company called sports jobs -- sportjobz. lebron jas is not going to be on this. he is not going to be on this kind of platform. this is really going to be for athletes that cannot get regular agents to pay attention to them. a regular agent wo

mr. alfred lee and others in the richmond district throughout the city the two children i mentioned the told her a two combrrldz hit in the outdoor richmond on fulsome we move to lower the speed limit i hope that our city like portland and seattle have safe routes to schools i'm hoping san francisco iowa's what put our money where our mouth is and making the streets safe is a responsibility as the mayor said for all of us but the walk sf and the pedestrian advocates have been working on this for many decades we have to listen the coalitions the traffic lights like the new ones planned for 22nd and geary and 26th and geary like the ones near the senior centers i hope to implement that around other vulnerable areas i as geary rapid transit moves forwarded how to implement the vision zero longer than geary boulevard i as a superintendant for the richmond i urge the mayor and director reiskin to move as quickly as possible to prevent the death in the corridors reducing the slightly and thirty mile-per-hour in many ways is not that much of a reduction but as asz our distributing that slowing down

mr. lee: mr. president i rise today to pay tribute to elder boyd kay packer, president of the quorum of the 12 pos he -- 12 apostles of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, who passed away on saturday at the age of 90. he was a man of principle and a man who knew the power of principles. he taught that taughting about principles and doctrine changes behavior far better than talking about behavior changes behavior. he claimed the principles that lead to faithful families, strong communities and ultimately better nations. trained as an educator, elder packer was truly a teacher. first, last and always. whether interacting with an individual speaking in front of thousands writing one of his many inciteful books -- my insightful books or simply spending time with one of his beloved children, he was forever teaching. and to be clear he wasn't preaching, he was teaching teaching principles that would instruct inspire and improve all who came within the sound of his distinct and powerful voic

my question for all the panelists, specifically mr. lee. >> you want to get closer to the microphone. >> my question is, regarding the waivers for 2017. what can we expect with those waivers? what changes are states likely to make? and then is there a difference or will there be a difference if it's a federal exchange versus state exchange? >> i would ask, whether it's peter or one of the other guest experts to say a couple of words about what the nature of these waivers -- for those of us who aren't necessarily students of section what was it? 3518b? >> so i'll briefly -- this is actually just in the beginnings of being explored by all the states soive -- every other week, i'm on calls with every state exchange executive director talking with the federal exchanges, as well. the range of the latitude that these waivers provide is pretty broad but it's not limitless. there's guard rails and states are looking at anything from narrow opportunities to do things like fixing the family glitch which is a provision that actually excludes subsidie

[inaudible] my question is for all the panelists but i want to hear from mr. lee for his state perspective -- >> they want to get closer to the microphone? >> my question is regarding the waivers for 2017. what can we expect with those waivers? what changes are states likely to make? and then is there a difference or will there be a difference if it's a federal exchange versus -- >> and i would ask whether peter or whatever other guest experts to just a couple of words about what the nature of these waivers, for those of us who were not necessary students of section -- what was it? 3518 -- >> i will briefly, this is actually just in the beginning of being in policy could ever become on calls talking with the federal exchange is. the range of the latitude of these waivers provide is pretty broad but it's not limitless. there's guard rails. states looking anything from their opportunity to do things like fixing the family glitch which is a provision that actually excludes subsidy some families where one of the spouses have simpler basic coverage, the rest of the to

mr. lee: mr. president, i have an amendment at the desk, number 2282 withdrawing funding for planned parenthood, and i ask for its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the amendment is not in order. mr. lee: i appeal the ruling of the chair. and call for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there is not. the question is on the appeal. the question is, shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the senate? all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the senate sustains the decision of the chair. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. isakson: while we have a pause in our business for a moment i rise to offer a brief but sincere eulogy. at this very moment in woodstock, georgia skip well

bentley, and wyoming governor, mr. lee. i would like to introduce ms. gander, who will provide a short report on federal and state activities under the natural resources committee. >> i would like to express a sincere thank you on behalf of nga to the natural resource committee governors for your tremendous work this year as we end up the policy year. each committee has executed an act of federal agenda and a detailed legislation summary of each of the committees work is in your binder will take a few minutes and highlight to which is in particular. for the natural resources committee we provide matching funds to the states to develop conservation products and outdoor recreational facilities and the fund's current authorization expires september 30 of this year. since last year, this committee and natural resources committee has been working with key congressional stakeholders and interested parties to help maintain the lw cf. if the program were two laps,-- to lapse, the state that assisted with report to the fund. interesting to note with some the las

jackson lee: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk, amendment number 199. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by ms. jackson lee of texas. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following. limitation on use of funds, section, none of the funds made available in this act may be used to limit outreach programs administered by the smithsonian institution. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 333, the gentlelady from texas and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. ms. jackson lee: mr. chairman, thank you. again, let me offer my appreciation to the gentlelady from minnesota, the gentleman from california and their staff who work with us. let me remind my colleagues that just a few days ago i offered this amendment dealing with museums and dealing with my concern for the funding in the smithsonian, to provide for the nation's museum. let me also say to my colleagues that i've offered this amendment in the past because i have a particular intere

>>james: if you are crazy about coffee you'll not one to mr. leee and dish. we will be right back >>vicki liviakis: crazy about coffee are you? the deadly addiction the filmmaker air speaks to those of us is the movie about it costs simply this is not just a flirtation and this is not just upon up this is a love affair in search of the alta makeup if you have a star mary it is considered down for months in a bag in a warehouse when it comes to a drip dry up and deny that the bruises, bar none very long. >>james: here is a look get the area that will be covered all the areas and a green that is the wife lying to cover a four block radius including papua farmers' market area they're anticipating one of the fastest public wireless networks in any part of the bank the city said is one of the many new projects and family and the to improve the downtown scene coming up will be looking forward to the of the on the forecast will be back with that in a moment here the with live look outside the embarcadero camera and san francisco were we're off to a revise

i have a question that specifically addressed, ma but also to the panel in general which is mr. lee, you mentioned at the beginning of a bit of a specialty drugs. that's an issue i have been working on in the office. i was wondering, under the california recently was trying to reform their policy regarding specialty drugs especially with the new wave of cholesterol medicines that have the potential to impact millions of people. what ideas do you think could be implemented at the state and national level in order to regulate the cost of these drugs and the impact on the health care system? >> great question. california's standard benefit design. we don't make many changes each year but for 22nd we made a our tears and across all the plans. these are standard eyes, they will be in place as of january 1, 16. this means the entire individual market in california will have caps on specialty drugs. we did this really concerned come one come we did want to have consumers caught in the middle but we are very concerned about the pricing of specialty drugs. we are very worried that some of th

. >> mr. lee zeldan of new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. kerry just now in response to the question with regards to a question you said this wasn't a treaty because it was difficult to pass. is that correct? >> no there are a lot of other reasons. we don't have diplomatic relations with iran. it's very complicated with six other countries. it's just very complicated process. so we thought that the easiest way to get something that had the leverage had the accountability could achieve our goal was through a political agreement. >> mr. secretary, if you would be able to submit for the record just a little more background as to why this is not treated as a treaty? i think it would be helpful for us. >> absolutely, sure. i'd be happy to do it. >> okay. and you said a little earlier the reason why iran came to the table is they wanted the relief from the sanctions. the iranian supreme leader said the islamic republic of iran will not give up support of its friends in the region, the oppressed people of palestinian, the syrian and iraqi governmen

jackson lee: mr. chairman i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8 printed in house report 114-193 offered by ms. jackson lee of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 350, the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas. ms. jackson lee: mr. chairman, thank you. again, let me add my appreciation to mr. upton, ms. degette, mr. pitts mr. pallone and mr. green and i ask a simple question -- when have we had historic opportunity on the floor of the house to have such a major investment, major investment in the lives and health of americans, quality investment involving a mandatory fund that will open america's labs and put more people in labs and be able to give people relief on some of the issues that we've heard discussed today? i thank mr. barton for raising the sadness that comes of parents who cannot find answers and many of them are my constituency who have childre

mr. lee: thank you. mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president, the work the senate is engaged in this week is long overdue. the last time the elementary and secondary education act was updated, which was 14 years ago congress gave the country no child left behind, a policy that by all accounts has been a failure. that's why in 2012 the obama administration began offering waivers to states allowing them to opt out of the coercive and ineffective requirements that no child left behind imposed on america's school districts and classrooms. but state officials and local school boards quickly learned that just as parents and teachers did these so-called waivers didn't solve the fundamental problem created by no child left behind. they further entrenched that problem. these weren't waivers in any meaningful sense because they came with a new set of strings attached that only reinforced washington d.c.'s authority to micromanage the policies and the curriculum of classrooms all around the country. they did not give state and local policy-maker

jackson lee: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, i rise with great excitement to congratulate the houston city council and our chief charles mccolan for naming our beacon of law enforcement building after edward alfred thomas, the longest serving and greatest patrol officer in the history of the houston police department so noted by fellow officers. edward alfred thomas was born in shreveport, louisiana, in 1920. he played football for southern university and as well he was drafted in world war ii where he saw action with the united states army at normandy, in northern africa and during the battle of the bulge. after the war with his honorable discharge edward thomas became one of the first african-american police officers in the city of houston. when he started he could not vote with our poll tax, where he worked for 63 years until his retirement on july 23 2011. he worked for m

lee. >> thank you mr. chairman -- >> we're going to take a quick break and be right back with more live coverage of the senate armed services committee on the iran nuclear deal. >>> this is al jazeera america, and these are live pictures from the senate armed services committee hearing, holding a hearing on think iran nuclear deal. right now senator ted lee of utah was just asking questions. but now we're back to general martin dempsey. coming up we're expecting to hear from republican presidential ken dates, lindsey graham and ted cruz. let's get back to the hearing. >> -- that iranian ballistic missiles were quote, indeed going to be part of something that would have to be addressed as part of the comprehensive agreement, close quote. secretary kerry at the time was secretary sherman referring to lifting the u.n. embargo on ballistic technology when she made the statement to the foreign relations committee, or did the united states intend to include restrictions on ballistic missiles. >> it does. it's un