travelsof work, mr. lee each week from new york city to san francisco to care for his father, an alzheimer's patient, and to highlight and raise awareness of the importance of family caregiving and health care education. caregivings an aarp champion in an alzheimer's association celebrity champion. richard also is a spokes person for u.n. women. and for the anti-human trafficking group not for sale and board advising for an ngo teaching survivors to become a software coders. a former businessman and he often -- as a thought leader in media, race, and storytelling. he is ranked in the top 1% of social media users and was named one of 21 dynamic careers to watch alongside jay-z and sheryl sandberg. without more, i will say we are grateful to mr. lee for moderatoring us today. [applause] much.nk you so i have to talk to my manager because he's lying a lot, at least in that bio. it really is fantastic to be here. i sat in the back and thought of the meaning of what this commission has had for me and for my grand

mr. billy lee who passed away on december 21 at the age of 85. e oldest irish public in savannah, they are iconic in savannah. hey have been voted the best karaoke. mr. lee never met a stranger and had an extremely schar memory. his kindness is remembered by all who frequented the establishment and allowed folks to use his business for charity buildingand opened his or hurricane evacuees. he said, this is what we do. we help people. and i hope people will continue to learn from the example for years to come. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. tenney: i rise teed to recognize the 100th anniversary of the first vote cast by a woman in the state of new york. 100 years ago today, the residents of lile, new york, held a special election to decide if liquor could be served. this is the first vote held in the state of new york

clinic of how can even even heard what mr lee has been saying particular voice in the concerns of the sea in opposition how can the brushes with pak is the whole initiative in sochi. to be able to be to bring it in a very appealing way to the syrian opposition but also to the international community are the russians willing to consider the fate of a shuttle i said well in the first place i want to say that russia didn't i mean the only book condition russia put for this congress is that all parties but it's a paid shouldn't have any preconditions. for the negotiations so secondly i think we should look at this initiative. in the same way as to not in the very beginning if you remember also the major and really big part of the opposition on the ground didn't want to participate in it but gradually they started to be told more and more and we all witnessed the results and effectiveness of us in the talks which resulted in making. six cease fires such. as you know and you know as we know that was largely due to the turkish intervention which spoke with the oppositional told them we would

mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy with senator flake, the senator from arizona. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president, if you have been following the circus in this town long enough, you probably remember earmarks, the infamous special interest spending provisions that party leaders used to sprinkle over unpopular legislation, sort of like heavily subsidized sugar. even if you aren't familiar with this concept, you may be familiar with specific wasteful earmarks like the infamous $223 billion bridge to nowhere in alaska or the $3.4 million turtle tunnel in florida, which was precise what i it sounds like -- a 13-foot-long underground tunnel intended not for people, not for automobiles, not for train traffic but just for turtles. or the so-called monuments to me -- buildings that politicians name after themselves. earmarks were everything americans couldn't stand about washington, d.c., they enabled corruption and they facilitated waste. they w

is true with regard to the loss of chinese assets and if the reporting is accurate with regard to mr. lee's role in that, and if that was intentional on his part, then this is the equivalent of ames and hanssen. >> reporter: lee was not charged with espionage but is accused of illegally having classified information. tonight we were unable to reach a lawyer for lee. jeff. >> glor: jeff pegues, thanks very much. on the senate floor today, arizona republican jeff flake condemned what he called president trump's shameful and repulsive attacks on some in the media. flake said when a figure in power calls news that doesn't suit him fake news someone else should be under suspicion. >> 2017 was a year which saw the truth objective, empirical, evidence-based truth, more battered and abused than at any time in the history of our country at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government. no politician will ever get also-- tell us what the truth is and what it is not. and anyone who presumes to try to attack or manipulate the press for his own purposes should be made to realize his mistake an

so we will always be very grateful to mr. lee for giving us direction and helping us move forward and i do endorse the idea of commemorating his memory with a feature on treasure island. we look forward to work the board to make something like that happen in the near future. thank you. >> thank you. hearing no other public comment, next item please. >> the clerk: item three, report by treasure island director. >> thank you, directors. the flea market will return after taking the month of december off. i'm happy to report after having given several updates, yesterday mercy got its finally permit approves and sign-off from the department of public health and they'll be training staff over the next couple of days with the intention to open next week. so that's the new container restaurant on the island. also the market in front of building one has closed. we're in the process of relocating it to its new space in the building of building one. as the geo technical work starts up they'll be demolishing the market location in front of b

>> in these mountains but on the other side of the conflict there were people like mr. lee80s who fought. during the secret war, he fought other monks. >> oh, fantastic. >> wow. >> this is chicken. and this is chicken also bu but -- every mung family knows this. >> beautiful. >> he was here when the french were here, yes? >> how is he injured? >> in the end when the last chopper hurriedly left vietnam, laos and many laos were left behind, too. what had been a kingdom is a communist regime. yes, the bad guys won. >> a few unwilling to serve camps are worst never surrendered and all these years later, they were hiding in hills like this. mun mung were killing mung. literally for several years. if the same people he tried to kill came back now, how would he feel about that? evacuations are underway as a meteor heads toward the metro area. go, go, go, go, go! we can fit more! there's still more room! we gotta go. juicer! we don't have a juicer! the volkswagen tiguan. it fits everything you need, and everything you don't. stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make

ok let's just get an update now on that story from mr lee today that train crash where a commuter train has derailed near the city of my land during rush hour it's been reported that at least five people have been killed while several others to remain in a critical condition more than one hundred people suffered minor injuries in this crash some passengers are still reportedly trapped in that wreckage as the emergency services continue to work at the scene the accident happened some forty kilometers from the land at around seven am local time of course we'll keep you updated. before we go we can show you live pictures now to see you coming from the swiss luxury resort of divorce right now the u.s. president is arriving there for the globalist economic forum i believe that would be his helicopter many are surprised he is attending the event where trump will promote his famous mantra america first and of course that goes against what many other people think this forum because they are obviously pushing for pro globalization so we will be interesting to see what he said a bit later on is t

your predecessor, mr. lee, no relation to mayor lee, was considered one of the foremost housing directors in the state of california and mayor lee was the first mayor out of the gate in the state of california and set up the successful agency and began rolling up his sleeves to stabilize housing and create bond measures and the rest is history. you're welcome here and we want to establish the relationship. at the end of the day, treasure island, we'll be working with you and fulfilling obligations. your predecessor worked on many sites. and some projects today are a great testament. when you look at san francisco budget and we're only spending $220 and thanks to mayor lee with the special bond measure it's a disgrace about the measures. i foresee the situation will improve and again citing mayor lee's legacy he was instrumental because again, san francisco is leading the state and because of the efforts now we have leaders in san francisco to push that. one of the things we know the state needs to advocate por

jackson lee: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, i rise in support of s. 534, the protecting young victims from sexual abuse act, but i thank my colleagues here in the house, congresswoman brooks and congresswoman frankel of florida. in michigan there was a volcanic action. one might call it the nassar volcano. it acted and there was no reaction. it was deadening silence. volcano sponded to the that kept pouring poisonous lava in the way of young, beautiful athletes. i would hope and wish i was not on the floor today with my colleague from texas having to life-changing experience for these young athletes who wanted to do nothing else but to make their families proud, first, maybe to ed and be able to adhere their faith, their determination, and resolve and make their nation, their state, their school proud of them. young girls, women who are heretofore, mr. speaker, had been held back, mr. speaker, or told th

mr. lee. i'm an immigrant myself. when you raise your right hand and take the oath. it's such an unbelievably powerful experience that so many people who have been here for decade just want to be able to do that. when i woke up this morning, on the front page of my local paper the free press, was the story of a 39 year-old man who this morning on martin luther king day who has been here for 30 years was at the airport being ripped from his family after he had never been convicted not even a ticket. had paid his taxes with the landscaper in lincoln park. there he was with his wife wailing. being ripped from his family. really really is that what makes america great? is that what we're so afraid of. somebody who has been a la law-abidi law-abiding citizen who wants to be with his 12 year-old son and 15 year-old daughter. he's an example of one of the 7 or 800,000 people who will be affected by this. if there's not a deal. 50,000 people have lost their status in september. >> i'm glad you told that story. i need to bring ron in. you heard what the governor said. the pre

following mrs. lee will be ami hahn, local 21. followed by sara greenwald. >> i will make it brief. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. i encourage you to speak and to act accordingly because water is life and to divest. and i'm hoping that other speakers that are here today can decline to speak because we need to have the vote to have happen. i'm making it brief. please vote yes. thank you. >> thank you. up next, we have mihan from local 21, followed by sara greenwald. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm staff at local 21. i have a letter that our retirement committee has drafted that i wanted to read to you guys. >> do you have a copy for us? >> i do. i only have two copies. >> we want to be sure that the board has one so it reflects in the record. >> local 21 represents a great many active employees and retirees of the city and county of san francisco that have a sincere interest in the responsible management of the pension fund. local 21 pension advisory committee is made up of active city employees and staff that are tasked wit

mr. mayor. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor ronen and then supervisor lee. >> councillor ronen: i also wanted to share my deepest condolences to his family and say my work with the mayor was one of most surprising things that happened to me since i became supervisor. we all know how entrenched we become on our political sides of the aisle and when i was running for supervisor i was very negative about the mayor and his leadership. so to his credit, the minute i became supervisor and came to him and said, i want to work with you really closely hand in hand on homelessness in my district, which is such a crisis, he never held my words against me. he never hesitated. he said, yes, let's do this. let's work together. and kept his word every single step of the way. when carolyn, my chief of staff and i, would meet with him each month, we had such good meetings with him and every single time i would walk out of his office saying, how crazy is it that by one of my closest allies in city hall is the mayor of san francisco. and that we agree on how to address this i

mr. lee, no. mr. jones, aye. mr. tesser, no. mr. gill grabrand, no. >> we heard that senator lindsey graham did vote no. at least one republican vote no. we also just heard senator jon tester vote no. a democrat of montana who was one of the senators the republicans thought they were going to be able to get. this vote is clearly going against the republicans. >> to hear lindsey graham voting no as we just did, jon tester voting no immediately after that call of the roll, at this point it doesn't look like there's a possibility for the republicans in this vote. >> no. i think thenlyhance mitch mcconnell has is slim to none and slim left town. you heard bob casey vote no. i only heard four democrats voting yes and with most of the democratic votes in. i think that basically it's clear this is going down to defeat. looks like there's going to be a shutdown. i agree with adam, there's no sign there's some last minute save coming here and the republicans have managed to shut the government down even though they control all three branchs

mr. ed lee. i've been knowing mr. ed lee longer than anybody that's been talking about him. i knew him years before he got into politics. i knew him when he was -- came -- jesse jackson flew into town. he and maple tang was with the rainbow coalition. at that time i was the executive director of the way pac area project committee, which is the most powerful black organization in the united states. it was the first p.a.c. that fought against the urban renewal and justice herman. and ironically i'm reading in the paper today, there is some real estate guy and talk about having fake news, al term tiff news, talk about a real estate guy that wants to try to rename justin herman after ed lee. now i respect ed lee. but o to the hell to the no because the stories haven't come out about ed lee yet. not one black official except for london b who i call queen b and willie brown had anything to say good or bad about ed lee. but i am giving respect until they bury the man because i know his kids to talk about the real ed lee that knows me, a.c.e. i'm here basically to this agency, i ver

. >> just one clarification for mr. lee. yes. slide 22. i know this, but i just want to make sure i get this. so, on the bullet, for small business enterprises, 74% for professional services is 10 million. that's 10 million in fees, right? >> that is correct, yes. >> just making sure the math -- ok. >> and i have one clarification. of brie. 47 staff and three contracted. what are -- can you expand on that? >> sure. so, if you go back in the way back time machine and remember dissolution and at one point the city, we thought we were going to be a city department, and then we were not a city department, and so three former o.c.i.i. employees joined the department of administrative services staff and, but they continued to perform their same duties and do the same work that they did prior to dissolution at o.c.i.i. so they are city employees but perform 100% of their scope of work out of o.c.i.i. >> so we pay for their -- >> a.d.m. sends us a quarterly bill for the cost of their salaries and benefits, which we then reimburse the city. >> and

to lure him back and his family, and they interviewed him five times but they never disclosed to mr. lee that in fact they a, he had these books filled with information or they suspected he was a chinese spy. and they made a calculated, it was a calculated gamble. they let him go. obviously hoping to get more information about what he knew or his interaks with other people. and they also were concerned that if they confronted lee and not been able to charge him, if they had confronted him and had charged hims chinese would have been tipped off that the fbi knew that they were losing their assets. so you know this was a really life-and-death time for the fbi and cia and what to do with lee. >> and whether or not or not lee is responsible or even if there was a mole, what is the impact of the loss of those u.s. assets is of those sources of information inside china on the united states intelligence gathering and in china. >> before we started losing theetion informants we had extraordinary advice ability into chinese operations, government operations, whether intel, military, and after the

and we have with us a social democrat politician and a member of the european parliament mr lee thank you for joining us with us with us in studio this morning let's talk about these coalition talks exploratory talks your party at the social democrats yesterday are now talking with a political opponent chancellor merkel's conservatives about forming another coalition government together there were some positive tones that came out of these exploratory talks yesterday what is your take. my take is that as the situation in iraq. through the other previous talks mrs merkel had with all the parties and it didn't work out to build a grand coalition that we now have to talk and. just myself that the party made clear that three options on the table we have for. a grand coalition of minority government india have new elections and so these three options need to be now decided on the topics which are being now discussed as you mentioned for this week and so let's see how big the moves of the other parties are if a very tight situation is for exam of the varian more conservative party is going

mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call and complete my remarks notwithstanding the previous order. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: madam president, our founding fathers knew and understood well what it was like to live in a dangerous world. when -- dangerous world. when america was founded, we were threatened by foreign adversaries. the military might of the united states was feeble compared to the great powers of that day. and yet the founders insisted on a constitution that would protect the civil liberties of the american people. they knew that it was possible to defend the homeland and americans' rights at the same time. it still is. the war of independence was fought in part because king george iii abused general warrants that let his officers snoop through the papers and property of law-abiding subjects. the abuse of general warrants and abuse of things like writs of assistance prompted the american people into action. that was part of what ushere

i'd like to ask about national security as it relates to the arrest recently of the ex-cia agent, mr. lee. can you talk about the significance of that arrest and why action was not taken against him sooner. >> so i will say that that's a very important arrest, as demonstrated in the complaint that was unsealed related to that case. that former cia officer retained classified information. as that case proceeds through the courts, i would expect that more information about the conduct that underlies those charges in the complaint will come out. but as of now, i'm just -- that case was investigated before i came to the national security division. it's an important case. it goes to illegal retention of classified information. so he's going to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. >> yesterday when the report was released, the white house put out a fact sheet that said it found that approximately three out of four individuals convicted of international terrorism related charges in the time period studied are foreign born individuals who entered the united states through our immigration

mr. lee: mr.president, today hundredsf thousands of americans from all walksf life will participa in the 45th annual march for life. this begs the question, why do all these citizens march year after year? it certainly isn't for their health or the media coverage. no. these americans march on behalf of those who cannot. they march for uniquely vulnerable members of the human family. they march for the unborn. for those threatened by abortion and for the countless millions of innocent lives already lost. these americans march to protest the legal regime that sustains abortion. the cornerstone of that crumbling edifice is roe v. wade, the 1973 supreme court case that invented a right to abortion in the constitution. and in so doing, stripped the unborn of their right to life. the principal effect of roe v. wade on our culture has been to cheapen the value of humanity itself. roe has insinuated into the law a poisonous notion, a notion that some human beings may be treated as things, as objects to be

delegation took exception to that and basically drew a bit of a redline, north korean delegation, mr. leea strong complaint that south korea even dare to bring up this missile and nuclear program so relations,e start of just the first day of discussions and at the end of the day, the discussions went late into the night towards midnight and if not beyond that. not helpe could himself, he made the statement saying all of north korea positive high and strategic reckons -- weapons are targeted at the united states. he doesn't like a north koreans will back down from their programs. it looks like they went back to being quite frosty at the end there. steve: that we wait and see of the stock is going to last into thaw will last into the spring. will these discussions on the limits escalate or broaden to them as a programs and other issue between the two koreas? we are standing here at the blue house complex, the government center of south koreaf because later this morning at 10:00 local, we will hear from president moon jae-in who will give his new year's speech and keep in mind, since he took

mr. -- ms. jackson lee: for the mighty leadership he's given and i accept his challenge and i accept the challenge of my chairman, cedric richmond who told a story that hopefully will be an inspiration and a guide for all of those who believe that they are not yet mature enough to serve, to give, to offer to the beloved community that dr. king so aptly speaks of . what can i say about john lewis, whose moral guidance, whose bloody brow, was never bowed? i thank you, congressman lewis, for the straight talk, but the loving talk. to my colleagues that are here, i know that each will have a moment to allow me to take just a moment to be able to offer my tribute in commemoration of dr. king's life. what a powerful year we face in 2018. and i'm so grateful to have left 2017. and i believe that this gives a fresh look to america. i looked at the movie "titans," and maybe you saw that, with denzel washington, and it reflected a racial conflict with football players just outside of washington and virginia. it's a m

mr. estes, and the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, each will control 20 minutes. e chair recognize this is gentleman from kansas. mr. estes: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include any ex-trainus material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. estes: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. estes: i'd like to thank chairman katko for his leadership on this important piece of legislation. it's essential we continue to improve i have auation security in order to stay ahead of the evolving threat posed by islamic terrorists. terrorists around the world remain intent on attacking aircraft. that's why over the past year the department of homeland security and the transportation security administration have worked to raise the global level of aviation security. one area of potential improvement is through working to increase security overseas last point of departure airports. in octob

mr. amash: i yield 20 seconds to the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, this body could not be afraid of the constitution. it has been our guiding moral force for this nation, for all our beginnings and our nows. this amendment is truly an amendment that will protect and provide for the f.b.i. to do its work and to protect our men and women around the world who are wearing the uniform unselfishly. but let me be very clear. all this amendment does, frankly, is to provide a road map for the f.b.i. to utilize when it is surveying and it is using the private data of americans. and all the amendment does is to ask the f.b.i. and the attorney general where there's probable cause that such communications provides evidence of a crime and as well if there is a foreign power or foreign agent to be able to utilize a warrant. and that is the protection of the fourth amendment. uphold the constitution. vote for this the amash-lofgren amendment, and let's move forward on this legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields. the gentle

mr. earl lee, my high school principal, singing to me, and it's just not the same. >> not registering. >> still ahead on abc 7 news at 11:00, it's never too late to make dreams come true. next the local teenager with a reason to smile wide this weekend, all smanthanks to the jose sharks. >>> i'm meteorologist drew tuma starting the weekend with dry . >>> it has been a big weekend for a north bay teenager who's going through a difficult time. >> tonight hayden bradley took the ceremonial face-off at the sharks game. it was all part of the make-a-wish foundation's work to help a dream come true. >> abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen has our story. >> he's got it all, speed, size, physicality. likes to fight a little bit. >> at the sharks' practice facility in san jose 15-year-old hayden bradley is living out a dream. >> passing, shooting. it was so fun. i don't know how to describe it. it was so fun going out there. >> reporter: with his family cheering him on from the stands, an acknowledgment of the journey that may have never been. >> seeing him in that hospital bed, you know, almost mo

speaking to his north korean counterpart saying "but be patient and resolve issues of by one,", and mr. leeg successfully." "you should beid broadcasting this live because we want to show the korean people that we are discussing." it is being simulcast back to the blue house in seoul, but not broadcast live because of the uncertain nature of the talks in what might be said. again, this might be the first time ever, i agree with the north koreans, broadcast it live. that's my journalist inside me saying it. david: let me just quote him in english, there are high expectations we wish to open this meeting to the public so it can be podcast live to all koreans. aat means we are not getting live feed from the meeting, but do we have a sense of what time -- you are at a lunch break, but what time will it wrap up? stephen: we don't have any idea when it will wrap up, the agenda is so wide open. the agenda basically says, we will discuss issues related to improving inter-korean relations. that is pretty wide open. top of the agenda is the possibility of the north koreans are dissipating in the upco

. >> mr. lee of california. >> thank you, mr. chairman and ranking members for this hearing. and also thank you director hall for being with us today. if today's hearing gives us an opportunity, really, to discuss how important cbo's impartial analysis is to congress and to the american people. and i'd like to reiterate the fact that congress created cbo so we could have clear guidance on bugetary matters to inform our work here and for the public and it was not created so republicans or democrats could smear the organization's impartial and nonpartisan analysis just because we don't like cbo's scores. last year, director hall, our ranking member mentioned the aca. it's a fact the republicans spent weeks attacking your organization's score of their, quite frankly, terrible aca repeal bill. they found it ridiculous when speaker ryan jammed through an updated repeal bill without a score in may and that upon your analysis though, it would reduce health care coverage by 32 million, while increasing premiums for older americans by as much as 800, i think it's 850%. so, can you jus

jackson lee: mr. speaker, day three of this shut down thousands of thousands of federal employees not working, the leader of the republicans in the senate has moved with ome offer that would hopefully be something to start with. but i applaud the democratic leadership in the other body because they have been focusing on what we want and that is parity. national security parity for children's health care and federally qualified health clinics and veterans. but the people who have imploded this, of course, is the president and his staff, with vulgarity and then breaking up a deal on last friday. so if we're serious, we need to be able to work on what the issues are. and that is domestic spending to have parity to ensure that the families of our soldiers are likewise provided for. i support the national security needs of this nation as a homeland security member for -- since the tragedy and heinous terrorist act of 9/11, but i believe national security goes with providing for their families. when are we