. >> we'll take mr. lewis. >> good afternoon supervisor. i am here to plead to not let the pursuit of the perfect be the enemy to the good. not to let loud voices screaming for a single issue be the enemy of the plan. no plan will satisfy all constituents and all needs , but looking at the eight year process and the hundreds of meetings of the task force. it was an impressive process and actually an example that any community should use when trying to plan their future. there was a lot to be learned from the western soma task force and hue they went about their business. i know supervisor wiener you have concerns and i am concerned that as you press your concerns you will derail the plan and you will further delay it. while it won't be undone, it really is in a way kind of disrespectful to the hundreds of people who put thousands and thousands of personal hours into this plan to try to get something that is as good as can be. and yet, people will never always be satisfied with this. i think it's a good plan. i hope you adopt it. i hope you

mr. lewis. >> ranking member graham, chairman gillibrand, thank you for holding this hearing today on sexual assault in our military. i am 4u78bled to be sitting here today before you as the first male survivor to testify in front of congress on this very important issue and thank you for allowing that privilege to me. i also want to take a minute to thank my partner, andy, and all the spouses and partners of survivors of military sexual trauma survivors, also like to thank the parents and caregivers that work so hard to keep us on a level playing field. some days they shoulder a very large load and deserve our recognition. i enlisted in 1997 and advanced to rank of petty officer third class. during my tour on the u.s.s. frank cable, i was raped by a superior noncommissioned officer. i was ordered by my command not to report this crime. after this crime had taken place, i was misdiagnosed with a personality disorder by the current director of the defense centers of excellence for psychological

>> i always respect mr. lewis' comments but at the end of the day the timing would be wrong to let them go. what do you do with spain and italy. you to let them go now would have caused almost an avenue lanlg. >> his bigger point is, okay, now that you've done this with cyprus, now, you're going to have x country, y country, z country now lining up and holding the eurozone hostage. >> i do. at the end of the day, you know, europe said, listen, give you $10 billion, not $70 billion. that's the maximum we're going to allow. you know, it was definitely a push to russia to an extent. you talk about luxembourg. >> joe louis has made a good bulk of his fortune and fame as one of the world's great inve o. vesters. on the euro, calling it over priced. fair value is 110 to 120. no realtime frame of when it will get there but it will get there. also calls europeans their own worsen my saying they're making themselves uncompetitive by keeping the currency high. it's one thing if everybody is playing the same game. it appears

in rock hill, south carolina, mr. lewis others were attacked by a mob for trying to use a whites only waiting room. farther down the road in the town of anniston, alabama, one of the buses got firebombed. and when the passengers on board tried to get out of the burning bus, the mob held the door shut and shouted that the freedom riders should be roasted to death inside. they were lucky to escape with their lives, and they traveled on. the second bus made it to birmingham, and a white mob attacked them at the bus depot. police responded by arresting not the mob, but the bus rider, including john lewis. but still, they traveled on. think about this for a second. the freedom riders had been beaten in rock hill, south carolina. their bus had been set on fire and they were nearly burned to death in anniston, alabama. they were beaten again in birmingham before they left for montgomery. so given this kind of trajectory so far, what kind of welcome do you think was waiting for them in montgomery? what kind of welcome do you think

. >> thank you, mr. lewis. >>> bruce alison core magazine. i am one of the lucky ones that got one of those affordable units. and this, please don't cut any more. i also work for a group that finds unorthodox ways of finding housing. i rather have people find housing for the city than the unorthodox ways that may be dangerous. and if you want to go for transportation, supervisor wiener, triading a few more dollars onto the cost as supervisor kim recommended. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. alison. as soon as a speaker finishes, you may just come straight up. >>> i thought someone else was ahead of me. >> you don't have to go through any certain order. >>> cathy gilbertson, and i'd like to address supervisor wiener's amendment. and i'm against it totally. i'm against your amendment. i used to be -- i used to reside in your district. i'm homeless and i have been since march 28th last year. putting more money on transit does not help find housing. we need the housing. we use the transportation if we had the housing. i don't have housing -

mr. lewis. >> gentlewoman gillibrand and ranking member -- i am sitting here today before you as the first male survivor to testify in front of congress on this very important issue and thank you for allowing that privilege to me. i also want to take a minute to thank my partner andy and all the thousands of partners and survivors of sexual trauma and i would also like to thank the parents and caregivers that work so hard to keep us on a level playing field. they deserve our recognition. i enlisted in the navy in 1997 and advance to ranking petty officer third class through german tour i was raped by a noncommissioned officer. i was ordered by my command not to report this crime. after this crime had taken place i was misdiagnosed with a personality disorder by the current director of the defense centers of excellence for psychological health and dramatic rain entry. i filed felt retaliation claims to no avail. i was given a general discharge for a personality disorder in august 2001. my petiti

just hours before being attacked, mr. lewis talked about the march. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation and to the world that hundreds of thousands of negro citizens in alabama and particularly here in the black belt area, denied the right to vote. >> last year and years prior, i marched along the same route. children and the elderly, black and white. on sunday afternoon, we will once again cross the bridge and it couldn't come at a more important time. these were the pictures just a few months ago. >> and joust yesterday, the blavng blank . >> today, the obstacles have changed. but they posed the same challenge. it's up to us to continue marching forward. to walk in the footsteps of those who came before us. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >> show down. let's play "hardball." ♪ >> good evening, let me start tonight with this. my kingdom for a horse. how does barack obama escape? how does he avoid personal harm when the country rises up in anger? when the army and nay vil bases

mr. lewisnk you for holding this hearing today on sexual assault in our military. i am humbled to be sitting here today before you as the first male survivor to testify in front of congress on this very important issue and thank you for allowing that privilege to me. i also want to take a minute to thank my partner, andy, and all the spouses and partners of survivors of military sexual trauma, survivors, also like to thank the parents and care gives that work so hard to keep us on a level playing field. some days they shoulder a very large load and deserve our wreck nation. ... to a medical retirement for ptsd was denied by naval records. i carry that discharged as an official and permanent symbol of shame on top of the fiscal attack, retaliation and the aftermath. i fear will be discussed when i applied to be admitted to the buyer, even when i apply for a job. i wonder what opportunities it may destroy. however, i choose not to dwell on what the pastors brought my way. it will graduate in may

[laughter] [applause] >> mr. lewis. >> i think everybody in the audience knows about the freedom riders but i was interested in that first one when there were 13 of you. why don't you bring us up to date on that? it's an extraordinary experience. see the freedom ride occurred in 1961, the same year that president barack obama was born. [applause] in 1961, my people could not board a greyhound bus. leaving washington d.c. traveling to virginia, north carolina, south carolina georgia alabama and mississippi on our way to new orleans with the probability of being arrested or jailed and that is what happened i was selected as one of the original freedom riders. we met in washington d.c. on may may 1, 1961. i was 21 years old and i was a few pounds lighter then. we went through a period of training orientation and i will never forget it. on may 3, 1961 we all went down to a chinese restaurant in washington d.c.. i had grown up in rural alabama and attended school in nashville tennessee. i never had chinese food, never been

mr. speaker, for making this day possible. [applause] one distinguished guest who is not with us or maybe has come late to john lewis. e steps of the supreme court earlier this morning. mr. clybourn stated until this start of the program -- the start of the program. it is an honor to sit in the congress of the united states to -- john lewis. [applause] and it is a joy to be here to honor rosa parks. when rosa parks was a little baby, her mother sang her the hymn "o freedom, let it ring." she heard that song in church. it would become the anthem and mission of her life. rosa parks would say i would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be free. rosa parks is being remembered with this statue in the capital, but this is not the first time her greatness has been recognized here. she has many connections to congress. she is no stranger to these halls. she was recognized with a congressional gold mumble -- gold-medal and strapped with the title "mother of the modern civil rights movement." with the words "quiet strength, dignity, encourage your co-shia personal -- and courage."

mr. speaker, in this oscar week the best we can say is this daniel day-lewis was convincing as lincoln and the honorable gentleman is convincing as brown, more borrowing, more debt. >> the 19.46 million pounds of debt left by the democrats -- \[inaudible] -- did the prime minister show that the tackling debt and to borrow more is the road to ruin? >> i think my friend makes an important point. it is worth recognizing when it comes to efficiencies and finding value for money local government has an excellent record and they have a good record paying down debt and being efficient. one of the benefits is that it reduces your debt charges and this is something we have to focus on in this country and in this government. >> next month will be the championships wheels -- \[inaudible] does the prime minister have the same confidence in england winning the triple crown as the we can get the aaa rating. do you plan to change your economic team to avoid humiliation and a recession? >> there's a difficult record with prime minister endorsing rug bior football teams. -- rugby or football teams. the fla

thank the san francisco fleet week association, lewis loeven, specifically, major general myat, always a mentor, former secretary of state schultz and mrs. schultz, mrs. perry, honored to be in your presence. the uss makin island, chief of the fairest city in the world, san francisco, and he esteemed professionals. this is nice, i'm going to move south of here and take you to afghanistan. as you know we have marines, soldiers, sailors in afghanistan currently, but i'm going to bring you to when i was there during 2010 and 2011 after the president decided to surge the forces. first marine decision, first marine expeditionary force forward entered southwest afghanistan during 2009. we arrived in 2010 so it was a bit more stable. and we went straight to helman and nimruz province. very complex dynamic environment that we were operating in but before i begin it talk to you about the operational picture, i just want to give you a snapshot of afghanistan. when we got there i want to set the frame here so you understand what we're dealing with. afghanistan ranged 180th out of 1 86 on the world bank list of developed countries. 20 percent of th

to end racial segregation speaking out, people like congressman john lewis and civil rights legend julian bond, who joins me tonight. mr. bond, i'm wondering what you make first of all of what you've heard today kind of coming out of the court. >> well, you know, you can't draw any conclusions about what people say, what they ask in the questions, what the justices say. so i'm not ready to say things are going to come out the way i want them to, but i think we all know that we're not going back to what we had before. at the very least, this court is going to say that proposition 8 is unconstitutional and the other states with same sex marriage can continue on with that. so at the very least, i think that's been won today. >> there are many people who still don't view this as part of the civil rights struggle or as part of a civil rights issue, so then what do you say? >> i say you're sadly mistaken. i understand particularly if you're black and you like to think of the civil rights as something black people do, we did it, we did it successfully, we won great victories, and we ought to be happy that other groups, gay pe

mr. speaker, for making this day possible. [applause] one distinguished guest who is not with us or maybe has come late to john lewis. e steps of the supreme court earlier this morning. mr. clybourn stated until this start of the program -- the start of the program. it is an honor to sit in the congress of the united states to john lewis. [applause] and it is a joy to be here to honor rosa parks. when rosa parks was a little baby, her mother sang her the hymn "o freedom, let it ring." she heard that song in church. it would become the anthem and mission of her life. rosa parks would say i would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be free. rosa parks is being remembered with this statue in the capital, but this is not the first time her greatness has been recognized here. she has many connections to congress. she is no stranger to these halls. she was recognized with a congressional gold mumble -- gold-medal and strapped with the title "mother of the modern civil rights movement." with the words "quiet strength, dignity, encourage your co-shia personal -- and courage." for

lewis. but together we must guard that progress with vigilance, keeping in mind the sacrifices made by so many 48 years ago today. mronnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: yesterday the junior senator from kentucky took to the senate floor to exercise his rights as an individual senator in pursuit of an answer from the attorney general concerning the rights of u.s. citizens. the filibuster was extended, heartfelt, and important, and wish to say a few words in reaction to that effort. and, as well, on the millio nomn of john brennan to be director of the central intelligence agency. the question he raised was entirely appropriate and should have already been answered by the obama administration. first, i wish to state for the record and to correct any misinterception that yesterday's long -- misinterpretation that yesterday's long debate was a criticism of our nation's intelligence activities. the senate select committee on intelligence is responsible for oversight of our nation's oversight activities and i want to make sure that they were not the subject of last night's d

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mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his comments. and i would remark that i was pleased that he had the pportunity to go to selma with john lewis and others of us who had the opportunity to go to the birth place of our colleague terri sewell. congresswoman sewell is on the floor. the march from selma to montgomery, of course, which was interdicted by members of the alabama state police at the was tion of the governor one of the events, as the gentleman knows, that led to the introduction, passage and signing by president johnson of we oting rights act and are privileged to serve with someone whose contribution to this country and to its realization of its promise of equality to all was so enhanced by the life and commitment and courage of john lewis, our colleague. and i was glad that the gentleman participated with us on that. i also am very pleased to hear about the website. i think that's a very positive step. and i want to thank the gentleman also for the information about next week. mr. leader, i'd first like to ask about the budget resolution that you referenced that will be coming next week. i wondered if there's any plan on the fl