. >> thank you very much mr. meek 0. >> thank you, supervisors jim medicare so, so. lies have been spoken about the silver project ward to entertainment i'm going to. >> mice e my two years the plan was two years for those who work and lived and played south of market the western selma plan opened up 1/3rd

. >> thank you very much mr. meek 0. >> thank you, supervisors jim medicare so, so. lies have been spoken about the silver project ward to entertainment i'm going to. >> mice e my two years the plan was two years for those who work and lived and played south of market the western selma plan opened up 1/3rd of the area to provide entertainment far more in district 8 or 9. but because of pressure from the entertainment lobby and those behypothetical to it supervisor kim felt compelled to a shoe horn this essential zone into the neighborhood florida the western selma plan would have been implemented all clubs would have been grandfathered in and no buffer zones to worry about this is predicted on the need for everyone to be a good neighbor the court: surely. there has to be rules when it it easy to open a club but tough rules for the neighborhood whether in pacific heights or south of market we're bound by one big idea everyone is entitled to the quiet use of their home and if you don't respect it every neighborhood has a right to haul your butt into small clams court w

mr. hastings: meeks, i move to suspend the -- mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2569 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 375, h.r. 2569, a bill to amend the wild and scenic rivers act, to designate segments of the missisquoi river and the trout river in the state of vermont as components of the national wild and scenic rivers system. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, h.r. 2569 designate

mr. gregory meeks of new york. >> thank you, mr. secretary, for all of the work you have been doing. yesterday, i voted in support of the amendment that would authorize the training and equipping of properly vetted elements of the syrian opposition, and i did vote -- i did so because i believe we can not ignore the threat from isil and because i believe the strategy the president has proposed is probably the best option that is available to us at this time. but it was not an easy vote. it was a very difficult vote. and i had to talk to a number of different individuals. i attended all the classified meetings, etc., to come away with what you said is absolutely key and essential, that this cannot be seen as the united states against sunni muslims. engagedverybody being in more than just words but actually engaged in the fighting i think is absolutely important. one of the things i came away with after the vote, talking to members on the floor, talking all today, there were certain questions that came up, certain questions asked here today, and you do not have a chance to answer. so i

mr. meeks: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i'm proud to its r h.r. 3957 and urge quick and unanimous passage and ask me to honor one of southeast queens' best, a public servant, cynthia jenkins. let me also at this time thank my colleagues from the new york delegation who all signed onto this bill because cynthia was a historymaker. she was the first african-american woman in queens county to be elected to the new york state assembly. and she was elected because of the work she did prior. for 22 years she worked as a librarian trying and making sure that every single library in southeastern queens would remain open. she in fact worked in every library in southeast queens and she fought on behalf of libraries and those who enjoyed their services, even preventing many branches closing at the time of cutbacks. she wanted to make sure that children had a safe place to go to learn after school and she had various programs within the public libraries. and as indicated, when service men were returning from vietnam, it was cy