mr. nolan, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. petri: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 579. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. petri: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. petri: h.r. 579 designates the united states courthouse located at 501 east court street in jackson, mississippi, as the r. gentlemen's brown united states courthouse. mr. brown was a civil rights lawyer who worked against racial discrimination and was credited in the 1950's with filing the first civil rights suit in the state of mississippi. native of oklahoma, mr. brown attended illinois state university, indiana university and the texas southern university law school. in the 1960's he was one of only four african-american lawyers in the state of mi

lee. >> good afternoon mr. nolane 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 why t

. >> thank you mr. nolan. >> i want to thank the previous speaker and thank kate and this board for approving this retransfer fee reduction to 5 percent for the 6 hundred people the taxis that will be taxi drivers that have purchased medallions for 2 hundred and 50 no other is city charge that and previously up to today, it's been 20 percent the person is $50,000 in the hole and it's wrong thank you for recognizing that and making the change >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon director nolan. >> i want to say kate is doing the best under the circumstances there's been questions raised it behooves me why you haven't heard from the airport and the c puc that was requested it is an insult they couldn't come and speak to you considering they don't have to travel far not the c puc person they're having hearings with the lack of data i know you ought to get the reporting if our staff but i'm very concerned about two issues the ramp taxi the financial inc

nolan: mr. speaker, members of the house, my district includes duluth, minnesota, the head waters of the great lakes and, of course, the magnificent north shore. i encourage you all and come visit the first chance you get. i, too, rise in strong support of this important bipartisan great lakes restoration initiative, and i, too, would be remiss if i didn't compliment our chairman, mr. gibbs, and our ranking member, mr. bishop, for bringing this legislation forward and, of course, our chief sponsor of the legislation, david joyce, our good republican friend and thank you for your leadership and convincing the office of the president and our budget operatives around here that in this particular case we need a little bit more than what they wanted or recommended. i would also remind my colleagues that this is not just about a preservation. this is about taking responsibility for some of the neglect out of the past as i -- i can tell you back in duluth there was a time when we had to hall drinking w

. >> mr. nolan commissioner bridges commissioner driscoll commissioner melberger commissioner paskin-jordan commissioner stansbury a quorum is present. >> thank you next item public comment any members of the public would like to address the public on a non-calendared item. >> good afternoon david. >> good afternoon. >> on those (inaudible) my question is how will the - minutes question and the special meeting open december 3rd be put into a agenda item important this - (inaudible) some other first question then i just want to - >> great, thank you. >> good afternoon claire. >> hello. >> address the comments - the membership (inaudible) and hedge fund (inaudible) up here to do today is to - sign off and hopefully everything (inaudible). >> kimberly. >> good afternoon. i do (inaudible) let the chair know and the board that has been satisfied (inaudible) the board (inaudible) sociowe can - that is the amount (inaudible) available for (inaudible) to take more for we understand this - (inaudible) that a

[cheers and applause] >> stephen: mr. nolan, thank you for coming on. i'm glad to have you on.u. stephen: i do have a beef with you. >> huh-uh. stephen: huh-uh. i can't tell whether you're smart or whether you're just english. [laughing] >> stephen: americans can't hear the difference between the two of those. are you a smart guy? >> i'm a -- i'm certainly english. i wouldn't claim to anymore smarts than anyone else. >> stephen: well your movies are smart movies. okay. i don't always get them. i don't get them, i love them. that's another problem i have with you. your movies are massively entertaining. momento, interstellar, batmans. okay. it's a -- it's a space epic you know, interstellar. when the movie is over i'm still thinking about the movie. like, guardians of the galaxy didn't make me do that. why do you want to make me think? why, why, why, why can't you just have it [beep] blow up? >> well, i think you can have a film that makes people think and blow [beep] up. >> stephen: you blow up [beep] really good. >> don't do me down on blowing up the [beep]. i have blown up a

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. >> good afternoon mr. nolan i've been living here 27 years and cab driver i see the change and everything some of the project was good if you put t line money in 1998 and 97 t line i know that wasting the line big he concrete nobody use it or originally car you have thes on t line because of many years ago not like you but more brains to do our job and anyone want to do it by it happens by the nature of our eye vision we can't look like animal sometimes they have a 3 hundred and 60 degrees like 19th avenue you remember the double presidio and golden gate bridge but it sometimes happens because of the nature so we have a new system like the 3 lengths on the avenue you come in from the south to go north you don't see people their speeding they're trying to go home you can make a lane lake yellow or green you can have head of the time so when i drive it on 19th past san diego and everything when i look at the site is yellow that mean i have to stop soon you slow down this is a new kind of human being system recycle

. >> mr. nolan commissioner bridges commissioner driscoll commissioner melberger commissioner paskin-jordan

mr. nolan: right now there's a request for another $1.2 billion.he time has come to stop supporting this corrupt government. the money for the 50,000 soldiers was going into the pockets of the military and government officials. mr. speaker, my friends, it's time to put an end to this, give our taxpayers some relief. use this money to rebuild america. and recognize the fact that we have no friends in this conflict. the money, the arms that we send inevitably end up being used against us. and contributing to the violence and contributing to the extension and the continuation of this tragic and senseless war and waste of human and financial resources. it's time to put an end to it, my colleagues. thank you for the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. >> mr. speaker, the

the roll director brinkman director borden director heinecke director lee director nolan director ramos director rubke mr. chairman directors you have a quorum quorum please be advised the tinging of pagers and other devices are prohibited at the meeting a

mr. nolan: the simple truth is a hunger epidemic of crises proportion is spreading across the developing world. leading to mass unrest, armed conflict, needless suffering, and death. every day more than 21,000 people die of hunger or hunger related causes. the united nations reports that in sleffing countries -- in developing countries, 842 million people are conically hungry. one out of every three children who die before the age of 5 die from hunger. one out of four children suffer mental or physical impairments due to malnutrition. mr. speaker, this congress has been more than willing to spend trillions on warfare. today i call upon the congress of the united states to declare war on hunger and give people in need a good reason to be grateful to america. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman's time has expired. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on the motion to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and

the roll director brinkman director borden director heinecke director lee director nolan director ramos director rubke mr. chairman directors you have a quorum quorum please be advised the tinging of pagers and other devices are prohibited at the meeting any person probable for one going on the one hand off if the room the ringing of a cell phone maybe asked to leave the room so the board requests that all devicess be turned off. >> a position to approve all in favor, say i. >> item 5 communications. >> members of the board and ladies and gentlemen, he need to rearrange e ranger the agenda we're going to lose a commissioner so after the item 11 then we'll come back we know a lot of people want to talk about the we'll go through those other things first. >> police vehicle mr. chairman one other item of business no closed session at our meeting that's been cancelled so moving on to item 11 as directed item 11 amends the transportation division to article 11 regarding the vehicle standards for the taxis changing the medallion fees through june of 2016 a status report on related issues. >> a presentation. >>

mr. nolan: mr. speaker and members of the house, i want to join my colleagues in paying tribute to the great member of congress here serving with us today, but planning to retire, the honorable john dingell and i would like to do so by telling a little story. some 40 years ago, i was elected to the congress of the united states for the first time. and before i had even been sworn in, i faced my first big challenge. my president -- excuse me, the ongressman that i preceded had passed so legislation called the big stone wildlife management area and the editor of our biggest newspaper had applauded him for that, and i supported it in my campaign and said i will do everything in my campaign to see it is fully implemented and fully funded. i had just been elected, and the president of the united states announced that the project was not going to be going forward and not going to be funded. here i am. i had just been elected and it appears that i'm doing harm and damage to the district and had president b

hours yesterday and through the morning and the afternoon, we were making efforts as chief nolan described to locate mr. stone and we had reason to believe during the course of the day that he was barricaded in different locations, so most of the day we were looking for him in these locations and we were methodically going through and thought he would be here, and when we got to the point in the day when we realized he was not in any of those locations, we thought it was prudent to notify the public he could be on the loose. >> any documentation -- found by his body? >> no. >> were there any weapons found around his body when it was discovered? >> in terms of weapons, we found one firearm that was in nicole's home and there is another firearm that is missing right now, but it could be with his body, i do not believe his body has been completely moved, so i can't comment on everything found with him. >> in whose custody are the children right now? >> the chifrn are in protective custody and it will be the determination of the courts as to where they will go, but more importantly they are safe and secure

yesterday and through the morning and then the afternoon, we were making efforts as chief nolan described to locate mr had reason to believe throughout the course of the day he was barricaded in some different locations. so during most of the day we were looking for him in these locations and we were very methodically going through and thought he would be there. when we got to the point in day yesterday when we realized he was not in any of those locations, at least obviously we thought it was prune the to notify the public that he could be on the loose. >> any documentation indicating -- >> no. >> were there any weapons found around his body when the body was discovered? >> in terms of weapon, as the search warrant indicates, we found one firearm in nicole's home. there is another firearm that is missing right now but it could be with his body. i do not believe his body has been completely moved. i don't think i can comment right now on everything that was found there with him. we were preserving the scene for the coroner to arrive. >> who has custody of the children right now? >> the children are in

mr. butler. >> can i have the overhead please? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon chairman nolan and members of the board. i'm an architect in the room and always try to be a peace maker i'm the middle child. so the disputed spot is across the way there i measured a couple of different ways at the property line it's 35 and a half feet and 37 and a half feet at the garage so there's plenty of room for maneuvering and the two outdoor planters are placed in the public right of way and in the face of that they don't exist if they don't have a permit so without them 21 feet plus plus 16 feet per parking spot seems reasonable and there's really no need to take away the spot. and if you decide to remove the spot you should i should make a more careful survey of the area. >> anyone else care to address the board on this? okay public hearing is closed. what's what's your pleasure? >> i have a question. how did this request happen happen and if i'm a private citizen and i want a parking space taken away what is the process? how did we get here? >> director reiskin? >> we get requests for parking and traffic changes

mr. chairman for the record no members who indicated an interest in regards to item 16 to this is the preparation for the study. >> good afternoon director nolan and i'm from the strategic planning i'm going to introduce the speakers from the planning from mta and the senior engineer with the san francisco municipal transportation agency they're going to egg over the work they've done to requests to look at extending the subway up to the waterfront and it's an informational item. >> good afternoon. >> director nolan and directors and director reiskin thank you for viewing us we know it's quick so here's the whole report. >> (laughter). >> and lots of fun reading two other people if the back nick from the planning department this was a 3 agency cooperation effort with the mta and the transportation authority and eqt sal so slide one bob and i are going to tobacco tag team the original of the studies the live interest in the board of supervisors and also look at where would this line go back to the four corner study it looked at the capital expansion on the rail system in mta we were given the task and given task from the transportation authorit

mr. sieberg is in studio 57. we'll review people in topic. >>> plus christopher nolan, he calls "interstellar" his most ambitiousyou it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. the los angeles times said judy blume is releasing her first novel in years. it's called "in the unlikely event." blume is there for book like "blubber." >>> and a new study shows that men who like spicier food have higher testosterone. eating peppers can boost the hormone in the body. men who have higher testosterone tend could be risk takers and socially dominance. >> so that's why you're sucking on that jalapeno every morning in the corner. >> yeah, baby, i'm ready! >> don't tell everybody. >> okay. okay. okay. my bad. >> okay. >>> and the hollywood report says the director of the hit movie "frozen" is apologizing to parents. ♪ we now say go let it go let it go ♪ can't hold you back >> the director jessica lee said when the movie first came out she thanked parents who told her they loved the song, a year later, she's saying sorry, because they're still listening to them. >> jennifer, don't apologize. >