mr. randolph responded and said, in his baritone voice, "mr. president, this will be an orderly, peaceful, nonviolent protest." we left that meeting, came out on the lawn of the white house, and said we had a meaningful and productive meeting with the president of the united state. and we told him we were going to march on washington. >> can you sum up what was going on in america at that time that led to the march, that had people like john kennedy worried, and people like you adamant about what had to be done? >> well, the years leading up to the march on washington had been unbelievable amount of action on the part of the movement. people had been sitting in lunch counters, standing in at theatres. people had been arrested and jailed by the hundreds and thousands. people had been beaten. the signs that said, "white and colored." "white waiting," "colored waiting." "white men," "colored men." "white women," "colored women." they were still around. medgar evers had been assassinated in mississippi in june of 1963. bull connor, the police commi

mr. randolph said, the greenhouse gas impact of that is the same regardless of what the mix s. it's all rps energy renewable power that we supplied for the program. that hasn't changed. ~ the difference may be on the economic side in terms of jobs. also on air quality. so, if we were talking about, say, replacing fossil fuel generation with in-city renewables, that would obviously be a great thing. in this case we of course are not doing that, but we would be adding additional renewable power in a city that is the need for fossil fuels elsewhere in the state or the region so that would actually be us instead of exporting our dirtiness, for once helping other communities green up. but on the whole, the environmental impacts of it have not changed drastically. i think it's more on the economics and on the job's potential impact. >> thank you, danielle, with the important work that you do for our renewable energy team. i think, though, for the whole gamut of what we do, renewable energy community outreach, environmental justice, all the different kind of components, sum it all tog

mr. randolph is the director of the california public utilities commission. the question probably some folks might be out there asking is what is renewable energy certificate and what does it mean within the mix, its impact on some of this stuff. the good news is we have the opportunity to hear his expertise on this. the trick, we're going to have to work through is the brown act from 1953 technically is an unagendized speaker. i'm sure our director probably told you we have to work through a three-minute presentation to your remarks, but we can ask questions and kind of delve a little more into that mind of yours to help us answer some of these questions. >> okay. thank you very much. >> we may have some questions after. >> i'm aware of the brown act requirement, but i will go quick and skip over a few things and get to the main points in the three minutes. i was asked to come here today to talk about what is a rec. straightforward, a rec is simply a compliance tool. it is an accounting tool that is used to measure the output of a renewable power plant for c

mr. randolph heads out. i thought of background as a new energy entrepreneur. i thought of recs and aaus, any type of acronym you can imagine. i really appreciate you coming in to try and make some sense of what are just incredibly complicated topics. i know that most of the people that come before us are city employees or who work in the city and they sort of have a bit of an obligation to do it and don't necessarily have to. i know you work for the state and you did this to a certain extent on your vacation time or whatever that would be. >> thank you very much. >> i just want to extend the thanks of the commission for you coming in and explaining this to us. >> i'm happy to. i'm one of those odd breeds who enjoys talking about things like recs. [laughter] >> strange. >> okay, thank you so much. >> malcolm? >> i'm sorry, i just wanted to respond to your concerns, commissioner. i think we at the puc share your ambition for local build-out. it's not going to happen tomorrow no matter what we do. it takes some time. we do have a conceptual plan. we need to do mo

mr. randolph, wonderful man, and he said, john, can we change this? and dr. ng came to me and said, john, that doesn't sound like you. so i couldn't say no to randolph and no to dr. martin luther king jr. these two individuals i admired and i loved them. and so we changed that. and near the end of the speech, rather than making any reference to sherman or marching through the south, i said we do not see any meaningful progress here today, we will march through virginia, through jackson, mississippi, and several otheria places really. [laughter] but julian, you remember? >> i remember all that.? and i tell you, one of the civil rights organizations that supported the march were asked to donate staff to the march, to staff the march. and i was donating to the march on washington committee. and one of my tasks was distributing john's speech, the original speech, to members of the press, who were seated down below lincoln, still above on the steps there. and i passed out these copies of john's speech. and i pointed out to them that john would be the only speaker s

phillip randolph who as mr. jeffries said earlier founded the brotherhood of sleeping car porters. let me also recognize the important work of the coalition of black trade unionists who was aded by my good friend, bill losey, who was secretary treasury for many years, and now the reverend terry melvin is now carrying on the work of bill lucie. and so i thank my friends in labor and urge them to continue the great work that they are doing in this country. mr. jeffries, i thank you for yielding time. i thank you for your leadership and at this time i will yield back the balance of my time. mr. jeffries: i thank the distinguished gentleman from north carolina for those observations. and for your continued leadership here in the congress. if i would ask the speaker how much time is remaining on this special order? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has about 15 minutes. mr. jeffries: thank you very much, mr. speaker. one of the things that's been troubling to me and to many of the people that i represent back home in brooklyn and parts of queens has been the witness -- has been to

mr. shuster. we turn now to washington, where you see the members of congress coming out. randolphton is there. randall describe what we're looking at. >> reporter: we're looking at the east steps of the capitol, dell. a crowd has been waiting for them for sometime now. not a large crowd. many staffers. some members of congress, we expect. this will be moderated by house speaker john boehner, and comments by house minority leader, nancy pelosi, and harry reid, and mitch mcconnell. this is the non-partisan day of remembrance of 9/11. as we all know not only was there an attack in new york there was also one washington at the pentagon. and there were thoughts that the plane that crashed in pennsylvania may have been headed for the capitol, others believe it was the white house. but in any event, no one was taking any chances. [ technical difficulties ] >> our audience that is joining us, it is now 11 eastern time. you are looking at a scene on the eastern steps of the capitol building. >> we begin with the singing of the national anthem. ♪ oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early lig

mr. jeffries: thank you, congressman beatty, for those thoughtful and insightful remarks and for pointing out the historic connection between the struggle for civil rights here in america. of course we know that randolph was very central in the 1963 march in washington, that great labor leader who in 1936 formed brotherhood of sleeper car reporters. he made of the observation of the essence of trade unionism, social uplift, the labor movement has been the have i yield back for the dispossessed the downtrodden and the poor and he he canoed those words but i think they ring true even now in 2013 in america today and we are thankful for that. i have been joined by another distinguished colleague, member of the freshman class, my colleague from the lone star state and my honor and privilege to yield to the gentleman from texas, mark veasey, may consume. mr. veasey: thank you for wages. about the labor and i thank my colleague for putting this together and very timely as we try to pull our country out of the glut we are in and getting job numbers back and things are getting back and make sure that people have a living wage where they can earn a good salary and dignity and respect and feed their families an

randolph. we don't foresee this as being a problem. thank you very much. i yield back the remainder. >> gentlelady yields back. and now our new member be, mr. yarmouth, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i appreciate the court is si of the committee, and i'm very honored to be part of the committee even though it appears i just joined a game of trivial pursuit when we're worried about gift cards. before i get into one line of questions here, i'd like to plug my home state of kentucky. kentucky has embraced the affordable care act, our governor has taken the opportunity to provide insurance to 640,000 cayennes who are currently uninsured. we have an exchange that, i think s a model for the country, kynect, and one of the great ironies is during our state fair last month, kynect had a woot, a lot of -- booth, and after talking to the people they walked away many of them saying, wow, this is a lot better than obamacare. [laughter] so that's kind of what we're dealing with. there have been a couple comments earlier today that related to moves that certain corporations have made, and republicans have pounced on them as k