mr. president, commissioners, mark renny. i am here with my client, rick haynes, managing partner of fuel llc. three years ago, this commission permitted a ticket lounge-- ettiquette lounge. in the last year, there was a major flood from a burst pipe that took that club out. mr. haynes is currently rehabing that location. we expect the liquor license to transfer within the week. it is up in san francisco. you have the packet. this is going to be a small hotel lounge. as necessary, there are a lot of people trying to sleep upstairs. the sound will be kept a low volume. it is basically a night lounge. they are going to play vegas style matchup -- mashup. for the commissioners, especially mr. meko, we have passed up the neighborhood of reach we have done so far. t be active in that neighborhood. the neighborhood is transitioning, as you know. it is his intention to help the transition and clean up the area. i do not know if the commission knows this, but the restaurant currently across from "the chronicle" has taken the space in

commissioner meko: mr. renny, congratulations on your efforts at neighborhood outreach. the earlier you do it, the better. i would rather see that you have contacted various associations rather than you intend to contact various associations. in general, this is good out reach, particularly to district 6, which is probably the most of an organization to you, and the tenderloin community benefit district. the central market community benefit district, which you are a part of, would be good our reach as well. otherwise, good luck to you. you might want to rethink that picture. >> on your security plan, it says that fuel research the use of enhanced gateway security systems, including a blue light interface system that will speed up the process of entry into the venue. these systems confirm the customer is of legal drinking age by calculating their age and presenting it onscreen to staff members. this allows staff to identify age more quickly. we have not yet determined which system we will use. i was wondering -->> i just attb convention in las vegas. there were a police 1

mr. rennie of florida. without objection members including today's panelists may have up to five days to insert statements into the record and the chair will recognize herself. we meet today as part of our continuing oversight of the united united states involvement in libya to hear from our non-committee colleagues who have introduced legislation on war powers and on authorities relating to the use of force to address the situation in libya. the committee will continue our efforts tomorrow morning at the house white members breaking with legal experts. that briefing had to be rescheduled for may 122 to the avalanche of house floor votes. as we have reviewed before, the president commends u.s. military operations inside libya on march 19 and notified congress within 48 hours consistent with the war powers resolution. we announced operations limited in their nature, duration and scope as part of an international effort quote to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and address the threat posed by -- posed to in

. >> jow recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. renny. >> thank you chu chairman. mr.dealing some of my thunder there but i will reiterate that mr. smith talks about the values of article iii. nobody here obviously saying that arctic you -- article iii courts are inadequate or our constitution is inadequate to prosecute these guys. it is not a matter of whether or not we bring somebody here and we get a conviction and put them in supermax and they are going to be detained forever and everybody will be safe. of course. the argument is with regard to the 200 remaining detainees at gitmo which you are sort of boiling down by the way to the worst of the worst sooner rather than later. is a matter of jurisdiction and mr. forbes was touching on this. jurisdiction attaches when you bring them here and certainly you are right, the underwear bomber, the times square bomber. these guys that were captured in america may have jurisdiction attached to their afforded article iii rights but when you are talking about people that were detained in iraq and afghanistan or wherever broug

. >> jow recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. renny. >> thank you chu chairman. mr.dealing some of my thunder there but i will reiterate that mr. smith talks about the values of article iii. nobody here obviously saying that arctic you -- articleii courts are inadequate or our constitution is inadequate to prosecute these guys. it is not a matter of whether or not we bring somebody here and we get a conviction and put them in supermax and they are going to be detained frever and everybody will be safe. of course. the argument is with regard to the 200 remaining detainees at gitmo which you are sort of boiling down by the way to the worst of the worst sooner rather than later. is a matter of jurisdiction and mr. forbes was touching on this. jurisdiction attaches when you bring them here and certainly you are right, the underwear bomber, the times square bomber. these guys that were captured in america may have jurisdiction attached to their afforded article iii rights but when you are talking about people that were detained in iraq and afghanistan or wherever brought