mr. richard thompson, representing the community groups that negotiated this important community investment. mr. hobson. [applause] >> good morning. my name is richard hobson. i am a member of san francisco case, the alliance for californians for community empowerment. on behalf of the government body accountable for these funds, including the san francisco organizing project, san francisco labor counsel, the pac, cac, and mr. j moody, i want to emphasize our commitment in helping to build strong district and community, especially in the neighborhood that have been historically left out of economic opportunities in san francisco. our city is at risk of losing the economic and racial mix that are the keys to a healthy, diverse, and vibrant city. that is why this community benefits agreement, the only one of its kind in san francisco, that we negotiated

mr. richards said, it is very hard for them to apply for the vouchers and it is hard to get the man arts to take them. one big disadvantage for the adults with disabilities in this city is public housing. this woman was not a senior when she came to san francisco and was not a senior when she lived in standard housing. she finally got into public housing when she was a senior, but to others it is closed now. i have been working with adults with disabilities and i have material i can e-mail to you. thank you. >> congratulations, christina. >> thank you. it cracks i have a speech -- >> i have a speech impairment, so it is quite to take me more than two minutes, but i will do my best. i am here with my mobility service document to testify before you how these budget cuts have altered by life. i am a person with a disability, which is hidden and often misunderstood. one, i have a brain injury. i can feel the discord burning within the city with regard to those of us who are viewed differently. i have endured a reduction in in-home support services and ssi benefits where i can no longer affor

mr. richard, and he came out last friday to address comments which we had last time. i appreciate everybody for what they did. >> i apologize. i need to a knowledge there is a person sitting here who has not spoken, up from my staff, that wrote that memo. i want to acknowledge her. commissioner moore: i want to thank everybody. the thing i have to say, i regret that this project has to become a special use district. i believe that that is not the tool for delivering a project like this. i do believe that hospitals planning and design is part of a larger city investigation for corporate site, size, location. in this case, we are having an uphill battle for the special use district turns upside down all city policies, including the van ness corridor area plan. i regret that we have to go that way. i believe that, for many years, the transformation of van ness, which has a long history of transforming itself, into something of was supposed to become the residential boulevard, we have designed land use policies which have guided and shaped approval for design, policy, and

mr. richard swab procurement manager on behalf of the american loggers council and southeastern wood producers association from perry, florida. and mr. michael t. gorgan junior executive vice president and ceo of the society of american fosters in bethesda, maryland. it looks like our second panel is all seated. i now recognize mr. byrd, you please begin with your five minutes of testimony. >> good afternoon, thank you. sorry, thank you for allowing me to appear before you this afternoon. i extend that thank you to chairman thompson and to ranking member holden as well as the other members of the subcommittee. a bit of an introduction. we manage a family forest in central virginia. i also have the pleasure of working with the american forest foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is among others to encourage health thi forests. we speak for ten million landowners, those are family forests or private landowners. allow me to set the stage a bit for my testimony. the property that i manage for our family has been in our family for six generations. we grow both pine and hardwood and fr

oh mr richard if the bible can be distributed why not the koran there's nothing illegal about handing out the koran the campaign may be provocative since it kicked off during easter but it's not even the timing which could do so much attention but who is behind the distribution. in the southeast movement is one of the most radical wings of islam known for its truth interpretations of the koran and in association with jihad the holy war against nonbelievers and punishments that can include amputation and stoning not exactly the most constitutional penalties this man sums up the credo mention who gives men the right to create laws that right belongs to. we're going to the local salafist community the campaign's long term goal is to put twenty five million copies of the koran into german forms but it's not clear which interpretation is being used but we. know there are passages about violence especially gets women protected by the law as men would be also about violet's it gets the other faithful. india it says here this is only an approximate translation . one of germany's most influent

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on case number 10-sf-0604, people versus richard edward ruiz. mr. ruiz is richard edward ruiz jr.our true name? >> yes. >> the following day it's preliminary court hearing ruiz was charged with felony possession of narcotics which could carry a lengthy sentence behind bars. he entered a plea of not guilty and had one supporter at the hearing, his girlfriend, samantha dunn, who spoke to us afterwards. >> tell me how you found out that your boyfriend was in jail. >> he was supposed to pick me up from work one day and after work i was waiting outside and an hour had passed and he wasn't there and i knew something was wrong. and so when i got home i found out on the internet that he was arrested. >> what are your biggest fears for him right now? >> i'm just afraid that he's in isolation, just completely -- you know, scared and lonely and doesn't know what's going to happen. and on top of that, i'm afraid of how long he's going to be in jail. that's my biggest fear so far. and that it would change him in any way. i hope it doesn't change his heart. >> i didn't know my girlfriend was go

mr. richard -- mr. richmond for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will not use my entire five minutes. my question is for mr. scott, and i will just say we have a facility in my congressional district that will actually be the largest home to petrochemical facilities and places that will fall into cfats in the country. now, my concern and my goal is to make sure that it is as efficient and least burdensome to the businesses. i know that at least in your recommendations you mentioned one way to become more efficient very quickly is to leverage the existing relationship between cfats by recognizing the court. is that one of the recommendations? >> my personal opinion is that that would make the personnel ushered a program a lot easier to manage to reassess the people and if the sites that you are talking about in your area you will see the both of those sites security updates to meet the dhs compliance requirement, so that is what we like to do but in those sites you have a card required for entry and when somebody comes to the gate to work and get

mr. richard procurement manager on behalf of the american loggers counselings off the eastern from florida, and mr. michael jordan and executive vice president of the society of american foresters in bethesda . and looks like our second panel is seated, so why now recognize mr. burke if he would begin with your five minutes of testimony. >> [no aduudio] sorry. thanks for allowing me to appear before you this afternoon i extend that to train thompson and ranking member of holden as wella s the other members of the subcommittee. as a way of a bit of an introduction, we manage a family forest in central virginia. i also have the privilege of working with the american forest foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission among forests. others is to encourage healthy we speak for 10 million landowners, those are family forests and private land owners. allow me to set the stage for my testimony. the property and manage for our family has been in the family for six generations we grow both plaine and hardwood from those trees we produce paper products or are paper products all produce profits

mr. richard trumka had to say? guest: i would have to agree with him. one has to realize that the labor force in the united states, the people better off their working in or actively looking for jobs has been stagnant since about 2007, where we have about 83 million american males in the labour force, and 72 million females in the labour force. the number has jumped around a little bit, but not by much. it is not what was expected by this time. the u.s. congressional budget office thought we would have close to 159 million people in the labour force, and we are stuck at about 154 million. this could be an effective structural changes in the employment picture, the effect of structural changes in the employment -- the effect of structural changes in the employment structure. host: we want to sell some -- showed some statistics. it took any surprises in those numbers? -- host: any surprises in those numbers? guest: unfortunately, not. you mentioned the teenagers and people under 25. one in the four is unemployed, and this has long-run effects of the econo

mr. richard schwab with over 22 years of experience and representing southeastern would producers' association. as well as the american and loggers council. rethink him for his commitment to strengthen the future of forestry and for our community. i yield back. >> they give for your introduction congressmen. >> i apologize. i want to do housekeeping this is for the purpose of unanimous house consent the. >> i think you for you to deal with but unfortunately i have to go public by have unanimous consent to submit from the i a was natural heritage foundation the floor in energy and conservation to you give them more options to implement the forest legacy program and i have questions to insert and i think my colleagues for the courtesy and would like to submit that for the record. >> without objection. >> we need to work together. >> i apologize mr. schwab. start over with your five minutes of testimony. >> i am a third generation of log per two has been educated and july -- trained in a master logger. representing my head companies we are harvesting company in florida and we practice sustainable

mr. richard procurement manager on behalf of the american loggers counselings off the eastern from florida, and mr. michael jordan and executive vice president of the society of american foresters in bethesda maryland. and looks like our second panel is seated, so why now recognize mr. burke if he would begin with your five minutes of testimony. >> [inaudible] >> thanks for allowing me to appear before you this afternoon i extend that to train thompson and ranking member of holden as well as the other members of the subcommittee. a bit of an introduction, we manage a family forest in central virginia. i also have the privilege of working with the american forest foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission among others is to encourage healthy forests. we speak for 10 million landowners, those are family forests and private land owners. allow me to set the stage for my testimony. the property and manage for our family has been in the family for six generations we grow both plaine and hardwood from those trees we produce paper products are paper products all produce profits hard wood l

mr. powell -- commissioned ed richards in the policy unit to start working on a commission, limits on ownership and privacy law. do you recall that? >> i do. >> we discussed the issue back and forth the next two years but tony never felt the moment was right to speak out, in part because the press would always have the last word, as it was, they would report -- it was they who would report and interpret what he said. does that correctly summarize it? >> yes. >> in 2006, he, mr. blair, now told me he would consider putting surprise legislation in the queen's speech on the subject, but he didn't. >> uh-huh. >> when he finally did make a speech on the media in 2007, that's the famous fell beast speech of june 2007. perhaps didn't receive the attention it deserved. mr. powell says it was too late. is that a fair sort of prospectus of what was happening? >> i think as i said in my witness statement, political leaders, even when they're the prime minister, even when they're in a very powerful position as tony blair was for most parts of his premiership, you do have to take accounts of the views of yo

after 36 years in congress, senator richard, mr. uger lost his seat. >> serving the people of indiana. and in the united states senate has been the greatest honor of my public life. >> reporter: republican primary voters in indiana have decided they don't want senator luger to serve a seventh term. they ousted him in favor of the tea party person. >> the democrats coming to the republicans point of view. >> reporter: democrats show their appreciation of luger. the president wrote, quote, while dick and i didn't agree on everything, i found in my time in the senate, he was often willing to reach across the aisle and get things done. luger's loss has men wondering what this means for the makeup of the senate. the dnc chair said that murdoch's win proves the tea party and gop are now one in the same. others argue democrats should be concerned about holding on to their slim senate lead. >> and this is a big win. can murdoch hold the seat in november, and i think he's likely to. >> reporter: in wisconsin, democratic primary voters decide

. >>> six-term senator richard lugar of indiana was defeated in the gop state primary on tuesday. mr. mourdock joined us on c-span's washington journal for 30 minutes. >> well joining us on the panel is richard mourdock, who knocked off richard lugar in the primary on tuesday. mr. mourdock, thank you for being with us. if we could, let's start with what we were talking about with our audience a little earlier this morning. and that's president obama's statement endorsing gay marriage yesterday. i want to get your reaction to that. >> i was surprised me made it. as i traveled the state of indiana in the last 15 months, i've not heard the issue come up i don't think more than twice. and clearly in a state like indiana that is very conservative, that the president won in 2008. it will certainly work to his disadvantage here, and i see that happening in the other so-called critical swing states. i think that's going to be more of a negative than a plus for the president. >> what about your personal view? if it comes before the senate, what would your personal view be? >> well, i am one w

indiana state treasurer richard murdoch defeated 36-year incumbent richard luger in the state's republican primary election. we spoke with mr. murdoch earlier today on "washington journal" for about 35 minutes. >> well, now, joining us from indianapolis on "the washington journal" is richard murdoch, who knocked off 36-year senator richard luger in the indiana gop primary on tuesday. mr. murdoch, thank you for being with us. if we could, let's start with what we were talking with our audience about a little earlier this morning. and that was president obama's statement endorsing gay marriage yesterday. want to get your reaction to that. >> well, i was surprised that he made the statement, this being a political year, especially a presidential election year. because as i've traveled the state of indiana in the last 15 months i've not heard the issue come up i don't think more than twice. and clearly, in a state like indiana that is very conservative, that the president won in 2008, it will certainly work to his disadvantage here, and i see that happening in the other critical so-called swing states. states with large indepen

as the right was attacking richard grenell for being gay, neither mr. romney nor anyone in the romney campaign ever spoke out against it. they never defended mr. grenell for being gay. they never told anybody on the right to cool it with the anti-gay rhetoric. they apparently did not even do so privately. one republican adviser telling "the new york times" today, quote, they believed this was a non-issue, but they didn't want to confront the religious right. so you're privately okay with a gay spokesman being gay, but you won't stand up to people attacking him for being gay. you won't stand up to guys like derek fisher in public. privately, you think they're wrong, but you won't say anything in public about this private feeling that you have that you want to be known. this thing that we might be interested in knowing whether or not it's a way we can judge you. when somebody on the right calls for a scalp publicly and you hand them a scalp, that kind of puts that person in charge. and they know it. this guy brian fisher today was crowing about this being

mr. richards at this time, that mr.blair held regular talks with erwin stelter, including talks on that issue. and mr. stilts or would've been communicate in your views, is that right or not? >> no. mr. stilts was an distinguished economist. >> but in no sense was he communicating your views into the prime minister, is that -- >> no. no, well, you don't know what he was or wasn't. >> he may have been, i don't know. >> that's the point. but it would be something you would talk to him about. >> if i sing a lot of them. >> that's a point. you've all respond result in very, very highly of him therefore that's a sort of thing you might very well discuss. >> yes, sir. >> my only point in answering esther j. was he was not carrying a message from me. >> i understand. i'm sure doctor erwin stelzer felt the phillies would have his own ideas on this and every other topic. in one sense he would know you're thinking and he would be able to discuss that with mr. blair, wouldn't he? >> probably, yes. he was closer to mr. andrew neil