mcgovern: my colleague, mr. scotttalked about the fact that i supported house resolutions in the past. and therefore we should have more respect for the document that mr. boehner's put together. i have no problem with h.res.s. they state where -- they state the views and the beliefs of members of the house of representatives. but what i have a problem with is anybody coming to the floor and holding up the boehner resolution and saying it does something that it does not. what the boehner resolution simply does, it expresses the views of congress. even though it says, it doesn't require the president to do anything. he doesn't have to do anything if this thing passes. the other thing i want to say, going back the distinguished chairman of the rules committee came on the floor here and kind of pooh poohed the war powers resolution as if it were another resolution. quite frankly i'm stunned by his characterization. it's astonishing to me he would come on the floor and say such a thing. the fact of the matter is the war po

mr. scott: 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, let me reiterate, this debate is not about our troops. it's about our constitution. our men and women in uniform are doing their duty by following orders. they make me and the rest of us very proud. we're a blessed nation to have such men and women in the military. mr. speaker, this is about our oath to protect and defend the constitution, about the checks and balances our founding fathers had in mind when they broke away from an imperial monarchy. i urge my colleagues to support the rule and i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i want to thank the gentlelady from north carolina for her remarks. much of which i agree with

i'm marla tellez in for mr. scott mcgrew. it is 4:31 on this thursday morning. thank you for being with us. we want to check the bright forecast with christina. good morning. >> good morning to you. this could be the best day of the week if you are looking for the warmth. look at the trough out there. in the pacific, we have an area of low pressure that's going to cool us down a little bit. we'll talk about that and what's to come for today. it is friday eve. good morning to you. >> it is friday eve. we are looking at 580 westbound out of the altamont pass. 14 minutes for that. no problems so far for the dublin interchange. coming from the north, you have debris. the debris is part of a tire. there's also a big rig blocking the slow lane. marla, this may be an issue. no slowing because of the light volume of traffic. back to you. >> thank you, mike. in oakland, this is happening as we speak. a rescue going on with a car that allegedly went into the river. christie smith has the latest for us. good morning. >> reporter: we are south of jacqueline square. i wanted

mr. scott -- if he is here? welcome. >> i didn't know i was spodse to be -- is this just -- supposed to be -- is this normal? >> i'm sorry. there must have been a miscommunication between chris and i. i think we'll have you speak to -- and then as an insurance -- from the insurance industry at all in terms of how some of these accounts are set up, the health reimbursement accounts. >> well, the health reimbursement, the h.r.a.'s are the subject. that is very, very clear. what the h.r.a.'s say over what the laws say is that the employers sets up the terms of the h.r.a. it is my belief that the city in effect is setting the terms of what they can do in their h.r. sambings a violation and i have talked to a couple of attorneys. that is -- basically as i said an h.r. sambings the subject and it is just determined -- the makeup of it is determined by the employer. that's what way it is described to me. as far as the second question was what are employers doing in setting these up? i'm sure that there are employers th

. >> well, good morning and more importantly, welcome back, mr. scott mcgrew. we missed you. we've got warm weather to look forward to this weekend. excuse me, this week. and as we head toward the weekend, the end of the week, that's when we're going to get some of the best weather. i think we'll see the low 70s once again when onshore flow comes back in the mix. for the next few days it's going to be downright toasty in the east bay especially the tri-valley region. make sure you're ready for. we haven't had weather like this all year. this is the first mini heat wave, significant, that we've had. so make sure you're ready especially if you work outside, got to have the hydration handy. high pressure warming us up all week. this is what we expect. the high pressure ridge is out in the pacific. you can see the clouds arcing up and around that strong ridge. we've got dry sinking air here, kind of compression. so that's what you think when you think of high pressure, it's going to continue to move over us and compress. through the next 48 hours it will set up over the bay area.

mr. scott: thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. smith. what we have here is two essential arguments. one is more of an intramural argument between congress and the white house. but it is a misplaced argument because there is no president that's come to this congss for a declaration of war since world war ii. and granted we have been in seven or eight major conflicts. so this is much greater than this conflict between the white house and this congress. fortunately i believe that this measure isjust an attempt to rather in a strong way get the attention of the president. maybe to chastise the president a bit. so surely. but i think if you look at the record there were communications here, but there is a larger profound message here. it's not a message that this is to send to the president. this is a bad time piece of legislation because it sends the wrong message to the world. ladies and gentlemen of the congress, we are the leaders of the free world. america is a great country and our standing is at stake and this move, this bill will pull

mr. sanchez? >> scott sanchez, planning department. just to clarify, the proposal is for three new single-family dwellings. each of the buildings will provide two off street parking spaces for the use of the residents. the existing building will remain as a single family dwelling. it is an rh-1 district. in the future, they may be able to subdivide the lot. but that would be through subdivision and demolition of the building. that would have to go through the section 317 process for loss of a dwelling unit. i am not aware of plans for future development of the property at the corner. to clarify, i am available for any questions. vice president garcia: i am confused. it seems mr. gladstone said there would be two new curb cuts, three houses, three garages. >> there is actually a net gain. there would be three of street parking spaces with three curb cuts required. that would provide two off- street parking spaces each. the current plan would probably result in removal of one off- street parking space. we are looking at a net gain in eac

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mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to the underlying bill and in strong support of the women, infants and children program that provides food to new mothers, babies and children under 5 who have been identified as nutritionally at risk. w.i.c. ensures that infants and children grow in a healthy manner. the program reduces levels of anemia, increases immunization rates and access to health care and social services and helps improve diets. more than 50% of the babies born each year benefit from the w.i.c. program. numerous studies have shown that women who participate in w.i.c. have fewer premature birth, fewer low birth weight babies, seek prenatal care earlier in their pregnancy and consume more key nutrients in their pregnancies. the benefits of w.i.c. participation extend beyond the short term. a baby's physical, cognitive and physical growth depend on what types of foods are eaten during the pregnancy and especially the first year after birth. this period is critical because more than

mr. sanchez. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department, and in response to the information, the property across the street -- it does not appear those were subdivided recently. those buildings were built previously. the building in front was built in 1930, both prior to the lot size requirements. the building on the north side of the lot was built between 188 the aunt 1907. that is the information i found -- 1880 and 1907. they have done a good job of differentiating this, and also a stablishing there is neighborhood support for this. the department cannot just make a decision based on the fact there is neighborhood support. we have to look at the impact of the general plan, and i think issue is the similarity between the two, and that is a fair result large building developed. -- that is there was a large building developed. have there been a subdivision, that would have resulted in a smaller building. had the front building been smaller, had it been closer to being a code-compliant in terms of the rear yard,

mr. scott who was in court seeking further protection from estabon by 12 at his daughter's name to the restraining order. her authorities said that she is someone with her family but they declined to say where that is. the judge said that she must up here at the next court date or risk of being someone considered doing a criminal act. the judge did housekeeping and saying that the children's name be retracted from all the documents in the case as well as ordering a continuance of the resistant restraining order which i have right here that will remain in place until the next court date later this summer. score at the alameda county superior court house in fremont her room kron4 news. and >> we are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and three others injured,0--the police recalled about 3:00 in the morning, they found a man in his 20s bed at the scene. a short time later three other gunme--a young men showed up at the hospital complaining of gunshot wounds. this is the 25th murder in

mr. scott: thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. smith. what we have here is two essential arguments. one is more of an intramural argument between congress and the white house. but it is a misplaced argument because there is no president that's come to this congress for a declaration of war since world war ii. and granted we have been in seven or eight major conflicts. so this is much greater than this conflict between the white house and this congress. unfortunately i believe that this measure is just an attempt to rather in a strong way get the attention of the president. maybe to chastise the president a bit. so surely. but i think if you look at the record there were communications here, but there is a larger profound message here. it's not a message that this is to send to the president. this is a bad time piece of legislation because it sends the wrong message to the world. ladies and gentlemen of the congress, we are the leaders of the free world. america is a great country and our standing is at stake and this move, this bill will

. >> mr scott for two minutes? >> thank you, mr. chairman.i would like to convey my deep appreciation to miss bair for her excellent work. i want to talk about international aspects of this. there's no more important deal for us in our financial system than to take care of our present issue at home. i want to start off by putting on the table, hopefully your comments will reflect, our failure, the failure of our financial system to deal with this extraordinary problem of home foreclosure and the downward turn of home values. our standing in the world is going to go down. failure to address this. we have a problem with our loan services and banking establishment. they are good people but we have to figure out a way to get our financial system to be more responsive to the issue of home foreclosures. it is the core that will drag our economy down and i hope that as we move on we can get that but i want to mention that the dodd-frank measure in terms of international aspects included requirements for increased transparency of derivatives mandatin

the second panel are mr. scott taylor. vice president of hewlett packard. stuart pratt. miss ioana rusu, regulatory council of consumers union. mr. tim schaaf, president of sony network entertainment international and mr. thomas lenard. once again, our purpose here will be in the time remaining to us, which is not yet determined, but let's say it is 20 minutes at the maximum, for all five of you to give testimony. that is a challenge. but you're exceptionally bright, well educated and advanced people and so you should be able to meet it and we will start with you, mr. pratt. >> and incidentally, the questions will be submitted from the committee members to all of you. >> chairman rockefeller, members of the committee. thank you for this opportunity to appear for you today. i'm stuart pratt, the consumer -- the chairman of consumer data. >> we know that. get right to the point. >> whether it is counterterrorism efforts, locating a child who has been kidnapped, preventing a violent criminal from completing the job, databases, software, analytical tools are critical to how w

mr. scott: when you make changes that's this drastic on the floor through an amendment process instead of going through the committee process where it should be done, then you hinder those two things. farmers lose confidence and their lenders lose confidence in federal policy and that does away with stability and the predict ifblet that some of these i shall -- predictability that some of these are designed. it may be harder to come by if we start to make amendments like this and allow amendments like this on the floor. i simply -- i simply rise to say this -- agriculture has been strong. it's been one of the bright spots in america and it will continue to be one of the bright spots in america because of the work ethic of the people involved in the agricultural industry. i'd ask my colleagues to oppose this amendment and allow us to deal with this in the agriculture committee, in the farm bill that we will be starting over the next couple of weeks. thank you, madam chair. and i yield back the b

mr. ryan. are faster hal scott, director of the program on international financial systems at harvard law school. mr. barry zubrow, executive vice president and chief risk officer of j.p. morgan chase. and mr. damon silvers, associate general counsel of the american federation of labor, afl-cio. so, mr. o'connor, we will start with you. >> thank you, chairman bachus, ranking member frank, members of the committee. for the opportunity to testify today. i would like to be begin by making five key points. first is to represent more than 800 there is from 56 countries, our broad membership includes cooperations -- corporation, asset mix, governments, supernatural entities, exchanges including houses as well as global and regional banks. our members quietly -- score support the goals of dodd-frank and global financial predatory reform. we have work proactively with policymakers in europe and around the world of the school. second, we have made and continue to make substantial programs and implement the most important aspects of reform, those relating to systemic risk mitigation such a central clearin

mr. scott: thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. smith.here is two essential arguments. one is more of an intramural argument between congress and the white house. but it is a misplaced argument because there is no president that's come to this congress for a declaration of war since world war ii. and granted we have been in seven or eight major conflicts. so this much greater than this conflict between the white house and this congress. unfortunately i believe that this measure is just an attempt to rather in a strong way get the attention of the president. maybe to chastise the president a bit. so surely. but i think if you look at the record there were communications here, but there is a larger profound message here. it's not a message that this is to send to the president. this is a bad time piece of legislation because it sends the wrong message to the world. ladies and gentlemen of the congress, we are the leaders of the free world. america is a great country and our standing is at stake and this move, this bill will pull the rug out

mr. sanchez. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. the subject variants is pretty straightforward. -- variance is pretty straightforward. the properties are located within a single-family zoning district within the bernal heights special use district. the properties are configured in such a way that both buildings straddle property lines. this is an exceptional circumstance that does not apply to most properties in the city. it is not something we would want to further. it is against any municipal code requirement. we would want all buildings to be on their own properties. the first property, 260 mullen avenue, is 26 feet deep. based on records we have, the building was constructed in 1929. 264 is the triangular plot, roughly 906 square feet. the building there was constructed in approximately 1906, based on our records. both contain single-family dwellings. unfortunately, they do cross onto each other's lot, not a condition we want to maintain. the applicant submitted the request to change the law lines. it is not creation of a new l

the second panel, mr. scott taylor, vice president of hewlett-packard, stuart pratt, presidency of consumer data industry association, ms. ioana rusu, consumers union, mr. tim schaaff, president of sony network entertainment international, and mr. thomas lenard, president and senior fellow of the technology20 minue of you to give testimony. that is a challenge, but you are exceptionally bright and well educated people, so you should be able to meet it. we will start with you, mr. pratt. the questions will be submitted from the committee members to all of you. >> chairman rockefeller, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is stuart pratt, -- >> we know that. get to the point. >> whether it is cut tourism efforts, locating a job that has been kidnapped, preventing a violent criminal from taking a job, or entering the soundness and safety of lending decisions, our software and analytical tools are critical to how we manage risk in the country to protect consumer

mr. scott: thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. smith. what we have here is two essential arguments. one is more of an intramural argument between congress and the white house. but it is a misplaced argument because there is no president that's come to this congress for a declaration of war since world war ii. and granted we have been in seven or eight major conflicts. so this is much greater than this conflict between the white house and this congress. unfortunately i believe that this measure is just an attempt to rather in a strong way get the attention of the president. maybe to chastise the president a bit. so surely. but i think if you look at the record there were communications here, but there is a larger profound message here. it's not a message that this is to send to the president. this is a bad time piece of legislation because it sends the wrong message to the world. ladies and gentlemen of the congress, we are the leaders of the free world. america is a great country and our standing is at stake and this move, this bill will

. >> mr. scott for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, panel.'d like to also conveyed my deep appreciation to ms. beyer for her excellent work. i want to talk about the international aspects of this. there is no more important deal for us and our financial system to take care of a pricing issue at home. i want to start off by putting on the table hopefully your comments will reflect i'm assuming against question on our failure of our financial system right here to deal with this extraordinary problem of home foreclosures in a downward turn of home values. our standing in the world is going to go down for failure to address this. we have a problem with phone servicers and banking establishment. they are two people, but we've got to figure out a way to get them in our financial resistant to be more hud issue of home foreclosures. it is the course that will drive our economy down and we are not responding. i hope as we move onto some of our comments we can get that. i also want to mention that this dodd-frank measure in terms international last x a

i want to start with mr. scott, the international, will you give me international, but also domestic examples. >> examples of regulatory arbitrage. we've had many in our history. when the united states imposed very tough requirements on banks in this country in the '70s, we spurred the creation of londonism international backing sign. when the united states in my view over regulateed it's equity capital markets and the committee has documented extensively, a lot of the business in the equity capital markets moved aboard. and particularly to london. again and the severity of this is once you get whole businesses moving some place, even if we readjust our policies or london gets more aggressive on theirs, people don't come back. they stay where they are. i think we've had a number of very important examples of regulatory arbitrage in our history of the financial system. >> madame chairman to the example, congressman miller that was speaking and kicked off one in my head. i can actually sort of think of something dome

the second panel, mr. scott taylor, vice president and chief officer at hewlett-packard. mr. stuart pratt, data industry association. ms. ioana rusu, regulatory consumers union. mr. tim schaff, sony entertainment network international and mr. thomas leonard, president and senior fellow technology policy institute. once again, our purpose here will be in the time remaining to us, which is not yet determined. let's say it's 20 minutes at the maximum for all five of you to get the testimony. that is a challenge, which are exceptionally bright, well-educated beings people come so you should be able to meet her. we'll start with you, mr. pratt. and into that question would be submitted from the committee members to all of you. >> chairman rockefeller, members of the committee can't thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. for the record and store practice either the consumer data industry association. >> get ready to the point. [laughter] >> tdf numbers protect consumers and interests, whether counterterrorism expert, look at that child could not with access to ch

first we have mr. scott alvarez as general counsel with the board of governors since 2004. he has been with the board for 30 years. also we have mr. thomas baxter jr. and the general counter and executive vice president of the legal group that the federal reserve thank new york since 1995. he also served as deputy general counsel of the fomc. mr. baxter has been with the new york fed for more than 30 years. without objection, your written statements will be made a part of the record. it has been agreed upon by the witnesses, ranking member clay of myself and mr. alvarez will deliver the oral remarks for the joint written testimony of mr. alvarez and mr. baxter. this testimony may run longer than the customary five minutes and i yield now to mr. alvarez. >> chairman paul, ranking member clay members of the subcommittee, thomas baxter the general counsel of the federal reserve tank and i appreciate that part our tendency to discuss the way the federal reserve informs the congress and the american people about its his policies and actions. .. lost to date on an discount window

mr. scott: now as my good friend from north carolina very eloquently laid out the scenario of how we got to where we are, the question becomes, how do we solve this problem? the democrats are saying, we got into this problem because we did not have the proper oversight to abusive practices, to manipulation, to the use of derivatives, and allowing them to use a leveraging position that brought great havoc to our economic system. in a way that brought about a havoc to our economic system not seen since the 1930's and the depression. the american people, under the leadership of president george bush and his treasury secretary paulsen, came to our financial services committee, with just one little piece of paper, but on that piece of paper it said, we need to be able to bring some oversight and regulation to this new area of derivatives and credit default swaps. it is tearing a hole in our economy. we moved and we passed the bill. what we have before us now is a continuation of a very misguided pol

and buyers don't start with mr. scott and go from the epidemic from the examples. >> we have on our history when the united states imposed requirements on banks in this country in the 70's will spur the creation of international banking centers. when the united states, in my view, overregulated its equity capital markets and the committee's documented this extensively, a lot of the business of those capital markets, the equity capital markets abroad particularly to london. .. >> that has a six month right of redemption, should there not be a different in the pricing of those loans? those 30-year home loan between those two jurisdictions if both of those actually have a regulatory arbitrage, just in the cost of foreclosure and cost of liabilities? >> i think that you're certainly correct that, you know, given the application of, you know, individual state laws, and in some instances, individualing individualing thing laws, and this would expect the risk to be reflected in the market place. i think in addition, it's worth n

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mr. sanchez? >> thank you. good afternoon. scott sanchez, planning department. just some overview, it is 161- 165 newman street, located within rh-2, two-unit density zoning district, located within the vernal heights special use district. i think this is the first variants appeal that the board has heard that i conducted the hearing since the start conducting hearings in june. this item was heard on september 22, 2010. the subject application seeks variances from the lot area, rear yard, and usable open space to allow the subdivision of the lot into separate, legal bahts, one approximately 25 by 46 and the other 25 by 50, but which are substandard in terms of the lot size, even though it is a corner lot. it still requires a variance. into the findings, the vernal heights special use district does have some smaller than normal lots, but they are still generally 25 by 80 feet. the subject lot as it exists is generally larger than what we would typically find it in vernal heights. however, the property is excessively developed. in 1998, there was a building permit

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first we have mr. scott alvarez's general counsel with the board of governors since 2004 has been with the board for 30 years and also mr. thomas baxter junior has been executive vice president of the legal group at the federal reserve bank in new york since 1995. he also served as general counsel of the fomc. mr. baxter has been with the new york fed for more than 30 years. without objection, your written statements will be made a part of the record. it has been agreed upon by the witnesses ranking member clay and myself, mr. alvarez will deliver the oral remarks at a joint written testimony of mr. alvarez and mr. baxter. this may run longer than the customary five minutes and i yield now to mr. alvarez. >> chairman powell, making member clay, members of the subcommittee on the thomas baxter, we appreciate the opportunity to discuss the ways the federal reserve informs to congress and the american people without its policies and actions. central bank lending facilitates implementation of planetary policy an

but before scott walker, before the john kasichs of the world and rick scott and mr.e was this new jersey guy named governor chris christie. he's been the trail blazer here. don't you think? the right wing's ideas guy at the state level. and his blueprint for success? been pretty simple. attack public workers. attack the poor. and he does it all while living high on the hog. on the taxpayers' dime no less. now folks, i'm still pretty fired up about this helicopter story last week. you see, christie of course took a state helicopter to his son's baseball game and wasn't going to reimburse the state until it became a problem story. i guess you could say a big deal. then he cut the state a check for $2100. how many families in new jersey could part with that kind of money immediately? just, you know, i don't think he gets any of that. i think this says a lot about christie's character and his judgment and his attitude toward taxpayers and his brazen attitude toward the budget that he is supposed to be dealing with. and then to make matters worse instead of accepting resp