mr. real. >>> i'm dwayne sears. i'm here to support this legislation. and i think everybody should get a fair chance. and i also believe that it we'd have less convictions if everybody had more jobs. thank you. >> thank you, mr. sears. >>> good afternoon, supervisor kim and supervisor tang. my name is michael hampton and ayectionv here to support the legislation and encourage you to bring it to the full board. i worked on this legislation with the community members, community housing partnership and outreach throughout the city and by and large most people are for it. and i am particularly excited about it because i would like to see our young people get to work. and i also talked to myriad of age groups. and almost to a person, someone had something in their background and the impediment is there. so, i would like to see san francisco take the lead and offer this. and able bode i had people who want to work i think it will be an excellent opportunity for them to do that and also to get housing ~. and i appreciate your support today. thank you. >> thank

mr. santa claus. and to help you open the sale of sears which begins on thanks giving day of this year. >> would you mindutographing some of the christmas seals as a special favor for santa claus? >> why, i should be delighted. it is one of the things that i do best. it is a good thing you have, santa claus. >> my father, santa claus, give it to me. >> oh! it has some of the dog's hair in it. >> brought up a tomboy, first lady lou hoover got her fondness for the outdoors from her father. >> her father wanted a boy, which is why we think the name lou -- it is not short for anything, it is actually lou -- as a result of that, he takes her out. she becomes a tomboy of the era. she was out learning how to fish, shoot, camping. they are up in the mountains a lot. she is learning about the outdoors and loving it. this is a 1914 .22 rifle owned by lou. what i love about this is that you have this photograph. it is an early photograph of her on top of this mule looking pretty rough and tough there with a bunch of provisions. then she has got this gun. very annie oakley to me. that type of independent girl. one o

mr. speaker, i thank the prime minister for that answer. let me make a few points in reply. it's important issue. first of all we all agree that this government has shown in relationship to searing tait and i pay tribute to him and others. on the point about asylum seekers, those are people have been able to get you. were not taught the people have been able to get here, we're talking to people in the refugee camps at the moment. on his point about whether this can solve the problem. of course, again but the u.n. is talking about a number of the most affordable people including children who've lost their parents and victims of torture. i was somewhat encouraged by the end of his answer of this. we are all proud of britain's tradition in terms of taking refugees. why doesn't he look again and say that britain will actually participate in this program and take just a few hundred refugees and, indeed, set an example? >> i don't actually think there's a disagreement between us. the problem i see -- at me say, the problem i see some countries are using this quota system as a way of saying, therefore, i fulfilled my obligation. when you've got as i said almost half of a 9 million popu

mr. president, over the past several years, those of us who are fortunate enough to serve here have engaged in many fierce debates. some have been forced upon us by external events, including a searing financial crisis, while others were brought about by an unapol jetally liberal president who promised dramatic change and who has worked very hard to follow through on that pledge. in some cases, even in the face of legal obstacles and widespread public opposition. so change has indeed come. despite the daily drumbeat of headlines about gridlock and dysfunction in washington, the truth is an activist president and a democratic controlled senate have managed to check off an awful lot of items on their wish list one way or another. and yet just as important as what they did, my colleagues, is how they did it. because that's also been at the heart of so many of the fights we've had around here over the past few years. now, these conflicts haven't stemmed have personal grievances or contempt as some would have it. they are, instead, the inevitable consequence of an administration that was in such a hurry, such a hurry, to impose its agenda that it neglected to persuade the public of its w