. >> mr. welch. >> calvin watching san francisco information clearing house. 7 doables when mr. owens spoke i believe it was 7 hours ago i was struck by the arguments of every sunset home share the last speaker said they're all for the legislation they want no limitation on the uses and not sure how to collect the taxes here's the difficulty i have if you can game a system of speaking before the board of supervisors which i think was gained tonight, you, game a system that doesn't have registration and limits and not data to be collecting taxes on. let me try to intaebt itself hate to tell every owner of property already has our name and address and it's a public record on the internet now. all that the registration process that we support that the planning department said is added to that you're a short time remedy your name and address is all right. on the internet if you're a property owner in san francisco. how do you collect hotel taxes if you don't know how many days you have render our unit as a hotel. how can you view that without registration. so to say your for the leg

so i do hope you consider the devastation and possibly taking dr as mr. welch has requested and whether or not this is restaurant is a bone fide restaurant or not in the past increase language associated with some projects the good neighbor and liaison language to be put in this the dr lose this to the reviewed with the owners that sound like proofing adequate for the 7.5 be added to the interior and the outside to the back patio be located directing business miser until the discretionary review has been considered when we looked at other biz businesses like the coffee in the mission there's there's an outdoor area those types of conditions or those types of considerations the language has been added to the discretionary review so i heard the business will be closing at 10 that's a good start which coming in this neighborhood this kind of quiet street there's a salon that's not been used for restaurant or wine bar. so i hope you consider taking or including language in the discretionary review. so thank you for your time >> thank you. >> hi my name is jimmy wro

stipulate a dollar amount but scripture a sufficient amount of money to be applied - >> thank you, mr. welch. >> supervisors a simple fact you've heard it in testimony and in real estate listing two to three times more lucrative to represent to tourists than people that live and work in the city if you don't put a clear and limited cap certainly in the morning that 90 days hosting or unhosted the effect of the protective codifies the market conditions to drive up marking costs in the city if it's your intent sell it if that's our intent of the legislation what is the better for the working class in the city is you put a clear 90 days i limit the number of units that this legislation permits over a time period two years, that you can study and see the clakz impacts you know that portland is an interesting compare but portland is a quarter lucrative as san francisco the pressures of housing in this city are more times greater than this kind of activities than in portland that's certainly worh studying and can't hurt anyone from a sunset clause i urge you to put in a 90 days and limit the numbe

sue hester i'm the attorney for mr. welch this building was bought in 1976 it was converted legally from a single-family home to commercial when the department cleaned up the act of the owner who had been using it as commercial all the time there's now a proposal to have two commercial uses this commercial use here this is the restaurant that doesn't have a kitchen and the garage and this is the stairs going up to the upper level another use the other use had the backyard and had a lot of parties that caused ruckus we're - upper being asked to create a bone fide recipient where there's no one on the plan after the dr was filed and the planning department became aware that the garage was not being used as a garage but used as a laundry extension they cleaned up the garage what are the used you're being asked to approve you're being asked to approve a rear yard that's closed off but coming back and a rear yard is it is able to be eye from single-family home to commercial uses. you have an obligation to face realty. the planning

i con gradge late mr. welch for his work on this bail and on behalf of his constituent. the speaker: the gentleman from washington. hastings: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona. mr. grijalva: i yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from environment, mr. welch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. welch: i rise in support of wild and scenic rivers act. it would designate those two rivers as wild and scenic. we are excited about this in northern vermont. any land oner along the way will give permission in order for it to be part of it but also before this was even brought to a legislative committee, town meetings in all of the towns along the designation area had discussions in their town halls, and at town meetings, voted and requested that this designation be given system of what we have to show that there really is excitement about this in vermont is a town vote, and then we've got it built into the legislation that the land oner who is directly affected has to give permission. those are good safe forwards. as

mr. welch: i want to thank the speaker and leader pelosi for working together to give us an opportunity to vote on this question of developing a free syrian army. make no mistake, the decision that congress will make on that question is of great importance because it, in fact, is a messagor escalation in u.s. involvement. there is collective revulsion at what isis did in the beheading of two young americans. and there is a good -- good people here in this country where parents saw the possibility of their own son being in that circumstance. everything in all of us wants to react to that. the question is, is the prospect of creating a free syrian army the good step at this time. the administration is briefing us. all of us are doing all of the consideration we can. we are going to have a debate on that. i want to ask some questions that i think are important to us to come to a conclusion. first, i want to compliment president obama. he did use airpower to stop the slaughter of the people in that

mr. welch: since the enrollment ended for the individual market, the shop exchange, the small market is called, tripled in terms of small businesses in the state of kentucky that enrolled, again, with protections so that people with pre-existing conditions who were born with diabetes or arthritis are not going to be shut out of the market which these old plans that the cassidy bill seeks to enshrine and enlarge under the provisions that of -- provisions of that legislation. we need to talk about ways we kimm prove the law. this is a huge, terrible step backwards which for all these states which are seeing rate reductions for 2015 would be lost. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yield back. the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, it's an interesting recitation. i wanted to draw my colleagues' attention to bloomberg view, an article f

mr. speaker, next week in favor of an independent scotland, major damage in implications for whales. does my right hon. friend agree with me that my fellow welch citizens who care about the future o

mr. speaker, next week in favor of an independent scotland, major damage in implications for whales. does my right hon. friend agree with me that my fellow welch citizens who care about the future of the welsh nation should be hoping and praying for this? >> yes. absolutely. i think they are. i regularly consult with one welch citizen and on the evidence of that they are very much hoping and praying that the u.k. will not be broken up as my xbon. friendspeaks very well for that is a trend that is continuing. of course, we're always trying to seek further improvements by three inducing the old bill targets of less government is not the way forward. >> when i travel abroad and i'm asked where i come from, i'm proud to say i am british. does my right honorable friend agree with me that you can be proud to be british but still have your own identity being english, scottish, welsh or from northern ireland and we should all relate together and continue as great britain? >> i don't anything good to put it better. my friend has his own identity and certainly a different way last night he has expressed that beautifully including his identity with unite

mr. speaker, next week in favor of an independent scotland, major damage in implications for whales. does my right hon. friend agree with me that my fellow welch citizens who care about the future of the welsh nation should be hoping and praying for this? >> yes. absolutely. i think they are. i regularly consult with one welch citizen and on the evidence of that they are very much hoping and praying that the u.k. will not be broken up as my xbon. friendspeaks very well for that is a trend that is continuing. of course, we're always trying to seek further improvements by three inducing the old bill targets of less government is not the way forward. >> when i travel abroad and i'm asked where i come from, i'm proud to say i am british. does my right honorable friend agree with me that you can be proud to be british but still have your own identity being english, scottish, welsh or from northern ireland and we should all relate together and continue as great britain? >> i don't anything good to put it better. my friend has his own identity and certainly a different way last night he has expressed that beautifully including his identity with unite