mrs. whitehouse. lead me comment my colleague, supervisor campos, that last year heard loud and clear the stories of struggle of small businesses and long-term small businesses that are an integral part of the fabric of our neighborhood commercial districts. that are more than just places to shop or to eat. but are really apart of the communities that make san francisco such a wonderful place to live. as we have seen with residential affordability/commercial affordability has been greatly challenged in this over heated, super-heated economy. we read about it in the paper, we experience it in person. as long-term legacy businesses are forced out because of higher rent. and to that end, supervisor campos championed a legacy business initiative which the people of san francisco embraced, proposition j, on last november's ballot. and unfortunately many of us have heard from many of you that six months later our collective attempts to get you the relief, the financial relief that proposition j promised has

mrs. whitehouse. lead me comment my colleague, supervisor campos, that last year heard loud and clear the stories of struggle of small businesses and long-term small businesses that are an integral part of the fabric of our neighborhood commercial districts. that are more than just places to shop or to eat. but are really apart of the communities that make san francisco such a wonderful place to live. as we have seen with residential affordability/commercial affordability has been greatly challenged in this over heated, super-heated economy. we read about it in the paper, we experience it in person. as long-term legacy businesses are forced out because of higher rent. and to that end, supervisor campos championed a legacy business initiative which the people of san francisco embraced, proposition j, on last november's ballot. and unfortunately many of us have heard from many of you that six months later our collective attempts to get you the relief, the financial relief that proposition j promised has

mrs. whitehouse. lead me comment my colleague, supervisor campos, that last year heard loud and clear the stories of struggle of small businesses and long-term small businesses that are an integral part of the fabric of our neighborhood commercial districts. that are more than just places to shop or to eat. but are really apart of the communities that make san francisco such a wonderful place to live. as we have seen with residential affordability/commercial affordability has been greatly challenged in this over heated, super-heated economy. we read about it in the paper, we experience it in person. as long-term legacy businesses are forced out because of higher rent. and to that end, supervisor campos championed a legacy business initiative which the people of san francisco embraced, proposition j, on last november's ballot. and unfortunately many of us have heard from many of you that six months later our collective attempts to get you the relief, the financial relief that proposition j promised has

mrs. whitehouse. lead me comment my colleague, supervisor campos, that last year heard loud and clear the stories of struggle of small businesses and long-term small businesses that are an integral part of the fabric of our neighborhood commercial districts. that are more than just places to shop or to eat. but are really apart of the communities that make san francisco such a wonderful place to live. as we have seen with residential affordability/commercial affordability has been greatly challenged in this over heated, super-heated economy. we read about it in the paper, we experience it in person. as long-term legacy businesses are forced out because of higher rent. and to that end, supervisor campos championed a legacy business initiative which the people of san francisco embraced, proposition j, on last november's ballot. and unfortunately many of us have heard from many of you that six months later our collective attempts to get you the relief, the financial relief that proposition j promised has

mrs. whitehouse. given the problems that supervisor peskin identified with the small business commission, just not the last eight months when they didn't have a secretary but years, how do we know we are not spending this money into a black hole. 2.5 million, how do we know this is money that will be used wisely, if you can respond to that on the small business commission and i will ask mrs. whitehouse on the same thing obwd. >> supervisors whether through the standard forms of accountability and oversight, or through the powers that the board has or briefings that you would like us to do with you and your staff. we are happy to provide you whatever level of engagement and information that you are aware of. so that you feel comfortable with the implementation of this program. our mission at the office of economic workforce development and the office of the small business is to help san francisco's small businesses succeed. we are not in the business of starting programs and having them not be successf

mrs. whitehouse. given the problems that supervisor peskin identified with the small business commission, just not the last eight months when they didn't have a secretary but years, how do we know we are not spending this money into a black hole. 2.5 million, how do we know this is money that will be used wisely, if you can respond to that on the small business commission and i will ask mrs. whitehouse on the same thing obwd. >> supervisors whether through the standard forms of accountability and oversight, or through the powers that the board has or briefings that you would like us to do with you and your staff. we are happy to provide you whatever level of engagement and information that you are aware of. so that you feel comfortable with the implementation of this program. our mission at the office of economic workforce development and the office of the small business is to help san francisco's small businesses succeed. we are not in the business of starting programs and having them not be successf

mr. whitehouse: with that i mr. whitehouse: with that i >> with that this amendment have that the other two, the minute by marco rubio and dylan nelson the john cornet amended why were those amendments blocked in the senate? >> guest: the republicans put forward by john cornyn was $1.1 billion. it was largely through cuts to obamacare through prevention of public health funds. gary commit there was that where preventing zika a prevention and public health measure that could be funded through obamacare money and obviously democrats were not going to support that one because they don't want to see the aca cut at all and then essentially the democratic amendment by bill nelson and democrat marco rubio a republican the full 1.9 million, billion excuse me that the white house had requested. >> host: what are the states we know teeing affected the most by this early on in the disease? >> so far there is no local transmission by public health experts expect that at the summer it will be happening in the united states and la

mr. whitehouse: thank you. i rise on my 136th in my series of speeches on global climate change, real science, the peer-reviewed kind, continues to prove the established connection between carbon pollution and the startling changes we see in our climate and oceans. changes that are so profound that we will leave to our children and grandchildren a world very different from the one we knew growing up. nonetheless, powerful fossil fuel interests still willfully spread disinformation about climate science. there are obvious similarities between the fossil fuel industry's denial of its products' climate effects and the tobacco industry's denial of its products' health effects. these similarities are sufficient that a proper inquiry should be made about pursuing a civil lawsuit like the one the justice department brought and one against big tobacco. i have made that suggestion, and, wow, did that set off an outburst. the right-wing climate denial outfits and the fossil fuel industry mouthpieces went into high gear.

mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island i. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i am back with my increasingly scuffed and battered "time to wake up" sign, now for the 138th time to urge that we stop sleep-walking through history. climate change, as we know, is already harming our oceans and farms, our health and our communities, yet here in the senate we continue to just stand idly by as carbon pollution piles up in the atmosphere, driving unprecedented changes in our states. i urge us again to wake up and to act with urgency. just three years ago, the monitoring station atop hawaii's montana low with a measure -- monaola measured a significant milestone: 400 parts her million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. this chart illustrates that march upwards of our carbon levels. and it's not just at this one spot in the pa sifnlgt the world's meteorological organization maintains a global atmospheric network of stations that spans 100 countries, including stations high in the alps, andes and himalayas as well as in the arctic an

mrs. whitehouse. i think the question is the implication of f we dont pass this today and maybe you can speak to that a little bit. >> melissa whitehouse mayors budget office. thank you for passing the ones you passed throughout today so the supplemental is moving pluny one place to the other. i have concerns not moving forward for public of health and [inaudible] because the numbererize large it would have a impact on the day to day service. i don't know what it will mean but think the impacts will be serious and the police deparchlt is very large so worried about their ability to provide service through the rest of the year if they didn't have the puny moved from one place to the other. >> colleagues any questions or comments? seeing none, is there any sort of suggestion, motion on the remainder of the item? >> i like a motion to vote on the item. i think from my perspective i understand my colleagues comments i think that it is instructive how we'll handsal things but like to see the item move forw

mrs. whitehouse. i think the question is the implication of f we dont pass this today and maybe you can speak to that a little bit. >> melissa whitehouse mayors budget office. thank you for passing the ones you passed throughout today so the supplemental is moving pluny one place to the other. i have concerns not moving forward for public of health and [inaudible] because the numbererize large it would have a impact on the day to day service. i don't know what it will mean but think the impacts will be serious and the police deparchlt is very large so worried about their ability to provide service through the rest of the year if they didn't have the puny moved from one place to the other. >> colleagues any questions or comments? seeing none, is there any sort of suggestion, motion on the remainder of the item? >> i like a motion to vote on the item. i think from my perspective i understand my colleagues comments i think that it is instructive how we'll handsal things but like to see the item move forw

mrs. whitehouse. i think the question is the implication of f we dont pass this today and maybe you can speak to that a little bit. >> melissa whitehouse mayors budget office. thank you for passing the ones you passed throughout today so the supplemental is moving pluny one place to the other. i have concerns not moving forward for public of health and [inaudible] because the numbererize large it would have a impact on the day to day service. i don't know what it will mean but think the impacts will be serious and the police deparchlt is very large so worried about their ability to provide service through the rest of the year if they didn't have the puny moved from one place to the other. >> colleagues any questions or comments? seeing none, is there any sort of suggestion, motion on the remainder of the item? >> i like a motion to vote on the item. i think from my perspective i understand my colleagues comments i think that it is instructive how we'll handsal things but like to see the item move forw

mrs. whitehouse. i think the question is the implication of f we dont pass this today and maybe you can speak to that a little bit. >> melissa whitehouse mayors budget office. thank you for passing the ones you passed throughout today so the supplemental is moving pluny one place to the other. i have concerns not moving forward for public of health and [inaudible] because the numbererize large it would have a impact on the day to day service. i don't know what it will mean but think the impacts will be serious and the police deparchlt is very large so worried about their ability to provide service through the rest of the year if they didn't have the puny moved from one place to the other. >> colleagues any questions or comments? seeing none, is there any sort of suggestion, motion on the remainder of the item? >> i like a motion to vote on the item. i think from my perspective i understand my colleagues comments i think that it is instructive how we'll handsal things but like to see the item move forw

mr. chairman. >> senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman cassidy. i would like to guess first to make the point that under title i we said quite clearly that a school bus get, and if i quote the text correctly, the funds that would otherwise receive under title i. we did not say it should get the same funds as of the schools receive. we could have said that but it would not have been agreement on it, and the law i think is fairly clear. what worries me is that if we get into a rangel over this regulation, reading the law as the latter statement rather than the former state which seems to me as alert every simply clear statement, they were going to start to get distracted from all of the areas that we take into were with was common agreement that there is a great opportunity for a form of innovation. one of the keys was to open up curriculum. we had curriculum gets slaughtered in title i schools because everything that didn't teach to the test got thrown overboard for fear that the boat would sink if the testing came back poorly. that was a terrible

mr. chairman. >> senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman cassidy. i would like to first make the point that under title i we want quite clearly that a school must get, and if i quote the text correctly, funds it would otherwise receive under title i. we did not say it should get the same funds as other schools receive. we could have said that, but there wouldn't have been agreement on it, and the law i think is fairly clear. what worries me is that if we get into a wrangle over disregulation, re-reading the law as the latter statement rather than the former statement, which seems to me as a lawyer a reasonably clear statement, then we're going to start to get distracted from all of the areas that we baked into this law where there was common agreement that there is a great opportunity for innovation. one of the keys was to open up curriculum. we had curriculum get slaw evidence in title i schools, because everything that didn't teach to the task got thrown overboard for fear that the boat would sink if the testing came back poorly. that was a terrib

mr. chairman and thank you to senator franken for good work in this area and for allowing me to go before him. thank you for all you have done and like senator whitehouse, i have had experience before. -- and have been in the room for some of these wiretaps. not federal, local. in yourof you noted testimony it is critical our laws reflect his balance between national security interest and privacy, civil the birdies. that is one of the reasons i cosponsored the usa freedom act and i wanted to ask you about that bill it self as we look at a reauthorization ahead and what we should be doing when we consider any changes to the law. ittion 702, do you believe strikes the appropriate balance between the protection of national security and civil liberty and what changes would you like to see. mr. weinstein? mr. weinstein: yes. i think it does that. by providing for ample oversight which is meaningful oversight to all three branches and then also , i think you see that balance being played out in terms of the procedures implemented by intelligence community refuted by the five's accord and by -- the fisa ourt -- court. is there has been no intentional misuse o

mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: reserving the right to object, on the executive calendar, there is a queue of judges who have come out of the judiciary committee and are ready for floor action. by my count, along that queue, the two pennsylvania judges that my distinguished colleague refers to are numbers nine and ten. senator jack reed and my rhode island judge is number eight. we would very much like to enter into an agreement where these judges start to be moved in regular order, as we often say we like around here, through the queue, as is the tradition here in the senate, so that we can get them all cleared. and senator casey, the senior senator from pennsylvania, as the junior senator mentioned, came here yesterday to move a larger bloc, and i would not object to this request if it were amended to include all ten of those judges. on the executive calendar, down to and including the two pennsylvania judges to whom my distinguished colleague refers. that would be calendar numbers 307, 357, 358, 362, 3