mr. cohen: thank you, madam speaker, thank you, mr. chairman, for the time. i appreciate the good feelings and earnest arguments made by the lady from tennessee and the gentleman from arizona. but the fact is this bill is patently unconstitutional. because this bill is not about viability it's a subterfuge for viability and talks about the issue of pain. pain is not the issue, viability is the issue. with real -- and what the real issue is, politicians are not medical experts and women should make these decisions based upon information from people they trust. women should make these decisions based upon information from people they trust. the information given about this bill is limited. the fact is, doctor anan, cited by my friend the chairman of the committee is from the university of tennessee in memphis where i'm from. and the fact is, dr. anan, since 2005 has turned down requests to testify in regards to this type of legislation because he doesn't think that his studies have been used prop

they say they're compliant, mrs. cohen, stated it can run 25 miles an hour, that is different than what is presented here today, we're asking 15-18 miles an hour, mrs. moore's sitting above, on the hill. in a simple weather reports, wind travels, faster up than at the bottom the wind gage is at the bottom of the parking lot. we need real conditions real live conditions of what residences are living in not theoretical and made up. one second. in the initial earth study that was done, i'm somewhat disappointed that people did not look at this closer and look it with a more critical eye that the air monitoring and air modelling that was done by the company, by lenar was actually -- i'm trying to get that graph to you. (buzzer) this is the same study done and utilized and the data was used by the incloegs, that the model was used at the san francisco airport. there is no micro studies done in bay view hunters point, we know historically, the wind swirls on top of the hill, if [inaudible] he would have broke babe ruth's record,

i don't need walk along mr. cohene grid's footprints to be successful.3 nn had no idea that they were there when i put in this permit september or october of last year. i wasn't operating with them until january. there's no signage that says off the friday is here mondays, wednesdays and fridays. we scouted locations, we looked for 13 plus foot sidewalks, we found several of them and only two of them are within dpw's agreement that they will be suitable. not disputing the strength of off the grid. they do a great job at what they do. they create a lot of opportunities for independent small businesses. you can do this on your own like i have, put in the work, get the permits, not just this one but others and be successful at the same time. not have to be paying a broker to be part of the event. in regards to congestion and mr. cohen was talking about my average ticket time and i'll define ticket time is the time that the customer gets to my table to place the order at bay and the time they received their food. is less

scott and mr. cohen.nd an article entitled, law enforcement warrior problem to be added into the record. >> without objection. >> and if i might make one simple comment. that is i want to express to all of you, the significance of your testimony. that the judiciary committee through our chairman and ranking member, are very serious about coming forward in this. of recognizing the pain of an officer's death and the pain of a civilian's confusion in apprehension about police and maybe even their death. i frankly believe we can find a common ground. i hope you will allow us to inquire, i hope you will make yourself resources as we go forward to address a mother's pain, and as well find that even place. in my remarks -- i and my remarks by quoting a philosopher. treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of eating. if you are to keep democracy there must be one command. sheriff clarke:, i think this is what you are speaking of. thou shall not ration justic

but to stay on the trade agreement for a moment mr. cohen, how are we going to enforce labor laws overseas? this is the second part of the story. we keep being, we're told by the administration and the president that there are new enforcement provisions in here that will be unlike any other trade agreement we've had in the past. your thoughts on that? >> sadly, it's not true. there's no evidence that human rights organizations anywhere in the tpp universe have been talked to at all. we spend a lot of time working with allies in mexico. i was there recently. no conversations at all about tpp and human rights in mexico. i saw the pictures of 43 dead young men on reforma and people demanding to know what's happening to them. human rights is worse than ever in mexico and telling some secret trade deal is going to improve it. it doesn't work whether it's in the united states, mexico vietnam, or any of the other nations. >> so, laurie how do you see

mr. cohen: the d.a.'s main witnesses are always police. ms. ramirez: correct. mr. cohen: in my community, the d.a. hires, which makes sense, former sheriff's people or police people to be their investigators. ms. ramirez: yes, sir. mr. cohen: there's an inherent conflict. that's why we have our bill lacy clay, and i because we think not only would it eliminate the perception but there's certain cases where there's politics involved. a base for the d.a., who is elected, is law enforcement and that's a political problem. that's number one. ms. roar rar, you were a member of the president's task force and thank you for your work and your colleagues' force. the task force recommended the use of independent prosecutors as well where police uses force and it results in death or injury, was that recommendations where d.a.'s did not -- if the recommendation was based on instances where d.a.'s did not pursue cases against police as aggressively or was it a mere perception of the conflict of interest and the -- ms. rahr: in our debates and conversation the primary focus was o

mr. cohen: the d.a.'s main witnesses are always police. ms. ramirez: correct. mr. cohen: in my community, the d.a. hires, which makes sense, former sheriff's people or police people to be their investigators. ms. ramirez: yes, sir. mr. cohen: there's an inherent conflict. that's why we have our bill, lacy clay, and i because we think not only would it eliminate the perception but there's certain cases where there's politics involved. a base for the d.a., who is elected, is law enforcement and that's a political problem. that's number one. ms. roar rar you were a member of the president's task force and thank you for your work and your colleagues' force. the task force recommended the use of independent prosecutors as well where police uses force and it results in death or injury was that recommendations where d.a.'s did not -- if the recommendation was based on instances where d.a.'s did not pursue cases against police as aggressively or was it a mere perception of the conflict of interest and the -- ms. rahr: in our debates and conversation the primary focus was on

mr. loftman as well he seems credible in this area of funding, i support peter cohen. and hope to see you soon >> thank you. any public comment? seeing none we will close public comment. i appreciate both candidates and the work they have deny, mr. loftman's work seems very deep and very strong and i think he makes a very strong candidate as well as peter cohen his work and experience in the city. to me, i would rather not have this item stay in committee another month or so. we have a very, very rules committee coming up for the whole month of june, we have special committee meetings to deal with ordinances and charter amendments for the ballot we have a number of seats for committees starting up, we have a large number of people applying and sorting through people for public testimony, and vetting, i'd rather we can move this item to the full board, and have a discussion there about which one of you very qualified candidates for the sit zens's committee, so i advise we move to the full board. i know the request, supervisor cohen, keep it in the committee, we will deci

mr. cohen: thank you, madam speaker, thank you, mr. chairman, for the time. i appreciate the good feelings and earnest arguments made by the lady from tennessee and the gentleman from arizona. but the fact is this bill is patently unconstitutional. because this bill is not about viability it's a subterfuge for viability and talks about the issue of pain. pain is not the issue, viability is the issue. with real -- and what the real issue is, politicians are not medical experts and women should make these decisions based upon information from people they trust. women should make these decisions based upon information from people they trust. the information given about this bill is limited. the fact is, doctor anan, cited by my friend the chairman of the committee is from the university of tennessee in memphis where i'm from. and the fact is, dr. anan, since 2005 has turned down requests to testify in regards to this type of legislation because he doesn't think that his studies have been used prop

it's interesting that mr. cohenll of the notifications of mmf permits that are within his operational area through the dpw portal but this particular one wasmy not received by them in their brief. back in july of 2012, in front of this board some city member and others he started talking and i i'll paraphrase, we're a city that celebrate competition and food and he encourages food diversity and encourages small businesses. it's on video. fascinating stuff. maybe some board members have changed then. but it's public record. he also stated that he will comply with the& -- amended permits. in addition, i have another here that i like to put up on the screen if possible.t

i appreciate it for mr. cohen please. so i sat in the room of folks in the mission wisp talking about different ways to fund each other and the impact of market rate housing on rents and displacement he can you know evictions and the topic was around the nexus study do you think there is a way to draw a transmission between displacement and affordability if you do how would you do that. >> this has been there's an intuitive nexus it is called indirect displacement and it is something we've talked about with the planning department and come up in the past i think there is some ninl around the edges on the topic i think this is actually, the type of study the city should do a question that begs an answer the challenge, of course, is this kind of relationship nexus studies are typically saying something it done and draws a cause effect will come over here the idea of displacement as a result of market prices rising as a result of capital investment done the street a rental housing goes up in price the cause is the mitigation

>> mrs. cohen, obviously, thank you very much. none of the other people are here, i don't the wi need to call them up for questions, i think [inaudible] might want to say a few words, to your point on policing, i get it. there are mechanisms in place, they're supposed to automatically, put it in action, so you don't have to do all the work you do the commission appreciates you get to the bottom of this to make sure this doesn't happen again, i commend you for recognizing where we did fail, because we just don't get that from people who are involved in this in the field, that means a lot to us there say genuine effort we recognize the issues, and do something about them. we appreciate that. if somebody wants to go up there and walk, but thank you mrs. cohen once again. >> president mccarthy, commissioners, i wanted to take a couple of minutes to up vied updates for the registerses, by the city staff for the candlestick project. one of the items we were requested to look into relocating monitors further up the hill at about the elev

scott, mr. cohen requesting a hearing in 2014. >> mr. scott, mr. cohen, mr. conyers, and then an article entitled law enforcement warrior problem to be added into the record. >> without objection. >> mr. chairman, if i might, in thanking the witnesses, just make one simple comment and that is i want to express to all of you the significance of your testimony. the judiciary committee, how very serious about coming forward in the spirit of recognizing the pain of an officer's death and the pain of apprehension about police and maybe their death. i believe we can find that common ground. i hope you will allow us to inquire -- we did not get to question everyone. i hope you will make yourself resources as we write to address a mother's pain as well find that place. by quoting a philosopher, treat people as if they were what they should be. you help them become what their capable of being. if we're to keep our democracy there must be one commandment. i think this is what you're speaking of, everyone deserves justice, we do not deny your officers justice and we hav

action item, it's an update, so -- we are kept in inpormed, i will check in with the staff and mrs. cohen, and anybody will contact us the department will contact us if there is any change in any outcome that was reported to us today, that would be negatively impacted, what is achieved here. >> we should make a report to you, and the table to keep track of the discussion, can be provided to you, through the secretary. >> is that done once a week? >> every time we meet i update it approximately two weeks we are having. >> when you review the reports? is it every week. >> you are talking about air monitoring reports? >> yes. >> we review them on a random basis, we receive them at the end of the week. i'm talking about the discussions between community members and sergeant seas that is basically the tracker of what is a concern to the community. we have two different world views, how we're perceiving the events at these places it's hard to bring those two world views together that tracker, is where we're trying to bring those worlds together. >> -- [inaudible] correct? regard to -- >> they'r

. >> i think i would like to ask mr. cohen and perhaps the contractor to come back up while they are looking for that. >> we still have a couple of minutes left if you want to hear from the contractor. >> i would like to ask if you can address what seems to be an ongoing situation of complaints and notices of violation. >> yes, ma'am, make ready, it's the same problem we have had. we have posted signs before several times. every time they disappear, we get a call. dennis chin i have had conversations with. and the last notice that went up mr. bruno contacted them that they weren't advised of this pamphlet. these were put up when we put the initial signs in january. the three signs that he posted on the overhead that were posted on the outside that is said they are not sufficient. those are on the bdi website and you fill in the blanks and fill it out. and that's what we put on and instructed to put on. and it's available to anyone that signs on to the dbi website. >> you are saying that you several times post signs and they go

finally, mr. cohen, the vote in the house.oppose this hold their ground or is the pressure going to be too great on some of them? >> right now, we're gaining ground. the millions of citizens across the country, labor, environmental, immigrants faith-based groups students i was in iowa state saturday. i was amafzed the breadth of this coalition across the country not only holding firm it's growing. so they're in a rush job and we're mobilizing everywhere. we're going to win in the house. i'm confident today, senate vote exceeded expectations. >> laurie wallach larry cohen. thank you so much. hillary clinton benghazi e-mails go public. >>> next new information on the lead-up to this week's oil spill on the california coast. stay with us. we're right back with "the ed show." york state is reinventing how we do business by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates on personal income taxes. we enacted the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968. we eliminated the income tax on manufacturers altogether. with startup-ny, qualified b

honored to be asked to join the planning commission and excited we're here today, i agree with the mr. cohen there are other forms and director ram that there are other forms we should work on and have working groups for other meetings i have even the mayor's office mayors working group i've participated i think we can think that the meetings and groups we can get creative we did some of the redevelopment agency leads to the neighborhood plans and the discussion were extremely helpful i wanted to key off something that was said in the opening comments san francisco is boom and bust from the gold rush so world-class 2 we say had two two changes physically and culturally in san francisco when i look at those two eras one thing i noticed their hugely different the gold rush was chaotic people looked at you like you were crazy down to world-class 2 that was highly regular minded in a lot of cases institutional planning of large sections of san francisco we have hunters point because of world-class 2 and i think if you look at those two times i'm hopeful commissioner president fong looking at gen

scotts, mr. cohen requesting a hearing in 2014 -- excuse me i guess it's from myself, from myself, mr. scott mr. cohen, myself. mr. scott mr. cohen, and mr. conyers. and then an article entitled "law enforcement warrior problem" to be added into the record. >> without objection. >> and then mr. chairman if i might just in thanking the witnesses just make one simple comment. and that is i want to express to all of you the significance of your testimony. and that the judiciary committee through our chairman and ranking member and those of us who work on these issues are very serious about coming forward in the spirit of recognizing the pain of an officer's death and the pain of a civilian's confusion and apprehension about police and maybe even their death. and i frankly believe we can find that common found. i hope that you will allow us to inquire of you. we did not get to question everyone. i hope you will make yourself resources as we ride forward to address a mother's pain and as well find that even

mr. cohens concern that sometimeathize community bars a lot of the responsibility for urging and monitoring. i have been through that in a lot of my advocacy work, but what i take away is when cpmc partnered with appropriate community partners they tended to succeed and when those partners and that link is absent success has been more challenging. we have a lot of layers of oversight on this, but that is the question i come away from this hearing is what can cpmc do to coordinate its efforts with the community and community organizations in a effort to ucseeds. there is a lot of good news today and highlighting of other things that could be done better and coming out of the community and tend to see a linkage with the community as a way to find inovateive ways to achieve those goals and think we all benefit when they that is the case. hopefully going forward the dialogue and overvite will continue in a way that not so much points fingers but figures a way to work well >> supervisor campos >> i want to end this conversation because i know that we have a couple other items and we are risking

nice way of saying you live right through your teeth and everybody knows a wonderful new song from mr. cohen "everybody knows." moving on, thousands of people die all the time trying to cross the mediterranean from africa and east into your. thousands of people, they take these extremely rickety boats often organized by gangsters who squeeze the last little bit of money these desperados have, get them on these rickety boats, try to evade the military boats that prevent this from happening, and often in the process cap says, and people in the mediterranean -- cap size and people in the mediterranean drowned. each time this happens there is a great deal of mashing of teeth, wailing, and this is really terrible -- these dead bodies rolling up on the mediterranean. it is not good for tourism. you do want the person swimming next to you not to be dead. so, it is troubling, and it is clearly troubling because you can see that the leaders in europe say they are troubled, so it must be. i wanted to offer some economic analysis -- that is what we do here. about this. if you have an economic system, c

mr. pier kol -- peter cohen, for years now, with ownership and affordable housing, we found him to be a tremendous resource toward bettering the community, what they receive, and some of the services that can better their lives, as you know we have the largest income inequality here in san francisco and the needs for the deep understanding of dealing with communities that are being effected by whether issues of displacement or path ways, or affordable homeowner ship and rentals, peter has been an aconstitute, resource for us we hope to keep his voice, and knowledge, not only that but after hours, he's a tremendous resource with community groups, different forums he's accessible, i would encourage both of you, and

. >> recognizes the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen. >> thank you, mr.and i want to thank you for holding this hearing and i want to say i started my legal career, i was a lawyer, as attorney for memphis police. spent three and a half years working for the police and i understand it and appreciate and know it's essential for an order of liberty in a society that's has on the front line men and women willing to risk their lives. on the other hand, i have great respect for mr. gowdy. he looks to the day that with you rue the death of the lady and i forget her that i am, who was ampparently killed by her husband in a domestic violence situation. the same as the problems when a white policeman kills a black citizen and i would have to say, there's a big difference. one is a private tragedy. the other is a public tragedy because it's under color of law. and while we like to see no crime whatsoever and that would be wonderful, we can only mostly be concerned about the color of law killings. and that's something we should be concerned about. it's a big differen

if the house votes on this issue next week and it passes, mr. cohen, does hillary clinton skirt this issue on the campaign trail? what about the timing here? >> no she doesn't skirt it. i think what's most urgent is that she speak out against fast track. she wants to lead the democratic party. 70% of democratic senators 85% minimum of house democrats are voting no. they have to run for election with her. she needs to be in the heart of where the democratic party and base is. that means no to fast track. our demand is we want to see tpp. we don't need fast track. tpp is 90% done and she should join us in calling for that. we'll get the tpp when we can read it. for now, it's no on fast track. let's see what has been done. >> genevieve wood what is the strategy of the republicans at this point? you've got 85% of house members on the democratic side 85% of the democratic members on the house side saying they don't want this. but yet the president is still pushing it. it's really -- it's one for the archives politically, isn't it? >> well it is. last time

mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the ranking member for the time and i want to thank the chairman for scheduling these bills. particularly, i want to thank mr. reichart and mr. pascrell for bringing them. my first job out of law school was an attorney for the memphis police department. i know the police are the front lines of democracy to make sure we have a society that can function and we have people's rights protected in the best way. the ranking member talked about the losses of the lives of new york officer ramos and liu and then there were the two officers killed in hattiesburg mississippi. each of which were tragic and each of which caused me to grieve be mournful of the loss of these men's lives during the course of duty. while we have some issues with law enforcement in certain areas, we need to have law enforcement and the loss of any life of a law enforcement member in the action of their duties or because of their position is wrong and we should have this apprehend and arrest somebody who

attorney vincent cohen. >> mr. wint is now incarcerated and he's held without bond. our work is not done. >> reporter: tonight charging documents paint a picture of unimaginable crime and torture and murder. they reveal one of stafflous' employees delivered $40,000 to the home. that employee also allegedly lied to police about when savopoulos called him with instructions to deliver the cash. court documents also state daron wint had held while he allegedly held the savopoulos family overnight before theyere killed last week. the crime required the presence and assistance of more than one person end quote. i tried to get answers from the acting u.s. attorney. who are others involved? prosecutors told investigators they saw a man driving savopoulos' porsche on new york avenue here before it was set on fire behind a church in new carlton. now that witness allegedly told investigators that man was a black male with well-groomed hair. that doesn't fit the description of daron wint because he has dread locks. while police continue to interview witnesses and search for clue

the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. cohen of tennessee for may 18 for the first vote. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the request is granted. the chair will entertain special order speeches without prejudice to the presumption of legislative business. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2015 the lady from new jersey mrs. watson coleman, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mrs. watson coleman: thank you mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of my special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. watson coleman: thank you, mr. speaker. i am so pleased to join with my distinguished colleague, the gentlelady from florida, as we discuss an issue of great importance to my district and quite frankly to every member of congress, transportation infrastructure. last week our nation endured a terrible tragedy azzam track northeast regional train 188 derailed in philadelphia on its

mr. cohen's home town.we're practically related. >> he was the president of massachusetts. >> he was -- he got massachusetts, that was it. oh well. at least my vote counted that year. and in addition, my strict, which represents -- includes all million plus members of -- residents of montgomery county is -- i'm not sure we're proud of this or not -- we're proud home to a portion of what has been called the united states least compact read most jerrymandered, congressional district. district 3 which covers a portion of the eastern part of montgomery county and was referred to in that book -- looks like a -- no one can come up with an animal that describes -- >> have to get in line to be the most gerrymandered. >> we're right up there and we're proud of it. the authors will be glad to know we're ahead of you on 0 couple of these issues. we just enacted a public campaign finance program for local elections some this week, we funded it to a tune of a million dollars. so we have much in common with the world of

mr. cohen: address the house, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker the thrill is gone. legged legendary king b.b. king passed away last night. he lived a phenomenal life. he was born into poverty and was a share cropper in mississippi, moved to memphis and went on w.d.a. radio, first african-american-owned station in america. became a disc jockey and learned and performed on beal street. taught a lot of guitarists to play. he was there metropolitanor. memphis was his adopted hometown. he was a very, very nice man and talented individual who rose to get the presidential medal of freedom and kennedy center honors. his art will be living on forever and will be greatly missed. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. doyle of pennsylvania for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. th

mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank this occasion to thank david letterman for 33 years of late night television and giving his genius to america. i want to thank him on behalf of my friend, warren, for being the best friend music ever had and helping so many other musicians play for america. for dave giving andy kauffman the opportunity to give his zany sense of humor to america and so many other comedians. dave was in the ed sullivan theater but he should have been in the steve allen theater, because weighs more like steve allen. the man on the street interview of steve allen was like stupid pet tricks. david letterman was a genius. tonight i'll be watching his last show. we all will. 6,028. hope we all watch it. dave, don't stay away. come back. we thank you for all you have given us. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? excuse me, montana. mr. daines: unanimous consent to address th

scott and mr. cohen. and an article entitled, law enforcement warrior problem to be added into the record. chairman: without objection. rep. jackson lee: and if i might make one simple comment. that is i want to express to all of you, the significance of your testimony. that the judiciary committee through our chairman and ranking member, are very serious about coming forward in this. of recognizing the pain of an officer's death, and the pain of a civilian's confusion in apprehension about police and maybe even their death. i frankly believe we can find a common ground. i hope you will allow us to inquire, i hope you will make yourself resources as we go forward to address a mother's pain, and as well find that even place. -- i end my remarks by quoting a philosopher. treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of being. i justice said, if you are to keep democracy, there must be one commandment, and, sheriff clarke, i think this is what you are speaki

slaughter of new york, mr. cohen of tennessee, and mr. grayson of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following communications. the clerk: the honorable the speaker house of representatives, sir, pursuant to u.s.c. 2081, i am pleased to reappoint the honorable marcy kaptur of ohio to the united states capitol preservation commission. thank you for your consideration of this appointment signed sincerely, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to section 4c of house resolution 5 114th congress, i am pleased to reappoint the honorable james t. mcgovernor of massachusetts as co-chair of the tom lantos human rights commission. thank you for your attention to this appointment. signed, sincerely, nancy pe he see, democratic leader. the honorable the speaker house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the national foundation on the arts and humanities act of 1965, 20 u.s.c. 955c note, i am pleased to reappoint the honorable betty mccollum of minnesota to the national could

mr. morales. >> palm beach deputy ron cohen arrests victor morales. >> mr. morales is a barber, and he was late for work, and he was on his way to the barbershop at the time that this all happened. >> the logo emblazened on the back of his jacket is for the zero to 60 motorcycle club. >> god forbid deputy musto would have got killed that day. he would have been charged with manslaughter. he would have gone to jail for a very long time just over a speeding ticket. >> a jury finds morales guilty of resisting an officer without violence. he is found not guilty of fleeing and elude aing police officer. he also gets a speeding ticket. >> i think he would have rather killed me than to get a couple of traffic tickets. i really do. >> deputy musto is taken to bethesda hospital and treated for injuries, including road rash. while most of the physical wounds have healed, the emotional wounds are still raw. >> from the second i got back up, i was probably as mad as i have ever been. i'm still mad. >> within a week deputy mike musto is back in his charger patrolling his