mr. farrell announced his intention to introduce a gun restriction law after the krissy field rally in 2017as you recall, an alt-right group, requested a permit to hold a rally. there was a city-wide response to prevent the rally from becoming violent against the anti-immigrant national rhetoric. ultimately, the group withdrew from holding the rally, citing safety concerns for their own members. as you can see, our mayor of san francisco has been a true advocate of gun safety and gun control. please join me in welcoming mayor mark farrell. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, chief fletcher. i want to thank you for your hard work. i want to thank the police department, chief, thank you for being here, the sheriffs department and supervisor stefani and sheehy, who have been leaders and beverly upton and doctor. it's an honor to be here. recent events across the country unfortunately have brought gun reform and control questions back to the forefront. we did not learn from columbine and sandy hook and we're faced with another mass shooting in one of our schools in the parkland shooting in flor

mrs. farrell's comments are clear. it's got to start at the top and i'm disappointed, i know you are as well that omb does not take our intuition to participate. the council, to try to move forward onthis and i think we need to get them back in at some point . >> thank you mister chairman. all three of our private witnesses today have been understandably very critical of the acceptable flaws in the government clearance process. and the lack of a system of continuous evaluation. inadequate funding has been mentioned. i want you to turn the question around. there have been three widely reported serious reaches at the nsa all three involve contract employees. it that rely fully on a moment in time strategy snapshot of the security profile to determine clearances and secure information and facilities simply not work and i've been a strong supporter of moving to continuous evaluation. particularly following the navy yard shooting. but my question for each of the three of you is what responsibility do contractors have to ide

mr. farrell. next speaker, please. >> my name is dan a delara. thank you for mentioning about the flour market you are working together it's very helpful to know that information. i am a fourth generation native to san francisco. used to work by coastal for about 10 years new york and san francisco and have come back to san francisco to hear a lot of bad press about our beautiful city. it's really shocking to me and i hope the supervisors will get behind the flower marking making a win-win situation for the developer, the flower market and realize it's part of a wonderful core of workers and history to the central selma. since we've been here alone, there's been about 400 additional signatures to a change.org petition that was on this particular issue so it is something that is important to people in san francisco. as well, the art since in san francisco are seen as people around the world who are valued and i hope that the supervisors will understand that and support that as well moving forward. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name

mrs. farrell. the floor is yours. >> mr. chairman, vice chairman and members of the committee. my name is kevin phillips. i'm the president and ceo of man tech international. we support national security and homeland security. i appreciate the am opportunity to participate in this industry panel and i ask that my written statement be entered as part of the hearing record. senator warner, including our initial outreach through nvtc, 15 companies and six industry associations have worked collectively over the last six to nine months to increase the visibility and importance of this matter and to propose solutions to help improve the process. put simply, the backlog of 700,000 security clearance cases is our industry's number one priority. given the increasing challenges that we face in providing qualified, cleared talent to meet the mission demands, we consider it a national security issue and an all of government issue because it impacts every agency we support. some quick facts in 2014, the time it takes for clearance has more than doubled in our industry. the average time it t

i would like to thank mayor farrell and thank mrs. for your presence here today and messing this occasion. i'm very excited that 62 units will be set aside for veterans homelessness and these individuals who have served our country should not have to worry about a place to sleep at night. in addition, the remaining 56 units will be available for low-income families. this project will be our fourth project in the mission bay south area. and it would follow the ten 1180 fort street project and the soon to be completed 626 mission bay boulevard north just a few blocks away from here. i would like to commend my staff who continue to work on this project daily. we have jeff white here and the rest of the housing team. i want to thank our partners the community development, and more importantly, i want to thank my commission. who has encouraged us to build smart well designed functioning housing. i want to commend our partners, plow shares and chinatown community development center whose staff has been amazing to work with on this project.

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mr. chairman, i'd simply say i think ms. farrell's comments are pretty clear. we've just got to start at the top and i'm disappointed, and i know you are as well, that omb did not take our invitation to actually participate, since they chair the interagency council to try to move forward on this. and i think we need to get them back in at some point. thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. all three of our private sector witnesses today have been understandably very critical of the unacceptable flaws in the government's clearance process and the lack of a system of continuous evaluation. inadequate funding has been mentioned. i want to turn the question around. there have been three widely supported serious breaches at the nsa and all three involved contract employees. it is evident that relying solely on a moment in time shot -- snapshot of an applicant's security profile to determine clearances and secure our information and facilities is simply not working, and i've been a strong supporter of moving to continuous evaluation,

farrell. >> thank you, david. i am proud to be here as the mayor to thank -- [horn honk] i'm going to start off. i want to thank mr. chu along with assembly member ting, but specifically on this issue here. leadership is critical to the future of our city. critical to the future of the waterfront and proud to be here at this announcement today. our waterfront is one of the most iconic parts of san francisco. it always has been. subjects of pictures, it's why tourists come here. it's one of the most beautiful parts of our city. and holding up the waterfront is our seawall. these are the buildings, the waterfront, the restaurants, the small businesses, but it's been holding back the bay to make sure that our tunnels are not flooded. holding back the rising tides of our san francisco bay to make sure we can walk along the waterfront in front of us here today. it is critically important to san francisco today and to the future of our city. we need to do everything we can as a city to make sure it survives and it's strong for the next generation. this project is not cheap. i want to really thank elaine for her leadersh