mr. johnson, mr. johnson, i would like to here from you do what's to you a tribute our growth in the economy and the progress we have made? >> well, congressman, the recovery is due in part to the fact that it is a strong, vibrant nation that took an enormous punch in the face and managed to get themselves back up. they needed assistance. the central bank absolutely assisted and i think they should get kudos. this is out of the textbook. my colleagues has spoken in favor about stimulus of some kind. the disappointment to me is that we did not all work together. it is rather sad and unfortunate and had a negative consequence that we have so much confrontation. massive ground for agreement >> thank you. i also want to pick up where mr. blumenthal left off. i agree it is the most direct and immediate way to help our economy. there is not one of us to would not have a district that would benefit greatly from an adequate level of investment in infrastructure mr. johnson, you started to say something about i

mr. johnson.r we have unfairly targeted low and moderately low americans with significant cuts in assistance with at least 69% of nondefense cuts coming to programs serving people of limited means. now, i want you to tell us, do you food, and education assistance to struggling americans might be counter-productive to3 [ñ long term economic growth? >> yes mr. louis. i think the human capital.t- people's ability to ñimlearn. children's ability to go to school and to concentrate. this is absolutely affected by their access to nutrition, health care. headic medicaid for children is a very sensible investment in the longer future growth2q3= of the country and fiscal sustainability because those are the people who pay taxes when they are growth up. if they can't concentrate, if they are sick. if they are absent from school for those reasons or if their family has medical emergencies that mean they can't keep the children in school all of this impacts negatively obviously the individuals in the z$ñ famil

mr. johnson on trade. you wrote an article in 2013 about what we needed to of -- to avoid in trade deals, which looks lovely from the outside. you talked about trade expanding unfairly at times, without a loving playing -- level playing field that protects our workers who benefit from tree trade -- free trade. is it the workers in the factories echo or is it the -- factories? or is that the shareholders and executives at the top? >> as you know, and who and as we have been discussing all morning, many of the gains have been realized at the top of the distribution. much of that is for management for ceos. i think that this is an important point about tpp, which is really, as i understand it, in issue before this community -- committee. in the auto industry, japan has had a very closed market for cars and for auto-parts for a very long time. are they really offering to open that up to u.s. export? that would seem like an appealing opportunity. to an extent will be they -- will they be held accountable for th

mr. johnson. we have covered a lot of territory. the u.s. in the fact shirring in particular but with the chairman said in his introductory remarks the debt crisis is a dark cloud that hangs over us. to date is 18 trillion to keep the interest rate at zero? i cannot imagine if the if you agree that is possible. so we have the industry in its -- issue. does anyone think we obtained inflation it is never an issue in the future? if you raise interest rates to anybody give me numbers? interest rates if we don't have the increase will rise and given the size of the debt that will be a substantial increase of the deficit and the growth of the debt. so if there are changes of the entitlement programs with the debt to gdp ratio of 70% now headed at 100 is serious trouble. it is held by people in the united states. they say it is not such a good idea that the interest rates are rising. so for the congress a of this committee to slow the growth of spending with tax reform to raise revenue. but over the next 10 years the cbo baseline autopilot says the

mrs. johnson during her time in the white house and afterward, championed this movement when she promoted programs like highway beautification. she started the lady bird johnson center here in austin and other environmental-type programs. >> the beatles! >> ? oh, yeah i will tell you something i think you will understand when i say that something i wanna hold your hand ? >> music was a very large part of the 1960's. in partnership with the grammy museum, we have both the soundtrack for the decade that we highlight within the exhibit -- the grammy museum put together a panel of musical experts. some of the most influential songs of the 1960's and the lbj library then posted those songs on her website and allow the public to vote on which were the most popular songs. bob dylan, "blowing in the wind" -- that occupies the top spot. >> ? the answer is blowing in the wind ? >> with our exhibit program, we hope to give people a better understanding of american history, especially we are looking to give a different perspective on not only the decade of the 1960's, but the entire scope of american

mr. johnson's head at the moment of discharge. mr. johnson is believed to have died immediately. >> reporter: day one of the inquest into the december 15 siege heard equally distressing news about the second victim mother of three katrina dawson. >> ms. dawson was struck by sick frogless of a police bullet or bullets which ricochetted from hard surfaces into her body. >> reporter: inquiry confirmed it was the police sniper sitting at channel 740 mears away who saw 34-year-old johnson killed. the words triggered the police raid with 11 distraction grenades launched. a total of 22 bullets fired by tactical response police. he was hit in the head twice and body 11 times. bullets and fragments hit him who, it seems, was killed instantly. >> reporter: he fired the shotgun a total of five times. first at the six hostages who kaeped at 2:04 a.m. he missed. the second shot killed johnson at 2:13 a.m. shots three, four, and five were at police as they stormed the cafe 30 second later. he missed each time. the four others injured including a pol

mrs. johnson during her time in the white house and afterward, championed this movement when she promoted rams like highway beautification. she started the lady bird johnson center here in austin and other environmental-type programs. >> the beatles! >> ♪ oh, yeah i will tell you something i think you will understand when i say that something i wanna hold your hand ♪ >> music was a very large part of the 1960's. in partnership with the grammy museum, we have both the soundtrack for the decade that we highlight within the exhibit -- the grammy museum put together a panel of musical experts. some of the most influential songs of the making 60's and the lbj library then posted those songs on her website and allow the public to vote on which were the most popular songs. bob dylan, "blowing in the wind" -- that occupies the top spot. >> ♪ the answer is blowing in the wind ♪ >> with our exhibit program, we hope to give people a better understanding of american history, especially we are looking to give a different perspective on not only the decade of the 1960's, but the entire scope of american

mr. johnson what kind of problems do you see? >> i see a conflict here.guys or two friends getting together. this is an individual who has gotten a contract from an authority that the governor controls, and then two months later is flying on this guy's private jet, not just himself, the family the four kids and a security force, all fly out to dallas. they're all lodged in a hotel. they had to pay for lodging, they had to pay for the transportation there, and the meals, and it's just two friends getting together. i'm not buying that. this doesn't make sense to me at all. >> are you calling for it to stop? there's a game this weekend, on the road in grind bay. >> i'm going to call for an investigation. i'm going to ask assemblyman wisniewski wisniewski, the chair of the committee to expand their investigation to include this latest incident. >> brad woodhouse, i was reading in the american bridge 21st century your playbook for the upcoming election. in it you've got a section in there about travel issues with chris christie. this isn't the first time he's

mr. johnson on trade. you wrote an article in 2013 on what we need to avoid entry deals, which look lovely on the outside. you talked about trade expanding unfairly at times without a level playing field that does not protect our workers who benefit from free trade. is it the workers in the factories? or is it the shareholders and executives at the top that you are talking about? >> as you know, and as we have been discussing, most of the gains in terms of income have been realized at the top of the income distribution. most of that is for management and ceos __ highly skilled labor has also done well. i think this is important to talk about with tpp. this is an issue before this committee. in the auto industry, japan has had a very close market for a long time. are they willing to open that up to u. s. exports? that would seem like an appealing opportunity. if you grant tpa, you get the fast track, you will not be engaged in a discussion. >> we will leave this committee hearing now, you can follow it onli

mr. johnson or mr.entation about the fright mobility boards recommends recommendation and what would your recommendation be on how to improve for the competitiveness of the infrastructure. >> typically your ports will approach it with the rail partners. we work closely with florida east coast rail because they are truly or partners. we're looking for their advice input. we are concerned in terms of implementation of cost and delay. the big thing is making sure on the regulatory side things don't become overly burdensome but also there's a focus on really supporting the necessary dollars for the infrastructure. that really is the key for us. the tiger program was instrumental for our ports. that project will not have happened. we're really focused on that infrastructure plan. i think that's true for most ports in america. >> getting those recommendations implemented. >> i think in terms of the partnership that we talked about, shortly the short lines are major partners about 20% of our freight either ori

mr. johnson from her office will be joining us this is him now there he is. >> galileo's guys move so fast here it's a good nirng thing any office is close i'm the perspective aid there supervisor breed i think that is the most important legislation you'll see all year thank you for laughing it was a joke. >> this was probably a verbal amendment that supervisor breed would have done on the floor when the two legislation were going through but it was president chiu's last meeting she didn't want to delay it the jest of it is the two pieces of formula retail that passed if december exploded new requirements on the shutter contractor of formula retail when the lobby becomes operative on july 3rd of this year those contractors will be notified about the new contracts as negotiated, however, there is a collapse a small collapse of companies operating under existing contracts that under the current law will not be notified about the 94 new laws so all it does for the existing contractors the janitorial contractors operating under the contracts let's make sure that the formula retails disclose to

mr. johnson. >> congratulations on being the knew chairman, and i thank thank you for this hearing is well. i want to begin by asking you some questions regarding the social security disability. as you may no the program is projected to become insolvent in 2016 and the last thing that should happen is congress raising the retirement program to bail out the disability program. this is worse than kicking the can down the road and makes the social security retirement program works without doing anything to fix it. do you believe that reforming disability insurance would improve economic growth at all? >> yes and a couple of ways. on the merits the merits of the program itself we have a clear issue with people going on. on. it is useful to review the definition of disability. we now basically divide people into concrete groups work disabled and a much more fluid reality about people with physical and mental disabilities being able to continue to work. there is a lot of entry process. the 2nd thing is

mr. johnson, what's the purpose of publishing something that's in the public domain? >> guest: well, for one thing it's not readily available as a print book and we felt that that was an important or format for it to be in so that it could just circulate more widely, be more accessible to more people, be more affordable and findable for most people. we also felt that the edition of it that was issued by the government which is a very low resolution pdf format was very difficult to read. you know it's not laid out and properly formatted like a book. it's just like a huge collection of manuscript pages, and it's very difficult to read because it's so low resolution it's very difficult to search. it's almost impossible to surgery, in fact. so we -- to search, in fact. so we wanted to make a better edition of that so i don't know if people really want to read that edition the way you would read a book, but it's more useful to have that for researchers and academics and things like that, to have a more searchable edition of the book. >> host: now how much of the report wil

mr. johnson had to leave. >> to leave if there's no further public comment we'll close. the next item is item k the citizens advisory committee reports and for the board members i'll be making appointments do any colleagues have any appointment to mention seen we'll move on the item l the special order of business may i hear a second and motion for the office of education balance scorecard plan for the student achievement >> so moved. >> mr. superintendant who reads it into the record. >> i'd like to call dr. roderick to please come forward and do that. >> sorry good evening superintendent carranza and commissioner president murase and commissioners student members welcome once again, this special order of business concerns the presentation for approval san francisco school district and county balanced scorecards for the student achievement as a brief overview the site for the work is there final fall allocations that were given to them in the fall for the last few months to look at the data patterns and revise my necessary tragedies we consider the resources the general

mr. johnson, you have all raised concerns and raised issues and certainly issues that you have said the commissioners all have individualized and so many collective views on. i cannot say i agree with everything that was said here, but what i can say that we hear there are concerns. we are working very hard to address those concerns and we are always willing to listen. next item. city clerk: line item 3. chiefs reports, review activities. >> commissioners, public, i'm going to defer most of my time to the presentation on the redistricting. i know there is a lot of people here that want to hear it. that said, we did unfortunately have two officers or actually unfortunately have two officers where they were convicted friday afternoon on felonies in federal court. you have paperwork in their packets where i'm requesting immediate termination. one of those officers has already resigned. the resignation is in there as well. i think it's important though that i do have assurance from the u.s. attorney early on that it was her opinion and that the of those from the fbi that they did not believe that there w

mr. johnson and the mta board and the airport commission what i agree i'm going to run out of time have area hearing to discuss that matter at hand frankly at your board or use your compensation to see if you can enforce the t nc drivers to have >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> actually i believe they were offering $4 rides around time can't compete with that one of your approved taxi school is a former students to derive uber i came across the e-mails the current students they're being pouched before that he get their jobs because it takes awhile is get the licensee came back came by this text on facebook he don't want to put it on the overhead i called the number and the person was a teacher and identified himself i spoke to him and he assured me this was a real job not beauty school good figure i wonder if at the says that to the men and i'll be driving for his company he hung up on me when i asked him pointed out questions first of all they explicit give them their information they listed that by uber and lift there's another issue by information given to uber i

mr. johnson, you are recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i rise to speak in opposition of the regulatory accountability act of 2014. i asked the committee to take an order of my amendment. this is a sweeping revision of the administrative procedure act that consulates the agency rulemaking process through numerous analytical requirements. despite the mantra from the majority party that we want to get the government off the backs of people or we want to remove burdensome regulations, what this regulatory accountability act does is it doesn't streamlined the rulemaking process. it actually proposes new requirements on agencies with the effect of deregulating industries by halting the rulemaking process so these requirements are largely opposed by the leading law experts and they would cause years of delays in rulemaking or deregulate entire industries through rulemaking avoidance by agencies. as a result of this deregulation, it would seriously undermine the critical role of agencies in protecting public health and safety, undermining protect

mr. johnson of fdc for about two years regarding the community businesses. one of the letters, not that i am a prophet or anything, but i did mention to him, what if these plans and all these things do not work in the hear a center goes dark meaning close as out? we never wanted to see a foreclosure itself because the community as well as the city has put a lot of investment, time and energy to make sure anchor building worked for the community. unfortunately, in one of his response it was very vague and general and left me in a position where i could not tell the community in honesty with the heritage center, i think at this point, there are so many unanswered questions and why is he still at the table? this is the question i get every day. i think we need something to take back to the community that is solid. and if he is saying he is pulling out with the addition, how is that going to work? i'm just putting it in the universe. because we are dealing with time and the community as well as others is very concerned that nobody knows the direction of the fill

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johnson. in selma itself, people were organizing and mobilizing. as mr.t there was a smooth relationship between king and lbj are also complex. if you read vincent harding's and the rivers in the town hall franklin's and the freedom of slavery -- if you look at these historic records and the work of people who were in no way historians, they depend -- to pick the tensions between the civil rights movement and johnson from 1963 when johnson became president until 1968. now, johnson stands out relative to who came before him including president kennedy. and who came after him immediately with president nixon and that he really did have a commitment in pushing through the voting's right act. it was not tension free. to a great degree, he and civil rights leaders pushed and pushed and pushed and forced johnson to make some of those that -- decisions. he was not completely on board as implied by his remarks. host: we are talking this morning with congresswoman eddie burning -- eddie bernice johnson. you can call in with your questions and comments for her. we'

mr. johnson? on to speak to his mother on the phone for an update. >> thank you. >> hello. so what's the plan? so i'm getting out today? thank you, mom. thank you. i love you, too. really good to hear. my mom, basically my backbone. any time i need something, regardless of how she's feeling, she gets it done. i don't know how many times my mother has pulled out miracles. >> yes, ma'am? >> yes, sir, i'm coming to pick up my son, geraldo johnson jr. >> the bond is heavy. prior to even coming to court this morning, i prayed. i stayed in constant contact with a lot of friends and family. a lot of people have been praying for us. i knew as long as he got a bond it was going to be okay and that's exactly what it is. >> all right, man. take it easy now. >> i couldn't put a band-aid on it. i couldn't kiss it and make it go away. it's a process and it's definitely been hard for myself and my entire family. >> hi, baby. >> come on now, randy, let somebody else get some. come on. >>> coming up, david ratliff

mr. johnson, down in front. >> may we have a moment of silence. a moment of silence.ve thanks for the memory and challenge. amen. >> thank you for coming out. we appreciate you. go and do your day of service. and keep in mind those less fortunate than us. >> look up your everybody. here we go. look up here. thank you. >> the nation marks the birthday of dr. martin luther king junior today. next a discussion on. then a discussion on race relations with dr. ben carson. later a breakfast in remembrance of dr. martin luther king jr.. following a two-year study a report was released about the cleveland police department. it was part of a discussion at the city

mr. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of h.r. -- of the rule in support of h.r. 351. during the 113th congress, identical legislation passed the house of representatives as h.r. 6. the domestic prosperity and global freedom act. long before its passage it moved through the entire legislative process at the house level. this included a hearing as well as an eventual markup at the subcommittee on energy and power. a subsequent full committee markup followed and it was placed on the calendar. they established rule 636, the rule for consideration of h.r. 6. after that rule was adopted it was debated, amended and ultimately passed the house of representatives with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote. the president did not issue a veto threat. the energy renaissance that's swept across america over the last few years has transformed the united states from an increasingly energy dependent nation beholden to the whims of opec, to our current position as the

mr. johnson's ability to get this done. let's remember, he ran he was second in command just about and did the oh don't ask don't tell review and change and implementation over at the department of justice. so he knows what it is to make systemic changes and he'll make that systemic change now over at homeland security. and let me just say there. you know what? i heard that antonio from other people. the president didn't speak. but he spoke so loudly on november 20th, i mean, it's still being echoing throughout our community. we had a wonderful event full house providence rhode island, we had a full house in new jersey on friday. i'm going to charlotte and i'm going to charleston and jan and i are going to have an activity in this wonderful catholic church on -- >> valentine's day! >> illinois folks hanging together. >> saturday it's going to be valentine's and we're going to be sharing the love of this congress and this president. so he doesn't really have to -- we have to sign up 5 million people. >> want to get a couple

mr. johnson signed that bill and it became the law the land. and so in america now, we have the civil rights bill and i'm happy to report to you that by a large that bill is being implemented in communities all across the south. we have seen some surprising levels of compliance, even in some communities and the state of mississippi. and whenever you can find anything write a mississippi things are getting better. [laughter] >> dr. martin luther king speaking in london december 7 1964. we will return to the speech after this break. ♪ [music break] >> nina simone. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this democracy now! exclusive, we return to martin luther king, jr. in his own words from a recording recently discovered the pacifica radio archives. this is from december 7, 1964 in london, just days before dr. king received the nobel peace prize in oslo, norway. >> we can never forget the fact that just this summer, three civil rights workers were brutally murdered near philadelphia, mississippi. a

mr. johnson. >> mr. chairman, senator nelson of members of the committee on commerce, science and transportation. my name is bill johnson. it pleasure to speak with you today. i'm speedy to you this morning is a former director of where miami and former chair of the ford ports council. i'm also today currently serving as my community's director of water consumer, one of the largest public utilities. i stepped into the raw state level as florida's new secretary of commerce and ceo of enterprise florida. throughout my 35 year public service career, which is largely focused on infrastructure development i've seen firsthand the impact of infrastructure on the ability to thrive economically and of course the need to properly connect existing infrastructure at the local, state and national levels. i strongly believe in order for these types of infrastructure projects to move forward, there needs to be partnerships with rabid sector and of course participation on all three levels of government. when i became dir