mrs. lee was the main income provider. relatives and friends started a go fund me campaign the greatest concerns are stopping toxins from destroying more of her body and dealing with the trauma of the disease. >> she'll be faced with knowing what happened to my right arm. her fingers are at risk of amputation and also, her toes. she wonders what is going on. she looks with a puzzled look. >> her son has confidence in his mother's stamina. >> she's critical but makes improvements every day. >> her relatives and friends are fighting for her, as well. >> if you'd like to contribute there is a link on our web site. >> turning to weather, looks like we're in for another week of just warm, dry weather across the bay area. today, sunny skies and perfect for splashing around where a temperature record was set today. families enjoyed chrissy field. toochilly to go into the water there. spencer christian is here with an outlook for the rest of the week. >> you can see fog returning to the coast today. it was mild and mild here in sa

mrs. lee was the main income provider. relatives and friends started a go fund me campaign the greatest concerns are stopping toxins from destroying more of her body and dealing with the trauma of the disease. >> she'll be faced with knowing what happened to my right arm. her fingers are at risk of amputation and also, her toes. she wonders what is going on. she looks with a puzzled look. >> her son has confidence in his mother's stamina. >> she's critical but makes improvements every day. >> her relatives and friends are fighting for her, as well. >> if you'd like to contribute there is a link on our web site. >> turning to weather, looks like we're in for another week of just warm, dry weather across the bay area. today, sunny skies and perfect for splashing around where a temperature record was set today. families enjoyed chrissy field. too chilly to go into the water there. spencer christian is here with an outlook for the rest of the week. >> you can see fog returning to the coast today. it was mild and mild here in s

mr. lee or his designee. the senate will be in order. mr. lee: madam president. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. lee: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: madam president in november 2014, the president of the united states issued a series of executive orders effectively granting amnesty to millions of people who are currently in the united states unlawfully. outside of what our laws, laws passed by congress and signed into law by the president of the united states allows for. in other words under article 1 section 8 we as a congress are given power to establish a uniform system of laws governing immigration and naturalization. if our laws allow someone to come in, they may come in. if they don't then those people need to make sure that they go about getting into the country legally and lawfully. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. lee: if and when the president of the united states or anyone else, for that matter,

mrs. lee has had 4 operation including the amputation of right arm. her finger tips and toes are turning dark and may also need to be am pew taitd. her brother says the disease has put the family on an emotional roller coaster. >> daisy doesn't know what has happened to her. she knows she's in the hospital room. doesn't know how long in. when they finally take the tub off of her we have to explain the to her and we'll be dealing with some additional load at that point too. >> she's unaware of diagnosis and surgery. financial outlook is also uncertain. mrs. lee the main income provider. relatives friends start add go fund me.com campaign. to help what is expected to be a long recoup ration andless of income recoup ration andless of income. the greatest concern are stopping the toxin if destroying more of her body. and dealing with the emotional trauma of the disease. >> she be faced with leak what happened to my right arm. her finger also at risk of amputation. same with toe. she looks at them every day whenever she's able to open her eye her eyes. and

they have not seen anything out of the ordinary in mr. lee's behavior. i spoke with people that knew him. there was a gentleman by the name of kevin franklin a car salesman that sold mr. lee a car several years ago. saw him in a store. described the suspect as polite, outgoing friendly. very out of his character. >> we will follow it. thank you, tyler. there is word isis is struggling to find more fighters and is sending soldiers as young as 15 to fight its battles. coalition air strikes killed some 6,000 isis fighters since august. they are replacing them so quickly. allied forces are not letting up. officials say they carried out more than 25 air strikes in iraq and syria in the last two days alone. there is no word from the pilot from jordan who officials say is being held hostage. yesterday militants say they cut off the heads of two more hostages. that word came a day after the terror group released another video that seems to show the beheading of another japanese hostage. isis demanded japan pay andransom for the hostages. the group is also having

mrs. lee was diagnosed on february first, bacteria produce toxin that destroy tissue including skin and/or began. the family doesn't know how she got the infection. lee has had 4 operations including the amputation of her right arm the amputation of her right arm. >> she will be faced with like what happened to my right arm. her fing remembers also at risk of amputation. same with her toe. she look at them every day whenever she open her eye and she wonders what is going on because she look at them with puzzle look. >>reporter: relatives and friends have set up a go fund me campaign to help with medical bills. nearly 40,000 dollars has been raised. >> all right. you are about to meet a remarkable bay area teenager. truly a st where you live. turned his passion for reading in a powerful effort to spread the word about literacy in his community. cornell is in the newsroom with the story. cornell very impressive young man. >>reporter: absolutely he's one amazing teenager dan. he created a collect

mrs. lee was diagnosed on february first, bacteria produce toxin that destroy tissue including skin and/or began. the family doesn't know how she got the infection. lee has had 4 operations including the amputation of her right arm the amputation of her right arm. >> she will be faced with like what happened to my right arm. her fing remembers also at risk of amputation. same with her toe. she look at them every day whenever she open her eye and she wonders what is going on because she look at them with puzzle look. >>reporter: relatives and friends have set up a go fund me campaign to help with medical bills. nearly 40,000 dollars has been raised. >> all right. you are about to meet a remarkable bay area teenager. truly a star where you live. turned his passion for reading in a powerful effort to spread the word about literacy in his community. cornell is in the newsroom with the story. cornell very impressive young man. >>reporter: absolutely he's one amazing teenager dan. he created a colle

mrs. lee was diagnosed on february first, bacteria produce toxin that destroy tissue including skin and/or began. the family doesn't know how she got the infection. lee has had 4 operations including the amputation of her right arm the amputation of her right arm. >> she will be faced with like what happened to my right arm. her fing remembers also at risk of amputation. same with her toe. she look at them every day whenever she open her eye and she wonders what is going on because she look at them with puzzle look. >>reporter: relatives and friends have set up a go fund me campaign to help with medical bills. nearly 40,000 dollars has been raised. >> all right. you are about to meet a remarkable bay area teenager. truly a star where you live. turned his passion for reading in a powerful effort to spread the word about literacy in his community. cornell is in the newsroom with the story. cornell very impressive young man. >>reporter: absolutely he's one amazing teenager dan. he created a colle

graham. >> no by proxy. >> mr. lee. >> know by proxy. >> mr. cruz. >> know by proxy. -- no by proxy. >> mr. leahy. >> aye. >> mrs. feinstein. >> aye. >> mr. dervish. a>> aye. >> mr. blumenthal. >> aye. >> mr. chairman. >> aye. >> by that rollcall vote miss lunch will be reported to the floor. we will now consider the rest of the nominees. i should name these. don't go until you get names. then we vote. michelle lee. jim parish. to the courts of claims, financial. patricia mccarthy. armando on neil. >> a personal privilege. >> would everyone give senator feinstein the courtesy of listening. all of those in favor of the nominees just named, signified by saying aye. >> aye. >> ayes appear to have it. we have over a quorum present. the nominees have reported to the floor. senator feinstein read >> thank you. i would like to recognize my chief counsel, neil quencher, who is leaving the senate to return to the private sector. he has served me in the people of california well for nearly half of my 22 years in the senate. serving as my chief counsel fr

mrs. lee. >> thank you chairman alexander and senator murray for your vision and for this opportunity to offer my remarks regarding impact of testing accountability on our public school children. i'm also a parent of a sixth grader, 11-year-old, and so i speak to you both as a public school parent and as a teacher. i want to provide some context that i've learned about the current educational policies and they're driven by business. the use of competitive performance based practices have long been assumed to motivate workers. microsoft and adobe systems are some of the companies who adopted stack ranking, the practice of applying rewards, consequences and rankings based on performance. these same business advisers have informed many of our nation's biggest districts including mine. in the past few years, these businesses have abandoned this practice because they have proven to have disastrous effects on collaboration, problem solving and innovation. what was bad for business has been disastrou

mr. lee: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president reserving the right to object, the land and water conservation fund is used for a number of purposes although the primary purpose involves the acquisition of new federal land. funding the acquisition of new federal land at a time when federal agencies can barely take care of the land they already have does raise some rather significant questions that need to be addressed. the department of interior faces a combined maintenance backlog of over $20 billion. $13 billion in our national park service alone. we struggle with ways to fund the payment in lieu of taxes program, the intent of which was to mitigate the burden of federal land to local communities where there is an abundance of federal land that can't be taxed. and coming from a date state that's dominated by federal landownership, two-thirds of utah two-thirds of the land in utah is controlled by federal agencies. any new federal landownership must be examined with a healthy degree of skepticism. there are many issues t

chases george mccell land off the peninsula those damn newspapers are speaking very differently about mr. lee at that point. >> what was grant's opinion about robert e. lee. >> grant says that lee has -- it's almost impossible to be able to read his facial expressions. even in this moment of ultimate defeat for lee, he is holding himself together with complete self-control and grant knows that. the other thing that is so interesting about that meeting between grant and lee is that grant actually has a pretty good memory of robert e. lee from the mexican-american war, and lee has been struggling to sort of picture grant's face the whole time he has been fighting him, because during that time robert e. lee what much more important that ulysses s. grant and there's one more meeting -- another meeting that happens between grant and lee and that takes place at the white house when grant becomes president and robert eastern lee actually goes to the white house and meets the newest occupant. you can only imagine what that meeting must have been like for robert e. lee. >> you say he had this peculiar

quorum call: mr. lee: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah.. mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president, i wish to speak briefly in support of this resolution. first of all i wish to thank my distinguished colleague the senior senator from tennessee for his leadership in introducing this legislation. the senator from tennessee who is now sitting in the chair has shown great leadership on this issue with his mastery of the senate rules his familiarity with the procedures of the senate and the senate's history his love for the senate as an institution. the sponsor of this measure understands and appreciates the importance of maintaining order in the senate. and it's to this issue that i'd like to speak briefly. when the senate made this change in november of 2013, what happened was that all of a sudden we had a split a split that occurred between, on the one hand, the wording of the rule itself that governs cloture; on the other hand the precedent by which the senate pu

chases george mccell land off the peninsula those damn newspapers are speaking very differently about mr. lee at that point. >> what was grant's opinion about robert e. lee. >> grant says that lee has -- it's almost impossible to be able to read his facial expressions. even in this moment of ultimate defeat for lee, he is holding himself together with complete self-control and grant knows that. the other thing that is so interesting about that meeting between grant and lee is that grant actually has a pretty good memory of robert e. lee from the mexican-american war, and lee has been struggling to sort of picture grant's face the whole time he has been fighting him, because during that time robert e. lee what much more important that ulysses s. grant and there's one more meeting -- another meeting that happens between grant and lee and that takes place at the white house when grant becomes president and robert eastern lee actually goes to the white house and meets the newest occupant. you can only imagine what that meeting must have been like for robert e. lee. >> you say he had this peculiar

this is lee linz, mrs. a -- lee linz, mississippi.aller: i want you to understand that there has historically been to standards. as ben white european american society standards and there have been standards of people of color. i've been a table game manager. i've been a military specialists. i have specialist information on on missile systems. i've been a game manager at casinos. i've managed restaurants. i been responsible for hundreds of thousands of even millions of dr. -- dollars of property and yet, i was going to chicago and my home town to visit my family. i was going to be back in the gaming industry. i didn't touch it. now i am accused of breaking into a vehicle and locked in a cook county jail for six months. now, i cannot work back in the industry that i worked in my whole life. there were no broken locks, no broken doors. just the police picked me up. not only that, they said that i the persons id on me. everybody in chicago knows how racist they are. they told the grand jury that they put this id on me. i was convicted o

mr. lee. mr. graham. mr. cruz. mr. reid. mr. nelson. mrs. gillibrand. mr. donnelly. mr. king. mr. heinreich. mr. chairman? >> 25 ayes, one no instruction. >> it will be reported favorably to the floor of the senate and hopefully we can get a vote perhaps even as early as tomorrow. >> do you want to keep it open for sullivan to vote? >> no. we'll leave it open for senator sullivan to make his wishes known. for awhile. the armed services committee meets today to receive testimony on our nation's defense budget and priorities from the bipartisan national defense panel. this group of former military leaders, members of congress and pentagon officials that served release a report on our nation's defense strategy last year. we have with us two distinguish distinguished members with us today. they are among the most respected defense experts on both sides of the aisle. we're grateful for you to appear before us today. also dr. william perry for his leadership and the panels members and staff for their diligent work. the national defense panel's bipartisan and consensus report is a compel

. >> we go to mr. lees of new york. >> thank you mr. chairman. i believe personally that's good that the president has brought an authorization for the use of force against isis. my litmus test is going to be very simple. are we doing absolutely everything in our power to ensure that we win? i have some questions and concerns. the president in his original strategy back in september, when he gave a speech, he was talking about dropping bombs and a reliance on iraqi military and law enforcement to finish the job. when i was in iraq which 2006 it was an accomplishment to get them to show up to work. expecting no threat that day. to get them to show up to a precinct a quarter mile from their house. so relying on elements on the ground who have no morale new orleanser peat detroit tisch, don't have the training and will, something we have to take into account. in that speech the president said, this is going to be different than past wars in iraq and afghanistan because there will be no boots on the ground. and in the same exact speech he says, tonig

. >> mr. lee. >> mr. graham. >> aye by proxy. mr. cruz. >> aye by proxy. mr. reed. aye. >> mr. nelson. mr. mccaskill. mr. manchin. miss shaheen. mrs. gillibrand. mr. blumenthal. mr. donnelly. mr. hirono. mr. kaine. >> aye by proxy. >> mr. king. mr. heinrich. mr. chairman. >> aye. >> 25 ayes, one no instruction. >> then the motion will be reported favorably of dr. carter's nomination to the senate to the floor of the senate and hopefully we can get a vote perhaps even as early as tomorrow. >> do you want to keep it open? >> we'll leave it opened for senator sullivan to make his wishes known for a while. i'm sure this committee meets today to receive testimony on our nation's defense budget and priorities from the bipartisan national defense panel. this group of former military leaders, members of congress and pentagon officials who served under republican and democratic presidents released their unanimous recommendations in a report on our nation's defense strategy last year. we have with us today two distinguished members of the national defense panel, eric adelman and michele

>> mr. lee zeldon of new york followed by minnesota, and that's it. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. secretary, there was a letter that was sent from the other president to congress with the authorization for the use of force. if i could just read a couple of sentences from that letter. the authorization i propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances such as rescue operations involving u.s. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against isil leadership. it would also authorize the use of u.s. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended such as intelligence collection and sharing missions to enable kinetic strikes for the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice. this is the letter from the president four or five photographs. when congressman gracin was asking whether or not the authorization was providing authorization for offensive operations, you had indicated no. obviously for several months, we have been utilizing

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. >> mr. lee zell of new york followed by mr. tom emert of minnesota and that's it. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. secretary, there was a letter that was sent from the other president to congress with the authorization for the use of force. if i could just read a couple of sentences from that letter. the authorization i propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances such as rescue operations involving u.s. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against isil leadership. it would also authorize the use of u.s. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing missions to enable kinetic strikes for the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces. this is the letter from the president four or five paragraphs that accompany the request for the authorization for the use of force. when congressman grayson

. >> we go to mr. lee zeldin of new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i believe personally it's good that the president has brought an authorization for the use of force against isis. my litmus test is going to be very simple. are we doing absolutely everything in our power to ensure that we win? i have some questions and concerns. the president in his original strategy back in september when he gave a speech, he was talk abouting dropping bombs and a reliance on iraqi military and law enforcement to finish the job. when i was in iraq in 2006, it was an accomplishment to get them to show up to work. expect nothing threat that day to get them to show up to a precinct that's a quarter mile to their house. we were trying to get them to show up. so relying on elements on the ground who have no morale no patriotism, they don't have the resources or the training or the will is something we have to take into account. in that speech the president said this was going to be different than past wars in iraq and afghanistan because there will be no boots on the gro

. >> we go to mr. lee zeldin of new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i believe personally it's good that the president has broadened authorization for the use of force against isis. my litmus test is going to be very simple. are we doing absolutely everything in our power to ensure that we win? i have some questions and concerns. the president in his original strategy back in september when strategy back in september when he gave a speech, he was talking about dropping bombs and a reliance on iraqi military and law enforcement to finish the job. when i was in iraq in 2006, it was an accomplishment to get them to show up to work. expect nothing threat that day, to get them to show up to a precinct that's a quarter mile to their house. we were trying to get them to show up. so relying on elements on the ground who have no morale, no patriotism, they don't have the resources or the training or the will is something we have to take into account. in that speech, the president said this was going to be different than past wars in iraq and afghanistan because

mr. mayor. >>mayor edwin m. lee: good afternoon, everyone. i think this board knows as everyone else that it's an important event for our culture and communities and time to celebrate with family and friends and proud to be a mayor that celebrates our diversity and communities of all diversities. i look forward to working with all of you in this rear of the ram. a time of steady hard work and ensure this is a safe place for everyone. by ensuring that our streets remain safer, i have been thinking about the gun violence that has dropped in our city but the recent violence in you are city is unacceptable. in responsibility to that, the response of our police department along with others are innovating their strategies and prevent those from becoming more deadly and fully aware that poverty can contribute to violence. that's why we'll ensure public housing and jobs and non-profits through community partners and you have called to residents themselves to report violence in our neighborhoods and the city will do more to save lives and keep our str

it's my great pleasure to introduce mayor ed lee and to thank him and the entire board of supervisors for their support on this remarkable project. mr. mayor. [ applause ] >>mayor edwin m. lee: wow, good morning, everyone. this is so exciting. i want to first of all congratulate chancellor and mark for your wonderful leadership. the relationship between uc san francisco, our general hospital in the city is one that is very very unique. but before i go through more of the details that i'm excited today to reflect on, let me say this, you know, there is a new gold rush in san francisco. and the gold rush is about talent, not about nugget of gold, but about nuggets of knowledge and talent. this is what you have seen san francisco has been mining for many decades. it's a gold rush. i want to say that because that was one of the most exciting times in the history of our city. i want to compare that to what is happening here in mission bay and with our relationship with ucsf that they are mining the future and the present talent of the entire world to come here and to innovate and that is attracting as much as what san francisco was in th

mr. lee: mr. president i stand before this body this afternoon to encourage my colleagues particularly my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to take into account the need to fund the department of homeland security. importantly the house of representatives acted responsibly in passing legislation to keep the department of homeland security funded and they did so, they acted more than a month in advance of the scheduled expiration of the existing funding stream for the department of homeland security. this was a good move but it was likewise a good move of the majority leader to bring up this bill for consideration nearly a month before the expiration of the existing funding. i applauded this effort and still do. one of the reasons why it was so important is that it would help us avoid the cliff effect and what i mean by that is the dynamic that occurs every time we have a scheduled expiration of funding and we have the house and the senate waiting until the last minute, sometimes with only

jackson lee: yesterday i inadvertently missed because i was detained on congressional business both by mr. connolly. i ask unanimous consent to vote aye on that and have it placed appropriately in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman's statement will appear in the record. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. hoyer: i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the gentleman from california, mr. mccarthy, the schedule for the week to come the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: i yield to my friend mr. mccarthy. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker on monday, no votes are expected in the house. on tuesday, the house will meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business, votes will be postponed until 6:30. on wednesday and thursday, the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. on

mr. speaker. and i would like to have the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee, speak and unfortunately, i see the difficulty of being the anchor. i have to ask that you keep your remarks at two minutes so the other minutes can get on the record. thank you. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, this is a very important evening and i thank my colleagues, both mr. payne of new jersey and ms. kelly, for, first of all taking up a very important challenge of being able to lead the members of the congressional black caucus through this period of challenge to america. and i'm reflective of the numbers of members who have had the chance to convey their thoughts and each one i thank personally from our chairman, mr. g.k. butterfield, for his leadership and his internal knowledge from his walk in life of the civil rights journey. mr. clyburn for living and understanding the civil rights journey and conveying it in his legislative journey. for mr. rangel for his service to this nation as a korean war vet, and then coming home to be a vet of the civil rights effort. and then of cou

happen that a group of over one hundred stakeholders heard from supervisor cohen and from mayor ed lee and from mr. also from mr. blackwell and myself and had the opportunity to talk about head talks about conversations that are built around the life course challenges for the men and young boys and girls of color we discussions our next steps i want share with the community not just a reaction to the president obama's call but a system tisk goal we're working hard with the city partners and in conjunction with the city family to make a reality so look forward to share more information with the community in that regard this ego ladies and gentlemen, as part of our commitment to this endeavor we conducted a national search we've been unvfbl to close the gop gap i'm proud to say we've hired a special assistant for african-american assistant that reports to the instructor of the schools i'm happen this evening to introduce him to our community his name a mr. dick i didn't i'm proud to say he's a product of the san francisco unified school district where he was a student and a at lake shore and he's a