. >> mr. scott and mr. allmond, since the leaked memo came out, how has -- if they have, dhs engaged you on the issues that were outlined in the leaked memo? and has there been any suggestion of how you work together to solve any of the issues detailed in the memo, or is that viewed more as the department's internal problems that has not affected the relationship of the industry with the department? >> mr. chairman, dhs discusses these type of issues with the industry through the chemical sector coordinating counsel that mr. scott has been involved in and so have i. we haven't had too many discussions as of yet, but we've had some preliminary discussions about some of the things that have been holding up the program that we've identified for well over a year now. >> mr. scott, you said that this report or that which came out of this report is a wake-up call, not a death knell for the program. it is my hope that that is the case. could you outline why the program as -- as articulated, or as legislatively dra

mr. scott. >> chairman lundgren, ranking member clark, i am chief security officer for the dow chemical co.. i am speaking on behalf of the doubt and american chemistry focus on four points today. there are clearly concerned on all sides about the lack of significant progress on implementation of the physical standards. we see these as management issues and not issues with the cfats concept. companies implement responsible care cote for security. in 2002 and voluntarily and significantly improved security over the past decade spending $10 billion on security enhancements. third cfats has achieved some progress toward improving security of the chemical sector. the design is good. we have an excellent opportunity to direct the board to complete the critical path before us. the lack of significant progress along with apparent internal issues are disheartening but not a cause for altering our course for nullifying the efforts and progress have been made. the open and collaborative partnerships that

mr. scott? >> chairman long green, ranking member clarke, my name is tim scott and i'm the chief security officer for the dow chemical company. speaking today on behalf of the dow and the american chemistry council, the nation's largest trade representative. i'll focus on four points today. first, there are clearly concerns on all sides about the lack of significant progress on the implementation of the chemical facility in our terrorism standards. we see these as management issues and not as issues with the cfats concept. second, acc member companies implemented the responsible care code for security in 2002 and have voluntarily and significantly improved the industry's security over the past decades, spending nearly $10 billion on security enhancements. third, cfats has achieved some progress towards improving the security of our nation's chemical sector. the cfats concept and the design are good. and fourth, we now have an excellent opportunity to correct the course and complete the critical

mr. speaker scott. >> good morning. my name is sharon and i'm vice chair of the district 11 council and a 4 year resident which is located in the heart of district 11. i do not come forward to test by earlier because my neighborhood has never seriously been in danger of being split into another district. but i wanted to take this last opportunity to speak, to publicly thank the task force for not just listening to the public, but to actually hearing all the folks who came to testify. and for your commitment to keeping neighborhoods whole. for you reuniting the other neighborhoods that were split 10 years ago. i also wanted to thank the consultants and kay for all their work in getting the draft maps and the boundaries up on the website so quickly. and lastly i would like to thank any fellow council members who came to testify so passionately but respectfully for their neighborhoods in district 11. so far we have only lost population in those areas we all agreed to sacrifice to keep district 11 whole. it is an honor to s

explanatory documents, and we have supervisors got leaner mr. scott weiner -- we have supervisor scott weiner. >> i think they will move forward together, so thank you, commissioners, for giving me the opportunity to address your about these pieces of legislation. our small-business food scene is a very important one in the city. it creates a lot of jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities for people who may not have those opportunities otherwise, and it also adds to the vibrant and diversity of our city. he mentioned the legislation sponsoring to simplify our permitting process for food and beverage establishments, which the food committee unanimously recommended to the board, but before you today are two pieces of legislation i am sponsoring relating to food trucks, and food trucks are a key part of the food and small business sector in this city, and last year, i got involved, and we have some attention, particularly downtown and in union square, and i got involved to see if we could come up with a solution that treats everyone fairly, recognizes th

talk about ridley scott, and at this point in your career, are there certain iconic directors like mr. scott that you wanted to work with? or does it just happened on this project? >> it happened on this project. but there are a lot of amazing directors of air, and i don't really cover it anybody. andn't try to push myself to their sites and say, what about me? obviously, to be asked by a ridley scott and do something is a great honor, soho i am also in just as excited by the people that i don't know that have written a really interesting script, a first-time film. he won sundance last year with the film "like crazy. it doesn't have a title yet. but it is all improvised, and i found him to be one of the most inspirational guy as i have ever come across in my life. you can find yourself with inspiration in all sorts of people, not necessarily just in the old-time more experienced guys. >> is it important for you to balance out the blockbuster's tough and the not so big, independent stuff? >> if you ask my agent, he would say yes. i just look for work that interests me, whether it is a big bud

. >> thank you, mr. scott. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i was just going back and forth with my aunt who has a nephew serving under you there in korea, young man named jake butler. forgive me but i know you were the commander of the third id and very proud of fort stewart and what you gentleman accomplished, ladies and gentlemen accomplished over there, and representing george well and the united states well. i want to speak just very briefly that we're very proud of. could you speak about the program what it means in a potential conflict with north korea? >> congressman, first off, in respect to jay stars, that gives us moving target capability without going into the classified portion of it. more importantly, what i am looking for as a commander is i have a set of priority intelligence requirements and i welcome any system that is going to help me answer those requirements. it is an added capability that does help us on the peninsula. >> my cousin is honored to serve under you as a commander, his mom wanted to ask why was issued live am

. >> following mrs. scott will be shelby, lisa shin, pierre and natalie brown. >> good morning task force. my name is lois scott, and i live by cathedral, i live on cathedral hill by st. mary's cathedral about two and a half blocks from the proposed hospital site. i'm on the board of the cathedral hill neighbors who were dispointed that our neighborhood who was going to be reunited in your quest and necessity to have the numbers come out was still split. i guess we joined russia hill as one of those neighborhoods that will be permanently split. we're some what of an emerging neighborhood association, that we've only been in existence about half a dozen years, not as long as some of the other neighborhoods in san francisco. we have a huge, huge issue coming up on the construction of the cathedral hill campus of the hospital. 555 beds, a huge impact on our neighborhood. that particular block we urgently request you put that back in district five. it has no population and as a future hospital it will have no popu

the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. scott. >> thank you very much, chairman. welcome, mr. secretary. let me say this is about international monetary policy, we can't leave out what's going on right here at home in the united states. certainly, i want to touch upon the get a progress report from you and share some information about the heart of the problem that caused this whole problem which was housing and mortgages and where we are. as you know, i've been on a mission myself and thanks to you and your help at treasury and getting folks home safe, with that regard, i do want to say if you would just tell your assistant secretary for financial stability timothy ma saudi that we appreciate the fine soopgs he's given to us alo along with others. i want you to know we're going back and having the second home foreclosure event in atlanta, georgia. i mention all of this because we were able to save 3,827 homes last time. this time our goal is 10,000. and we can do this, mr. secretary. a lot of things have happened since last time that i want to talk to you about. i

mr. sanchez? scott sanchez: i do not have much to add. the project is principally permitted and compliant. non-neighborhood notification is required. the appellant property is located to the south. given the location of the south, they would not feature any direct sunlight into that like well. -- light well. the deck is set back from the property line and matches with the light well. when they step back a few feet from the railing, he will not have a direct line into the adjacent property. the appellant has created concerns about privacy, about the potential impact of the grille. i did not even know if there is a requirement to show the gril ol on there. if it were someone to bring a charcoal grill onto the roof, i do not know that would need to be shown on any plan. these are items for the board to consider in your decision making tonight. i am available for any questions. thank you. >> thank you. mr. duffy? >> i do not have much to add either. the real hyper code would be 42 inches high. -- the rail height per code would be 42 inches hi

mr. speaker scott. >> good morning. my name is sharon and i'm vice chair of the district 11 council and a 4 year resident which is located in the heart of district 11. i do not come forward to test by earlier because my neighborhood has never seriously been in danger of being split into another district. danger of being split into another district.

>> it's not, you know, i don't think i'm in a position to judge mr. scott.go. dihave a good deal of exposure to him, at least for a reporter. but it's surprising. i would say that. it would be surprising to me based on what i know about the man. but that is not to say that i know the man particularly well. >> david, i want to follow up there. your sense is that this is not something that was directed by bettenville to mexico, it was not one of those do what you need to do to get it done? >> well, you know, i think in this case -- again, we're relying here, i've not done independent reporting,steve, on the "new york times." it does appear that wright, who was running the mexican makes at that time was very, very aggressive. mr. wright succeeded and moved up in the organization and at one point not long oofr that ran walmart stars in the u.s. and was discussed as a potential candidate to replace mr. scott as ceo. that job went to mike duke. but he was certainly in that conversation and had been for some time. so he had a great deal of success. i can't speak to

mr. scott: in other parts of the country it may sell as much as $15,000 an acre. if you are a farm family with 66 acres, that's one of america's millionaires. these are hardworking middle-income americans who saved all their lives to pay for the farm. we need to work to protect these families' farms so that the next generation can carry on their legacy. we hear a lot about that, protecting the american farmer from the other side of the aisle yet they propose tax policies that do the exact opposite and very much would destroy our agricultural industry and the safety net that it provides in this country. in fact, if you follow their tax policy, america's farmers will simply be another statistic. what statistic? as it stands today, approximately 30% of family businesses will be passed on to the family second generation. only in america. 12% will make it to the third generation and only 3% of all family businesses make it to the fourth generation or beyond. for a family farmer, for a small business owner, that's very disheartening. however, if the president has his wa

. >> mr. scott for five minutes. >> thanks, madam chairman. mr. cordray, how long have you been on the job? >> i have been on the job for three months - five days. -- minus five days. >> what areas have raised the greatest number of complaints or concerns if you had to prioritize on where there is the greatest area of problems and abusive practices in carrying out your mission. what would that be. would it be more disservice is or student loans or credit cards? >> it is hard to determine trends because it has been a short time. we have been -- been reseeding complaint in stages. the pace of complaints have been fast is in the mortgage area, especially around foreclosures and the frustration people feel. the pattern of complaints we are receiving mirrors the complaints each of your offices receipt from your constituents. we also receive a lot of complaint around credit cards, typically for small dollar issues. it is still frustrating for people. we have begun receiving complaints about student loans. we expect we will have a significant volume of t

i'm glad we don't have to do that now and i thank you, chairman scott. >> thank you, mr. conyers. now for equal time, we recognize hill harper. >> thank you so much, chairman. i was wearing my hoody and i got stopped on the way. you know, it's an honor to appear and speak on behalf of the youth promise act. we talk about educational opportunities, mentoring, intervention and all types of wrap around services for our youth, i'm the founder of a foundation called the manifest your destiny foundation and we seek to serve traditionally underserved youth across this country. and we hope to empower them to give them access to college skill, training, academic programming and also pass along lessons i learned coming out of the public school system and being able to go on as the chairman said to brown and to harvard for grad school. i wouldn't be able to make that transition from our public school system to these great private institutions if it wasn't for interventionist programs. that served me and helped me overcome certain obstacles that i came across. i want to start my remarks with

scot of -- mr. scott of virginia, mr. watts, mr. -- ms. woolsey, ms. jackson lee of texas, mr. clay, mr. butterfield, mr. al green of texas, ms. moore, ms. clark of new york, ms. edwards, ms. fudge, ms. bass of california mrks sewell, ms. norton, and ms. christian -- ms. christianson. -- ms. christiansen. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady rise? ms. foxx: i send to the desk a report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 2049 to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing and shooting and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. the gentleman is correct, the house is not in order. mem

mr. scott. >> thank you leader pelosi, mr. larsen and others for convening this meeting. gas prices are complicated and it's good to see some good information. both of you have spoken about the legitimate futures market and speculation. that was one of the problems we had with the credit default swaps, where you had insuring against elastin mortgages might be legitimate, but when you allow many people to that on the same package of mortgages, that is just raw speculation. now, we have centuries-old principles of insurance. basically what you are buying his insurance and the two fundamental principles if you have insurance yet to assets to back up and effectiveness you can only buy insurance where you have insurable interests. i can't buy a fire insurance on your house. and what they're doing is letting us in buy insurance and so we have lost a house and you unload all of these lawsuits. exactly how much of the speculation problem could be cured if we were back to just fundamental principles of insurance and required before you start selling insuring that you can only sell

host: from twitter or -- r -- ron, a democrat from louisiana -- caller: does mr. scott truly think that prohibition against any sort of drug will work? it seems that for every 10 busts the police may, attend escape guest:. in terms of the impact of the criminal-justice system on drug think the criminal- justice system has an impact on distribution. people take risks involved in criminal justice saxons if they are dealing drugs but on using, the evidence is somewhat before in terms of the impact that the criminal-justice system has a person's decision to use drugs. if you talk to a drug counselor asked what impact the criminal system has on a person's decision to use drugs, you often get one word after a and that isnone. the point that is being made is accurate. it may have some impact. in terms of resources, we need to put more resources into rehabilitation for those using drugs and to get young people off on the right track and make sure they have other activities and other options. that is why i have introduced the youth promise act where young people have a lot of op

other than welcome mr. scott snyder, thank you. or fellow for korean studies and director of the program for u.s., korea policy at the council on foreign relations. prior to the cfr, mr. snyder was a senior associate in international relations program of the asia foundation, where he founded and directed the center for u.s. korea policy and served as the asia foundation's representative from 2000 to 2004. finally, we welcome patrick cronin. he is the senior adviser and senior director of the asia pacific security program at the center for a new american security. previously, doctor cronin was the president of national strategic studies at the defense university, and has had a 25 year career inside government and academic research centers. thank you. we welcome our panelists today. i asked that her witnesses please keep their presentation to know no more than five minutes, without objection, the witnesses entire statements -- written statements will be inserted into the hearing record. we will begin with mr. [inaudible] >> thank you

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mr. scott. >> thank you very much, ms.elauro, thank you leader pelosi and others for convening this meeting. gas prices are complicated and it is could you see good information. both of you have spoken about the legitimate futures market and speculation. that is one of the problems we had with the credit default swaps, where you had insuring against a loss in mortgages might be legitimate, but when you allow many people to bet on the same package of mortgages, that's just raw speculation. we have centuries-old principles of insurance. basically, what you are buying insurance, and two final principles -- if you sell insurance, you have to have assets to back up your promise. the second is you can only buy insurance where you have insurable interest. i can't buy fire insurance on your house. what they were doing was letting dozens of people buy fire insurance on your house, so when you have a loss on your house, all of a sudden you all want all of these losses. how much of the speculation problem could be cured if we just we

mr. scott for five minutes. >> thank you very much, madam chairwoman. mr. cordray, how long have you been now on the job? >> i've been on the job for three months minus five days. >> three months. and could you tell the committee would areas have jumped out to raise the greatest number of complaints, the greatest areas of concern, if you had to prioritize on where there is the greatest area of problem in the use of private lending in carrying out your mission, what would that be? would be mortgage services? would be student loans, credit cards? what would it be? >> it's a little hard to determine trends yet, because it's been a short time and we have been receiving complaints in stages. but i think there's very little question that the pace of complaints has been fastest in the mortgage areas are. especially around foreclosures and around service or practices and the frustration that people feel. in fact, my guess would be the complaints we are receiving -- because i think most of these problems are pretty common nationally. we've also received a lot of com

mr. scott. >> thank you very much, ms. delauro, thank you leader pelosi and others for convening this meeting. gas prices are complicated and it is could you see good information. both of you have spoken about the legitimate futures market and speculation. that is one of the problems we had with the credit default swaps, where you had insuring against a loss in mortgages might be legitimate, but when you allow many people to bet on the same package of mortgages, that's just raw speculation. we have centuries-old principles of insurance. basically, what you are buying insurance, and two final principles -- if you sell insurance, you have to have assets to back up your promise. the second is you can only buy insurance where you have insurable interest. buy fire insurance on your house. what they were doing was letting dozens of people buy fire insurance on your house, so when you have a loss on your house, all of a sudden you all want all of these losses. how much of the speculation problem could be cured if we just went bac

mr. willard scott. hey, uncle willie. >> we've got birthday buddy wishes from florida.. this is the lovely rosco cassidy from owensville, kentucky. world war ii veteran and every evening he has a little shot of bourbon. that's where they invented it, kentucky. did you know that? freda popky, wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. she's 104. loves to argue politics and cook traditional jewish food. and we have gilbert herrick, rochester, new york, 100 years old today. an excellent painter, and he just got married at 99. a lot of guys would like to. hattie goldsmith, from greenville, south carolina is 104 years old today. the oldest member of her church. they all love her down there. love her to death. helen turner has a great name, turner, linwood, new jersey, is 105 years old today. wrote a book when she was 100. and now she's going to write a sequel. how about that? an active lady. and willie elliot, good old william is from philadelphia, pennsylvania, home of the cream cheese and liberty bell. he is a proud mail carrier for 40 years. that's it from good old captiva, island. back

mr. scott. >> thank you very much, ms., thank you leader pelosi and others for convening this meeting. gas prices are complicated and it is could you see good information. both of you have spoken about the legitimate futures market and speculation. that is one of the problems we had with the credit default swaps, where you had insuring against a loss in mortgages might be legitimate, but when you allow many people to bet on the same package of mortgages, that's just raw speculation. we have centuries-old principles of insurance. basically, what you are buying insurance, and two final principles -- if you sell insurance, you have to have assets to back up your promise. the second is you can only buy insurance where you have insurable interest. i can't buy fire insurance on your house. what they were doing was letting dozens of people buy fire insurance on your house, so when you have a loss on your house, all of a sudden you all want all of these losses. how much of the speculation problem could be cured if we just went bac

mr. scott. >> thank you. thank you very much ms. delauro, and thank you, leader pelosi, and others for convening this mean. it is complicated and it's good to see some good information. both of you have spoken about the legitimate futures market and speculation but that was one of the problems we had with the credit default swaps where you had ensuring against all laws in mortgages might be legitimate but when you allow many people to bet on the same package of mortgages, that's just raw speculation. we have the centuries old principles of insurance. basically what you're buying is insurance, and the two fundamental principles, one come if you still in charge of to have assets to back up your promise. and the second is you can only buy insurance where you have an insurable interest. i can't buy fire insurance on your house. what they were doing was leading dozens of people buy fire insurance on the house, so when you have a loss of a house all of a sudden you unload all of these losses. exactly how much of this speculation problem c

mr. mayor. i think we're going to hear from supervisors scott wiener. >> thank you. this turnout, i think, shows a significant this is to the future of the city. we were with a smaller group right before this. one thing that i stress and i will stress to you is that san francisco is a city that -- sort of, we haven't economy going on where we are in many ways to cut -- we have a dichotomy going on. in many ways, we are cutting edge technology and are really ahead of the curve. we attract a lot of people here, like you, in think our forward- thinking and want to try to do things in a different and more innovative way. we're also a really old school city. and change here is really challenging. for those of us at city hall, and david chiu and i talked about this a lot, when we're trying to do things differently, you can get a lot of reflexive push back, whether you're talking about putting cars sharing on the streets or whether you're talking about changing the zoning to be able to create new types of housing to make the city a little bit more affordable and inclusive.