ms. lee, yes. ms. wong, yes. ms. fewer, yes. ms. maufas, ms. mendoza, yes. murase, yes.ved. >> second. >> reading of recommendation by the superintendent or designeesp ruth deep. superintendent. the action is that the board of education for san francisco unified accept the report from independent auditors for the 2012 visits of the district 28 schools that arel[7unuç ranked 1 through three on the academic performance api. >> yes questions from the board? >> i just want to say i was very pleased to read that most of all of our facilitiese7amn!7w were n compliance with the audit, with the exception of two school facilities, and apparently those deficiencies were addressed right away. so i want to thank david goldin and his staff and the williams team on responding so rapidly. >> thank you. >> vice president norton. >> vice president norton: thank you. i was -- i did hear1jsdzen some complaints that were not reflected in the audit report about middle school textbooks not being available for all students, particularly students in special day classes. and i'm just wondering i

. >> ms. lee, yes. ms. wong, yes. ms. fewer, yes. ms. maufas, yes. ms. mendoza, yes. dr., yes. ms. wynns, aye. mr. yee, yes. >> i call the public hearing and adoption between the district and the auto mechanics local 1414. there is a motion and second? >> so moved. >> i second. >> reading and recommendation by the superintendent or designee. mr. ruiz. >> thank you, president yee. the -- this tentative agreement is with our auto machinists, local 1414, and again the requested action is that the board conducts a public hearing and adopts the tentative agreement and related public disclosure document. i want to thank the crafts bargaining teams which laid the foundation for this agreement and in particular art gonzalez, the field rep for the machinis machinists. >> i'd like to say, you know, to tom and your team, you know, a job well done. this has been a really good year, and you've work really hard. and these agreements, as everybody knows, this just doesn't come automatically. so thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i'd also like to thank the machinists and local 1414, a

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ms. ros-lehtinen: i move that the house suspend the rules and pass s. 3331. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: s. 3331 to provide for intercountry adoption accreditation standards and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen, and the gentleman from kale, mr. berman, each will control 20 minutes. ms. ros-lehtinen: ski that all members have five days to revise and extend and include extraneous material on this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i rise in support of the intercountry adoption universe accreditation act of 2012. this is the senate-side companion to h.r. 6027, the bipartisan house bill introduced by my good friend from new jersey, mr. seres. it requires that all those in the u.s. meet the same accreditation standards whether it's from a hague signor. the action o vladimir putin was a shameful response t

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timmy, even ms. haslett says there is no proof.he's probably been hungry all her life. now, if she did take the food, i think you'll find it's because she's never seen so much food and she just wants to make sure she doesn't go hungry again. but isn't that the same as stealing? rudy said it was. i even had a fight with him about it. well, in a way yes. what are we gonna do about it? i think we'll just leave it up to ms. haslett. she's a very intelligent and understanding teacher. she'll know how to handle it. i hope so. you know dear, it was because of seeing anna, that i volunteered to help with this unicef trick or treat program. i'm glad you did mom and i'm gonna help too. good. come on, lassie. thank you. i'm sure that you all know mrs. martin, timmy's mother. i invited her here today to speak to you about an important subject. thank you ms. haslet. now, how many of you have halloween costumes? oh good! and how many of you are going trick or treating this halloween with your parents of course? fine! well, we all know the usual

ms. lee, y-ñ?ñ?es. ms. wong, yes. ms. feuer, ms. -- dr.ase, yes. >> that's five ayes. >> item b preparations to the superintendent report tonightfjr his thoughts. superintendent craza. that's listening and watching on tv. because this is the only meetin? in november i had a few thoughts so i will be as quick as possible. by saying that on behalf ofbr:?e san francisco unified school district, and school districts we want to thank the voters for their support of propositionzó;m enable -- >> which will enable the san francisco unified school district to maintain the same level of funding from the 2011-12 school year and stave off additional mid-year cuts slightlyijókgáy majority to pass statewide we in san francisco passed the measure by an overwhelmingoÑñ?ñ?ñ margin. once again -- >> [applause.] >> yes. we have demonstrated our commitment to thevñ?ñ childrenf our community and while this is reason to celebrate we want to ask for youraq/ag/@v continued y in support of our schools. our schools remain underfunded by 22%, but despite this we ha

ms. miller one of the things we know for sure that will have to happen is we will have to have a number of joint meetings with san francisco public utilities commission to ascertain the progress being made on community choice aggregation, so i am wondering whether it makes sense to identify possible dates of the ones that are listed -- times as to when we could do that. do you have any thoughts on that. >> my initial thought is and as much as i enjoy meeting with our puc friends they can be difficult scheduling far in advance meetings with them. i know at the joint meeting we had there was a discussion of finding a date in february. we schedule the regular dates. if we could get them to join us we do and if not we create a special meeting to meet with them and figure out what dates works for our of the busy commissioners. >> and my preference would be -- i don't think we have to adopt this as part of that that if we have a meeting in february we set it up as soon as we can. colleagues any

ms. mikulski: mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. ms. mikulski: following up on leader reid's comments, to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, if you have these amendments, senator schumer and i would like to know that you stay here this evening to offer and debate them as you were accorded under the unanimous consent agreement. if you come up and tell senator schumer and i now, we can get an order and a sequencing and tell you when we can call you up. we'd like very -- so instead of everybody standing around, we would actually get a regular order, you would know when your amendment's coming up, in what order you're coming up so that you could plan your evening. and so please see senator schumer and i and then we'll work with you to accomplish this. mr. president, i yield the flo floor. mr. merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. will there be order, please. mr. merkley: mr. president, is it time to speak to

ms. i do not understand why we in congress seem to be without debate about this problem in afghanistan. we are currently in the process of a bilateral security agreement that will keep our troops in afghanistan for 10 years after 2014. where is the outrage by congress? we're financially broke. we complain all the time about we can't reach it had deal or that deal. we are going over the cliff, and yet our troops are dying in afghanistan and we're spending money we don't have. mr. speaker, in the article, and i quote, the afghan government is pursuing a peace initiative in which pakistan would replace the united states in arranging talks between the warring sides and the taliban will be granted government posts that effectively see to them political control of the southern and eastern strongholds. mr. speaker, those areas are where we've lost most of our young men and women fighting the war in afghanistan, and yet we're going to give those areas that our young men and women died to the tali

ms. you get things much faster that way. there is no calculation of the hidden cost of outsourcing. host: the stories are "the in- sourcing boom" and "mr. china comes to america. both can be found at theatlantic.com. thanks for joining us. we will take you live to the house floor. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., december 19, 2012. i hereby appoint the honorable daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the sen

ms. lee, for five minutes. ms. lee: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. lee: i grieve with the entire newtown communities and those who lost loved ones last friday. we mourn the 26, 26 innocent lives, including those 20 children who have been lost in this unimaginable tragedy. let me also just acknowledge the quick action of the brave law enforcement and first responders who prevented additional loss of life. words cannot express my deep sorrow. but as a mother and as a grandmother, i join the country in my district in extending my condolences to every family and the entire community touched by this unspeakable tragedy. this must stop. as president obama said, we cannot accept that this violence visits children year after year is somehow the price of freedom. no more excuses, madam speaker. no more kicking the can down the road. not one more innocent life, not one more in chicago, not one more in oakland, not one m

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thank you ms. jacobs. to confirm with staff i believe we distributed on e-mail, reflecting ms. jacobson's. for those of you who have visual challenges, have you accessed as well? we look forward to working with you as well. good to see you. we are joined next by mr. polson. i heard this is your last meeting, you're going to hawaii, good luck, (singing( ) fly the ocean in a silver plane. the islands, when wet with rain, remember we will miss you here, and all your work with disabilities (singing) we will be alone without you. maybe you will see the water blue, blue. and you will have a lot of warm climate. and it will make you smile in the island sun. and i hope but most of all, you have lots of fun... whether i'm disability right, disability wrong, whether i find a place in the city, i've got to be me, i've got to be free, with disability, i'm willing to try, do it or die, i have to be disability free. our world -- is waiting for you. i know you won't fall down. you won't settle for disability. if you could have it all. i've got to be free. you've got to have a better disabilit

ms. miller which contract necessarily requires her as the interim executive officer to spend time doing things that would be accomplished by a permanent executive officer, so that's one thing. the second thing is in terms of bringing the decision in house there are two options that were outlined in this memo, and one of them would be i think option one, as i understand it is to consolidate both the executive officer and both the senior program position into one, and then the other would be to simply take from the senior officer -- i mean the senior program position, take away some of the restrictions so that position could be used to fill in the executive officer position, so those are the two options, and i personally think that we should pursue bringing the position in house. i also believe that we have very capable staff that can step into that but i also want to make sure that we have this discussion, and that we have a discussion not only about the outcome, but the process that we wa

ms. ros-lehtinen: i also have no further requests for time and i yield back the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass senate 2318. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 -- ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and make a point of order that the quorum is not present. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i move that the house suspend the rules and pass s.j. 44. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the 250eu9le of -- title of the joint resolution. the clerk: senate joint resolution 44, granting the consent of congress to emergency management assistance memorandum of understanding. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen, and the gentleman fr

. >> ms. lee, yes. ms. wong, yes.e$[b:sóñ ms. fore, yes. ms. maufas yes. ms.gloria moalt is here the director of-4#kwñ the indian education program. >> good evening everybody.mmçz commissioners and superintendent. i amnu this recognition on behalf of the indian education program title 7 the parent advisory committee, teachers, students and the community in general. the indian education program is a federally funded program that supports the unique educational and cultural academic needs of the american indian alaskan native students and we come out of the office of instruction where state funded programs are housed andi!)mdn< our office is currently at cesar chavez elementary school bungalow 2. this program is unique because it requires a parent advisory committee to be set in place to guide the distribution of funds and the committee is comprised of parents guardians, teachers, youth representative, community members and the pac looks at district data and determines the following objectives. this year's objectives are graduation, reading writing ald math. and

ms. mikulski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. ms. mikulski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. please take your business outside. ms. mikulski: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate reconvenes at 2:00 p.m., we debate the next two coburn amendments in order and upon the use or yielding back of time on those amendments, the senate proceed to vote in relation to the coburn amendments, with all provisions of the previous order remaining in effect. the presiding officer: no objection? without objection. ms. mikulski: mr. president, simply what this means is this, and i'm really asking for the senators to pay attention on this. so -- because they're very keenly interested in the schedule, and i really want to thank the distinguished senator from mississippi, senator cochran, for working on the expeditious disposition of our amendments. senators should be aware that after 2:00 p.m., they should be in the chamb

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another concern is the quality of life issue which ms. pagan will be addressing. to give the public a sense of what we've been hearing, the concerns have been around additional crowds around the home game of the giants. there will be other nights we'll be experiencing the crowds and more trash in the neighborhood. urination is what we get complaints about, people leaving games and urinating on people's door steps. general crowd control and what that might look like if we had an arena and stadium in the neighborhood. thank you, ms. pagan, for being here. >> lisa pagan, office of economic and work force development. thank you, supervisors, chair mar.

ms. pelosi, spoke of that got no votes in the united states senate. not one vote. no votes here. the plan that the president has presented which would substantially -- not just raise taxes but substantially raise spending, if you isolate the president's ideas of simply raising taxes on the -- whatever he calls the top 2% or those that have a household income of $250,000 and above, what you essentially do, mr. speaker, is very quickly lose 700,000 american jobs. and that's the answer that this administration fails to include in their talking points. that there is a huge impact. part of that impact, mr. speaker, comes from the problem where dividends, dividends, are those -- that money that comes back as a result of an investment, would rise essentially from 15% to whatever a person's top tax rate is. meaning it could go at least under the scenario that the president wants to 39%. that means from 15% to 39%, that window, that value in between, is what people reinvest in their companies. the

ms. miller's work over the years, but i'm in agreement with our chair, supervisor campos, it will bring us significant cost savings but really an ability for lafco to be more than it is right now and i appreciate working with jason fried as well and i hope he applies for that position and i hear what supervisor avalos is saying and it makes sense. >> colleagues, any other comments? questions? commissioner olague. >> now, i was just going to comment and if i missed my opportunity to comment on potential items -- is this the time? >> yes. >> well, i wanted to mention that i'm not sure if there are other examples of it, or how to even approach this, but in san francisco i guess there are few commissions that are still picked partly my the payor and partly by the board of supervisors. >> >> and i'm just wondering is there a way of sort of reflecting on their kind of decision making processes? or you know because -- for instance, park and rec is a commission selected fully by the mayor and you

ms. norton: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah. mr. chaffetz: i would like to thank representative poe for introducing this legislation. the intill bipartisan in its approach, it creates a means for properly commemorating the centennial of the great war and honoring those who fwallantly fought. i urge my colleagues to vote in concurrence with the senate amendment to h.r. 6364 and remind people that no taxpayer dollars will be used to carry out this act. i encourage my colleagues to vote in favor of this an yield back the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendment to h.r. 6364? those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. ms. norton: i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present -- the speaker pro tempore: in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative. the gentlewoman from the district of columbia. ms. norton: madam speaker,

in the end it came down to ms. pill feigns and ms. u.s.a. and ms. usa out of rhode island became the first american since 1997 to win the crown. go usa! [ laughter ] >> quite a sports story. [ laughter ] >> tim lincecum has a new hairdo, and it's short. he had his worst year in the majors last year until he came out of the bullpen in the playoffs and helped the giants win the world series. maybe he's getting it to get a new look. he could still grow it back. >>> a 5th grader starring for the high school varsity basketball team. 4'5" 5th grader, 10 years old, playing varsity basketball in orlando, florida. >> have a good night, everybody.

ms. slaughter, praise the fact that it's focusing on some of those very important social issues that she has raised and addressed. and she complimented this defense authorization conference report for doing that. and there are other things. this morning i was listening to wamu and i heard -- i wasn't aware of this but i heard the delegate from the district of columbia, ms. norton, talk about the fact that we now are going to have recognition of flags in the district of columbia for our veterans. and there is inclusion in this conference report that deals with that issue. . flags are used to recognize their presence and of course veterans from the states across the country, the district of columbia hasn't. i'm pleased that ms. norton was able to have that issue addressed in the national defense authorization act conference report. and so this is a measure which i believe really transcends political party, there's great bipartisan support for it and it also covers lots of important issues t

ms. wilson: today is new year's eve. while we debate going over the fiscal cliff, there are some people in america planning to shoot their guns in celebration at midnight. put down those guns. millions of people have died or been injured due to this custom. put down those guns. if i were in my district of miami today, i would be participating in a press conference that we started 10 years ago calling an end to this deadly custom. as a result, celebratory gunfire has largely disappeared from our county. it is a result of repeated demands and media events over and over again. now people get it. remember, what goes up must come down. bullets are no exception. instead, hug your kids. light a canledle, resolve to sell your gun in the next community gun buy back initiative. say a prayer for all of the precious children who lost their lives to gun violence in our nation, especially those babies we lost most recently in connecticut. put down those guns. don't even think about it because one bulle

ms. slaughter: will the gentleman yield? mr. sessions: i will in a second. it would have extended all current rates and compelled congress to enact meaningful tax reform in 2013. we passed this. we said we ought to do what we should do. and that was back in august and i would yield to the gentlewoman. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. sessions. i know you, i know tt you understand, i've talked about thisbut that bill that passed this house excluded a large number of the women basically what this house said with that vote was go ahead and beat them up. we don't want them covered. after the election, after what everybody has been through after what the american plic thinks about what large number ofur cohorts believe here, surely to goodness you would not recommend that that bill become the life of the land. mr. sessions: reclaiming my time -- ms. slaughter: we are asking to take up the senate bill that covers all women. mr. sessions: reclaiming my time. appreciating the gentlewoman, we'll be e

also, ms. marion told me of an idea she had, assisting our dispatchers in identifying what skills the officers have that are working on the street at a particular time, either language skills or crisis prevention training, whatever that may be so they can see at a glance what kind of officers they can dispatch to any type of situation. director griffin assured me that in january of 2013 we will have the ability to have all dispatchers to see what skills we have out there who ho they should send to assist our first responders. on that, being the newest member i would like to introduce our language access liaison officer, officer chan, who will give you numbers that he has compiled, he has been with a group a lot longer. >> good evening. my name is eric chan, i've been in this position approximately 3 months. they took away a lot of my thunder because a lot of what they say was what i was going to go over. we are making a lot of headway in the short time that i have been involved. that is a good

ms. schakowsky, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. ms. schakowsky: thank you, mr. speaker. i am happy to be here representing the progressive caucus and talking about our fiscal situation now that i think a lot of people out there are worrying about, confused about, don't know how it's really going to affect them, wonder what the heck we're doing. sometimes members of congress who aren't part of the negotiations are wondering what's going on too, but what i want to talk about today are the things that are at stake for ordinary people in our country, the things that are on people's minds as we deal with these economic issues that face our country. i am congresswoman jan schakowsky and i represent a district, a very diverse district in illinois, diverse in every way. economically, certainly by race and ethnicity, and i think in many ways a microcosm of the country. i know that we're getting a lot of calls from our constituents. the calls that i'm getting ar

also, ms. marion told me of an idea she had, assisting our dispatchers in identifying what skills the officers have that are working on the street at a particular time, either language skills or crisis prevention training, whatever that may be so they can see at a glance what kind of officers they can dispatch to any type of situation. director griffin assured me that in january of 2013 we will have the ability to have all dispatchers to see what skills we have out there who ho they should send to assist our first responders. on that, being the newest member i would like to introduce our language access liaison

also, ms. marion told me of an idea she had, assisting our dispatchers in identifying what skills the officers have that are working on the street at a particular time, either language skills or crisis prevention training, whatever that may be so they can see at a glance what kind of officers they can

ms. slaughter, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sessions: thank you very much. during consideration of this resolution, all time is yielded for the purpose of debate only. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sessions: i rise today in support of this rule which will provide this body the ability to consider legislation under suspension of the rules for the remainder of this congress. however, i would prefer not really to be here today talking about this resolution. i was speaking with the gentlewoman, ms. slaughter, a few minutes ago, that it concluded that it sounds a lot like christmas and that's why we're all here. it must be christmastime and so we're going to work all the way through. i'd like to be home with my constituents. i'd like to be home with the family. i'd like to