like us, myself or ms. shaw, that we don't have any barriers in our facility, no barriers, just because we don't have the information that you folks changes, the lawyer has no right. it was not a barrier. if it was please, come after us. >> thank you. i yield the back. >> i now recognize the ranking member, mr. conyers for five minutes. >> figure chairman. i think the witnesses. could i begin by asking unanimous consent to enter into the record 14 letters from organizations that have a variety of objections to the measure that we are examining today. the consortium of citizens with disabilities, paralyzed veterans of america, the national, the leadership council on civil and human rights, and others. could i ask unanimous consent, they have, they take strong exception to this measure and i asked that these be included in the record. >> without objection. >> thank you mr. chairman. i wanted to just ask mr. buckland, if mr. weiss' testimony raised any objections in terms of your experience as someone that is disab

and i now recognize our second witness, ms. shaw. is the microphone on? >> chairman -- >> ms. shaw you may have to bring that closer to you, i'm not sure what -- >> distinguished member, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. it is an honor to appear before you to share my story. my name is lily shaw and i'm a second generation hotel year and attorney from georgia. my parents my grated from india in the 1980s and bought their first hotel in milledgeville, georgia. i spent my first eight years of my life on days inn, 30 years later my family owned several hotel that is employ nearly 400 people. i own two hotels that amount to 150 guest rooms and employ over 20 dedicated employees. i'm here representing the asian american hotel association, members own over 40% of all hotels in united states and employ over 600,000 american workers accounting to $10 billion to payroll annually. recently small businesses have come under attack by plaintiffs seeking to make a quick buck. to advance the corrupt goal. that manipulate one of the important civil rights laws in our country, ame

i'd like to turn to ms. shaw.ou mention thread are essentially copy and paste 100 lawsuits from a single lawyer, and those lawyers in many cases, either you or miss key said the lawyers had not been in the facility. so i'll ask eachoff, of you but first miss shaw. what does that list of plaintiffs look like when you have a lawyer with a 100 suits copied and pasted, what's the list of the plaintiffs look like on each of the suits? >> in my case it's just one plaintiff, and so he is using the -- the attorney is using that one plaintiff to fish out other properties in the area and slap the same lawsuit on them. >> have you looked at the plaintiffs in those other lawsuits that were filed by the same attorney? could it be the same plaintiff in some of those cases or even all of them. >> absolutely in this case it is the same. my father received the same lawsuit, same number of pains, same attorney, same plaintiff, at his property. >> but there are 98 others out there. what the likelihood that the same plaintiff has als

ms. silva and patrick shaw and anyone else. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, today is manager's report shows in the first 3 months of 2016 theres been 2 thousand plant wraufld from the coming plan totally $36 million this is year to date of those that were 2 h 200 and thirty full withdrawals for this point plus million dollars there should be a policy to car what is going on if to the equivalent those figures reinforce what any planters have been saying that the management of our deferred coming consultant of our bar monies is lacking they could do better and therefore people are withdrawing their funds and doing better at the cost of the city after reading allowing articles about i'm giving 20 to the director and others to distribute to you the city attorney there are many concerns startling one of the issue of lobbyists to influence the awarding of this plan number two the loss of one million dollars due the financial crisis and the downturn the planter that have withdrawn from this plan i don't know how much clear it can be not working thank you. >> thank you. >> patrick shaw and (c

ms. silva and patrick shaw and anyone else. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, today is manager's report shows in the first 3 months of 2016 theres been 2 thousand plant wraufld from the coming plan totally $36 million this is year to date of those that were 2 h 200 and thirty full withdrawals for this point plus million dollars there should be a policy to car what is going on if to the equivalent those figures reinforce what any planters have been saying that the management of our deferred coming consultant of our bar monies is lacking they could do better and therefore people are withdrawing their funds and doing better at the cost of the city after reading allowing articles about i'm giving 20 to the director and others to distribute to you the city attorney there are many concerns startling one of the issue of lobbyists to influence the awarding of this plan number two the loss of one million dollars due the financial crisis and the downturn the planter that have withdrawn from this plan i don't know how much clear it can be not working thank you. >> thank you. >> patrick shaw and (c

ms. miriam that proportionality is critical a critical pillar i understand that sergeant unskilled shaw directto the areas that is significant opposition from this offers association and from the peg groups direct us to the specific arguments. >> for 4.01 the stakeholder comments page 5 item.01 the sta comments page 5 item5.01 the st comments page 5 item 10. >> telling me approximately again the comments on page 4 item number ten and. >> okay. colleagues i've listed the position and heard from the stakeholders again to be fair the we have received documents that indicate that the poa has issued issues with the section of proportionality have two desperate opinions that the summary it maybe minor but an officer by a make reasonable force to make arrests and all situations officers can use deadly force what are the principles of proportionality and the department is only has with an acceptable use of force element and then you talk about the coalition on homelessness too this is you know this is one i certainly think we'll benefit from the u.s. doj's obviously we're not interested in jeopardyizi