. >> it's been when it comes down i think it's been more of a priorities what needs are in the community our our knowledge of the availability of fund finding out whether or not there's an expiration date it is more like us prior tigdz the needs that's how the process has been in the beginning. >> did you ask the mayor's office of housing was the priorities they go to services the shoigsdz of the club house and the infrastructure is it the committees that today in terms of or do you direct staff to help to guide you. >> most relevance we've created those different categories of where we want the fund to go whether in housing or jobs we get approached by community orchards for their needs we try to align them we get update on how much in each category but in terms of spending them quickly what are the needs of like - >> so these needs have been in expiates what's the best process for the cac if you're not hearing we need fund for straightaway streetscape improvement if you're ignited by the community not by mow or the cac what's the best way that the priority. >> to attend the cac meeting

sift out low priorities so they can focus on the high priorities, in addition, uscis is collecting a lot of very useful law enforcement data that can be shared with these other enforcement agencies and of course all of that is being paid for by the requesters themselves not by the taxpayer. >> my time has expired, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> i thank the gentlelady from california. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, judge gohmert. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to the witnesses that are here today. want to direct the first question to our two law professors. did both of you read the 123-page opinion by judge hannon? >> yes. >> yes. >> ok. >> i got it here myself. for full disclosure andy was a classmate in law school. he was one of the best and brightest. that's why he went with one of the best firms in the country in houston. and why president bush nominated him. he's a brilliant guy. have you also read the response that has been fired by d.o.j.? >> yes. >> ok. i was noticing in page 10 of the response where they're saying the government will suffer irrefutable

people remain our number one priority. so as you can see on this chart, our fy 2016 budget request makes an upward adjustment to alleviate some stress on the force. the increase also allows us to make adjustments for structure and strengthen nuclear enterprise. involves pay for some rpa pilots and increases in the number of cyber teams. it also supports 1.3% pay raise for our airmen and continues to support violates people programs. however, sequestration could drive total force end strength down another 10,000 airmen. further reductions would leave us with a team that has an incomplete roster, that is too small to meet a demanding schedule and allows little time to practice and provides no downtime. our airmen deserve better than that. now let's move onto the operation and maintenance account. next slide. fy 2016 oem continues path to recovery while bipartisan budget act stops decline for readiness levels, readiness is not a short-term physical and will take years to rebuild. to continue on that path to readiness recovery

it makes it a high priority.on february 10th of this year you talked about herbert issued an executive order to further facility the protection of the greater stage grouse. the state of utah has developed conservation plan. one that, i think, addresses ae inging interests and the threat to this bird. can you tell me whether fish and wildlife has endorsed this man and what the department is doing to coordinate. give me your commitment that you'll work with the governor in giving this chance to succeed. >> i've been working with the governor and i will continue to work with him. i saw him a couple of days ago at the national governor's association and asked if he could remove the 2017 expiration date. the fish and wildlife service needs to look over the listeningong term to make sure they can ÷s!fd'l ck&ñ order to make£v@ñ their determination. that's the kind of cooperation i have not just with the governor but with all the western téypgovernors and the states as we have been very much on the table multiple time a

your priorities so thank you very much. (clapping.) >> we just wanted - we just wanted to quickly acknowledge the students and the other parents if they're not standing up if they could stand up please thank you for your time (clapping.) thank you for that presentation i remember when you came before the body before and asking us for space it was critical you needed space and i congratulate superintendent carranza and the community 40 who came to make that a reality i have no speaker cards but want to invite any colleagues commissioner fewer. >> yes. thank you for your presentation and congratulations to our permanent home i was wondering do we have any relationship with the indian colleges at all at one time i think there was they ran a two year college program and do we know anything about that or have a relationship and what the stautsdz is now i know when i spoke to representatives they were looking to expand to a four-year program instead of a two year do we have any information no one. >> we would like to research and

your thought on going into this role and taking a look at cases like that and maybe determining priorities based on the likely outcome? have you given any thought to that? >> certainly as we review a case, both throughout my career as a prosecutor and as u.s. attorney, we always look to the possibility of how a court will view a particular matter. but first and foremost, whether the case involves voting or any other important right, is the issue of what is the evidence that's presented and what is the relevant law, what is the interest being protected. and if it relates to a core function of the department of justice, such as protecting the right to citizens, keeping our citizens safe, or protecting the right to vote, it is a matter that we would be obligated to look into. whether or not a matter would result in litigation would of course depend upon a variety of factors which are not in front of me today. about the nature of the law and how it was written and essentially whether it comported with those laws that were previously approved both by the department and by courts. certainly with

we do have priorities within my office. we do have guidelines within my office. those are shared with our law enforcement colleagues. we also share them with many of our state and local colleagues as we discuss where to best place certain types of cases. >> thank you very much. we'll continue. >> senator franken. >> thank you, mr. chairman. congratulations on being the chairman. >> i'm glad to be chairman. i can tell you that. >> i know you are. ms. lynch congratulations on your nomination. >> thank you senator. >> it was great meeting with you. your reputation for smart and tough precedes you and you didn't disappointment in our meeting. thank you for the wide ranging conversation -- how was lunch? >> excellent, thank you, sir. >> enjoyed lunch? >> yes, sir. >> good. i want to -- i discussed a couple things, number of things when you were in my office, and i want to bring them up again. ones are our prison system. >> i'm sorry? >> our prison system. i want to talk about our prison system. we have united states has 5% of the world's population, 25% of the prison

to ask what those priorities are. and then you got to tune the treatment to those priorities. >> exactly. and if we don't ask, and if we don't have these discussions, we don't know. hello, i'm dr. selvaggi, i'm kathy. >> gawande: dr. selvaggi works with doctors throughout the hospital to help with their hardest patient conversations. >> so how are you feeling? >> a little better than i was when first came in here the other day. >> gawande: aymen elfiky was one of those doctors, he's an oncologist who, like me, grapples with reaching good decisions with his patients about dying. he'd been caring for a patient named norma babineau for two years. he said that during that time he had tried to broach how dire her prognosis was, but he had not been successful >> let me start by giving you both an overview where we're at now. because the cancer has developed a more aggressive course to it, right? it's a more resistant type. this is where the tough discussions, uh, come up. the disease, we knew, has been acting up. right now,

they want to reorganize to put america as the highest priority.order to do that, the highest priority is to rebuild the industrial base and put the people back to work. we have to stop the loss of entire industries to go to other countries. we must make the words made in the usa the world standard for excellence. not only is government a mess, politics is also a mess. the wave political campaigns are run is a mess. people want a new political climate where the system does not attract ego driven, power-hungry people. we will create an environment that attracts the best people to come and serve in the back home and go to work. together we can solve the problems and make the political process risk possible and relevant to selecting the best people in the country. these are the issues we will talk about in the coming weeks. i will not spend one minute answering questions that are not directly relevant to the american people. i do not belong to anybody but you. you the people only. if you elect me, i go as your servant. i will go night -- worked night

even if the priorities are rational they cannot conflict with any endorsements are priorities congress specifically mandated. here it is just the opposite. congress has expressly mandated the same three priorities. thank you very much again for the opportunity to testify. >> thank you, professor. i will start this round of questioning and recognize myself. you state in your testimony that the administration's recent executive actions do not even approach an abdication of its statutory responsibilities. what in your view with the administration have to do to abdicate its statutory responsibility? what 9 million exceed it? >> the answer to that would depend on an imperial question. with the president still be substantially spending the resources that congress has provided every >> the president counts people for previous deportation that previous administrations did not count. about two thirds of the people who are deported under the president's 2 million figure that you cited were not counted in previous administrations. they were not put to that process. he that as it may, you're sayin

so why does the president then say our priorities should be global warming? i don't get it. >> here comes the politics right, david. the president is not running for reelection but this is nearly a nod to the far left of the democratic party. obviously he's trying to a veel to the environmentalists who not only see climate change as the number one priority for the country, but who also look down their noses at any kind of proper role of government in terms of protecting us. they don't want to see us get entangled in another iraq or afghanistan and i understand that, but this is clearly a lot of politics that's getting in the way here. >> even though you may not share our interest in the war on terror you do share our interest in all this frivolous money i would say being spent on things like electric cars that really isn't helping anything. >> absolutely. and i think a good answer here would be to say let's look at market signals. obama we all agree maybe is not doing a lot about terrorism, but if it were a big threat you think it would show up in the stock m

that is not our priority right right now -- our priority right now with internet.org.e countries reach out to us and say that connectivity is a priority and a lot of people use facebook. for example in malaysia, i was , meeting with one of the leaders in the government there. making sure that citizens are connected is one of their top priorities. similar in indonesia. india, i think, as well. there are a lot of priorities around making sure everyone can get connected. it makes sense for us to prioritize countries that are reaching out to us proactively for this. emily: how will you judge that this has been a success? 10 years ago, your vision was to get one billion people on facebook. people thought that was so audacious. so, if that's not audacious, what is it? mark: the goal is to make it so that a person can walk into a store in any developing country, buy a phone, and get access to some free, basic internet services. that's the primary goal for people around the world. once we have made it so this system is working in every country, that will be -- that is step ste

>> and then i would like to get your input on the mid-cycle budget priorities and we have matt coming up to give a presentation. >> may i have the projector please? >> good afternoon. i'm chief financial officer. the second year the budget cycle is closed the commission has the ability to make some adjustments for priorities that it deems critical in nature. today i'll provide this to you and when we were last before you with this topic the annual budgets are here before you for reference. at this time if there are no changes, no action is required on your part during the mid-cycle budget process unless you choose to. between year 1 and 2 the adopted budget remained relatively flat. the the 2-year budget was approved in accordance with the commission and quality of services and planning for the future and commitment and personnel. >> they are further clarified through key policy initiatives of the commission. the matrix here highlights next years approved budget of 988.8 million . again, no action is required by the commission if there are no changes to the budget, however, those adju

there are lots of priorities around making sure everyone can get connected.makes sense to prioritize countries that are reaching out proactively for this. cory: be sure to catch the entire conversation on "studio point -- studio 1.0" tonight. john says they killed it in q4. listen to what he had to say in just a little bit. ♪

so please know that this is a priority for me it's a priority for i believe the entire delegation. it's clearly a priority for our native people. one final question for you then. and this is a question that i am posing at every budget hearing this year. and that relates to the administration's proposal for an arctic strategy. the implementation plan for the administration under the national strategy for the arctic region has the department of the interior designated as the lead agency in five different project area. you are also designated as a supporting agency for numerous other projects. so the question is what funding is included in the president's budget for the five projects that d.o.i. is the lead agency as well as for any other projects that the department may be involved with with the arctic region. >> mike and i are scrambling for our notes on this. so yes as we take over chairmanship of theic council which is largely driven by the department of state, we certainly intend to be at the table on that. i don't think this -- let me see if i've got the numbers here. okay. sena

and the location have been identified from the citizen requests and priority is given to request from the folks with disabilities and the folks can request this ramp by calling 311. and for this project, construction will be completed by december, 2016 and jcw has done a significant amount of out reach in the communities of concern to promote awareness about how to request the curb ramps throughout the city. >> commissioner campos? >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you. >> i wanted to just ask you a little bit more about that. is it possible to get a list of the requests that have been made that are not included in here and just to see what might be being left out? >> i am getting nods from dpw staff over there. >> could i get it that dpw has done a lot of out reach on this which is great and i think that it will be good for me and i am sure that supervisor and commissioner cohen as well and i am sure that nine and ten, districts nine and ten just so that we have a sense of where other issues have been identified, but we will, you know, it is not included and so that will be helpful.

this is the second item on the south of market that was determined to be a priority with the 75 thousand dollars with the department of finance they concurred and we've transferred those fund recently so this is up to 5 hundred 26 thousand depends on the interest i have alice in wonderland from the mta that will be speaking about the details of the work that the mta plans to do with the fund this grant is will comes down with reporting requirements where the mta will have to report back to us on the use of fund and mayor those are tax exempt those are tax contempt bond for the capital work a work that complies with the irs guidelines they will if there were to be inexpended bond precedes they will be returned to us i don't expect that there of the extensive community outreach to the input with that i'm going to turn it over to adam. >> we have the screen we have - >> good afternoon director bohe and actic chair sxhooufrt sfmta this is a larger project with the pedestrian safety on 6th is from market to 40u6rd we have the top three or four intersections of the you are occurrence of pedest

that has been the american priority in the relationship is pleasing and protecting. the reality is the fact that the u.s. has supported more weapons to saudi arabia, than anything else. for example, there is a crisis of housing in saudi arabia. almost 80% of the population do not own a home in this large country. because the u.s. did not put a priority and pushing housing or health care or even university education. schools as well, most are rented houses. priority is protecting the ruling family, not helping the people. in terms of human rights. that is also an expression indicating where the u.s. prities were. >> -- priorities were. >> does geography and oil shape the relationship in way that is make the way we relate to the saudis from any other similarly situated country. >> perhaps. let me comment. i travel to all 14 provinces in saudi arabia. and i can't comment on everyone. but i would tell you the saudi people are among the most warm, generous hospitable on the face of the earth. either i had a small sampling in my travels, or i missed the warmth of that popu

was able to fell is fill its deif he thinks beds with priority, people who fell into one of the priority car e categories. it was difficult to find contention capacity during the height of those surges, which were seasonal. it was difficult to find detention capacity. but our statistics have indicated that 97%, roughly at times, of the average daily population of our system met one of these priorities or their detention was mandatory by law. other than that with respect to the quota driving policies, the administration has not supported the 34,000 quota congress expects. congress appropriates resources and expecteds ichlt.c.e. to use those number of resources for those beds. i'm not part of the number of enforcemented remooifl and operation within i.c.e. which is responsible for apprehensions. it is in the case that in recent years, ira has been able to more or less achieve that 34,0 0 number of notwithstanding puck e fluctuations within the end of the year. but i couldn't speak to how they're exactly able to arrive at that target, beyond the fact that they're working very hard to comply

as you know, last year we identified four strategic priorities to help guide our budget decisions. those priorities, which i believe are still relevant are to enhance park safety, to advance environmental sustainability, support active living and strengthen customer service. last year these priorities guided our decision to invest in programs such as park patrol urban forestry, and additional recreational program staff and we'll continue to use these priorities as a guide as we consider budget investments for the next two fiscal years. again, as we have for the last couple of years, we expect to be able to balance the budget, using revenue enhancements from our leases and concessions, both in golden gate park and citywide. i absolutely expect to have additional revenue from our parking garages, if any of you have been in civic center garage recently, you will have noted it's much busier than it used to be. we have two long-term monthly tenants that we have recently engaged, which make it a little less convenient to park in the garage. but it's certainly generating additional revenu

i'll touch on this a little later, things that are priorities of the secretary, priorities of the department are not necessarily the biggest budget things in all cases. space is something that is significant funding as well. there is a significant new concern going forward. this is about the future years as well. we have space and i think power projection are areas when we talk about modernization and addressing the future, looking at eroding technological superiority. these are primarily the type of areas we are talking about where we are investing and we can talk about some of the particular munitions. some of these areas are classified and we can't talk about them in detail but there are also some things that we can talk about. something that is important to the deputy. i think he has already spoken about this. i don't know that i could really do this justice compared to the justice who is leading our efforts here. we have tried to give you a flavor on this slide. are not only about money but ways of thinking how to approach the problem. where he is trying to move the department forward.

>> i want to assure you, this is an urgent priority for us. i suggest we ask my team to follow up with yours. we could sit down and specifically talk through the issues around the prior year's funding and how we accelerate that. >> thank you. and just another question on the community college proposal. how was that proposal developed? was it in consultation with the community college association? were people consulted on that? you know, and, you know, it seems -- i haven't heard the exact amount of dollars that, you know the cost estimates both for, you know, for the federal government as well as for states and what that means but -- >> so, i would be happy to get you more detail on it. i can tell you there was extensive conversation through the education democrat the domestic policy council a broad range of community colleges and a broad range of other experts on this. it is structured in a way to partner with states that are interested in us doing this. rather than a federal-only approach, what we're doing is offering incentives that need to

from president obama and now adapting a change in climate is now a priority. community choice aggregation, cleanpowersf is one of the biggest and best ways for san francisco to contribute to this important goal. not only will community choice aggregation and clean power san francisco reduce greenhouse gas emissions but will create green jobs and help avoid disruptions and a greater economy all at a more affordable rate than pg & e. there has been a lot to carry us through this point. many felt like they carried the baton like a marathon. many included those involved and now i want to recognize supervisors campos, wiener, breed and our entire board of supervisors for voting early on to adopt this program. they have consistently championed the need for this program in san francisco and kept the issue front and center. i also want to thank publically mayor lee and his staff for staying with us and partnering with us as well as the san francisco public utilities commission staff for continuing to work with the board, lafco and commission to come to a final ground.

our next priority is environmental sustainability. we're making investments in materials and supplies in our parks that would cover items such as plant materials, sand and fertilizer, we're creating a nursery specialist and a truck driver to enhance our capacity to maintain our athletic fields and new gardener to support maintenance at the beach chalet fields once they re-open. we're also investing in urban agriculture next year as well as our green agers and youth stewardship programs. our investment in activity living comes primarily in the form of the creation of new, permanent recreation and aquatics positions. under terms of mediation with seiu, the union that represents our recreation staff we're converting six lifeguard positions and 13.5 recreation leader positions from "temporary" to "permanent part-time positions." this change is going to create more stability in our staffing of our pools and our recreation centers. we are also adding funding to the materials and supplies budget of our recreation competencies, as well as inc

better to make the process easier not only easier to navigate wear moving forward and it's a key priority we're also focused as ted mention during one the key barriers on the cost of rising rattling while 9 city if directly control the cost of real estate we're through zoning powers and others how to insure that enough space is developed and made available for all sectors of the city's economy and pdr businesses the mayor laid auto a key provision in building new pdr new 12ri8 space in the city not only the tools of economic development but but power of zoning and land use we're focused again on number 5 supporting the local industries not only the retailers and smshz but the neighborhood commercial coordinate and focusing think outside the box 25 corridors you see those strategies being revolted out across the city and attacking the challenges that those neighborhoods have with consistent and interim think community engagement to address the real needs on the ground we're focused and didn't spend a lot of time but focused on transportation from and capacity this is the challenge whether

after that we are completely redoing the priorities. so i'm confident the bugg school will be on the list for priority schools for addressing. we're working on a set of objective criteria that is being refined right now. i don't have that list, but we expect to have it sometime along the middle of the year which will prioritize those and put in place a plan to really begin to address these over time. it's going to take a long-term commitment on the part of congress and a long-term commitment on our part to address these challenges. but having seen the bugg school, it's in bad shape. it needs to be replaced. i will tell you i've seen other schools that are in equally bad shape and it just breaks my heart that around the country this is what we do in supporting indian education. the prioritized list will be coming out in the middle of the year. we'll make sure you know where that particular school is on the list. and there is a good chance in this budget that there will be planning and design dollars for a number of the schools on the hig

have access to water are a priority. we talked about that before. there is some money in the budget for louis and clark to continue to make -- lewis and clark to continue to make progress. there is not enough money to go around and so we have to prioritize. mike, do you want to talk specifically lewis and clark? >> yeah. we greatly appreciate the additional resources that congress has put in the last two budget cycles. we've allocated that funding to substantially three times as much as we had in our budget to allocate the lewis and clark. so i think in this year's cycle, 2015, they have about $9 million that can be coupled up with the local resources and we can make progress overall. >> i don't think that's right. >> we had $3 million in our budget and congress appropriated an additional $30 million. i think which lewis and clark got about $6 million to $6.5 million so that's where i got the $9 million and that was announced about two weeks ago the additional money. you're right about the 2016 budget. we're competing pr

at the time and the priorities to work with cohen with the information he may get and anyone else from the school so we can put the right resources in the right place. >> we have this group of social workers, etc. that are month to month we had a dinner and met at the sausage factory it was great but it was a - we got to sit and talk about immense situations that are happening in some of the neighborhoods and christian put it together and condone use it was attended by a lot of people and it's the first of a series of meeting we're going to have with when we get together a talk about the tense situation and how the schools are dealing with them some of the things that students bring back to the schools and so that's the first time we've duplicate anything else and colorado lien was with us this is what happens when this comes back into our schools we're having that discusses our next meeting at the civic center coming up in a couple of weeks so - so i'd like to do a little connect with any commissioners after 10:30 commissioners if you have questions or comments of our speakers that ca

unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 12 for case no. 1215 amendments to the small business priority progressing pilot program a program policy. >> it's challenging speaking after supervisor wiener dan with the planning department thank you for agenda dizzying this this is a refresher of a planning commission policy will two years old before we talk about that policy in particular a karaoke primer on what a commission policy is commission policies are so on and so forth in a resolution as adopted by your majority vote and action by the board action by the mayor is not required resolution is not legislation so it can't eliminate a local requirement for example neighborhood notification or a need for conditional use authorization that a perspective realm not a policy realm is can change how the commission or department administers it's procedures how the areas in the planning code are silent on how these those are worked in the planning commission council expands only requirement within limits the policy we're talking about today commissioners is the subdividing 4 p the small business

brock saying he's returning to the priority of the board. there is without question a serious battle taking place right now over who will hold the backstage power and influence in clinton's likely presidential campaign. it's a fight that clinton whose campaign was beset by infighting and backstabbing. the core issue appears to be a struggle for power between former strategist for president obama who moved into the clinton orbit, including jim mesina, and was a president's 2012 campaign manager. and longtime clinton allies, including brock, who reportedly feared being pushed aside. the battle is fierce. in the "times" yesterday, one mesina ally described brock on the record as, quote, a cancer who is unwilling to do what's best for clinton and the nation. he added, if you care about your party and your country, you just do what you're asked. if you care about yourself, you take your toys and go home. joining me is someone who has been all over the story, political reporter for "the new york times." first of all, what is going on? so is this a