we would like to provide delayed notice. would like to prevent the company from notifying the customer and delay notification on the part of the government, and those orders could be renewed so that if the investigation took a year, that notice would not be provided until the investigation was completed and it would be no concern about tampering with it are the evidence. the existing notification provision allows the government to meet its obligation to provide notice. that obligation has been noted in court decisions. also accommodates law enforcement's legitimate needs and ensures that that type of notification does not interfere with the ability to conduct a complicated investigation. my understanding was that at some point the bill a compass the ability to delay notification, but only for six months. to bere is a conversation had about the ability to prove to a court maintaining the secrecy of an investigation can be updated on a periodic basis, that is a conversation we might be willing to have. but the point is that is

they do provide a curated service. i was thought it was interesting there was never a net neutrality complaint directed them. but they are small, and it may not be the main focus. but it is happening now. the point on and not being clear, this is also the kind of thing that can be brought up later on in what the corporate as applied challenge. the court may decide that these rules as written do not obviously violate any constitutional writer or provision. were to take action against this isp for their editorial decisions, they then could say that as the statutes may apply to me, is violating my first amendment right. it is an issue that may or may not come up again. it is happening to some small extent out there. does net neutrality rules this collocated in court more competition? matthew: it encourages competition and services we can reach on the internet. encourages them to innovate, and not only compete with alsoband providers, it allows them to come up with a next innovation. i don't know what we would put in that

so netflix is an edge provider. it's not really a legal determination, and the fact that some of their content might move more quickly as some sort of speed limit where everything must move at the same speed, that's not really true. i think people understand that intuitively. they buy different speed tiers at home. somebody might have a faster connection than somebody else. it's about whether or not there is any unreasonable interference or discrimination or roadblock that the cable company puts in the way x. doing something to improve the quality of your own stream if netflix has more servers than i do, for example, they can serve video more quickly than i can, but that doesn't mean they are somehow damaging or making my service or my video less appealing to viewers. >> guest: let me use a different example than netflix to illustrate. a potential answer to your question about how does net neutrality promote more competition. so the fcc's theory is that the broadband service providers have an incentive and ability t

it's not providing more protection to your e-mail than a love letter, it's providing the equivalent protection and the protection that the constitution requires. in response to sort of concerns about emergencies, you know, right now the existing standard is that if police have an emergency, they can go to provider and say i've got an emergency, i need information, and providers routinely respond to those requests. many providers now have teams on call 24 hours a day, in fact, to respond to those requests. the legislation that's pending preserves that existing infrastructure. and importantly, it does one of the things that we heard that is important, which is sets standards what all providers, large and small, would follow. must follow. and importantly, it clarifies that a warrant is the right process, it is the right standard that must be met. so it's really a step forward in terms of creating clear standards that companies can follow and that law enforcement and prosecutors can expect. >> host: mr. porter? >> guest: well, i guess we have some misunderstanding or perhaps disagreement about exa

if you don't like your television service provider, you should be able to provide a different provider, suit your needs and preferences. and senator mccaskill and i are going to look into providing more choices for the consumers. i want to thank the senator for her work on this. she and her staff have worked with us in a professional and productive way to make today possible. >> thank you. i want to thank you for allowing me to pursue along with you and your staff this investigation. i think we can feel great about the fact that just this investigation and hearing have cause gd things to happen for consumers as it relates to paid tv. as you indicated, we've had a cha change just from the investigation both charter and time warner agreed to issue credits for thousands of customers who were overbilled and comcast has provided additional guidance to the retension representative allowing customers to cancel without an argument. so we can already claim some small victory as a result of these investigations. and this hearing today. and i think this is an important area for us to continue to

found that two of the companies had failed to provide notice -- provide their with notice that they had been overcharged or refund of past overcharges. the chairman pointed out. thousands of people in our states have been impacted by that. the numbers for missouri, time 4,234 missouried customers last year for a total $244,000 and charter estimates it is anally -- annually overcharged i total of each year. i want to acknowledge the cooperation we received from all the companies represented before us today, as well as acknowledge the commitments they have made thisg the process of investigation to improve customer service. our investigation suggests there is a long way to go, as did my conversation with one of my providers two days ago. i thank the witnesses for their testimony and look forward to the opportunity to ask you questions. to ourrtman: we'll go panel of witnesses. we appreciate you being here with us this morning. karinshak, senior vice president of customer --vice for capacity where comcast where he oversees all call center operations. with us john keib, president,utive vice

if you don't like your television service provider, you should be able to provide a different provider, suit your needs and preferences. and senator mccaskill and i are going to look into providing more choices for the consumers. i want to thank the senator for her work on this. she has been a stalwart friends of consumers as i said earlier. she and her staff have worked with us in a professional and productive way to make today possible. i'd like to turn to senator mccaskill for opening statement. >> thank you. i want to thank you for allowing me to pursue along with you and your staff this investigation. i think we can feel great about the fact that just this investigation and hearing have caused good things to happen for consumers as it relates to paid tv. as you indicated, we've had a change just from the investigation both charter and time warner agreed to issue credits for thousands of customers who were overbilled and comcast has provided additional guidance to the retention representative allowing customers to cancel without an argument. so we can already claim some small victo

like an e-mail provider or a cell phone provider. i'm not making that agentment here because i agree the law needs to change going forward as communications and privacy concerns change over the years but you have to start with that issue. now, it was brought up when you had a love letter, the police would come into your house and you would know they have taken your love letter. that's not necessarily true. what if you kept your fleeter safety deposit pockets and employs got it when you weren't looking there is no notification requirement. the person is ultimately charged with an offense, they wish to use the evidence, they'll gate copy of the search warrant and have an able to fight that in court but if you're talking about hypothetically, a child pornographyer sometimes it can take 18 months to get the investigation through. if the provisions for notification had gone through as they were written in the original bill, as soon as search warrants obtained, that six months or whatever time period in the bill starts to tick immediately

if you don't like your television service provider, you should be able to provide a different provider, suit your needs and preferences. and senator mccaskill and i are going to look into providing more choices for the consumers. i want to thank the senator for her work on this. she has been a stalwart friends of consumers as i said earlier. she and her staff have worked with us in a professional and productive way to make today possible. i'd like to turn to senator mccaskill for opening statement. >> thank you. i want to thank you for allowing me to pursue along with you and your staff this investigation. i think we can feel great about the fact that just this investigation and hearing have caused good things to happen for consumers as it relates to paid tv. as you indicated, we've had a change just from the investigation both charter and time warner agreed to issue credits for thousands of customers who were overbilled and comcast has provided additional guidance to the retention representative allowing customers to cancel without an argument. so we can already claim some small victo

to be working with merced housing and the vendor has extensive experience providing care for older adults and sfubdz that are a wide range of care needs i'm feeling confident the vendor will provide comprehensive high quality services for our clients can i answer any questions for you. >> thank you came in for discussion. >> i have a how long would the person remain in this emergency - this is a new contract a new service for the adult protective services program sow what we're envisioning ideally that clients will stay for thirty to 60 days maximizing and working on discharge planning ideally to get our clients to their own home with the issue we have many clients that thai might live in a rental unit hesitate there's a situation of hoarding and clustering we may assist them to avoid eviction to e eradicate violations with the dph and sometimes, we need a place to move a client on the temporary basis to restore their unit to a safe condition and move them back in. >> any other questions commissioner sims. >> what's the previous model how do you handle situations before this contract. >>

noaa should focus on providing the foundational data sets that others utilize to provide life saving forecasts. rather than duplicating efforts and technologies that are employed or could be employed by the private sector. as an example, the main tenet of hr-1561 the lucas bridenstine weather forecast act is its recognition of the role commercial weather data can play as a piece of the solution available to noaa. in the face of looming data gaps, we need to maintain continuous efficient robust and cost-effective data streams to feed the initial conditions of our numeric cal models. this subcommittee has a long history of oversight of noaa's satellite -- this is underscored my belief that we need to augment our space based observing systems by incorporating alternative methods of data collection. earlier this year before this subcommittee noaa administrator kathy sullivan testified to the ability of the private sector to produce weather data. she testified that, quote, in the weather domain we believe it is a promising but still quite prospect to actually have data flows from private

so key to being vibrant is knowing what services you are going to provide and who you are providing them to and these four sirb 4 circles for me are your key mission. once you noi who you are treating then you can provide services well and in a vibrant way. i think this particular diagram needs a lot of work. i have been asking for really the last year now who is the health network's key client, what is the vision of what they look like and what services do wae want to provide. i think we're still stuck in the problem. this is not anyone's fault but i think we need to think about it more. we are still providing on the one hand capitated care, that's the model, medicare, affordable care, i'd like to see how you move between the various circles with capitation but where does the safety net fit in and provide this capitated model, they seek services in different ways as we know and as we are learning. i think it relates to some of the questions mr. singer is asking about. how much of this will be capitated and how much will be safety net because a really relates to what we do. as best i can

how many parking spaces you provide and bike spaces you provide. signage and othersism before the first certificate of occupancy could be issued the staff will go out and inspect the property and make sure those components have been provided per their plan. any operational requirements they have to provide documentation to that effect as well. they have to satisfy they meet the tdm plan before the certificate of occupancy could be issued. the next phase would be ongoing compliance and that is where we have requirements for site inspections annually and monitoring and reporting. they center to report back to us showing they are continuing to implement the tdm plan as approved and any project that basically is in good stead for 5 years, would go to a less often inspection regime. this part the program is fairly different than what wedo from most other requirements in the planning code. with that, just to give you a idea where we have been and where we are going, we have done a lot of outreach for this program. we had a open house for the publicm we h

the provider and part d plans. we are open to ideas from congress, from you senator, from stakeholders on what we should be doing. >> just to underscore, i've heard from three constituents in the last few months that have had hepatitis c. they weren't sick enough to get their insurance company to get there expensive treatment covered but they had insurance so they weren't qualified for medicare. in one situation they were able to get the medication but in other two instances, that has not happened yet. it's not a good system if someone has to call the senator to intervene to get the medicine they need to be able to save their life. this is a huge issue and we will be doing a hearing on part d where the costs are in the areas in which seniors are most concerned. thank you mr. chairman. >> senator robert. >> thank you mr. chairman, i would like to ask unanimous consent that a letter here from over 20 patient groups and many other groups to the finance committee highlighting concerns of opposition be included in the r

>>>next week the ftc will provide an update on the resolutions and provide in invitation of intent. the lucas museum team is evaluating potential sites on the island and we are internallythrough the city evaluating potential implications of that development for both infrastructure as well as any impacts that would require any further environmental evaluation in any plan amendments that would be required and we will be providing that information with the locust team for their information. that concludes my report. >>thank you. are there any comments on the report? yes, please. >>i've heard of the marina in the past but perhaps next month we could get some more information because it just seems there is a lot of developments there.. >>yeah, i believe the marina developer is meeting with the director of the center this afternoon and hopefully that will produce some progress that we will be able to touch on next month. >>thank you. >>any other questions? >>mr. beck, we know that we will be going but when did the renovations to the center happen? >>and where are we at now? >>we really be

some input to provide historical context and i think it's important that we have the hpc provide thatr office of small business, we don't necessarily have the look and lens of history. so, i have been working with their office to make some refinements on what they're looking for and what they,, the hpc commission has determined they need to help them provide some, to provide the comments they would like to provide for the small business commission consideration in the final hearing for the legacy business application. >> supervisor peskin: sorry if this seems i'm confused that maybe i'm confused. am i incorrect in stating that the historic preservation commission has hereto for had none of these on their agenda we pick >> director: correct, officially. >> supervisor peskin: so, how -you stated that my question was these digital applications and make a determination. what agc has said is that they want interior and exterior photos to help them take a look at which is one of the criteria the physical attribute of the business. so, there are, while we have provided in the application ins

>> if at the don't provide an alternative sites the project is in complete the shock clock pauses itidn't provide us not doing the due diligence for the application. >> okay. >> but okay seeing how the legislative change for us to do a delegation right now the approvals are a conditional use and can't deliberate a cu to staff i'll drop my question this is not the end of the story because the shock clock has a negatively impact because no incentives to do a complete you may say i've landmarked other sites but no sense to analyze whether or not those are equally available you know we've seen comments where the sites where the wireless providers don't want to go provide this in terms of feasibility amendment assessment and not feasible for xyz and they don't look at that i think we're still continue to see that even as we have it updated legislation that cleans up a lot of stuff you. >> we see this as incomplete or providing information that is inaccurate. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i want to thank the gentleman and all the work in putting together good ideas but particular refe

another 20,000,000 dollars on top of that to provide the five schools where we provide training for combatand encountering trucks for we have some unique law-enforcement skill set that we actually train in five separate schoolhouses. when the funding is unstable it disrupts our ability to commit these forces to local communities, law-enforcement partners, and more portly than that, to me is that it disrupts our ability to take care the people for doing these missions. these people have lives to live and they need to know do i need to find another job versus important counter drug activity going to continue going forward. so stability and funding have just is important for the war fight readiness, for the homeland readiness, but it's very important to the people in the missile of the counter drug program. >> thank you, i know everybody on this committee appreciates that and hopefully we will be able to be more impact of a making sure funding can be counted on. i cannot overestimate how important that counter drug program is in helping us in new hampshire and other states address the drug ch

they've found a provider that's in-network. but then they end up seeing a doctor like you, who's not in- network. the patient would probably say," this isn't fair." >> yes, it is not fair for the patient, i agree with you. as a practice, our policy is to work with the patient on out-of- network payment. so, we understand it is a hardship for the patient when they are seen urgently by a provider who's out-of-network, and they did not anticipate that. >> reporter: doesn't the doctor then have a responsibility to inform the patient, 'ihey, i'm not in your network?' >> if i'm taking care of you in an emergency, i don't even look at your insurance. because we don't want anything we do to be swayed by insurance. >> reporter: and neither do hospitals, says joe devine, the president and c.e.o. of kennedy health, a chain of hospitals and clinics in southern new jersey. he says kennedy can only require its contracted doctors to participate with the same networks it does. >> we cannot legally force the independent doctors to participate i

you're not providing people the money that they're owed. even though you know they deserve a refund. we'll get back into this with more specificity. i want to move to ms. mayo with my next round of questions. she is now at charter and charter is going to be responsible going forward for what time warner's and charter's customer service procedures are. you're going to provide customers some relief that you just simply do what you have the data to be able to do. which is to tell the people i represent if you get overcharged you'll get a refund just as you would with other businesses. i'll turn it over to senator mccaskill. i'm cutting my time short. >> he's saying that i can't go over. he knows me really well. he knows i'll get carried away. it appears to me from a distance that the business model that has grown up in pay tv is figure out a way to make the entry price as low as possible and roll people off the price and deal with their anger once they realize the price has gone up. if they call to cancel. train your people really well in how

we have met matt snyder from the planning department here to provide a very short presentation regarding the technical elements of the zoning change. mr. schneider, thank you for joining >> good afternoon supervise. i'm that schneider planning to bomb and staff. again this is a part of the hope is that potrero project located on the southeast slope of potrero hill. on the overhead aerial you'll see the existing condition of the potrero and the housing authority said. were currently working on design for department documents especially his district and the development agreement with the project sponsor, bridge housing, however, we wanted to make sure to get this project going quickly to enable portion of the site which is currently vacant to start construction so we can allow revocation.. so the project is located again on potrero hill. on the overview, the location of the site, as you see potrero: sf project includes completely reconfiguring the site it streets and blocks to better connect with the rest of the neighborhood. we are looking at heights between 65 feet and 40 feet. this part

it provides a common approach to managing the risks and provides community information, tools and fundinghey need to make informed data driven decisions. this is one step fema takes in promoting resilience. the flood insurance program serves as a foundation to the efforts to reduce loss of property from floods, the most costly and frequent disaster in the united states. the program identifies areas at risk for flooding and makes flood insurance available. within the community rating system initiatives, communities who implement floodplain management practices offering lower nfip insurance premiums to participating communities. fema provides hazard mitigation assistance through predisaster mitigation, flood disaster mitigation and flood prarms providing funding to communities for measures pre and post disasters. they invest in community resilience before the disaster strikes. i strongly, this year, fema went a step further with a disaster deductible concept. states, tribal and territoryial investment in programs. i strongly believe this program will be critical to any effort to reduce disa

farm credit is sproid -- is providing the capital with which this can be achieved. i want to say a special thank of this coco host special order, my friend from georgia, mr. david scott. with that, i recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. scott, for as much time as he shall consume. mr. scott: thank you very much, mr. speaker. thank you very much, mr. scott, whom i affectionately refer to as my cousin from georgia and my good, dear friend in addition to that. his is a remarkable 100-year observance of a truly remarkable organization that provided a imagine where we at time. the 100 years ago in 1916, world teatering on the first weevil.r, bow just a malt perhaps 50 years, the south recovering from the civil war. great devastation. enter into this picture a need comes farm credit. so when we celebrate this 100-year anniversary, we've got to celebrate it right. we've got to let people know the importance and why this organization came into existence. and i say, mr. speaker, that we icularly in the south, might not have really made it as quickly in terms of our reco

for instance prep navigators as well as providers to provide ongoing trainings and dissemination of best practices across those groups and lastly we're launching a public health detailing effort. this is modeled on the concept of pharmaceutical detailing where we have trained staff who will go out and working with providers one-on-one and providing brief educational sessions on prep. here we summarize the "getting to zero" 2016 prep goals and priorities which were to create a sustainable model of delivery by building capacity, enhancing funding and a network of prep navigators. secondly to improve access to prep for populations that are currently underserved specifically to youth, trans women and men, men who have men of color, people that use drugs and those with history of incarceration. helping to coordinate social marketing campaigns because there's a lot of folks involved in prep and we're working to have consistent messaging across campaigns and make sure they reach all of the diverse populations, and that we're reaching into neighborhoods and working with community organizations t

the second is we provide an education curriculum. everything from workshops to boot camps that help entrepreneurs get off the ground and make a huge impact in cities. >> when people hear entrepreneurs, they think of people that are just trying to make money. >> it's a combination of the problems that our companies are solving and demographics that milwaukee them stand out. 76% of the companies that we invest in have a woman or person of color on the founding team and solving core urban issues like early childhood education. to access early childhood education regardless of your income background and having a big splash. i think they're serving 40% of all preschools in the state of california right now. >> what made you decide to start this kind of venture? >> we met as grad students at m.i.t. sloan and came together around our love for cities. we both ended up having transformative work experiences for startups solving those core urban challenges. i work for revolution foods based in oakland and they provide healthy school meals arou

it provides certain levels of affordability to let's look at the location the locational controls for the sites they use the streamlining provisions called the designated housing sites those sites are those that they've about this already approved in the general plan or planning code or zoning map or an eir that mitigates any potential harm in the housing further those sites must be adjacent to what we call development urban used or bound by a natural water and these sites are not on farm lanes era or hazardous sites or differentiate earthquake zones or fema zones to be clear i don't know if i can have the overhead this effects most of san francisco additional once again or once again we know that is important to know that is available to projects that provides affordability and the affordability go depends on how close to transit so if this site would have been a transient priority area a 10 percent protecting arrest 5 percent very low income thank you, thank you very much. >> so on this map we can see the way atheism defined the transit priorities the green areas are the maps so the

when you mentioned community providers, we do have a network of community providers but we're not up to speed with 100% of them in that position. so, yes, we'll take your question, and i promise you, we'll give you the answer to the best of our ability. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. huelskamp. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity to follow my colleague, mr. o'rourke, who has done tremendous work in bringing the attention of the committee and recognizing the difficulties in his area. i want to follow up a little bit more on the questions that you mentioned and the network of community providers. can you describe how the choice program has worked in terms of mental health care and meeting the needs of rural areas like mine and elsewhere across the country? >> so, let me start with the choice program. i can talk about the community care that was provided and the number of appointments that have been provided by choice. i'm going to speak in somewhat round numbers. but in the -- in fiscal year '13 we had over 16,000 appointments in the community. in fi

we are the largest provider of k9s. with me today is brett simon, a founder of k9s for warriors and current head of the k9 division. we also have two of our graduates, an 18 year army veteran who did three tours of iraq and he is with our service dog. and adam la grand, a ten year air force veteran who helped men and women with his service dog molly. as has already been mentioned, 22 veterans are going to commit suicide today. that is why k9s for warriors exists. we were founded by a mom. her name is sherry duval and she was worried about her son's pts. k9s for warriors has grown into an organization with 36 dedicated staff. a nine acre, 17,000 square foot state of the art campus in florida and a track record of helping hundreds of veterans over come the symptoms associated with pts. importantly, we're very successful in prepare venting veteran suicide. every warrior that comes through our door gets the family treatment. i would say. they get a service k9, they get equipment, training, certification, seminars, legal ins

and in order for us to provide that flexibility, they need to be 1099 contractors. one of the gating factors to however them filing their tax or receiving training in any other regard, whether professional services, learning to be better handymen, understanding how to market themselves, is this inability to work directly with them around training. that's ultimately one of the barriers to the issue we're talking today and more broadly around how to interact with this workforce in a meaningful way. >> you agree with that, mr. kennedy? >> yeah, and i would also -- >> mike. >> sorry. i would also add that if you're talking about withholding taxes or providing, say, health care benefits, the evidence, economic evidence is that the employee ultimately pays for that in reduced take-home pay, so it's not really the employer that's benefiting. it's possibly the employee. and so i think there is -- one of the reasons i suggested the, you knows, the temporary exemption is because i think there is real scope for the companies to come forward in certain areas and have a closer r

that level of oversight to provide a transparency, to provide accountability more importantly to these department of functions. i agree, the government of real estate should be exempt. thank you supervisor peskin's office for pulling that out. but i do wonder about particular the mayor's office of housing and i do think that a commission would push this department to be aggressive in how the marketing and talk about affordable housing. push the department to be far more aggressive than outside of their comfort zone when it comes to interacting with communities of color. how we're advertising these units available. we are we are advertising. i've been working two years with your staff trying to get some language to codify how developers even advertise these units. i've got nowhere. it's been incredibly frustrating and yet i sit here and i watch these affordable market units as well as bmr units go through the process, and few people of san francisco i would just say ancestry, commitment the san franciscans are continually being pushed out and there seems to be like no accountability. pe

so then they need to provide even more pdm. they decided provide more caution parking good i believe this one also as requires them to members membership with it and some family-friendly pdm measures that carly can talk to you later if you have questions about those. so, those are incentives would become a project plan. they would submit a planning department our staff would review that could recommend measures to our planning commission is worth all conditions of approval. they have to implement them if the project is approved. eventually, the planning commission approves the project. building permits eventually get issued and then comes the third basic elements of the workbooks and maybe the most important one. that's an implementation strategy. there's two subparts to this. the first part is city staff is going to go out and make sure that these measures are in fact effected where going to do research over time to refine that menu, refine the point values that are signed for those measures based on actual data collection pro

than is provided by current policies. the own commanders better guidance on how to handle questions such as the climate, medical treatment, and other matters. and this is particularly true for small unit leaders, like our senior enlisted and june are officers. -- and junior officers. right now most of our transgendered service members must go outside the military medical system to obtain care that is judged by doctors to be necessary. a have to pay for it out of their pockets. this is inconsistent with our promise to all our troops that we will take care of them and pay for necessary medical treatment. i and the defense department's other leaders who have been studying this issue had met with some of these transgender service members. they have deployed all of the work of serving on aircraft, submarines, forward operating leases, and in the pentagon. while i learned in most cases their peers and local commanders have recognized the value of retaining such high-quality people, i also learned that the lack of clear guidelin

these buildings we will require to provide alturninate methods of providing goods and services as is required by title 3. hopefully we will be able to enter into thatcomputer system when it is developed. we are also going to there will be disability access compliance unit within department of building inspection which is novel and joint effort of multiple departments working together for a common goal to facilitate accessibility and make the process easier for people to come in to make the buildings accessible. this has never been done and will be unique. it also establishes a fee of less than $100 when you apply. in order to make this work, what we did is divided every building into one of 4 categories. there is a exemp category if built every 2002 we are reasonable certain you will have a accessible entry but we ask you to show that. the other 4 categories, category 1 is either on purpose or by accident your entry complywise the requirements of the ordinance so that is no further work needed. category 2, would be there is something wrong with your entry, but you do not have a step.

they're good because they provide important worship and give us a lot of information and i would like for more families to join us thank you. >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> good afternoon. i want to talk about the impact this program has had in our lives for example, my daughter who is on her way to the university i think i can thank you for your support and, yes i'm very grateful was my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> as my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >>s my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> they helped me us parents to support our children because they teach us how to support them so they can succeed so they provide help for both of us. >> (speaking spanish.) >> so it is a program that provides layers of support for everybody so provides support not only support not only for the children but also for the parents for everyone thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. >> (speaking spanish.) >> goo

join others california association of counties excess you insurance authority as part of based to provide dental coverage for employees and action resolution number 24, 2016 and 5 d authorizing the executive director to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the city and county of san francisco controller's office for financial assistance accounting and items of support not to exceed $344,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 and action resolution number 25, 2016 madam chair. >> thank you before we entertain motioned by the commission any speaker cards on the consent calendar. >> we do. >> okay commissioners any questions or comments or motioned on the content agenda. >> i have no comments. >> so it's been moved forward by commissioner bustos and seconded by commissioner singh please call the roll. >> commissioners, please respond when i call your name. commissioner pimentel is absent commissioner bustos commissioner singh commissioner mondejar madam chair rosales madam chair, i have 4 i's and one absent. >> the content agenda is adopted please call the next item. >> agenda items 5 e and f

one of the options allows the state to provide its own proposal. for states that pursue this wretch, how would your department assist them as they contemplate actions that are less punitive but no less of it if? -- but no less effective? ensureng: how do we strong parental understanding of the role of assessments in schools? there are reasons why folks have seen over the last decade and increase in assessment in driven ahat has legitimate set of concerts. that is why the administration proposed the testing action plan and provided guidance. to support reductions in assessment. that is a feature of the every student succeeds act. we want states and districts to take advantage of that. low level can replace bubble tests with higher-quality performance-based assessments, those kinds of efforts will help ensure that states and districts are able to comply with the expectations. onamici: i look forward to working with you on that. chairman kline: mr. byrne. byrne: i want to remind you that i am a former member of the alabama's deep board of education. a

in my view there is a big difference between providing an assurance and providing evidence. this proposed regulation evicerates the intent of congress and essa. would you please explain what i think is a blatant violation of prohibitions and the essa statute that says the state need only to provide an assurance that they have adopted academic standards. not evidence. to somebody within the dusty common core halls of the department of education. >> so, let me say this clearly as possible, that standards are determined by states. the law is clear on that point. we are clear on that point. i've been clear on that point as you said in our prior conversations. the law also requires a process for ensuring that states have an assessment system that has been through peer review and that is fair to students and reliable. as part of that process, states provide evidence to peer reviewers, other states, and experts on assessment who participate in process to ensure that the state has gone through a rigorous and reliable process of matching their standards to the assessments and as part

>>>next week the ftc will provide an update on the resolutions and provide in invitation of intent. the lucas museum team is evaluating potential sites on the island and we are internallythrough the city evaluating potential implications of that development for both infrastructure as well as any impacts that would require any further environmental evaluation in any plan amendments that would be required and we will be providing that information with the locust team for their information. that concludes my report. >>thank you. are there any comments on the report? yes, please. >>i've heard of the marina in the past but perhaps next month we could get some more information because it just seems there is a lot of developments there.. >>yeah, i believe the marina developer is meeting with the director of the center this afternoon and hopefully that will produce some progress that we will be able to touch on next month. >>thank you. >>any other questions? >>mr. beck, we know that we will be going but when did the renovations to the center happen? >>and where are we at now? >>we really be

upon completion of the 30 days of continuous provided for, the 60 days of continuous session review provided in section 123-d shall commence. signed, barack obama, the white house, june 14, 2016. . the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from north dakota eek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cramer: mr. speaker, in the last few months, more than 175 members of congress from both parties and both chambers have expressed concerns about the f.c.c.'s proposed set top box rules. even the small business administration has weighed in with concerns about how these rules could burden small operators. last month my friend from oregon, mr. schrader, and i authored a bipartisan letter signed by 59 of our colleagues that says in part, the proposal threatens the economic welfare of small tv companies, providing both vital communications services to rural areas, and competitive alternatives to consumers in urban

biometric could provide data verification. we'll continue close collaboration with the department and ice in the development and implementation of the biometric exit concepts and continue to work with the private industry partners including airlines and airports who are essential in the development of the solutions. thank you for the opportunity to appear today. i would be happy to answer questions. >> thank you. the chair recognizes mr. healey. >> good morning, distinguished members. thank you for the opportunity to discuss isis's role in over stay enforcement and how we would benefit from the biometric exit system. for 30 years i have spent my career in federal law enforcement and i recognize that visa overstay enforcement is an important issue for the subcommittee. i would like to outline my agency's involvement as a recipient of information collected by my dhs colleagues represented here today in how we use the information. ice homeland security investigations or hsi through the counter terrorism and criminal exploitation

it also provided for a very limited asylum. it did provide those who entered on a non-immigrant visa prior to 1953 and feared persecution could apply to the attorney general for residents, but of course, each case had to be individually approved by congress. this was not going to be a massive program by any means. granted eisenhower refugee status to about 12,000 hungarians who were fleeing be failed revolution. had beend states involved in trying to fall meant that revolution and felt obligated. most people doubt every single one of those thousand was involved in the refuge -- in the revolution. there were many people who just wanted to get out of communist hungary. there was very little resistance to that in public or in congress. and similarly, congress did not oppose kennedy allowing an anti-castro cubans. cubans started coming out, both by plane and april, 1961, over 125,000 cubans arrived in the united states and every single one was allowed to stay. eisenhower and kennedy apparently -- at least on some level, viewed this

the bill provides the copyright modernization project with a 17% increase. this critical funding will enable the copyright office to hire the necessary staff to begin to make technological investments to improve the way they do business. it is unacceptable in the year 2016 that copyright users have to make certain requests via paper in the 21st century. that is inefficient and a drag on commerce that is dependent on the copyright system. there's also report language included that makes it clear that the library of congress shall continue to defer to the register of copyrights on all copyright-related issues. while the copyright office is within the library, it has unique functions that make it necessary to have a strong leader that can answer to congress and the copyright community when issues arise. the register should have the freedom to make decisions and be responsive to the copyright community. i'm also happy to see increased funding for the historic building's trust fund. this is the same fund we used to save for the down payment on the cannon building