for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. mr. speaker, march is colon cancer awareness month. sadly, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among both men and women in this country. including over 2,000 ohioans. mr. chabot: but it doesn't have to be. as the american college of gas row -- college of gastro shows, colonoscopies could prevent over 50% of detects in the u.s. when colon cancer is detected early, the survival rate climbs to 90%. the american cancer society reveals that screenings have reduced the rate of colon cancer instances by 30% over the last 10 years. still, more needs to be done. mr. speaker, as we observe colon cancer awareness month, i urge all americans, particularly those over 50, to talk to their doctor and ask if a screening is right for them. cancer is a killer and colon cancer can be more deadly than most. but we can fight back by taking proactive steps to diagnose and combat the disease at its out

that's the purpose of the under-- the same rules. that's the purpose of the underlying bill. the president should play by the same rules that congress has to use and every agency of the federal government has to use. no thank you. which is simply to come up with the concept that before decisions are made you get public input. and that's why all of the discussion i've seen in blogs and from special interest groups are so confusing to me. because at one time we say, yes, it is important that we get public input. excepter to -- except for this particular bill in which public input is bad. that does not make sense. that is mental gymnastics of the worst variety. if this bill were to pass, it would not change the ab antiquities act, it -- the antiquities act, it would not prohibit the president from making national monuments, it would not prohibit congress from establishing national parks, all it would do is simply say, you've got to go through the nepa process which requires public input, especially from those who are going to be directly impacted. and we have seen that if you ma

or other purposes. -- generating units, and for ther purposes. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. he house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? >> mr. speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentlelady opposed to the bill? >> i am opposed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady qualifies. the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: ms. brownley of california moves to recommit the bill h.r. 3826 to the committee on energy and commerce with instructions to report the same back to the house forthwith with the following amendment. redesignate section 5 as section 6 and insert after section 4 the following, section 5, saving consumers money on their electricity bills. this act shall not apply with respect to rules that save consumers money on electricity bills, including rules that allow for or encourage energy efficiency, demand response, or other approaches to lower the cost of electricity for consumers. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be

for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. march is national developmental disabilities month -- awareness month. every year at this time we all bring attention and the understanding of the needs and potential people with developmental disabilities. as an individual with hearing disability and a grandfather of a child who has tars syndrome, i'm very familiar with the hardships of overcoming these disabilities. mr. mckinley: we must all think of ways to be inclusive, respectful for our communities, schools and work forces. interning for us in our washington office, we are fortunate to have a i don't think woman who happens to have down syndrome. she's also attending the local university. we look forward to those days we have her in our office. her cherry disposition and work ethic is infection. i encourage everyone to engage with those in our communities who have developmental disabilities and recognize their talents and abilities that will make us a better nation. thank

purposes. i guess two parts. why isn't it already legally usable and if it is not, what procedure would you apply to access it? to any panelist. . . to see this information was collected and now we can do searches. >> because it isn't certain that person whom you are collecting information is a non-us persons of the burden of proof is to establish this individual is a non-us person, so the assumption that all of the collection that is going on is of bond u.s. persons i think is an iranian swan and the reason i think it is air out of yes is that the nsa is under no obligation to check and see and make sure that individual is not a u.s. person. to the contrary, in their documents they say they may take these databases. there is no obligation that they do so. mr. de reverted to the test that say they have two strikes against and they look at everything. there is nothing that obliges them to then go back and dig up more information to find out in that circumstance and not only that but actually if

for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. rise today in honor of march being women's history month. ms. beatty: i rise today to say thank you for all the services of the women in the third congressional district and the 102 women who serve in the 113th congress in the house and senate. i rise because we know when women succeed america succeeds. i ask you to join me in making 014 a year of action by having equal pay for having equal work. affordable childcare and access to health care. this afternoon i'm honored to join swin cash, two-time olympic gold medalist, as we initiate the let's move initiative in honor of the first lady's let's move. so, too, america i say, let's do this thing in honor of women. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the chair recognizes -- for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one

for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection. >> i rise in memory of -- in honor of the memory of captain james cohen. he was born in ohio in 1933 and died september 9 last year. he grew up in price hill, atended elder high school and was a graduate of xavier university. he led a distinguished life and an honorable one as a devoted husband and father and accomplished naval officer. mr. chabot: as officer on the u.s.s. gaudal canal, he oversaw recovery of the apollo 9 space capsule, and served at pearl harbor and had responsibility for anti-submarine warfare in the pacific and indian oceans he epitomized the term america's greatest generation. our country has benefited greatly from his service and as american well, owe him a debt of gratitude. full military honors at arlington national cemetery for captain cohen will take place on march 24. well done, captain cohen, and may you rest in peace. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for w

>> it's primarily intended purpose is to supply drinking water. and as a back up system, if there are existing well systems went down, this well facility will be used to fill our reservoirs for irrigation purposes in the short term. long term, if and when the park does receive recycled water, if that system had to be shut down for any particular purpose for operations or whatever during its operations, this particular well facility will be functioning as a water supply system for the irrigation system in the park. it's a redundant system for park system. >> it's for drinking water but there's a benefit for golden gate park. >> absolutely. >> i like to amend the resolution to also add that the project is also consistent with the golden gate master plan since there is a benefit to golden state park. with that, i like to move for approval. >> commissioner bonum. >> yeah, the question i have is i know there are aquafers throughout city, my question is what is the extent of underground water consisting of aquafers throughout the city. is there anything

for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. marino: i rise in opposition to the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes mr. marino: with all due respect to my colleague, we have worked closely together on several committees, mr. chairman the american people desperately need new jobs. just this week the bureau of labor statistics reported the american labor force participation rate is at a 35-year low. over 92 million americans who could work are outside of the work force. that is more than the population of all but 14 of the world's 228 countries and more than every country in the western hemisphere but brazil and mexico. we face this historically low rate not because americans don't want to work, because so many americans have dess paired of any hope of finding -- dispaired of any hope of finding a new remust passb and -- the bill not weaken it. to provide these new high-wage jobs. the gentlelady's amendment would whackon the bill in one of the worst possible ways t would rem

warrant requirement, or if there is foreign tell against purpose, sometimes a primary purpose or a purpose depending how you define it. then there is whether that goes to the question of reasonableness. whether legitimate government interest, goes to the question of reasonableness. the reason i'm emphasizing the significance of the foreign intelligence purpose aspect of this and territorial aspect of this because i do think it is relevant. this is in fact what is going on here is a collision between our law enforcement and intelligence both here, right? so the u.s. government is gathering a lot of information for foreign intelligence purposes. it is also using sometimes the information, some of that information, is although they're not i think so far frequently leaking into criminal prosecutions but if we start from the perspective of foreign intelligence gathering, right, this is article ii. this is where we start and this is something that is largely been unregulated, right. what is changed the nature of communications have changed, so many communications were essentially gathered unsupe

for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, the napoleon of siberia, putin, controls ukraine and other countries by holding their energy needs hostage. russia uses gas as a political and economic weapon to manipulate its neighbors. this does not have to be and the united states can change it. by selling european country ours oil and gas, we can reduce their dependence on imperialistic russia. we have more gas than we can use in the united states and we can sell the gas to our allies in europe that would create jobs here in america and help our allies overseas. the same go for crude oil my amendment that passed the house foreign affairs committee today would require the state department to submit to congress within 90 days on the impact of our increased natural gas and crude oil exports, how they would have an effect on russia's economic and political influe

for what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from utah is recognized for one minute. mr. stewart: thank you, madam speaker. every day when i'm talking to constituents, their top concern is always the economy and jobs. they are frustrated, as i am, that we have something like 3.8 million americans who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks now. and i'm consistently asked by people, what can be done, how can we make this better? addition to urging the senate to pass jobs legislation that moved through the house, the president needs to approve the keystone pipeline. it's been more than 2,000 days since theline permit has been submitted for approval. 2,000 days the administration has delayed something like 20,000 direct jobs and 120,000 indirect jobs. it took less time to fight and win world war ii. it took much less time to build the empire state building and it's taken u

it has many training purposes but an additional purpose could be to display nato's might be for the communist. this exercise is divided into two opposing forces called black and green. in this exercise, old sides have the american 280 member of atomic cannon. the atomic cannon has never been fired in europe. what you'll see here is a simulated atomic explosion. the atomic canon can be fired in europe. the guns are ready. the men are ready. should the soviets attacked anyone of nato's 14 nations, atomic guns will fire. >> from his armies the big picture series, nato maneuvers aimed at deterring soviet aggression in europe this weekend on american history tvs reel america sunday at 4 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> booktv interviewed author eric metaxas about his book trend 11 out of 2014 -- "seven men: and the secret of their greatness." in the book, he profiles of seven men who he argues should serve as models for men today. >> "seven men: and the secret of their greatness" is the name of the book published by thomas nelson. the author eric metaxas. who are these seven and what do they have in co

this was it certainly purposeful. the whole history of how the federal and the state governments created racial segregation on purpose has largely been frontal boundary. it was once well-known, but we need to be reminded of it to understand how this came about. >> so not only how it came about, richard, but i can glean that this is not an exclusive issue to you connecticut. >> no, this is true throughout the country. all of the suburban developments that you're familiar with. panorama city in los angeles, all of these suburban developments were funded with the explicit condition that no homes be sold to african-americans, and no homes could be resoled to african-americans. this is not a unique connecticut problem. you find the same concentration of minority poverty in cleveland and detroit and baltimore and los angeles, and the san francisco bay area, in seattle and portland, chicago. throughout the country, the safely federal policies were played out and created a purposeful segregated society. >> so richard, andre e

. >> for what purpose did they establish these? is it for the purpose of determinidetermini ng who is so incapable of controlling his actions that he shouldn't be subject to the death penalty? is that what they're looking for when they establish 70 to 75? what are they looking for? >> intelligence tests supply, i mean they weren't created for the definition, the clinical definition of mental retardation. the rear created to determine a proxy for true intellectual function and therefore a true iq test score. the general. >> i'm not talking about iq tests in general. i'm talking about why did they pick -- they use to pick and now they pick between 70 and 75 is the upper limit. the upper limit for what? i assume it's for people who would profit from medical treatment isn't that it's? >> there are many reasons why a person's iq, that is a persons intellectual functioning may be important for a hold for i.d. of reasons mental psychological developmental developmental and as an opponent of the clinical clinical -- the eighth amendment. >

they might use it for a wide variety of purposes. the question is why does their determination that is useful for wide variety of purposes have a 95% confidence level, why is the state stuck with that for this purpose? >> because this goes to the reason they use it. the reason they use it is because of the inherent imprecision in testing in mineral but in particular testing for the presence of something relative intellectual functioning. there are so many -- it is so common for people who for a variety of reasons obtain a 71 or 72 in fact have mental retardation and because evidence -- evaluation of intellectual function in vaults clinically much more than a test score, look what happened in this case. all of the iq tests that were administered call of the tests were accompanied because they fell within the standard error of measurement were accompanied by the administration of further intelligence testing for confirmatory -- >> is that what you want? back to justice sotomayor's questions start knocking around 95% it is all over the

possession with a weapon with purpose to use it towards another. attempt to cause purpose knowing bodily injury in 2012. possession with intent to distribute. the instant offense. the state had the defendant on tape selling marijuana to a female undercover police officer on several different occasions. he had no problem whatsoever hitting on the undercover officer on the audiotape trying

a 5 year requirement is the purpose of ellis act was to allow loans to get into the business that's not what the folks are about i look forward to move forward this forward and january 7th our board of supervisors unanimously supported a resolution that i sponsored along with supervisor campos and mayor ed lee and others to make sure this kind of legislation move forward we need help from sacramento and stand united for our city thank you very much >> (clapping) >> thank you, president chiu and senator leno to the assembly members and the board of supervisors as well as our labor parents and business community. we have differences of opinion but the fact we have a united front representing the spectrum telling you what's happening here in with the legislation there's something different. i want to commend mayor ed lee it's important to recognize it's the first time we've had a mayor of san francisco to come out to say we need to reform the ellis act. i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to thanks senator leno and assemblyman who introduced the bill. i represent dignity 9 which incl

for what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition? mr. bishop: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 1 printed in house report 113-385 offered by mr. bishop of utah. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 524, the gentleman from utah, mr. bishop, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from utah. mr. bishop: thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment tries to clarify the process for monument designations of 5,000 acres or less, providing they could become permanent if the president follows the regular nepa public involvement process. there was a question on the clarity of the language in the underlying bill. it also requires that -- ensures that new taxpayer dollars will use existing funds to conduct any study or analysis that's in the bill or may be added by an amendment. with that i reserve. with that i'd like to yield to the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i

for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise to recognize national myeloma month. mr. higgins: it is a cancer of the bone marrow which ranges from bone pain to failure. over 22,000 new cases will be diagnosed and 11,000 deaths will occur due to myeloma this year. while myeloma is not curable, it's treatable. i thank my colleagues, congressman bachus and rangel for drafting a resolution to establish march as multiple myeloma month and the international myeloma foundation for raising awareness of the disease year round. additionally, as congress begins to develop a budget, i encourage strong support for medical research, increasing funding to the national institutes of health to $32 billion. finally, i urge the house leadership to bring the cancer drug coverage parody act to the floor, a bill i introduced to make sure that patients with myeloma and other cancers who are prescribed oral chemotherapy by their doctors will have the insurance coverage they need to trea

for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i was happy to see the president sign h.r. 3370, the homeowners flood insurance and affordability act. this bill is an important first step in addressing affordability in the national flood insurance program, but we have a long way to go to put solvency back in the system. we're working hard not only through the appropriations process but also with leadership and other members in coastal districts whose constituents have been victims of the rate increases brought about by biggert-waters. it had removal -- including removal of the dreaded sails trigger that would have devastated the housing and real estate markets in florida and other states, but perhaps most importantly where we were able to reassure fema of the importance of the affordability study. mr. speaker, the next step is to find new ways to stabilize nfip and make flood insurance more affordable for all homeowners and small businesses. i

different intelligence programs are used for different purposes. a program like section 702 is used for difficult purposes and the metadata program, one may be a discovery tool to provide more specific collection and others may be used as in fact the specific election that follows that. .. i think you really in order to understand whether it's effective and useful you have to think about what your goals are with respect to this particular program and the goals for this program like many other programs are to obtain i think timely, accurate, informative, foreign intelligence information about the capabilities, plans, intentions of foreign powers, agents, actors and so on and so forth. really what your talking about is i think developing a good metric to understand whether this program is worth all of the costs associated with it. so i think you would want to look at the amount of information that we acquire but also then the quality of it, how good it is. i think you can slice that a lot of different ways at my colleagues have suggested. i think tha

for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman s recognized for one minute. mr. tonko: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to recognize michael c. hoffman for receiving the flame of hope award from the epilepsy foundation of northeastern new york. this award highlights his outstanding dedication and commitment to the epilepsy foundation, raising awareness and funds of overcoming the challenges of overcoming epilepsy and curing the disease. mike is a successful business owner and has worked for almost four decades to improve the community around him in the capital region of new york. throughout his years as a member of the epilepsy foundation, i'm pleased to see him receive this award. i thank michael c. hoffman for his tireless efforts to improve our communities and congratulate him upon winning the flame of hope award from the epilepsy foundation of northeastern new york. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ten

within two months of the purpose they hazed me to vacate along with an ellis act eviction. i delighted those offers one by one i received an ventilation under the ellis act which technically i had one year to vacant. i put up a website site and a joined with the eviction free folks of san francisco a coalition and getting miff a great lawyer steve callingier here today with steve's help my eviction was quashed due to a technologist of how the ellis act was done. i was protect i didn't for others there's no relief. currently my status is in limbo, however, they can still reellis me at any time. my eviction story like many others before me and since and including that of ms. lee and the lee family and those of the senior and sdabltd folks go through the ellis act illustrate the need for reforming of the ellis act. especially the loophole that exists in the law today. the bill that senator leno put forward will get back to the original act letting landlords get out of the business and not displacing tenants. help to differentiate between the landlords and the specific last yea

you know for the public's invent the purpose of indexing is to keep the fairs that represents about 25 percent of the revenues of our operating budget to keep it moving in line with general inflation that applies to our other costs like fuel and salary and benefit costs and equipment costs your expenses go up over time and the purpose of the indexing policy st. is to keeling keep our policy in line with that. we've discussed the xoins of this policy is one of the things cited by credit agencies to get a fair credit rating that provides us a lower cost of capital that makes our dollars go further. so a few different fair options we've put on the table i want to walk through and those are ideas for discussion. they've been put forth in some realms as done deals their none of the above only ideas based on discussions two years ago. the default is to leave the policy in place and this shows you on the slide that would be our status quo, however, there are options we can deviate from the policy we can increase the fairs beyond indexing to recognize an increased value associated with the

osce nations about the types of exercises, the size involved, and the purpose of the exercise?> let me answer the second part of the question first. i don't know whether or not they have made that notification. i have been wrapped up in these talks and other talks. so i'm not aware of that. but i can tell you indeed we talked about these exercises, and we talked about the level of troops that are deployed, where they are deployed, what the purpose is, and i raised very clearly the increased anxiety that is created within ukraine as a consequence of this, and we talked about one of the proposals that we made -- i'm not going to go into all of them -- but one of the proposals we made discussed the possibility of drawing all forces back, reducing these tensions, returning to barracks, have a freeze on those kinds of deployments, while the diplomacy is working. i think foreign minister lavrov is going to report that proposal back to president putin, as he will all of the proposals that we put on the table this afternoon. he is going to fly back, have that discussion with him, so th

different intelligence programs are used for different purposes. a program like section 702 is used for difficult purposes and the metadata program, one may be a discovery tool to provide more specific collection and others may be used as in fact the specific election that follows that. .. i think you really in order to understand whether it's effective and useful you have to think about what your goals are with respect to this particular program and the goals for this program like many other programs are to obtain i think timely, accurate, informative, foreign intelligence information about the capabilities, plans, intentions of foreign powers, agents, actors and so on and so forth. really what your talking about is i think developing a good metric to understand whether this program is worth all of the costs associated with it. so i think you would want to look at the amount of information that we acquire but also then the quality of it, how good it is. i think you can slice that a lot of different ways at my colleagues have suggested. i think tha

and i just have a concern about using city resources for that purpose, and i'm not sure that's necessarily a good precedent, but, you know, that's something that could be done. so, thank you. >> mr. chairman, may i? >> sure. supervisor wiener. >> so, thank you, mr. elliott, and to supervisor campos, for those comments. just a couple things. first of all, from what i understand, the mayor's request will be along the lines of this resolution, and similar in other ways as well. first, as i stated at the last -- at the board meeting when i introduced it, i publicly invited anyone who had additional questions if they wanted included to put them forward. and is as i indicated at that board meeting, that i had no problem adding additional questions because the more information, the better. i have not received any, and i presume that additional questions could be forwarded to the mayor as well. when it comes to posing questions, the more the morier, and the more questions, the more information we get. ~ merrier. and we made clear in the resolution, and i know the mayor made clear the same thing, t

privacy and making the collection reasonable for fourth amendment purposes. >> under the minimization procedures i understand the agencies, the fbi, their own minimization procedures are not the same with each other? >> that is correct. >> why shouldn't i be concerned they are not being subjected to the same minimization standards? >> each of them have their and minimization procedures based on their unique mission and that record the jumbos for cia, fbi, nsa, reasonable for each different agency, slightly different based on the operational needs. >> would it make more ascents at the minimization procedures to apply for the information? >> just to contrast, of using information in different ways, fbi has more latitude with respect to personal information in terms of criminal activity, and as a doesn't have the law-enforcement missions of is important to have differences between the agency in terms of how they handle the information. >> the practice that all information that is collected under 702 is subject to the minimization procedures, some questions could be raised, some comments

it does negate the purpose of the legislation. today the manager's amendment has with four additional savings clause continued to show the magnitude of the unintended consequences, and they are very negative, 3189 would have on various activities that require a federal permit. there is some agreement on this bill, we both agree on the starting point of the legislation involving the conflict which was the focus of the hearing. between the four certificate -- forest service and ski resorts. unfortunately the forest service issued a declaration release that mandated certain things that are objectionable to my colleagues, and they are now having set out a new policy directive that is under consideration by o.m.b. we have not waited for the results of o.m.b. we can't tell until after the comment period is given to the general public, and then it can be published. there are currently 121 ski he resorts located in 13 states, operating on federal forest service land. i repeat, federal forrest land. that's public land that belongs to the g

for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i send to the desk a privilege red port for the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk:ry port to accompany house resolution 497, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 3426 to provide direction to the administrator of the environmental protection gency of standards for emissions by electricity generating units and for providing for kgs of the bill to amen the internal revenue code of 1986 to dily -- delay the implementation of the penalty for failure to comply with the individual health insurance mandate. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. he house will be in order. the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. gene green of texas for today and the balance of the week, ms. jackson lee of texas for march 4, ms. eddie bernice johnson of texas for today and tomorrow. the spea

what purpose would it serve anybody. and what more information are they using? how do they use it and what for? >> those are questions that a lot of people are asking, including privacy experts, who fear that it crosses more than ethical boundaries. data brokers say that it's a lifestyle. >> i think that consumers understand that we all live data driven lives today. our economy is data driven and our days are data driven, and information is constantly flowing in all sorts of different directions, and what we're doing here is making sure that it flows in responsible directions for responsible uses. >> companies and organizations spend more than $2 billion every year buying your information from these brokers, so what lists are you on, and what guarantees do you have that people controlling the lists are acting responsibly? here to explain this web of information is larry bounce, big bank destruction, and joining us, pam dixon, the executive director of world privacy forum, and her group helps people protect themselves and a data aggregation firm. thank you for jo

for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to congratulation the university preparatory school from read for winning first place in the regional science bowl competition. the national science bowl is an annual competition that brings together some of the best and brightest from across the country. mr. lamalfa: teams face off in a competition with a range of questions from biology, chemistry, either science, physics, chemistry and math. the event, while competitive, also promotes teamwork and a commitment to bettering our nation's future. we're proud of the north state of all the teams who competed, dozens of high schools did, for the chance to represent california at the national science bowl. their work is testament to their hard work and thoof students, educators and parents across our region. cop garagelations to the team who will be

. >> for what purpose did they establish these? is it for the purpose of determinidetermini ng who is so incapable of controlling his actions that he shouldn't be subject to the death penalty? is that what they're looking for when they establish 70 to 75? what are they looking for? >> intelligence tests supply, i mean they weren't created for the definition, the clinical definition of mental retardation. the rear created to determine a proxy for true intellectual function and therefore a true iq test score. the general. >> i'm not talking about iq tests in general. i'm talking about why did they pick -- they use to pick and now they pick between 70 and 75 is the upper limit. the upper limit for what? i assume it's for people who would profit from medical treatment isn't that it's? >> there are many reasons why a person's iq, that is a persons intellectual functioning may be important for a hold for i.d. of reasons mental psychological developmental developmental and as an opponent of the clinical clinical -- the eighth amendment. >

there's no reason to believe that turning that environment to another purpose or no purpose at all would make it any better habitat for reptiles, amphibians, birds or mammals, including the human being mammal. the people who want to close sharp park claim that golf is an elitist activity for the wealthy and the powerful. very few of the people who play golf at sharp park are either wealthy or powerful. many have limited means. i'm one of them. sharp park is one of the few golf courses in the bay area that most anyone can afford to play. people of limited means are the people that those who want to close the golf course are going to deprive of their opportunity to play. it's the individuals who want to close sharp park who are the real elitists in this affair. thank you. >> thank you. now, if we can go back to the last speaker. [audio/visual presentation] [speaker not understood] >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, mr. president and board of supervisors -- good evening, i guess, now. my name len stone. i am [speaker not understood]. immediate past mayor. i want to th

a judge says they don't believe japan has been conducting the practice for research purposes. the country has been hunting whales in the antarctic ocean for nearly three decades. a judge is still giving his ruling in the netherlands. we'll have more updates on this developing story as we get them. >>> world scientists have issued a stark warning on climate change. they say global warming poses a threat to world food stocks and human security after concluding a conference in yokohama, japan. nhk world's kurando tago has more. >> reporter: united nations intergovernmental panel for climate change or ipcc finished a closed meeting. it addressed the impact of climate change on both people and the planet. more than 300 leading scientists from around the world have contributed to the 2600 page report, the first update in seven years. it concludes that climate change is already having an effect, and poses risk to human and natural systems. on all continents, and across the ocean. >> nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change. >> reporter: the repo

for what purpose does the gentleman rise? mr. gowdy: i withdraw the point of order and rise in opposition to the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the reservation is withdrawn and the secret is recognized for five minutes. mr. gowdy: i want to talk for a moment as colleagues, not as republicans or democrats, not as members of the majority or the minority, but colleagues who are blessed to serve in the united states house of representatives. the people's house. with all their tradition, with all the history, with all the laws that have been passed, with all the lives that have been impacted. i want us to talk as colleagues because our foundational document gave us, as the house, unique powers and responsibilities. rerun every two years because they ended -- intended for us to be closest to the people. the president was given different duties and powers. the president was given the duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. so my question, mr. speaker, is what does that mean to you? that the laws be faithful

this was my purpose. we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before. string orchestra repertoire is pre

for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. smith: mr. chairman, amendment at the desk. -- i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 1 printed in house report 113-373 offered by mr. smith of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 497, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: mr. chairman, we should not stand by and let the e.p.a. tear down america one regulation at a time, so i thank the gentleman from kentucky, mr. whitfield, for his work on h.r. 3826, the elect trick security and affordability act. economic growth depends on job creators, not federal regulators. we need to increase access to affordable energy, not take energy options off the table. now is the time to ensure a robust all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes

a lot of this on purpose to not hurt the investigation. so the facts that we're working with, it would be hard to understand you know just exactly how it got to pakistan, what it is doing there, why it wouldn't track there. or the israelis, there is a concern that maybe it is either in iran or under control or some of the groups that iran contr controls. i will say this. the israeli government, even if it is a 1% chance that is a possibility is doing the right thing to prepare for it. >> they usually do the right thing, we can learn a lot from them. >> we should do the right thing to prepare. it is not wasted because some day something will happen and we'll be better prepared for it. >> let's run through the different scenarios we're talking about here. hijacking by the pilot or the crew. terrorism from the pilot, they wanted to plow this thing into the indian ocean, perhaps. terrorism from the co-pilot, hijacking from a passenger, less likely because what we know about the data -- >> go out on a limb and say if it was a passenger, they ac

for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition? mr. hastings: i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2197. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 163, h.r. 2197, a bill to amend the wild and scenic rivers act to designate segments of the york river and tributaries for inclusion in the national wild and scenic rivers system. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and the gentlewoman from maine, ms. pingree, each will control 20 minutes. mr. hastings: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the legislation under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: i yield myself uch time as i may consume. this bill authorizes the national parks for possible inclusion into the wild and scenic rivers program. the act of 1968 was intended to put a development freeze on rivers to preserve their, quote, free

anyway, that is the purpose of that recommendation. we didn't suggest the answers. what we tried to say is it just shouldn't go on forever. there should be some sort of way of having it come back on the agenda and some action should be taken. >> all right, thank you very much. and with that, i will open this up now for public comment. any members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing -- oh, yes? >>> [speaker not understood]. this is quite interesting because this goes back to basically what i've been doing for over 25 years, monitoring and trying to hold some accountability. but now it comes here to city hall, which i frequently use the euphemism as silly hall. with this city government, it is what i call unacceptable, appalling. we are in a new age, really new era. this city government must realize and [speaker not understood] law maker coming in city hall, must realize the old era has failed us miserably for decade after decade after decade. i'm not just speaking of african americans. this city and county now for all sectors of the bill. this city i

did the pilots do all of this on purpose? live team coverage on all of the angles on this developing story, ahead. >>> and breaking news out of ukraine. crimea voting to secede to join russia. emergency meetings under way right now. the question being will the world intervene? what will the u.s. do? we're live with the very latest. a lot going on this morning. welcome back to "early start," everyone. i'm john berman. >> and i'm rosa flores. it's 4:30 in the east. it's 1:30 in the west. thank you so much for being with us. >>> this morning the questions continue to pile up in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. as the area where crews are looking for that jet grows even wider, north into kazakhstan and south into the indian ocean, this weekend, malaysian officials finally admitted the jet was flying for many hours after its crew last talked to air traffic controllers, and its turn off course seems to be deliberate. so, authorities are now looking into every passenger on that plane and the flight crew, a 53-year-old ca