i sent a representative here or someone showed up and purported to be my representative. and that wasn't the case. and i didn't receive a notice for whatever reason, and now i am standing my case. that's one practical possibility. i am not sure how likely. i understand your concern that you don't want people to speak without the proper authorization for the party. that's a fair point. >> commissioner renne. >> do you think we unduly complicate it if there is a representative than a complaint complaintant. that they come with a paper authorizing this individual to appear on my behalf. >> that's a good idea. >> is it too difficult for that? to get that, do you think? >> that strikes me as reasonable. commissioner studley. >> if we keep it, i think that is a reasonable addition. i am trying to think whether we need that provision at all. in order to make it possible for the public to pursue their or stand up for the position that they have taken, that they want these records. since we will already have something from the task force. explaining the more technical side of it.

representatives george miller and jackie spear both are with us today.ur delegation has the pleasure of entering into the permanent record the life, service, legacy of ambassador stevens. additionally, a flag has been flown over the capitol by democratic leader nancy pelosi, represented by her daughter christine pelosi. this flag has been presented to the family. in celebration of ambassador stevens life and in honor of his tremendous legacy. as i mentioned, we entered into the congressional record our testimony honoring the life of ambassador john christopher stevens. in the interest of time i won't read the entire congressional record but only an excerpt. it said mr. speaker, i rise with my colleagues to honor, celebrate and remember ambassador john christopher chris stevens. a son of northern california and the bay area, ambassador stevens tragically lost his life in the greatest service to his country. selflessly and courageously representing american values in a foreign nation he knew intimately and cared for deeply. in his diplomatic capacity, amba

we'll also talk to representative jay hottinger, ohio state representative and rep representative robert hagan ann wrap things up with the college republicans and democrats. visiting their opinions for campaign 2012. that is all tomorrow starting at 7:00 eastern time here on c-span washington journal. have a good day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] see the only vice presidential debate this thursday night live on c-span, c-span radio and c-span. org. watch and engage. next, news makers with new york congressman steve israel

senators for example florida has twenty seven members of the house of representatives and two senates senators thus the stake is twenty nine electoral college votes. so slave states with small voting populations were given a louder voice in our congress thanks to the three fifths compromise then these slave states were given a louder voice in our presidential elections to because the electoral college is based on that same inflated congressional representation got it thanks to the electoral college protected slaveholders they were able to keep their influence on our government for much longer than they likely would have without this system the slavery is gone today but the electoral college still serves as a system to protect the new slave owners and their more humane forms of servitude low wage unionized non-unionized labor the slave states of yesterday have been replaced by the so-called right to work for less states of today the right for and so work for less taft hartley law was put into place in one thousand nine hundred seven by republicans in congress president harry truman vet

representative?no: mahala to kitv and for hosting this debate tonight and to those of you who are tuning in, thank you. you're probably asking yourself, does this u.s. senate race matter to me and my family? that's an important question. and i hope you listen for the differences for the differences between us. if you're a middle class person, for example, note that my republican opponent's economic priorities are very similar to mitt romney's. that is because they both support making sure that our rich people, millionaires, get more tax breaks while middle class taxes will go up. or, if you're on medicare, note that my republican opponent's plan is a exactly the same as mitt romney's because they will change medicare into a voucher system. excuse me. and that will end up costing our seniors a lot more money. or you may be asking yourself, why don't we create jobs and get our economy going? note that my republican opponent has joined with the national republican party to oppose president obama's jobs

they should not represent anyone but their conclusion. thank you. >> i have three points that come to my mind. number one is the whole issue again of complaint referral. i have been at the sunshine hearings, and all of you need to go and pay attention. it's so simple. first of all we need a sunshine task force that you can visit like david campose did and see how they work. what goes on there is a trial by merits. if you take a judicial procedure of a judge on trial of merits. and they refer back to the judge'sed -- order because they heard the hearing, and that's what it's to do. to give the sunshine ordinance some teeth and hoping to have a difference between the commission and the task force. for instance, this procedure is 12 years in coming. we have waited for 12 years for the ethics commission to find a procedural than to throw in the trash can, that has gone on again and again. and we get to the issue of teeth. and the grand jury on this issue of f-b, where it says that the respondents to the department commission board is to pay a

they represented the local medium and small builders. in short it was a representative group of stakeholders. despite conflicting priorities they came together with a common cause and all impacted with prolongd and severe economic depression in san francisco's construction industry and by burdensome policies drafted during enormous economic times and not responsive to the crisis in 2008. while this group hasn't all achieved consensus they realized working together was the only way to move the policies forward and in turn provide much needed housing in the city. i would like to point out some of the socioeconomic projects of the five to nine projects part of the housing program. these builders are best characterized as small traditional mop and pop businesses. they. >> >> hire locally and supply companies and hire trances men. they shop here and go to school here. a large part are immigrants. the city has a life community yet the small to medium builder is rarely treated this way. part of the american dream iseclimb the later and achieve.

we're also joined this evening by representatives of the city department that is have cases before the board, scott sanchez is here, he's the zoning administrator also representing the planning department and planning commission, also joined by planning staffer tim fry and joseph duffy is here, senior building inspector, who is representing the department of building inspection. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could go over the board guidelines. >> the board requests all cell phones and pagers be turned off so they will not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules of presentation are as follows: appellants each has 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals. people included in these parties must include their comments within the 7 or 3 minute periods. members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board but no rebuttals. to assure the board with accurate minutes, member s of the public are asked to fill out speaker card. speaker cards and pens are available on the left

they didn't send knowledgeable representatives. and also the city attorney's office is not allowed under the sunshine ordinance to represent the respondent or hold advice of the documents. i agree with a member of the public who said that it would be compromising and set up an adversarial role of the commission and to have a member of the task force to represent the complainant. i agree with your decision to eliminate in section "e" the points that mitigate their circumstances surrounding whether or not they turned over documents or violated the sunshine ordinance. in "f," under "b," the last sentence, that you will not take further action on a complaint. i would like to see something in this about following up on the status of a recommendation such as you are going to consider in the jewelle gomez case, rather than just letting it end. and i understand that other people have spoken to this, i want to put in my support of not weighing too heavily on re adjudicating, because it may become sort of a slippery slope. where the ethics c

i represented everybody in the district. 40%. i represent the values of this district. >> mrs.do you feel comfortable about some of the things portrayed in the ad -- would you like to have them along your side campaigning for you? talking about. >> the humane society, their views on pork production, would you like to have been campaigning alongside you? >> i have not taken money from the humane society, if you are suggesting that. congressman king suggested that. i cannot and do not take money from anybody who does business -- the humane society, every single town in iowa has a humane society and people are pointing there and helping to take care of animals. i think it depends on what you are talking about. >> congressman king -- some of these ads, the first we saw was done by one of your campaign. are you concerned about how issues are being framed by ads by outside groups, particularly, how would you like the issues to be framed? >> i knew this would happen. that is why i said a year-and-a- half ago when the announcement came out that this would be a holy war. i said, i will

on the central subway, you representatives just don't go with the flow. it's taxpayers' money, even though the representatives may think that they were involved in getting it and that the subject of transportation mr. hood really loves san francisco. it's taxpayers' money. >> thank you very much. >> thank you sir, any other member of the public that would like to speak on item three? seeing none, public comment is done. >> if you can go back to item one. commissioner carmen chu is away today. she's on way on her honeymoon. seconded by commissioner farrell. can we take that without objection. i also want to thank mark bunch and jessie larson from sfgtv. >> executive directors report, item four >> thank you. commissioners, executive director, my report is on your desk. i have just a couple items i want to highlight. to follow on to the chair's comment about the presidio park way. we have an interesting opportunity for the first phase, opened to traffic at the end of april and it's essentially the southbound lanes. and the northbound half of project, which i

the egyptian revolution that was founded on the legitimacy that i represent, in legitimacy that i represent before you today but was not a product of a fleeting moment or a brief uprising, nor was it the product of the winds of change of spring. rather, this revolution and all those preceding it and following it in the region were triggered by a long struggle of genuine national movement that saw a life of pride ending defeat for all citizens. it is thereby reflecting the wisdom of history and sending a clear warning to those attempting to place their interests before those of their peoples compact -- peoples, mr. president, the vision of the new egypt that we strive to realize that for our nation, god willing, also constitutes the frame of action we present to the world. and should guide our cooperation with the nash -- the international community in a spirit of equality and mutual respect entailing nonintervention in the affairs of other states, as well as the implementation of international principles, agreements, and conventions. today, we it -- we reiterate our commitment to them, part

and what it might have to represent.t from that point, i learned a lot about the politics that goes into art. baca: the history of murals is one that is speckled with controversy. and, in fact, in los angeles, one of the earliest murals, and perhaps the very basis of the movement of murals within los angeles, was a work by the great maestro david alfaro siqueiros, and in 1932, was almost instantly disappeared after its production, because of the fact that it spoke exactly to the same issues 70 years ago -- the condition of the mexicano within the state of california. i love these little red things. i think i'm going to go colorblind, now, looking at this red. an artist is really required to maintain a number of pieces happening simultaneously. and so you may have two or three projects going. i guess the best analogy would be to take spinning plates. you know, you get one in the air and you start spinning it, and then somebody pulls out the stick. and then you get another one spinning, and then another spinning, and you'r

we expect to be joined also by representatives of the department of public health. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could go over the berd's guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board requests you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disrupt the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules are as follows. the appellants each have 7 minutes to present their cases. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the 7 or 3 minute periods. member s of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes each to address the board but no rebuttals. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, member s of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card to board staff when you come up to the podium. speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. the board also welcomes your comments and suggestions. there are customer satisfaction survey forms on the left side of the podium

so, do you operate -- do you represent a business that operates in san francisco? i saw your business address was -- excuse me? >>> kelly moore is a dealer of my products. i'm not the business owner, but my products are distributed all over the country. >> so you do not operate here in san francisco? >>> not my own business. [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> i appreciate your passion. i'm just trying to see what we can do. [multiple voices] >>> even if i'm not appointed, i will still be part of the board. >> thank you. at this time we'll open up for public comment on this item. >>> good afternoon, david pilkow. i wanted to speak in support of paul giusti. i know him very well from garbage and refuse rate issues. but i've also attended the graffiti advisory board once or twice and i know he is committed to reducing and hopefully eliminating graffiti or getting better graffiti in the city. and if you can sort out mr. lindner's application, that would be good, too. but i just wanted to support paul giusti's reappointment to the advisory board. thanks. >> thank y

now tom to your question for representative rehberg. >> yes representative rehberg. you have criticized american recovery and reinvestment act, our also cut the ribbon on a road project that used stimulus. in february 2009, you credited yourself for securing $42.5 million for montana project and that year consolidated appropriation bill, that's according to your website. the very next day, you cried the $410 billion for wasteful spending. you have mostly voted the party line and accused your opponent of voting with barack obama 95% of the time. you also said we need to roll up our sleeve and work with solutions and put partnership aside. that comment was made when you asked democrats in joining you to invite barack obama back to montana for a seventh time in two years, so you could talk about the opportunities and challenges facing our great state. representative, why should montana trust that you're the conservative that you now suggest that you are? >> if you think about the budget in america, we spent as much as $4.5 trillion. the difficulty is we bring in $3 tril

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but recently us the parliamentary speaker had a meeting with party is not represented in the duma you said that the duma may even set up a council for interacting with parties that haven't made it into the parliament so why do you say you will listen to part is that people don't support parties than three percent of the vote. don't you think this defeats the very purpose of having an election. he do certain parties don't get into parliament to consult with them why not. well the political landscape of our society has changed a lot in recent years but this and this is another result of the democratic processes taking place in our country in our society. at some point when we realized that the existing political parties were unable to fully represent the entire spectrum of society. and that is why we adopted a number of bills to modernize our political system including the bill that makes it much easier to create and register a political party. today we have. political parties in russia commutative and two hundred more organized in communities. in a weeks time on october fourteenth nine

i want to thank each and every one of the people in front of me today representing the different bodies we are about to make appointments to and thank you for your sacrifice, time, and energy. today we get to recognize you. tomorrow, people will start yelling at you. it is part of that process. it is one we cherish no matter what body we're on. i know former mayor willie brown is here. i want to thank him for constantly being a support to all of our commissions and for being here today. i want to recognize each and everyone of you today by asking you to stand and be recognized as i call your commission and name out. for the board of appeals, we have an lazarus. joshua, thank you for being here. for the construction and workforce advisory committee, a body i helped to establish as city administrator, this body is going to be important for us because in our economic recovery we need to work better with our construction companies to make sure everybody has a chance to work in our city. bob alvarado, thank you for being here and part of it. ed riskin, thank you for stepping up again. floren

i am here today to represent the u.s. pacific fleet, a fleet that has about 120,000 people, 180 ships, two dozen aircraft, 44 submarines, six carrier strikers, and we will talk about how we have organized our selves to respond to the crisis in japan. in the course of the previous two years of this assignment, we have been involved in a six humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. super typhoons in the philippines, vietnam, taiwan. earthquakes in samoa, christchurch, new zealand, chile, operation in japan. on average, what we are seeing in the ring of fire is about every six to eight weeks, a calamity, a natural disaster. in the case of operation tomodache, the reference point that i it would be very helpful for those who want to study this is to go back and look at what nova and the public broadcasting service has done in terms of collecting now scientific measurable data, and one of the points that comes out in that 60-minute documentary is that in terms of instrumentation, scientists now know exactly what

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now the represent hitters -- representative from the mayor's office, paul henderson. to >> paul henderson. >> this is one of my favorite events to come to, only because it reminds me at my very core why we all do the work that we do. i think it is one of those things where you see reality tv. i see a lot of news for you could have the story or get a perspective of the story of what is going on in the streets every day. rarely do we hear the story from the men and women on the streets protecting us every day, and there is always a story about the job people are doing that is so impressive. tonight is a culmination of the stories we get to hear about the dollar and integrity and of bravery and courage from the men and women that served us every single day. i try to remember the stories that i hear at this event throughout the rest of the year when i'm watching the news, when i am reading the newspaper, when i am at meetings listening to what people are saying about public safety. this really does serve as an inspiration to me personally and to the city of san francisco,

i have been active in the neighborhood association, including representing that group before meetings involving balboa park. i would welcome the opportunity to utilize my experience as a member of the community advisory committee. >> thank you. next we have richard james hogan. and then after richard we have david mauroff. >> good afternoon board, how are you doing today? so i go to san francisco state university. i am treasurer of the pre-law society and i am vice president of students for economic justice. i use balboa park station aphid everyday. i believe that my familiarity with balboa park station has come with me going to and from there everyday and will provide invaluable experience that will be beneficial to this committee. and that is about it. >> great. thank you, mr. mauroff and a plied only for seat 3? >> i would like to amend that to seat 1, muni riders' interest. >> thank you. would you still like to be considered for seat 3 as well? >> yes, i would. >> seats 1 and 36789 thank you, mr. mauroff and we have william walker. >> i'm sorry, that is mr. hogan. sorry about that

then the ethnic breakdown of that is what is represented in the bar. so that you can see that 56% of the students who are on-track to meeting their graduation requirements are chinese. you see that 4% of the students who are on-track are african-americans. and the bar chart reflects going to each of the five categories. >> dr. schultz, what is the ethnic breakdown of the district as a whole in terms of how does this compare to the make-up of the district? >> our entire district is about -- i want to say 40% chinese. about 7-10% african-american. 30% latino, but i don't have the exact breakdown with me. then in order to sort of get a sense of the data, because there is a lot. what we did was we made pie charts for each of the groups that are groups that we're either targeting or asked about for comparison reasons. so if you look at the next chart, this chart represents 100% of the african-american students who are current 11th graders in our school system and then it shows how many are in each of the five categories. so the way to read this is that we h