market tenderloin debate, which was ultimately deemed the twitter debate here in san francisco and in staal. the one thing that came out of that, -- and in city hall. i know the report supervisor mirkarimi is referring to, but the report that came out afterwards said that we are the only major city in the u.s. that taxes stock options or stock-based compensation. new york is part of a potential formula, a greater-of formula, but we're the only city that explicitly does it because of our payroll tax and that's what really caught my attention. my previous careers were in the private sector in, the technology world as an investor and a finance person. to be the only city in the country taxing stock-based compensation or stock options to me puts us at a very big competitive disadvantage. now, beforehand it never really came to light. people didn't realize it. we didn't have an environment now where we have the twitters of the world coming through san francisco lining up to go public. we have a great problem here in the city right now, and my idea, what i want to focus on, is how do we capture t

staal and made a move and fired a warning shot to say you may have the atomic bomb but i have psychological warfare and then through war of the world's he wanted to send the flying disc to land in new mexico and have people come out that look like aliens. the engineer told me that their child sized pilots inside were the result of ghastly human experiments in the soviet union and that is what he told me. i repeat it in my book because i write the uncensored history of very of 51. many people take umbrage with our. a couple of the guys in my book and not happy and i understand. they have said we were john wayne out there saving the free world. no one likes to hear about this possibly kind of gas leak goings on in the desert. this is what my a source told me and i stand by his veracity and it is what a lot of people are very skeptical but at the same time want to know more about >> host: i will ask one follow-up. the reason if it was not aliens to keep this such a deep dark secret was what? >> for keeping this reverse engineering the disk or the russians were doing this and caught red handed,

alike that frivolous lawsuits by local communities and environmentalists strangle the industry and staal demoastic drilling, yet quarter after quarter, oil companies continue to reap record profits and are developing more domestic energy than ever before. exxon is actually ahead of us. they're in the business of talking about gas while we're around here dilly-dallying about oil. furthermore this misleading hard luck story leaves out a critical fact, that the industry is just as active in using the courts to get its way as any public health or environmental watchdog but the industry has much more money for such legal actions already giving it an unfair advantage. in fact, recent lawsuits have been filed against the government by alaskan oil companies to overturn critical habitat restricks by oil companies against the e.p.a. for ethanol standards and numerous suits against the department of the interior by industry over the temporary ban following the b.p. disaster. let's remember the point of judicial review is to ensure that the law is followed and to provide a check and balance when it

unfortunately, the long-term re-authorization introduced by our counterparts in the other body remains staaled. we reached out on finding a solution to fully authorize the sbir program as well as other important small business initiatives. it is my hope we can continue to work in a bipartisan and bicameral way to pass this long-term re-authorization. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on s. 990 as amened and reserve the plans of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. ms. velazquez: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. velazquez: the economy is showing signs of recovery on several fronts, adding one million jobs in the last six monts. while this is good news, we have a long way to go and this is why we need small firms more than ever. small businesses which create 2/3 of new jobs drive the employment gain and economic expansion. time and time again they have generated the ideas and know-how that spark job growth. however, entrepreneurs must have the resources and tools they need to start up our expand. t