to the community as a whole and who are not with us any longer, and that is jazzy kol ins and stewart smith and they are here in spirit and we want to thank them for the service. and so with that i will turn it over to supervisor weiner. >> i thank you, mr. chairman and i also want to acknowledge stew and jazzy who were incredibly committed to the work of the task force and so many other issues of importance in the community and i know that they are greatly missed by all of us and they are in spirit here today. as we talk about the wonderful work of the task force, and i remember that it was almost two years ago that supervisor campos and i were aprofpd by bill and others saying that would you help that we would really start meaningful addressing this growing issue in our community. and that is how do we make sure that we are addressing the needs of our growing lgbt senior population and supervisor campos and i immediately agreed to work on that, with bill and the others. and then supervisor alagi joined us and we sponsored the legislation that created this task force and i have to say that

stewart and chairman smith in support of this bill. i want to thank them as well as ranking member johnson for their work on this important bill. members on both sides of the aisle can be assured that this bill represents a truly is built effort and on discussions with and advice from the weather community. mr. bridenstine introduced a well intentioned bill that went a long way toward improving the ools available to noaa -- noaa for evaluating technologies. his research was appropriate and helpful. at the subcommittee markup, mr. grayson added a valuable amendment for a focused hurricane research program. representative stewart, then the chairman of the environment subcommittee, worked with my staff and me on a manager's amendment to add to the tools and programs in the original bill. we drew on expert advice from the weather enterprise and from extensive reports from the national academy of sciences and the national academy of public administration. experts told us that to improve weather forecasting, the research at the office of oce

but the solid performers like stewart it was his own idealism and essential sweetness that permeated his films and made him popular. jefferson smith and smith goes to washington believed in his fellow men and stood up for corruption. >> i guess this is just another lost cause mr. smith. all owe people don't know about lost causes. they are the only causes worth fighting for. the reasonable reason any man ever pays for them. because of just one plane and simple rule, love thy neighbor. >> love thy neighbor, stand for what's right. those were the messages in capra's films. mr. dees goes to town. pocket full of miracles. he believed in the ideals he portrayed in his films. he was married to the same woman for 56 years. as for sex he liked to present it in its innocent level. as in his big hit it happened one night. astounded clark gable by showing some leg. but the frank capra movie one that will probably be around as long as there's christmas, it's a wonderful life. in that 1946 film, jimmy stewart is the owner of a small town savings and loan. he plans to commit suicide because he hasn 't made much money, his business is failing bu

interior secretary stewart udall, new in the job, wrote president kennedy a memo about this big, new stadium in d.c. and a big problem related to that new stadium. this is amazing. thomas g. smith dug this up for a book called "showdown" which was about this big fight that they had related to the stadium in washington, d.c. in the kennedy administration. and this is just amazing. this is the memo that udall wrote to president kennedy. it says this. george marshall, the owner of the washington redskins, is the only segregationist holdout in professional football. he refuses to hire negro players, even though dallas and houston, texas, have already broken the color bar. the interior department owns the ground on which the new washington stadium is constructed, and we are investigating to ascertain whether a no discrimination provision could be inserted in mr. marshall's lease. at the time the redskins moved to washington, that made them the southernmost team in the national football league. even though washington, d.c., is not all that far south, the owner of the team made a strategic decision to try to market the redskins as the team of the south. as the team of the old confeder