democrat the people of california -- suppose proposition -- >> could the people of california -- suppose proposition 8 in addition to addressing the subject of marriage had done in part of the proposition in romer did was to disallow sobel unions, would you have the same response, the same argument? >> your honor, i believe that the argument i am making here would be the same, but i do recognize that the argument for the constitutionality of proposition that accomplished that result -- or perhaps i should put it, the constitutionality of that result would be on different footing that proposition 8 itself. >> that sounds like you are a little uncertain if they added civil unions. what if they had said we don't want hospitals allowing visitation of dying of the ones by same-sex partners, and added that to the proposition? would that put it on shakier ground? >> this proposition i am advancing now, no, the point being that any time a state goes beyond -- and here i am assuming that this would go beyond what the federal constitution demands -- and if it goes beyond what the federal constitut

democrat the people of california -- suppose proposition -- >> could the people of california -- suppose proposition 8 in addition to addrsing the subject of marriage had donin part of the proposition in romer did was to disallow sobel unions, would you have the same response, the same argument? >> your honor, i believe that the argument i am making here would be theame, but i do recognize that the argument for the constitutionality of proposition that accomplished that result -- or perhaps i should put it, the constitutionality of that result would be on different footing that proposition 8 itself. >> that sounds like you are a little uncertain if they added civil unions. what if they had said we don't want hospitals allowing visitation of dying of the ones by same-sex partners, and added that to the oposition? would that put it on shakier ground? >> this proposition i am advancing now, no, the point being that any time a state goes beyond -- and here i am assuming that this would go beyond wt the federal constitution demands -- and if it goes beyond what the federal constitution demand

democrat the people of california -- suppose proposition -- >> could the people of california -- suppose proposition 8 in addition to addressing the subject of marriage had done in part of the proposition in romer did was to disallow sobel unions, would you have the same response, the same argument? >> your honor, i believe that the argument i am making here would be the same, but i do recognize that the argument for the constitutionality of proposition that accomplished that result -- or perhaps i should put it, the constitutionality of that result would be on different footing that proposition 8 itself. >> that sounds like you are a little uncertain if they added civil unions. what if they had said we don't want hospitals allowing visitation of dying of the ones by same-sex partners, and added that to the proposition? would that put it on shakier ground? >> this proposition i am advancing now, no, the point being that any time a state goes beyond -- and here i am assuming that this would go beyond what the federal constitution demands -- and if it goes beyond what the federal constitut

democrat the people of california -- suppose proposition -- >> could the people of california -- supposetion 8 in addition to addressing the subject of marriage had done in part of the proposition in romer did was to disallow sobel unions, would you have the same response, the same argument? >> your honor, i believe that the argument i am making here would be the same, but i do recognize that the argument for the constitutionality of proposition that accomplished that result -- or perhaps i should put it, the constitutionality of that result would be on different footing that proposition 8 itself. >> that sounds like you are a little uncertain if they added civil unions. what if they had said we don't want hospitals allowing visitation of dying of the ones by same-sex partners, and added that to the proposition? would that put it on shakier ground? >> this proposition i am advancing now, no, the point being that any time a state goes beyond -- and here i am assuming that this would go beyond what the federal constitution demands -- and if it goes beyond what the federal constitution dema

the "chronicle." and tom, we will start with you. californias have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, but how is the bay area faring? >> inside the california economy the bay area is a little bit more of an engine. but i think the overarching thing to say, this is a very uneven economy, from top to bottom, whether you look at it regionally, inside the bay area, a little bit better than the california's 12-plus percent unemployment rate, here in the bay area from 9 something, 9.6, in san francisco, the hottest part of the job market, silicon valley starting to heat up. east bay still hit by housing and harder. the rest of the state, depends on how close it was to the housing crisis. and of course as we were discussing earlier, belva, it depends on who you are in this economy. are you a high school dropout? are you a person of color? are you in the inner city? are you low income? are you male versus female? very uneven recession. and the men have been hit harder in this recession than women. you think about who was swinging hamm

a milestone for the project and california. last month on a less than great note, the professional engineers filed a lawsuit against the california transportation commission in regards to this agreement and reaction by the city to approve it. the agency issues responsible for the lawsuit denying allegations of improper procedure, be it worth mentioning that the issues in the lawsuit were worth mentioning back in may when they were considered by the commission and still approved of in the entry of a public-private partnership processes by 8-3 in a vote. we are confident that we will resolve this issue in a timely manner. the vast majority of the unions have been very supportive of the project in the process. they see it the way that we see it with major opportunities expanding for infrastructure in california through the introduction of capital into the area. whether it is european or any other place, the firms working on the project are american firms that have worked with us before. despite the misleading statements, this proje

our keynote speaker is and was the first "lady lawyer" in california. it's true. because when she decided that she wanted to become a lawyer, there was one problem, the law in california didn't allow it. and so she had to change the law, which she did. she also wanted to go to law school right here at hastings college of law but they had a policy that said only men could go do that law school so she sued hastings college of the law and she changed that and she was the first woman to attend hastings law school. and when she got out of law school, there were no jobs. no jobs. because no one would hire women. so what did she do? she became a criminal defense attorney because that was the one place where it didn't matter and she fought harder than a man and that was good enough for her clients and she became one of the top criminal defense attorneys and she practiced right here in san francisco. she also began advocating to change laws. so she changed the law that used to be that in criminal trials throughout the trial you were shackled. you were actually shackled and

that includes the california energy commission and the department of labour. it is a great partnership. it has been particularly great to have a co-chaire from california edison who has been a great partner leading the effort. doug. [applause] i would like to give you a few details about the california against lighting controls sales training program. it is a really exciting program. we are thrilled to be here. you have heard some things about it from some great sources of information already. it is hard to follow those terrific acts. i will give you a few more details. we will be training and recruiting salespeople in all the major metropolitan areas in california. the people we will be recruiting are unemployed executive sales people. these are sales people who are well experience. they have sold software, corporate jets, commercial real estate, i.t. infrastructure, all kinds of big ticket items and services to ceo's. they really know how to sell already. we will not teach them how to sell. we will teach them about sustainability and energy efficiency. they a

. >>> marijuana for nearly a century it's been at the center of controversy in california and we're going to look at how it became illegal and the efforts it make it legal and the people who profit from a crop that has gone unregulated and untaxed. in canada, marijuana is illegal, at least technically, but enforcement is more lax, that means you can find places as we did in 1998, where people sell, buy and smoke unusual openly. >> reporter: in vancouver, british columbia, marijuana is officially illegal, but people smoke it openly. at the cannabis cavee where cigarette smoking is not allowed, customers come into to lunch and smoke pot. >> this is b.c. premium bud, the good stuff. >> reporter: the cafe doesn't sell pot, but customers can bring their open, roll a joint over coffee and smoke without fearing the police. how is that? >> oh, this is a pretty good find this stuff. it's pretty good. definitely the highlight of my trip to vancouver. >> reporter: the cafe's owners claim no one has ever been arrested here for smoking pot. when they are smoking is called b.c. bud grown right in briti

supreme court whatsits the law is in california? believes it is unclear what the law is, that would be inappropriate approach. however, i would urge you that took based on what both the california appellate courts and the california supreme court said in a proposition 22 litigation, that it is clear that whenever the intervention rights may be, they do not have standing. >> the purpose and its to not have standing. for example, in the proposition 22 case, the son of and that was involved -- the fund that was involved, they were put forth as proponents -- >> that does not pull the court. i do not know was strictly a man's. they were not the proponents. >> they claimed to be the proponents. >> but they were not. >> one board member was on both. >> i do not see what we would have to lose by asking the california supreme court to certify the question and they can tell us very quickly if they would like. >> i think if you concluded that it was unclear and concluded that that would in fact provide article 3 standing, that would be the appr

the energy commission is trying get another one in california. it's locating and measuring sites where we don't expect differences in the land use and really trying define really some of what's happening. the next one is maybe a little bit far out, but we're talking billions so for that kind of money, maybe we ought to support or look that idea of something out in space just like putting mirrors out there, something that can be taken down if necessary so reflect some energy back into space that we're not getting. >> thank you. brad has a comment. >> yeah, thanks. this whole question of data i think has or needs a very close look by the water management data. when you take the wrapper off of this you see it has lots of warts on it, let me talk about the,nrcs, in the west. i know you all have your own. but i saw a persuasive speech by randy who is quite properly convincing. changes all the way from stainless steel pillows to ten gallons and black pillows of this. vegetationle changes, the lesson here, i think in general and this applies to,usgs, and

but none on the scale of california's system. have this enormous prison system, this enormous prison health system, which has been in receivership for several years now at the order of a federal judge. and we're talking about billions of dollars in spending. it it costs about $47,000 a year to maintain an inmate in the california prison system. maintaining a sick inmate, depending on the sickness, can range many times that, even up to a million dollars a year depending -- >> but even if we let those sick inmates go, we'd still be paying for them as taxpayers, wouldn't we? if we sent them home. >> very likely so. but it wouldn't be coming out of the prison budget, which is a section of the budget that has swelled enormously over the past few decades and a section of the budget that voters say they'd most likely see cut. >> this medical parole bill among the arguments made for it by republicans and democrats is that yeah if we parole them they can get on medicaid and guess who pays for that. the federal government. or most of it. s

they're not the rights of the voters of california. their rights of citizens of the united states under the bill of rights and the 14th amendment. if california could insist that something to do with procreation be engraved on to the rights of marriage, it could take that away. it could save that we're over populated and we do not want procreation and we will the nine people the right to marry. this is a fundamental coming individual right. the reason i am emphasizing this, judge reinhardt, is because of the look at this from the standpoint of the right of two particular individuals, maybe they were mr. and mrs. loving in the virginia case of interracial marriage, it was marriage. it was their right to get together. what the supreme court said in the griswold case is that we deal with the right to privacy, older than the bill of rights. marriage is a coming together, for better or worse, hopefully in during, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. it is is an association that promotes a way of life and so forth. from the griswold ca

published a report titled, changing climate, assessing the risk to california. the report looked at 3 scenarios for cutting the amounts of emission that we pump into the atmosphere and depending on whether and how much green house gas emissions can be brought under control, the report projects by the end of the century average temperatures in california will rise between 3 and 10 1/2 degrees centigrade. one of the most publicized impacts of global warming is a predicted increase in sea level. and here's a graph showing sea level rise in san francisco bay. now, i want to note one very important fact about this graph. it does not show predicted sea level rise. it shows how much the level of the bay has risen over the past century. since 1900, the bay waters have risen 7 inches. and we at bcdc have been monitoring this increase for decades and we have been especially concerned because ground elevation, particularly in the south bay, is sinking because of ground water extraction. so even if there's no sea level rise, we expect more flooding as the low-lying areas con

it seems one of the key areas to implement is in the california environmental quality act. the planning and conservation league is hosting series of workshops across the state helping planners and community leaders integrate climate change in all the work they do, so i'd like to get your thoughts on that and specifically from jeff, when do you see metropolitan, integrating climate change into their analysis? >> good question, except i'm the moderator. >> that's an excellent question and that's what we wrestle with, how to incorporate it into a type of analysis where, yes we can see more constant variables in volatility and we don't know how things will be driven. certainly we see things warmer, but as the models it could be more snow melt and perhaps we have not been able to confidently say what all the impacts of it are. but it is something we have looked at. we are going through - every five years we have an integrated resource plan we update and the following year after that, we try to up date our urban water management program and the next cycle is suppose to have a chap

the gentlewoman from california has 6 1/4 minutes remaining. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from indiana who just recently retired after 30 years' service as a colonel in the army, mr. buyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman -- mr. mckeon: also serves on the house veterans services committee. mr. buyer: i thank the gentleman. let me thank iraq skelton who led that back in 1993 when i was a freshman right after desert storm, came here to the congress and began to learn about compromise. some things are being thrown around here today that we who serve in the military understand. it is about small unit could he heesive. it's measured by your buddy from your left to your right. that's the reality. this congress is about to dump a policy onto the services which the service chiefs have already told us can have a detrimental impact upon our warriors in harm's way. why are we doing this? you know, this thing about -- this is discrimination, the military -- the supreme court allows congress to discriminate on how our servi

in the recent california assessment, we used three of these scenarios. or at least models that were based on those to guide us in assessing what might happen in the state of california in sort of a broad base of different impacts ranging from water resources to forest, human health, beeches, coasts, agriculture and so on. let's go on to the next one. okay this is kind of one of those tricky power point graphs and this is where i pretend i'm al gore. now we're taking longer point of view and these three traces here at the bottom is global temperature, surface temperature of the earth. this is made out from proxy records and we did not have thermometers a hundred and fifty years ago so this is reconstructed from sediments and ice ansisotopes and so forth and the top is co2, so this is in hundreds of thousands of years and it's interesting that you see this pretty remarkable sigh lick or cycles and this is the climate and other periods of earth history we would be huddled in a cave right now or something. the - one of the primary factors in causing this peri

my point there was when you talk about the california water community it's thousands and thousands of people all spread across the state in terms of what we're doing to integrate why mate change one is to make it a major part of the california update where we're already geared up to do it and the other is distribution under prop, 84 and we'll have workshops on how we can make this climate issue a preference or some sort of incentive of prop, 84 to get it in play there. in terms of governors matrix. we've already evaluated the carbon footprint to look at our issues there obviously we have a lot of hydro and some information i got this week, our portion of the carbon footprint is one half of one percent so we're looking at that issue to see what we can do with our power portfolio to manage that better and we have all those cues so we hope we can do that to have our people invest. >> if i might follow up is what are you telling your contractors about future reliability from the current system, setting a side whether we proceed with strategic growth plan. we actually issue as major climat

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country". >> sure we recognize the name "gallo" as being synonous with california wine. but what goes better with wine than cheese, right? enter joseph gallo, brother to wine entrepreneurs ernest and julio. joseph broke way from the family wine business in the eighties and took a handwritten recipe for making cheese and followed his dreams, all the way to merced county. he remained farming there until he passed away in 2007. but now his son michael and grandson peter are working to advance joseph's dream of sustainable farming and thus continue the gallo legacy in agriculture. >> i get to learn a lot on the farm, and my dad has a wealth of knowledge. he learned a lot from his dad, so, you know, we've been a family farm since 1946, so there's a lot of history there. and every day is a new adventure, and there's always lot to learn. >> just like the family's wine business, which is the largest family-owned winery in the world, nothing is done small around here either. with more than $3 billion in cheese sales annually, joseph farms is one of california's largest chee

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with us today, the ceo and president of the california independent -- iso. >> thank you very much. of course, this is a historic day. the plant is historic, and shutting the plant is historic. on its own face, this plan has been far art of date. more recently, it has actually provided a security cushion for san francisco, should anything happen outside of san francisco. but the the brassiere to replace the plan with other alternatives that would make the city more secure, more reliable, with much less polluting options, which is all the special projects that have been put in place for the last two or three years. first, transbay cable, an incredibly sophisticated technology that provides part of that supply, and the re-cabling of pg&e, and i want to thank everyone who worked very hard to make that technology work over the past year and have the cable in operation. and also pg&e, who really were also very hard -- worked very hard to replace all the cables, and now, san francisco has a reliable secure supply. really, there are people that i want to thank. first of all, the mayor talke

a few flood examples in 2002 the california flood management task force held a hearing and a number of speakers came and talked about climate change and change of the way we do flood changing and maybe i'm miss reading the flood change task force but i would argue they ignore that and nothing they recommend took climate change into account. we no, fema, flood map's don't incorporate future risks and some say they don't adequately incorporate flood risks. the story we heard from david on often does but insurance companies are interested in this because they obviously have a financial stake in that and we may see some changes in insurance policies. after katrina, the new orleans levies were built to the exact same standards before. i didn't want to argue about the height but they certainly did not include climate change and one would argue they built them at an ineffective manner to begin with but they did not rebuild with climate change. brad said the colorado river and it's use of,hydrology, and it occurred to me, why are they not addressing climate change. why is the bureau not integr