those things. and even if we have to go into closed session to talk about the legal committee cases or if we need to talk about -- get a report from the city attorney in closed session about those cases, i'd be happy for the bic to agenda those items, but somehow we need a more timely response in those purgatory issues. >> we've taken suggestions from jerry there, but unopened complaints we're looking at -- we're looking at open novs we're actively working on, inactive novs, and category of open at planning department, which is a category so we can categorize those notice of violations and open the city attorney cases that take quite some time too to get resolution there. there's breakdowns for emergency orders, order for abatements, emergencies, referrals to code enforcement, work without permit. there's several and you'll have a draft of that. and i think they're good categories. i don't want to get too lengthy on the categories. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] update for housing and also included p

contraction and those that are have already vablthd and those who need future space. >> okay. so i understand you've made the offer to relocate the tenants. in the building of one of your other properties and i'm curious to know how many tenants are you going to relocate i believe on one 1 henry adams >> for the buildings the two buildings we have together we have had a number of discussions upwards of one hundred discussions with tenants on how to make the space available for them i do not say the street from the galleria there's been more than 20 discussions with specific individual tenants how they can be relocated not at their costs to the galleria. those space requirements range from 10 thousand square feet down to one thousand square feet. and it was only with those approvals and the subject at 321 we can america lists that but that's the intent to work with each and every one of them >> so where i struggle we talk in an abstract and big way you're in the building i know you know exactly numbers to our vacancies and because through this long confidence we've had i haven'

to be sure from our prospective those appendixes to the roof those new amenity that got added they don't warrant another neighborhood review. >> that's correct. >> what's the basis for this determination. >> the planning code 311 talks about the features that require notice and the movable planters the fire pit are not called out in the 311 for interpretations that require notice, in fact, their interpretations of the planning code is the exempt notice those are features in the third degree found in the planning code section 260 which deals with the exemptions from 0 height limit that includes features like furniture and . >> kitchen on the roof-deck. >> right that's not a notice. i have on the overhead things that were submitted at the time of the dr hearing. and so you can see it's a plan roof-deck no first year firs or roof-deck no notification was required this is before you on appeal so it's a question of the boards discretion about it those elements are appropriate but again, it was approved by our department and no notice is required this was in compliance with the commissions dr

again, we wanted to deepen our engagement with those communities, those people in the communities of practice, those people on the front lines of conducting homeland security activities day after day to engage and receive their input and advance. we did that primarily through two online venues a platform for submitting ideas called ideal scale. and through all of that not only that enabled us to gain greater input from the broader homeland security enterprise but it allowed us to ask targeted questions to gain input and provide the opportunity to comment, agree and disagree, add new ideas. through that engagement we had over 2,000 unique registrants on the idea scale and community of practice sites. we had submitted over 200 -- nearly 250 new ideas, again, over 2,500 comments and over 11,000 votes on different targeted questions, issues, comments, and other issues raised on the site. that input, analysis, questions, ideas, and comments tracked, brought back into our studies and incorporated into the analysis that led to the final decision making. so where do we go from here? again, a

and as we fashion of the complaint, we develop allegations, those are the charges of neglect of duty or wrong doing that either the complainant alleges or that we discover in our investigation and that is for the duty to take the required action and the conduct reflecting discredit that is inappropriate behavior are comments, and unwarranted action for things like detention, arrest, or search, that are unlawful as they were conducted discourtesy. and for example, for using profanity. unnecessary force, or, racial or sexual slurs. we make the findings that is we make determinations whether there is a preponderance of the evidence to prove or disprove the conduct alleged or to prove or disprove that a officer's conduct was proper. the findings that we can make are proper conduct, sustained, not sustained, no finding, withdrawn, unfound, and unfound means that it is not true, a policy failure or a training failure. if the chief of police or the police commission do determine that an officer has engaged in misconduct or neglect of duty discipline can range from admonishment, that means a

i think that i like you've been clarifying the amendments how this is applied to make sure those units are staying affordable so this also g don't a good job. in terms of your comment when i moved to san francisco i don't know how many affordable housing units we know people move here because they have a dream or violation it's a great place to live or job opportunities that's an interesting challenge because the only places that people really want to live are in the established neighborhoods most people don't move to the san francisco because they want to live in mission bay so if we can do more pretty sure placed like south of market we need to see more housing >> commissioner moore. >> i'm interested in the legislation it adds one more tool into the castro legislation this one compliments others it's not up to us to comment on the desire for all to have it served up at once but leave it up for a fire chief discussion it makes me feel comfortable. i want to enlightenment you on the authorness when we look at the remarkable piece of work i've not seen this as a at a level of using the

the medicare advantage where they're receiving great supplements in the government but not applying those risks inaccurately and it could be better picture i will accept those rates this year i think our members not a matter of immigration but we no longer have the third option for a hmo but but we should consider a third option in the future for better rates especially for retirees thank you very much. >> other public comment? hearing none we're ready to vote all in favor of the motion to accept the rates as decisions certify by i. you guys have it we'll move to item 4 >> approval of final blue cross blue shield hmo rates for retirees for the 2015 plan year. >> okay. we're at item 4 you should have before you the packet that outlines the rates for active early retirees for fluctuation you funded under blue cross blue shield has discussed in may 8th it was accepted we could use the law of money that was moved to the clayton stabilization as the subsidy for the difference for 2015 so this clearly outlines in the executive summary you to its fully dloelsz i'm going to move along on the next

those there are 0 those who have been successful and unfortunately two things the age of the internet and the immediacy of the goods is a crippleing thing in the recession we're looking for the pdr in the business plan that's the core of our business nor more than thirty years. >> so what's itself occupancy rate of building. >> about 90 percent for the 2 henry adams and the galleria less than 20 percent there's a financial occupancy that's below that. the occupancy numbers i stated are the obtain cyberspace >> their active businesses in the space and you said the galleria is 20 percent or less than 80. >> yes. >> that's a pointed question it it stems from feedback from our tenant have you refused to represent new leases for the building other than the first floor. >> we have month to month leases and spoken and addressed many of those concerns about what is this transition looking like we can't have a to my left because it continues to have all those approvals but we have and will continue to work with each one and ideally it's across the street and at the same time keep the ground fl

those are completed and done. we've been allowed to keep the bond proceeds for those enforceable obligations for those key areas and assets and significantly for the city what is new is that because we've gone through these steps, there's a total of $12 million that will be transferred to the city, $11 million in-housing funds and $11 million in non housing funds for bond proceeds and i'll touch on those again and then as part of this solution, we complete our obligation, affordable housing, significant assets, and those all get transferred either to the private development community, auction sale, pursuant to those contracts or in many cases, certain assets like gardens, south beach and completing those and transferring them to the city. moving onto slide three, t-trends overall in our budget. our total budget is $377 million. it's still 50.6 fte's down from discollusion from two and a half years ago. that one time transfer to the city because of the steps through dissolution is complete. the issue is the key dev

and how do you enforce those? one way to do it is to set up a special tribunal that assuming you keep the immunity in place, which if you can't get rid of the immunity, this is an alternative and is any award made to the tribunal pursuant to the u.n. fraud claims act or u.n. freedom of information act is to reduce any of those awards from the amounts that have been allocated by congress to the u.n. which i think brett recently wrote something saying the direction assessles are $4 billion a year where i think the -- all u.n. is double that at least. that's another aspect. so i can go on. you can ask me to tell war stories and it's hard to shut him up. but i think that sort of gives a general overview of what the problem is. for me, it really is the immunity. and today in the 21st century, there's no reason for the u.n. to -- other international organizations to enjoy an absolute immunity that sort of harkens back to the day of kings and queens. you know, no government today enjoys absolute immunity. the prevailing

all those in favor say aye. all those opposed -- all those opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: leo t. sorokin of massachusetts to be united states district judge for the district of massachusetts. mr. reid: there is a cloture motion at the desk. i would ask it be reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion. we the undersigned senators in in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to tpwreu to a close the debate on the nomination of leo t. sorokin of massachusetts to be united states district judge for the district of massachusetts, signed by 17 senators. mr. reid: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now move to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question

to support those projects because the benefits are accrued by people not located on the block but at the moment i can't afford to live in dog patch. i would like to be there and it's not possible. so for the same reasons that sonya is here i'm here to support more housing in san francisco. there isn't enough of it. and a times addendum i moved here from cities 6 stories is a small number so to say this is a monster of a high building i'm in support of this in the dog patch and hope it is approved thank you. >> thank you. >> hi there i'm chris nicholson i live and work in san francisco. i just want to give a big picture view i've heard the opponents talk about light and air in dog patch i've been to dog patch it doesn't have a lack of light and air. san francisco is not facing an air and light crisis a housing crisis and the more heirs we have to add we looking huge demographic shifts that cost folks in city government their jobs. i work in tech and came here last year will have of people in tech are coming and people that have choices to live in san francisco and they're going to do

we are indebted to those brave men and women who secured the victory.ay them by preparing future generations to be counted on when the moment comes for us to act. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, susan. i am honored to introduce our final speaker today, elliott toby roosevelt, elliott roosevelt the third. he served as a fighter pilot in the air force reserve. completing service, he entered business in his families investment firm. he earned a b.a. degree from stanford university with honors and an mba from harvard business school. he is married with a one-year-old son who is in the audience and a three week old daughter who is also here. his beautiful family is in the front row. thank you for being with us today. toby, the podium is yours. >> i would like to say thank you to the friends of the national world war ii memorial for being with me here today and to the audience for being here to commemorate the 70th anniversary of d-day. on june 6, 1944, i, of course, had not been born. my father was seven years old, and it is likely that if he h

by counting those entitled or permitted locations the vice president can verify those. and further they're not an insurance of buildings that are unable to operate like woody allen grounds by counting the permitted ones they can be counted in a short term. raises the threshold to 20 will exempt some saturday up companies for example, phil's deli have over 11 locations but are significantly lower raising the threshold to 20 will allow small businesses like those some are concerned up to 20 are not small businesses, however, compared to the brands like phillip's this is only revokable in this area compared to subway. this leads to a lack of a sense of place. the major retail formula uses are being addressed we're expanding this to include international this slide show us 10 percent is headquarters outside the u.s. the vast majority have long established places in the u.s. and have established as formula retail. we recognize san francisco is an international city we recognize that an increasing global economy that they can contribute to the standardization and surprisingly

we are better at this now and when we leave those partnerships and when we leave from those training sessions which we do quite often, we are more knowledgeable and we have almost always walked away from those sessions having learned more than perhaps we have imparted by we have developed relationships. we would be happy to follow-up with you later and. help in any way we can >> in the front row here. the lady in purple. >> thank you. about air cargo as well as newport technology. how do you feel about the 9/11 commission 100% scanning policy and the pushback? there is new technology out there that is effective and passive. attack contraband so how do you feel about that and the pushback? >> many people in the audience know that the law requires 100% scanning and provides the secretary of homeland security with the ability every two years to say whether or not that can be achieved. based upon the technology that had existed in the past would have left cargo and trade stacked up either in the air or stacked up in ships quite a ways out from our ports. technology has changed pretty dra

with the city of san francisco those are public contracts and by definition, those projects are subject to prevailing wage. we have a work force requirement that cost an overall 50% work force hiring of san francisco residents, city of san francisco of course has a graduated system of 20 to 50%. but again, what's unique with us is that there is a first consideration for project area residents and we make every effort to work with the contractors to address that specific purpose. for san francisco in terms of statistics, oew did release the report for the march 2014 period. what's shown on the screen however, is a aggregate of all figures of hours for the three years that the program has been in existence. so rather than provide the details that the oew report provide, what we did was aggregate . for ocii we're currently running at 33.5% and when i say running, again, i want to preface that by saying those are for projects active as of january 1, 2013 and have either closed or are currently pending, or currently still in construction. on area by area basis with the bay view hunters point

out to bid and a lot of those are done by external contractors. and so those will be coming in you know, over the course of the year as we do have and in the detailed documents we do have the expenditure plan, broken down by at least quarter if not month. so you can see for every expenditure category, when we would be anticipating extending those funds and so it depends a little bit on the category, but we have been working hard, particularly for the muni right-of-way improvements that will impact a lot of muni riders to get those ted up and if it gets on the ballot and should the voters support it and we will get on the ground the construction immediately there after. >> great, thank you. >> any other commissioner questions? >> commissioner, yee riley? >> hi, director, thank you for the presentation. >> you are welcome. >> could you go over, how we are going to repay this bond. i know that one is the vehicle free? the other one is... >> yeah, so the general obligation bonds are paid from property taxes. and one of the ways that property tax rates

those are choices as to him prez said and the speaker said those are not choices as a principle i saw this happen on a daily basis looking at their children and they couldn't food to take them to the doctor this is a public deity we have to have has to recounseled from coast to cooperative from the northern to southern borders to make sure those issues become law. and how is that going to happen it's the agenda that tom prez has and we have to make sure we have the medical leave act into law and make sure they have paid medical leave if california does it so doesn't the rest of the nation as a californian and a member of congress with my colleagues we're going to move forward and make sure that the work that secretary tom prez has put forward becomes law. thank you (clapping) thank you very much. >> thank you. i'm delighted to introduce congresswoman jackie spear representing 14 district she was named one of the fearless woman in the world (clapping) she's welcome known for her excelling speeches on the house floor for veterans and especially those who comprehensions sexual assault an

projects i don't know who those folks are their residents of san francisco that's fine but have the projects vetted and looked at it. project plans were not code compliant they sat in the department for years so this project vicinities the eastern neighborhood plans and mergers lots and creates the only true lot on this block. the eastern neighborhood said don't do that it asks for 3 huge exceptions completely inaccurate this is in the existing residential neighborhood this is in the code this is already an existing neighborhood our not creating a new neighborhood to rain tree bought that a year ago they said they were doing outreach in 12 because they purchased it one year ago as soon as rain tree bought it they substantially increased the project and reduced the rear yard by 16 percent. so it's incredibly over parked even though that's on the third street rail and because of the size you've got impacts on the neighbors. i submitted the initial review it says make the radish and the open space in the middle smaller the department is completely ignoring the park across the street an

avi -- have you changed any of those? veterans have lost their lives, and i don't have any clue, any indication because of something you have known for years. thirty-six different reports. you come here and say we will do better next year. >> yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. >> one of the things he talked about was the cancellations and an anxious. in el paso we heard anecdotally of cancellations that are recorded as no-shows', of veteran last week, for example, told me that she had gone to that va in el paso from its of their apartment she thereafter requested a copy of her medical record and found that that cancellation was recorded as a no-show. hits against her record is not heard the va wait time reporting. have you found it evidence of those kinds of practices in your investigations thus far? >> not specifically that. we did find more than 50 percent of the 150 cases that we looked at had at least one no-show or cancel the appointment. and, you know, we found clinics. we found -- we like to ask -- for eac

be pushing those to continue. >> thank you. >> and maybe, just, i am and i love this. and i actually think that it is really great and what i like about it, is mostly that is seeks for build the infrastructure that we don't currently have that can be used in other places and so i live close to the corridor and i worked in just gives the property owner an incentive to move forward and i see that it will not be an abandoned storefront if the property owner contracts out with the real estate agent and that is a state forward and provides incentive for the property owner to move forward to get the space leased. >> okay. >> commissioner walker? >> director huey, have you assessed what the financial consequence will be on us ie, increase the staffing, etc.? >> yeah, i expect maybe an increase at least one inspector and maybe one clerk. >> okay. sure. >> okay >> cool. >> okay. >> all right. >> and there are no further questions, thank you for your consideration of this. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and is there a motion on it? >> do we need public comment? >> public comment

those numbers are jumped to 43% and 39%.o redder reds and bluer blues threaten the well-being of the country? the poll used that word threaten. more than one out of three republicans think so. more than one out of four democrats do, too. can the partisans and the applications they support come together to solve problems? the numbers point to why this is so tough. the majority of partisans believe their side should get the better end of the deal. it's the opposite of compromise. it's called gridlock. >> a country that's making it tough for make a deal. joining us for that conversation michael dimmick, the lead author of the new pew study. alan bromowiwiz. author. and political science at stanford university and author of "culture war, the myth of a polarized america." we heard the president say, and the quote is our country is not as divided as our politics suggest. >> was i right? >> the majority of americans are not caught up in this kind of ideological, straight-line thinking. that's the view or the perspective of a minori

those who struggle still. so today we also honor two member members of his team. kyle's friends, lance corporal timothy m jackson. and lance corporal dakota of greenwood louisiana. our thoughts are also with the marine he saved that day. i had an opportunity to meet him nearly two years after that blast. nick also suffered greivis wounds. as a result of traumatic brain injury, he couldn't speak for more than a year. he also endured multiple surgeries. today, his recovery continues. he lives at home with his family in plymouth, massachusets where he is watching this ceremony. so nick, on behalf of all of us, we hon your sacrifice as well. and just as kyle was there for you, our nation will be there for you and your family as you grow strongner the years ahead. if any of our wounded warriors seek an example, let me amend that. if any american seeks a model of the strength, and resilience that define us as a people, including this newest 9/11 generation. i want you to consider kyle. he skis, he snowboards he has

those murders changes the country.those murders changed the country, we've come to see those three young men as american martyrs. martyrs for an end to racial law in our country. those three young men who were killed and all the hundreds of thousands of americans who marched and worked and got thrown into jail and who gave their money and provided food or a place to sleep to all those volunteers, we have what is supposed to be a consensus as a country that the people on the side of civil rights, what they did in 1964, that was noble. in addition to being noble and right, it also worked. they won. the summer after james chaney and andrew goodman and michael schwerner were killed and bodies hid inside the earthen dam in mississippi, lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act into law. following summer. no more taxes, no more literacy tests or tricks designed to keep legal voters from actually being able to vote. johnson's signature on that law resulted directly from the sacrifices of people like those three civil rights

for those who come. if they come to this country there is no legal mechanism by which they can stay. in the meantime the administration is sending millions of dollars to those same countries to assist in the repatriat repatriate those who have come, and the funding includes $40 million to reduce gang membership in guatemala. $25million to build youth outreach centers in el salvador and $18.5 million for youth outreach centers for honduras. we listen to josh earnest in his briefing on friday. >> we're trying to address the problem at the root. some of that is informational campaign. and countering this misinformation campaign that's being propagated by those sin kates. >> those who have been apprehended at the border they can't be turned back by u.s. law and sent back. many are at military basi bases around the country. >> a soldier in the south korean army is on the run after he shot five comrades dead and wounded five more. it happened at an outpost south of the demilitarized zone. >> the egypt court ha

it's congress' job to make those decisions, not the president's. and while the power of that resolution has been questioned and some say it has withered over the years, in 1975, when gerald ford wanted to restart the war in vietnam, that was very fresh in congress' minds and congress had no qualms about telling him no when he said he wanted back into vietnam. so that is how that iconic footage, those iconic images came to be. because over president ford's objections, we did just evacuate as saigon fell. those pictures were taken on april 30th, 1975, and that is the day, the day, that saigon fell. the communists from the north renamed saigon ho chi minh city. two weeks later, they held a victory parade through saigon. and to this day, vietnam is a communist country. and yes, that is how we left it. since then, vietnam went through a series of market-based economic reforms. in the late 1980s, they opened up a stock market president year 2000. that's the year that president bill clinton visited vietnam in november 2000, november that year. for the pas

those are referred to hra's. prior to january 1, 2014, those accounts were allowable and could reimburse for certain medical expenses and then upon 24 months of inactivity, the money will revet to the balance. they don't meet minimum coverage under the action ca -- what's allowed is those linked up with health insurance. those that cover accepted benefits, those that are accepted out of the minimum like dental and vision that don't comes with your health insurance. it comprises of two things. medical reimbursement accounts and those are operated by the city that monitors like an hra but operated by the city and healthy san francisco. so if a person is eligible right now for healthy san francisco, they're routed into healthy san francisco and if they are not eligible for healthy san francisco, they don't live in san francisco for example, they work here but at the don't live here, then it twos to a reimbursements act. this is how it works today. starting at the blue box on the left, the health care security ordina

we are fulfilling those. the commitments that we have made, the 15 million new or enhanced broadbands are all on top of that commitment that's already out in the public domain. all of that is incremental. the capital requirements to do that, i mean, just 2 million households with fiber to the home is a significant capital investment. the 13 million fixed wireless local loops, that's a massive geography that we're talking about passing. while it may be incremental to some investment that's already there, for a company that's investing $21 billion a year, that's a significant amount we're taking out of that. >> okay. well, now, do we have a consensus here, mr. bergmayer, of his rebuttal? does that work out with you? >> i understand that at&t has a very ambitious buildout plan but, i mean, some of the numbers in question that are supposedly in at&t's public filings somewhere are redacted and confidential in the fcc filings so i haven't looked at them. so it is difficult for me to see how the numbers are simultan

so those were the two major points. the jam tomorrow really relates to full-blown qe, or some kind of bond-buying program. mr. draghi didn't have much new news on that. he effectively said they are still working on a program. but we know given the european central bank's mandate, deciding which bonds to buy is the real dilemma. so work currently being done. as far as the package is concerned, mr. draghi said this is not it. there is the potential for more to be done. >> we think it's a significant package. are we finished? the answer is no. we aren't finished here. >> reporter: so forut03 the ti being, the markets seem prepared to take the announcement. we got a spike higher in the german exchange, the dax and an initial selloff in the euro. both of those moves will be something that mr. draghi was pleased to see. for "nightly business report," i'm jeff cutmore in frankfurt. >>> and nikola joins us, chief market strategist. welcome. we heard jeff say that the idea here is to get money into the real economy. will it wor

that will lead to one of those people in those people being accused from how much so until now this is something inconceivable and just justifiable and actually the world community should condemn this is that i crack down on hamas or massive again it's ok to mission diplomats. this is something i don't have any. insight for that but let's get information directly from you then hamas has neither claim nor denied responsibility for the abduction what does that actually mean so that again i don't understand well hamas if neither claim nor did denied responsibility for the up to auction what does not mean directly from you. that's mean that we have no information actually who who has who is behind these things nobody from him as having any information that could lead to what he could not do those three said to us unfortunately this those people has been the west bank and anything like this could have been days of eighty's they have the security responsibility not the palestinian if anything like this happen that is the way we should be questioning their security not having a message out

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and the first words corey said to me after his accident echoed those words first shouted all those years ago on this beach, "rangers, lead the way." corey has come back today along with melvin and janice and brian and many of their fellow active-duty service members. we thank them for their service. they are a reminder that the tradition represented by these gentlemen continues. we are on this earth for only a moment in time. and fewer of us have parents and grandparents to tell us about what the veterans of d-day did here 70 years ago. as i was landing on marine one, i told my staff, i don't think there's a time where i miss my grandfather more where i'd be more happy to have him here than this day. so we have to tell their stories for them. we have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. we have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it. and as today's wars come to an end, this generation of service men and women will step out of uniform, and

sometimes we need to worry about eviction, how to deal with those. those are unexpected. but we are going to deal with it. then, because of all this starting july 1st, this year we have a new energy call and that's why you will see lots of people try to submit the permit this year by june 30 th to award the new energy code. also that's the budget proficiency that we have. keep in mind we learned from the last economic down turn. some of the project will be temporary and then we will budget those positions based on project as a temporary position. then this is summary of what we are talking about. the new legislation and what is the work load. for example, i mentioned about one time project. those are summarized here. we increased the capital reserve by $5.25 million. create a technology project reserve for $7 million. and increased the funding and repair fund by $5 million. and create a work order to access office. because we find out there is a time between access office to increase the property tax by doing -- with them. by $1.3 million. interest rear -- interim fee red

because it makes more sense for us to look at those opportunities as well. do you have from my interest, sort of a back of the envelope number for how much solar could be developed on sort of the city or the puc owned land outside of the city. >> the type line that i mentioned of the development opportunities, includes, if the memory serves me, about 45, mega watts of development opportunities outside of san francisco. >> have you thought about, leasing out that land, to allow a private developer to are able to develop, the solar on it and then, sell it to, you know, back to the pg&e of the grid. >> yes. >> but that is an opportunity, that we could pursue, and you know, the lands that we control, first have a utility purpose. >> and the lands that we control, are largely controlled by the water department, or the water side of hetch hetch water and power and any arrangement that we make, will be the use of the land that goes to the utility purpose and that makes it attractive for a third party to come in because they would want a long term commitment without

we have to begin to address those issues.my feeling is if we can create a healthier economy and we can begin to create economic opportunities for people affected by these changes then i think it's a good trade-off and hopefully we can make that argument. you say well they don't want to give them up. i will say i have a lot of faith in the american public that if you lay out a vision for america and make the case for america as a leader and you call up on america to step forward and do their part to make america a viable enterprise going forward i have confidence in the american people that can happen. >> host: i think you've came to d.c. this same year i did in 1991 and i wonder if you notice for all those 23 years you have had conservatives around the country spending money on politicians but also these conservative non-profits in the hope that they would help make america more conservative. over that time from my perspective the country has become anything but playing at the measures you have mentioned today. the welfare ra

those are my comments. thank you very much for again, will you lieutenant i appreciate it and your partnership with the school district. thank you so much very. >> and our public commenters thank you. for participating and monitoring, and being vigilant with us. >> thank you. >> president fewer. >> commissioner mendoza mcdonald, >> i just want to say a thank you also and to remind us how far that we have come, this momelet u is different from what we have ever seen and i am appreciative that we have systems in place instead of just guessing to see what is going to happen if something bad were to happen, and it just makes me feel a lot better knowing that the conversations that have been going on and the input from the community and how our intentions on training, and all of the other pieces are coming together and so thank you. >> and so thank you. and i was not cutting you off commissioner haney, i was sort of thinking, yeah, like, we should have that data. sorry. so, i do think that with all of the calls

when i learned of those detailed rather the lack of those details about the proposed building i'm eager to live in my unit and serve the community and be a part of the community but the texture and the character of this building does not match the quickerness of the area i believe that rain trees for 51, third street contradict the guidelines and infriendly on my rights as a homeowner and would be a detriment to the community the rain tree objectives conflicts with the i a g the proposed plans don't have a well grandfathered fade and don't harmonize with the character of the area there's not - too many 0 parking is that a the warriors are ready to move in we want the residents to stay in the area and keep them enjoying the crane co- park. i'm against those units obeying being added not because i'm against more units in the city i believe we're no dire need of housing in the city by this proposed development didn't match with the rest of the areas and the building surrounding. i believe the building should be set back from the street as well as the proposed space at the 610 illinois and

those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the departments of transportation and housing and urban development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and for what purpose does. -- and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from connecticut rise? is the gentlelady opposed to the bill? the gentlelady qualifies. the clerk will read. the clerk: ms. esty of connecticut moves to recommit the bill, h.r. 4745, to the committee with instructions to report the same back to the house for thewith with the following amendment. page 37, line 13 -- ms. esty: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, the reading is dispensed with. the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for five minutes. the gentlelady will suspend. the house will be in order. he house will be in order. the chair would ask members to take their conversat

and the first words cory said to me after his accident echoed those words first shouted all those years ago on this beach -- "rangers, lead the way." so, cory has come back today along with melvin and janice and brian and many of their fellow active-duty service members. we thank them for their service. they are a reminder that the tradition represented by these gentlemen continues. we are on this earth for only a moment in time. and fewer of us have parents and grandparents to tell us about what the veterans of d-day did here 70 years ago. as i was landing on marine one, i told my staff, i don't think there's a time where i miss my grandfather more, where i'd be more happy to have him here than this day. so, we have to tell their stories for them. we have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. we have to honor those who carried forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it. and as today's wars come to an end, this generation of servicemen and women will step out of unif

how are those developed? >> it comes from sharia, yeah. >> and it was interesting because i was -- i read that the ayatollah khomenei was speaking about freedom. he says, iran, we have freedom unlike any other country in the world. then he pointed to europe and he says, they talk about freedom of speech, but go ask them about the holocaust, they're not free to deny the holocaust. he said, we don't know whether it existed or not. in his mind he thinks that because we don't have these grand debates about something that's obvious, if you study history, that somehow we don't have freedom of speech. i think what his freedom, and this is somehow -- we talk past folks in the middle east when we say, why wouldn't they want freedom? some people such as these ayatollahs, they believe, for them freedom is freedom to live under shoo rhea, correct? >> yes. >> and so when we say freedom, they view the freedom differently than we do. but i think that what you guys have testified about's very important. i'm 100% behind the p

those systems failed at gm. today, what i want to know are specific answers to how the culture of secrecy at gm can be changed to encourage reporting of problems, not just structural management changes. i appreciate, ms. barra, the changes you've made at gm so far. but i think the jury is still out on whether we can have success in changing the culture. last week as the chairman mentioned, gm announced the recall of over 500,000 late model chevy camaros, including 2014 model year vehicles, because of ignition switch problems. and monday evening, just a couple days ago, another 3.3 million cars with ignition switch and engine shutoff issues were recalled. including chevy impalas that are currently in production. this means that this year alone, gm has announced 44 recalls affecting more than 20 million vehicles worldwide. ms. barra, this record reinforces the notion that the safety problems with the cobalt and ion were not unique at gm and that the senior executives at the company, including you, should have acte

we are making those adjustments. we work very closely with the department's intelligence and analysis unit to populate the risk formula with the most recent data. so, yes, we are looking at that continually. your second question as to what the measurement and really what i would consider to be, you know, buying down of that risk and the vulnerability. i agree we've got some progress to make there in terms of agreement on measurements and metrics to show that progress. and show it in a way -- when the chairman comes back, his question was about how can the congress help, and here i think i might ask of the chairman and you, senator, is that we have a continued dialogue about the type of data that would enable you to have more confidence and the american people have more confidence we are making that progress and that we are being effective stewards of the taxpayer dollars. i agree that we have made progress and plenty examples. we would like to continue to work with you to get the data and the measurement that would s