>> thank you very much, madam chair. colleagues. about four years ago, i sensed the supreme court sort of gave us an indication that today's result could be what it is. i don't remember the case, the i remember the case, the court seemed to signal at that time, that the kind of history that we used in 2008 when we re- authorized the voting rights act, they considered to be outdated. and that something needed to be done to update the formula we used. now, we in the congress did a study, to my memory serves, it was 15,000 page study. and the vote in the senate was 98-0. the vote in the house, i believe, was 390-33. and we decided that enough evidence was there in front of us to require a re-authorization of the voting rights act. that was just 2008. now, if we were to look, in my opinion, if we were to look at the reason that the supreme court gave in talking about our failure to take into account the progress that had been made, i believe the best way to take into account the progress that's being made in this country on any subject

so i'm asking for your support if funding this and a thank you madam >> 2 minutes goes quick i i know. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i'm the director for the beau con center. we ask for your support. the first funding to run an after school program. balboa loss their funding this past school year and due to the huge need for the academic services we stepped down in to help it run very limits programs utilizing very the money. however, due to some fund setting grants we're not able to stretch our programs to allow this service to continue. unfortunately, because of the refunding for high school after school programs balboa doesn't receive after school funding which means our communities high school which has a population of over 13 thousand students won't have any services. we'll have a youth who will speak how this has abstracted to their education and learning. so this year we're only able to provided recovery to very limited services at balboa so we want to ask you to keep funding our high school funding. second we want to ask for your support through the city and county s

and 80 percent are more libel to get assistance >> madam thank you very much that was appreciated. >> good morning. i'm a staff member at san francisco village. my role is volunteer and i take member requests that come in. because of confidentiality i won't mention the members names. about two years ago i got a call from a man who needed someone to take him grocery shopping as well as take out his garbage. his partner moved out and we were able to match him up with a volunteer to meet those needs but at the same time fulfilling that need of companionship. in addition we also have a member named rose who is a disabled person. she's losing her sight. we have someone going to her >> i live in martin tower. i'll tell you a few things i've done through the village. yesterday, i went although to a presentation on facebook i learned about it and what it's for and what you do with it. presumably if i go home i'll all be my friends. next tuesday i'm going to a lecturer on long term care. it will be at the san francisco village when we do presentations of subjects relevant to us we get to go to

madam clerk, could you call the next item? >> call the roll, or the commissioners who are absent, or some are on the way and we will excuse those who are not here later on the agenda. and if you could call the next item. >> approval of at proval from the april, 26th, 2013, regular meeting. >> colleagues any comments or questions on the minutes? >> okay. we can go on to public comment. on the minutes? we will close public comment. and colleagues could we get a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> the question from commissioner campos and seconded by breed and we will take that without objection. >> item three, authorizing the agreement and june 30, 2014. we have a presentation from jason freed. >> jason freed's office staff, which is now what is becoming the annual update to the contract that we have with our legal services/interrum director, to continue the contract and it is expiring at the end of the month and the staff is recommending to continue it one more year, if at any point in time, the commission wishes to

madam clerk, could we have role call? >> campos, absent ; chew, i ; commissioner mar, i; tang, i. item passes. >> next item please. >> chairs report is an information item. >> on may 30 we held a board workshop on the san francisco transportation plan which provides needs for the city's transportation system. the plan is in its final stages of development. coordination with local transportation agencies, regional transportation offices as well as extensive public outreach. i want to thank my colleagues on the board and many of your aids for attending the workshop as we had a good workshop. the focus was on highlights of the plan's recommendations, including strained in/sr*egsment scenario and vision scenario which would depends /og new revenue sources. one area i'm pleased with is the proposal of the neighborhood transportation initiative, that can be found through the prop k five year programs that are now under development. this includes a planning and capitol project piece, specifically transportation planning funds for every district. the intent of a capitol piece is to identi

>> thank you, madam chairman and ranking member vitter. i would like to thank our witnesses and there will does this to share their time -- and their willingness to share their time. in nebraska where agriculture is our number one industry tom a we are mindful of the key role in a chemical roles play. billione 870 undernourished people in the world today. provide food and other necessities for a world population that is expected to 2050, we0 billion by know we will become reliant upon chemical solutions. innovation has helped to grow our economy and improve lives across the globe. thatcal users understand our utilization of these powerful products is not without risk. recent events in texas and louisiana are devastating reminders of our responsibility to remain vigilant in our efforts to prevent, mitigate, and address chemical threats. i am pleased we are meeting today to conduct oversight of our federal risk management and emergency planning programs that we rely upon for safety, environmental protection, and homeland security. industry l

. >> madam chair and commissioners. i'm here with 3 of the partners that will be a recuperate and lodge. this is b.a. luck inc. last known as - this is basically a major amendment that was requested be brought before the commission but i think everyone will agree this is a change for the better. this was a type of 47 it did have food there was a cook back there but if you walked back there you wouldn't see anybody eating. we have - when mike quan owned the majority interest his other partner was bruce and he started the majority partner in a restaurants called foreign cinema. and has been one of the 10 or 15 high grossing restaurants and it's on the top one-hundred list. it's a beautiful restaurants people thought they were crazy to go in there but mr. mcdonald has been a significant owner of this place for a number of years but a silent partner. he is now bringing in a real restaurants into the area. the bar across the street is proven it's ready for a restaurants. a they've hired randy lewis he's a chef and he was vot

madam chair i'm here with the person in charge of this particular establishment. i'd like to first state i've been in talks with southern station and we have - we would request that the after hours portion of this application be continued. until the next meeting. the police feels officer chan feels we have to have more discussed this is 6th street. we would like to have more discussions with the police department. >> our next meeting will not be until the first day of august and you're just like 16 accounting is off-site so i want to tell you that. and so is that okay >> we're fine with that. there's going to be some rehab >> why don't you stop for a second and let's take care of that first. >> okay. so let's move for a continuance of the extended hours permit to the first meeting no august. is there a public comment on that? >> seeing none, can i have a second to my motion somebody. >> second and we have a second. come on up >> good evening. we would like to revisit this 6 months into the operation >> because of the location of the premises and because it's histo

my florida colleague is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. ranking member. thank you for holding this hearing. i understand that you touched on this issue briefly, but i would like to pursue a little further the role that we play in iran and while i believe public broadcasting is vitally important around the world, it is especially true there. we have few opportunities to speak directly to the people to present accurate information. p.n.n. has long been considered an ineffective tool. poor programming, low quality production and mismanagement. it is tremendously unfortunate in a country where an estimate 90% of the population gets their news from tv. they are missing an opportunity to have an influential role in iran by presenting unprofessional low quality newscasts often with an incoherent message. less than two weeks ago, the iran people went to the polls in historic numbers. b.b.c. persian provided 24/7 coverage of the elections. unfortunately none of these criticisms are new. as iran remains a top foreign policy concern. i'm concerned that we're missing

[gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read our adoption calendar? >> items 47 and 48 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single owevv call vote enact these items. if a member objects the matter can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items? supervisor farrell. >> item 47. please. >> roll call vote on item 48. >> item 48, supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. there are 11 ayes. >> motion is approved. [gavel] >> item 47, madam clerk. >> yes, item 47 is a resolution supporting the health service system for participating in the establishment of multi-para databases that can be used to evaluate and improve the quality and cost of care and resolve past legislation to establish full quality and cost t

. >> thanks, madam clerk. colleagues, today i would like to adjourn our meeting in memory of coleman halloran who passed away tuesday, june 18, 2013. coleman was a native of county [speaker not understood] ireland and long-time resident of san francisco. he's known to most of us for being the father of our poa now president marty halloran. a blood husband of 45 years, excuse me, 45*4 years to rosemary halloran, devoted father of michael, stephen, mary, stepdaughter -- excuse me, daughter-in-law mary, thomas martin and james and stepdaughter alicia. he was a 63-year-member of the carpenter's union local 22, charter member of the united irish cultural center and long-time parishioner of st. paul's church in san francisco. he is survived by five sons, michael, stephen, thomas, james, and loyal and devoted friend to those who will miss his wit and charm. [speaker not understood]. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. >> thank you. many of you probably read that last week we made an e

madam clerk, could you call our 3 p.m. special order items related to mission bay and mission bay south? >> items 42 and 43 are board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole motion approved june 18, 2013 for public hearing to consider an ordinance approving a resolution ~ -- excuse me, a resolution amending the mission bay south redevelopment plan which modifies the land use designation for certain properties to add residential as a permitted use and increase the permitted residential density in the plan area. does not increase the allocation of tax increment under pre-sifting enforceable objectly san diego baytion and making requisite finding. >> this is a redevelopment plan [speaker not understood] in supervisor kim's district. supervisor kim. >> thank you. i do want to thank the board for having this hearing today as we sit as a commissioner william lee of the whole. sirens we first a doddthv the mission bay plan in 1998 and after years of community advocacy, it's exciting to findly watch this neighborhood ta

if it's okay, madam clerk, do you want to call items 30 through 39? >> item 30 is an ordinance for [speaker not understood] medical use subdistrict within the van ness special use. item 31 is an [speaker not understood] special use district. item 32, ordinance amending the planning code and the zoning map to reflect the creation of the van ness medical use subdistrict, to allow an increase in height in order to allow for a new seismically safe hospital and adopting findings. item 33 is an ordinance amendling planning code and the zoning map to reflect the creation of the [speaker not understood] valencia street mixed use special use district. item 34, ordinance ordering the summary street vacation of a portion of san jose avenue between 27th street and cesar chavez street. item 35, [speaker not understood] in order to construct and maintain a pedestrian tunnel under van ness avenue to connect the new medical office building and the new hospital located at 1100 and 1101 van ness avenue to construct and maintain [speaker not understood] cedar street bet

>> madam clerk? >> thank you, supervisor avalos. thank you, mr. president. item 19, of course, designates the examiner and the chronicle as the official newspapers which would carry our official or legal advertising. item 19 is the item wherein which the city publishes its advertisements to advertise the city services that are occurring in all of our different departments. based upon the discussion at the budget and finance committee last week, i understand there may be a desire for supervisors to add additional newspapers to the already five neighborhood newspapers that are included in item 19. and there was a concern at the committee that the fund called the outreach advertising revenue fund may not be able to build the cost if we were to add those new newspapers. essentially, oca estimates that about 220,000 is in or will be in the advertising revenue fund which would mean 10% of that or 22,000 would be what we would have to pay for that advertising. and just for a brief background, the administra

madam clerk are there any announcements? >> yes mr. chair. please silent cell phones and. >> can you call item one. >> to amend the charter of the city for retiree health care trust fund for retiree health care cost for employer subtrust are fullied. allow for disbursement are greater than 10% and the payroll cost even if not fully funded. for the guidelines recommended by the controller with the city's governement accounting standards board actuary and by the mayor and to the retiree health care trust fund board permit by a participating employer governing board and make the control of the city treasurer and the executive director of the san francisco employees' retirement system or the designees members of the retiree health care trust fund board. >> thank you. joining us in the rules committee is supervisors farrell and he will be speaking on item one. supervisor farrell. >> thank you chair yee and colleagues. i am back today to discuss the charter amendment i introduced a number of weeks ago to solve the retiree unfunded liability here in

is there anything else madam clerk on the agenda? >> there's nothing further. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much this meeting is closed. >> this is a dpw corporation yard. i work for the bureau of street environmental services used to be street cleaning. we are a new age. >> here we are. >> here we are. >> clean. >> these are our communications dispatchers. hi. okay, no problem. you are welcome. bye-bye. >> all the information about the location, the nature of the complaint and we dispatch it. >> near the steps. >> by new they have started a hundred calls for dispatchers. >> once a get a request if they are not on the air i will page that unit. these are the radio channels. we have 14 channels. i will give a service request. >> there is a lot of expertise that goes into a call. i think we can have you dispatch and track. >> 448. >> 448. >> 19th at california. >> can you give us a little bit of a view. >> we have the city broken up to different districts. we will go to zone e. we will go to iowa street. put me to work. >> okay.

madam clerk -- >> (off mic) would you note my objection in your minutes? >> supervisor cohen: you are on the record. item 3. >> (reading) >> supervisor cohen: we have supervisor mark farrell's aid, -- as well as susanna robbins from film commission. >> good morning catherine stephanie legislative aid two supervisor mark farrell who would be here but he's and budget negotiatio. nsit has been a great success ringing in high-profile films, one of the most recent is woody allen's film blue jasmin. our office 00 added a documentary film to the rebate program. we are here today because we need an amendment to the rebate program again in order to continue the success of it. we have found that although the film rated program is attractive to many producers we are now falling short on city space available for the some production companies. this legislation would allow the executive director on the phone commission to lease space for production companies after determining there is knows city space available. -- maximum of 600,000 dollars. no budget analyst report is

>> madam president, commissioners, my name is mark, i'm and attorney and represent approximately 30 entertainment venues in san francisco. i have been through probably in the last 25 years 20 sound wars and i call them sound wars because they get pretty contentious and crazy. i have been here many years. i have had probably 15 or 20 sound test. these people go out of their way to help venues and ignore the law in order to let this venue survive and do their soundproofing. it's unfortunate that brick and mortars has chosen to cast these issues. i told them they are nice people and just sweet. my child can't sleep, but i don't want any of your employees to lose their jobs. these are great people and they have been wronged, i think. i would really ask this board to uphold the entertainment commission's ruling on this because i think it was fair, i was there and i think the brick and mortar can work with the neighbors, they can soundproof this thing and we need more entertainment venues and especially live entertainment venues and they are great ones. brick and mortar is a great venue. thank you. >>

but i need to say something madam president to the people in the audience and the appellant's representative. in the same way that you have made predominantly a procedural and policy base appeal regarding your rights for process at the hearing, in the same way the permit holder has certain rights and by not being here, i'm not comfortable with hearing anything including public testimony related to this case. i don't think it's fair to the process or to the permit holder. >> [inaudible] >> no you may not. i'm sorry you have a representative. excuse me, you are out of order. please sit down. you are not helping yourself right now. you have not been asked to speak either. >> anyone else have anything? >> i would support a continuance. >> okay. >> are you suggesting to revoke the permit? is that a viable option? >> it is. >> there is no permit holder so there is no hearing without a permit holder. >> here is what was suggested by the captain is we can have a hearing based on what they have and we can make a ruling today. i have deep respect for his view here and we could do it the way that we wo

madam president and board members. we would like to take this time to dispute the ruling of the january 28 hearing that allowed the one tree to remain and the other one out. they earmarked the removal and the protest of hearing vowing for one tree to stay. we have dealt with these trees for 25 years. the property we own is on the corner of union street. in the packet you will see pictures of overhanging branches. the one tree is probably 65-75 feet tall. i would like to show you the corner property with the over hang and look down the street you can see the size of the tree and the overhang. it's also interfering with the street light in the corner. the trees are earmarked by the dwp as being unstable and not in good health an that's why they earmarked them for removal. the next slide i have here is the episodes i have here in june of 2010. the majority of the tree fell. you can see the condition of the center core of the tree. this tree really unbalanced itself with the removal of this large portion. >> is that the bi

>> madam president, i'm thomas reynolds. we met before on this issue. i would infer on you to adopt the findings which i think is important and in recognition of the reality of what's going on with these kind of stores opening in finding as you did last time that the lease should be considered as well. that seems to be a very important step and now with others, with short circuited the process that should be on the record and should be there to guide the planning department and the others. i think you made a very wise decision and is helpful. i do think we'll see legislation coming from the board of supervisors that will include international stores, we know that osca has another 50 stores internationally. we had this before on fillmore street where the gap opened an athletic brand and it was a part of the whole gap process. same with starbucks that opened a new natural food store and so, these are clearly ways around the city's i think very wise attempt to limit the affect of chain stores in small districts such as ours and your finding is a very impor

. >> while we have you here, is it possible to ask one more request madam chair? >> that exercise of both of it today. and do you disagree with mr. warfield's account about what happened on december 20th? >> okay. >> so, i have miss rich yes's response indicating that we had prepared speaker cards for him to pick up and in the e-mail response she does not site the california constitution article 1 section one. however. in her response to the sunshine task force she does say that essentially that she did explain that there were no speaker cards for any of the other meetings and to protect the individual's right of privacy, so she did verbally explain it to him which is consistent with what he has put in his e-mail. and yeah. so... >> okay. >> does that help? >> that does not answer my question. but thank you. >> so, we are looking at what 67-26? >> and 67.34? no? eyes. >> yes. >> agree with with that >> shall we. >> if you read 67.26 specifically, clearly technically they did not comply with what was required. that is when you make them redact it and it says that y

. >> i wonder, madam chair would it help to moves thing along if i make a motion with regard to the first of the three items. >> where we stand on these issues? >> i would agree with that. if we die vied it up it is the easy way to move forward. >> on the first matter i will entertain a motion to that effect. >> i move that we find, is it a violation of the ordinance? >> yes. >> we find a violation of the sunshine ordinance section 67.25 a for failing to respond to an immediate disclosure request in a timely manner by miss patterson of the arts commission. >> is there a second? >> i will second. >> public comment? >> commissioners, ray hartz, director of san francisco government. 67.30 the sunshine ordinance subsection c. the task force shall advise the board of supervisors and provide information on other city departments on appropriate ways in which to implement this chapter. that is the authority that the sunshine task force has. does the city attorney have the ability to over or to review and override those? yes he does, but he needs to give a legal justification he can't just say whi

. >> thank you for calling me madam chair. as a said in the public comment, i think that this is an out rage that you are doing here now with respect to your procedures. this is, this procedure is being won as though i personally complained against kate patterson personally and there was no department head or elected official involved. mr. st. croix says, in his first paragraph, and when the respondent with kate patterson and the named complainant was peter warfield of the library users association and he goes on page 2 where he says, that task force referred this matter as a willful and this is on page 2 of the old letter and the second paragraph. >> the task in addition, under the section, such and such and however, miss patterson is not an elected department head and thus this matter will be handled under chapter two of the commission for violations of the sunshine ordinance and so what mr. st. croix has done is define away the possibility that a document head might be responsible here and only it was a knife that did it so

the same rigmarole, they are going to, i would assume, shut her down right the and say, excuse me, madam, you either are taking the fifth or you're not. remember, at that time everyone was kind of shocked. never seen this. so she tried to do the same thing again i think they would shut her down. >> the lawyers will come in with guns blazing and say this is a constitutional right, her right to remain silent. just by her saying, i didn't do it, blank dealt denial, how does that trigger congress the right to take away her constitutional rights. >> she is on paid leave. any restrictions when you're on paid leave. >> as far as testifying in congress? >> no. >> she is a witness -- >> bound to be -- >> you're the one who studied this. >> a witness is a witness. if you're under to subpoena to testify -- >> there's another wrap to this. if they grant her immunity and say to her, congress says to her, or prosecutor says, well immunize you and not prosecute you for anything you say. what happens then? she loses he right to the fifth amendment. the fifth amendment is there to not incriminate yoursel

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i assume, madam chair, if the members have any further questions you would be happy to answer them we recognize the gentleman from texas mr. hinojosa for five minutes. >> thank you today i had a question for the honorable sheila bair. but i think -- [laughter] >> the gentleman is officially out of luck. spec i apologize that i have to run to speak to a very large group of students putative i'm on the education committee. and i was one of their speakers. so i ran down there and spoke and then i ran back to take this opportunity to ask a couple of questions. i will start with the first one for the president richard fisher i want you all to know that he is my fellow texan from london by know very well and would like to ask him a question or two because i read an article in bloomberg and i quoted he urges the bank break up and then too big to fail in justice and one sentence i will read says fisher reiterated his view the government should break up the biggest institutions to safeguard the financial system. he is one of the central bank's most vocal critics of the too big to fail advantag

but madam, we were all here or eligible to be here. we have noticed this mark-up pursuant to the committee rules. the gentle lady had 37 days in which to seek counsel. >> 37 days you noticed this hearing? >> 37 days to seek counsel as to the question of a statement made. >> when did you notice this hearing, mr. chairman? >> the gentle lady's time is expired. i will now recognize the gentleman from south carolina. >> your time is up. well listen to this. we just got this hot note saying the resolution for lois learner waiving her fifth amendment rights when she spoke in front of the committee on may 23rd, that hearing into the irs. they just passed it. a congress from wisconsin responded by saying no, i'm voting no to this mccarthyite tactic. strong words there. what's this do to moving the ball forward? >> nothing. >> this process. >> let's break this down basically for people to understand. the committee has had hearing after hearing. they've released testimony. they've released transcripts. they've released everything. what did they

>> madam i apologize but there are some things that cannot be said in an open hearing. >> yet we are supposed to vote that she will waive her constitutional rights? that is a serious burden to put on us without more information. >> i appreciate that we were all here are eligible to be here. we have noticed this markup pursuant to the committee rules. the gentlelady have 37 days in which to seek counsel. >> 37 days in the notice of this hearing? >> 37 days to seek counsel and the question to the counsel. [inaudible] >> the gentlelady's time has expired. i will now recognize the gentleman from south carolina. >> thank you mr. chairman. at first blush this prospect of having another hearing would not disclose one single solitary relevant fact. all facts necessary or that would be at the disposal of this committee are already in the record. ms. lerner is not coming back and mr. chairman i don't need law professors to call for a second hearing and readme to case law. there is not going to be one additional fact uncovered at a second hearing. so what facts do we have at our disposal? mr. c

. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. chairman, following the tragic incident in geismar, we talked on the phone and you were very richest to act very, very quickly, and that that folks on the scene. can you give me a quick update on that particular investigation? >> yes, senator. we have deployed with an investigating team there. we have engaged a number of consultants, especially structural engineers. we have concern about the safety of the people that have to enter that has to look at the specific site of the explosion. we customarily don't enter until the structural engineer tells us it is safe because there is still hanging debris in the place. in the meantime, we are taking views with common you know, by taking photographs, aerial photographs of the site. we have interview close to 14 people that have been witness, direct witnesses of what happened. and we are preparing to enter the place in immediately that our safety engineer tell will be safe to do it. but we are at this time mostly engaged in on into thing peopl

. >> thank you, madam chair. you mentioned the good military care. can you talk about the impact 'sat that has on a victim perception of the trial and also on the outcome of the trial? >> the victim wants to be believed. they don't want their character brought before the courts. as we all know, there was a case recently where an officer's good conduct actually was overturned a conviction. that is what is is about, , that thethe victim perpetrator actually did commit a crime, and that it will be believed, and let justice prevail. so i think that is where that is coming from, that we should not have the ability to overturn a case just because that perpetrator is a good citizen. most of the perpetrators of sexual assault appear to everybody as fine, outstanding men or women. they don't walk around with a sign on their head. >> thank you. one other question, if i might, related to the services you just mentioned, the victims ought to be able to access regardless of whether a court- martial or investigation ensues. the restricted reporting option in the m

madame president, this legislation will not end the lawlessness. i wish it were different, but that is the fact. it does not create a merit-based future flow as has been honest and it leaves us in a very difficult decision. so, i feel like there is no choice for us today. let's vote no on the legislation. ends not going to and the-- the efforts. we are going to have to continue to wrestle with this. the good news is that the house, at least, initially what i have seen in their work, indicates that they are giving a far more prudent approach to it. the first note that they produced, i try to offer as an amendment, but it did not get brought up, and he really has an effective effort at improving interior law-enforcement. that is the kind of thing we need to be doing. then we can win the confidence of the american people and move past this very difficult time in our history. i think the chair and reserve the balance of the time on the site. -- side. >> the senator from south carolina. >> thank you. if i may -- well, thank you very much to my good frie

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madam chair are you ready to proceed? >> yes, thanks. good morning. on behalf of myself and my colleagues i would like to welcome everyone to the first hearing of the response panel to adult sexual assault in the military and i also want to thank chief judge -- who has graciously made this courtroom and this courthouse available to us. a courthouse is a fitting place to consider the grave problem of sexual violence in our military an issue of national importance. it is in courthouse is that important matters are considered daily with the objectivity of fairness and independence. this panel is committed to investigate to hear all sides and to find the facts necessary to report thoughtful and sensible recommendations to congress and the secretary of defense. the panel as you know was created by the national defense authorization act of 2013 on a broad mandate to review and assess the investigation and prosecution and adjudication of sexual assaults in the middle. -- military and in doing so to study civilian systems, compare results and look for effecti

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madam president, it was 12 years ago when i first introduced the dream act. i did it for this young woman. they were about to deport her .rom chicago back to korea she was 18 years old. she did not know any of the country -- any of the country >> she did not know any other country but the united states. she was an excellent pianist. she was about to be deported. i introduced the dream act to help her and hundreds of thousands just like her. this story ends well. , sheinished her education is working on a phd in music, she played in carnegie hall and she married an american and she is a citizen. bettermerica have been a place if she were deported? of course not. the plight of teresa and this bill the dream act became a cause, a national campaign. in the beginning, teenagers used to come up to me in chicago filled with emotion, meet me at my car. i am a dreamer, can you help me? over time, their numbers grew and so did their courage. they stood up as they have so many times and so many places and said, i am willing to fight to be part of america's future. it wa

thank you colleagues. >> thank you madam chiu. madam clerk anything else on the agenda? >> no mr. chair. >> if not the meeting is adjourned. thank you very much. come and experience lafayette park and enjoy the people, picnic and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take an afternoon stroll with your loved one hand in hand. located at got and sacramento street in the middle of pacific heights on top of the city's steep rolling hills, lafayette park offers a great place, peaceful beauty. comfortably spaced tables and benches, a playground, rest rooms and tips at the end of the park. plenty of flat areas for football, frisbee, and picnic. lafayette is very much a couples park. this wonderful hilltop park is the place you can share with someone you cherish. lafayette park is located along the round at the one end campus and also easy >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to s

madam clerk could you call items four and five together? >> yes mr. chair. item four ordinance amending the municipal elections code to specify that it will not have the legal text that exceeds 100 pages. item five amending the elections code that the voter information pamphlet will not include the legal text of any ballot measure that exceeds 20 pages. >> okay. supervisor -- president chiu is here to join us and he will speak on this item. president chiu. >> thank you mr. chair. thank you colleagues for consideration of this item and let me first thank supervisor wiener for his consideration of a very similar item. turns out great minds were thinking alike dealerring with an issue around a inordinately large handbook this year and we will likely to save the city 1.7 million dollars with the proposals that we have and i would like to recognize supervisor wiener's aid that is here and i recognize our colleague is in budget committee and has a conflict today so colleagues the legislation that i have introduced and the legislation that supervisor wiener introdu

reid: madam president, i appreciate your patience and all the staff. i would have come here sooner had i been able to but they were still trying to work on this material so that we could close for the work period we're going to have at home. so the next roll call vote will be at 5:30 p.m. on monday, july 8. and if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until 12:15 p.m. tomorrow, unless the senate receives a message from the house that it has agreed to s. con. res. 19, in which case the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday, july until 2:00 p.m. on monday, july >> my father had a rough childhood himself mother died four days shy his ninth birthday. a small catering company collapsed and he was forced to leave school and go to work. he would work virtually every day for the rest of his life. my mother's father was disabled by polio as a child and struggled to provide for his seven daughter. my parents met at a small store. he act

the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has agreed to s.con.res. 19, providing for a conditional adjournment or recess of the senate in an adjournment of the house of representatives in which the concurrence of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia may resume. mr. barrow: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentleman from massachusetts and ongratulate him on the re-atfication. to which i can add that the next most feared seven words you the -- uttered, please answer the question, yes or no. at this time i'm pleased to recognize the gentleman from new york, mr. tonko. mr. tonko: thank you very much. thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the gentleman from the great state of georgia. it's an honor to lends my voice to that of several of my colleagues as we pay tribute to representative john dingell from the great state of michigan. i am only in my third term in the house of representatives. so i c

i believe it's defense exhibit -- madam clerk, do you have that? oh, i'm sorry. may i approach the witness, your honor? >> yes, you may. >> defense exhibit 17. do you recognize this here? >> yes, sir. >> stand up. >> is defendant's exhibit 17, which is the letter that you wrote to -- actually, you didn't write, you had somebody else write on behalf of you to sabrina fulton, the victim's mother? yes, sir. >> it's confusing because there's two microphones here. you need to speak into that one. do you recognize the letter? >> yes, sir. >> okay. now you had a friend of yours write it, correct? >> yes, sir. >> because you can't write in cursive, correct? >> yes, sir. >> and you also can't read in cursive, correct? >> yes, sir. >> objection. leading. this is redirect. >> i'll try and rephrase it. >> can you read in cursive? can you read cursive? >> no, sir. >> can you write in cursive? >> no, sir. >> you were asked about the friend that wrote that letter, correct? >> yes, sir. >> that's a friend that you asked to write it? >> yes, sir. >> okay. you were also asked abou

i believe it's the defense exhibit -- madam clerk? may i approach? >> yes, you may. >> defense exhibit 17. you recognize this here? >> yes, sir. >> will you stand up and leave? you may proceed. >> defense exhibit 17 which is the letter you wrote to -- actually you didn't write -- you had somebody else write on behalf of you to sybrina fulton, the victim's mother. >> yes, sir. >> okay. and you -- it's confusing because there's two microphones here. you need to speak that that one. do you recognize the letter? >> yes, sir. >> okay. now, you had a friend of yours write it, correct? >> yes, sir. >> because you can't write in cursive, correct? >> yes, sir. >> and you also can't read in cursive, correct? >> yes -- >> objection. this is redirect. >> i'll try to rephrase it. can you read in cursive? can you read cursive? >> no, sir. >> can you write in cursive? >> no, sir. >> you were asked about the friend that wrote that letter, correct? >> yes, sir. >> that's a friend that you asked to write it? >> yes, sir. >> okay. you were also asked about numerous que

is there anything else madam clerk on the agenda? >> there's nothing further. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much this meeting is closed. (clapping) >> are you a parents that's unemployed and struggling to pay child support we have teamed up and positions ourself to offer an opportunity for permanent employment. for more information >>> >>> i'm audrey joseph. the acting chair of the entertainment commission. july will mark the 10th year of the entertainment commission and we as an industry have come a long way. our venues are safer, we have survived the recession, our city has produced an economic impact report that speaks to our value as an industry, we are looking forward to the next economic impact report on daytime events and festival and we continue to improve our permitting process most recently the help of supervisor scott wiener extending limited live permits to d j's. today we are introducing to the best i am practices manual based in security and we are discussing issues that are veflt relevant to us all. the 90s, san

. >> you all soso mentioned that were shown a letter correct i believe it is defense exhibit madam reporter -- may i approach the witness your honor? >> yes, you may. >> defense exhibit 17. >> do you recognize that here. >> yes, i do. >> thank you. >> defendant exhibit 17 which is the letter that you wrote -- actually you didn't write it. you had somebody else write on behalf of you to sabrina fu fullton, the victim's mother. >> yes, sir. >> it is confusing but you need to speak into that one. >> do you recognize the letter? >> yes, sir. >> you had a friend of yours write it correct. >> yes, sir. >> and you can't read in c cursive. >> yes, sir. >> objection leading this is redirect. >> can you read cursive? >> no, sir. >> can you write in cursive? >> no, sir. >> you were asked about the friend that wrote that letter correct? >> yes, sir. >> that's a friend that you asked to write it. >> yes, sir. >> okay. you were also asked about numerous questions about the interview that you gave me, the statement you gave me when i went down to -- in terms of whether an investigate or down in miami is t