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mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: majority leader. mr. mcconnell: this week the senate is continuing to consider president trump's outstanding judicial nominees. yesterday we confirmed a talented individual to be a circuit court judge and soon we'll confirm another. next we will advance the nomination of james ho to be a judge of the fifth circuit court of appeals. mr. ho is another well qualified individual and like all of president trump's judicial nominees, he is dedicated to upholding the rule of law and serving as an impartial arbiter on the bench. similar to justice willett who i discussed yesterday, mr. ho has an inspirational story. immigrating to the united states from taiwan at the age of 1, he learned english by watching "sesame street." he went on to graduate from the university of chicago law school with high honors and earned a clerkship with judge smith of the fifth circuit. in 2001, mr. ho joined the department of justice as a special assistant to the assistant attorney general for civil rights and later worked in the offi

. >> madam president we aresp closing in on a critical decision a lasting impact on innovation and the innovation driven economy in the united states. the chairman of the sec with neutrality a move that is misguided driven by the cable industry to gouge consumers to charge them more to make sure they either pay for have internet lines go down. this has been the essential 21st century innovation to those of bigur corporations instead of making sure main street innovators do what they do w best for total think the american people want cable companies to be the gatekeeper. they want to have the sec continue to play a role to make sure that the open internet is therefore also small businesses and innovators can continue to build and communicating with their consumers and business partners for without having artificially slowed down mines. who does this impact? seniors with tell a health and students from learning slowing down of the education mines families accessing it to usual tools for children and the highway so important to make sure that new internet businesses are started could be i

. >> thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> we are missing a few commission members but we certainly have a quorum and i would like to start today by acknowledged in chairman perez who is here and we are very thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that for his leadership of the democrat national party so we are really glad to be here. >> good morning everyone. thank you. i want to start off by saying thank you for your hard work. this was a very important exercise it was labor-intensive and came to it with an open mind and with a remarkable set of ideas so i want to say thank you to all of you but i want to say particular things tour cochair. we have been meeting regularly rainstorm and regularly and i can't say enough wonderful things about both of you. you have entered this enterprise with a spirit of old passion and a spirit of ingenuity in the spirit that understands this is the most serious test on our nation's democracy perhaps in our history and the work of this co

thank you, madam chair. mr. goldman, in your testimony you mentioned two ways you believe congress can achieve a balanced mr. goldman in your testimony you mentioned two ways you believe congress wan reach a balanced solution, first, websites and secondly by targeting a website's intent to facilitate illegal activities. have you seen mr. goodlatte's amendment to targeting with a specific intent standard? would such a proposal serve that purpose of balance? >> i have seen the proposed legislation. i do think the effort to focus on prostitution i consider superior than the alternatives i've seen. >> i want to again applaud the good work of the senate permanent subcommittee on this investigation because they're bringing details of this in focus. after reading their staff report, it's clear they not only profited from online sex traffic, but backpage.com helped develop content for online traffickers. it's my understanding section 230 does not protect when it develops this way. can you explain for us where the co

. >> thank you, madam chair. i certainly welcome this infrastructure permitting oversight hearing, but i do think it's interesting the "wall street journal" reported this last week and that president trump will roll out and infrastructure plan in january, proposing to undergoing a spending offset by cutting other federal programs. so before we start victory veri just want to remind my colleagues that the tax proposal before us is trying to be jammed through when we could be having this discussion right now about infrastructure investment. we started the year with a lot of conversation between our colleagues, our leader, senator schumer, and speaker ryan, about doing an infrastructure built they got set aside. i just want to make sure that people understand we've been more than willing to talk about our crumbling infrastructure for a long time. so this morning we going to hear about permitting reform which is a good discussion, but we need and infrastructure built that is about funding. i'm proud over the last two

>> madam chair? >> yes. >> i move to amendment number seven. the amendment to page 4, line 13, which the people already have. this is another amendment that expresses the diversity of view with respect to the role of elected officials. the unofficial role of elected officials in the primary process. there was some discussion inside and outside the commission about what that role should be and whether folks should be encouraged to voluntarily bind themselves to whatever electorate elected them. there was some discussion about whether that was an appropriate thing to do to try to get elected officials to binds themselves to their constituents, some felt that it was appropriate, some felt it was not and then some felt that -- i put myself in that category that it would be impractical or impossible to force a gag rule on elected officials. this just mirrors the diversity view on this topic. i'm happy -- i'm happy to read the amendment or someone else can read it. >> we'd like them on paper please. >> i'm

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>> councillor safai: thank you, madam president. yesterday we had an extensive conversation about the situation. i agree with supervisor ronen. there is no debate that this is an emergency situation. it's an ever-evolving, daily emergency. it's not a situation that we can take lightly. but i think we're dealing with two different things. i hear a couple of different things from supervisor kim and i would like to ask her to clarify them. one, there's a concern about community process and input and definition of how some of the space will be used. i think we've had extensive debate about where the office of department homelessness and supportive housing is going to be located. we had that debate about south of market. we've agreed with the budget and legislative analyst recommendations that over $21 million for a lease in that part of town when a building is currently owned, which this body before myself and supervisor ronen and a few others were on this body voted to purchase. we were in that purchase phase. so are we debating about

good afternoon, madam president, members of the board. we can hadid have advanced not where we would have a consolidated hearing, where 15 minutes would be allotted -- >> president breed: so we will start your time, and you can proceed with your presentation. >> okay. great. thank you. thank you. my name's robia crisp. i'm with the law firm of hanson bridgett, and i'm here on behalf of the appellants. they join me here along with their architectural consultant, randy popp, and we will be hearing from them later in this presentation. the -- property line of the project site. the project is for the demolition of an existing single-family home that has been there since 1917. this is a spec development that would demo lish this home and replace it with a four three market rate condominium units and three parking spaces. this is a massive building in size and intensity. there's out of scale with the neighborhood. it extends almost boundary to boundary. it has no front set backs, no side set backs, and required a rear yard set back reduction, s

let's see madame clerk, what's next? item three. please call it. >> item number three, resolution authorizing the general manager of the public utilities commission to execute amendment number two to agreement number cs-109 to continue providing additional engineering service in support of the westside recycled water project, increasing the agreement by $2.5 million for a total not to exceed agreement of $8 million. >> all right. thank you. so, we have -- let's see here. i'm sorry. welcome. the floor is yours. >> good morning. barbara palacio, project manager for the recycled water project. thank you, committee chair and supervisors for allowing us to make today's pregnancy about proposed amendment number two to contract cs-109, specialized engineering services, recycled water projects. the westside recycled water project will produce an annual average 1.6 million gallons per day of high-quality recycled water to be used for irrigation and another nonpotable uses. recycled water will be used to irrigate and fill the lakes in golden

madam president? next speaker, please. >> um, i guess my condolences to the family for ed lee's passing. i guess we're talking about homelessness again and i have to go back to, who is monitoring in the city and county of san francisco the standards of care? i -- i would like some type of answer from city officials. right now, i'm under the impression it's nobody. they don't monitor standards of care. my other problem is, there's been declared a state of emergency regarding homelessness. when you have a state of emergency, it's more intense. i would like to believe that we can get reports as to what jeff kazinski is doing. is he providing more housing or is he living off the coat tails of what was done? i would appreciate if you would start asking some questions. i'm wondering about -- i guess i'm just very, very traumatized because i'm a victim of how the shelters abuse people and get a free pass. the committee doesn't have the tools to properly monitor the shelters. i mean, if a crime happens in a s

and on john elberling, madam clerk? colleagues, can we take that item same house, same call, without objection, the entire motion is adopted unanimously. let's go to items 53 and 54 together. >> clerk: both recommended as amended with new titles. item 53, resolution to authorize the mayor's office of housing and community development on behalf of the city to execute a grant application. the amended part, by striking out grant agreement and related documents under the department of housing and community development, affordable housing and sustainable communities program with 1950 mission street, associates lp, city to assume joint liability in completion of the projects. and item 54 to execute a grant application and amendment to the title again by striking grant agreement and related documents under the department of housing and community development affordable housing and sustainable communities program with 2060 folsom for the project and authorizing the city to assume joint and liability for completion of the project

thank you, madam chair. mr. goldman, in your testimony you mentioned two ways you believe congress can achieve a balanced solution. first by avoiding a patchwork of state laws, which websites would have to comply. and then secondly, by targeting a website's intent to facilitate illegal activities. i wonder if you've seen mr. goodlatte proposed amendment to mrs. wagner's legislation that involves targeting the facilitation of prostitution with a specific intent standard and carving out state criminal laws that would do the same thing? would such a proposal, serve that purpose of balance? mr. goldman: i have seen that proposed legislation and i think the effort to focus on specific intent to facilitate prostitution is a productive way of approaching the issue. i consider it to be superior than the alternatives i have seen. mr. doyle: you know, i want to again applaud the good work of the senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, because they're bringing the details of this issue into focus. after readin

madam director. >> thank you. this item is a continuation of the earlier jun as a reminder the early this year the commission heard on the update on the survey and so you've heard different variations of affordable housing policies and programs so this is just the annual report as it relates to the certificate of preference program and coming back to you in the spring will be the results of the survey and final recommendations to the commission. but this is an inter looed to that so i'll turn it over to pam to lead the discussion and we have maria as well. >> good afternoon chairperson. commissioners, director. i'm pam sims and i'm a senior development specialist for the c.r.p. program and marketing lie a son at ocii and i am here today with maria benjamin director of home ownership for the mayor's office of count economy and delment and sonia m cdonald with the mayor office of housing to pre provide with you an interesting c.o.p. update for fiscal year 16-17. we have have the numbers of c.o. p. hold worse have a

madam clerk. would you please call item six. >> clerk: discussion of possible options for on e obtaining executive officer services for the commission and possible direction of staff. i believe we have a brief presentation from teresa strickler and our attorney is that correct? >> through the chair to the commissioners, angela calvillo. i am the interim officer administrative officer and clerk of the board. at our last meeting, you heard it from teresa stricker our legal council that brought to you an option in your packet today. there was a memo associated to provide you options. in addition to that, since the last meeting we have looked at an alternative to those options which comprise a request for qualifications which would bring to you options of individuals once we said what the mqs or minimum qualifications would be. once they qualified and metropolitan the mqs, then a group of individuals or agency could come before you and you could determine which to choose. you wouldn't be subjected to

roll call vote, madam president? >> supervisor breed: yes. >> the clerk: supervisor cohen, item 30. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> the clerk: supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor fewer, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor peskin, aye. supervisor ronen, aye. supervisor safai, aye. supervisor sheehy, aye. supervisor tang, aye. supervisor yee, aye. supervisor breed, aye. there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor breed: the ordinance passes on the first reading. >> the clerk: the motion is for the delivery of software services and hosting for an electronic record for a ten-year term >> supervisor breed: without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. next item. >> the clerk: item 32 a resolution to retroactively to enter into a contract incorporating the mental health services act projects for assistance and transition from homelessness and the community mental health services grant for the period of july 1, 2017 through june 30, 2018. >> supervisor breed: without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. next

so i want to thank congresswoman -- madam chair of the hispanic caucus -- congressional hispanic caucus and her members. i want to thank judy chu, the chair of the congressional asian pacific american caucus. congresswoman yvette clarke who, working with the congressional black caucus has been a champion in that caucus, and all other members on both sides of the aisle who are striving to find a path and one path that we have open to us is to allow to defeat this rule, to allow the dream act to come up, and to put that in the mix as we go -- as we go forward. again this isn't an issue, this isn't a bill, it's a value. it's a value. that's the conversation we had with president trump this isn't an issue. this is a value.

roll call vote, madam president? >> supervisor breed: yes. >> the clerk: supervisor cohen, item 30. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> the clerk: supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor fewer, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor peskin, aye. supervisor ronen, aye. supervisor safai, aye. supervisor sheehy, aye. supervisor tang, aye. supervisor yee, aye. supervisor breed, aye. there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor breed: the ordinance passes on the first reading. >> the clerk: the motion is for the delivery of software services and hosting for an electronic record for a ten-year

thank you, madam chair. i want to thank the witnesses for participating and protecting our nation's vulnerable population. i and currents -- encourage tampa residents to investigate on facebook or twitter to learn more about what th trinity is doing to combat these predators. -- what the community is doing to combat these predators. you for yourank courage in terms of having this hearing and i want to commend initiative onour this matter. [indiscernible] .o this nation when we see from a different , [indiscernible] in this crime. it seems as though there is [indiscernible] there is child marriage. can you speak to this issue? i have some legislation [indiscernible] that relates to child marriages. so many different standards state-by-state. it is hard to find a common standard for this legislation. can you respond, anybody? >> i am getting older and hard of hearing so i may have missed some parts of that. you were asking about child marriage. >> i am asking about child marriage. >> and trafficking. we have h

senator turner. >> thank you, madam chair. and just on the those points even though it significantly reduces the number of super delegates, it is still my opinion that this party needs to work to abolish a two-tier system that this sets up between the grass roots and the party faithfuls and those who have titles, fancy titles, to make those titles more important than the grass roots. so respecting those titled folks because i'm one of them, but i don't think the democratic party should be in the business of setting up a two-tier system. all of those super delegates should be treated exactly the same. it does reduce the number, but it does create a two-tier system. and most of the grass roots are a diverse group in terms of ethnicity and gender, more diverse, the group that's bound than the group that is not bound. [ applause ] >> additional discussion? >> i just have a clarifying question. if there is a democratic member of congress, governor or distinguished party leader that is also a state chair or one of these other bound