will be collecting information, and then your work isp provider, whoever's providing broadband service at the office, will also potentially collect some information. but this is a much more fragmented universe with much of the data encrypted so the isp can't see it anyway. >> guest: that particular study has been disputed by a number of people recently. i think about 65 president -- 65% of the data right now is unencrypted, and that's talking about the content that's going on every over. but what's just as significant and just as revealing is the information of what site you went to and how long you were there and sort of tracking, you know, types of sites that you visit and then having ads targeted on the basis of that sort of information. it is correct that the current rules that apply to common carriers were from the world of telephones, and they aren't adequate and really don't correctly categorize the kinds of information that should come under the fc privacy rules with broadband access providers. and that's what this rulemaking is all about. it's trying to figure out, you know, w

last year we provided 900,000 producers. totalingc payments $5.2 billion. we expect that amount to increase this year to provide the necessary bridge to better times. at the same time we will make sure we create more innovation and opportunity in rural america. the budget will support 55,000 new jobs added to the 450,000 jobs we have saved or created as a result of investments in over 100,000 businesses in the last seven years. this budget will finance 167,000 home loans, which allows us to exceed one million home loans in the last seven years. finance nearly 1000 community facilities. provide safer and better water for 1.7 million rural americans, which will reach nearly 20 million rural americans who have benefited from over 5000 water and wastewater projects financed by the usda since i was secretary. it's a threefold increase in broadband grants. there are a multitude of reasons for business, farmers, and potential expansion of distance learning and telemedicine which will become critically important in rural america if we make sure our youngsters are p

so i understand that it does provide deadlines for certain types of funding to be provided to tribes. i think generally, we're supportive of deadlines. so i would like to talk more with my colleagues at the department of agriculture and circle back with my staff on questions that we might have. >> we saw some very clear examples of proper forest treatment management to stop from spreading but wildfires are not a respecter of boundaries. that interface is very important, so what i'd like is to get your commitment to work with me and the usda to address these tribal forests. >> absolutely. >> thank you mr. chairman and vice chairman for letting me go first. you know, i think when we usually do these hearings and other committees, there is one agency sitting in front of us who we can hold accountable for outcomes. one of our great challenges is the siloing of services for the tribes, whether it's health care with ihs, which is really hhs, whether it is housing or hud, whether it is all of the issues that fall in all of the above with the department of interior and obviously the departmen

we need to train people and it is my understanding that it is a provider issue. >> it is a huge provider issue. >> how do we envelope more surgeons. >> i can have row land come and respond to that. roland is doing the business plan on that and looking at how many people do we have seeking the services. >> we knew that you would ask that question and it has been a pleasure to work with the group from the beginning in 2013. and to see where the program has come from and where it is going. so, as julie mentioned. we have already, worked with our colleagues at ucsf, and to actually put together, what will it take to begin to. as we prepare to move into a new hospital we will have three additional operating rooms. and so it is also going to record, additional surgeons. >> thank you for the presentation, i just have a question because i don't know, so i am asking. this data around satisfaction and timely access, quality of life. do we have national data to bench mark against? >> no, we are so far ahead, that we don't have it that is public health and international there is some data. >> it wou

provides service through an app without any need for an mvpd-provided piece of equipment, they have to provide the information in a way that will enable someone else to write an app that also won't require a piece of mvpd equipment. so it's a matter of making sure an app developed by an independent app developer will provide service on an equal basis to one offered by the mvpd. >> okay. thank you. >> just to clarify, if they don't have an app of their own, they don't have to provide access to app developers? >> they have to provide the free information flows. this goes to the question of whether we're being a box provided by the mvpd, we are not. an mvpd may choose to implement these requirements in a way that requires a device but that's up to the mvpd. they could also do it entirely in the software and the cloud. what we're saying is if they do choose to provide service through an app without a piece of equipment provided, they have to make that capability also available to competitive manufacturers. >> is this on? can you provide a sense of when the item will be out and also more

and then your work isp provider will be providing broadband service at the office will potentially collect some information. but this is a much more fragmented universe with much of the data encrypted anyway. >> that has been disputed by a number of people recently. i think it's about 65% of the data is unencrypted. that is talking about the content of what is just as significant and revealing and it is the information of what site you went to and how long you were there and sort of tracking the types of sites that you visit and then having targeted those on the basis of that information. it is correct that the current rules were from the world of telephones and they were not adequate and they really do not correctly categorize the kinds of information that should come under the privacy rule is with broadband access providers and that is what this rulemaking is all about. trying to figure out which things, what is known as cpni, customer proprietary network information, the data of someone plugging into your network. the idea is that you should not be able to use that data for purposes oth

uhr and it is a safety, issue, when the provider, works in the hospitals as most of the doctors do is treating a stroke, patient in the emergency, department and when the minutes mean brain cells, any delay, brought by the infa familiarity is unacceptable, and when the doctor follows a patient in the outpatient, clinic it is at a different hospital that day and they need to be able to seamlessly, access the patient's medical record from off site. and it is a mission, issue. the it is a special place and the link, will insure that the patients are at the center of our commitments to the patient care, and medical education and, research. on behalf of the service, and medical staff, i urge you to support this ordinance. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning. i am neil and a physician and a chief of medicine. and we are the largest department and we take care of people in this city, with heart attacks and diabetes and high blood pressure and hiv. if you have an iphone, imagine if you were forced to use an android this month and an ifor enin april and android in april a

and 13 were provided. what was the cause of that cancellation? was it because of in the past, previous years, it seems like the number of classes that were available were limited to how many trainers you had. so, it was consolation due to not having enough trainers? >> but in the case of cancellation, i think that it was related and it was a resource, constraint, related to the number of trainers, and so part of what we have been doing over the last several years and working on the staffing level. so he that that, and there has been a substantial investment that we have made in getting the right number of trainers and getting the new management in the training program. but the cancellation and in this particular case was due to absence of trainers, and we have, and excess of training demands. >> and have we ever, missed or sorry, have we ever, cancelled a training due to not finding a space? >> no, we have, as the our response indicates, and last year, all 13 classes potential classes were adjusted, and sometimes, multiple times, due to the limit

thank you very much thank you to staff for this project this is i've frequented flax providing hobby i didn't see and crafts so appreciate you guys were able to relocation to oakland i have a couple of questions i'm confused this project documents that we got they're paying the fees not providing this onsite which one are we are doing today. >> so this was a last minute change that outdoor within the staff report was released the project is going to be provide the affordable housing onsite and we were able to coats the costa-hawkins executed by the city attorney's office. >> that was informed represented in the materials correct. >> that's correct. >> the materials at the point the staff report the project sponsor had informed the department they'll pay the affordable housing between that time and today things chang's changed. >> okay. thank you very much i think this is a good project i know that i've heard the public comment and on parking, on retail space in terms of of the macopen street is the great practices for the cars to come out i appreciate the ratio was reduced to what is

however, we have been providing and are leaving here to provide technical assistance and resources for families of elementary school students. we have more and more children entering the district with families are advoivating for them as gender variant, transgender, whatever the term the family uses we work with them to address that. >> what happens if let's say a 5th grader in elementary school talking to a teacher or a administrator in school and expresss he or she is gender non conforming in some way or transgender, whatever the terminology a 5th grader might use, what would-how would the school be expected to respond to that? >> well, what we have found is our kindergartners are very articulate around their gender vocabulary when it comes to their identity. usually if a young person is speak ing to a administrator he or she is very clear on how they may identify. administrator will often times connect with the scoom social worker or school nurse. every school has a social worker and 39 percent have a school district nurse. that may be the first point of contact then the calls comes

so what can you tell me in terms of your willingness to provide this flexibility? i know you're doing an inner agency analysis or study, i think is the right term for it but what can you do to get this fixed? >> as you know, the congress made the decision to do a county program as opposed to an individual program and probably did that because of the cost of the individual program and the need to generate savings in the overall program. so we obviously have to deal with the county program and have some kind of process by which we can try to treat as many of the several thousand counties we're dealing with as fairly as we can. we've come up with the proposal from the outline you addressed. if there are inadequate numbers of surveys, we ought to be focussing on making sure we get farmers to respond so we have adequate information. if we don't, we go to rma information. if we are not satisfied that that's an appropriate enough or correct, then we have empowered our state committees to basically take a look and provide some direction. so we think we have some degree of

however, we have been providing and are leaving here to provide technical assistance and resources for families of elementary school students. we have more and more children entering the district with families are advoivating for them as gender variant, transgender, whatever the term the family uses we work with them to address that. >> what happens if let's say a 5th grader in elementary school talking to a teacher or a administrator in school and expresss he or she is gender non conforming in some way or transgender, whatever the terminology a 5th grader might use, what would-how would the school be expected to respond to that? >> well, what we have found is our kindergartners are very articulate around their gender vocabulary when it comes to their identity. usually if a young person is speak ing to a administrator he or she is very clear on how they may identify. administrator will often times connect with the scoom social worker or school nurse. every school has a social worker and 39 percent have a school district nurse. that may be the first point of contact then the calls comes

and the second is to provide for the common defense. now, there are other elements listed, but that is part of the essence of any government, to ensure domestic tranquillity and provide for the common defense. in other words, keep us safe. that's what government is all about. but be the on the other hand, the bill of rights, and particularly the fourth amendment, makes it clear that there are limitations on government's power in whatever area. the fourth amendment says the right of the people to be secure in their papers, in their houses, in their effects shall not be violated. that no unreasonable searches and seizures. those two provisions are intention, and they have been since the founding of the republic. and the role of the intelligence committee and this body, it seems to me, is to constantly recalibrate the balance between those two provisions based upon the threats our country faces and the developments of technology. and that's really what this discussion is about and has been brought into sharp focus in the last two weeks by

if you are going to focus lifeline on broadband, you will need providers primarily providing broadband. i think there's been a lot of attention paid to how to bring in these providers into the lifeline program in a way that ensures consumers are still getting treated fairly and have access to a substantial service. >> host: something one cable provider as a condition of the comcast-nbc merger, comcast has been offering internet essentials program, which is a basic broadband service for families with children on the school lunch program. in addition to get in on the program in some debate in academia about as simple as spam. it is not their and provides at least a model with an day that with an data weekend have to figure out how successful -- how it may successfully well decide to cable broadband as well. >> host: daniel lyons, what is the pushback from the fcc from the commissions? >> part of it is simply justifying figures we throw out now. as i understand it, the proposal is to add a budget to increase 50% above what lifeline currently has. i think it's 1.5, 1.6 billion going forwar

provider. importantly for what i want to talk about today, if you are a veteran who lives more than 40 miles from a v.a. facility, then you can at your request have those services provided by a local, a hometown physician, admitted to a hometown hospital, be treated by your local chiropractor. all of those things make a lot of sense to the veterans from where i come from. in addition to providing quality and timely services for those who live in rural places, part of the theory -- and i think rightfully so -- in passage of the choice act was to give -- lift a bit of the burden of the v.a. off the v.a. it has been difficult for them to have the necessary health care providers, to meet the needs of veterans and so if we can provide services in the community, we're also speeding up the process by which a veteran who still goes to the v.a. hospital or still goes to a v.a. clinic gets services in a more timely and effective way. this past july congress passed legislation to amend that choice act, an

you can ask the incumbent internet providers that question. it seems there needs to be a third peat in many cities that comes in and builds a fiberoptic network. >> none of our cities really want to do this work. it's hard, scary, risky. if they are doing it it is because they have no alternatives. >> the success of a high speed internationa internet system depends on the city. chattanooga began to see a return after 19 months. >> provo utah, or burlington, vermont, taxpayer money was at risk, these systems went bankrupt and the systems were not sustainable. >> jim baylor says most cities don't fail. >> by the time a project goes through, every number, every theory, every assumption will be tested in the marketplace. we've seen very few projects that fail, for lack of consideration. >> a large part of the expense comes from installing fiber which can be attached to telephone lines or buried underground like google fiber is doing. >> i anticipated when google came to town the game would change and there would be lot more competitors willing to

help provide the tools you are subject to. when we find people have over stepped the laws that ally to us we have a investigative function. one question we get is where on r the standards we all have to live under, where are they expressed. as you know the state in 1974 passed a political reformant act and that set standard for government officials up and down the state from large to small cities so it is the foundation for our work. that is built upon by city law. the voters in san francisco are active and supportive having strong and extensiveictics laws so we have a campaign and governmental conduct code which has a lot of provisions we help folks understand and comply with. we [inaudible] sunshine ordinance and departments in the city have statements of incompatible activities sethese are laws public servants have subject to. the port has its own statement of incompatible activities. in termoffs the information and education role that we play recollect, there are a number of disclosure rirenlts that applyment we have forms

what blackwater, what erik prince provides -- on one hand, he is not wrong. they are very effective, very efficient, i should say, in providing the services they offer, but the question is without accountability, transparency, what do they get away with? when things go wrong, what is the recourse? has shownwater historically is there is very little recourse for when things go wrong. so, it is a very, very dangerous weapon or two will, if you will, to have erik prince, or have a mercenary organization operating. what he has done now by leaving the u.s. government and going and doing it on his own, he has separated -- there is even less connection between accountability and transparency because he is offering his services directly to foreign countries. when things go wrong or when they want to hide, it did not happen. plausible deniability is a lot of what happens when governments deny his services. obviously the united states has a complicated relationship with china, but one of the things going on, at least on the defense side, whether it is cyber war, pacifi

it provides flexibility. we have always worried on the democratic side that once you block grant programs that you'll then eliminate them. guess what? that's what you've done with social services block grant. your proposals on the ways and means committee will hit child tax credits for like three million kids from working families. so that's, i guess, the price that was paid in the republican caucus to even gather here this morning. now let's look at this budget before us right now. as i said, it doesn't close a single tax break to reduce the deficit, right? if you're a hedge fund manager, you continue to get a better tax rate than school bus drivers and people working out there everyday. doesn't touch corporate jets corporate tax break. doesn't deal with the issue of american corporations that are moving their address overseas to escape the responsibilities here at home. doesn't touch them to reduce the deficit. who does it come after? it cuts medicaid by a trillion dollars. two-thirds of that goes to senior

did you provide those documents to us? ? i can't out of context here place individual documents over the last several years. >> i'm talking about the documents -- >> we've been very responsive to your requests. we've gotten tens of thousands of pages of documents. and if there are particular ones you're looking for -- >> director cordray, i love -- you can send me tens of thousands. you can send me tens of millions of documents. if you don't send me the ones that i ask for, just like hillary clinton can send thousands of e-mails but if you don't send the ten that are relevant -- >> sure. >> if you want to talk about recordings in watergate, you can send hours of recordings, days of recordings but if you miss a few minutes it's those that are relevant. >> we continue to work with you on those responses. we'd be glad to continue to work with you -- >> i know you know what i'm talking about with regard to this report. and you know you didn't send us these documents. and even after this report came out we've again asked you for

and in the new york case, to provide assistance that has provided hundreds of times before. we were not asking them to break encryption. we are not asking them to weaken encryption. we are asking them to provide a way to remove a password blocker from the san bernardino phone so the government can try and obtain access to that phone as we feel is our obligation to do. we do not want to retain or possess anything that they may create in order to help us in that. it would remain with apple. with respect to the new york cases, i mentioned we are asking apple to essentially comply with a court order as it has done literally hundreds of times before on those older model phones in which encryption is not the issue at all. senator grassley: senator leahy. senator leahy: thank you. madam attorney general, i read something the other day where an immigration judge at the justice department said that 3-year-old children can be taught immigration law and represent themselves in court without a lawyer. i assumed at first that was a misprint. and then i thought he actually said it. i have

so as we look forward for any authorities, for me it has to be something that provides that level of trust. so that we can actually use it, because if you don't have that it just creates more controversy and what you'll find is that our employees will shy away from those versus to use different authorities. so that's i think our challenge as we go forward. once again, i think with the work from the 2014 farm bill, the insect and disease designations, those authorities are proving to be very helpful and we're implementing those now. >> thank you. thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, madam chair. in recent years the forest service budget has been dominated by one thing, the cost of fighting wildfires. two decades ago, the forest service spent about 17% of its budget on fighting fires. this year, firefighting will eat up nearly half of the agency's budget plus an additional $800 million that's been separately proposed for disaster funding. in large part the costs have increased because the number and intensity of fires has increased. fire season now lasts about two and a half months lo

beginning to pick up there along providence road. looking live i-77 inbound from lake norman, mile marker 22, seeing a few back-ups beginning to build, rock hill uptown, 21 minutes, concord to center city, 17 minute, lake norman, southbound, 16 minutes, 62 miles an hour, quick check of the overall map here beginning to see a few slow downs 74, independence boulevard over that is a check of the morning commute, you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> christine: today is primary day in north carolina, polls just opened for voters to cast ballot in campaign 2016. we know the presidential primaries are the big talker but there are a few other races to watch impacting other state. governor pat mccrory is looking to win the republican gubernatorial primary against north carolina state representative robert brawley of mooresville. in the democratic gubernatorial primary, north carolina attorney general roy cooper faces off against durham native ken spaulding. voters will decide the se

that they have hired an set up to provide these services. i understand the distinction between -- yes, you can do it you want, but you can')t compel other people to take action that are consistent with your religious beliefs. that is not what is going on here. it is the relationship between the insurer, the little sisters that they have hired or other administrators, that is being used by the government to provide these services. it is not just a third-party that is being compelled. it is not just that they want third-party to take certain actions. mr. verrilli: i agree with you to some extent, but that is the context that this action occurs. there is this relationship between the sisters and their employees and the occasion for government acting. there are two point that are critical as to why we should not consider this a burden. the first is that what we are doing, when we act here, is trying to make an alternative arrangement about as close as we can to ensuring that the employees who may not share the same boys at the petitioners, get w

imre schein and i am an abortion provider. i performed my first abortion as a routine procedure in 1980. during my internship at new york's bellevue hospital. professors, my mentors remembered wards filled with injured and infected women in the many women who died before abortion was legal and available. we must not forget their stories or their lives and we must remember, women will seek abortion even when it is illegal. abortion is medical, not political. abortion is medical, not political! >> my name is brenda perl and i am an activist. i'm an african-american and i am a woman. i'm a student from ohio. i am here to share my story. in the summer of 2014, i became pregnant. i was planning to continue my studies that fall. having a baby at that time in my life would have the real my plans and goals. i had just enough money for books with not a cent more. front had a life path in become a path i longed to follow. for that reason, i chose to have an abortion. it was one of the hardest decisions i ever made, but in the end, it wa

now, often these small internet service providers provide service to areas of the country that are rural, very rural, remote, or may not be as easy to serve or provide competitive options to customers, to consumers, of larger i.s.p.'s. we should be making all efforts to promote the viability of these upstarts, these businesses, these small entrepreneurs that are trying to fill the gaps, serve and compete in these this very competitive marketplace -- in this very competitive marketplace. we shouldn't be saddling them with additional requirements designed to snuff them out basically. and that would make it more difficult for them to do the business that they want to participate in. while there was some initial disagreements about how to ease some of these regulatory burdens, mr. chairman, representative loebsack and i were able to come to a compromise through some very serious negotiations. worked out well. legislative process. we both agreed there's a problem, we said, ok, i don't really like this number, what about that number, we said, we kept a focus on the mission and on the goal, whi

but it's an authorization bill, and that does not provide funding. so if we support making the changes in the law that are included in the cara bill, we should also provide -- we should also support providing emergency funding to those same programs. to all my colleagues in this body, we know that doing the same thing is not working. every year, more and more people are dying from drug use. congress needs to rise to this challenge, just like it has in so many previous public health emergencies. because, make no mistake about it, this is a public health emergency. and we've had a history of providing supplemental funding to address those public health emergencies. in 2009, congress appropriated $2 billion in emergency funding to fight swine flu. that's a bill that passed the senate 91-5. many of us who voted for that are still in this body. and just last year, congress approved $5.4 billion to combat the ebola outbreak. that's an outbreak in that kild just one person in the united states. compare that to the 47,000 people that we lost in 2014 to drug

we need to train people and it is my understanding that it is a provider issue. >> it is a huge provider issue. >> how do we envelope more surgeons. >> i can have row land come and respond to that. roland is doing the business plan on that and looking at how many people do we have seeking the services. >> we knew that you would ask that question and it has been a pleasure to work with the group from the beginning in 2013. and to see where the program has come from and where it is going. so, as julie mentioned. we have already, worked with our colleagues at ucsf, and to actually put together, what will it take to begin to. as we prepare to move into a new hospital we will have three additional operating rooms. and so it is also going to record, additional surgeons. >> thank you for the presentation, i just have a question because i don't know, so i am asking. this data around satisfaction and timely access, quality of life. do we have national data to bench mark against? >> no, we are so far ahead, that we don't have it that is public health and international there is some data. >> it wou

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can provide and support to the embassy. there will be continued engagement that occurs later this year with our embassy and personnel and partners. pushing down to the lower right hand side we also have the opportunity to create a special-purpose magtf plan. this is rotational force, continuity is for essentially being able to maintain the efficiencies that we able to gain to provide that to our follow on herself so they're able to continue on. next slide, please. bilateral role. throughout our entire rotation the conducted 62 bilateral events in four countries. spain, france, uk and portugal. the bilateral engagements allow us the ability to sustain trained, we can access, capabilities and proficiency and currency. training consists of live fire maneuvers, aviation sustainment defense and enable the readiness of the entire deployment. next slide, please. theater security cooperation rollup. this includes 17 teams from 10 different countries. this slide attempts to capture the operational reach of the spmagtf antidote to op

basically to provide tribes and individuals. they can access those programs in say head has a program but. >> i will refine the question is it for the physical site for all internet? >> it is all internet at this point. >> that is a lot ms me one hell of a site. >> very tough but with a number of agencies in indian country there is quite a of a bit of data. >> no doubt. broad base and is pretty seditious so are we building something they will not have access to? >> i think it is a great idea. but if they don't have internet how'd they access the web site? >> with additional broad base and access to there is increases. and held think this needs a the highest capabilities. but that is the one sought to identify those problems. i take it is well worth the small investment. >> iran it talks about existing tribes. end to update those. hot -- i think it is a great idea but the next question would be do you have the infrastructure to do this? >> we have a great team. digest on how the details right now. >> this is one of the programs i

provide input. we wanted community input but we also utilize our staff netscape architects and arborists to provide selections based on the climatic conditions out on the site as well as existing documents a commercial corridor. that's obviously a big factor in the decision. after the public meetings i personally attended, 5 different meetings with different neighborhood groups, mostly with the outer sunset merchant professional association that will provide updates. since the final public meeting of february 20 14th and our team was working on design documentation construction documents and that's why the one congressional public meanings but i try to console data by meeting with merchants and also a couple of those meetings the mid-sunset neighborhood association was present along with the sunset residents association. did you request from the sunset residents association, i met separately with them in the mid-sunset neighborhood association, to review some concerns they had including the palms. o

provides service through an app without any need for an mvpd-provided piece of equipment, they have to provide the information in a way that will enable someone else to write an app that also won't require a piece of mvpd equipment. so it's a matter of making sure an app developed by an independent app developer will provide service on an equal basis to one offered by the mvpd. >> okay. thank you. >> just to clarify, if they don't have an app of their own, they don't have to provide access to app developers? >> they hto

if they go without any need of a provided piece of equipment, they have to provide the information in a way that enables someone else to write an app. it's a matter of making that to provide service for someone. >> they do have to provide the information flows. >> we are not. that requires a device, but that's up to the mvp d. they can do it in the software or the cloud. that's without to make it available to competitive manufacturers. >> can you provide a sense of when the item will be out and more details on the two-year adoption period discussed? >> what was the second part? >> more details on the period. >> yes, the item we hope that will be released today. the goal is to get it out. we acknowledged the activity that needs to be undertaken by the industry in order to provide all the standards that are necessary to implement this and we think that two years is an ample time for that. we think they will expect them to comply within that approximate period. >> if an mvp d can make their content available via the open standard by using another piece of equipment if they so choose, are

each providing expertise and resources. however, of the past few years, funding for the lead has a control and healthy homes programs has been flat funded at $110 million with $83 million for lead hazard control grants and 25 million for the healthy homes program respectively. down from $140 million just five years ago. and we know the job has not been done. with millions of american homes still containing lead based paint, i'm concerned your budget just does not address the serious need. are the resources that have been provided in this bill such fishant to fund the need for this program? for instance, how many grant applicants are turned away due to the lack of funding? how does the department pry prioritize who receives these grants? and what other sources of funds are available to remove lead paint from homes? >> thank you very much for your focus on this miss lowey. what happened in flint was a shame. at the same time, we know this administration has marshalled a lot of resources to try and do what we can to address th

provide input. we wanted community input but we also utilize our staff netscape architects and arborists to provide selections based on the climatic conditions out on the site as well as existing documents a commercial corridor. that's obviously a big factor in the decision. after the public meetings i personally attended, 5 different meetings with different neighborhood groups, mostly with the outer sunset merchant professional association that will provide updates. since the final public meeting of february 20 14th and our team was working on design documentation construction documents and that's why the one congressional public meanings but i try to console data by meeting with merchants and also a couple of those meetings the mid-sunset neighborhood association was present along with the sunset residents association. did you request from the sunset residents association, i met separately with them in the mid-sunset neighborhood association, to review some concerns they had including the palms. o

scramble to provide coverage. over the last nine months. our subcommittee has carefully investigated these failures. we wanted to know whether hhs when it played the role of investor made good or bad decisions with taxpayer money. unfortunately, what we found out is that a lot of bad decisions were made. in a majority staff report released today. we detail those findings. this report is here and you all should have it. we detail findings that hhs was aware of serious problems concerning the failed co-ops enrollment strategies. before the department ever approved the initial loans. once the co-ops got going in 2017, things got going in a hurry. the failed co-ops ultimately wracked up $376 million in losses in 2014. more than a billion dollars in losses in 2015. despite getting regular reports that co-ops were hemorrhaging cash, hhs took no corrective action for over a year. worst department approved additional loan awards to three of the now failed co-ops. this happened in 2014. this was despite clear warnings that

many providers will not ask risk factors with patients. they don't have the time to do it or it is a sensitive issue. >> reporter: when gaye wheeler was diagnosed as part of the hep c elimination program, she told a nurse she was worried about the treatment. friends -- and a close male relative -- had experienced debilitating side effects like fatigue and depression. >> i said, what medication am i going to have to take? and she said wl there's new medications. and i was like, okay. but you know in my own mind after i hung up, i thought, wow, is this going to be like what he had to go through? >> reporter: in addition to those side effects, the main drugs used to treat hep c until a few years ago, interferon and ribavirin, cured hep c only about half the time. and many patients had other medical conditions that prevented them from taking those drugs. >> when i was treating patients in the interferon era, i could treat 10% of the patients, roughly 10% of the patients that came to my office with hepatitis c. best case scenario i could cure,

supply, it would also provide the stock to grow our industry and all of that. will the prime minister looked into this appalling opportunity and urgently change course and develop a meaningful industrial energy structure their british industry workers and playing it so badly needs? >> i will certainly look at the kc raises because we back all energy projects that create jobs and growth in our country. we have the very act of industrial strategy for that. i know he's disappointed, but i was say that is an extra billion pound capital investment and even after that, there is no sign yet that carbon capture and storage can be even close to competitive to nuclear power or offshore wind. look carefully at the kc mentions. >> prichard batman. >> a large proportion of the fish cockfight reddish vessels landed in the u.k. are exported to e.u. countries. a great many of our fishermen of the european countries in a reformed regime led by the british government. does my right honorable friend agree that those that exploit them in the communities they support are better off

for coal communities, to provide for coal workers, to provide for carbon recovery and to provide for retirees burdened with unfunded pension obligations. mr. president, i have put a ladder into the water, and i urge the coal industry before it goes under to grab hold. i yield the floor. mr. peters: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. peters: mr. president, our nation's founders fought the british empire to create an independent nation governed by laws. they fought so that their children could be free from the callous fiats of a monarchy on the other side of the ocean. our founders learned from the excesses and mistakes of european powers and came together to design a new system of government. a carefully balanced system, one of distributed powers and responsibilities, checks and balances. american school children learned about the three co-equal branches of government and the unique roles that they play in maintaining that carefully crafted balance of power. a strong, independent and fully functioning judiciary is inseparable from a peelt american dem

but we could provide you with our most recent set of construction plans and budgets and provide some additional -- >> i don't need to see the plans. i trust you on that, but the numbers -- >> i meant budget plans. >> thank you. >> senator murphy? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you for being here, once again. i appreciate senator perdue's conversation about what we can afford to do within the limited resources we have to spend. listen, i would pose the opposite question. i think we have to ask our question, how we can afford not to make these investments, especially when you put u.s. foreign aid, international development funding in the context of what our competitor nations are spending themselves. over the last ten years alone, the chinese have increased their foreign aid by a factor of seven at a time when our foreign aid has been largely flat. we are looking at a budget that is frankly $2 billion less than fy-'10 enacted numbers. the chinese have increased their spending by a factor of seven. in egypt, a lot of commotion about turning on $2.3 billion in u.s. military

. >> thank you very much you thank you very much madam chair that is nearly crafted to provide a path for the record forwarding for the second story bar used to be legal it under the planning code in the upper market market transit zoning district the legislations was considered and supported newsom by the planning commission by the upper castro merchant at debois triangle association it is for upper market instead is provides a conditional use pathway for existing spaces within an external stairway for the pathway to move forward i ask for your support address the planning department is here if there are any questions and - >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor scott wiener i'm here to report that was recorded and recommended unanimously for so forth i'm available to answer any questions. >> thank you seeing none, no questions on the board on the committee let's see if we have missing minute that want to speak public comment is for which ever you'll have 2 minutes a psychologist chime for 30 seconds left seeing none, public comment is closed. >> madam chair. >> are you comi

daniel: at least one cable provider is sort of in this business already. as a result of a condition with comcast-nbc nbc -- merger, there has been a program for familiesadband with children on the school lunch program. there are conditions to get on the program, and there is debate on how successful it has been, but it is out there and at least one company has supported it, so it provides a model to figure out how we might successfully roll us out to cable broadband as well. what is the pushback from the fcc from the republican commissioners? daniel: part of it is justifying the figures we are throwing out now. as i understand it, the proposal has added budget to lifeline, but to increase in 15%. i think it is 1.5 billion, or what -- 1.5 sit -- i think they are proposing $2.2 billion going forward. it is not clear what is driving the 50%, whether than 25% or whatever, and it is not clear what will happen if the fcc had sacral. is it asoft budget -- soft budget, or something we should aspire to? it once we have the reform, means that the universal service f

housing providers network. we represent the front lines of the city's struggle to address homelessness. as service providers and advocacy organizations we see the barriers first hand that homeless people face and the gaps in our system of care. the mayor's vision presents opportunities to expand services that are doing well and create change in areas that are not. during comment today we didn't present a full presentation but you heard many of the recommendations particularly relevant to the navigation center. we offer this in the spirit of partnership and in working together for a better system that can serve as a model for the nation and i have copies of the paper for you today. we hope you review it and carefully consider the recommendations. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public comment that wish to speak? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] i do want to thank everyone for attending today both from the staff's perspective as well as all of the members of the

it provided us a platform for community service. and we had in our first year over 3,000 people walk into the boutique and 75% of them heard about the services that miatri offers for the first time. it was a good way to reach out to the community. >> you have a show coming up in april. >> that's right. we have a trunk show in april. we're going to feature designer jewelry. so we -- monthly by monthly we always host an artist or designer and they come to the boutique and, you know, they showcase their jewelry or their clothes and their artwork. and it's a great way to get them involved. >> it covers a broad spectrum of services. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you so much. >> congratulations on being a grant recipient. >> thank you. >>> next, a group trying to help those who want to help others through helping entrepreneurs. telling us how they do it after this break. asia-pacific america joins a long list of groups praising the work of tum l which states the mission of empowering entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. t

it will provide them this identity that is so powerful. and you have to understand islamic ideology, which is paradise. they are promising you an after life. so if your life on earth doesn't have future, if you are in a job that doesn't -- for example, there is no up word economic mobility, you don't feel that you belong to the society in which you have lived, and i have met muslims like this who express this sentiments. >> can that message be combatted with other scripture and is that the best way to counter message with other interpretations of islamic text? >> absolutely. islam has -- for the majority of muslims, islam is the religion of peace, compassion, and mercy, and civic responsibility. so muslims should actually -- in the -- you know, i use the term credible voices. there needs to be a number of credible voices within the islamic communities in america and europe and world wide that promotes this idea of civic leadership and civic responsibility so they become more engaged in their communities. >> she says that the promise of par

while we were out in the rain providing medical care, therapy is a -- our staff provided for kids drenched. they had no -- they had to go back in the park and sleep outdoors in wet clothes. this is a state of emergency. one final thing i want to mention, supervisor campos, you mentioned there's several buildings that the city owns that could be used as navigation centers. some are in golden gate park including the emergency aides station. from what i can tell, it's not being used for anything. sorry, i'm out of time but -- pushing services out of the neighborhood doesn't work. the mayor needs to come in here, use his power to turn them into building that's can be used for sustainable life saving services which is so severe neglected. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello supervise, campos and kim and yee. those who know me know that i talk with and care about basically everybody in this city. i work in the tender loin. i stop and have conversations with people much it's important to tell you a story from monday about my friend who i'm going to call jeremy here. i met jar knee a year or two

green street last long provided services, shelter, and food, to the homeless. but according to deacon caleb pickering, with laws criminalizing sleeping in public spaces it was time to do more. >> somebody that had been here a good bit needed a safer place to camp so they asked if they could set up a tent behind that. >> behind that storage thing? >> storage container. >> what started as one tent quickly became 30 and the sanctuary was born. a few years later reverend jeff carr stumbled upon the green street church. >> i see this fence it says the sanctuary and i says what is that? i got out of my car and i saw a yard full of tents and i said wow this is it. >> carr says he knew he was meant to partner with green street to fulfill a dream born out of personal experience. the loss of his home during the mortgage crisis. >> my mother-in-law let us stay in her attic, two rooms, three people, baby on the way. and i just felt robbed of all my dignity and i said if i ever got out of that situation i would do whatever i could to make sure that if somebody else was in n