thank you, madam president. >> madam president? >> the senator from florida. >> madam president, does the senator from maine need some more time? >> thank you very much, senator nelson. i would say to the chair that is very gracious of you and i have completed my statement. thank you. >> madam president, while speed- >> excuse me. the senator from florida. >> madam president, while the senator from maine is still here let me just say what a great senator that she is and what a pleasure it is to do business in a bipartisan way, as the two of us have done for now several years here in the senate, including the legislation that the senator from maine just talked j about. i just want to say to the senator from maine that it is my hope that the statements that have been made to you, the statements that these two pieces of legislation that you referenced will be passed. i do believe that the majority leader, senator mcconnell, will honor that with regard to the senate. it is this senators concern that down at the other end of the hall in

> thank you madame clerk. are there any communication. >> the clerk: none to report, madame president. >> is there a motion to approve the meeting minutes of october 31, 2017. moved by supervisor sheehy, seconded by supervisor ronen. without objection they'll be approved after public comment. madame clerk let's go to the consent agenda. >> the clerk: items one through three are considered to be routine. a member may object by severing an item and having it considered separately. >> seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk please call the roll. >> the clerk: on item one through three, supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor peskin, aye. supervisor ronen, aye. supervisor safai, aye. supervisor sheehy, aye. supervisor tang, aye. supervisor breed, aye. >> commissioner: those items are adopted unanimously. read four through eight together. >> the clerk: comprised of reports the infrastructure of financing district and the infrastructure revitalization financing direct at the ho down yard the resolution of intention by

thank you, madam president and i yield back. >> madam president? >> senator from michigan. >> madam, president, there are a handful of innovations over the years that have redefined the united states and the entire world. the cotton gin, railroads, electricity and the automobile are just a few examples. however without question broadband internet is one of the defining innovations of our time. broadband internet connects both rural and urban communities to vital services like telemedicine, educational resources, and international commerce. in fact broadband internet is absolutely essential for communications in the modern era. it lets us keep in touch with our loved ones no matter where they live, and it has boosted productivity across every single industry. and perhaps most importantly, broadband internet revolutionized our economy. it has led to millions of new jobs. the ability to instantly reach consumers wherever they live has allowed american small businesses and startups to compete with large, global in a way that would have been simply unim

breed: madam clerk, madam clerk? >> clerk: yes. >>president breed: i want to ask the members who are here who are going to remain, to please be quiet. madam clerk? >> clerk: yes, for purposes of the members of the public who came late, we have already called items 8 and 9 together. these are various amendments to various codes regarding cannabis regulation. >>president breed: thank you, madam clerk, and as i said earlier, there will be no public comment on these items, and we will continue our discussion here at the board. we left off with supervisor cohen has introduced a motion to amend and i'm sure you're -- we've had sufficient time to review those amendments and colleagues, is there a second to supervisor cohen's amendment? seconded by supervisor sheehy, and just so you know, colleagues, i will list out these particular amendments and we can vote on them when we're finished at the end. i have a list of 34e78 berz who a are -- members who are already on the roster, and supervisor cohen had finished her comments,

madam clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you, madam president. [roll call] fewer not present. kim not present. peskin present. ronen not present. safai present. sheehy present. tang present. yee not present. breed present. cohen present. madam president, you have a quorum. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. please join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: yes, two to report. my office is in receipt of a statement from the mayor's office of commune cautions announcing that at 1:11 a.m., the 43rd mayor of san francisco, mayor edwin lee has died at zuckerberg general hospital. board of supervisors london breed became acting mayor of san francisco effective immediately. the second report is that we're in receipt of a communication from supervisors sandra fewer requesting her be a tense today be excused. >> thank you. is there a motion to excu

madam president. the clerk is in the process of printing out -- >> clerk: making copies. >>supervisor peskin: and will shortly circulate some amendments that i intended to make at the last meeting with regard to how we temporarily or how we treat temporary permits during the transition period, and i'm going to ask deputy city attorney victoria wang to speak to that amendment as it is being circulated to you shortly. >>president breed: so do you want us to come back to this when it's in front of us or would it be a simple -- >>supervisor peskin: it's pretty simple. i think miss wang can explain it, and we it can delay voting on it until it's in everybody's hands, but maybe we should use the next few minutes to talk about it. >>president breed: okay. miss wang? >> victoria wang, deputy city attorney. the amendment would be an amendment to parallel the amendments to the health code section 3322 in item 8, and the purpose would be to create a land use approval for a temporary cannabis adult sales, so the

or, madam director. >> thank you madam secretary. i think during the presentations earlier staff had talked about three items that are coming before you of which we'll send the community dedication next friday so if you have not already received an invitation we'll send that out and also, they acknowledge that alice griffith phase 3 got t.c.o. so there's more lottery will start in january and then we actually got responses for the r.s.p. the commission approved it with 52- 54 last week and actually it was this week and we got two submissions and so they both seem incomplete so when the process of reviewing them and we'll get back to you and i should note that we have a forward calender in the packet and typical we typically see what programs are ready for commission approval and we try to be efficient so we just don't want to put one item on the agenda so based on what we're looking at wile try to connect with the chair and vice-chair of the agenda setting committee and discuss what the december and projecting our january meeting ins

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

madame clerk. >> clerk: it's now the opportunity for the public to address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the minutes and items 39 and 40. >> president breed: can members here from the public, we still have business to conduct. we ask that you please exit the chambers quietly. madame clerk. >> clerk: public comment is not allowed when an item has been previous subject to public comment pursuant to the board's rules, direct to the board as a whole, not individuals. if you'd like to display your document, please clearly state such to sfg tv and remove the document. >> president breed: thank you, first speaker, please. >> thank you, president breed, ladies and gentlemen of the board, i ask for your resignations. you violated your oaths of office. you swore to defend the u.s. constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, yet you continue operation of city-wide case management focus here after city-wi

. >> thank you madam chair. secretary acosta thank you for being here. you are the first cabinet level secretary to be at this committee this year. and i trust the chairwoman and members agree that hearing from members of this administration is important especially to our oversight responsibilities and i hope we'll see secretary devos and the hhs secretary here soon. there are many issues we are talking about today. i'm going to discuss the ability of oregonians to save and plan for secure retirement. we were making progress under the plan under the obama administration. some of that is being rolled back. most americans are not spending their days studying the markets they rely on financial planners. do you agree that oregonians and americans deserve financial advice that's in their best interest? >> congresswoman, obviously i do agree that saving for retirement involves significant financial decision and that they should receive the best financial advice available. >> i'm going the reclaim my time because i hav

seeing no hands raised -- madam clerk -- oh, on the amendment, madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: [ roll call. [ roll call. ] there are 11 ayes. >>president breed: the amendment passes unanimously. supervisor kim? i can remove you. we're just going through amendments. okay. supervisor yee, you have done your amendments already. you have additional amendment? >>supervisor yee: yeah, i do. >>president breed: okay. >>supervisor yee: thank you. i was just going to make a motion to make some amendments and basically, i'm asking that -- and this is for item number 8 -- that there only be two mcd's or cannabis retail use be allowed on ocean avenue in my district, and only one mcd -- no, for no mcd's in retail use along the we west portal corridor, and also on the tervell street along 19th avenue. all i can say is my constituents asked me to support this, and i'll just have a vote. >>president breed: supervisor yee has made a motion to amend. is there a second? seconded by supervisor tang. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: [ roll call. ] there are three ayes and eight no

madam director. >> thank you. this item is interesting one and it's exciting and this is the third year where the agency has issued an annual affordable housing production report. jeff white will present on this item and i think the take away from the presentation is that this was a good year for us and most of the data said fourth had improved and he will talk us through what that is and the take aways we touched over 2,800 homes which is impressive so it's a strong year for us so with that jeff. >> great, thank you. good afternoon. jeff white houseing program manager. and welcome to the annual housing report. i've got a lot of material to cover so i may go briskly and we can take questions afterwards 678h. we go over just a quick summary of what our housing obligations are and we talked about the occupancy prefances out reach and our marketing practices and we highlight the marketing outcomes for three projects that reach 100% occupancy in fiscal year 16-17. we have a lot of our projects that are mid stream mark

madame clerk, let's go back to items number eight and nine. can you call those together and i just want to let the members know we have commendation and special orders so the item will be interrupted several times today because i do know we'll be dealing with this item for some time. there will not be public comment on items eight and nine. with that madame clerk please call item eight and nine and at 2:30 we'll interrupt. >> the clerk: item eight is an ordinance to amend the planning code to regulate cannabis land uses and allow dispensaries in zoning districts and establish a land use process for the conversion of dispensaries to retail establishments to establish location and operating conditions and repeal ordinance number 186-17 to create a limit of three medicinal dispensaries in any combination in the outer mission and street neighborhood commercial district and threat superceded planning codes provision. item nine is to amend the business and tax regulations, health and police codes to comprehensively regulate commercial activities rel

this item was seconded by supervisor tang, correct, madam president? >>president breed: yes. >> clerk: okay. supervisor. >>president breed: breed aye. >> clerk: supervisor cohen. >>supervisor cohen: aye. >> clerk: supervisor fewer. >>supervisor fewer: aye. >> clerk: supervisor kim. >>supervisor kim: aye. >> clerk: supervisor peskin. >>supervisor peskin: aye. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >>president breed: okay. those amendments pass nonly. the next propos -- unanimously. >>president breed: the next amendments were to pass the date to january 1, 2020. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: [ roll call. ] >> clerk: there are four ayes and seven noes with supervisor breed cohen, safai, sheehy, tang, and yee in the dissent. >>president breed: yee is not in the dissent. >> clerk: oh, did he say no? supervisor yee said aye? >>supervisor yee: aye. >> clerk: i apologize. i thought i heard you say no, supervisor. okay, so madam president, there are >>supervisor safai: do we have any advice -- through the chair, do we have any advice on why the previous mc

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: i rise today to join with the senator from vermont in opposition to the f.c.c.'s planned vote to end net neutrality protections. tomorrow, as he noted, the f.c.c. will hold a vote on their plan to eliminate net neutrality on chairman pai's plan. these rules have kept the internet free and open. and in a day where a lot of things aren't working, this was something that was actually working. people were able to access the internet. people in my state that maybe didn't have a lot of resources, kids were able to access the internet to do their homework. it was working. but if the f.c.c. votes to abandon net neutrality, it will put internet service providers, not consumers, in charge of determining the future of the internet. net neutrality holds internet service providers big, mega internet service providers accountable for providing the internet access consumers expect while protecting innovation and competition. it is the

thank you, madam president. mr. nelson: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: madam president does the senator from maine need some more time? ms. collins: thank you very much senator nelson. i would say through the chair that's very gracious of you. i have completed my statement. thank you. mr. nelson: madam president while -- the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: madam president while the senator from maine is still here, let me just say what a great senator that she is and what a player it is to do business in a bipartisan way as the two of us have done for now several years here in the senate including the legislation that the senator from maine just talked about. i just want to say to the senator from maine that it is my hope that the statements that have been made to you the statements that these two pieces of legislation that you referenced will be passed i do believe that the majority leader, senator mcconnell will honor that with regard to the senate. it is my -- this s

regardless, madam president, there's so much left to do before the end of the year. the republicans should not be devoting their energies towards a conference on tax reform because this bill in both the house and senate needs dramatic repair. on the year-end, madam president, the most pressing matter before the senate this week is not tax reform. that has no immediate deadline. it's, rather, to make sure we keep the government up and running on friday. nobody should want to see a government shutdown. we should all be working to avoid one. and i must say, i don't believe my republican friends -- leader mcconnell, speaker ryan -- want a government shutdown. the only one at the moment who's flirted with a shutdown is president trump, who tweeted earlier this year that, quote, we could use a good shutdown to fix the mess, and was quoted in last week's "washington post" suggesting to associates that a shutdown could help him politically. while congressional negotiators have tinged the hard work of hash -- have continued the hard work of hash be out a deal, the president's

madam president. thank you. >> please read public comment >> the public may address the entire board of supervisors soup for up to two minutes for the board not on the new business or unfinished business items. this would include the public on october 17 and 24th board meting minutes and without reference to committee calendar. pursuant to the rules the remarks to the board as whole not to individual superintendent and not audience. if you want to use the overhead projector return it when we return to the live coverage of the meeting. >> ladies and gentlemen of the board i ask for resignation. you swore to uphold u.s. constitution. yet you continue to the operation of city wide case management and community focus a joint project with the san francisco campus of university of california which the city and county funds at $100 million per year. city wide and city counties and community treatment programs. it is responsible for involuntarily medicating and performing medical and surgical procedures upon

thank you, madam president. ms. klobuchar: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: madam president, if i could three minutes to talk about my colleague. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: madam president, you saw in senator franken's closing words here, the passion that he has for all the work that he has done in this chamber and for the people of our state, you saw the love he has for his family, for franni, and the love that he has for his stf, and they are not good -- staff. and they are not good staff, they are wonderful staff. when i think about the legacy that he will leave, one of them is that staff and the work he has done for veterans and health care with the medical loss ratio, one of the major achievements in the affordable care act, with the work he has done way ahead of his time for the lgbt, for the work he has done for his tribal communities. that was the number ask when he got to the senate was to be on the indian affairs committee. that is not what other people a

with that, madam president, i would yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. flake: i ask unanimous consent not withstanding rule 22 at 1:45 p.m. today all postcloture time be yielded back and the senate vote on the confirmation of the ho nomination and that if confirmed the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. flake: madam president, i have five requests for committees to meet today during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. flake: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that jason smith, a coast guard fellow for the commerce committee, be granted floor privileges for the duration of the 115th congress. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. flake: madam president, i rise today because i believe that some here in washington are under the illusion about what would happen i

madam director. >> good afternoon commissioners, thank you and madam secretary, i'm back in 2016 the commission approved the selection of co developers, neighborhood development center and young community developers for for the candlestick point 10a and again in 2016, the commission also approved a pre developmental for $3.5 million as well as authorized staff to enter in to an exclusive agreement and since then we have in front of you the approval of schematic design and gretchen heckman will present and we have co in the audience as well so with that i'll turn it over to you. >> interview: thank you. good afternoon madam chair, commissioners, directors and deputy director morales, i am gretchen heckman a development specialist with the housing team at ocii and i am here on behalf of the candlestick team to request authorization to approve the schematic design for candle stick point block 10a, one of the first two affordable parcels to be developed in the candle stick point neighborhood at the bay view hunters point re development project area. as you know candle stick point is loca

senator henrik. >> thank you, madam chair. i was surprised the department's report on impediments to energy development included no opportunities specific to permitting or citing of resources on public land. zero. for a number of years now i've worked with senator heller on legislation to improve the process for citing wind, thermoprojects on land. we have a pretty substantial group of bipartisan senators now, senator gardner, senator danes just here, all members of this committee. does the department not see any improvements on clean energies for public land? >> i think there's possibilities for drawing different conclusions on how to address those. i permly had both solar and wind groups come in to visit with me about how we can do things better in the department of interior. each of them have views of things that we can do and we're taking a look at those. >> what are your ideas? >> one of the chief things that seems to be an issue is in both citing wind and solar, they tend to sprawl over a fairly large area to make an eco

>> supervisor safai: thank you, madam president. i just want to say that i know that supervisor kim and i tried to talk this through yesterday. it was in -- in all fairness, it was very last minute, and we were trying to make an as-informed decision as possible. what i have heard here based on the questions from supervisor kim, i walk away with more confusion, and there isn't really a strong argument that i've heard for the emergency declaration and then, the plan, and i tried to come up with a solution yesterday directing a department to come up with a formalized plan on the space. i didn't hear anything about a nonprofit operating the space as an access point yesterday. maybe i missed that in the presentation, and you might have said that. i very -- you very well might have, and there was a lot going on, but i would say that based on that information, what i was trying to do -- and again, just for your consideration, was that the department would -- we would allow this to move forward because i think that the -- what i've heard he

. >> madam president. >> senator from massachusetts. >> madam president, i want to thank my colleagues led by senator cantwell, joining me on the floor this afternoon. we are speaking on behalf of millions of our constituents, tens of millions of american who support a free and open internet. i'm proud to come to the floor to discuss an issue of national importance to our economy and our democracy, net neutrality. a lot of people recently stopped and asked me what exactly is net neutrality? the technical answer is network neutrality or net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers, you know their names, verizon, at&t, comcast, the people that you pay by check each month to make sure you have broadband service, you know who they are, those internet service providers cannot discriminate against content providers, against websites but the simpler explanation is this. no one owns the internet. everyone can use the internet. anyone can improve the internet but that would not be the case if the trump administration, ajit pai, the chairman, and republicans have their way. th

now, madam president, on taxes. my republican friends have stretched into two of their -- into day two of their debate on the bill which still lacks resolution of some critical issues. after promising over the past few months that their tax bill would pay for itself through economic growth, the joint committee on taxation came out with a report yesterday that showed that these promises were unfounded, way off the mark. even considering economic growth, the republican tax bill will add roughly a trillion dollars to the deficit, and many have said that this dynamic scoring -- many economists have said it doesn't work at all. here the j.c.t. gave credence is the theory of dynamic scoring but then came out with a number that was not the kind of wild exaggerations we are hearing from the secretary of treasury, from the president and from some of our republican colleagues, particularly those of the -- earlier in this debate, republicans claimed that this would be a tax cut for everybody and that nobody in the middle class

klobuchar: madam president, i want to thank senator nelson for his leadership on this amendment. it's a very simple amendment for a very simple proposition, and that is that the tax code should be simpler -- that's true -- we should make it more streamlined -- that's true -- but our focus should be helping the people of america. and our problem with the bill that's on the floor right now is that it is weighted much too heavily in terms of helping the wealthiest among us and not the middle class. and senator nelson's amendment, which i'm a proud cosponsor, gets right to the meat of this, to the bread and butter, to helping the middle class with their groceries -- since i used meat and bread and butter -- but also with their mortgages, with paying for college, with everything they need to do. and our problem with the bill right now is that too much of it goes to the top. in fact, when you look at the numbers, it's quite startling. the first thing you notice for the middle class is that $1.4 trillion in additional debt comes out of this bill. now, our colleagues were claiming until

mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: majority leader. mr. mcconnell: today the senate will continue to full fill its important responsibility to confirm critical nominees to president trump's administration. we'll do that by investigating to advance the nomination of kirstjen nielsen the president chose to serve as secretary of homeland security. as my colleagues know, this is an incredibly important position within our government with responsibilities ranging from cyber security to protecting our borders to the continued recovery efforts from the recent natural disasters. the department of homeland security requires strong leadership to get the job done. miss nielsen is a qualified candidate with the talent and experience for succeed as chief of staff to the previous d.h.s. secretary-general john kelly she understands the daily operations of the department and shares our goals for its future. in addition, her previous tenure with the department makes her an ideal candidate to be ready to lead the agency on day one. miss nielsen is an experi

schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. the senator is recognized. mr. schumer: well, madam president, as you know, last night a democrat won in the state of alabama for the first time in a quarter century. last night's election of doug jones was not only the repudiation of a candidate unfit to serve in this body, it was an affirmation of a candidate who represents the very best of public service. i read doug jones' bio. one story stands out in my mind. as a second-year law student, doug jones skipped class to attend the trial of the klansman ring leader of the 1963 bombing of the 16th street baptist church, an event as we all remember shook the coninsurance of our country and launch -- conscience of our country and helped launch a movement for civil rights. though a young doug jones was moved by the disposition of justice in that trial, he was left with the impression that other members of the conspirac

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