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In Disaster Relief for those members of our fishing community, so many of whom have had their whole livelihoods taken away from them. And this Disaster Relief money is going to help them during these difficult times, help them to recover, to rebuild what i believe is one of the most critical economic sack ters still in new england. Its one of the oldest, certainly. Im also pleased that this bill reverses some of the reckless cuts from sequestration and instead it makes important investments in t...

President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they perfor...

A day else a portion of the sheriff shared lending to small and microbusinesses. Because of that 4 billiondollar investment in 332 institutions across the Country Community banks or cdfi loan funds, we have seen positive returns for taxpayers so this is no cost to the taxpayer and we are also seeing that lending has increased by more than 10 billion so we take that 4 billion investment. As a result the institutions have loaned more than 10 million above and beyond the lending that they were doin...

Oklahoma. The chaplain lets pray. Father, i thank you for the heroic leadership that this house of representatives has exemplified in the past week during this present crisis. I thank you for the late nights, i thank you for their heroic efforts to seek compromise. But i thank you for the Creative Solutions theyve proposed. Lord, at present there is no solution. And so today, father, we confess our desperate need for you. We joyfully conquer that you are the source concur that you are the source...

Efforts, San Francisco voters were able to make a very thoughtful choices at the ballot box this past couple of weeks, that have helped fund infrastructure, move to job creating tax policy, and invest in critical Housing Needs in our city. Collectively helping San Francisco families and businesses. With that id like to take your two questions, supervisors. Thank you. President chiu thank you. Our first question will be provided by our district 6 colleague, supervisor kim. Supervisor kim thank yo...

President chiu good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, november 20, 2012. Madam clerk, call the roll clmpletsd supervisor avalos, present. Supervisor campos, present. President chiu, present. Supervisor chu, present. Supervisor cohen, present. Supervisor elsbernd, present. Supervisor farrell, present. Supervisor kim, present. Supervisor mar, present. Supervisor olague, present. Supervisor wiener, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Pres...

President chiu good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, november 20, 2012. Madam clerk, call the roll clmpletsd supervisor avalos, present. Supervisor campos, present. President chiu, present. Supervisor chu, present. Supervisor cohen, present. Supervisor elsbernd, present. Supervisor farrell, present. Supervisor kim, present. Supervisor mar, present. Supervisor olague, present. Supervisor wiener, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Pres...

Going to be joining us in just a second. First, welcome, all the people out in live stream land. Well be taking your questions on hash tag politico breakfast. Tweet us, welcome to the others watching. Appreciative to the bank of america for making these conversations possible. We had a Great Partnership this year, including conventions, election night, and so were very, very excited to be ail to bring these substantive conversations about the most important issues driving washington to you, than...

I urge the quick passage of this important legislation so we can send it on to the enate. Lets get the f. A. A. Back to work. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from iowa reserves. The gentleman from arizona is recognized. Mr. Pastor thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. Mr. Pastor here we go again. This week the house has onsidere...

Has seen Discretionary Spending drop three years in a row. Never before in my lifetime have we seen such a thing. I credit this body with being a driving force in that because we were elected by the American People who want to see their fiscal bucks put back in order, but we succeeded on the discretionary side. Discretionary turns out to be the easier nut to crack because that money doesnt go out the door unless this u. S. House of representatives acts. That distinguishes it, mr. Speaker, from m...