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

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

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

the all writs act provides legal authority for the court to order the third party to provide assistance. the type of atisssistance will vary from case to case. >> what limiting principles would exist if the all writs act permit can be read to authorize a court to develop software that doesn't already exist, to enlist the work effort of a tech company to create something that doesn't yet exist? what limiting principle is there? and i would add, what limiting principle is there in place that wouldn't allow the government to use the all writs act or some other mechanism to require apple, for instance to write other software, perhaps software that would unlock a phone's camera, unlock a phone's microphone, unlock a phone's location, services system, in order to assist the government there, assuming apple or whatever other company is at issue? doesn't have software that would do that, what limiting principle would stop the government from going into court using the all writs act to compel that kind of work product? >> i think in every situation, you'd have to look at the type of assistance t

and with those third parties are able to give that assistance so provides the legal authority to provide assistance but that type will vary from case to case. >> while limiting principles will re-read to authorize the court for software that doesn't already exist? but that effort of that company to create something that does not exist? and then to allow the government with some other mechanism perhaps the software arm lock a camera or the phone microphone or the location system in order to assist the government there as this -- assuming apple is at issue doesn't have software to do that. what principle would stop the government from using that to compel the product? >> looking at that assistance needed and in a row of the case here the government is asking apple to upload the phone but with the passwords are doesn't destroy evidence civic but that is not apple of blocking the floater going into extract or taking certain steps. every case from jurisprudence will be developed by the facts for cohousing it is a customer request for a company to provide assistance to a customer that first ca

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

if you are going to focus lifeline on broadband are going to need to providers who are primarily providing broadband and i think there has been a lot of attention paid to how to bring in these providers into the lifeline program in a way that ensures that consumers are still getting treated fairly and have access to a substantial service. >> at lease one cable provider is a -- a second condition of the merger comcast offers the internet essentials program which is a basic right than service for families i believe that children in school. conditions on the program and there is debate in academia. it's out there and at least one of the countries of supporting it so provides a model to figure out how successful, how we might roll this out to cable broadband as well. >> host: daniel lyons what's the pushback at the fcc from and republicans? guess i think part of it is simply justifying the figures where throwing out now so as i understand it the proposal at that the fcc is to add a budget to lifeline but to increase that by 50% above what the lifeline currently as i think it's 1.5 or 1.6 billi

it doestand that provide deadlines for certain types of funding to be provided to tribes. i think we are supportive of deadlines. i would like to talk more with my colleagues at the department of agriculture and circle back on questions we might have. >> we saw clear examples where there was proper force treatment and active management. we stop some of these fires from spreading. wildfires are not in respect of boundaries. i would like to get your commitment to work with me and usda to adjust these tribal -- mr. roberts: absolutely. >> senator heitkamp. sen. heitkamp: thank you for letting me go first. i think when we usually go to these hearings, there is one agency who is setting in front of us hope we can hold accountable for outcomes. one of our great challenges is the following of services for the tribes, whether it is health care which is really hss. whether it is housing and hide. whether it is all of the issues that fall and with the above. i want to say i applaud this administration for doing the most that i ever seen to try and courtney among all of you, to try 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

by content providers. again, that's from senator nelson's letter. the bottom line is that today's video market is increasingly competitive and traditional pay tv subscribers are rapidly finding new, more user friendly and less expensive ways to receive the tv service they purchase on devices, including some made by the largest companies on the planet. finally, i would like to address the issue of stand-alone broadcast support for small rural carriers. because of flawed universal service fund rules, these providers lose all support for serves household that chooses to subscribe to broadband. last march, all five of you commissioners made commits to me and this committee to fix the counterproductive loophole by the end of 2015. it's my understanding that an item is currently on circulation at the commission that would fix the stand alone broadband problem and which reflects a negotiated compromise and some other complex reforms that have been linked to this simple objective. while the 2015 deadline for stand

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

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

by content providers. again, that's from senator nelson's letter. bottom line is that today's video market is increasingly competitive and traditional paid tv subscribers are rapidly finding new, more user friendly and less expensive ways to receive the tv services they purchase on an increasing array of consumer devices including some made by the largest companies on the planet. finally, i would like to address the issue of stand-alone broadband support for small rural carriers. because of flawed universal service fund rules, these providers lose allsup port for serving households that choose to subscribe to broadband while not simultaneously purchasing landline telephone service. last march all five commissioners made commitments to me and this committee to fix the counterproductive loophole by the end of 2015. it is my understanding that an item is currently on circulation at the commission that would fix the standalone broadband problem and which reflects a negotiated compromise and some other complex

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

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

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

the 2016 agricultural appropriation bill provided $350 million for avre. we worked hard under the allocation that we had to provide additional support for agricultural research. you mentioned its importance, as have a number of my colleagues. my editorial comment is that we cannot compete with the administration's budget when they use mandatory spending as the solution to funding this and many other programs. not just in your budget, but across the federal government. federal government wide. again, this is a budgetary issue beyond your scope, but it is important to that the administration recognize that when they make a budget request to us as appropriators, we do not have the ability to provide funding on mandatory spending. i think they know that. it sets a bar. perhaps it's just posturing to suggest that the administration and your department is more interested in agricultural funding than we are. but when we come to the amount of money that we have within our jurisdiction to provide support, agricultural research, in my view, we have been there. you h

by content providers. finally, i would like to address the issue of stand alone broad band support for small rural carriers. because of flawed, these providers choose to subscribe to broad band while not simultaneously purchasing land line. all five commissioners made commitments to me and this committee to fix counter loophole by the end of 2015. it's my understanding that an item is currently on circulation at the commission that would fix the stand-alone broad band problem and reflects compromise and other forms that have been linked for this simple objective. the 2015 deadline for stand alone broad band has recently passed i'm glad the extra time has given a chance for rural providers for proposals on businesses and rural broad band customers that they serve. assessing its impact and continuing to provide oversight of the fcc's implementation of these forms. meantime, i would like to thank all of you for fulfilling your commitment, fix the stand-alone broad band issue for consumers across the nation. i

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

last year we provided 900,000 producers. irc or prc payments, our expectation is that amount will increase this year to provide the necessary bridge to better times. at the same time we are going to 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 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 will allow us to exceed a million home loans in the last seven years, finance nearly a thousand community facilities, provide safer and better water for 1.5 million rural americans which will reach nearly 20 million who have benefited from over 5,000 water and wastewater projects financed by usda since i have been secretary. i budget proposes a threefold increase in broad red -- broad brand to broadband grants. critically important in rural america we are to make sure he actors are well prepared for a competitive futurecompetitive future and we are able

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

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

we are providing a response to your letter in writing. so i do not want to get ahead of that as we review the issues that you have raised there. i believe you have asked for a copy of that document. we typically do not provide copies of documents as part of ongoing investigations but we are preparing a response to your letter on those issues. similarly, we don't go into the details of the agreements that we have with any witness in any matter. an ongoing investigations. senator, i know as you mentioned you have race this issues a in the context of reviewing another matter a few years ago and you are following through now. what i would say is that my response to this is the sign as it is to other questions on ongoing matters, whether now weatherize u.s. attorney earl for alina system. the consistency with which the department handles the ongoing matters, whether they involve someone who has a famous last name or not it is something we take very seriously. our desire not to discuss this matter in open hearings, or in the press is not out of

vs. 10 years ago when we still the safety net provider. i think it's really crucial in addressing some of that. i think that the question becomes, how do we stay competitive in this environment and provide the care that we have always been proud of. how do we really change some of the changes that reflect the health care system? i think that may be something we should spend some time in explore further. >> posted as dir. garcia >> i think all of you are very right. one of the issues that commissioner chung brought up which is visual marketing that we do have a whole new process going on in marketing and branding and rachel kagan is leading us in some of the resources that the foundation of san francisco hospital foundation has provided for us. so, you will see that soon because i've asked rachel to come and bring that to you. i think that is going to be an important piece of that. i also think that we need to recognize that we are a leader in complex care. we been a leader in hiv. we are experts in that. in fact i met with some of our rese

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

and i think we're able to provide insights that are often quite helpful. but i do think we've got to reckon with the fact i don't think this is anything that's going to change. it's historically been something a.i.d. has been asked to do and something a.i.d. will be asked to do going on into the future. it's hard. but i would say i think people do a., a very good job the a identifying those areas where we can have some impact. and doing the kind of evaluation, looking at things that enables us to say, quite frankly in the privacy of internal policy discussions and other deliberations, this is working and this isn't, what does it mean for how we move forward? it's hard, no question. but it's very difficult. >> goodness, you are ready. >> go ahead, pick the first person. >> this young lady had her hand up first. >> introduce yourself and be very brief. > hi, rachel os: well, "congressional quarterly." rachel: you spoke about the need to build resiliency where crisis are happening all the times, oftentimes in unexpected places. how do you hain obtain that goa

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

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

the fifth circuit's remedy only provided for one doctor, dr. lynn, who's past retirement age to be the only doctor performing abortions in that clinic. now, if the clinic had -- i don't know how many it had, but out had at least four people before. it seems rather callous to say as a remedy that we're going to make that one doctor do the work of four or maybe more doctors who didn't get admitting privileges. why is even the fifth circuit's remedy reasonable? >> because, justice sotomayor, that was the only named plaintiff for the as-applieded -- >> but if -- [laughter] yes, as applied, the acs law is affecting this clinic because it can't get its doctors certified. so why does it require a named plaintiff to relieve that clinic of the obligation of going without admitting privilegeses? >> well, that wasn't the only one of the four doctors that joined in this lawsuit. most of the doctors and clip you cans in -- >> but you just listed the requirements because you know that it's the only clinic in the area. >> well -- >> so if any doctor who's lic

a position to oversee and guide the curriculum and provided professional development for teachers providing instruction and require the el d teachers to be transparent for the listcy assessment thank you. >> i'm represent the recommendation number 4 we know the importance as a positive research that supports the family involvement at school families who does not speak english are of a disadvantage when communicating about their child's education with the person didn't speak that language san francisco unified school district provides many excellent services for families who speak the language other than english but the district employees bilingual and multiple lingual language we want to share some experiences and off recommendations to advance the goals of empowering the families schools needs families liaisons that speak and write the families language all schools with high numbers of english learners students should have a fund liaison to communicate with families family engagement needs to be supported the district encourage the parents of english families to be involved in the budget p

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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