richards and ms. moore. ms. moore is one of the few who have been around long enough to understand exactly how the building and planning departments function together. we need someone who understands this system in need of rehabilitati rehabilitation. mr. moore spoke out strongly in the last couple of weeks, exposing the machinations of scoff law developers who have been making people's lives miserable for years. >> supervisor safai: thank you, ma'am. i appreciate it. next speaker. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. i'm john buruso. i'm here to thank president cohen and the board of supervisors for reappointing dennis richards and katherin moore and to thank them both for ongoing service to the city. my brother and i encountered them when we joined the russian hill association responding to a project on my block . commissioners moore and richards demonstrated their job dedication when they agreed to site visits, assessing the block's homes and streetscapes firsthand. over the course of two hearings, co

ms. moore: thank you, mr. chairman and let me thank the committee for really supporting me and my very important amendments last evening and i have another very important amendment that is before the committee here today. i urge support for my amendment that would prevent the administration from dismantling the e.p.a.'s great lakes advisory board. i'm so pleased that this bill has again rejected the resident's proposal to gut the glri and this amendment would prevent them from dismantling the advisory board. you know, mr. chairman, this is a critical matter for anyone who drinks water and the great lakes provides drinking water to some 40 million people. let me say that again, 40 million people depend on this resource for one of life's basic requirements, water. i mean, not to mention andlers and recreation and as an old african proverb goes, water has no enemies. hopefully the great lakes restoration initiative is something we are going to recognize of playing a critical role in protecting and restoring one o

moore, ranking member of our monetary policy and trade subcommittee. ms. moore: thank you so much, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, again, let me say welcome to you -- welcome to the committee. let me get right -- right to it. the -- our chairman here referred to the economic miracle of the tax cuts, and i just want to say that the only time that income inequality has been greater than it is now is an we -- upon the dawn, advent of the great depression. so income inequality is not a good thing for our economy and other people's economy. so before i go on to talk about that a little bit more, i just want to refer back to the things that i talked about in my opening statement. the universal service fund. there are many, many, many more poor people who have fallen out of the middle class because of the bifurcation of benefit from that tax bill. and so despite the declarations that people have -- are better off, i mean, we have seen, you know, wages -- not stay flat but actually fall. so this notion that we have, -- now, -- you know, more less unemployment, less u

ms. moore: i would like to thank our colleague. we will turn the light on the contributions of africans on this continent during this decade and with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from wisconsin. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 22 printed in house report 115-830. for what purpose does the gentleman from vermont seek recognition? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 23 30,nted if house report 115-8 offered by mr. welch of vermont. the chair: the gentleman from vermont and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognize thess gentleman from vermont. mr. welch: lake champlain is one of the natch ram wonders of new england and indeed an international treasure. it's a watershed that includes new yo

ms. lee: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in honor of the late great president nelson mandela, whose 100 had the birthday we celebrate today. -- 100th birthday we celebrate today. i was arrested in berkley, california, protesting ar part tied when those -- ar par tied when those in the labor unit did not work in the oakland ports. i remember when the african national congress was designated a terrorist organization by the united states gofert. it was illegal to meet with the freedom fighters in the united states, but many of us did any way in safe places around the world. we passed legislation i led to lift president mandela and the a.n.c. off the terrorist watch list on his 90th birthday 10 years ago. i will never forget of those waiting in lines to vote for mandela. he sparked social justice movements that reached around the world and reminded us of the power of the vote. as president mandela noted esterday, he said, madiba came to possess dispossessed people all around the world, t

the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from wisconsin, ms. moore, the ranking member of the monetary policy and trade subcommittee for one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and mr. chairman. it's lovely to see you again. dodd frank gave america a stable economic system if we can keep it i fear your greatest challenges in the future will be directly related to the actions of republican policy makers and our president. the trickle-down tax cuts, adopting their policies that drive debt and income inequality and of course the wells fargo model to saddle regular merms with forced payday loans to pay it all back. destabilizing financial deregulation and unqualified nominees like kathy creditor to head the consumer financial protection bureau. capricious trade wars, harley, in my district, farmers in my state bracing for ruin. fiscal mismanagement and low-grade scams and incompetence seems to be hallmarks of mr. trump. but you have been called for such a time as this. god bless you. >> the gentlelady yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman

we recognize the gentle lady from wisconsin, ms. moore for one minute. >> thank you so much. it's lovely to see you again. i'm going to paraphrase and channel ben franklin. dodd frank gave us a stable economic system if we can keep it. it will be directly related to republican policymakers enter president. the trickle down tax cuts adopting their policies that drives income inequality in the wells fargo that would put payday loans to pay it back. destabilizing the financial deregulation and unqualified nominees like kathy to hit the consumer financial protection bureau. capricious trade wars farmers in my state bracing, fiscal mismanagement, incompetence it all seems to be hallmarks of mr. as we discussed, you have been called for such a time as this. god bless you. . . that have not fully recovered from the great recession. even with the job growth and economic recovery, it's uneven. in economic terms there is no average american anymore. the whole cohort of communities across the country continue to experience the kind of stress that threatens their sustainability as commun

>> president hillis: yes, ms. melgar asked for that. >> commissioner moore: i didn't hear that. i must not properly listen. thank you. >> commissioner richards: you had the 30,000 parcels and took out this and that and layered it, so i know they exist -- >> yeah, the maps, i believe, are still available on the san francisco planning website. i don't have the ability to make the maps at supervisor tang's office, but i'm sure that paulo can pull them up. >> president hillis: and people should contact the staff to know where it applies. they do get tricky in the zoning districts, but it will be in places where we're not seeing a lot of development. those that we are seeing development, we've lifted density controls. if you are concerned, one, it's probably -- there are maps that exist and you should contact the planning staff. all right. is there a second? a motion and a second. >> commissioner richards, did you second that? >> commissioner richards: i did. >> vice president melgar: no, milli did. >> apologies. there's been a motion seconded to approve this proposed ordinance with

she said that ms. mcdougall's claim of an affair with mr. trump was totally untrue. we now have president trump on tape talking about such a deal. joining us, simone sanders, also campaign manager for hillary clinton, robert moore. i have you guys here to talk about the future of campaigns, but i want to wrap up the past. hope hicks denied that they had any knowledge of an agreement with karen mcdougal. had the campaign admitted they knew about this, would that have had an impact on the election? >> i'm sure it would have had an impact if we had this tape. how much i can't say. but i will say we knew the president lied. we knew that before election daigh. we knew that the russians had some sort of bizarre influence over him. but coming out of election day, there have been so many things. meetings with the russians, other lies that he's told that we've learned, and i think the most important lesson coming out of this tape and everything else is we've just got to start believing that the president is lying when we hear it the first time. the pattern here is so clear, a