Quorum call quorum call quorum call s mr. Chambliss mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with and i be allowed to speak in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. President , i rise today along with my colleague from New Hampshire s been very focused, as havere i, on this issue of the release of detainees from guantanamo and the fact that we know that not only are there dangerous individuals there that should not be released, but we also know that these individuals are returning to the fight and theyre scheming, planning and intending to do harm to america and americans. So i want to visit this issue again and i want to start off just by saying that its well founded in our nations history that the United States has the authority to hold enemy combatants until the end of hostilities in order to prevent their return to the battlefield. For the past several years, each National Defense authorization act that has been signed into the law by the pre
Place inside the temple. The message we heard today is the same thing we have been hearing for two weeks, that israel has a right to defend itself against terrorist and that the other side saying that israel needs to stop colonizing palestine palestine. We support our people no matter what happens. Moral support, financial support, whatever you can do to support our country, were going to show everybody. They want you to think this is being done in the name of the Jewish Community and that all jews support what israel is doing. And we are saying, as forcefully as we can, we condemn what is happening in gaza. Its against our jewish values. Its heartbreaking to us. Across town, a large crowd gathered to voice Israeli Military large crowd gathered to voice opposition against Israeli Military action in gaza. This event was olderred by antiwar activists. Protesters also voiced opposition to the u. S. Government support of israel. Well have more on this at 11 00. Thank you for that. A gaza c
Israel and hamas. Nearly 90 gaza residents lost their lives and 13 Israeli Soldiers were killed. The biggest oneday loss for the israeli army in years. Two victims were israeli americans, one from the san fernando valley. United nations called an emergency meeting tonight and u. S. Secretary of state john kerry will head to egypt tomorrow to seek a cease fire. In San Francisco today demonstrators rallied against the violence in pair of protests. Lillian kim is live with the details. Reporter it got pretty tense here outside Temple Emanuel when people who oppose israeli policy showed up by the dozens. They have since left. The only proisraeli supporters are here. [chanting] but earlier both sides were shouting at each other, sfpd officers were here to make sure things did not get out of hand. This demonstration ask the counterdemonstration took place as a solidarity gathering took place inside the temple. The message we heard today is the same thing we have been hearing for two weeks, t
Israeli army in years. United nations called an emergency meeting tonight and u. S. Secretary of state john kerry will head to egypt tomorrow to seek a ceasefire. In San Francisco today, a demonstration got pretty heated outside at Temple Emanuel in pleasant heights. People showed up by the dozens to support proisraeli soldiers. This took place while a solidarity gathering was going on in the temple. And the other side said israel needs to stop columnizing palestinian neighborhoods. We support our country, our people no matter what happens. Well do whatever we can to support our country. Were going to show everybody. They want you to think that this is being done in the name of the Jewish Community and that all jews support what israel is doing and we are saying, as forcefully as we can, that we condemn whats happening in gaza. It is against our jewish values. That is being done in our name. It is just heartbreaking to us. Across town, a large crowd gathered to oppose military acts in
To summarize programs that we have available through the office that focus on neighborhood stabilization. By way of overview, i am going to and i have a presentation, here. To come up. And i have provided hard copies to you and i believe for the public as well. I have provided hard copy to you and i think that there are some out for the public as well. And we have three broad categories of programs that i am going to reverse the order. And we have the programs that focus on preserving the rent controlled and the units for the existing residents and we fund the prevention programs and in the event that an eviction occurs, we also have housing preferences for tenant whose have been evicted using the ellis act. And well i will quickly run through these and if you are watching take my word for it that there is a presentation and i can email to anybody. The ellis act, housing preference, provides priority consideration for income eligible applicant and that is cross the housing and, that is