The 114 congress. With color photos of every senator and house number, plus bio information and twitter handles. Also, district maps. A foldout map of capitol hill and a look at congressional committees, the present cabinet. Order your copy today. It is 13. 95 through the cspan store. Earlier this week, president obama hosted an event at the white house for the teacher of the year. He also honored other top educators around the country. This is just over 15 minutes. President obama welcome to the white house, everybody. Please have a seat. This is one of my favorite days because it gives us a chance to acknowledge some folks who so often are giving so much and lets face it, arent always getting a lot in return. Every day, the teachers behind me, they give their students their all their knowledge their creativity, their focused attention, their love. They empty the tanks for their kids. Then they get up the next morning and they do it all over again. And today is our chance to say thank
I like the fact that we have a strong contingent of men here today, too, by the way. [laughter] [applause] i like that. Way to go, guys. [laughter] and with that, i want to present shanna with her crystal apple. [applause] here we go. Lets get a good picture of that. [applause] fantastic. And with that, let me present the teacher of the year shanna peeples. [applause] [cheering] shanna thank you, mr. President. Your support and believe in Public Education is one of the many things i admire about you. You are charged to create worldclass learners. Thank you, secretary duncan for your advocacy of authentic learning and service for our students and your support of teacher leadership. Thank you do my wonderful family. Im nothing without you. Thank you to kayla, my students, the text allegation, and my administrators. [applause] finally, thank you to the talented, passionate, and remarkably goodlooking group of state teachers of the year with whom im probe which to join today. [applause] [c
Gainer why not go to district 8 supervisor wiener. Thank you mr. President , ill wait for the room to clear a little bit. Okay. Thank you mr. President , and thank you, colleagues. And today, im going to be honoring zone winning one of our residents coming up and bring the kids with you clapping yellin yelling . So i know many of us know zoning she was born and raised in is a gone and come to the u. S. In 1975 at 11 after ref her bachelors degree from down south she came to the bay area for more than 8 years shes been in the Office Mental Health the recorder and Business Private property Revenue Generating 40 percent of the revenue. As a recorder she oversaw two addictions in the office exciting Business Units leading 40 civil serve personnel. Shes stepped in to take on a variety of the nearly decade in the office and 200 in 2345067 he was the departments overseer of personnel and i g operations. She was the acting assessor recorder when phil tang went off the to state assembly until c
Term residents. So zero i want to say from can carmen chiu she regretted she couldnt be here but its been a honor to work with you over the years and look forward to many more years of the same so congratulations clapping. thank you supervisor wiener i want to thank you for the opportunity to say im honored to be in district 8 honor reand im proud to be a constituent of yours my name is my family and i appreciate what you do and work on issues that matter to the district simple things like coming to our Neighborhood Community meetings to talk about issues that are important to negotiating, you know, with all the stakeholders in the city and make sure that the castro construction project its not its minimized so we have the activities in june to legislation youve introduced effecting the ellis act or the miles act we had a chance to Work Together on the miles act its a great honor and professionally ive been grateful for our support over the years i want to acknowledge my wife of 18 yea
She was the acting assessor recorder when phil tang went off the to state assembly until carman chiu was appointed as the new assessor. It was competently if i did in 2008, and 2013 when we resumed i guess twice the matters of quality in San Francisco and in california providing phenomenal support to the first phil thanking and then carman chiu and started issuing marriage licenses over the weekend we have the fear of San Francisco when we get Marriage Equality someone is going to step up and take it away so thank you for acting quickly. And zone also in addition to our work she served as the San Francisco director to john burton and served in the clinton mischievous working at the department of Housing Authority and, of course, our own roberta. Zone has worked for elective and other places including john burton and willie brown and some of the really more the shireer members of our political family. I got to know zone when i came to San Francisco as a 27yearold gay man and got involve