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Pure navy bill, it will devastate some part of the navy either our shipbuilding or readiness or something, because the high cost of these and because we dont recapitalize them very often. If you look back in history there is precedent for either making this a National Program because it is the most survivable leg of our deterrence or building another ship to accommodate it. The freedom in the early 60s to late 60s and the maritime maybe in 72 it was increased pretty dramatically to build these s...

The transatlantic space to support ukraine. And i do think that our leadership in this is recognized. We are having as spirited a debate as is going on theres also a transatlantic debate so that question gets asked also in our diplomacy. But europeans come at it from both sides, depending upon where they sit. With regard to ukraine and the things that need to be done, and that has been appreciated, very much by my by most of us, i would have at this point significant difficulty coming to work ea...

Our workshop Public Housing within the next 18 months we will the Mayors Office of housing will help fund along with the Housing Authority over 35 hundred units forrehabilitation and by the end of that period we will have unit that will be having at least a useful life of another 20 years and manage and fund in are a way that the federal government did not provide for the Housing Authority and so in that effort clearly the office has made substantial process in terms of developing the financial ...

Butter of the Mayors Office of housing our traditional Affordable Housing but we want to do add to this work and to address a broader range of individuals and families who also given the Housing Market are hardpressed to stay in the city in a nut shell thats what we are doing in terms of creating new programs and trying to line up projects to leverage out the funding and meet the mayors goals of the thirty thousand you know 050 percent of which is affordable a third of that you know thirty thous...

It comes back operationally, we do tolerate failure. The first thing in the field, this is not a zero mentality. People make mistakes. Theres fog and friction and we reward innovation and i think it exists. Constitutional ly institutionally, its a little harder. But in the acquisition realm the processes are not they grind on so its not that they dont reward innovation. Its that innovation and new ideas dont naturally arise from it because theres a risk aversion. Everybody wants a piece of it, t...

At your preference . I think that we will be okay at this point. Any highlights that you want to communicate to the public as well . Only that this is not new authorization, it is delegating authority to the commission to enter into these Loan Agreements rather than coming to the commission that is the only change. Okay. Supervisor tang . Thank you, i dont actually have any particular questions i was a cosponsor on this item and i think that it was a Great Program that was going to be able to pa...

Fighting for 10 years all the same groups were representing different opinions we reached ideas on eastern neighborhood and set higher levels of rules and set projects to those routines and should be approved now, some people want to change the rules thats not how we play the game all parts got involved and created those rules as far as all the promotions being approved their might have been a lot approved but only 75 this is harder enough we have a long ways to go in the right direction but 2,2...

Grateful im kevin shepherd i was born and raised in the city and live in the bay area district now as far as this project is concerned i only see more projects in an area where there are no unit ive known geoe joe for 15 years hes probably the most fair itself contractor ive worked for he is completely open about everything he does and with the other people air force one of the biggest supporters of Affordable Housing just with the in my own county of the bay area district this didnt fight again...

Its credibility . Lawrence its a question of starting to clean it up. I think whats happened is that the dynamic of the web is very the sort of quick accountability and Quick Response and dissemination through twitter and other means of, you know questions about something that popped up tends to kind of clean things up on its own a little bit. If somebody comes out with something thats not right or thats clearly proveably wrong or from a source thats questionable, the accountability of that happ...

Women ever elected to congress. You have to hear their stories in a Session Panel that took place a few weeks ago when we went down to washington for this amazing weekend on vietnam and the power of protest. You will watch some of it on memorial day as we remember. Wayne smith also part of that broadcast. He is an army medic that went into South Vietnam as we talk about the meaning of memorial day. These are the kinds of programs you get on a regular basis. You will see Edward Snowden, tom drake...