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To the closed session. [gavel clacks] the committee will come to order. The Committee Meets today to hear testimony on the administrations Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture review. We welcome back the secretary of defense and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to discuss these important documents. I cannot count the number of times i have heard members of this Committee Talk about the importance of having a Defense Strategy to help guide decisions that we executive branch have to make...

Review. This is about 90 minutes. The meeting will come to order. The Committee Meets today to hear testimony on the Administrations National Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture review, both of which were recently released. We welcome back the secretary of defense and the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to discuss these important documents. I cannot count the number of times i have heard members of this Committee Talk about the importance of having a Defense Strategy to help guide de...

Statement the fed held back from changing its line on the balance of risks. A number of Committee Meetings were edging in that direction. What did they do . It seems a compromise here. They do not change the balance of the risk statement but they add that word further a couple of times in the statement. That change was explicitly in the context of the brightening outlook that fomc officials have for growth in 2018. Said they agreed to update the characterization of the expectation for the evolut...

Congressman. Our next guest of the morning is representative garret graves of louisiana and here to talk about what happens when the areas of the country get ravaged by storms. Could you give us yours experience in louisiana and take us back to what you did before you came to congress . Sure. We have a wlabd slachbd surveyi company, so ive spent my whole life in the unique terrain. But a few jobs back, i was responsible for largely restoring the coastal wetlands following 2005 hurricanes. One of...

Allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Our secretary will call the roll. Roll call. President scott. Present. Vice president lim, excused. Commissioner follansbee, excused. Commission sass expected. We dont have a quorum but we will by the time we get to an action item ive been assured by those expected commissioners. We do hav...

The president who has been phone calling and speaking to senators who are on the fence. Lets start first with the president s tweet this morning. He said in a tweet tweet republican senators are working hard to get their failed obama care there failed obama care replacement approved i will be at my desk pen in hand. You also tweeted that theyre working hard those senators who might be on the fence to buy in to the revisions to the better care recreation act. That has brought some of the moderate...

Pawing by a oneday president ial hopeful and historic charges of cross armwrest grasping or the honoring of wikileaks releasing tens of thousands of emails that the other president ial hopeful tried her very best to bury and to bury deeply. The hopeful whose entire campaign has been built on lies, deceit and fear. It is that kind of history that is now in the making that we now witness and none of it, im sure you would agree, has been pretty. Donald trump today campaigning in north carolina. Foc...

Pawing by a oneday president ial hopeful and historic charges of cross armwrest grasping or the honoring of wikileaks releasing tens of thousands of emails that the other president ial hopeful tried her very best to bury and to bury deeply. The hopeful whose entire campaign has been built on lies, deceit and fear. It is that kind of history that is now in the making that we now witness and none of it, im sure you would agree, has been pretty. Donald trump today campaigning in north carolina. Foc...

Is what Michael Luber caps on, i have to very strongly contest that. What Michael Bloomberg tried to do was tell people what they could purchase with their own money. Passed provision restricting people from buying things like alcohol or cigarettes with welfare dollars. These programs are supposed to be for helping people cover their basic necessities as they get through a tough time in life. Programs that are supposed to enable people to live unhealthy lifestyles at the expense of the taxpayer....

Affordable for commercial uses keep the bottom floor flexible to shift over time you this is not working we need a new zoning designation with flexible use or maybe there is one in the city that can be applied as prop c is requesting a remove the unaffordable requirement and more discretion of the board of supervisors in rakts to the change in the economy we may need more flexibility in the bottom floor commercial space the potrero hill has a wide range of uses the turnover in the neighborhood m...