The regularly wednesday, march 8, 2017, and the time is 902 roll call commissioner president Ken Cleaveland commissioner vicepresident Stephen Nakajo commissioner Michael Hardeman commissioner Francee Covington capitol hill of department chief joanne hayeswhite item 2 general Public Comment to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may the lack of a response by the commissioners are Department Personnel doesnt constitute the statements during Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment anyone wish to address us okay Public Comment is closed. Approval of the minutes important Meeting Minutes of the regular meeting of wednesday, march 8, 2017. Any Public Comment on the minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners what is your pleasure. So moved. Do i have a se
Capitol hill of department chief joanne hayeswhite item 2 general Public Comment to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may the lack of a response by the commissioners are Department Personnel doesnt constitute the statements during Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment anyone wish to address us okay Public Comment is closed. Approval of the minutes important Meeting Minutes of the regular meeting of wednesday, march 8, 2017. Any Public Comment on the minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners what is your pleasure. So moved. Do i have a second. Second mr. President , as well as the special meeting on march 2 all in favor, say i. Opposed . Seeing none, minutes are approved thank you next item, please. Madam secretary. Item 4 update on ems 6 progra
I think we know that from everything we do. The more training you have the more muscle memory you have the better able you are to execute your job no matter what it is. And if i could pile on, theres a great responsibility we have to do things different and better as well. We cant expect to be different. Training is where that development the done. That is where we learn new or effective ways to fight or more efficient ways to fight. This is learning how to fight in the future. It is extremely important. I dont want to send one more Service Member unprepared. Thank you gentlemen for being with us today. You know, in budgeting decisions we dont get to decide ourselves. It is beyond. I dont know how many of our members understand the details and difficulty that goes into running an effective military. In this discussion today it is probably the most grave i have heard since i have been here and rightfully so. I know each of you look at your troops as part of your family. At this point ha
To address our concerns and the priorities of democrats on this side of the dais. I remain confident we can find a way to have a positive and strongly bipartisan markup of mr. Lighthizer. And ill wrap up by saying my sense is this place cant have enough comity. Thats comity with a t. And i thank you for your efforts to work with us. I look forward to our hearing, of course. I thank you for your efforts. Its been a pleasure to work with you in the past. I look forward to working with you in the future. I think we make a good team. Well continue with our hearing on taxrelated matters. Every year, a committee holds a meeting on the tax Filing Season. It provides us with an opportunity to discuss and examine the operations of the Internal Revenue service the Agency Charged with implementing our tax code and collecting taxes from workers and employers. With each passing year, taxpayers face new challenges as they file their tax returns. Including, but not limited to protecting their private
Shes been our guest here at the Los Angeles Times festival. Thank you, cspan. Thank you listener. Now we have a another panel coming up, author panel, is on syria. Beginning in just a second. After that, will be joined by corey field who writes about black republicans. Then an author panel on author publishing. One of the people is lisa lucas, the the National Director of the Book Foundation and will conclude our life today with a column on hugh hewitt, the radio talkshow host. Thats coming up today. People schedule schedule is on book tv. Com. Now are going back inside to hear from the authors on syria. Welcome to telling serious stories. My name is jeffrey and im a cultural writer for the Los Angeles Times. Ive been based in rome and berlin and is a cairo bureau chief. Ive written two novels, shadow man and thomas surgeons. Thank you for being here. In the strange times, strong journalism with good book and challenging ideas are critical. That is what the Los Angeles Times in the boo