For that. Brief comments about Justice Breyer cant begin to do justice to him, so im going to have to be unjust in light of time constraints that im subject to. Justice breyer has always been remarkably generous with his time in supporting society projects. And indeed, in less than two weeks on june 6th, at our annual meeting, hell be delivering the societys 41st annual lecture. And of course, hes doing these extra projects for the society at a tremendously busy time for him and for all of his colleagues on the court. So Justice Breyer, thank you so much. Some background on Justice Breyer. He was born in san francisco. He eventually, after stanford, came east. Farther east. Hes got a ba from Magdalene College at oxford. He earned his law degree at harvard. He went on to clerk for Justice Arthur goldberg this court. He served with great distinction in the justice department. He served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee at one point and served in other similar roles durin
Thousands raise their voices outside the u. S. Embassy in london as anti racism rallies spread across europe. As courbet 19 deaths top 400000 globally scenes of desperation in some countries afghanistan is fast running out of hospital beds. And the libyan warlord after us allies pushed for a ceasefire as the un recognized government prepares for a new advance and poor german footballs a lineup of global stars had a message for the world from across the league showing their solidarity here with the black lives and Matter Movement. There we are here we go lets start this news hour in the United States where the u. S. President donald trump has in the past few minutes just ordered the National Guard to pull out of washington d. C. Thats despite a 12th night of protests. Across the country demanding change after the death of george floyd mr trump says quote everything is under perfect control we have 2 correspondents monitoring the developments across the United States kristen salumi is st
Some of the democrats wish list has been taken out but the Kennedy Center for performing arts still gets 25 million and there is a provision which limits the response of Small Businesses to union action. Surely at times like this we should be able to pass a clean bill without measures that have nothing to do with rescuing the economy. It is a 900 page bill. We are still going through it. We are looking for the pork. Now look at the markets. There is virtually no reaction to those really bad jobless numbers. We will open with a very small loss, maybe go to the plus column at the time we open up. Right now we are looking at a 57point loss, 67 points for the dow industrials. Remember, please, this follows backtoback trading sessions where stocks went up. Some think that is a sign of at least a shortterm bottom. Well see. Again, the dow is now down 70. S p down 13. Nasdaq down 21. Lets get to the virus. 200 americans have died in the last 24 hours. The death toll now exceeds 1,000 in the U
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Mandelman, stefani, and peskin. I would like to thank sfgovtv for their assistance in broadcasting this meeting. Clerk please make sure to silence all cellphones. Complete speaker cards and provide any documents to be included in the file. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you call item 1. Clerk motion ordering submitted to the voters at an election to be held on march 3, 2020, an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code and administrative code to impose an excise tax on persons keeping ground floor commercial space in certain neighborhood commercial districts and certain neighborhood commercial transit districts vacant, to Fund Assistance to Small Businesses; increasing the citys appropriations limit by the amount collected under the tax for four years from march 3, 2020. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, chair fewer, and members of the committee. I would like to thank you for convening two special budget and finance committees this week. Of course