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That had 333 recommendations for reform to the Grant Programs at fema. Howev however, only found four permanent changes in which these recommendations came forward. Despite reform over a fiveyear period, little in the way of reform appears to have occurred. We had a hearing on this in 2013 in which we went through some of the various forms of waste occurring at fema. Even since that hearing, we still continue to have problems. 280,000 was recently spent for a bear cat Armored Vehicle in dover. W...

The 96 act said we want competition competition. Some places it has worked. Some places it hasnt. This is one place where it really hasnt. We think consumers would have more choices and lower prices if we got competition into that space. The first question is is there a market for set top boxes . The answer is really in terms of what is delivered over the cable network, no, because the box is actually a component of the network. Thats the most efficient way to design and deliver Cable Television...

A lot of us have been advocating for a long time that the two leaders of this government project that theyre working together and with the internal dynamics and as we say it is unlikely to have been. But there are some things regarding Strategic Communication and People Like Us point out not of government itself. What have we done and what are we attempting to do . And a lot of the frustration with this government is that it doesnt understand that sense of crisis and those uncertainties. That is...

Make tougher laws, and thats not me. We dont we this is such an epidemic and we cannot arrest a way out of this mess. I think the president touched on it briefly. [applause] what the president said earlier is true. We want to arrest the violent, drug dealers that are creating havoc in our communities. We have share of violent crime, and we are very fortunate we have a great partnership, they fund so many of our efforts and so on a daily basis the bad guy gets arrested. So we feel Law Enforcement...

Dramatic rise in the use of heroin, which belongs to the same class as painkillers, opiods. In fact, four in five heroin users, new heroin users, started out by misusing Prescription Drugs. Then they switched to heroin, so, this really is a gateway drug, the Prescription Drugs, become a gateway to heroin. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of heroin related deaths in america nearly quadrupled, although the number of heroin overdoses is still far exceeded by the number of legal Prescription Drug o...

The election of the canadian Prime Minister means, not only for that country, but our country as well. That is all tomorrow on the washington journal. See you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the president obama and a form of Prescription Drug abuse. Mac, john mccain and thornberry talk about defense spending. At noon, we will sho...

Interface support respect request they be turned off. Item for approval of the minutes from the october 20 regular meeting. Motion. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. Thank you. Item 5 communications. Please be advised that we know discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today. Item 6, introduction of new were Unfinished Business by board members. Mr. Heinicke thank you chairman nolan did i like other members of this board was saddened to see by the pedestrian incident inv...

Welcome, everybody from the San Francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, november fourth for 2015, my name is mark and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by the chair, supervisor tang and i want to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the clerk of the Committee Miss linda wong. Silence all cell phones and Electronic Device and completed speaker cards and copies of documented to be included as part of the file should be submitt...

May not exceed, but we have a Reference Point what it was for this fiscal year. Presumably well revisit this memo from time to time based on the budget and changing circumstances about use of the impound account money could does the comments i wouldve made under three and for. Im happy to work with staff on that and resolve the meeting notice issues and finally the disabled access statement for the agenda still refers to the meeting location at city hall. It did not reference this location. It s...

Person responsible for one going off ringing in your purse or pocket may be asked to leave the room. Cell phone set on vibrate caused microphone interface support respect request they be turned off. Item for approval of the minutes from the october 20 regular meeting. Motion. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. Thank you. Item 5 communications. Please be advised that we know discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today. Item 6, introduction of new were Unfinished Business ...