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Collins this hearing will come to order. Good morning. Next week americans will honor our nations veterans who have paid the price for our freedom in times of conflict and served as our shield in times of peace. Today, nearly 20 million americans have earned the title of veteran. Im proud to say that maine is home to more than 114,000 veterans. The second highest percentage in our entire country. We owe them such a great debt. The gratitude we express in words on veterans day can repay this debt...

On protecting veterans targeted by scams and what congress can do to address the issue. This is about two hours. This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Next week, americans will honor our nations veterans who have paid the price for our freedom in times of conflict and served as our shield in times of peace. Today, nearly 20 million americans have earned the title of veteran. Im proud to say that maine is home to more than 114,000 veterans. The second highest percentage in our entire cou...

That trans i am so sick and tired about being confused as a transgender, and at least once a month, i get my ass beat like a man, and im sick of it. And most of the time, its by some male security that works for somebody, and like i tell them, you need to get a female. What we need is more females that are put in security positions so that when theyre interacting with a female, they can just say come on, maam. And i just had to do it today with lutheran social services, and im going to leave it ...

Ok. All right. [laughter] [applause] [cheering] [applause] good afternoon everybody. Hello. Behalf of the center of Civic Engagement hearing new england college, it is my pleasure to introduce you to president ial candidate and United States senator, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] amy is the first woman to be elected to the United States ,enate in minnesotas history and she has a wellknown reputation of getting things done while she is there. A recent study has actually ranked her the most effective ...

Acknowledge forgiveness. Weir imperfection as human beings. The law is imperfect. At 10 00 p. M. Eastern, former Ambassador Nikki Haley with her book, with all due respect. Watch on cspan2. U. S. Senators wanted to know if the 2018 farm bill is being implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talk to farmers. Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastr...

Supervisor safai so first, please add me to this important designation. I had the great privilege of working for almost a year and a half in the Clinton White house, and the main work that we did was with the native american community, and at that time it was with the 558 federally recognized tribes was one group, but there was also a special group that they talked about, and that was urban indians. Those that lived in urban centers that were not recognized, that were not on the map. So we went ...

And like i said when we were telling the same story and its a tough time right now. I dont understand why is our back line process so much longer than other cities . Well, i dont know how other cities do it. Part of it was staffing. You know, weve increased the background units. We have parttime employees. But thats something that weve increased and part of it is that and the captain who is in charge of Staff Services is honed in on than. All those things and weve also researchers actually look ...

The department of Human Resources. And we have other officers paying out of their pocket to get individual certification. So this is an issue thats ongoing. You can have somebody from your office who is there so she probably knows better than i do. There was a discussion. And how are we going to move forward. And they came up with a plan. Theres a plan in place they are going to move on. But there may be a timeline with the department of Human Resources setting it up. I say complicated because i...

Statement overriding sequa findings and that was not unanimous. The omission of an analysis in sequa is an emission so the measure analysis is legal issue. Its was incorrect any use of the design guidelines. Is that it . Yes. Ok, i want to say these pub pubc hearings for 22, 26 and 30 have been held and closed. We are now reconvened as the board of supervisors. We will take up the items related to the exemption from Environmental Review first and that would be items 23, 24 and 25 and we will be ...

When weighed against the benefits of this project, namely the creation of muchneeded housing, and a more walkable streetscape, the mitigations were found to be sufficient by the planning commission. Furthermore, the appellant proposed alternatives that were similar to two alternatives studied in the eir. Packages of design changes to mitigate the Historic Resource were included in four preservation alternatives in the eir, which are not considerably different from the alternatives proposed by th...