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Ms. Stabenow mr. President i would ask suspension of the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Stabenow thank you mr. President. Thank you. Mr. President , i think the American People deserve to see the contrast between how nominees were treated last decade during the Bush Administration versus how they are treated this decade during the obama administration. When former president bush nominated John Ashcroft to be attorney general. It was controversial. I was one of 42 democ...

Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere an...

We have heard you cant experience the real character of San Francisco on those streets and i would counter you cant experience the real culture of San Francisco on those busses. They are using muni and walking and loving it. The logistickal restrictions of our neighborhood had been followed we wouldnt have reached the point of needing this meeting. I would suggest option 1 with the addition of restricting employee busses as well. Im wondering why google buses are a problem for cal hollow but ala...

Size dont fit on our residential streets. Please stop it. The other thing is that if you put, i prefer option 1, but if you put the stop at pierce street and fell, with that number of busses its never going to work so just remove it and tell them they have to go someplace else and have the tourists walk to our community. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Hi, there, good afternoon, thank you commissioners and director riskin. I live on the third floor on a house on scout be...

John dallas, christine that odonnell good afternoon. Thank you for hearing us, im john dallas with the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association. A couple, 4 years ago i kind of started this ball rolling because i was trying to have a conversation on my sidewalk and i couldnt hear the person i was talking to, it was a saturday morning and the busses were so loud and so frequent i thought this was starting to be a problem. When we began, when alamo square originally contacted mta and asked about our ...

Shoot i wanted to say i think its important the last issue is the person assigned to look at this, jerry robins, i am part of his fan club. I want to say that the people who are concerned about this and getting this improved, the best person to look at this and solve the problem is jerry robins so i think the fact that he did the research on this, he is probably the most underpaid City Employee because of the amount of effort he picks in trying to solve this problem. So i hope you will take his ...

Large number of google busses and tour busses. If large numbers of busses idling is a problem they are also a problem for employer busses. Tour busses are not the only way to see the city. Thank you very much. Robert weiner followed by pete wilson and john billow. Herbert weiner, resident of richmond. I thought the viking invasion was bad. In sea crest theres a prohibition on busses that are too big. That prohibition is in effect already, why doesnt it apply to neighborhoods throughout the city ...

Next speaker, please. Christine that odonnel, Owen Odonnell my name is Owen Odonnell and im going to speak for my wife, christine that. Ive lived in al low square for 40 years. I really glae with virtually everything youve heard from the neighbors. One sunday morning about 10 00 my wife stood on the front porch and counted the busses. There were 11 in 10 minutes. Factor that into trying to live in a residential neighborhood on a sunday morning. If you approve option 2 i suggest that you cancel t...

Mr. Reid i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of Gerald Austin mchugh jr. Of pennsylvania to be United States district judge for the Eastern District of pennsylvania, signed by 17 senators as follows mr. Reid i ask consent the reading of...

A spiritual advisor of the 9 11 bombers. This is not some extraneous person. This is someone who is a major in the militarys communicating by email within. Despite all of our surveillance capabilities, we failed to prevent that horrific that claimed the lives of 14 innocents. In your judgment, what could we have done better to prevent that . To be honest, i will answer that question to senator graham. The that may suggest more broadly on both of these that it would be a far better allocation of ...