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For just eat. It hits the bottom of the stoxx 600 as orders slow in the Fourth Quarter. But the company says it is on track to deliver on fullyear results. The president elect names his soninlaw, jared kushner, as his Senior Adviser. The Incoming Administration claims the move will not violate nepotism laws as the role is unpaid. Good morning, everybody. Really glad youre with us. Do does it make a difference if a Senior Adviser role is paid versus unpaid as far as nepotism . Interesting one. Sh...

Like to give a warm welcome to the new supervisor who is on this committee sandra lee fewer. [applause] our clerk is derek evans and from sfgtv we would like to thank the staff. Felix is new and at this time mr. Clerk do you have any announcements. Yes, sir madam chair. Please silent all cell phones and Electronic Devices and items should be submitted to the check and items will be on the tuesday january 242017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Mr. Clerk can you cal...

Until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is that until next month . Yes. X month i suppose. I just i apologize for my voice today. I spent the last few days in washington at the Transportation Research board. It was extre...

Quorum but we will take the other items okay. Communications. I have two. One is the question is do we want to make the election of chair and vice chair do we want to postpone until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is t...

Different billion dollar climate events. Combine these events, costs the economy over 200 billion. And lest we think this is an aberration, its important to remember the number and the cost of these events has doubled over the last decade and has increased eight fold over the last 30 years. And so Climate Change events are taking a toll on our economy and theyre expected to become more and more intense Going Forward. And so my question for you is, to what extent does fed take into account the im...

The economy. It will come as no surprise to you, chair yellen, that improving Economic Growth is a key priority for congress this year. 2016 was the 11th Consecutive Year that the u. S. Economy failed to grow by more than 3 . One way to improve our Economic Growth is it to study and address areas where regulations can be improved. Since the financial crisis regulators have imposed thousands of new pages of regulations. We all need to better understand the combined impact of these rules on lendin...

Watch cspan as President Trump delivers first address to joint section of congress. This congress is going to be busie no decades. Live tuesday listen live cspan radioapp. Federal reserve chair yellen testified before the Banking Committee to give report. The committee will come to committee will come to order. Today we will be receive testimony from Federal Reserve chair janet yellen regarding policy and state of the economy. It will come as no surprise to you Economic Growth is key priority fo...

Watch cspan as President Trump delivers first address to joint section of congress. This congress is going to be busie no decades. Live tuesday listen live cspan radioapp. Federal reserve chair yellen testified before the Banking Committee to give report. The committee will come to committee will come to order. Today we will be receive testimony from Federal Reserve chair janet yellen regarding policy and state of the economy. It will come as no surprise to you Economic Growth is key priority fo...

That is the one thing people will want to know on monday morning first thing. The Dollar Strengthening against the yen after the fed official added to the course of policymakers signaling they will keep raising Interest Rates. This is a picture for european markets. They are gaining some 0. 3 . Another currency pairing is new Zealand Dollar slipping some 1 . The kiwi dropping 1. 7 last week after the central bank said on february 9 that it plans to keep arming costs at a record low. We have char...

Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made impr e improving our nations infrastructure a top priority and this is to highlight our infrastructure needs. It is critical to our nations prosperity. In personal meetings i have met with members of this committee both sides of the aisle and infrastructure is listed as a top priority because it is a driver of our nation aes econo and impacts every community. This community has a history of working together. I want to continue ...