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With these tax increases while the wealthy continue to get more tax bracing. Ill yield the floor. Mr. Wyden mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Wyden mr. President , i brought with me to the floor a copy of the justreleased analysis by the joint committee on taxation. These folks are the independent tax referees for the congress. I pushed very hard for several weeks in order to get this dynamic score for the republican tax bill because as the Ranking Member on the ...

In connecticut, that means 468,200 taxpayers in the bottom 80 of Income Distribution will experience a tax hike under this plan. The republican tax plan ends state and local tax deductibility, which means families are going to be taxed twice. It increases the federal burden on connecticut families who already pay more federal taxes than they receive in federal funding. Now what i hear, again listening to my friends and constituents in connecticut, is that theyre willing to pay their fair share. ...

The dow crossed 24 how for the first time yesterday, but for the month the dow was up 3. 83 the s p up 2. 1 and the knanasdaq up 2. 17 . Telecoms led the way for the month. Check out the u. S. Futures those gains yesterday were something to see the dow Jones Crossing 24,000 for the first time the s p 500 was up by 0. 8 yesterday. All of these things we have been watching closely you are seeing a pull back this morning. Maybe related to what were seeing in europe the declines there are more signi...

Point of is because were talking about affordability for the project in regards to parking, parking makes housing more expensive. Because of the shape of the lot youd have to excavate floors to have more than 16 spots even when were talking about moving electrical and mechanical equipment here or there but that may get you one or two more spots in the floor they have already in the plans for parking to get to approach. 3,. 5 Parking Spaces for 95 units, youd have to excavate two and three storie...

Again, this corner is highly, highly trafficked at most times of the night. Its not the kind of corner where people can stop and jump out and get back in. Its really challenging. Thats going to be it doesnt mean dont do the project, it just means theres a challenge. The last thing ill comment on in terms of affordability, i concur with the staff just to go further the project has a gray area with affordability. It gets the density decontrol it would have had with home sf which requires 30 but ye...

On where the parking is. I think people will be surprised how little of an impact this has when it actually gets hit on the street. The design is vastly improved. I dont know if you did the earlier design but if you did you vastly i am improved it. It remembers of van ness. Originally it was a good design but didnt not turn out as as well as originally planned and part was materialiality. I think your balconies add texture to it which they dont have and it looked like an office complex. I like t...

Clouds, 51 to 56 degrees. The morning commute, guess who will tell you all about it, hi, sue. The east shore freeway, the solid stream of headlights moving at the limit. If your travels take from you the upper portion of the east shore freeway, hercules through san pablo and el cerrito, berkeley into the mcarthur maze, youre looking at about a 26minute drive and thats through the toll plaza. No delays here except for a few minor cash paying folks. Thats not a bad commute. Quiet up there. We do h...

Hercules all the way into San Francisco, a moderate 45 minutes. Our big problem here remains highway 84, isabel, closed in both directions between concannon and vineyard. No estimated time of reopening and of course thats a big alternate to 680. 680 not looking so good this morning on the sunol grade. Prepare for the grind. At the live desk it is going to be a rough day for Southern California firefighters. Wind gusts 50 miles an hour in some areas and thats fanning the flames of multiple wild f...

Steven fisher is in ven nis, california, not too far from a the u infer no. Reporter the same cannot be be said across Southern California. The wildfires continue to burn. More people being forced to e c evacuate their homes and the air quality around here beginning to become a huge concern. The fight against the flames is hand to hand comment. Across Southern California. Theres nothing anyone could do. The rolling flames racing through more than 100,000 acres taking with them hundreds of homes....

Gone. Reporter judge david norton refused to believe this saying slager shot an unarmed man in the back as he ran away. My soul is rejoicing right now reporter the family of 50yearold walter scott told slager they forgive him for everything. Slager says hes grateful, telling them i wish i could go back and change that day. He never said sorry. Today, he did. He apologized to the family. He called each and every one of our names in court today. And apologized. So who are we not to forgive . Repor...