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Weeks, the congress actively moving forward with its proposed sanctions bill could have an unpredictable effect on leadership opinion public opinion, in tehran. Just to set the scene then ill ask simon gas who is leading our delegation in the direct talks with the iranians to say something, but just to set the scene, there has been some movement over the last few weeks. We have seen some movement. There is reason for cautious optimism, signals coming out of tehran there is a desire to try to fin...

Bill aimed at encouraging the development of energyefficient technologies for use in both commercial and residential buildings. Senate majority leader harry reid expressed dismay that efforts had failed to yield an overall agreement on amendments to move the bill forward, but he says hes hopeful members can regroup this week to advance the measure. Today theyll also debate and vote on two judicial nominations to the u. S. Court of federal claims. Over in the house, theres a brief pro forma sessi...

House Foreign Affairs committee on militant Group Alshabaab and why he feels it could become more of a global threat if the United States wont counter its influence. Alshabaab is this tamalebased group that took credit for last weeks attack at a canyon Shopping Mall. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order at this time. Today we are going to meet to assess the threat and i would ask all members to ...

Bones. They call the senate to session, gavel it order, and say well be in recess until tomorrow at noon. Boom. Because we do that, were not in recess. So you cant use the recess appointment power. So the first question the Supreme Court has to decide is the exercise that the supreme that the senate goes through a real recess or not. In order, is it a recess during which the president could use the recess appointment power. Yes or no. The second question, remember what the article the section of...

Questions and plan to end this event right around noon. [applause] lets start with where the book starts and ends, new orleans. You both decided you wanted to leave d. C. At the same time or was there a lot of discussion about this move . That is the great place to start and a great place to talk. Summertime ernie els a have a son, todd lorenzo, who is here. Thank you for coming out. Saturday afternoon in the rain. New orleans is playing the new orleans saints, playing the Seattle Seahawks today...

Advance all of these as a body. That said, there is value in enforcement and to that end we did already shift a little bit more resource into the placard detail. With regard to and thats something well monitor the effectiveness of, as carla suggested, it is very time consuming and labor intensive, but feedback we heard from people concerned about these recommendations is that you really should try to increase enforcement, to educate people about enforcement, before you do some of these other thi...

Its not an overnight thing, we are not issuing all these new spots as of this vote, its something you are anticipating doing and as you are doing that you will also be working with the state so we will have this multi pronged approach when the new things come in. And we will continue to bring new legislation on the board. Other communities around california, moving in this direction . So when we go to the legislation, others are supporting this . Ill let bob take a crack at this one. Theres a lo...

Restriction. Also i dont think we mentioned in the presentation that were going to change the requirements to 4 percent. Were starting to prepare for new requirements we believe to be coming to us any way. We have heard some concern in the feedback if we increase blue zones but cant implement the rest of these recommendations then instead of effectively increasing the general parking supply, were decreasing it. Correct. Thats something that well be cautious of as we develop the transmission plan...

Software, this provides a Software Platform that would really revolutionize my staffs ability to be effective in the functions that it has to do every day as the staff report referenced, it would eliminate a lot of the paperbased work we do including faxes and data entry. It would make our multiple spreadsheets and data bases with permit holder information actually talk to each other in a useful way, create online reporting opportunities for companies and i think relieve the Administrative Burde...

Should be paying the equal amount as everybody else. We may not be there yet but i think this is a great step in the right direction and i appreciate the thautdful comments from everyone and the thoughtful amendment in light of the low income considerations. I think its a challenging thing to address because of the administrative feasibility but were looking to staff to help us out with that and i appreciate the help of staff with that. Thank you, director. The last point you made and mr. Hale m...