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Again. In addition cmd implemented a web base monitoring tool to help track lbe compliance. For our follow ups, our office we use a risk base approach to select specific recommendations that the departments report for field testing. This is where we actually go out to the office and we go in to test. We gather evidence to determine if the departments implementation resolved the problem underlying the recommendation and issue a memo reporting our findings. Our follow up go through the same proces...

As well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to understand how those prices are set. The resolution is asking for four things. It asks the department of Public Health to use consumer websites to provide comparisons for drugs in San Francisco and as...

Going to our schools and making our neighborhood safe. But unfortunately even our residents that have good coverage are spending this money on medications. There are a lot of complicated issues that under lie why drug pricing is so high. There are a couple things that i would like to note that i have certainly explored with city staff on this issue. We have very little transparency on the prices set not only with drugs but also prices paid by the city and county of San Francisco. Some of the out...

Fairs. However their response is they have made previous attempts to do so and have not had support of sf mta and policy makers. Mta is here to speak on this one outstanding issue. Good morning, chair breed, supervisor tang. A little bit, my name is cameron sammy. Im the enforcement manager with sf mta. A little background. Article 6 temporary use of or occupancy of public streets sf mta, the ability to collect fees from major events which are defined in section 6. 3. There is three primarily is...

So from the standpoint of eliminating that possibility that there was in this case a conus in the United States connection, i think thats another important attribute of section 215. Thank you. General alexander, under current law when one of these socalled mistakes occurs that you refer to in your testimony, i believe you said they were somewhat less than 3000 of them had occurred, that the current law requires at the immediate report those to the fisa court, which you do. The current law does n...

Thank you for joining us. I am honored to be here with my women colleagues who have taken the lead on when american succeeds women succeed. And we have the leader of the issue here. She is the booster of it all shall we say and sets the pace for all of us. Donna edwards the share of the Workman Group is here. We have the vice chair of the ste steering community. You will be hearing singing from Michele Grisham from new mexico and judy chew of california is here of the asianpacific organization. ...

Eroded from 1968. They will get that chance. We believe the minimum wage is absolutely critical to lift people so that they can be full participants in this economy. We have heard economist after economists tell us this is a demanddriven economy. If it is a demanddriven economy you have to have demand. Raising the minimum wage will increase demand. Raise the growth level in our country, create jobs and be good for everyone which is the central theme of this conference but they will get their cha...

Judiciary committee, and we had some very rancorous debate within our own party, behind closed doors, out in the committee room, here on the floor over the patriot act. Over the extension of power under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts. I was very concerned, even though we had a republican administration, and president that i liked and respected, george w. Bush, smarter, wittier than people gave him credit for, a good decent man, but we have to consider the possibilities, and we have...

Horrible impact on the american dream. 95 of uninsured americans will see their premiums cost less than what was expected. Its a hypothetical, a mythical comparison. There is nothing to it. Its fiction, if you will. You can huff, you can puff for 21 hours, but you cannot blow the Affordable Care act away. We sent the senate a continuing resolution that funds the government and stops obamacare before it costs one more job. Every hour that ticks by puts our country closer to a shutdown. I hope our...

A busy night for you and all of you down there. What happens now in washington . What can be accomplished first of all in the Lame Duck Congress depends what message we hear from the president in the press conference is afternoon. May set the stage for cooperation, defiant tone could lead to an even deeper animosity between the executive branch and republican dominated congress seated in the new year. I think they will try to get as many appointments through the senate that may have been stalled...