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I will be chairing this meeting. Joining me will be supervisor katy tang. The clerk today is alisa miller. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv jennifer low and jim smith who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are interest any announcements . Yes. Please make sure you silence all cell phones and electronic devices. [speaker not understood] should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appe...

Will work best but as we get bigger groups well have a lot more freedom. I want to thank Michael Schwartz and the whole team for the strategic analysis report and its really, really helpful. Im hoping we expand bike sharing for transportation purposes as well. Any other questions is there any Public Comment i think i have one card bryant and anyone else that wants to speak please come forward first i want to say good morning and thank you for having this meeting im thankful to the city i was the...

Okay, lets get started. Welcome to our rules Committee Meeting for thursday, may 15th, 2014. I am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. Joining me will be supervisor katy tang. The clerk today is alisa miller. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv jennifer low and jim smith who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are interest any announcements . Yes. Please make sure you silence all cel...

Inspiring me. And i really wish that you could stay longer so i could learn more from you and i am also happy for you because it is hard to enjoy the environment and we will hope that we will continue the spirit that you have and the solid work and you will be a real for the department. Thank you. I think that so much of this department, combines, sort of actism with being a Government Agency and kind of all of these beautiful, and all of these problems with that but there is also a beauty do th...

They dont want to be designated but they also said the fact that they are closely supervised by the that is one of the most to the community. So the fact that they dont want to be close and supervised by the fed is simply the size alone and theres nothing they can do about it unless you want to break up fidelity. Thank you for asking. Okay, so banks greater than 50 billion dont have a choice. That is my time. Im sorry, did you want to talk over me . We know that. Believe it or not, the time alon...

And they wouldnt have stopped any of it. You couldve made all those bad Mortgage Loans. And then the question is if you break up the bank and its its part of the issue. Its one of the things that we asked him to look at with regard to discretion. And so why i changed my own position, i believe didnt agree with this but they are part of the complexity and i think that its not just about complexity but its a very good way to diminish this complexity. So my question is what is the level in which yo...

On terms of the whole enterprise i dont think that is our problem because we are just as human as anybody else but i think we have a number of hangups if i might be permitted to use that word. On the one hand to as an American Muslim Community in a transition every phase we are stock between a certain sort of allegiance to related say back coal culture of islam and the nafta be an immigrant to have that attachment many are equally attached because we dont know of that alternative what is likely ...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Spellings, president of the george w. Bush president ial center. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as the announcer said i am Margaret Spellings the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on...

The skills necessary to do so. I dont think you can disaggregate em. Let me ask you about the two presidencies involved in this, in this initiative that arent represented on the stage, and president clinton, im going to begin by asking you about 41. Even though you havent written a book that will be out on november 11th. [laughter] about 41. No, i think i could put one together, and itd be ready by yeah. [laughter] be ready for the christmas season. [laughter] but you have worked a lot with 41 i...

Really, the mid h90s, it was people on our side that were trying to restrict these kind of loans, and we passed the Home Protection act and he wouldnt use it. The state of georgia passed laws to assist subprime lending abuses and the Bush Administration preempted it. Then i was working with brad miller and mel watt from the democratic side. We were trying to put regulation through to regulate subprime homes, and the public leadership shut it down. And on the day this committee wants democrats in...