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Called to order. Pursuant to notice on june 30, 2017 the committee needs to consider the nominations of clarion grady to be undersecretary of management at the department of Homeland Security and hammy carter to be special counsel office. Just a brief opening remark, i think as the hearing indicated a couple weeks ago, to highly qualified candidates, simply couldnt be more impressed with the people selected to fill those incredibly important positions. In terms of the folks we are going to be vo...

Ms. Castor thank you, mr. Chairman. I will place in the record a brief Opening Statement that i had for this markup. Im pleased to support both of these nominees. Mr. Johnson we are meeting to consider the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis for the u. S. Department of Homeland Security. And admiral to be assistant secretary of transportation administration, t. S. A. , u. S. Department of Homeland Security. These are two incredibly important positions, particularly at this point in time...

Thank you. Mr. Thornberry mr. Chairman, i am proud to bring before the house h. R. 2810, the National Defense authorization act for the fiscal year 2018. It was reported favorably by the House Armed Services committee at 11 59 p. M. On june 28, 2017. By a vote of 601. That vote is an indication of the bipartisan support that exists to support our troops and to fulfill our obligations placed on us by the constitution. Mr. Chairman, i think the always helpful for us to remind ourselves of the auth...

Squawk alley. Thanks so much, jackie. 10 00 a. M. At sprint headquarters in oberlin park, kansas, 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good morning. Thanks for join us on squawk alley. With me at post 9, mike santoli and kelly evans. Karla and jon have the morning off. We start with the markets on this thursday. The trump rally taking a bit of a step back as we continue to hover more than 100 points below dow 20,000. The blue chip index coming off its second tripledigit loss sinc...

Right now its down 14 points, but ill until you, if it happens, 13 times in a row, the new president coming in, thatll be a first. I want to go to our own blake burman whos standing by at the white house with a preview of tonights president ial address. Reporter a senior white house official saying this is going to be an optimistic speech later tonight by President Trump, at least thats how theyre positioning it as a preview Going Forward. They say it will be a look ahead to the next four years ...

The new information weve just learned in a News Conference this morning. A disturbance moving along the stalled front will bring rain and a slight chance of thunder to our area today. Early morning temperatures will be our highs. We got to 63 at 1am and we wont get back there. Instead well cool into the mid to upper 50s for the afternoon and dip into the 40s overnight. We dry up for thursday as High Pressure returns and we stay dry and sunny through friday and into the weekend. Temperatures retu...

Commissioner sass . Present. We have a quorum oh, im so sorry, commissioner breslin, im so sorry. Were not trying to write anyone help. We need all the help we can get [laughter ]. That is exactly right. Thank you, secretary. With that, well go to discussion item 1. Item 1 discussion item opening remarks. President scott. Yes, would i like i would like to be sure that we all understand what this meeting is about today. There are a couple of features that are not customerary for meetings of this ...

Now ill ask our board secretary to please call the roll. Roll call, employees [pr ez ] scott. Present. Vice president lim. Present. Supervisor farrell excused. Commissioner ferrigno excused. Commissioner follansbee. Present. Commissioner sass . Present. We have a quorum oh, im so sorry, commissioner breslin, im so sorry. Were not trying to write anyone help. We need all the help we can get [laughter ]. That is exactly right. Thank you, secretary. With that, well go to discussion item 1. Item 1 d...

Additional comments or questions but mr. Sandler is here in the event there is. Thank you donna. Discussion and possible action to adopt a charge for hetch hetchy empower and electrical lights for certain municipal customers over and over other governmental agencies for the after july 31st, 2016, and the druksz to adopt a proposed new retail electrical fees and charges for residential and convert eat remain with the hetch hetchy debris enterprising for retail consumers not residential or after i...

Commissioner courtney commissioner caen Department Commissioner kwon and commissioner caen will be arriving shortly. Thank you the approval of the minutes im hoping commissioners had a chance to review the minutes is there a 340gs to adopt the minutes. So moved madam chair second. Public comment on the minutes hearing none, emphasize. Opposed . Minutes are approved next item is general Public Comment i have a card from mr. Da costa. So commissioners in general reading the record act and focusing...