Their budget. 31,000 employees. In the meantime, we want to go through the newspapers and look at some of the news stories, including ukraine and the violence of there. The president budget is being previewed and the gop tax plan is being unveiled next week. Have a Public Policy discussion item that you would like to add to the table, we are going to put the numbers up on the screen. You can dial in. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Go to social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle. In our participate conversation on the nih on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. Here are some headlines on the ukraine. Ukraines bloodiest day. This picture is taking a most of the front page. Bodies of some of the protesters that were killed. Here is the front page of the pittsburgh postgazette. Their headline is ukraines president open to early elections. M politico, John Mccain White house on ukraine stunning. Sanctions on the ukraine and slammed the administratio
The inquiry shows the industry is falling are short of that standard. It appears to be falling far short of that standard. It seems the motto of data brokers is, we can, and indeed, we will. We heard about the lists generated by data brokers from genetic disease sufferers, dementia sufferers, payday loan responders. Products that seem tailormade for businesses seeking to take advantage of consumers. I hate that. I am revolted by that. I have seen it in the treatment of coal miners and their safety. I have seen it in every aspect of life in the state i come from and elsewhere. I do not like it. Our job asis government to minimize that possibility and ring out into the sunlight what is going on. Knownator booker does not this is happening, he does now. He does not like it. Mccaskill nailed something that could not be responded to. We will continue on this track. I think it is serious. It is a dark underside of American Life where people make a lot of money and cause a lot of people to su
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April 25th honoring the Hearst Family a long time supporter in the city and a last year we had an auction and that concludes my presentation is there anyone who wants to make any Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioners that was discussion only were on item 7 the recreation and Parks Department budget for fiscal years 20142015 and 20152016. Good morning, commissioners katie. Good morning im here this morning for the commissions approval for fiscal years 20142015 before i get into the meat of my presentation which is focused on the general fund i do want to note that your commission packets included information about the open space fund this year in order to meet our charter requirements under prop c. And if you have any questions about that information if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them. So im going to start this morning with a revised to your outlook youll notice this slide as changed since january and primarily the changes i
Thats what we did. And how many of you stood up to do that . None. Zero. Zero. Lets talk. Lets not water the wine here. Lets say it like it is. Let me bring in Washington Post National Political reporter Malia Henderson and wendell potter. Well have congressman pascrell in a second. But lets start with the admission from steny hoyer that some policies, people would need to get more extensive coverage. It is not that you would be abandoned and left without anything, but if your coverage was a basic coverage and did not meet the stand r standard of the new law, there would be adjustments made here. Yeah, of course, thats the case, because one of the whole purposes for the Affordable Care act was to make sure people had adds quaut. 30 million are under insured because they are lured into policies that dont provide them the protection they need. Weve known or should have known all along, i have and most people who have been following this knew that a lot of policies available now that peop