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Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities,...

It does come down in the short run, come out and the long run, that will be declining his share of the economy for the next several years, but after 2018 net debt will start rising is a share of the economy which is are we will be putting forward more balanced measures on both the revenue side and the expenditure side to assure that that debt is continuing to decline as a share gdp. A lot of you are focused on, understandably, on agriculture growth which is what i have been focusing on so far. I...

Right and the defense marriage act and the decision not to defend it in court. And he talked about restoring civil right and the vote to exfelons. This is 20 minutes. Our next guest is a special guest and we appreciate having him here as we always do. I commend general holder for his willingness to speak to us candidly and openly every year. The fact that our parting gift is going to be a baseball cap speaks to how many times you have been here because all of the gifts we give out have already b...

The first president of the United States, obama, got his start by beating Hillary Clinton in iowa. George w. Bush is another one. The last two president s of the United States launched their campaign in iowa very effectively. In the first halfhour we focused on the issue of medical marijuana. One of our viewers, from vivian host do you have a stand on this issue . Guest we do not have it. A bill was introduced in the legislature, but it was not met. It failed to meet the first final deadline. It...

Request i want to thank you, mr. Chairman, for allowing me to ask that question in case i have to leave. Thank you. Senator heller. Thank you for your testimony and everybody thats here today. Its good to see you here. At 4 30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and im going to ask him a lot of questions. Im going to ask him obviously about the veterans backlog issue and progress if any are being made. The issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be an...

Denied the ability to renew their individual coverage. Why was that change made . And did the president know it . Mr. Chairman, there was no change. The regulation involving grandfathered plans which applied to both the Employer Market and the individual market indicated that if a plan was in effect in march of 2010, stayed in effect without unduly burdening the consumer with reduciing benefits and adding huge costs that would comply with Affordable Care act. Thats what the grandfather clause sa...

Whether to restore benefits for longterm unemployed. There may not be enough republican support to bring that measure up for a vote. Samesex marriage on hold in utah for a process of court appeals. The federal judge ruled the states ban was unconstitutional but utah has asked the Supreme Court to overturn that ruling in favor of the states rights. Those are the headlines. I am John Seigenthaler. Ameri america tonight with joie chen is next. You can get the latest on aljazeera. Com. On america to...

Decisions that often come out. That is a crude split. Justices do not line up in any particular way. Labels, ict on those dont think theyre particularly helpful in articulating anyone who is a judge, what their philosophy would be. It is not the goal of a judge to come into it with a preconceived vision. You are supposed to decide cases. That is how i would approach it. You have written that you were concerned with decisions that only looked to Prior Supreme Court opinions, statutes, regulations...

Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for monday, june 23rd, 2014. My name is mark farrell. I will be chairing this committee. I am joined by supervisors john avalos, scott wiener, london breed and katy tang. Well be joined momentarily by supervisor eric mar. Want to thank the clerk of the committee linda wong as well as the members of sfgovtv kindergarten covering the meeting jennifer low and jonathan gum wall. [speaker...

In insuring a budget is balances our diversity across the city well continue to invest in our neighborhoods and infrastructure and most important in our people with the one hundred percent. I want to recognize budget supervisor farrell for leading this budget a truly collaborative process and thank you to my staff led by steve to my Budget Office led by kate howard and thank you our city controller and staff and, of course, thank you in advance to the budget analyst harry rose. So with that ladi...