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Hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness of the House Armed Services subcommittee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess military equipment to civilian Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to begin by recognizing the dedicated service of our readiness secretary clerk. This will be her last official event for our subcommittee and i want to personally thank her for her contributions to our efforts in the past year. I wish her the best of luck as she mo...

The Defense Department have stricter requirements for the program. This is just under one hour. [indiscernible conversation] [gavel pound] mr. Wilson good morning. The hearing will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i welcome you here today and call the hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness of the House Armed Services subcommittee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess poetry equipment to civilian Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to begin by...

A law passed in 1997 allows state and local police to buy excess military equipment at a reduced cost. Pentagon officials testified on capitol hill on the program last week about strengthening requirements on who can buy and transport the equipment. Good morning this hears comes to ordinaries, called this hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness to get of the House Armed Services committee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess military equipment to civilians, ...

Thank you. [applause] one of the objectives of this subcommittee is to bring attention to matters that impact the overall readiness of the department of defense. This includes programs or activities which face management challenges, present budget implications, or could be administrated more efficiently. It is our goal to provide necessary oversight in order to ensure our armed forces achieve the highest level of readiness possible. Given the current threat facing our nation and budgetary pressu...

Whatever is necessary to help. Be tough and strong. We love you. Reaction is pouring in around the world and in our area people are wondering if a similar attack can happen here. Jeff is here with that part of the story tonight. Reporter sharrie folks here obviously saddened by the attack and they are disturbed by a growing trend of of terror by vehicle. You are not safe anywhere anymore. Its happening more and more and becoming like a daily thing. In old city people are reacting to the terroris...

Into what worked in organizing. One of the problems with our media landscape is i could probably go find 1700 pieces on whenever the president shot on twitter yesterday. An actual helpful account of how to organize for Community Grassroots and power is asking too much. I know the richmond, california story, incredibly important doors has been told. Ive seen a couple of articles about it and yet its one of the real stories we should be learning from. Especially atomic all tomorrow which shares wi...

Immediately after this presentation and there are numerous copies of the books on sale in the politics and prose tent. Buy your books early buy them often. No doubt you have friends who want these books. Please buy a bunch. Our writers would appreciate. I. This race free event. We want to keep it that way. It really does help the book festival if youll be buying some books. The more books we sell, the more publishers will send their writers their speak with us, and purchasing books from our part...

Clapping. this city is about love you have a cowboy standing up here on city hall and be able to play well do ourselves good dear friends let us love one another love comes from god everyone that loves is born of god and loves know god is love thats love our city thank you clapping. thank you, again wed like to go forward and thank you to everyone for making their way and before bacteria to you to our human right and the San Francisco Unified School District the city departments including the Sa...

Item 4, apruchbl of the minutes of the november 15, regular meeting. Motion to approve . Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Item 5, commune ications. I like to ask we adjourn the meelting in memory of normal bray. Worked for public works insuch with Traffic Engineering department for over 30 year jz a pred ses squr made huge contributions. Also we have another one. Because item 18 was removed the agenda published we will do the closed session at the end thf meeting. Just so for the public is awa...

Item 5, commune ications. I like to ask we adjourn the meelting in memory of normal bray. Worked for public works insuch with Traffic Engineering department for over 30 year jz a pred ses squr made huge contributions. Also we have another one. Because item 18 was removed the agenda published we will do the closed session at the end thf meeting. Just so for the public is aware item 18 regarding taxis Medallion Program form is removed from the agenda and following we will move closed session to th...