Everyone here wants the same thing and that is to serve americas businesses the best we can. Those of us out here on the dais at the lincoln advantage of issue and let us know how we are doing all the time and on an ongoing basis as head of an agency i sometimes worry that too often you most fear from your own folks and from other washington bureaucrats fear that is the only explanation for why the six to nine gao identified concerns and problems havent been addressed. Yesterday wasnt the first time these issues have been raised. Yesterday we heard some pretty serious concerns both by members of this committee and from our gao witness who testified here yesterday about the management of the sba. Administrator maria contrerassweet, since you are with us yesterday will recap is briefly although im sure your staff is already given you a rundown. I told the gao witness yesterday that this kind of reminds me of being a parent. If your teenagers room is the mass and then stuff from all over
Call roll at this time. Of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to order can we please have the roll call commissioner courtney commissioner Vice President moran commissioner courtney commissioner kwon and commissioner caen will arrive shortly. Approval of the draft minutes is there a motion to approve the minutes of the 6 additions, deletions, or changes Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries next item, please. Item 4 general Public Comment francisco da costa please. Commissioners, i want to wish you all a happy new year so. Happy new year to you. Thank you so we are now amending the taxpayers theyre going to be seeing a lot changes in 2016 whether we like it are not and what im requesting is not too many people have the time to come here time is precious so we all have our own projects and if you see less and less Public Comment here given it is less and less experts from the community i can mention a few like Steve Lawrence and john and anoth
For the president and congress. So you can submit them to the u. S. Commission on civil rights by either mailing them to the commission to the office of civil rights, 1331 pennsylvania avenue, thats 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest suite 1150 washington 20425 or via email at Public Comments at usccr. Gov. Thats publiccomments uscc r. Gov. With that out of the way i would like to introduce and swear our panelists in and Stella Flores from vanderbilt university. Peggy carr from the u. S. Department of education and dr. James t. Minor also with the u. S. Department of education. Will you each raise your right ha hand, please. And i ask that you swear or affirm that the information youre about to provide to us is true and accurate to the best of your believe and belief, is that correct . Yes. Professor flores, please proceed. Thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity to speak on the civil rights implications on College Access, persistence and completion for underrepresented minority
Host it was 50 years ago when Congress Passed and president johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 50 years later, what impact has it had on you and your family, on our nation and around the world . Were going to get your thoughts and comments on this important anniversary. At 202 5853880 for democrats and 202 5853881 for republicans. If youre an independent, the number to call is 202 5853882. You can also send us an email at journal cspan. Org or join us on twitter at cspanwj as we look at some of the headlines, the headline to hold the Senate Democrats rely on single women, respected the Supreme Court decision on the hobby lobby case, Jackie Collins writes the following. Host we mentioned the july fourth holiday. This is the headline today from the boston globe along the east coast. A lot of folks keeping an eye on hurricane arthur as it makes its way up the carolina coast and this headline from the boston globe. Host we want to begin with your thoughts on the Civil Rights Act
[inaudible conversations] next day here in looking how veterans are transitioning to civilian life. In a washington journal segment on the destruction of chemical weapons and later a discussion about brain injuries and the elderly. A lot of people dont know how difficult it is. I dont know one person may be in this room that can juggle the things me and my husband have to juggle every single day with having three children on medical disabilities going back and forth to work sometimes maybe having too taken under the table job just to bring in extra money. There isnt a lazy bone in my body. There are many people that live in the inner city under the Poverty Level that are not easy. We want to be a part of the conversation. We want to have fulltime jobs and go to school and go to college and things like that and i actually believe that certain people just put the stamp of sleazy on us and to put a smoke screen that could not can not be able to see what is really going on. To point the fi