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For joining us. I will start off with a little bit of history. Topic one, drug prices. In july of 2020, donald trump said since the day i took office, i have made reducing drug prices one of my highest priorities. For four straight years, donald trump complained about high drug prices, did lots of finger pointing at others about the problem and repeatedly talked about how he was the best friend of seniors best friend seniors who depend on medicare could have. What was actually accomplished over ...

Revenues of those are the revenues the mayor and the board of supervisors have to allocate and this is the projection from the citys fiveyear Financial Plan and you can see i have circled down here that over the four years of this projection theres an average growth rate of about 3. 5 and so we can change that or tweak that in terms of our growth assumption but if we use that number we should be growing our support by no more than about 3. 5 if were not going to continue to exacerbate the citys ...

Pay for general city responsibilities which is things like Retiree Health subsidiaries , Health Service Administration Costs and those dollars that we must spend keep City Services running and were obligated do not have a policy choice to make to reduce them without other action and that leaves about 2. 5 billion that is available that is truly a matter of policy addition correction so in that light our 715 million is much larger share puts us at about 30 of the total discretionary dollars that ...

Share puts us at about 30 of the total discretionary dollars that are available to allocate and so that is a big portion its a much bigger portion than when you look at the higher level numbers and that is one of the reasons that our budget is a major factor for the citys general Fund Balancing plan and vice versa when the general fund is in trouble were in trouble and when were in trouble the general fund is in trouble so thats why were always working very carefully to coordinate with Mayors Of...

Is available that is truly a matter of policy addition correction so in that light our 715 million is much larger share puts us at about 30 of the total discretionary dollars that are available to allocate and so that is a big portion its a much bigger portion than when you look at the higher level numbers and that is one of the reasons that our budget is a major factor for the citys general Fund Balancing plan and vice versa when the general fund is in trouble were in trouble and when were in t...

Regulatory changes, but firms are also changing their own Risk Management practices in some sense in some cases in a more conservative direction. We have seen an increase in algogh rhythmic and high algorithmic and high trading practices. In addition, in the Corporate Bond market, there have been increased reporting requirements that may be reducing the desired sizes of trades. And i think all of these factors could potentially account for whats going on but we have not really yet been able to f...

Later. Every month, every year, that is why we need you so badly. To demand elected officials confront the truth. More jobs will be created that eliminating the damages of Climate Change and mitigating them. Then will be kept by not doing anything about it. Same with immigration. I recently had the opportunity to meet with lee kwan you before he died. He was the president of singapore, a brilliant guy who wrote extensively on the future of india china, the United States and russia. He recently p...

Join us this saturday for our live coverage of the harlem book fair, the nations literary event. On sunday, the author and code pink cofounder. Saturday we are live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival, celebrating its 15th year followed by our live indepth program. That is a few of our upcoming, live programs. Vice President Biden spoke at the center for american progress. He focused his remarks on issues and people can get involved with to create progressive change including...

Afternoon on the pluto flyby this week. Officials were released more pictures and discuss the new horizons space craft. That reading is at 1 00 eastern. This weekend, politics books, and American History. Wrote to the white house coverage features nearly all the president ial candidates and begins tonight in iowa. At 8 00 eastern, were live from cedar rapids iowa for the Democratic Party hall of fame dinner. All day saturday starting at 11 00 eastern, were live in ames iowa for the family leader...

Commissioners. First to start with, kind of second to last item, ab 1110. I want commissioners to be fully aware that scott the very powerful lobbyist and representative of the utility workers unions including ibew on the 13th of this month was sidebyside with the bill author in committee promoting the bill. So its clear that not only was ibew involved with the local ballot measure, but also with this bill. That is not to say however that we cannot work with the a ssembly member, californians fo...