Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
Supervisor ronen this is commissioner ronen, im here, i might have to jump off. Clerk thank you commissioner ronen present. Commissioner yee . We have a quorum. Supervisor peskin Commission Er ronen when you need to leave, just let me know. Well excuse you until you come back. Well go to our Citizens Advisory Committee report. Mr. Larson, the floor is yours. Good morning chair peskin. Vice chair mandelman im reporting on our september 23rd c. A. C. Meeting. There was extensive discussion among c. A. C. Members regarding Program Guidelines, programming and allocation request concerning the Traffic Congestion mitigation tax or t. N. C. Tax. Given it was the first time a request related to this new source of funds, this come before the committee, c. A. C. Members inquired about the difference between projected amount of tax and lower amount actually collected even before the impact coded. Oversight of time lines and budget delivery of projects and the prioritization of quick build project
Supervisor ronen this is commissioner ronen, im here, i might have to jump off. Clerk thank you commissioner ronen present. Commissioner yee . We have a quorum. Supervisor peskin Commission Er ronen when you need to leave, just let me know. Well excuse you until you come back. Well go to our Citizens Advisory Committee report. Mr. Larson, the floor is yours. Good morning chair peskin. Vice chair mandelman im reporting on our september 23rd c. A. C. Meeting. There was extensive discussion among c. A. C. Members regarding Program Guidelines, programming and allocation request concerning the Traffic Congestion mitigation tax or t. N. C. Tax. Given it was the first time a request related to this new source of funds, this come before the committee, c. A. C. Members inquired about the difference between projected amount of tax and lower amount actually collected even before the impact coded. Oversight of time lines and budget delivery of projects and the prioritization of quick build project
Come in and hear from the candidates. Watch live on cspan and cspan. Org or listen live on the freecspan radio app. Your place for an alternate view of politics. Thank you so much. It is so great to be here with debbie, not here here. I wish i was there. I wish all of us were in the same spot but in lieu of that its great to be able to do this and thank you all for joining us as we are having this chat. Again, when we were planning to store i sent to debbie i cant wait to do appearances with you though we can have conversations again. This is not anything we ever would have imagined when we were going towards the end of last year but we are nothing if not adaptable and we will take solace from the fact that we know any of you who are watching right now could not have physically gotten to crowders books tonight but you can join us virtually. Again, i will reiterate what was said that you should treat this as if you were in the bookstore. When youre in the bookstore for reading, you buy
Now, tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself, if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted anything goes, we can ask anything. After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So, president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Pres. Bush lets go. Ms. Simpson and i think the first question is over here. Yes, id like