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People know in San Francisco, first thing they think about is, lets go welcome everyone and thanks for being here today. I want to extend a special welcome to all of our distinguished speakers. So first, the honorable edwin mayor of San Francisco. San francisco clapping thank you. San francisco board of supervisors david chu and San Francisco port executive director monique mirror clapping and our president and ceo paul guests the tall guy in the back. Im sorry and sprifrp kim. There should say ...

The board has in past years considered the workload of the Serve Department during the open enrollment and has been generous in giving us that time off and we ask you continue that practice. Motion to continue and skip october. Commissioner scott. While we might not have a formal Board Meeting i ask we reserve the time for general and continuing comment on the renewal process. From members of the plan. Im talking in terms of, you know, not all the staff work but rather a listening forum where me...

Some occur in other jurisdictions and we get our region allocation we spend it widely and heavily it is certainly not a couple of Department Heads sitting in a room we dont a wide range of decision making. Do the Department Heads have the same Eligible Fund they can fund with the fund but do you see a real difference in terms of what gets funded in other places compared to San Francisco in terms of training being done or what kind of work is being done to engage more residents. Is there a progra...

Our city departments. The efforts around or city department. We have a lot of things that we are doing on a regular basis and we are trying to get out as much as possible to our families that need it the most. I this i that this initiative caused us to pause and to really stop and think about how many resources and services we are actually providing to the mission and how coordinated or uncoordinated those services are. It helps us to think about that too. Marissa and i are working with other fo...

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The modifying video competition report, some of those things. I have got a piece of legislation weve passed out of the full house twice now, very bipartisan, i think it was unanimous earlier in this Congress Called the fcc consolidated reporting act which really tries to take a broad view and to eliminate a lot of the outdated reports, to streamline the reporting process. Something that i think you have seen bipartisan support to do in the house. Were trying to get the senate to take that up. Im...

Going through town and they would end up in my dads big restaurant. They talked. They talked about sports, yankees, red sox, local factory situations or politics in general. I realized that even though they would always answer whether they were epublican or democrat or neither, that isnt the way they talked. They talked in terms of what people react to when they work and live in a community. So, it was not ideological. I began to realize that they didnt come in with labels, red state, blue state...

From member nations to contribute more to military spending. This comes at the same time as congress under current u. S. Law looks for ways to reduce americas defense at it. Our focus for the first 45 minutes here on washington journal. When in on the conversation. With growing threats, should the Defense Budget be increased . Host the u. S. , launching a fresh series of airstrikes yesterday input Defense Department officials described as a mission to stop militants from seizing an important gam...

Then, how do foreign powers buy influence at u. S. Think tanks . A New York Times expose reveals more than a dozen prominent Washington Research groups have received tens of millions of dollars from Foreign Governments in recent years, while pushing u. S. Government officials. Should they be registered as foreign lobbyists . We will speak with Brooke Williams. Finally, just 13, and working risky 12hour shofts in the tobacco fields. My head started hurting really bad. I got out the road and i sta...

Administration. We will speak with rami khouri, editor at large of the beirutbased newspaper the daily star. His latest piece, avoid a rerun of the war on terror. Then, how do foreign powers buy influence at u. S. Think tanks . A New York Times expose reveals more than a dozen prominent Washington Research groups have received tens of millions of dollars from Foreign Governments in recent years, while pushing u. S. Government officials. Should they be registered as foreign lobbyists . We will sp...