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The meeting will come to order. This is a special meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for october 1, 2015, im supervisor yee, chair of this committee, joined by supervisor london breed and Supervisor John Avalos the committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sf govtv and bill dylan who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available online. Before i continue may i get a motion to excuse supervisor christensen . No objections. Motion passes. Madam clerk, an...

Alternatives that are there. Senator crapo. The private sector markets are contracting. Im concerned that this reduces student bar options. Could you describe the current state of the private student loan market and how that compares to the market and made a claim why we are seeing this dynamic . Thank you very much for the question. We have gone from a 24 billion industry to about an 8 billion industry. And yet performance rating for many of her banks have exited Student Lending business. There...

King, if i can. Ambassador, youve done a commendable job representing the north korean human rights portfolio. I also recognize the difficulties you face since the administration doesnt make the human rights issue in my view enough of a top priority. I think it best a secondtier issue behind nuclear proliferation. Even if its given sometimes lip service by calling it a top priority and constant focus. As such im disappointed that following the release of the u. N. Commission of inquiry report, i...

The onestop shop, as they call it. And the government above and beyond that is setting up a fund, a guarantee fund to assist these small and Mediumsized Enterprises of the private sector to get going and to grow strong this guarantee fund, we hope, that will help the young particularly who are entrepreneurs who have something to give, who are interested in doing something to get the necessary loans from lending institutions under the overall guarantee fund that the government is now offering to ...

Of your question is. [laughter] thank you for having this broadcast today as my constituents i appreciate what you are doing time also proud of our country but up here it is not universal support which i think is a mistake. What would you tell my colleagues and why we should go three times the amount of money we are supporting right now or four times. I dont care. [laughter] ive would be happy with twice but that is the good question. It goes back to what do we provide the taxpayer . We do provi...

Narcotic on the market. And weve seen an increase in use just by the statistics that were presented by some of the panelists today. But are you adapting the department of transportation regulations or advisories to where we see the most risk . Weve got faa, federal railroad administration. National highway safety. Tell me if there have been any changes in directives in the last 24 months. There have not been any changes to our random testing rates but many of our employees are interstate. So if ...

Have you changed any of those requirements . No, sir, we have not. Weve maintained under the regulations the the same old, same old. But see, thats my point. I think were you have to go to risk base when you are doing most of these approaches to try to ensure safety. And preemployment is one. Weve done that in the past. Were doing that. Now we have a new situation with much more of this available narcotic on the market. And weve seen an increase in use just by the statistics that were presented ...

Miranda and relations with mexico and cuba were among the topics. This was just over one hour. [inaudible conversations] , live. Morning, everyone, and welcome. I would like you to join us, carl meacham and i are the directors of the program and i want to welcome you to what i think is probably one of the most interesting events that we are going to be having this fall. As you know today we will be talking about latin america in the context of the u. S. And Midterm Elections. I imagine that some...

Lake superior college to train new mechanics to service the jetliners at the airport. See, we have the skills gap in the country. 3 million plus jobs that businesses cannot fill because they cannot find workers with the right skills. So i took this model of community and technical colleges working with different business sectors to train up skilled workers and made that a focus of congresss First Successful reform of our federal workforce training system. Now more americans and more minnesotans ...

Past summer presented a stark reminder of the unfinished challenge. As the toxic algal blooms shut off the fresh Drinking Water to half a Million People and businesses in ohio and michigan for three days across lake eries western basin, the largest watershed in the entire great lakes. The public, though shocked, was orderly and magnificent. We didnt have riots or civil disorder. During that threeday crisis, astoundingly we learned communities along the lake were not equipped locally to test the ...