[gavel] good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting. It is tuesday, january the seventh, 2014. The inaugural meeting of 2014, colleagues, welcome back. With that, matt a. M. Clerk could you please call the role . Yes, mr. President. Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Campos present. President chiu . Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen present. Supervisor farrell . Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar . Mar present. Supervisor tang . Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, would you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, could you read any communication . S . Yes, mr. Thv,
Israeli leader arial sharon. And the president s team is closely watching the Supreme Court to watch the argument over recess appointments and whether they are constitutional. Want to get your thoughts on whether the president can make recess appointments, under what conditions are the , if the court gears up to hear arguments today. Here are the numbers to call. Host if not by phone you can cspanwj, on twitter, facebook, and email. Covershow the hill the story. Nothing less than the boundaries of executive power are at stake monday as the Supreme Court considers whether president obama violated the constitution during his first term. Oral arguments slated for monday will center on a trio of recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. If they uphold the decision, experts say that the justices could endanger hundreds of nlrb decisions. Even more significant other ramifications for feature president s, the court poised to bolster or blended the chief executives appointment
Entries in the student am video competition encouraging middle and High School Students to think critically about issues. Asked to create the documentary based on the question whats the most important issue the u. S. Congress should consider in 2014 . First Prize Winners it are antonia, and madeleine, our eighth graders in Silver Spring maryland. To improveongress the nsa data collecting and Surveillance Programs. Edward snowden thank you. Bringing to the attention of the world the fact that the u. S. Government, the nsa, is engaged in massive information gathering. 125 billion cell phone conversations a month. That has been allowed in the media about the situation, some right, a lot wrong. I have told you, how. Mportant they have been we use one of these programs to another plot to bomb the new york stock exchange. Here we are talking about this in front of the world. To repeat something incredibly important, the nsa is prohibited from the same to phone calls or reading email without
Little bit of drizzle. Definitely going to want to take it easy. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to news 4 today. Im angie goff. And im richard jordan. We want to check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Good morning, chuck. Good morning. Off to a cloudy start. As you mentioned, a little light rain and drizzle out there this morning. Theres a huge spread of temperatures. As a result, some of this could be coming down in the form of pockets of very light, freezing rain. The Weather Service has issued a freezing rain advisory that does include arlington, the district, Prince Georges County, montgomery and frederick counties, all of the panhandle of west virginia, fair fax, prince william, into the sha shenandoah valley. Take a check of temperatures, temperatures mid 30s from i95 to the south and east. But down into the teens to the north and west. As the moisture rides ever northbound, we could see paths of freezing rain and freezing drizzle. Most is down to the south and eas
Wayperson standing in the of making progress. That would be the speaker of the house. I know in his heart his intentions are good. We just hope that we will see before the one year is out from the senate bill some son of life, some sign of intention, some bill that can come to the floor. Scheduledis and even on a bill that could possibly take us to conference. It is clear that their intention is to do nothing and that is totally unacceptable. We have a bill, 200 cosponsors, hr 15, including three republicans. Many more republicans told us they would go for the bill. Give us a vote, mr. Speaker. The votes are there. Give us a vote. In another display of industry and dash of indifference to the needs of the people, republicans are proposing to take food out of the mouths of our chosen once again. The agriculture budget would overrule doctors so that schoolchildren will eat fewer fruits and vegetables and admit moms and babies get more potatoes. Potatoes are not a bad thing. It is a stabl