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I appreciate the good work in ferreting this out. How long is Homeland Security and secret service had your report . When did they get your first draft . They received my first draft this draft may 6th. We supplied the underlying materials either in the middle of late last week. Yet theres been no consequence yet. We get reports that maybe one person is going to retire and who knows when that will be. What direction does secretary clancy have in revoking their security clearance . I dont have th...

Take your seats. Thank you. Cspan3 live today. Just waiting for the American Public Transportation Association conference to begin. Theyre in washington d. C. For their annual legislative summit. Take a look at some of the work recently in the house on transportation. Cq role call reporting recently on the first transportation bill of the new congress. They worked on that last week. The Passenger Rail reform and investment act approved by Committee Last month by unanimous vote and the Congressio...

The other thing that weve started doing is we call it moral monday iowa. And i believe it started in one of the carolinas. By right. With the naacp. But we just stole the idea. So every monday at noon before we gavel in at 1 00, we have a gathering that draws a lot of press and a lot of advocates, and we talk about an issue that were not getting any legs on. So weve had moral monday iowas on date rape. Weve had moral monday iowas on disparities in education and prisons. Weve had moral monday iow...

The number of people who turned 65 a day, and will for the next ten years, if you havent googled it, google it it will blow your mind how many of us there are. And im one of those. And they tell me all the time, we want transit because we want to age. Were not going to drive for much longer. Hopefully they will but many of them wont. They want to be able to take transit but they want to be technical savvy. They want to pull up the next bus locator and see when the bus comes. Texas is hot. Fort w...

Chairman of the National Association of governors. Our state Senate Chairman of the National League of legislators. Our chamber of commerce lane beatty has become on the National Board of the chamber of commerce. And our mayor of Salt Lake City is now the president and the National League of cities. And so, we are looked at, i believe, as a state that is well run, knows how to get things done, but recognizes that investment in infrastructure are one of the key pillars to Economic Growth and vita...

He came up here and of course, he stated that these trees were diseased. Well he is a businessman. And his Company Makes more money from tree removals than from maintenance. So, of course he is going to come up here and say that these trees need to be removed because they are diseased. And on another point, miss short do not really recommend any restorative action for these trees. She sort of skirted the idea that these trees could be saved but she did not pose that as an alternative that these ...

Experience in pruning whatsoever. I throw myself on your mercy, what can we do to make these people accountable, when all that they really care about is money . And that is the bottom line. Not maintenance, not preservation and not caring for the environment. Thank you. Thank you. We can hear from the permit holder, any rebuttal . Okay. Good morning. Good morning. And yes, i won the contract to this and i am doing the work, and so i do profit from the work, i do the work. I do not. If the tree i...

Im heidi, im the attorney for appellant linus oha who is the holder of ramp taxi medallion and also for best cab, the taxi company or the color scheme. The regular taxi medallion operates under the also, and theyre both here to answer any questions should you have any. Mr. Oha has worked in the San Francisco taxi industry for the past ten years. His permit is restricts for use in a disabled accessible van. Hes worked as a parking control officer at sfmta. Mr. Oha immigrating to the u. S. In 19 8...

He came up here and of course, he stated that these trees were diseased. Well he is a businessman. And his Company Makes more money from tree removals than from maintenance. So, of course he is going to come up here and say that these trees need to be removed because they are diseased. And on another point, miss short do not really recommend any restorative action for these trees. She sort of skirted the idea that these trees could be saved but she did not pose that as an alternative that these ...

Trust fund may run out of funds as early as september 2014, which would create cash flow problem for states during the critical summer construction season. Due to the uncertainty leading up to that bleak scenario, states are already beginning to develop contingency plans to prepare for reductions in federal transportation funding, which includes cutting pending projects. This is terrible for businesses, workers, and our nation. According to georgias department of transportation, if federal fundi...