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Am going to do. I think the controls we are talking about, not just on benefits, that on the undercutting of wages, people reading rock into the people being brought into the country i think they will help bring the migration down. If you are saying to me if it would be better for the country to join the European Union mr. Paxman i have not mentioned the European Union. You are making up the questions yourself. Mr. Miliband i believe we can n bring in controls on migration. Mr. Paxman is there any natural limit to the population of this country . Mr. Miliband i will not get pulled into a specu...

A few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by frank church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered a 14 volumes report in 1976 the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigat...

From parts of this process. Having the commander, the convening authority at the front end, it creates a potential barrier to sustaining those convictions Going Forward. It is a very cognizable conflict. The other point about perception, the thing we have to do is to increase reporting rates. The biggest problem is not the failure to investigate and prosecute. The biggest problem is the failure to report. That is all about reception. The perception of how my case will get treated when i come forward and say this is what happened to me. The first person to hear that is the one we need to make t...

Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay, are there any changes to the agenda . No. Okay. So, can you please call the first item . Item number 1 is a hearing on the San Francisco employees retirement system sfers investments in russian securities; the feasibility, consistent with sferss fiduciary obligations to retirees, of sfers divesting from russian securities, given russias continuing persecution of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; and sferss policy regarding responses to inquiries from members of the board of supervisors about policy matte...

[gavel] this meeting will come to order. This is the regular meeting of the government and audit oversight committee, and thank you for joining us to starting an hour earlier today. Thank you, scott wiener. Im supervisor london breed, the chair of the committee. Im joined by the vicechair supervisor katy tang and president chiu here today, and sweden supervisor wiener is also joining us as well. The Committee Clerk is lisa miller. And i want to thank jim smith and jennifer low from sfgovtv. And, madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and el...