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Ms. Stabenow mr. President i would ask suspension of the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Stabenow thank you mr. President. Thank you. Mr. President , i think the American People deserve to see the contrast between how nominees were treated last decade during the Bush Administration versus how they are treated this decade during the obama administration. When former president bush nominated John Ashcroft to be attorney general. It was controversial. I was one of 42 democrats who opposed the nomination. And yet it only took 42 days for John Ashcroft to get a vote on con...

Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere and where its been coming from is money for agents and prosecutors and also critically importantly mon...

We have heard you cant experience the real character of San Francisco on those streets and i would counter you cant experience the real culture of San Francisco on those busses. They are using muni and walking and loving it. The logistickal restrictions of our neighborhood had been followed we wouldnt have reached the point of needing this meeting. I would suggest option 1 with the addition of restricting employee busses as well. Im wondering why google buses are a problem for cal hollow but alamo square should have both a large number of google busses and tour busses. If large numbers of buss...

Size dont fit on our residential streets. Please stop it. The other thing is that if you put, i prefer option 1, but if you put the stop at pierce street and fell, with that number of busses its never going to work so just remove it and tell them they have to go someplace else and have the tourists walk to our community. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Hi, there, good afternoon, thank you commissioners and director riskin. I live on the third floor on a house on scout between fulton and mccallister who was not included on the map, thank you very much for the informativ...

John dallas, christine that odonnell good afternoon. Thank you for hearing us, im john dallas with the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association. A couple, 4 years ago i kind of started this ball rolling because i was trying to have a conversation on my sidewalk and i couldnt hear the person i was talking to, it was a saturday morning and the busses were so loud and so frequent i thought this was starting to be a problem. When we began, when alamo square originally contacted mta and asked about our options we asked for a ban. We didnt ask for option 1 and we didnt ask for option 2, we asked for a ...