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They host a forum today on federal investments on innovation and science. Newt gingrich and Business Specialist along with academic researchers will be talking about the issues our live coverage just about to get underway on cspan3. As we wait for senator warren, well bring you a story from the Associated Press regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal president obama traveling in ethiopia, and the ap reporting he delivered a belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls monday calling their attack on his landmark nuclear deal ridiculous, if it werent so sad. Obama suggested the rhetoric from som...

Good morning and welcome to the selfcounty Transportation Authority monthly meeting im Supervisor Scott Wiener the the chair of the Transportation Authority and mr. Clerk, call the roll a commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim absent supervisor mar absent supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor yee we have quorum. Okay. Thank you very much item 2. Item 2 chairs report an informational item. Colleagues earlier this month i was happy to join with supervisor mark farrell and supervisor christ...

Commissioner keane councilmember glorias and the executive director have been excluded from tonight meeting ill tell you that some the gentleman didnt have to abstain himself well switch the agenda items number 4 will be taken up first that is the ballot measure statement and then well take up the agenda item number 3 that deals with the Recruitment Profile so agenda 2 public items appearing or not appearing on tonight agenda. Good afternoon, commissioners im charley for the record you have my email where i suggested respectfully you might consider amending our bylaws for the purpose of having...

World. And the evidence is that these patent Innovation Box policies are not very good at that because what theyre targeting is the income generated from the patents rather than the research that leads to them. This is true of lots of r d tax credits. In holland they just designed one which is quite intelligent, i think, because it targets the research that leads to the r d. So the labor hired rather than the income generated from that r d. But i think we should remember that, for example, the act which in 1980 allowed publicly funded research to be patented. If you read that act, its really i...

Now that is 10 trillion. So there are not many places you can say i can take 10 trillion out of the spending stream to keep you healthier. Let me follow up on this now speaker gingrich. You are a conservative and as a result may have credibility than i do in some circumstances on the question on the role of government here. Why isnt it enough to count on private industry to do this . Why do we have to have a substantial investment from the federal government . Its a question about American History. [ inaudible ] and i are developing a project on why George Washington matters. And people dont o...