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[gavel] good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, december the 10th, 2013. Madam clerk, could you call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Here. Breed present. Supervisor campos . Present. Campos present. President chiu . He present. President 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. Presiden...

Funds. And if sfgovtv could help me ive got an overview. Thank you. Im to talk about those 3 things ownership are the goals important performance and our funding. But before we talk about that lets make sure we understand roles and responsibility. As supervisor weiner mentioned the ownership of street light the in San Francisco is mixed. Clearly a majority of the lights are owned by the city and the majority of those are owned by the divided puc. We own those assets and have them as part of our Management Program its about 25 Thousand Lights we are responsible for and own if im not mistaken it...

Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , two weeks ago, the New York Times accomplished an article on Congressional Democrats plan for the rest of the year. It boiled down to one thing campaigning. Thats right, eight months out from the election, democrats in congress have given up on legislating. Instead, theyre going to spend the next eight months focused on show votes which will and i quote from th...

Spending programs. This is not theoretical, mr. Speaker. The state of illinois has tried that and it is a mess and its a mess that becomes worse the longer the state waits, the worse the options are. And so what the chairman is saying, lets not get to that point. Weve got options. Weve got time. Weve got choices. Weve got remedies, but we need to act now. So i urge favorable consideration of this budget and i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from maryland is recognized. Mr. Van hollen thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I think for the ...

Good evening,. Happening now, president obama is here for his first fundraiser and a busy and lucrative 19hour visit to the bay area. He arrives at airport just after four oclock this afternoon, taking time to greet will wishers and you see there their babies and also California National guard members who helped rescue off the coast of mexico. Later tonight, the president heads to the Fairmont Hotel to raise more campaign cash. The president was in los angeles yesterday for a pair of fundraisers. Tomorrow hell make a speech on Energy Efficiency at a Mountain View Walmart Store before heading b...