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-- senate aging committee. >> the committee will come to order. good morning. today, the special committee on aging is releasing its updated 2020 fraud book. it lists the top ten scams that have been reported to our committee over the past year. the good news is that the notorious irs impersonation scam, which had been the top scam reported to the committee for five consecutive years, has fallen off dramatically.p it used to be number one, now it's number seven. still a problem, but public awareness has certainly helped to decrease the prevalence of that scam. unfortunately, the soci...

Process as well as legislation itself. Thoughts onr repealing the individual mandate is part of tax reform . Taking it that bill and making it worse. The rules committee voted last night that there will be no amendments heard or excepted. This is political bareknuckle politics. For folks who do not understand the process, why is that unusual . To a you normally send it rules committee and people at that point would amend it. The rules committee is operating under martial law. They will take up the bill and without any amendments being offered. There will be i dont know how many hours of debate...

, i want to say a few words about some of what has been said thus far. My democratic colleagues always professed to be the champions of middleclass families. We see that rhetoric in full bloom, on full display today. That is why it is astonishing to atthat they are so opposed the repeal of the individual mandate tax. They talk as though everything is fine with our health care system. And that the repeal of this taxable said it all tumbling down. Obamacare is already failing. Largely because the mandate has failed to do what it was designed to do. It has not improved markets. It has not brought...

An chair peskin good morning and welcome to the transportation meeting for december 5, 2017. Our clerk is alberto quintanilla. If you could please call the roll. roll call we have a quorum. Chair peskin after we hear from the cac and pass the Consent Agenda i would like to take item 13, the report for the vanness bus Rapid Transit out of order to accommodate the schedule of mr. Ris ken who is here with us this morning. If you could call the next item. Clerk information item number two. Chair peskin mr. Larson. Good morning. I am john larson representing district 7. I will present the cac repor...

Approve 24 as anded, 25, 28 as amended, 29 and table items 27, and 23, has been moved and seconded. Madame clerk on the motion, please call the roll. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Fewer aye. Kim aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Sheehy aye. Tang no. Yee aye. Breed aye. There are ten ayes with one no and tang in the dissent. President breed the motion passes. Lets go to items for adoption. We have a closed session to dispense of. President breed we do, but we have to take Public Comment. Just for clarity, were doing with the irving street, congratulations. Thank you. Now is the opportunity for t...