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Left is supervisor Julie Christensen and we will have the arrival of our supervisor david campos. Our clerk is erica major and televised by sfgtv and thank you so much to them for televising us. Please give the announcements. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speakers cards and documents be parted of the file should be submitted the clerk. Items will be on the december 1 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Thank you supervisor campos for being here as well. Please call the first item. Item 1 is a resolution designating Edgewood Center for evalua...

Fortunately. His invalid mother has been hospitalized for weeks. Firefighters heard at least one working Smoke Detector in the house. The 24th fire fatality for the year. Last year at this time we had 24, so that means we had the same number. Including everyone that participated in keep the fire fatalitieses down. In the mitt midst of the smoke they tried to rip them out of the front window. The air conditioner was popping and basically popped in our face. And me and the other neighbor tried to kick the door in to no avail. Riveras relatives are trying to cope with his tragic loss. He is a goo...

Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to re...

This is going to be an afghan fight. Weve got to take this on. So theres a balance there i think but they absolutely do understand the sacrifices we provided and theres a difference between of his leadership we have today and a Senior Leadership in afghanistan and we were just a couple of months ago. You talked about the efforts of president ghani to reach out to the taliban and to try and begin some sort of negotiations. Can you give us any insights into how far along that is the . I would rather discuss that in a classified setting. And to what extent are the taliban and do we see signs that...

Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strategic patience, as our witnesses yesterday unanimously agreed. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan,...