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P all right, good morning, welcome to our plan and Programs Committee meeting of our sfgta, for may 12, 2015, and im katie tang and to my right is christensen, our vice chair and commissioner breed to my left. And we have our clerk with us today and sfgov tv. And i think that our other colleagues will join us shortly and so with that, we can proceed to item one. Item one, roll call. Commissioner breed. Here. Commissioner christensen. Here. Commissioner farrell absent. Tang. Present. Yee. Absent. We have a quorum. Could you call item two. Citizens Advisory Committee report, and this is an infor...

Screeria nigeria. Rs staffing and then the white house news briefing and then recent Data Security breaches at banks and retailers. A hearing today looked at staffing shortages at Veterans Affairs hospitals. Witnesses representing va doctors and nurses talked about the need for more medical professionals. This house Veterans Affairs subcommittee hearing is two hours. This subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i would like to ask for unanimous consent for my friend and colleague from pennsylvania to sit in on todays hearings. Without objection, so ordered. Thank you for joining us t...

In, i believe, five in between 2005 and 2008 and that certainly assisted Border Patrol in expeditiously constructioning hundreds of miles of fence along the southwest border. There were legal challenges brought to halt certain border projects. But when dhs would show Waiver Authority, the courts would dismiss those challenges. I will note it is not absolute. Besides the constitutional limitations, you cannot waive the constitution. Another thing is that it refers specifically to the construction of barriers and roads. There is certainly some question as to whether it would apply to tactical in...

Criminal defenses. Whenever you are in the room you should see a lough red. You should see a little bit of blue and the little bit of blue you should see is around mitigation. In effective assistance of counsel mitigation, and soming aggravation. In general, its not working we again, remember its a subset of cases. It may be more effective in plea bargaining. In cases where theres good evidence of neurological or biological it may never get to trial. It may be a skewed sample. At least in the casing im looking at its not having a huge impact as of yet. Its causing people to ask a lot of questi...

Thinkprogress. Org. On december 1, is night and day from where it was. The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity at a greatly improved performance. Here is more. We start at the top of page six on Response Times. Response times, this is the measure of how quickly responds go to a user request. You can see on a bar on the lefthand side that in late october, the Response Time was running around eight seconds, which was clearly unacceptable and very frustrating for consumers. We now have much faster Response Times. The line graph shows average Response Time by day in the last ...