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Supervisor kim supervisor mar not present supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam chair we have quorum thank you and supervisor cowen is walked in ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us no pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you and madam clerk are there any consumptions. Yes. Madam chair we are in receipt of a communication if the mayor communicating his veto of file one six 0660 urging the delegation to amend or oppose the buy right approval the budget t...

Ive always favored closing guantanamo for a variety of reasons. Yet we still havent got a plan from you. Not only not a plan, until i asked you about it specifically, there was no communication. After coming to my office and saying you are going to give me that plan, and i said we needed it, we got nothing. Not an update, not a briefing on what was going on. So we put in language in president , and the voices his strong objection to guantanamo. Finally, this issue of whether we are protecting those people who we are asking to fight isis,t bashar assad and isnt it true that weve dropped munitio...

Ms. Pelosi i think elections are always about the future. So whatever it is that somebody might be unhappy about, they want to see what is there is absolutely no question that as we look to the future we have to see a path to take this to ending a lot of the inequality in our system. Mr. Sesno is that what this is about . Anger over inequality . Ms. Pelosi i think its anger over the fact that paychecks have not increased for decades. The purchasing power of middle class paychecks has not increased. The aspirations, hopes people have for their children, their education, their families, the Pens...

[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, education secretary arne duncan on the results of a study on standardized testing. Then, house numbers paying tribute to outgoing speaker, john boehner. After that, nancy pelosi on problems in congress, and the importance of women in politics. On monday, education secretary arne duncan participated in a pound discussion on improving the effectiveness of standardized testing. Panelists analyzed da...

Fully cooperating with this committee in the regulation of paid tax return preparers . Im happy to commit to both of those positions. We fully intend to use the 230 regulatory framework. In fact, if we were given the authority to require minimum qualifications for prepares, we would run it the same way we set up the program in 2010, which was under section 230, the regulation 230, so we have no intention of expanding that or changing it. The legislation youre talking about would simply make clear we have the authority to run the program as it was originally set up so there will be no surprises...