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Public comment because we do have a lot of folks here today. There has been a lot of discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other busin...

Her department. So, i do under the concern. This is an area many people want to get transparency in this area. Im happy to work with you to hopefully work with mayor lee to get more transparency in this area because a lot of people want to know, again, how we spend our money, how the contract decisions are made. Let me make a couple other observations about this chart. It does look as supervisor avalos suggested, the ratios awarded to lbes seems high. When i read the report, this is looking at the ratio of contracts that are awarded, but not at the contract dollar awards. For example, for the ...

Again, were waiting for a discussion on china russian relations. Among the speakers today, former australian Prime Minister kevin rudd. And later on this afternoon on cspan 3, its a hearing on u. S. Border security issues, including a look at the pay structure for officers being held by the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Well have that live at 3 30 eastern. And later today, veterans access to health care. That getting under way at 7 30 p. M. Eastern also live here on cspan 3. Right now were at the center for strategic and international studies, waiting if r the discussion on china russian...

Hi, mr. President. Pres. Biden how are you . I think weve got everyone here, so over to you to kick us off. Pres. Biden thank you for joining us for this important and timely discussion. We are here to talk about the importance of passing the chips for america act, to strengthen our National Economic security. Later the senate will hold a vote to advance this critical legislation and im glad we have an opportunity to hear from the industry and labor leaders about this important topic. Im going to turn this over to brian to get it started. Thank you mr. President. We are joined by members of yo...

To help the continent, especially the subregion. A vacuum . Does it leave an opening for groups like al qaeda to come in . Guest there are lots of reasons for american you should. There are limits to what america can do. We are looking at the limits in the face now with the fiscal cliff, which we have delayed a little bit. We have to reckon with it. Within that context, we have to look at where our aid can have the most good affect. In mali, our loss to not permit us to deal with governments that come to power through extraconstitutional means. We have the case of the crew coup still pulling s...