For seniors and people who are disabled or blind. Benefit levels were last updated in the 1980s. I call this meeting to order. Senator young, thank you, Ranking Member of the subcommittee, for working with us to schedule this hearing. I appreciate the professionalism and confidence of your staff and my Office Working with all of you is really helpful. Thank you to chairman whiting for being part of this, the efforts to protect and strengthen this critical part of our Social Security system. Todays hearing on supplemental security income, ssi, is long overdue. This is the first hearing in the finance committee since 1998, before i was in the senate, for sure. That would be almost a quarter of a century. Theres not been a hearing in congress specifically about increasing benefits and eligibility since the reagan administration. In fact, that 1987, the last year or so of the reagan administration, in 1987, ways and means hearing called ssi, quote, the forgotten safety net. It was a fittin
For seniors and people who are disabled or blind. Benefit levels were last updated in the 1980s. I call this meeting to order. Senator young, thank you, Ranking Member of the subcommittee, for working with us to schedule this hearing. I appreciate the professionalism and confidence of your staff and my Office Working with all of you is really helpful. Thank you to chairman whiting for being part of this, the efforts to protect and strengthen this critical part of our Social Security system. Todays hearing on supplemental security income, ssi, is long overdue. This is the first hearing in the finance committee since 1998, before i was in the senate, for sure. That would be almost a quarter of a century. Theres not been a hearing in congress specifically about increasing benefits and eligibility since the reagan administration. In fact, that 1987, the last year or so of the reagan administration, in 1987, ways and means hearing called ssi, quote, the forgotten safety net. It was a fittin
[gavel] to mr. Adams mr. Brandon ; commissioner alex here june 23, 2015 meeting. All in favor . I wic 6 min. Are approved. Items republic on an executive session. Any Public Comment on executive session . Seeing none, bubble, and is [gavel] i moved to reconvene in open session seconded on paper [chorus of ayes] i moved not to discuss anything in closed session. On paper [chorus of ayes]. Pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] please be advised that during the use of cell phones, pagers, and similar so producing a lifetime devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that chairman ordered the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device. These be advised a member of the public has up to 3 min. To make personal Public Comments on each agenda item under the support Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Item 8, Public Comment on items not listed on the
Nationally in the form of these awards. And my thanks to rene martin and jerry and others for submitting the nomination and winning. So, kudos for that. Also just a little side note. Wasnt the artwork done internally by our very own staff . Yes, it was, yea. Though banners are in hot supply, lock them up hot demand, rather. The last thing i want to mention is the commissioners have asked and i believe commissioner adam has promised on many occasionses that the Port Commission will have offsite meetings. Our goal is to hold two meetings each calendar year. We will have our first outside meeting on the september 23rd meeting which will be at the Southeast Community center. So, well be putting up more information about that. But i just wanted to let everyone know there is a second meeting in september, we will be meeting in the southern waterfront area which i think will be a great opportunity for us to hold our meeting and hear from some of the constituents that reside in that area of th
The coming months. I want to do one more thing. Hot off the press today is the Small Business exchanges periodical featuring Commission President leslie katz. The article goes on and on and on, which is fantastic. Its actually a really, really good article and gives great kudos to the work that the port is doing, meeting and exceeding our mandates for participation by local Business Enterprises and some of the novel ideas that we are piloting such as the pier 33 opportunity. So, thank you very much, president katz, for agreeing to appear so prominently on behalf of the port. And that concludes my remarks. Is there any Public Comment . Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is corin woods [speaker not understood]. I wanted to talk about the two civil grand jury reports which, quite frankly, pissed me off outrageously. I think that one would see the presentation on Sea Level Rise later today, youll be able to see why we missed a lot on whats already existing and whats already happening i