Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
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Debate live from cleveland tuesday night on cspan. Stream live or ondemand at cspan. Org debates or listen on the cspan radio app. The white house did not release a weekly address this weekend. However, senator Sherrod Brown of ohio gave the weekly democratic address. He discussed of vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Brown next week on october 1, rent, mortgage, utilities, and other bills are due for millions of families who wont have a way to pay them. Just last week, another 870,000 americans lost their jobs. These workers who lost their jobs with the pandemic, what are they to do without the 600 a . Eek these families face impossible decisions. Do they drained their savings . Do they go to a payday lender . Four out they out of options . Do they face eviction . Those are all horrible choices. Americans are frustrated for good reason. They are angry for good reason. They lost loved ones because of President Trumps failure to get this pan
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Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe