Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
Legislation that was supported unanimously by the board and signed by the mayor last week. It included a number of code changes that will have real em packets for the food and beverage impacts for the food and beverage business. A lot of them came directly from the one of on one work with restaurants. There remains opportunities for improvement, which well discuss today and this program will be a good lens to watch that. Finally, looking ahead, we want to continue to expand our outreach. Were serving a large number of businesses but want to make sure that every restaurant knows its available to them. Were also thinking about how to increase capacity. The budget and legislative Analyst Report prepared at the request of supervisor mandelman on the castro areas, looking at store front vacancies, is a tool. Im thinking about the larger conversation around reducing vacancies. There is interest in how to increase capacity for the program to serve more restaurants and potentially in the futur
We started to see 210 spread first,the world, u. K. And then as that happened, investors steadily selling socks, nervous about this sign of a future recession, even though it typically does not happen for a year or two after the inversion. Investors are clearly nervous. Lets take a look that inversion and see how it is happening. Lots going on. What we are looking at, in white, japan, in yellow, the u. S. , and in purple germany. In blue the u. K. Germany is still inverted. Japan is slightly above. The u. S. Slightly above. In purple, because all of the yields are in negative, that is up 22 basis points. Very close. Investors worry a recession could be ahead. If we take a look at a sector check, that is bearish. Take a look at utilities. They are up just. 2 . In a sea of red, that stands out. Those are the defensive utilities, then you have high dividends. On a date yields are plummeting, those stocks look attractive. Take a look at tech in financials, those are lower. That is true for
Now the scandal has gone beyond. The boundaries of this haven of nazi criminals, investigations began in poland, who from the british fell under russian sanctions, for what . Moscow has expanded the list of those who are not welcome in our country. But this wedding in iraq, which ended in a mass tragedy, killed more than 100 people and injured about 300 more. Why did the fire break out and why were there so many casualties . And former minister of state of nagorny. Karabakh ruben vardan was detained by the azerbaijani border service. Details. The russianamerican crew returned to earth today from the International Space station, roscosmos cosmonaut sergei prokopyev, dmitry pitelin, as well as astronaut nasa, francisco rubio, spent a whole year in orbit, this is the longest flight in the history of the iss. The soyuz ms23 lander successfully landed in kazakhstan, reportedly landing on its side. The crew had already been evacuated from the capsule; for the meeting, about 200 military pers
Her head. That would be ideal that is similar to the london mobility congestion plan. When the pricing went into place they had invested in Public Transit options. That is for people who did not want to pay the fee there was an option on day one available to them. In the plan study i was shown yesterday, it is not a tippuous express continuous expression lane going north until the end where there is congestion on the 280. The hov lane is focused on southbound in the p. M. Hours. You know, i know thi this is thn the study place. I would like to see the outcomes. Yesterday it asked about the hov lane. That would have a tremendous negative impact on the 101 for the traffic coming south of San Francisco and an that is why it is not stud died. I dont know if that is the concern you expressed and that is why we are not moving forward with that. I very many interested in the outcomes. We want to see less vehicles coming downtown and more people using alternatives. I am struck by a fact the ca