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The town that has laid claim to the this historic first. Now, the Prime Minister says that an airfield is ready. That commercial planes have been chartered. Indeed, that 500 individuals are ready to get people on to those planes, and 300 more are on training. Now for those that can do quick maths, five, six, seven, 800 people there ready to work on this scheme. The question is , this scheme. The question is, will they be able to send even 800 people to rwanda . It all sounds terribly optimistic and expensive, doesnt it, tom . It certainly does. And this it certainly does. And this is after months and months. It was three Prime Ministers ago that the rwanda scheme was first proposed. Thats actually not that long in terms of time is it . I dont know the average length of time that a Prime Minister is a Prime Minister these days. How long is a piece of string . Well, there you go. But but of course, today is the day. Rishi sunak seeming incredibly confident at that press conference that m
But its an interesting thing. On one hand, they finally have something they can hang on to. But some of the polling suggests the way the public is looking at it is not really positive. We know a lot of local republicans will be in tough races. Is this good or bad for them . If you look at previous attempts and this is the most robust change since the 86 tax law. In 86, president reagan traveled the country in advance, spoke in great detail about it, and rallied support for it. President trumps approach is that c. E. O. c. O. O. Kind of division, where he says to the house and senate, you do your work, and ill sign it. Well, that wont be enough. And the real effects, if there are going to be good ones, are going to start in february, when people bring home paychecks with more money. At that point, my guess is that the president will then Start Talking about the plan, in a way, because there will be results to discuss. And so it sounds as though there may be time yet for meehan and coste
He is not embarrassed about it and angry about the label thats associated with it and he said, these were federal tax dollars that came from my constituency and we decided to get how to spend them. Now, in my district, thats close to 400 and we have to sort that out. I will end with this, mr. Chairman, i dont like the translation, those folks ought to be in jail, if they are doing something they are proud, they ought to be on tv. We talk about spending as itas exploded inhe modern age. What has exploded is the ability to help hold members of congress and administrations accountable. Theres not a member in the room who has seen pork barrel because it didnt originate in 1990s or 1970s or 1950s. We have had the challenge since 19th century and the earliest days of the institution. I would like to believe that with your leadership where we have been challenged but i but to mr. Sullivans point of low e Approval Ratings, i dont want the suggestion to be made that folks, that anyone wants to
[roll call] please be advised that director torres will not be at todays meeting. Item three, announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. And cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully ask they that be turned off. Item four, approval of the minutes from the december 5 regular meeting. Welcome back, everyone. Happy holidays and happy new year. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 5 . Oh, oh. Sorry. Ok. Thank you. This is just for the minutes. A motion to approve. A second . Second. Item six, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members . Item 6. 1 is the election of the m. T. A. Board chairman and vice chairman purchase saounlts to you