Pension committee be granted floor privileges for todays session. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Harkin mr. President , i want to take a time this morning to talk about an issue that has been brewing for a long time, is going to be coming to a head here in the senate sometime in the next several days, i hope, and its one which compels us, compels us to do something. And that is to raise the minimum wage in the United States of america. Mr. President , we have waited too long to do this, and so we have to act on it as soon as possible. So id just like to point out some of the data and some of the statistics confronting us right now. First of all, why should anyone be afraid of voting to raise the minimum wage . The American People are way ahead of us on this. You look at the polling data. To increase raising the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour, all voters, 73 democrats 90 , independents 71 , and even republicans 53 say we ought to be raising the minimum wage. So the vast ma
The meeting is called to order, at 5 34, i would like to thank you for making the meeting possible and for members of the public if you could remember to turn off your cell phone and with that, mr. President , i shall call, do roll call. Yes. And commissioner steve adams . Here. Dooley. Here. Dwight. Here. Ortizcartagena is absent. Commissioner toursarkissian . Here. And commissioner riley. And commissioner white. Here. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Next item please. Before we can move into the minutes commissioners i want to let you know that there was a photo copying error with the agenda and so the second page is missing but what is missing is just the president s report, or the Vice President s report, the standard items so, the president has a full copy, and we will read you through that. And all right, item number 2, is general Public Comment, and allows the members of the public to comment on matters within the commissioners purview and considers new items for the future co
The meeting is called to order, at 5 34, i would like to thank you for making the meeting possible and for members of the public if you could remember to turn off your cell phone and with that, mr. President , i shall call, do roll call. Yes. And commissioner steve adams . Here. Dooley. Here. Dwight. Here. Ortizcartagena is absent. Commissioner toursarkissian . Here. And commissioner riley. And commissioner white. Here. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Next item please. Before we can move into the minutes commissioners i want to let you know that there was a photo copying error with the agenda and so the second page is missing but what is missing is just the president s report, or the Vice President s report, the standard items so, the president has a full copy, and we will read you through that. And all right, item number 2, is general Public Comment, and allows the members of the public to comment on matters within the commissioners purview and considers new items for the future co
Before we can move into the minutes commissioners i want to let you know that there was a photo copying error with the agenda and so the second page is missing but what is missing is just the president s report, or the Vice President s report, the standard items so, the president has a full copy, and we will read you through that. And all right, item number 2, is general Public Comment, and allows the members of the public to comment on matters within the commissioners purview and considers new items for the future consideration. Do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment . Seeing number. Item three is approval of the july, 14th, meeting minutes. I move. That was commissioner riley . Yes. Moved. And they have been approved. Item four is discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors, and on file number 1 40724, nighttime entertainment and general uses greater than 250,000 square feet in the western soma area, this ordinanc
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