Africanamerican supporters at the white house on this day. He told any plans to monitor heritage when asked about the violence in chicago the president said the city is out of control. Senate republicans are welcoming the president s nominee to the court. Judge neil gorsuch headed to the hill today. Democrats are somewhat skeptical of judge gorsuch, some activists claim hes hostile to womens rights judge gorsuch siding with businesses who argue, their reledgeous convictions would be violated if they had to provide contraceptive insurance under the Affordable Care act. Democrats could filibuster his nomination, which has been the best defense. Org, republicans dont have the filibuster. But they do have a simple majority, a 52 republican senators, they could break with tradition and use the socalled nuclear option. Despite its name, its a legal way to change the rules so that lawmakers cant filibuster a Supreme Court nominee. If it gets to that point, Mitch Mcconnell should just go for i
Good morning, everyone. This is the finance committee of the San Francisco county transportation authority. It is tuesday may, tenth, 2016. Our clerk is mr. Steve stamos could you please do the roll call . Sure. Item one, roll call. Commissioner campos . Absent. Cohen . Absent. Kim . Here. Present. Mar. Here. Present. Yee . Present. We have a quorum. Thank you. I wanted to thank josh and charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today and as always. Please call the second item. The consent calendar, 2, 3, comprise, the consent calendar, considered routine and the staff is not planning to present on these items if a member objects any of the item may be removed and considered separately. I see no questions, lets open this up for the Public Comment. Anyone want to talk about consent calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, could we approve the consent calendar, or do we need a roll call . The consent calendar. Commissioner campos . Ab accident. Cohen, absent. Commissio
Present. We have a quorum. Thank you. I wanted to thank josh and charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today and as always. Please call the second item. The consent calendar, 2, 3, comprise, the consent calendar, considered routine and the staff is not planning to present on these items if a member objects any of the item may be removed and considered separately. I see no questions, lets open this up for the Public Comment. Anyone want to talk about consent calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, could we approve the consent calendar, or do we need a roll call . The consent calendar. Commissioner campos . Ab accident. Cohen, absent. Commissioner kim. Aye. Mar. Yes. Aye. Commissioner yee. Aye. Consent calendar is approved. Item four . Item four, state and federal legislative up date. This is an action item. And we have mr. Mark watts. Good morning, commissioners i am happy to be here today, there are six bills that we want to draw your attention to or actions ran
Thank you supervisor. Supervisor farrell just to be clear there wont be kit cat bars in the machines. To quote my colleague you can get the candy before you get here in the morning. Now were doing this. Supervisor peskin youre recognized. There are no shortage around the area and i appreciate what supervisor farrell says about the children visiting but there are adults that can make their own choices of foods to consume and i for one believe we should believe able to get a candy bar out of the vending machine. Thank you supervisor peskin. Seeing no other names on the roster madam clerk on item 18 please call the roll. Supervisor peskin. No. Supervisor tang. Aye. Supervisor wiener. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor avalos. Maybe aye. Supervisor breed. A very, very hesitant aye. Supervisor campos. Aye. Supervisor cohen. Anesthesiatic aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. There are ten ayes and one no with supervisor peskin in dissent. [gavel] the ordi
Broken meters. And maybe, limit the period of time. Ab 2602, on page 24 as well. Deals with disabled parking plakers. And establishes a twotiered system. And with distinguished by the disabilities that have severely limited the mobility. And i understand while we are recommending a watch, that the mta as well, is looking possibly to support that in the coming weeks. Mr. Lavine on page 37 of the matrix has sponsored abx124 and introduced in special session late in 2015. Essentially. And it would convert the mtc from the current appointed body. To an elected body of and transition over a period of time. And it is already on the sync with the reality of the time and dates, because it has a date of 2016, for the current law with a new structure to go in place in 2017 and he has not been able to move his measure because it is in special session, and the special session has not convened for him to have the bill referred to in a committee at this point in time. And nonetheless the recommendat