They want. Sure. Im head of federal public policy. You you have not heard of it before, website that thats people to businesses in places. Currently currently about a hundred and 42 million unique monthly visitors and 32 countries start 11 years ago. And as a part of that process connecting people it has also become a site for aggregating and assigning ratings. So for example we are here in washington dc right now. I think that the rayburn cafeteria has about a two star rating on yelp. Yeah. So whether it is restaurants or dry cleaners or plumbers or businesses in general or places in general they have a yelp page generally speaking and ratings that are there. And and it does not just apply for yelp. You have sites like trip advisor for travel and hotels and things around the world. You have a sock stock a site that has come up for doctors and finding out the best doctors the mighty around you. Google does it as well. Even facebook as well. If you go on to a business page you will see
Between 2005 in 2010 the Judicial Council notes parties recorded 2881 antislap motions in trial court throughout california 81 anti slap motions in trial court throughout california were roughly 481 motions per year. An appeal an appeal was filed in only 375 cases. Put another put another way nearly 90 percent of the cases no appeals while. And that is sort of given that there were about 6. 2 million civil filings and superior courts during that time the 2881 the 2,881 constitutes about i dont know,. 046 percent of all lawsuits. And thats just california. I think thats a good question. I that is for california. We dont know. This bill is a federal bill. We dont know anything about how many of these lawsuits are being filed in other states and federal court. Is. Is a good question to ask for before we pass legislation thats going to circumvent the rules enabling that and also expand the jurisdiction of federal court. How big of a problem is this goahead quakes one thing to keep in mind
Least those legislative sanctions that have been imposed on iran. I said congress can also establish a team b a technique used inused in the past to monitor implementation of the agreement so that there are outside experts with access to all the intelligence who can confirm compliance or detect and ensure that noncompliance is detected. Finally, we need to protect the american people. One of the most important things we can do is continue to emphasize and build our Missile Defense capabilities. Iran is working on an icbm. It will have the capability to have a Nuclear Weapon. The United States will be held hostage by iran in the future. There were four things that congress could do. Do you guys have time for one more question . Ok. Right here then. Working off of two statements , how did we get into this mess and the United States is a guarantee or of stability. Is seeking to guarantee stability. Looking towards a strategy for peace, is there any potential for an understanding that woul
Irrelevant. What is relevant, as the gentleman and i i think both agree, if we dont get to an agreement on a number that is as we did in ryanmurray, we have done this before. We have done this before. My view is we did it because you didnt want to have your members vote on legislation that had numbers that were draconian before the election, but that may be only my personal perspective. But the fact of the matter is, the American People expect us to get their work done. Getting their work done at minimum means funding the government at appropriate levels. And again i have said that mr. Rogers does not believe the see quester. I believe you its the law of the land. I think its wrong. Its bad laufment it was not a law intended to go into effect. It went into effect simply because the supercommittee that was established in that same legislation couldnt come out with a solution. And 13 months the congress couldnt come out with a solution. Therefore on january 1 2014, we were confronted wit
Martin omalley has established himself as able regressive later eager to solve big problems facing communities. Governor omalley has served in daily every level of government in nearly every level of government, as the mayor of baltimore, and as the governor of maryland delivering results for his constituents. As mayor of baltimore, he improved education, crack down on crime while improving Police Accountability and drove investment to the local community. As governor, he sighed Marriage Equality bill he signed Marriage Equality into law and made marylands Public Schools some of the best in the country for five years in a row. [applause] no matter the role, governor omalley has a ways but working Families First and offer the American Dream. Please join me in welcoming martin omalley. [applause] mr. Omalley thank you all. Thank you. Dr. Maguire, thank you very much. It is a great honor to be here tonight with all of you fine members of the Iowa Democratic party and the resilient city of