Good morning. Today is september 9, 2015. Welcome to the rules committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is john avalos, chair of the committee and to my right is katy tang and to my left is president london breed who is here in place of supervisor cohen. Our clerk today is alisa somera and the meeting is brought by sfgtv. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . S yes, please silent all cell phones and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the september 22 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. First could we have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. So moved. And seconded by supervisor breed and take that without objection and item 1. Item 1 is a motion of reappointment to have bryant tan for the Successor Agency commiss Entertainment Commission. Hello and please introduce yourself what you hope to do with the reappointment. Thank you. I am bryant tan and seeking reappointment for another term on the Entertai
First of all, lets not make too much of this. A majority of the people who vote yesterday were female. It was 5149. But it was less than we a point or so less, but it wasnt like there was a huge shift in the gender balance in the electorate that voted yesterday. Women have a tendency to place a higher priority on issues like education and health care and i think any politicians, republican or democrat who hopes to appeal to women has got to have something intelligent to say about both of those issues. We dont have as many people as we need to be able to articulate a position on education. Its not coincidence that the last republican president was very, very good and talked a lot about education. Lamar alexander talks a lot about education. We dont have as many as we need to paint a compelling picture. Good point. By the way, i would say the last two republican president s good point. George bush senior we may disagree with their policies but they articulated strongly on education. And
The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 53, the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary, randolph d. Moss of maryland to be United States district judge for the district of columbia. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the may nomination. A senator mr. President . Mr. Leahy i ask consent all time be yielded back. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection all time is yielded back. Mr. Leahy i withhold that request. I yield back my time on this side. The presiding officer the senator from georgia is recognized. Mr. Isakson on behalf of myself and is senator chambliss from georgia the presiding officer the chamber will come to order. Mr. Isakson we would like the senate to look favorably. We could appreciate y
United States Senate history, we pause to acknowledge that you are our light and salvation. You are the strength of our lives, enabling us to move confidently toward the future. Empower our lawmakers who are coming and going, sustaining them in all of their tomorrows. Bless also the many other laborers who will be leaving us, who faithfully served without fanfare. Lord, reward their fidelity with heavens commendation. As our senators seek to respond to the voices of the American People, may they make it their top priority to listen to your whisper. May pleasing you be their greatest desire. Let your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the
Hear from here where iavi is and where her partners and prospective from leading pdp in this area. Format well have 30 minutes for dr. Fauci to give us sort after presentation, plenary talk and well move to Mitchell Warren of avac of eight other ten minutes of comments. Margie mcglynn as well eight or ten minutes of comments. Then well open up the pan fell for you to give questions and i will moderate that. A good chance for to you engage with them on discussions where we are with hiv Vaccine Research and where it is coming. So, dr. Faw economy, over fauci, over to you, and thank you for coming. [applause] so i can advance my own slides . There you go. Thank you very much, todd, a real pleasure to be with you here today. Im going to talk a bit about the issue of the role of an hiv vaccine. I want to start off by putting into perspective the concept why we really do need an hiv vaccine despite the spectacular successes and really historic successes well had over the last several years i