Good afternoon. I am the director of the cato center for constitutional studies and your host for todays forum marking the publication of a new book by professor david bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and rule of law. This book and forum could not be more timely. Just yesterday we witnessed the president telling the nation that he was directing officials in his administration to expand the regulation of the Second Amendment rights in several ways including by expanding the definition of what it means to be in the business of selling firearms. The repeated usurpations from a long list of domestic and Foreign Policy disasters, but they have also served to direct our attention to the constitution. The separation of powers will be our focus today as we canvas the many constitutional assaults of the past seven years. Professor bernstein will speak for about 30 minutes and then we will here opposing commentaries the book and opened upopen
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Have a long road to go, but ultimately rededicate ourselves to the mission of the chunchs and faiths and focus on being men and women for others here in the city of Saint Francis and colleagues i hope to have your support with that can we crawl roll item 19 and for the record item 19 is the urge student archdiocese of San Francisco to [inaudible] on item 19 supervisor ferrule rkss aye. Mar, ayeau. Tang, aye. Supervisor wiener, aye. [inaudible] breed aye. Sfr visor campus. There are 11 ayes. This resolution is adopt. [inaudible] problem Gambling Awareness month i called for 23 we are missing a member. Different house i think we already approved no we didnt. We attempted to. Same house, same call. Without objection this resolution is adopted. Madam clerk can you call item 21 resolution to support senate bill 277 repeal thg personal belief exemption for vaccines supervisor weern this is a resolution to put San Francisco on the records supporting the elimination of the personal belief exem
Director brinkman director nolan director ramos director rubke mr. Chair directors we have quorum announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. Microphones set on vibrate the board requests in an off position. Meeting minutes. All in favor, say i. Opposed . At this point ladies and gentlemen, given the you number of people here and for the latter anticipated items im going to have the madam secretary to call the calendaring and regular calendar beginning with item 11 anyone here for item 12 that will not be called before 3 00 p. M. No matter what. So okay. People need to be also be quiet. Also just for members of the public and staff because of fire codes everyone will need to have a seat in this room we cant allow standing so we have an overflow room a couple of doors down in room 408 pr all right. Mr. Cha
Prohibition of sound producing devices please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. Microphones set on vibrate the board requests in an off position. Meeting minutes. All in favor, say i. Opposed . At this point ladies and gentlemen, given the you number of people here and for the latter anticipated items im going to have the madam secretary to call the calendaring and regular calendar beginning with item 11 anyone here for item 12 that will not be called before 3 00 p. M. No matter what. So okay. People need to be also be quiet. Also just for members of the public and staff because of fire codes everyone will need to have a seat in this room we cant allow standing so we have an overflow room a couple of doors down in room 408 pr all right. Mr. Chair the Advisory Committee report. Mr. Weaver is here. Yes. Mr. Weaver is here march 3, 2015. Good afternoon im hap