Seeing now not specifically, not that storm, that but the pattern that people would see more extreme weather of various kinds was, indeed, predicted. And the fact that its happening is exactly consistent with what the scientists have been warning us. Mrs. Boxer it is. Because it was year ago when i took the panel. I think it was seven years ago that i took the gavel. I dont even remember. Time go goes so fast when youre having fun. And i took that gavel and the first thing we did is we had a hearing on climate. By the way, i would urge my colleague, you should see, we put together a green book of all my colleagues statements, how many republicans were with us then. Olympia snowe had a great piece in there, john mccain had a great piece in there, judd gregg had a great piece, john warner had a great piece in there and others. And it was it made me so proud. And at that hearing, we had all these experts talk about the fact that over time, temperatures would go up, but inbetween as you sa
Billion of american taxpayer money for something, airplanes, supplies, support equipment, trucks, unspecified, unknown to be used by one of the most corrupt governments excuse me, the most corrupt government in the world. 2. 6 billion of american taxpayer money for something not specified, to be used somewhere, somehow, i suspect more likely in some bank account in bahrain. What are we doing . What justification is there for 2. 6 billion of additional expenditure for the Afghan National army . Have we lost our minds . No. We are just going to lose our money. What is going on here . What are we doing . What is this all about . This money should never be spent for some unspecified purpose. We take our department of defense and we hold them to a very tight account. We dont let them spend money without a contract, without reviews by the Inspector General, reviews by our committee. But heres 2. 6 billion unspecified. Oh, mr. Car decide, use it wisely. Cars eyed, use it wisely. I reserve the
Mr. Herger i thank my good friend. How wonderful it is to be able to sit here and listen to all these incredibly warm remarks from people who, like myself, know and love jay pearson. And theres a reason for that. Jay, youre one of the best of the best. And i think, its hard to believe that 26 years comes and goes so very, very quickly, but it was 26 years ago when i first came here. And of course, you come here and youre excited and you come here with a dream, because of our great country and preserve our constitution, but, boy, theres a lot to learn. Theres a lot of hall ways to figure out. There are a lot of procedures to try to figure out how to work our way through. And jay, you were always there. You were there to a guy like myself that i could come up to on the q t and asked jay, what could do next . What is this vote on . When is the procedures coming up next . And no matter what the question, jay pearson had the correct answer in a way that even a freshman or one that was new l
Okay, welcome to our regular rules Committee Meeting for thursday, march 7, 2013. I am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing the meeting. To my left is Supervisor Malia Cohen and to my right is supervisor breed. The clerk today is linda wong. And the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, jennifer low and nona nakolian who will record each of our meetings and make transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Please make sure to turn off all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 19th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call item number 1 . Item number 1, motion approving rejecting the mayors nomination for appointment of Jonathan Pearlman to the Historic Preservation commission, seat no. 3, for
Changes that i asked senator gillibrand to make, and i think it would be worthwhile to outline all the changes that have been made to the bill since they were first introduced. I think they demonstrate good faith of the chairman and senator gillibrand. For instance, senator gillibrands bill originally would have made it a federal crime to transfer two or more guns if that person knew that the result would be a violation of state or local law. That would have given states and localities a oneway incentive to address new gun control measures and force the cost of prosecution and incarceration on the federal government. It also would have created for the first time a situation in which violation of state criminal law was an element of federal offense. She took that provision out at my request. I raised similar concerns about the language in the chairmans bill and you also removed that language. Senator gillibrand also accepted major and minor drafting suggestions, including clarifying wha