Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be here. As you can tell from the title of my books, i like to write about secret subjects, preferably very challenging subjects that have consequences for society. I might be perverse because if the subject is too easy, i dont want to do it. This sometimes gets me into trouble. When i did a book called moscow station i revealed a kgb archivist had defected to the fbi. Usually its the cia but this person wanted to defect to the fbi. I knew he was safe in the united states, and nevertheless i heard from inside the fbi that theyd opened a leak investigation, and that they were going to send agents out to my house to interview me. So i went through my mind how i would great them, offer them coffee,s should them and develop them as sources. I covered the fbi at the Washington Post, and the editor thought i knew what fbi agents looked like but there was a ring on my bell, and in maryland, a very quiet place, very few people ring the bell if opened the
Message. I unfortunately cannot reconcile supporting a person who supports this organization and the whole point of this committee is to help and serve the poor and bad decisions in people who dont use the best judgment are why as someone grouping in Public Housing experiencesed some of the challenges the lack of appropriate social services and the lack of access and the Quality Programming overall. I want to make sure that when people are put in the positions to make decisions for people that i represent that i know i can trust theyll have the best interests for them. I dont know if i feel the judgment of this gentleman in the case of the situation i dealt with and in contrast ill not be supporting him today supervisor mar. I want to speak in favor of eddy i understand what my colleagues are saying about bright line but i feel he has worked on local hire and cutting policies in city he works with the people to empower them and i feel eddy has a Strong Community background in the arts
Was behind the scenes and the majority of the work thats been done over the last decade has been done by richard hes done an amazing job to keep the departments connected and its necessary the Police Department and the park department. Hes done an amazing job going to the meeting so i just want that on the record and again, thank you all very much clapping. thank you, supervisors i want to acknowledge our supervisor campos for the next presentation. Thank you, very much. Mr. President , its my honor to recognition the sf island clapping if i may schism ask them to come forward. Sf island is a network of organizations thats dedicated to advancing the rights of immigrant communities in San Francisco. I want to acknowledge the following 13 organizations that make up sf island its appropriate we recognize them today, well be voting latter in this meeting as declaring this is a april for them this is for the African Network and the organizing center the asianamericans advancing just the Asi
Fantastic job and being tenacious supporters for the potholes and getting those things fixed and richard has an ongoing relationship with the pg e and making sure that company fuels its obligations. Its been a pleasure in my time in office to be able to work with you two and the organization. I can youre not going anywhere but after more than a decade of service you get an a you are entitled ill not call it a break but a slight step back and on behalf of the board of supervisors i really want to thank you for your service i know that supervisor breed has comments thank you supervisor wiener. Supervisor breed and supervisor wiener beat me to honoring you when he told you you were going to be stepping back richard i was wondering who was going to take over. You make sure the park is beautiful. The reason why San Francisco is a better place because people like you compliment your life for the better time of the fabricated. I enjoy not only working with you a is supervisor but as a communi
Gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the Rules Committee, chairman madden, actually spoke on house floor and announced there would be a rule governing how that proceeding would move forward. When the clinton articles of impeachment were brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. And im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. I would like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, and basically, and let me read the key lines here, we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us on the committee and house floor, in other words to try to delay and make this process as
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