I give a little bit about the agenda. I know were going to havet then several debates in this committee on the floor of the subject. Todays was through the meeting because i did not know we have been scheduled for 1130 i would like to finish but 1140. That where we all get a chance to vote. But anyway, we have several bills on the agenda for the 1st time as well as for nominees, three of those are right for a vote. Last week but moving those out of committee. We know we had difficulties between the two parties on that issue. I went over that. The we will hold over the thgislation on one nominee vote on the other three. It has been a lot of discussion about the Supreme Court vacancy last couple weeks. The record is clear about how the senate approachesup vacancies that arise. I spoke at length on the floor about these issues. Y i thought i would spend a few minutes reviewing where we are in dispelling some of the myths that i have heard repeated a number of times. The most appropriate p
It is the Prime Ministers first visit and the first visit since 1977 from a Prime Minister of canada. Chuck grassley said his committee will not take up a Supreme Court nominee until a new president is elected and sworn in. The committee met today. That is coming up next on cspan2. Then Charles Bolden testifies about his agencys 2017 budget request. And later a discussion on the use of executive power. Join cspan friday at 1 30 p. M. Eastern for the Funeral Service for former first lady nancy reagan. First lady michele obama, and former president george bush and laura bush will attend the funeral. Ms. Reagan will be buried next to her husband at the library. Live coverage on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. The republicans are saying they will not vote on any nominee for the Supreme Court that is sent in them. Senator grassley is the chair and senator leahy is the leadcrack on lead democrat on the committee. [inaudible conversations] i cant officially start this meeting until we get
Education that is a monopoly. Colleges and universities are the only ones allowed to serve degrees without providing a job in the worst part of it is, they borrowed money to pay for the degree so now they have thousands and thousands of dollars in student loans. And that you only job he can get, they could have gotten without the degree. We have been failed by every big institution. Every day, we find out they have cheated someone. They lied about something. They lied to their stockholders, investors, took multimillion dollar bonuses while the company was going into the tank. We have been failed by everyone and people are not confident in our institutions and it leads to anger and frustration. That is why leadership matters. Leadership does not come to you and say, lets be angry and angrier. Leadership says, yes, we have real problems and we also have answers and solutions. The solutions do not lie in one person. I always get uncomfortable and people say, we put all of our faith in you
Of that work, its very important as we wind down the responsibilities of the successor agency. So again, happy to move forward Theo Ellington for seat 1, merily mondajar for seat 3, i want to thank all the member s of the public who came and also waited to speak. We really appreciate that as many of you as possible tried to consolidate your comments as well. Its very clear there is broad support for the 5 commissioner appointees here before us. So we have a motion and a second and we can move forward these items. One thing i wanted to add. Im sorry, supervisor afl loels. You just reminded me in your comments and i think its important for some concurrence from members of this committee about public input. There were some members who came here who spoke for Public Comment and thought there were parts of the community that werent necessarily consulted, this project is moving a little too fast. I listened to it but i also feel like the disappointed candidates today but it speaks to the nee
Four of these candidates are profoundly impressive in their qualifications for this type of work. But there is a problem and that is with public process. Its vital to remember that the reason we made sure that some of us fought so hard to make sure that neighborhood representatives were on this commission is that that is right of pa process of appointing them was supposed to entail going to those neighborhoods in depth and getting their input on who these appointees should be. For this to be noticed a few days ago at holiday time is very problematic to that process. Just to show an example of why this is so important and why we need to wait until the second meeting in january to nail down these appointments, as impressive as they are, none of the appointees when they stood up said one word about the fact that the bayview Hunters Point Development Area is a federal Super Fund Site. 30,000 people in the bayview Hunters Point signed a petition to put a measure on the ballot because of the