Carolina. [inaudible conversations] i call a hearing to her. I would like to welcome the witness today senator dan coats, the nominee to be the director of National Intelligence. Congratulations on your nomination. Welcome back. Im sure you didnt expect to be walking the halls so soon after your retirement. I would also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend marcia and i want to thank her for your support and willingness to share you with the rest of the country. I have known both of you for many years and have seen firsthand the strength of the relationship that you so thoughtfully describing your statement for the record. Our goal in conducting the hearing is to enable the committee to consider the senators qualifications and to allow for a thoughtful deliberation by the members. Hes already provided written responses to more than 148 questions presented by the committee and its members. Today of course, members will be able to ask additional senator in both open and close
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[indiscernible conversation] i call this hearing to order. I would like to welcome our witness. Besident trumps nominee to the next director of National Intelligence. Dan, congratulations on your nomination. Welcome back. I am sure you did not expect to be welcomed back to these holes so soon after your retirement. I would also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend, marcia, and i would like to thank her for sharing you with the rest of us. Ive known both of you for many years and seen firsthand the strength of your relationship that you so thoughtfully described in your statement for the record. Our goal in this hearing is to direct the committee to consider tor coates for the consider him for the nomination. He is already responded to more than 100 questions. Today, of course, members will be able to ask additional questions in both open and closed sessions. Withoats comes to us Honorable Service in the house, the senate, and as an ambassador. Those of us who have had the
Further commissioners under the discretionary review receive calendar a request for item 17443 everson street discretionary review for continuance to april 6, 2017, no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Open up to commissioner comments proposed to continue item one as noticed and item 17 for april of. Second. Second. Thank you, commissioner on that position to continue commissioner fong commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and commissioners that places us under our consent calendar all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the
Clouds and fog inverness. Yes. The on shore kicking in. It is continuing to drop to the south before it swings in. The question, will it switching in here or to the south of us. More indications of the central sierra than tahoe and truckee. Very windy conditions expected tomorrow night and friday morning. Winter storm warning out in the mountains. We have been focusing on the north bay. If this dives south,mont enter a could take the brunt of it. A little bit of rain on the north coast. Emphasis on little. 40s and 50s. Clouds drifting across most of the day. This wont do much but will give us drizzle and light rain tomorrow morning. That is the developing system on the way for thursday any and friday. Then 60s and 70s today. Well, monday and tuesday were quiet. Unfortunately today is pretty active for sal. It is active. Some commutes are having kind of a spring break. Others are definitely not. This commute, the one that is the worse right now is the commute on the nimitz freeway heade