Im very excited for this week. We will get to that in a second. Pending home sales in february scarlet fu has all the headlines. Scarlett pending home sales coming in much higher than anticipated, 3. 1 gain in january on the yearoveryear basis of a 12 increase when economists were looking for an increase of 8. 7 . Pending home sales track the number of contracts in a given trade, seen as a forwardlooking indicator. Existing sales another report that we give you at times like this, tallied after forwardlooking indicators that could signal a busy spring selling season for the Housing Market in the u. S. We should mention the january numbers were revised lower even in the face of damaging weather here in the northeast. 3. 1 in february month over month the 12 increase on the yearoveryear. U. S. Stocks are higher and remain higher no Real Movement there, the dollar picking up a little bit for the dx why index. The 10 year yield and two year yield and twoyear yield remain lower, no real cha
Good morning. The Judiciary Committee will come to order, and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the unconstitutionality of president obamas executive actions on immigration, and ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Last november president obama announced one of the biggest constitutional power grabs ever by a president. He declared unilaterally that by his own estimation almost 5 million unlawful aliens would be free from the legal consequences of their lawless actions. Not only that, by granting them deferred action, he would bestow upon them benefits such as legal presence, Work Authorization, and access to the Social Security trust fund and the earned income tax credit. President obama took these actions despite having stated over 20 times in the past that he didnt have the constitutional power to take such steps on his own. As the washington posts own fact
The definition gets cloudier not more specific in my view. And in fact, you know, if we end somewhere like three out of the seven, that would be clear too, wouldnt it . Wouldnt it be just as clear to say navigable waters are waters that are navigable for interstate commerce and why wouldnt that be we have been the area that lacks clarity right now is not the issue of navigable waters. The Supreme Court actually spoke very definitively that navigable waters need to be looked at in a way that isnt the traditional definition. We havent been looking at navigable waters the same way. It is a recognition that navigable waters in their ability to provide the functions that we look for, are really severely impacted by the waters that flow into them. So the challenge we tried to face in the clean water rule was to take a look at how do we identify those rivers streams tributaries, wetlands that feed into those navigable waters that we need to understand and protect so that they wont degrade tho
Not only of the sun shine ordinance, but the california records act. I think if a voter who really values his or her vote came here and saw the way you treat the public during Public Comment they would have your back sides out of those seats so fast it wouldnt be funny. I wouldnt surprised if some got areculeed. You should be ashame odsf the way you treat the pub lb and especially the way you usual procedural issues and other bs to try to silence people you dont agree with and let people you aprove of go on and on thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Tom [inaudible] 37 years ago mayor mas coney put a gay man here in one of these seats. He opened up an inclusion and made it more. You night say brought the Good Samaritan into the fold. Right now we have bishops and we have laws in arkansas and ind yan yeah that want to say gay people you can be gay, just go back it the clause td. That is my perception. I dont know if anyone want tooz go back to the the closet. I dont think they wou
Evaluate those and hope it goes to the environmental impact. I would hope that you would encourage the commission to take that seriously and also act accordingly. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good evening supervisors. I fsh at a meeting with the commissioners up stair. Im here to talk about accountability. Im stepping up as a entrepreneur in communications. Here at city hall, i wont name names, i was very disrespected yesterday from the Supervisors Office that i wont tolerate 340er and hope we can talk about that later. Here we have here room 200 ed leeing the mayor in my community with his office now. Going be reelected. Im telling ed lieu now because he knows me. We worked together when he was with the hrc and my name is ace. This man ed lee came to our community in 2011 for 4 or 5 different black businesses. Shortly after that every one of the businesses clodezed down and now he is in our community with a election. He will have to come to talk to our community because we are u