The colosseum. The northbound side is backed up, 51 minutes from 238 up towards the maze. Thats all due to the accident that has two lanes blocked at 880 and 23rd avenue. The southbound side is slow as well because of the debris from that accident, so expect delays in both directions through oakland. Avoid 880 if you can, and use 580 as your alternate. Thats moving at the limit. We have a Traffic Alert still in effect northbound 880 at 23rd avenue through oakland. Thats a check on your traffic. It is nice and clear outside, no fog in sight and temperatures are in the 40s and 50s. We have 56 for San Francisco, san josi up to 55 degrees. It will be a warm day, and hopefully you enjoyed conditions lately. Its been very warm. Today wont be as warm, but temperatures will still be up there. We have winds picking up as well. Gusts up to 55 miles an hour for mt. Diablo. We have humidity levels dropping, santa rosa picking up to 13 miles an hour there. When we get the offshore winds, humidity l
State legislative boundaries. After the 2010 census the Arizona Redistricting Commission through mounds the republicans allege were stacked against them. The them. The independent number, the tiebreaker an average citizen cited with democrats to pass a map that maximize the number of competitive seats. If you were to draw a map that simply incorporated a regular shape at random you probably end up with a republican leaning map in arizona but a top democrat that had had he have the advantage. Republicans who up to occupy the state legislature they took it all the way to the Supreme Court because they argue that independent redistricting commissions are not constitutional. After all, the election clause of the constitutions is the constitution says the manner and place of elections shall be determined by each state and the legislature thereof. The Supreme Court had to wrestle with whether to interpret this on a a strict basis or lose basis. What the majority decided Justice Ginsburg wrot
Behavior, by holding out the prospect of relief if the worlds concerns were addressed. Once the iaea verifies that iran has taken key steps to rollback its Nuclear Program and extend its breakout time to at least one year, sanctions relief would come into effect. There is no signing bonus. To be clear, there will be no immediate changes to you in, eu, or u. S. Sanctions. Only if iran fulfills the necessary nuclear conditions will be u. N. Suspend secondary sanctions on a limited basis. Of course we must guard against the possibility that i run iran does not uphold it set of the deal. If iran violates its commitments once we have suspended the sanctions, we will be able to snap that vote to the u. S. And human sections. Since prohibiting the human stamp act requires a prohibitive vote from the un Security Council, the United States has the ability to force every imposition the reimposition of those sections. We will maintain significant sections that follow outside the scope of the nucl
Community, ways and Means Committee. This hourlong program was hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society in the Committee Hearing room. We have a very many distinguished guests with us this evening. Im going to ask some of them to stand all of them to stand and please hold your applause until the keynotes be has been introduced. And that will be the end of the group. Congressman paul ryan, chairman of the ways and Means Committee. Congressman Sander Martin levin Ranking Member of the committee. We will hear from both of these gentlemen later in the program. Former distinguished chairman bill archer. Bill thomas. Charlie wrangle. Dave camp. Former Ranking Member jim mccrary. And all of the sitting members of the committee. Please rise. [applause] we have two former Committee Members, Robert Canales and Nancy Johnson , [applause] barbara and nancy were two of the first congresswomen to serve on the ways and Means Committee. Then we had that wonderful lady, Cokie Roberts. [applause]
[applause] and to now, the chairman of the u. S. Capital Historical Society and a former member of congress from missouri will offer a toast to the committee and then we will have dinner. Before i offer the toast this evening, i want to give a brief history, a very brief history, of the committee. But i want to step set the record straight first. Jim was not only the ranking member, but he was chairman of this committee. [applause] it was 226 years ago and 10 days from now that this committee was created in 1789. Its responsibility is for a clear, to raise money to pay for the government. The newly signed constitution, as we all have studied, declare that all laws to raise revenue must originate here in the house of representatives. For the first two months, that is exactly what happened. The committee drafted and considered bills to impose tariffs and taxes. But a turf battle arose. A magic, a turf battle in washington. That is unheard of. This one arose between the committee and the