Officers who are under the supervision of much more experienced officers. I think it is also worth noting we are talking about Foreign Service officers. These are people who have gone through a very rigorous, Competitive Program to be admitted to the service. Many are lawyers or have worked in Immigration Law or have been teachers. Many are former military. Rep. Duckworth by no means are these inexperienced people. They get about the same amount in terms of quantity of training as somebody we are sending into harms way. Im sure you are proud of our officers, and i thank them for their service. We must do everything in our power to protect our country, but we can do it without evolving into demagoguery and focusing on imaginary problems. I agree we must consider any and all options to improve our refugee process, but lets remember these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists we are fighting, isis and the a side regime. Turning our backs on people who are being persecuted and killed th
Biden . Yesterday there was a lot of chatter that maybe he was going to jump into the race . And this morning, you know, tuesday at 7 00, we dont have confirmation, right . They say were going to know sometime tomorrow, although i feel like theyve been jerking us around on this for a while. All right, joe, its up to you, but come on, get on with it already. And tonight chicago, is it our kind of town . Not right now. New york looking to go up three games in this best of seven series. Hi, everybody, and once again, congratulations, rosanna, mother of the year. Thank you. Along with my mom and my sister, elena. The American Cancer Society honored rosanna and some other very nice people. This is the roof of the st. Regis hotel. Its really lovely. Thats my daughter, jenna, on the right, and my niece julia. What they did yesterday is they had my daughter and my niece give an award to my sister and i, and then my sister elena and i gave the award to my mom which was so lovely. There you are
Joined shortly by supervisor mark farrell, who will be sitting in for supervisor malia cohen. Is supervisor cohen going to need to be excused for an absence . Lets have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. We will take that without objection. The clerk of the board is Derrick Evans and todays meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff, thank you for your work broadcasting our meetings. Mr. Clerk, could you please call do you have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Please make sure on silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted today will appear on the january 16 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item no. 1 is a motion appointing supervisor aaron peskin to a term ending january 31, 2017, to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district. We dont have a representative from supervisor peskins office. I do not see any issue with these appointments nor the n
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome. Were gathered on the 50th anniversary sorry, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the august 7th, 1964, passage by both houses of congress of an authorization for the use of military force. We didnt call it that, but thats exactly what it was. It was implementing our obligations under the 1955 cito treaty pursuant to the United States constitution. Vietnam veterans for factual history is a Diverse Group of mostly Vietnam Veterans including retired fourstar generals medal of honor recipient, prisoners of war, special operations personnel, and a variety of others. Our common bond is that we believe the americans had been misled about the realities of vietnam and too many of the, quote, facts that they have been led to believe are true are not true. And because of this, when other conflicts arise, theyre drawing the wrong lessons. After the war, polls showed that Vietnam Veterans supported the war by more than twice the average of the am
That its really difficult to legislate for every exception for every case, which is why the approach that we have taken with the hardship exception is to let the facts of each case speak for themselves because a lot of the analysis as to what is hardship is very fact specific and very individualized to each situation. Supervisor kim. I was going to request that the lien from the rent board come and address this question to the best of her acts. The granted primarily from tenants, but perhaps you can speak a little bit from your experiences to what you have seen, you know, from your i know you addressed this question at landys commission as well. Executive director of the rent board. We, as you can imagine, we see very few landlord hardship applications compared to the tenant hardship applications that we see, and we have seen them and i forwarded the decisions and how our Administrative Law has telt with landlord hardships when the landlords come before us with the assets. We see them