speaking spanish. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. thank you, everyone and welcome to the sfvrz meeting of tuesday, december 15, 2015, madam clerk can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed commissioner campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim not presents supervisor mar supervisor president wesson sin. Supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you very much madam clerk any communication. There are no communication to report madam president. Colleagues, any changes to the regular meeting mini i minutes of november 3rd seeing none, motion to approve by supervisor mar seconded by commissioner campos colleagues well take that without objection. Well take that wi
Language. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. thank you, everyone and welcome to the sfvrz meeting of tuesday, december 15, 2015, madam clerk can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed commissioner campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim not presents supervisor mar supervisor president wesson sin. Supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you very much madam clerk any communication. There are no communication to report madam president. Colleagues, any changes to the regular meeting mini i minutes of november 3rd seeing none, motion to approve by supervisor mar seconded by commissioner campos colleagues well take that without objection. Well take that without objection. Those Meeting Minu
To be sure, congress made numerous reforms to the military Justice System to protect victims rights. Over 200 provisions of law , secretarial initiatives and independent recommendations have been undertaken within the last three years. The Defense Department cites increased rates of Sexual Assault as evidence of the progress made. While rates have improved dramatically and servicemembers consistently cited fear of retaliation or the perpetrator or perpetrators friends concerned about their careers as reasons for not reporting. Our Research Indicates the fears are well grounded. The positive trend will not continue as victims see those who report their result is taken to address the problem. Ending retaliation is critical to effectively addressing Sexual Assault in the u. S. Military. Miranda peterson good morning. My name is miranda peterson. Im the policy director. I would like to recognize the incredible work of Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch and shining the light of this deva
Colorful pictures bio twitter handles and a district maps a look at congressional committees the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governments. It is 13. 95 plus shipping and handling through the online store. Next, West Virginia senator joe manchin talks about improving government. This is brought to you by the Brookings Institute. It runs 50 minutes. Sglp good afternoon i am a fellow at the center for effective Public Management and managing editor of the fix gov blog. I would like to welcome you to the Brookings Institute and todays event. I would like to thank cspan for being here and invite everyone watching to follow along on social media. It is no secret the American Government is in a problem of dysfunction. Gridlock crippled the Institutions Trust in government plummeted and instead of getting answers, all we are getting is more problems. Too often we adapt to a dysfunctional system rather than work in a way to reform it. That is a serious problem. It results in
Senator manchin and senator bird were on my mind. We have been talking to senator manchins staff for some months now about the interesting and valuable perspective that former governors bring to the United States senate. One of our ad ppvisors is a former governor mayor and senator and when he left the senate we lost the champion for sensible government reform in the senate. I must say i am impressed with the reform agenda he has outlined. From agendas like returning to bipartisan lunches and the governors caucus itself to the groups. We have talked about this in the think tank world. It needs to be something we are grappling with the return of the Office Technology assistance. One of the few valuable small i think the whole thing had 90 people in it. Small pieces of government that was well worth its weight and somehow has got chopped. I would like to open senator by asking a sort of general question. Why is it so hard to get the United States Congress Interested in these common sense