Campos, aye. Christensen, no. Cohen, no. Farrell, no. Kim, aye. Mar, aye. Tang, no. 4 aye and 7 no with the no being supervisor wiener, breed, campos, christensen, colon, farrell and tang. The motion to send this item back to committee fails. Supervisor yee thank you president breed. So, it is true that most of us would like to see inyeas in Police Officers on our streets and so forth and most of us will be supporting it to get up to the 1971. I support it and i wouldnt be supporting with the mayor lee suggested in terms of having 5 classes for the next year. To be trutful walking if n to had chamber i was willing to look at numbers beyond 1971. What i wasnt prepared to do was and st. Completely my fault for thinking something else, the resolution that is being presented, what i thought i was going to be supporting and s the notion that we need to look at something beyond 19 sev 1. We need to look at it for a variety of reason squz the main reason was to look at the population but what
We wont be in a Economic Impact for that area for quite some time. On the phone with us, the Salvation Army emergency director for texas. Director, thank you for taking the time. What is it like there today, lets say versus yesterday . Well, obviously things are just very busy. Things are changing rapidly. Were continuing to monitor the situation right now that is somewhat of a emergency situation in beaumont. We just received words maybe five minutes ago that the reservoir is now going to open up their floodgates, which puts counties of casper and newton more additional water being brought in there. So we have a crisis situation there that is unparalleled just in those areas that we havent even been able to address yet. Were prepared for them. We know that this eventuality was there, so we had units standing by poised to go in, but were looking at roadmaps now. Theres not a road open in that area we cant begin to move yet. But in houston, we are mustering our forces rapidly. We have I
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Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. The world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of the past will suffice for today and especially for tomorrow. Yes, we all have an obligation to see taxpayer dollars are spent as efficiently and effectively as possible, especially in fulfilling the first job of the federal government which is to defend the country. But we all know from the news and from our In
Today we will hear testimony from the director of the office of management of budget, the monon honorable Mick Mulvaney. I want to thank him for being here to discuss the president s budget and spending priorities. We look forward to hearing his remarks. While article one gives congress the power of the purse the federal budget is a collaborative process. The administration, this committee and counter parts Work Together to build a budget that reflects our unified priorities over the same time period economic stagnation lead Congressional Budget Office to continually downgrade projects for Economic Growth. Its a large debt burden on the future generation of americans, that reflects moral failure to face head on our challenges. This administration and this committee agree on our our responsibility to improve our countrys fiscal situation and put us on the foot a balanced budget that allows us to start cutting down our National Debt. Our friends will no doubt defend the status quo of the