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When Public Comment is called for members of the public wishing to comment on an item from outside the hearing room, you will, uh. You may do so by joining via webinar through the link shown on page two of todays agenda. And to be recognized, select the raise your hand icon in the webinar. You may also comment from outside the chamber by. Dialing 14156550001. Use the meeting id. Of 26613161316. Pound, pound and then to raise your hand to speak, press star three. The telephone login information is also available on both pages one and two of todays agenda. Commenters may speak for up to three minutes per item. Youll receive a 32nd notice when youre speaking. Time is about to expire, and in the event we have many comment hours on an on an item, the chair may reduce Public Comment time to less than three minutes per person unless youre speaking under general Public Comment, please note that you must limit your comments to the topic of the agenda item being discussed, and if commenters do n
James and weve got lots of news to get to. Well get to that here in just a second. But we do want to start with a check of weather and traffic colder yet again this morning for me anyway. Good morning, john. Oh, yeah, its our cold this what this season so far, guys, were looking at some 30s on the map this morning. It is really chilly out there. So just dont forget the jacket year. Get any that as youre getting outside what weve got right now is a nice view looking down from the east bay hills into the bay, not looking at fog, nor lot of cloud cover and that is allowed temperatures to just fall off down in the 40s for hayward, fremont and oakland as well as san mateo. And then look at the north bay, sonoma and santa rosa at 38 degrees right now. Calistoga at 36 kelsey bill, all the way down to 35 degrees. Its cold enough that up in lake and mendocino counties. We have freeze watches this freeze warnings all the way through 10 00am this morning later on today. Were going to have a nice,
Seriously considered. Senator mccain has already referenced them. One is i think we have to take a hard look at overhead. The army but not just the army but the military across the board, all of the services to include department of defense are very very Large Organization with a big bureaucracy with a significant overhead. A second is acquisition. As already previously mentioned, theres a considerable amount of cost and in many cases waste in the acquisition process. We need to get that under control. And the third and final piece that i think is worth taking a look at theres a wide variety of emerging technologies that could in the outyears could lend itself to automated processes and reducing either manpower or manpower costs, compensation cost over time. Thats three big areas that would want to lock at if confirmed. We have russia creating a looming threat in europe, we have the pacific and chinas expansion or i should say increased activity there. We have the ongoing war in the mi
I introduced a bill that reforms the the act to provide greater congressional oversight and to protect against the throat of Nuclear Proliferation. When the president says it is this will deal or go to war there is another option. Lets not forget about the agreement that was withdrawn by the Bush Administration in 2008 because the president could not certify that russia was not providing nuclear and advanced nuclear advanced weapons. Iran can buy Nuclear Missile ap weapons from the russians. Next on the list what the list with vietnam and allowed vietnam to enrich. The the agreement. I opposed that agreement because it allows china to enrich. Jordan and the uae, are not allowed to enrich based on their agreement, but bad actors china, russia and vietnam, oh they can enrich. Et doesnt make. Page 5 line 13 of the general provisions of the agreement states that the nations will quote, cooperate as a appropriate in the Nuclear Energy and engage in willp am projects oose detailed in a nmp n