Organization ando political organizations its clear over the past several electoral cycles the Koch Brothers and others associated have pumped likely hundreds of millions of dollars particularly into nonprofit political organizations. And this is where it really gets technical but also gets very important in the sense that these types of organizations which are not supposed to have a primary purpose of engaging in politics are still spending tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars collectively to engage in the political process, and this is really where the row begins. Where the argument that harry reid and plenty of other democrats have articulated saying fine, play politics, get in politics but we should know who truly is behind it. Can either of us put a dollar figure on how much money the Koch Brothers have put in the system in in part no, because we dont have the information by law to put such a dollar figure on their pending. Host based on that, lets take a step back. Who ar
Issues. We have callers during the first 45 minutes saying, why are they focusing on jobs and the economy. Concern think that is a that some republicans have. As i said a minute ago, many the basics see political rationale for these hearings as seen as how they can make make life difficult for secretary clinton. There are other republicans who think this is over doing it and it is a basic argument within the House Republican conference over how they should be positioning themselves for the fall. Wee say emphatically all need to do is tear down the president and make life difficult for the president , say no to everything the president is for. And others are saying the voters dont want just to vote against people, they want to vote for people, and the republicans should be standing for something, should be promoting something, should be advocating things. John boehner, the speaker, does try when you see him go before the cameras which he does a couple of times a week generally after Hou
Thank you. Next speaker, please. Pete wilson followed by john billow and then berry toronto is the last person whos turned in a speaker card. My name is pete wilson, i used to drive tour busses, i no longer do, but i live on alamo square, i live half a block from owen on scott and grove. I live on alamo square and support the tour busses coming as somebody who has worked in the industry. I was a tour guide when i say, im sorry, i cant show you alamo square. Restrictions are not nice. So id like to support no. 2 other than i dont like the davies shuttle i am a parent of a 7yearold and a 4yearold and having been through hundreds of hours of bus driving training, knowing that if i hopefully i will some day drive the 21, if i was driving the 21 i would not want the little shuttle vans, they are famous for parking in the muni bus zones. The big busses, a lot of those drivers have been through training and i think the problem is actually the davies shuttle bus which comes through picks up pe
Can. Ive taken the presentations on this and read all the material, very thoughtful discussions among members of the community. One thing i was heard about is the impact this rollout would have on low income seniors and disabled seniors. Someone should take a close look at how we can accommodate the needs of the low income folks. Members ought to consider that perhaps as we go forward this afternoon we could do an amendment before voting if there is in fact support for that. Thank you, good afternoon. Good afternoon, chair nolan and Board Members and director riskin, my name is Carla Johnson and i am the interim director at the Mayors Office on disability and our role is to service the citys overall ada Compliance Officer to make sure all our city services, programs and facilities are accessible as required under the ada and we consider parking to be just another program. We are here to share with you the recommendations from the accessible parking committee. This is a committee cochai
I want to hear what steps were taking to protect the capitol on march 4th from any more violent extremists. Thank you. Okay. Talk to him about that later. Senator warner has arrived via video. And senator peters will work with us for restroom breaks and the like. We dont want to take a long break, but i could imagine you need a break at some point here. Senator warner. Thank you, madam chairman, and thank you to the witnesses for appearing today. You know, weve talked a little bit about the deployment or lack of deployment of the National Guard. And one of the questions for mr. Sund or chief contee, in the fact that we the district did not have the ability to bring the guard to the table because of frankly marian bowser was not treated in a totally fair fashion in this. This may be outside your lane, but her inability to bring the guard to the table and actually any on the panel, you know, that to me is a reflection of the disempowerment of the district. On a goingforward basis in term