You look at the leader board and say, who are these guys, the field is wide open. 12million is up for grabs, we have more on that shortly. As i mentioned, the bay area is heating up. Northern california is really hot. Temperatures well over 100 degrees, its going to be hard to get a break. Lets look at the weather and how to cool down, when you have been looking at the forecast, its lasting so long and its so hot. Its five or six days. Yes, its going to be warm, sunday looks like it could be the hottest day, temperatures are coming down after that but its still going to be hot. San francisco waking up with a bit of cloud cover out there. Partly cloudy skies to start the morning. Fog along the coast line, in the afternoon, partly cloudy. Temperatures continuing to rise. We talked about a heat advisory going into effect later today. It starts at 11 cluck and goes through wednesday. The National Weather service said its going to be blazing between now and then, its widespread, all of our
Of openness. That is not the case when it comes to filling foya requests. March 2014, the Associated Press reported the Obama Administration more often than any other administration had sensors government files or outright denied access. The administration used exemption to withhold information more than 550,000 times. Agencies must consult with the white house on all document requests that may involve documents with white house equities. Just in the last year the government fully denied access or censored records in at least 250,000 cases or roughly 39 of all whys. This is the highest number of denials in the history of foya. We waited to hear from individuals to get Public Records they requested. This came from media and the foya system is broken and probably broken by design. In preparing for this hearing, the Committee Received numerous examples of delays, unreasonable redactions and abuse of fees, all of which hindered transparency. The epa strategically avoided disclosure disclos
My case in maine. I think thats an important principal and its how i start when i approach the analysis of any nominee to any position put forward by the executive, whether the executive is donald trump, barack obama, or anybody else. Thats a kind of starting point. And thats how i started this january. And, indeed, thus far as we voted here on the floor, i have supported five of the seven nominees that have come before us, plus ive supported two additional nominees in committee, which have not yet come to the floor but who i will support on the floor. So i am not total opposition, dont vote for any nominees. I dont think thats the way our system works, and its certainly not the way i intend to approach these issues. I have a i have approached them one at a time, looking at the positions of the nominees, their views, their hearings. Ive tried to follow the hearings as closely as possible, their answers to questions. Again, i start with a bias toward approval perhaps because of my exper
An investigation when it comes to holding a retaliater against a whistleblower accountable. Because guess what the numbers support what im saying. You can give whatever explanation you want. But im telling you right now, the level of disrespect that you are showing to the veterans who by the way if and we know allegations are true in terms of treatment, mistreatment of patients, the lists, the laundry lists of stuff that is going on. Everyone knows that its there. Youre telling me youre spending all this time to try to hold someone accountable. Forget about whats happening about actually fixing the problem where veterans are not getting the services that they need. That is another disturbing thing to me. Thats almost an afterthought to you. So i cant hear an explanation that includes some kind of, with el, and believe me im a lawyer so i get the whole theres an Ongoing Investigation so i cant answer. Its a very convenient way of getting out of answering a question that you dont want to
What were they doing in. They were investigating me. You know i thought i told them, i clearly thought it was a sham. And i expressed that to them on multiple occasions during the investigation. I mean one of the most interesting questions the question they wanted asked or answered the most dealt with the fact i identified a vehicle driving a government vehicle driving at friday night at 8 30 in the evening after i left the office at 8 30 didnt have any taillights on it at all. I stopped that vehicle and notified the driver there werent any taillights on before the driver got on a darkened highway. And then the next monday i inquired about what the vehicle was doing out at 8 30, because you know we had had vehicles destroyed by staff and we had had vehicles used to take staff to crack houses and i had a concern about why that vehicle was out. The oar aib investigation was more concerned excuse me was more concerned why i stopped the vehicle and when i expressed that, you know i was bor