Are the people that you really have to sit down and say, this is very serious. The city of San Francisco has to pay for these things. I think its important to sit down and have classes and have people come and talk and ask questions especially youth. Because if they dont start putting that into place, who is going to listen . Thank you. Now i will turn it over to comment from staff. Okay. Lets go to Public Comment. Well start with, if you will be kind to hang back if there are questions. We have a speaker. Thank you. For your presentation on accessibility on bike lanes. I have a question and concern and also a rhetorical question. Will there be, should there be, could there be installed on the medians on the north south, east west, roads such as gary and van ness an aps push button on the median to assist pedestrians crossing over those routes which in those two examples are also highway 1, which is van ness is 101 but equates to lombard which is also 101. Can that be installed to van
This is the best of this institution of how it performs. It has been embodied in the Public Service of carl levin for 36 years here. What you have heard is the testimonies on both sides of the aisle that because of how he has conducted himself as an individual and how he has conducted himself as a Public Servant and how he has conducted himself as a leader in this senate is exactly how this institution is supposed to function. Isnt it rather symbolic that on the last couple of days of the session the bill that will be passed is the bill that he has ushered and he never broke tradition. He made sure the Defense Authorization bill was going to be passed by hammering out the differences with the house and shepherding it through the parliament process. And its happened every year because of extraordinary leadership. I will close simply by saying that because he is all of the things that youve heard, the consummate gentleman, the humble Public Servant, the razor sharp mind, the best lawyer,
Is so widely trusted by his constituency and by the members of this body whove worked with him closely over the years on both sides of the aisle, is a real tribute. You are mr. Integrity and that is one of many reasons we will miss you. And again, id have more to say but in deference to my dear friend from iowa, who i see is ready to roll, i will yield the floor. The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Portman i will be brief as well, mr. President , just to say that im going to miss my colleague and ive told him that personally but i wanted to share just a couple of reasons. One, as a new member on the other side of the aisle when i first got here, carl, who i had gotten to know a little bit through his brother, who i see is on the floor with us today, who has fought many fights with him on the squash court but they remain dear friends. He came to me and said, you ought to join the auto caucus. Im not a big caucus guy. Most caucuses dont do much in this place and then i saw w
Lets get the lawyers out of this. Lets go back to the any act women. A littleknown obscure story and computing. They recruit young women, mostly mostly math majors from small, midwestern colleges bring them all to pennsylvania and decide that they are going to be assigned the task of programming this computer. Why are they simultaneously so obscure and yet plays such an Important Role . Partly because this happened during the war. Originally done to calculate missile trajectories for artillery tables. As the war is ending in 46 they realize that it has to do other things. I wanted to no if this Hydrogen Bomb concept will actually work. And women are the ones who understand how to program it they get written out because the boys with their toys thought that they were in charge, and the day that they unveil eniac finally in 1946 it is valentines day. The New York Times is there all sorts of dignitaries and finally show off this new machine. Jean jennings nick francis and others do the pr
Environment, and probably lots of others, but those are things that Everybody Knows that he has worked hard on. Throughout the years tom and i have served side by side in washington for the good of our home state. For three terms we worked together in the u. S. House of representatives. It was here in the senate our shared commitment to give Rural America a voice at the policy making table was sown. And for many years we worked together on the Senate Agricultural committee looking out for the millions of americans who choose to work and earn a living in Rural America. We worked together to advocate for Rural Infrastructure and investment, access to health care, Housing Technology and transportation. For the last three decades we have served alongside one another here in this distinguished body, the United States senate, an institution that both of us hold near and dear to our hearts. Although some of our silver tongued critics over the years may have described toms views as a bleeding