You should have a box on your screen that shows how much time is remaining. Some trouble and ive had senators tell me they just cant find that box or they dont see it. Last hearing one of the senators asked me to give them a reminder. I will do that this time for everybody. So at 30 seconds left on your clock, there will be a tone, a bell ring to remind senators and witnesses that their time is a most expired, then at the end of five minutes, another bell will ring. That way we can all know how the clock is working even though we dont find it on our screens. Today we will receive testimony from the securities and Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and the. Genda of the sec thank you for your appearance before the committee today which is essential to our oversight of the sec. And welcome. You last appeared before this committee in december of last year. The covid19 pandemic hit the United States shortly after that hearing and thesec has taken many important ste
Item number 2 is approval of the minutes for the september 22nd Port Commission meeting. So moved. Clerk it looks like we may have lost the commissioner. Lets see if she can rejoin us. [no audio] commissioner, are you able to call in with audio . Commissioners, are you able to dial in using the phone number on the teams link . We have your video, just not your audio. Hi, i can barely hear you commissioner brandon. Oh, im sorry. Can we use indiscernible signal . Yes, if its visible. So people would need to indiscernible yes. Okay. So ill so, commissioner wuho is here. I got back into the own meeting, doreen. Right, right. Okay. Trying to give you hand signals. Great. Okay. Now we have a quorum. Can i have a second to approve the minutes . Second. All in favor . Oh, no roll call vote, please. Clerk sure. [roll call] thank you. Item number 3 is Public Comment on executive session. We will open up the phone lines to Public Comment. The members of the public joining us on the phone, jennife
Do it ok next up you might recall that throughout our attacks on syria the Mainstream Media told americans that a bunch of awesome rebels were fighting for their freedom and the us was just help amount now when that was going on or not by you but i would think everything the Corporate Media is telling us is just absolutely true they would never live us about this sure they lie about Everything Else no doubt no doubt but this this right here. Theyre theyre totally telling it like it is because they just want to help the poor people in syria all the other times total heads but when it comes to syrians they are basically Oskar Schindler no doubt alas i was wrong the gray zone has been reporting on a new leak of hundreds of documents that shows westerners government funded intelligence cutouts trained and funded Syrian Opposition leaders planted stories in Media Outlets from b. B. C. To aljazeera and rana qadri of journalists u. K. Government contractors developed an advanced infrastructur
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Due to the covid [indiscernible] being held via teleconference. For those watching the live stream be aware theres a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sf gov tv. Id like to extend our appreciation to the staff for their assistance during the meet. If you wish to make a Public Comment dial 1415655001 [audio digitizing] ill ask asking to keep muted and item 19 has been removed from the agenda and we will not hear closed session item 19 the other closed session item will remain on the calendar. The first order of business is the annual election of officers. At the first regular meeting of the commission after the first day of october each year the members shall elect a president and Vice President of the commission to serve a oneyear term. Commissioners you, will first nominate the elected position and elect the position of Vice President. Public comment will be taken separately on each. [indiscernible] members of the public who wish to make two minutes o