Giving you a front row seat to democracy. President biden says his administration will be targeting companies and Financial Institutions that charge consumers junk fees. It is a effort to reduce cost for americans as inflation continues. The present was joined by the head of the Consumer National protection bureau. This is about 15 minutes. Good morning. I am the Consumer Financial protection bureau. Across the country, americans are back at work and working hard with the hope of saving up for a better future, themselves and their kids. Many of them worry whether they will have enough money to pay their monthly bills. Reducing costs for families in their daytoday lives can ease the strain. There is so many ways that we are working to give them more peace of mind. One of them is combating junk fees. Junk fees are those unavoidable, unnecessary and surprised charges that insulate cost for families while providing little to no value or service. These fees have been creeping across the eco
I yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. Senator dick durbin talks about the fdas role in removing certain ecigarette from the market. September 9, 2021, over a year ago, was supposed to be a historic day and american efforts to stop the purveyors of candy and fruit flavored you cigarettes from praying on americas kids but september 9, 2021, was the deadline and it was set by a federal judge for the us food and Drug Administration to finally finally clear its enormous backlog of applications for ecigarette Companies Seeking to sell the product in america, companies that can improve their products were appropriate for protection of public health, they can sell their products legally but ecigarette products cant meet that standard, cant demonstrate a benefit to public health, vape vaping is dangerous and addictive, these companies are praying on our children. Fda had a legal mandate to ban these from us markets on september 9, 2021, but the food and Drug Administration failed
Philly fed survey and the National Association of home builders. Friday, Housing Starts, productivity and cost and consumer sentiment. The equity picture this morning at least ahead of all that not looking too great. Dow futures 77 points below fair value. The s p is off 10. And this is coming after the dow last week was down for the first time in seven weeks, when you look at the major average for what was happening. A little bit of rockiness out there after a long, steady climb higher. In Global Economic news, japans economy grew at a slower than expected rate in the Second Quarter. Gdp coming in at 0. 6 . Also, Capital Expenditures unexpectedly fell for the sixth straight quarter. Economists say that this is a sign that companies are still not boosting spending despite Prime Minister shinzo abes policies. Been working on consumers at least for the very First Quarter that they were looking at some of those things hasnt translated through to business. In corporate news, u. S. Authorit
This morning lee cowan will connect the dots. The doodle. Even its very name makes it sound frivolous. Scribbles and scrawls sometimes recognizable, sometimes not. They actually have a point. I dont think there is any such thing as mindless doodle because the act of doodling necessarily engages your mind. Like some are exploring the discipline of doodlology. Ahead on sunday morning. Osgood experts say the next big thing in cars is just around the bend. Barry peterson looking down the road. Now under automatic control. Hands off steering. The selfdriving car is picking up speed from the drawing board to the freeway. Can i just let go . The car may soon do all the work. The word drive is the word in the future. Could be obsolete is the driver. That story later on sunday morning. Osgood larry flynt founder and publisher of hustler magazine is one of the more controversial figures in america and in some circles one of the least admired. Is there anything he could possibly say for himself a
And plus 8. 5 percent and results in 141756 and the total results in a amount of requested of 1 million and 800,000 and we recommend that you approve this resolution. Okay. Thank you very much, mr. Rose. Seeing no further questions, we will open this up to Public Comment on item 7. Okay, anybody else wish to comment on item seven . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay we have this item in front of us and a recommendation to approve for the budget analyst and take a motion to send it forward with a recommendation. Okay, we have a motion and we can take that without objection. Madam clerk, could you call item 8 . Item 8 is a resolution, approving amendment two resolution approving amendment no. 2 to professional services agreement, airport contract no. 8994, to manage and staff the Curbside Management Program between fsp ppm management, llc, and the city and county of San Francisco, acting by and through its Airport Commission, in an amount not to exceed 19,861,000 pursuant to San