Mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government television, michael and kalina, who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have known to report. When you reach reached the Consent Agenda. Item one through four are on consent. They are considered to be routine. If a member objects, and i do maybe removed and considered separately. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Okay. Then, madame clerk, please call roll call. [roll call] there are 11 aye. Without objection, these ordinances are passed unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go to the regular agenda. Item five is an ordinance to levy property taxes of taxable property on the following agencies. The city and county of San Francis
Pelosi and Chuck Schumer held a briefing on the health care law. They were joined by other democratic lawmakers on the steps of the capital, to talk about the potential impact of the texas challenge to the law. This is just over 15 minutes. Look. [greetings] [laughter] ok. I want to thank our Speaker Nancy Pelosi and those from the house. We are gathered because this is a critical day for the future of health care in america. Today, new orleans, republican attorneys general supported by President Trump and his department of justice, will argue in court that millions of americans should lose their health care, and all of the protections included in the aca. The stakes cannot be higher. Imagine your parent or your child has cancer. A deadly form. There is a treatment available, but the Insurance Company says no, you cannot have that treatment. Or we are cutting you off. What is donald trump, what are our republican friends telling that family . That you cannot get health care, and we hav
Appeals in new orleans heard from lawyers on opposing sides of the case. This is an hour and 45 minutes. You may proceed. Thank your honor and may it please the court, i will be sharing my time with mr. Letter from the house of representatives and dividing rebuttal time. To start with the issues raised in the court in the supplemental briefing order, we think the states were clearly injured by the judgment below and are aiming to appeal it. Judge elrod you might want to move the microphone. Mr. Siegel after this supplement briefing all parts greed that this court has part parties have agreed that this court has Appellate Jurisdiction under bins or. Legal harm from the courts order even though they now welcome it, and the participation of the states and house of representatives and sure is that there will be an adversarial presentation of the issues in this case. Turning to the other issues in this case, the central feature this appeal is that when judge engelhardt when you say youre st
M its good to have you with us today members of the European Parliament made history by electing the 1st woman to be Commission President that woman germanys outgoing defense minister ursula fun. Now she will succeed john called younger in the top job after being voted in by a narrow margin of just 9 votes underly and will be as we said the 1st woman to ever serve as the Commission President in the European Union. Of underlined as promised a united and strong europe saying that she will work constructively and pragmatically to achieve that we want to go live now to our Brussels Bureau chief rex hoffman he is standing by at the European Parliament in strasbourg and i think i understand he has the newly elected president with a mass. Thats right brant we do was alive on the line is with us today and i have a very simple question the start of the interview are you feeling. Relieved and happy because it was a tough ride over 13 days now i had to. Formulate the guidelines the political guid
And here we are, with the president of the United States, actively this day, doing everything he could, not achieved in the congress, but rather now in the courts, doing everything he can to harm americans. How cynical. How terrible. How harmful. But thats where we are. Well see what the court does. Hopefully they will be sympathetic. To 130 million americans. To nine million americans. To 15 million americans. To children. Young adults ages 18 to 25le maybe theyll be sympathetic. Well see. Well see what happens. But if the Affordable Care act is somehow through the courts repealed and there is no replacement, i want the American People to understand who is responsible. Who is responsible for the harm that will immediately be inflicted upon americans. It is our president and it is his colleagues who have aided and abetted and who today in state attorneys general are arguing for the harm that will come to americans. We havent given up the fight. We never give up the fight. So that every