[roll call] you have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devises. The ringing of use of cellphones and pagers and sound producing electric devices are prohibited and the chair may over the removal from the room of any person responsibility for one going off in the middle of the meeting. The minutes of february 18th, 2020 regular meeting. No members have turned in a public speaker card. Public comment is closed. We have the minutes ill entertain a motion. Move. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Consider those approved. Clerk communications. Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think th
You today to testify on the president s trade jaeagenda ande newly renegotiated United States mexico canada agreement. I would like to begin by notie ingnoteing that the American Economy is growing well. Were growing substantially faster than any other g7 country. We added 5. 8 million jobs since the 2016 election. Notab notably, 500,000 of those jobs are in manufacturing. The Unemployment Rate of 3. 6 is the lowest in half a century and has been at or below 4 for 15 consecutive months. Hourly wages were up some 3. 1 over the last 12 months. And contrary to what one hears, exports are growing. Indeed, 2018 was the highest year in our history for exports of both goods and services. While agricultural exports in 2018 were not the highest in history, they were up over 2017 and 2016. Im pleased to present the trade policy agenda at the 2018 annual report of the committee. This document, which u. S. Put out usgr put out recently outlines the administrations trade priorities and catalogs rec
Hall, lets make a deal. They discussed all the major outstanding issues but there still many disagreements remaining. The glimmer of hope, at least when you look at this, for the moment is that schumer said discussions are continuing. Im looking at the clock, t minus eight hours and 59 minutes for the senate to avoid a Government Shutdown. Fox news reports that senator schumer had a very specific list of requests during his meeting with the president. The democrats put previously demanded action on immigration in exchange for their votes to keep the government open for business. We dont know what this long list entails but a lot of people thought it was a deal to keep the dreamers, the children of Illegal Immigrants here legally without being deported, or at least having the threat of being deported. The house extended the bill to extend funding through every 15h and it does fund the Childrens Health insurance for another six years, but democratic votes are needed for the continuing re
Number 41 turns 93. Former president george h. W. Bush marks his 93rd birthday today. Milestone comes just days after his wife, former first lady, barbara bush, turned 9. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, june 12th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Happy birthday to 41 yes, happy belated birthday as well to mrs. Bush. He did send a nice note on twitter. Saying so proud to be her husband. Oh. Very sweet. Relationship goals. Will you be writing me notes like that at 91 . Not at all. I wont remember. But anyway. We are going to move on. Start off with washington, d. C. Really the growing demand the shade continues. The growing demand for President Trump to turn over any tapes of conversations with the former fbi director james comey if they exist. The president slammed comey on twitter, promising to lay out his version of their interactions under oath. All of this while the attorney general prepares to testify as well. Abcs mary bruce has more. Reporter Pre
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