16 years, so outline specifically what you want to to do. Erik prince the president can pull out completely, which i think would be a bad idea. I think taliban and isis would end up taking over the country, and it would be a rallying cry for terrorists around the world that they have beat the United States. Or we could keep the way that we have been, we have now spent almost 1 trillion, now more than the entire Defense Budget the of the u. K. , just in afghanistan. More than 2000 american soldiers wounded dead, 20,000 plus wounded. Healthcare costs from that war will be 1 trillion on top of it. At secretary mattis said that we are not winning. The terrorist forces control almost half the country as it is now, so clearly this current strategy is not working. I tried to take a step back, and the reason i wrote restructuring, is to say, lets pare away the incremental decisions that we had. We have had 17 different commanders in 16 years. There has not been a unity of command. When i say y
For the upcoming fiscal year, a testimony from the secretary, jennifer granholm, live coverage here on cspan3. The chair will recognize himself for a fiveminute Opening Statement. Welcome to the hearing to review the department of Energy Performance and fulfillment of the statutory responsibilities and to examine the departments fiscal year 2025 budget request to congress. Welcome back to the committee, secretary granholm. The department of energy has National Security responsibilities to protect Energy Security and oversee the Nations Nuclear weapons program. They conduct an overseas taxpayerfunded research and development, providing loans and grants to help commercialize energyrelated technologies. These hearings are essential to ensure that the department is taking to its core mission and is a responsible steward of taxpayer resources. These hearings are essential. Members will also have an opportunity to examine the department of energys expanded budget request as this year they ar
Audience at to please make that last little check of your cell phone. Make sure that they will not interrupt the preceding today. We will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report on Big Government policies that hurt before and how to address them. Is a very states compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or another. We have welfares programs shall welfare spending that adds up to well over a trillion dollars these days and i can be in things like health care, direct income support at one time or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of the Government Policies, those of that are put in place for what seemed to be on the surface very wellmeaning purposes and in fact they made the necessary policies of one kind or another for government they may be necessary policies of
Everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco budget and finance Committee Meeting for april 27, 2016. Supervisor mark farrell i will be chairing this meeting. Im joined by supervisor katie tang. And supervisor norman yee . Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and any speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will be listed on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor mark farrell madam clerk. Well skip item 1 until we hear from the board of supervisors office. Lets go to item two. 2. Clerk [hearing budget update Human Services agency fys 20162017 and 20172018] sponsor farrell hearing to receive a budget update from the Human Services agency for fys clerk [hearing budget update Human Services agency fys 20162017 and 20172018] sponsor farrell hearing to receive a budget update from the Human Services agency for fys 20162017 clerk [hearing budget update Human Services agency fys 20162017 and 20172018] sponsor farrell hearing to rec
To call the meeting of the Public Utility Commission for San Francisco to order. Mdm. Sec. , can you please call roll. [roll call] the next order of business is the approval of the meeting of march 22, 2016. I move. Seconded. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. The Meeting Minutes are approved. The next order of business is Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Camp may 3 is opening on may 29 we urge you to come and rest and have a good time and do not worry about anything. Bring all of your relatives and friends and is just a time to get away. Just do not forget. Camp mather starts on the 29th and and in august and we have a volunteer leader they are so make sure to say hello to them. And it is a time to get away and to rest and relax. Good wishes for the days ahead. We hope that water continues to be there on our agenda and we hope that you are there to help us in a