Supervisor breed, present. Campos, present. Cohen, present. Farrell, not present. Kim, not present. Mar, present. Peskin, present. Tang, present. Wiener, present. Yee, present. Madam prez dent you have a quorum. Supervisor kim. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen can you join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you and colleagues before we move on with todays meeting, my voice i lost my voice and therefore supervisor katy tang will conduct todays meeting, so be nice everybody. Thank you. Alright. Thank you and first before we begin i want to welcome [inaudible] we have a delegation from bejing so welcome. [applause] alright and with that madam clerk any communications none to report. Okay. Sorry . Okay. We will have a representative here from the delegation to say a few words if there are no objections . Thank you
Farrell, not present. Kim, not present. Mar, present. Peskin, present. Tang, present. Wiener, present. Yee, present. Madam prez dent you have a quorum. Supervisor kim. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen can you join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you and colleagues before we move on with todays meeting, my voice i lost my voice and therefore supervisor katy tang will conduct todays meeting, so be nice everybody. Thank you. Alright. Thank you and first before we begin i want to welcome [inaudible] we have a delegation from bejing so welcome. [applause] alright and with that madam clerk any communications none to report. Okay. Sorry . Okay. We will have a representative here from the delegation to say a few words if there are no objections . Thank you. [speaking chinese] distinct supervisors it is a honor to h
Fight that changed boxing, one event in a year that changed so much more. We begin tonight with what could be a major change for u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Today president obama ordered the pentagon to prepare for a full u. S. Troop withdrawal by the end of the year. Its a decision that could affect the lives of 10s of thousands of americans families. Now, a few thousand u. S. Troops were sent to afghanistan not long after 9 11, by 2005, the numbers swelled to 20,000. The american presence piqued threpeakedthree year old ago, bt president obama has been pulling americans out of the country since then now about 35,000 u. S. Forces in afghanistan. The president spoke with afghan President Hamid karzai today and the white house acknowledged if afghanistan does not sign a Security Agreement with the u. S. That american troops will leave by the end of the near, Patty Culhane reports. Reporter u. S. President obama has left the negotiationing with hamid karzai to his staffer. But after nin
Member of lpr 2011. I would much rather hear you speak than joe biden, so thank you. That bar is not very high. The real question is, from our perspective, from my perspective here out in the real world we hear about all of these investigations by the house and by the senate and all these hearings and all these hearings and all these hearings and nothing happens. At what point, what needs to take place to actually have an independent investigation on benghazi . Yeah. I think the answer is we are not going to get to the truth, real truth of benghazi anytime soon and there is two reasons for this. The first is the administration truly has something to hide. The first thing, i think what is indisputable or not perfectly provable in court of law, what is indisputable the entire response to benghazi was framed by the politics t was making sure that the president didnt look bad. That bass the first and most important thing they were concerned about and they never want to admit that. The seco
They sent a letter to the speaker yesterday demanding that the chairman be censured and removed as the Committee Chair because it is shabby treatment. The Ranking Member of that committee cannot allow said given opening statement. We did begin to speak a man having his might cut off. On the level and nature of the fight. Democrats better learn to fight harder because republicans play politics to win. They play hardball and democrats if they want to be competitive, they better play hardball and get their voters out. That is the key have to get them trained to vote in every election and local elections. Thats the judges that are putting your kids behind bars him at the local School Boards that are deciding whether or not your kids are going to learn creationism or intelligent design versus learning the science hello to the cspan viewers. Sorry we are a little bit late. We had some trouble getting into the events. [laughter] we think that is attributable to the attendance and security. So