Tennessee. The subcommittee on communications and technology will now come to order. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. And i want to welcome you all to the subcommittees hearing titled oversight and reauthorization of the federal communications commission. I appreciate the commissioners appearing to offer their testimony today. And we appreciate that we have been able to hear from you in advance of this hearing. The fcc has not been rethorsoned since 1990 appear its current appropriation is over 430 million its charged with the administration of the Communications Act and other statutes vital to the functioning of the communications policy. We must reexamine the Core Functions of the commission and restore a culture of hul humility. The fcc plays a vital rode in the increasingly technologically dent society. The subcommittee released a draft for consideration. I would be remiss by not discussing net neutral the commissioning ins 2015 was a powe
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[gavel] good morning. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting of july 6 26 and him katie tang chair of the committee. To my right is vice chair eric mar. To my right is melia cohen and we also have supervisor avalos caricatured our clerk is eric evans and from sfgov tv would like to thank jennifer bunch. Do we have any announcements mr. Clerk please sounds all cell phones. [reading code] thank you. Please call item 1 item number one is the first draft of the Charter Amendment [reading code] thank you very much. We have the author of this Charter Amendment here with us today supervisor campos. Is this working . Break. Thank you very much mdm. Chairman and thank you to my colleagues the members of the rules committee for listening hearing this item once again. As i noted at the last meeting of last week, we have a number of amendment that we would like to make but let me step back a little bit and talk about the point of this office. As i noted before, its an interesting time in t
Committee. To my right is vice chair eric mar. To my right is melia cohen and we also have supervisor avalos caricatured our clerk is eric evans and from sfgov tv would like to thank jennifer bunch. Do we have any announcements mr. Clerk please sounds all cell phones. [reading code] thank you. Please call item 1 item number one is the first draft of the Charter Amendment [reading code] thank you very much. We have the author of this Charter Amendment here with us today supervisor campos. Is this working . Break. Thank you very much mdm. Chairman and thank you to my colleagues the members of the rules committee for listening hearing this item once again. As i noted at the last meeting of last week, we have a number of amendment that we would like to make but let me step back a little bit and talk about the point of this office. As i noted before, its an interesting time in terms of how the people of the city and county of San Francisco see government. Those of us who are in government i
Thank you. Please call item 1 item number one is the first draft of the Charter Amendment [reading code] thank you very much. We have the author of this Charter Amendment here with us today supervisor campos. Is this working . Break. Thank you very much mdm. Chairman and thank you to my colleagues the members of the rules committee for listening hearing this item once again. As i noted at the last meeting of last week, we have a number of amendment that we would like to make but let me step back a little bit and talk about the point of this office. As i noted before, its an interesting time in terms of how the people of the city and county of San Francisco see government. Those of us who are in government i think oftentimes perhaps this the perception that out there because its a busy job and were doing a lot of Different Things. But the reality is, as you look at polling that has been done including polling done for this measure, there is a lot of lack of trust in government these day