Helpful to turn to ray smock who served as the historian of the house of representatives for decades. Good morning to you. We possibly could see a second speaker vote in less than 11 months. The houses operating under an interim speaker pro tem and one of americas closest allies is now in a state of war. In historical terms that there some analogy you would point to or what is your thinking about today as we watch this go down . Guest as we know this is unprecedented. We have never had a speaker rejected by a motion to vacate in the history of the country. We have had many occasions where there is been turmoil on the floor of the house and difficulty electing a speaker. Probably the longest and most contentious speaker contest was that the annual banks before the civil war. They took 133 ballots before he was elected and it took two months to get a speaker elected. At that time there were multiple parties. The Republican Party was a new party. There was a lot of tension over the issue
Thousands of wounded who carried with them the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured. These traumas never go away. There are many families waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones not knowing if they are, alive, dead. Holocaust survivors have been , now threatened to execute. The brutality of hamas, its bloodthirstyness brings to mind isis, but sadly, for the irish people israeli people, it is not new. The scars left by a millennium of antisemitism on the jewish people. At this moment, we must be crystal clear. We stand with israel. Host that was yesterday from the white house. Today the secretary of state is expected to arrive in israel sending this tweut his visitosrael yesterday. I am going to discuss ways we can support them in the midst of these terrorist attacks. Our support for israel remains. We went to keep you updated on what is happening on capitol hill today. We could have a speaker by the end of the day today. Joining us to talk about it is Catherine Tull
Commissioner konstin commissioner lee commissioner warshell commissioner president mccarthy and commissioner clinch is excused we have quorum and the next item item 2 president s announcements thank you, very much first of all, id like to say happy holidays to ever seen that a few 34078z will be acknowledging wards were giving to many of the staff for awards but first, id like to acknowledge the work our department is doing in responded to the fire in Oakland San Francisco Arts Community has long been supported and nurtured in San Francisco our department is on the leading edge to legalize units and secure those types of spaces the program such as the Code Enforcement is one that do advances work in barhopping with the inspectors to actually to secure spaces. The future i want to acknowledge our departments work were in the progress of work with the fire and health and other departments to actually come up with a program and we have an agendized in january to do a formal presentation i
To the fire in Oakland San Francisco Arts Community has long been supported and nurtured in San Francisco our department is on the leading edge to legalize units and secure those types of spaces the program such as the Code Enforcement is one that do advances work in barhopping with the inspectors to actually to secure spaces. The future i want to acknowledge our departments work were in the progress of work with the fire and health and other departments to actually come up with a program and we have an agendized in january to do a formal presentation is address this issue and give more information to the public about the program again, if any issues that people have in the Public Contact our department our inspectors and staff with here to make sure those buildings are safe so id like to now go into we have several awards that we give for the departments to acknowledge the great work of the employees i will be announcing dbi employee of the quarter for quarter, 3, 4 and our employee o
Good morning today a monday, december 21, 2016, this is the regular meeting of of to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. The first item is call the roll. Commissioner gilman commissioner konstin commissioner lee commissioner warshell commissioner president mccarthy and commissioner clinch is excused we have quorum and the next item item 2 president s announcements thank you, very much first of all, id like to say happy holidays to ever seen that a few 34078z will be acknowledging wards were giving to many of the staff for awards but first, id like to acknowledge the work our department is doing in responded to the fire in Oakland San Francisco Arts Community has long been supported and nurtured in San Francisco our department is on the leading edge to legalize units and secure those types of spaces the program such as the Code Enforcement is one that do advances work in barhopping with the inspectors to actually to secure sp