I just want to pick up on the ladies point of background check dont you respond. All taxi cab drivers are to undergo a backward check for a driver to be a legal resident of the u. S. If the driver were to have infractions or in their home country we may not be getting that information well get the background check of activity from the United States and so correct me if i am wrong and so thats the southern if there are issues from the home country that we wouldnt be getting and she feels the eliminations of that being a legal resident yeah. I have one question about the fines how are they and is there an seas important the Cost Recovery enforcement or is that punitive. A lot of the fines are based on we have a historical schedule and that we went through the schedule and actually tried to think up the fin with the code infraction and the changes are matching them up and things change over here and not over there increases are based on what is felt to be reasonable and a lot of the chanc
Regular calendar for item 920110910. 2168 Market Street. This is a landmark designation. Good afternoon, commissioners, jonathan lambers. We are here to consider the landmark designation of the swedish american hall. As you know its in having special character with special historical architectural. How we got here today on december 19, 2014, this Commission Voted to initiate landmark designation of swedish american hall. It was continued until today in order to allow the building owners, the Swedish Society of San Francisco additional time to receive and comment on the landmark designation report. They have done so and on february 12th of this year the board of the Swedish Society voted unanimously of this support in landmark designation. In the materials you will find a slightly revised landmark report with minor edits with the Swedish Society and its been augmented by several photos by Swedish Society member ted olson. Mr. Olson is already here to the and will speak in support of lan
Defense budget and addressed sequestration and budget challenges posed by syria, r ussia, and iran. This runs about one hour and 50 minutes. If the committee will please come to order. Today, our subcommittee on defense appropriations reviews the budget request of the department of defense. We are very pleased to welcome secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chief of staff general Martin Dempsey of the United States army. This is our final schedule hearing of the year on the 2016 Defense Budget request. The subcommittee recognizes the uncertainty of the current fiscal environment and the impact it has only department of defense in its planning. We also appreciate the complexity of building the first year 2016 budget request and we look forward to comments from secretary carter and general dempsey on how we can support our men and women in uniform and our National Security interests. We are pleased to recognize dr. Carter on his first appearance before the subcomm
My inspiration was the idea that i wanted to explain how totalitarianism happens. We do know the story of the cold war. We know that the documents we have seen the archives and described relationships between roosevelt, stalin and truman and we know the main events from our point of view. What i wanted to do was show from a different angle, from the ground up, what did it feel like to be one of the people who were subjected to this system and how did people make choices in that system and how did they react . Its interesting that one of the things that has happened since 1989 is the regional used to call at Eastern Europe has become very differentiated. These countries no longer have much in common with one another except the common memory of communist occupation. Russian president Vladimir Putin this week gave his first eight of the nation speech since being reelected. His nationwide address is a little less than an hour and a half. Translator of the Federation Council just a few mont
The senate is in at 1 00 eastern time. Votes are scheduled at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Majority leader harry reid and minority leader mcconnell had set a deadline of 3 00 p. M. When theyre planning to convene a caucus meetings and update members of the parties on a possible plan for taxes and spending on the new year. Will bring you live coverage of the senate on cspan2 started at 1 00 eastern. In the house, the return of 2 00 p. M. Youll be considering a number of pieces of legislation. What the live coverage of the house here and cspan. Next, retiring senator kent conrad reflects on his career in congress to. It is currently Senate Budget Committee Chairman and was first elected to the senate in 1986. This is about half an hour. Senator conrad, your Farewell Speech was yesterday. What is that like . It has been great. I had the Going Away Party the night before. A lot of my colleagues were there. Then the Farewell Speech, in which i had a chance to reflect on my service here. But also, to