Be a total of five minutes for speakers. Thank you, president tommy. We do have one card for in person, so go ahead sir. Testing good afternoon. My name is Chris Tredinnick and im commenting on the cvra letter this past month i finished ten years serving as the board of supervisors appointee to the elections commission. Ive also been an advocate for better election systems for over 20 years. Last meeting i told you, i think Single Member districts would not be a good response to the letter. I also mentioned the idea of proportional ranked Choice Voting or prstv as another option. So thank you for the amendments to the resolution you adopted. I encourage you to see if mr. Rafferty would be open to prstv instead of Single Member districts. This would give you a chance to turn what would have been a negative change into something positive. Pr, cv has a long history of use in the united states, and was even studied by the Elections Task force in the 90s for the supervisor of San Franciscos
Taiwans military readiness. Are we all sat . Set . Okay. Good morning. I am Linda Feldman Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Shes been a politician serving four terms in the legislature and as the director of the Democratic Progressive Party International Affairs department. She moved to new jersey where she went to high school and then on to college in ohio and then from there she came back east to Columbia University where she earned a masters degree in political science. She likes to call yourself a cap warrior. As a cap person im going to adopt that for myself. I want to hear what you mean by that but first theres business to attend to and then before that, the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no blogging or tweeting or Live Streaming anything and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway and there is no embargo when the session ends at 10 a. M. We both email pictures to the reporters as soon a the event concludes. As many of you k
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Welcome to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the subcommittees hearing. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Wed like to welcome our witness today, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation. Director wray has served in this role of august since 2017, overseeing an agency of over 35,000 people. Including special agents, intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and Information Technology specialists. The 24 budget request for fbi salaries and expenses is 11. 3 billion. With 6. 7 billion of that amount to about 60 . Thats designated as defense spending. Thats a 6 increase above the fiscal 23 elected level for salaries and expenses. The fbi budget request includes 196 million in program increases and 409 million adjustments too base representing the substantial increase cost of continuing the fbis current activities. The Largest Program increases
Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the subcommittees hearing. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Wed like to welcome our witness today, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation. Director wray has served in this role of august since 2017, overseeing an agency of over 35,000 people. Including special agents, intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and Information Technology specialists. The 24 budget request for fbi salaries and expenses is 11. 3 billion. With 6. 7 billion of that amount to about 60 . Thats designated as defense spending. Thats a 6 increase above the fiscal 23 elected level for salaries and expenses. The fbi budget request includes 196 million in program increases and 409 million adjustments too base representing the substantial increase cost of continuing the fbis current activities. The Largest Program increases requested art for