Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judicial nominations and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland hosted by the Edward Kennedy institute. This is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] good morning. On behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for the United States senate, i welcome all of to you the kennedy caucus room. For this timely and important discussion of the senates role, its advice and consent role in connection with the president s lifetime appointment of individu
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Approved. Thank you very much. The minutes are adopted. Since commissioner reed is here, we will move on to item four. Item four, recommend five members transit citizens Advisory Committee. We have Transportation Planner here on this item. Good morning commissioner. This item is for the appointments to the gearry corridor Advisory Committee. Initiative to improve travel time reliability and streetscape along the gearry corridor. Its currently in Environmental Review phase. The structure is shown in your memo which is on page 17 of the packet. Five of those 13 members are currently up for appointment because of approximately two years ago. There was board initiated two year terms for those members. Members currently in the structure are shown in the memo in attachment on page five. Five members represent several different seats as there are theres one appointment for seat for the richmond district. One that is a representative of the fillmore area, one a representative of the tenderloin
Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of september 15, 2015. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll . Madam president. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor breed, supervisor campos, supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor wiener, supervisor yee. Madam president , all members are present. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any communications . I have none today madam president. Okay, madam clerk, can you please call the first item . Yes the first item of business is the policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and the board of supervisors. The mayor may proud additional remarks up to fi
Firearms continuing to be a contributing factor to senseless violence. Not only here in San Francisco but across our country. Even though we have some of the toughest gun laws, there still remains more we can do in terms of Public Safety. There are gaps in our federal and state legislation that San Francisco has yet to address, that a number of other counties in San Francisco have already taken advantage of. Thats why today im introducing legislation that would require the video taping of all gun and ammunition sales in San Francisco. And require all Stores Transfer to the San Francisco Police Department. I want to thank supervisor cohen whos been a strong leader in proposing gun control reforms. It is intended to fill the gaps that exist at the federal and state level and enhance Public Safety. I do believe we need to do everything within our power here inside of city hall. I hear about Public Safety concerns whether its quality of life crimes or violent crimes. Obviously, we cant go