January 9, 2018. Happy new year. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll. Clerk item one, commissioner breed. Cohen present. Commissioner farrell. Farrell absent. Commissioner fewer. Fewer absent. Commissioner kim. Kim absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner ronen, present. Commissioner safai. Present. Commissioner sheehy present. Tang present. We have quorum. Chair peskin all right. Could you, please, read the Consent Agenda and then well take Public Comment on the minutes. Clerk items two to three compromise the Consent Agenda. Item three was approved at december 12th Board Meeting and considered for final approval. Staff is not planning to present, but presenting if desired. If a member objects, any items can be removed and considered separately. Chair peskin is there anyp on item two, the minutes of december 2017 meeting, mr. Rice . Public yeah. I want to point out and explain part problem is transportation ro
There hasnt been any agreement on any single proposal. But that may be about to change. A combination of the republican takeover of the senate, a looming Supreme Court decision and the white house race are putting more pressure than ever before on republicans to offer some sort of alternative to obamacare. But before they could get to any sort of agreement, there are some fundamental philosophical disagreements that need to be worked out about how to get and move the country into a more free market direction. And thats why i wrote my book, overcoming obamacare. And what i tried to do is i looked at the flurry of plans that have been offered as alternatives to obamacare. And i sorted them into three basic approaches or schools of thought. The first school of thought i called Reform School and this is comprised of people who say that at this point it might be unrealistic to fully repeal obamacare. And holding out for full repeal shouldnt be a barrier to instituting reforms to the overall
Police officer before other officers killed him. Today is a nightmare for the city of chattanooga. It is incomprehensible to see what happened and the way that individuals who employed serve our country were treated. It is a heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who served our county great valor to be killed in this fashion. The Mar Convenience not been identified but just as soon as police wrap up their investigation, their bodies will be flown to Dover Air Force base in delaware and those bodies could be returned to their families as early as from morning. Doreen . Chris lawrence, thank you. Police say officers up and down the east coast are helping to track down a guy accused of running down an officer with his car. Its the second case in 24 hours where police say someone intentionally struck a Prince Georges County officer with their vehicle. Heres news4s pat collins. Reporter two close calls for two Prince Georges County police officers. To have two incidents like this
Hottest day of the year so far. Yeah exactly angie. The forecast high today at Reagan National 98 degrees. When you combine the heat and humidity this afternoon, temperatures are feeling like theyre around 100 degrees because of the extreme heat and humidity. The Weather Service with a weather heat advisory. This will run through 8 00 p. M. This evening. The current heat index in the 70s and 80s. Already feeling like its 82 degrees in washington. Feeling about 72 in frederick. So heres your feels like temperature at 9 00 a. M. Already feeling like its in the upper 80s. If you want to go for a run do it now. By noon, feeling like its 100 degrees. 102 in washington. Coming up, im showing you what it will feel like in your neighborhood. Thanks. As you said a heat wave is on the way today. If you walk outside its going to feel like its more than 100 degrees as amelia just mentioned. Dozens of cooling center will be open in maryland as well as virginia and we put a comprehensive list togeth
The book has [inaudible] thank you very much and appreciate you coming out. Thank you. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you to aubrey jenkins. The book, copies of the book are available outside, and please join us for a reception to celebrate the new book and to meet each other. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2. And watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Michael tanner talks about the growing National Debt next on booktv. In his latest book, going for broke, the Cato Institute fellow argues for sweeping solutions to the u. S. Debt problem which focus on restructuring Social Security, medicaid and medicare. Host michael tanner, nice to be with you. So today were going to discuss your book going for broke. Maybe you could just start by talking a little bit about what prompted you to write this book. Guest well one of the things thats fr