Fiveyear farm bill. There was a rejection of the house last year. A lot of negotiations back and forth and it seems like with each of these bills that gets passed, there is a bigger chorus of people who say that farm subsidies are too generous. Or this time youve faced a lot of criticism on the food Stamp Program. Is this the last farm bill you see being passed this way . Is the split in the house last ear a foretaste of farm bill to come . We all have a stake in having affordable, safe food. We in america are blessed that theres a group of people that are willing to get up every day and fight the weather. Nobody else in their business has to worry if their business will be wiped out by drought. We have a joint stake, both families, farmers, and consumers in having in agricultural food supply policy. And thats what this is. I am proud that this is a farm bill for the future and not the past. E have been talking about that we shouldnt be giving farm subsidies to farmers when prices are
, want to plug my colleague senator rockefeller for making significant efforts to bridge the chasm between the committee and the director on some of these issues. It does not appear to be in the directors nature to accept these overtures, frankly. I think that is incredibly unfortunate. I am fully confident in the factual accuracy of the report and nothing in your response so far has persuaded me otherwise. Director brennan, let me get to a few questions. On march 16 2009, 1 of your predecessors leon panetta announced the creation of a directors review group for rendition, detention, and interrogation. To be led by well respected senior cia officer and supervisor supervised by senator [inaudible] who passed away. Do you know when and why the pen review group was disbanded . First of all i respectfully but vehemently disagree with your characterization of the cias cooperation with this committee. I am fully prepared to come forward to this committee any time it requests my appearance. I
The meeting will come to order. I will say at the outset that we hold this hearing to provide information to the public on the Intelligence Communitys assessment of threats facing our nation. I ask that everyone in this room remove any signs you may have and refrain from any disruption during the hearing so that the committee can conduct the hearings and people sitting behind you can see. I will ask the Capitol Police to remove anyone who disrupt this proceeding. Today inittee meets open session to hear the annual report from the United States Intelligence Community on the threats to the Nation Security and let me start by welcoming the witnesses. They are the director of National Intelligence, james clapper, the director of the Central Intelligence agency, john brennan. The director of the federal bureau of investigation, jim tommy, the director of the Defense Intelligence agency, Lieutenant General michael flynn, and the director of the National Counterterrorism center, matt olson. E
Its on all of our offices to come in really comprehending and asking all the questions prior to a full Board Meeting or asking for a continuance in advance. I just think, you know, in most cases i would support continuance. But in this one, we are hearing from so many residents there is a housing crisis thats going on currently. And instead of facing threatened evictions throughout our city and i know that this type of eviction is something that is impacting supervisor avaloss district. And i didnt fully comprehend the legislation until i got emails from his residents explaining actually this type of eviction that they have faced previously and if this legislation had been in effect, this would not impact them. So, tenants that had been threatened eviction so that their units could be merged with another unit to be filled out to sell off a larger unit, et cetera, et cetera, i think there are not a whole lot of things that we locally can do to support our tenants you unfortunately becau
Contract. Reporter but keller hopes a strong no strike vote would persuade the legislature to enact a ban. Next change for giving up the right to strike, they would be given the authority to go to factfinding and some sort of binding arbitration. Reporter keller says that would be just as good as the strike perhaps with less grief. Live in north berkeley, don knapp, kpix 5. The death of two workers on bart tracks in october has prompted new safety recommendations from the National Transportation safety board. Ntsb wants all rail workers to have a warning device called a shunt that they could attach to the tracks. Also it is suggesting trains have a Monitoring System called positive train control. Barts board doesnt see any problem with the idea. Anything that moves us in the direction of providing a more safe work environment, i have no problems with. Well be prepared to support it. A report last week said that the two men killed on bart tracks did not follow safety rules. Those rules