Allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] uptake of lipid of pride to welcome by her former colleague black. Nice to see you commissioner. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones pagers and similar accounting devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing of or use of cell phones, pagers or other similar electronic device. Please be advised that member of the public has up to 3 min. To make personal public almonds on each agenda item before the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Item 8 of the comment not listed on the agenda. Was there any Public Comment . Please come forward to the right over here. Seeing none, Public Comment is close. Next item item 8, item 9 a executive directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Members of the public was that by Monique Moyer is my honor to welcome you here to the james cruiseship terminal which is our pride and
Sets a standard in cant create jobs were workers to of least 10. 10 an hour worth of work. Then maybe in a modern economy there are not jobs that need to be created. Dont know. If i could address, you are exactly right. That is what we mean. Businesses are destroyed. If the business cant afford to pay any more they can raise their prices. His true and some markets. So job destruction and company destruction go handinhand. This is never created. The harder it is to start a business with your are created. And destroying jobs that are never created, if you want to think of it that way to while a little bit of a contradiction in terms, with the regulation, every federal regulators for as low 150 jobs a year. So if you want prosperity, and i think thats what were talking about, prosperity, you get rid of the regulations and the private sector can create jobs and you want have those businesses. Yuma businesses that will be. Last question, you can have a legally mandated federal wage, higher
Good morning. We are in for a treat. We have two authors with us this morning who have vast experience in the world of politics. So our conversation about the future and changing american politics in the future couldnt have two better informed c contribut contributors. We will talk for about 40 minutes and then invite you to ask questions. So as you listen think about what you would like to share with us. I will start with introducing the speakers. Al from is infounder of the democratic leadership council. In feb of 2010, the New York Times magazine called the organization under his leadership one of the two most burped think tanks in history. I wrote something about this but al points what what was in his book is better than what i came up with. It called it one of the two most important think tanks in history. From played a prominent role nhl 1992 election of bill clinton and served as domestic policy advisor. Before forming the dlc, he was the executive director of the House Democra
Boca raton, florida, newlyelected governors discussed their campaigns and their political agendas. The panel is made up of governorselect from arizona, massachusetts, maryland, texas and arkansas. Theyre joined by new jersey governor and rga chair Chris Christie and former mississippi Governor Haley barbour. This is an hour. Ms. We started this year, we had a daunting task ahead of us. We had a pretty difficult map. We were defending 32 of the 36 22 of the 36 races including 19 incumbents in nine states that president obama had won twice. We were able to successfully defend 17 of our 19 incumbents, we won the biggest states in illinois, michigan, wisconsin and florida. And we picked up four states that were previously held by democrats. You see a number of those all of them a number of them represented here today; illinois, maryland, massachusetts and arkansas. Arkansas. I was thinking about states that obama had won twice. And today despite 300 million spent by Public Sector unions, t
Republicans push to get even more conservative bills through and the rsc would be where a lot of those folks are. But all along we heard the senate has been the bottleneck in all of this. So whats the excuse going to be if legislation doesnt pass . I think you heard people say this is harry reids fault and i think youre going to hear that even more. Nothings changed. You still by and large need 60 votes and harry reid still is very good at blocking legislation. And also you have the fact that the house is going to send over conservative pieces of legislation and the new Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is going to have to protect members on votes much like harry reid. You have 24 republicans in the senate up in 2016 and only ten for democrats. As good of a map as it was for republicans this year its a really bad one for republicans in 2016. Well thanks to both of you for your questions this week. Thanks for being on newsmakers. Thank you. Mr. President , the honeymoon is over. Co