Meeting is not about whats happened in the past, its whats happening right now to correct some of the things that happened in the past. This is an accountability hearing. I told the secretary we want to take the legislation we passed last year on accountability, on appeals, all the things that we passed to give them the tools to address the significant problems confronting the veterans of america, vsos of america and this committee to begin moving away from the problems of the past and towards the solutions of the future. In particular, on appeals, in particular on accountability, in particular on the g. I. Bill, in particular on all those things that are important to the veterans and their family. And particularly on the leadership of the v. A. As well. And i want to thank secretary shulkin. Ive always been complimentary of him. A lot of people say youre too nice to him. Im not too nice to him. Hes been good to the veterans. He has been a forthright leader that the administration is l
During president trumps first year in office. Watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern saturday morning and be sure to join us for washington journal on sunday as we look back on the oneyear anniversary of the womens march on washington. Sunday, on cspans q a, noah feldman and his book, the three lives of james madison. The constitution is madisons monument. In that way, the constitution is all around you when you come to washington, d. C. The whole threepart structure of government. The way the government interacts. The way people speak to each other to exercise their free speech. All of that is madisons monument. Sort of as was the case in st. Pauls where the monument says, if you seek his monument, look around you. If you seek madisons monument in washington, d. C. , look around and youll see it everywhere. Q a, sunday, 8 00 p. M. On cspan. Veterans Affairs Secretary dr. David shulkin testified on the state of the veteran Affairs Department before the Senate Veteran Affa
Their patrol cars. Vigilant has created a large private collection of license plates. Reporter the atlantic magazine reported the vigilant has more than 2 billion images of license plates and recently immigration Customs Enforcement contracted with Vigilant Solutions to use the massive database. Weve got cities that have prohibited Law Enforcement from working with immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Then immigrations and Customs Enforcement will have to think of other ways, other methods to get what they need. Reporter but cagle said local governments should have more say how their data is used. Communities should be able to decide whether their local systems become part of trumps hitech deportation machine. Reporter now this is a copy of the privacy protocol that i. C. E. Is going to use when it comes to license plate data and technology and according to this document, the agency plans to use license plate data only to find what they call priority Illegal Immigrants and that means
Good afternoon. I would like to call to order the meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. [roll call vote] item 4, Public Comment. Mr. Do costa. Commissioner, the last timei was here they were not here. Some of our constituents Steve Lawrence i could name another eight or nine. They paid their dues. What it means to pay their dues in the old days, as i can remember, you did your homework. If your heart was in the right place. You did what was right to make things right. So now, i know people come here and they listened to the deliberations. But you commissioners should ask yourselves, how many of you that are here really know the history of San Francisco. How many of those who are here participated in the workshops, the sewer assistance Improvement Projects. And what was said about them that made sense. Not the Little Things that were said about legalities by those that were to take us to a better place. If you look at a shipyard. Any time you look at a shipyard, it i
Other members of the commission are present. The next order of business is item 2, announcements. There also, next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on september 20, 2016 at 1 pm at city hall womb 416. B, announcement of prohibition of sound producing Electronic Devices during the meeting. [reading ordinance] c announcement of time allotment to the public. Please be advised to upgrade minutes to make pertinent Public Comment on each agenda item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit a completed card to the commission secretary. Of business is item 3, report on actions taken at a previously closed session meeting if any. There are no reportable actions. The next order of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. There are no matters of unfinished business. The next order of business is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. First the Consent Agenda. A