2, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Good afternoon. My name is ellen. I am a psychiatric social worker for the department of Public Health for more than eleven years. I am a Bargaining Team member for the Public Services employees. We had approximately 16,000 Public Services employees. Again, my name is ellen. Thats elllleellen. I am here today to ask you to do an investigation on the Ethics Commission department. I represent Public Workers. I brought five Public Workers who experienced the discrimination with the Ethics Commissioners. We reported to them between april to june 2017. I was with them. I was with all five of them make the initial interviews. We provide with them a lot of reports, documentation to the Ethics Commission staff. Three months ago, i was informed one of the employee from the Ethics Commission that they do not have our record anymore. I followed up with the Ethics Commission. They said theres no record to be found. Five of us,
Television, please help. Thank you. President turman thank you. Any further Public Comment . Thank you, mr. Salinas. Thank you, president , chairman, commissioners. Jim salinas. Im here to thank the chief through the chair for the respect and the attentiveness hes given the Latino Community the last few months. I truly appreciate the fact that this chief is in great demand, and as i said earlier is working favorishly to try to reinstill the trust and the confidence and to build the Community Relations that were once much much better. I just wanted to come down here. I know that hes very busy, and i know that hes taking time. I also want to thank while im here deputy chief sainz, when hes not able to come down and answer questions and continue to build on this relationship, that theyre there. And again, despite the fact that all of them have a great many duties. Lastly, i just want to say in december, commissioners, i read an article in the Mission Local regarding some issues with the s
Washington, d. C. Reporter the big breakthrough on capitol hill. Senate leaders say they have reached the bipartisan long term budget deal. The budget deal does not have everything democrats want. It does not have everything republicans want but it has a great deal of what the American People want. Our armed forces will have more resources they need to keep america safe. Reporter in 2011 as part of the budget control act, spending limits are put in place for domestic and defense spending. The Senate Package lifts those by nearly 400 billion for the next two years. You funds the government through march 23rd and includes money for Disaster Relief, a four your extension of the Child Health Insurance program. It does not include a d. A. C. A. Fix or anything related to Border Security. The program that protects immigrants who are about to the u. S. Legally illegally as children expires march 5. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell promised to allow debate on d. A. C. A. If the governmen
Weve seen him in the room. The Ranking Member is tom carper of delaware. And youre watching live coverage on cspan. Now, good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means, if theres any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott pruitt to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for your testimony today. With respect to todays hearings, were going to abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting, we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30, when administrator pruitt has to leave the building. Now of course, member
Out how much the eagles the nfl and philadelphia will each pitch in to cover the cost of everything. One look at the conditions on eakins oval and the ben franklin parkway shows the amount of work that is ahead for crews in the coming days. Mud is now where the grass used to be and were told thats only temporary. So is the trash but theres still a lot of it and it seems to be everywhere. For more on that lets head to action News Reporter bob brooks along the ben franklin parkway. They still have a job ahead dont they. Reporter yeah, rick and monica, they do. Maybe a record setting day in attendance certainly a record said in setter in the fact that that was a first, the first of many we hope but also a record setting day in the amount of garbage. You can see some of it surrounding me 60 tons of garbage had to be removed. Like the spot you see in front of me they still have a few places to tidy up. It was a celebration for the ages. When you have a party like that, youll also have a cle