The committee on rules and ministers will come to order grea good w morning to i want to think our colleagues for joining us today and i like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing and shauna broussard, sean cooksey and Alan Dickerson are the president s nominees to be member of the federal Elections Commission and as our witnesses are joining us remotely i also want to understand that their familyod and friends are watchig today and i welcome them as well. This is a big response ability and a significant president ial p nomination and significant to the work of this committee and i know you are proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity and let me say a little bit about a couple of the nominees and then i will turn to another Committee Member senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Alan dickerson isom the nomineeo be a member of the federal Relations Commission for a term expiring on april 301, 2025. Mr. Dickerson has been practicing law for 20
Clerk yes. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment are available during Public Comment by calling 4156550001 and entering meeting i. D. , 1463515423, then pound twice. You will be entered into the meeting but in listening mode only. When your item comes up, press star, three to be entered into the queue. You may email myself, the budget and Appropriations Committee clerk, linda. Wong sf. Gov. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and will be included as part of the official file. Finally, Public Comment interpretations in chinese, spanish, and filipino will be guaranteed from 10 00 a. M. To 1
Chair fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the august 24, 2020 meeting of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am chair fewer sandra lee fewer. Our clerk is miss linda won, assisted today by several other staff from the Clerks Office. I would like to thank corwin cooley from sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment are available during Public Comment by calling 4156550001 and entering meeting i. D. , 1463515423, then pound twice. You will be entered into the meeting but in listening mode only. When your item
A deadline to leave europe edges ever closer. Brazil faces another ecological disaster after an oil spill pollutes its coastline now the question is why did it come from. Bottom to the program the Turkish Military has carried out strikes targeting the syrian iraqi border now the aim is to prevent Kurdish Forces using the route to reinforce northeastern syria as ankara prepares to launch an offensive there but President Donald Trump says the u. S. Has not abandoned the kurds from syria as hes been criticized for his decision to pull out american troops from the region and as Charles Trafford reports from the turkish Syrian Border ankara has positioned its artillery. Turkish heavy weapons aim across the Syrian Border towards the town of tilapia out. The mainly Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces or s. D. F. Defeated eisel here in 2015 with the help of u. S. Late coalition forces. The turkish government describes the main fighting force of the s. D. F. As a terrorist organization linked to i
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