The committee for increased hiring authorities. This hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Let me call this meeting of the Senate Veterans committee, this hearing to order. Thank all of you for coming today. Especially our witnesses. We have a number of members who are on the way, but were going to in the interest of time, were going to get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. As many people in the room know, this month in america is National Suicide Prevention Month across the country. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss and wasteful loss of life, and preventable loss of life. I think john will remember when we first came in as a committee three years ago, our first bill that we passed was the clay hunt Suicide Prevention bill. Passed this committee 990, and well ask the secretary and the other members from the v. A. To give us any report they might have on the progress of the implementation in terms of the act, but its a very important act. In august of 20
And residents or u. S. Interests, those interests are clearly impacted by the behavior of other countries. And the u. S. Tax base can be eroded not only by the behaviors of multinationals but by behavior of other governments. Thank you and thank you for the opportunity. Good to be here, don, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak about policy and reform. It seems to me ive seen this movie before, however. We all love to sit around and talk about policy. I will get to policy in a second. Let me just say while we talk about policy, our tax system is being slowly eroded at the level of administration. Doesnt matter what the rules are if you dont have people to enforce them. If you just take a wink, a quick look at whats happening to the intern Internal Revenue service, you would realize it doesnt matter what the rules are. Weve lost so many people the enforcement capability is diminished. Unless that gets rectified. Who cares about tax reform if we dont have a tax system. Sayin
Here. Commissioner caen . Commissioner courtney herehere. Commissioner kwon . Here. Present vietor. Here. Commissioner kane is the budget in more recent years has actually increased from 2 million to 5 million. Expected shortlyand the kilowatts installed remained high. Over 2000 kw per year. Commissioner courtney will not be able to be here today. On the next slide you can see the total that are impacted by pg e and on the mme. Sec. Next item please. Left side you can see the item number three is approval of the minutes of payouts on this you see this august 9, 2016 all those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay the motion passes more so in the recent years and the participation of the installers is what you see here with the installers this unanimously. Mme. Sec. Can you call item for please . Item 4 is gen. Public has been very good in the comments. Members of the beginning especially with the market share. It is happening in a general public may address the market context. California com
Good afternoon. I would like to call the regular meeting of the Public Utilities commission to order. Mme. Sec. , would you please call the roll . May i have everybody sit down . Present vietor. Here. Vice president moran . Here. Commissioner caen . Commissioner courtney herehere. Commissioner kwon . Here. Present vietor. Here. Commissioner kane is expected shortlyand commissioner courtney will not be able to be here today. Mme. Sec. Next item please. Item number three is approval of the minutes of august 9, 2016 all those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay the motion passes unanimously. Mme. Sec. Can you call item for please . Item 4 is gen. Public comments. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Now,the way that the watershed is at Crystal Springs measures are taken to protect it and we have a system, a unique system and we have a gentleman here who has been working on that since 1993 and i h
Would still be meetings at the convention with the leading Party Officials and, you know, the candidate would meet with people and so it was a democratic process in the sense that candidate would meet with people. It was a democratic process in the sense there was consultation, deliberation and so forth, though ultimately the candidates decision. I think as its moved away from the convention beginning 1976, its been a process focused much more on the president ial candidate and the people around the president ial candidate. They still consult with party leaders, talk to capitol hill, talk to governors, solicit input. But ultimately the circle of people in the room when the decision is made tends to be the president ial candidate and a few people close to them. Im going to get our questioners ready, a few more questions and then turn to the audience again. Weve referred to, in terms of the convention, that we might have a different kind of year especially on the republican side. Weve ma