And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Can i have a motion and second on approve the minutes on august interest so moved. And second. Corrections roll call vote. Thank you ms. Sang ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns mr. Haney 7 is. I want to welcome everyone that joined us in the chambers that evening for those who want to address the board please fill out a speaker card according to the board rules speaker cards will not be accepted for items before the board were going to do something unusual we have a i think a bit of a bittersweet evening honoring someone that the record will show to our Unified School District so ill skip over item b and go to c resolutions and accommodation and start with commissioner mendozamcdonnell. So richard our last evening on in the boards meetings we wanted to just take a moment to thank you and honor you for all youre amazing work on behalf of ma
[inaudible conversations] good morning with. By American People decided to change the majority of the u. S. Senate of was down in louisville the day after the election with the press conference that i pointed out the dysfunction in the senate was one of the issues of 2014 with the minority of the senate it is down to a very small minority. So we tried to avoid dysfunction and let people produce a paper co when defeated in alaska in did not have a roll call amendment on a full six year term. Not one. We had 15 votes amendments in let them participate to the maximum extent possible majority and minority. With the ideas of bullseye the deal and i have focused largely to have some bipartisan agreement with a president ial signature. The rewrite of no child left behind with all across america with the first fiveyear highway bill in 20 years with an out of body experience with the other accomplishments that demonstrate to achieve things some of the things from all of the shortterm deal remem
He sought the presidency. Senator, i served with jack kennedy. I knew jack kennedy. Jack kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no jack kenne kennedy. And the 2008 by special debate between joe biden and sarah palin. Lets commit ourselves to everyday American People, joe six back and say never again. The middle class needs relief, actually. They need now. They need help now the focus will change it with barack obama. Watch saturday on cspan2 watch it on cspan. Org and listen at 8 p. M. Eastern on the cspan reader app. Deputy secretary of state tony blinken now on the regional impact of the syrian conflict. Also u. S. Relations with russia and the fight against basis. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from him yesterday. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We welcome our deputy secretary of state, tony blinken. I know he was in turkey until yesterday evening, and we moved to hearing back a day. I would note that weve been trying to get secretary
Appearance here because we are thankful to have you here and i think for obvious reasons hes not been willing to come. I think the focus of todays hearing will be syria and i dont think anyone here can be proud of the United States role and what is the greatest humanitarian disaster of our time and what we have done to enable that to happen. As i think about your appearance here today, i think in many ways it will be helpful as we think about the next administration and as we think about the next secretary of state as we think about the relationship that needs to access between the executive branch into the secretary of States Office i know that you came over from the National Security staff so you were at the white house. You came over to the state department i know sometimes executive branch folks like to have their own people at the state department and i know for instance you were up here yesterday that the president ordered you to turkey instead so it speaks to the sort of overlap