Appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Summerall. Can you please call item number one . Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Great. We have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from Committee Members. Lets hear from mr. Scott patterson first. If he is ok. Great. Please come forward. Hello. Thank you for having me here today. Im Scott Patterson, candidate for the Ballot Simplification Committee. My family traces its roots in San Francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so weve been around for a long time. Ive been a member of the faculty at San Francisco State University as a professor of broadcast and electronic Communication Arts for over 20 years. For 10 of those years, i served as chair of the department. Ive also been a member of the Nationa
Discuss some of his legislative goals. Afterwards, democrats reacted to what happened during the meeting. Before the lawmakers met, President Trump talked about some of the policy items he would like to work on. Thank you very much. Im pleased to welcome this Bipartisan Group of democrats and republican lawmakers to the white house. More and more were trying to work things out together. Thats a positive thing and its good for the republicans and good for the democrats. And this group knows that very well. Whether we can do the incredible things that were doing and working in a bipartisan fashion, obviously, would be would be a positive. And i think something, tom, that we all feel good about. I want to thank tom reed. Hes been a friend of mine for a long time and he was there right at the beginning when it wasnt very fashionable, right . And i really appreciate it. And Josh Gottheimer for helping to organize this very important gathering. I think its really the whole concept of what we
My friend mr. Gizzi, im dave cook from the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is marc short an activitient to the president and director of the office of legislative affair. This is his first with our locale Breakfast Club home to what steve bannon calls account pearl clutching mainstream media. Thanks for making time for us in your busy schedule, sir. Marc short graduated from washington and lee university. He got his start in politics serving as finance director for oliver norths Senate Campaign and went on to become executive director of Young Americans foundation where his role including stewardship of reagans ranch. He earned an mba from the university of virginia. He worked in the Homeland Security department during the bush administration. Served as senator kay bailey hutchinsons chief of staff and later chief of staff under mike pence. He was later hired by freedom partners becoming the organizations president. And thus ended the biographical portion of the program. Now
Democrats and republicans have been in the same room talking about those topics. One of the points many of us made republicans and democrats is that the process in the house is broken. Theres no interaction. And the president made the point that the most significant legislation has to have bipartisan support. We havent had that. So in that perspective, it was quite impressive the president invited both sides. On the tax issue coming up, thats the most dominant right now. The president repeat what had he said in his original address about it being progrowth and promiddle class. Indicated explicitly that this would not be a tax cut pardon me . You could find this cameras by yourself . It wasnt that hard. Thanks. And so in terms of the broad general principles, the president recited what he said before. And basically everybody will be a winner. The question is when the ink is dry, will you be able to do the math and see that, in fact, middle class folks particularly Rural America that ele
All members will have five legislative days in which to submit materials for inclusion into the records. The hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to impede north koreas access to finance. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine legislation that would impose a secondary legislations on foreign banks whose business support north koreas regime. By encompassing virtually all of north koreas economic activity, these measures would represent the top list financial sanctions yet. This means going after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals. And north korean laborers abroad. The bill would incentivize greater compliance with u. S. Sanctions by where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. The bills countries on notice. The proposed legislation has been informed by the committees ongoing work on north korea as well as the u. N. Panel of erts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. North koreas six tests o