Live in some kind of second class status in the United States, and it is long past time for us to make sure there is a pathway to citizenship. The last point i want to make is, you will hear lots of excuses if you hang around this town, excuses for why someone should not vote for something. In this case, you might hear people say, even though there were republican senators from arizona, who care more about Border Security than anyone in the senate, that there is not enough Border Security in this bill. Or excuse after excuse. What i want to leave you with is, this bill, if it passes, will reaffirm to ideas that make america a special place. One is that we subscribe to the rule of law. The other is, unlike any other country in the world, we truly are a nation of immigrants. When you hear people making excuses about the bill, i hope you will push them into it, because i know how hard these guys negotiated for so long, for , at seven or eight months work product that is the best i have se
Higher today. Nike, a familiar name we all know. A lot of people know the bags, theyre actually selling it off to the Apex Partners 570 million. They raised their quarterly dividend. Back to you. Dagen thank you so much, nicole. Beginning negotiating ways to avoid the fiscal cliff. Time is not on their side, were joined by congressman from both sides of the aisle, from colorado and equally fine wisconsin represented by democrats. Good to see you. To you first, there is discussion of stories in the wall street journal today about change to be sequestered to get rid of it and instead of that, put in place spending cuts and tax increases getting us six months into the middle of next year. I want to hear from both of you. You agree with a temporary measure to avoid the Big Decisions that need to be made. The answer to the fiscal cliff reaching a longterm deficit deal, now we need to let the political dust settle. There is a way to listen together and find some common ground. 80 ceos gave t
Aye. Farrell. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. Commissioner weiner . Aye. Commissioner yee . Aye. Yee, aye, the item passes. Very good. Lets go into our next item, please . Item number three, the chairs report this is an information item. Okay, good morning colleagues, the year has begun and already i feel that we have a full work program on our plates. And we are all saddened by trat gik pedestrian fatalities of the start of the year, it was a stark and urgent wake up call that we must act now to prevent these terrible crashes. And i want to thank commissioner campos for the hearing and breed as well with so many participating and commissioner yee was part of that as well, and many of the other participants from the board of supervisors Transportation Authority and were waiting in on the hearing about how they can play a large role to be sure that we are doing everything that we can to prevent the fatality and crashes occurring in the future. I also appreciated mayor l
Here. Commissioner mar here. Tang. Present. Weiner . Present. Commissioner yee . Present. Thank you, lets go to the next item. Two, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. Colleagues any comments or questions on the minutes, seeing none, we can go right to the Public Comment, and we will do two minutes, for Public Comment, today. And any public of the public that would like to comment, seeing none, we will close Public Comment and if we could have, the roll call, vote on the minutes . On avalos . Aye. Breed . Aye. Campos . Aye. Chiu . Aye. Cohen . On the minutes in aye. Farrell. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. Commissioner weiner . Aye. Commissioner yee . Aye. Yee, aye, the item passes. Very good. Lets go into our next item, please . Item number three, the chairs report this is an information item. Okay, good morning colleagues, the year has begun and already i feel that we have a full work program on our plates. And we are all sad
Spending, we have an expectation to make sure that we try to reach as many people as possible especially those most impacted in the particular areas that we plan to change. So, i just wanted to go on record and express that, and thank everyone for their support as well as bringing to the table the information that we needed to feel a lot more comfortable with moving it forward. Thank you, commissioner breed. Commissioner cohen. Thank you very much. I also wanted to echo some of the sentiments that commissioner breed just articulate and expand upon it a little bit. I too want to make sure that we are including the Senior Committee members and also those in Public Housing some of the cuts will have an effect of those on public house and insure that we are doing the out reach in multiple languages, particularly when we talk about the 8 and the 9, and i want to insure that we have translators that are able to translate english to chinese and vice versa for our Asian American constituents a