This is nothing this is something we should work on, and the work on this predated me coming to treasury and this has been a long time, and as i mentioned earlier, we may come back to congress and suggest that you pass legislation. I would ask you, this is not on your 2021 calendar. This should be on your december calendar. I agree. I look forward to working with you. I need to know whether you need legislation. I need to know what you need and we need to make sure that are 2 billion of outstanding debt where people kbts determine what interest is supposed to be paid, and i want to move on because i do chair the asia subcommittee for another week, and we focused on china. China could end up with 1. 5 billion of world bank loans. This is under discussion now. Chinas income has exceeded the level where they should be eligible for these loans and the Chinese Government has enough money to put a million uighurs behind bars and to build a military complex that destabilizes the world so it s
Announcements today . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number one. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. We considered this item last week. If youll recall, i offered amendments which needed to sit for a week, so i would ask today that we forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Chair fewer thank you, supervisor. There is no b. L. A. Report on this, and so lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public want to comment on item one . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer id like to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. I can do that without objection. Thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, please call item number two. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. And i believe today, we have Michelle Geddes project manager in the San
Chair fewer good morning, everyone. Accept my apologies for being late. This is the wednesday, november 6, 2019 budget and finance committee meeting. I am chair of the budget and finance committee. I am chairman sandra lee fewer. I am joined by supervisor Raphael Mandelman and catherine stefani. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements today . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number one. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. We considered this item last week. If youll recall, i offered amendments which needed to sit for a week, so i would ask today that we forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Chair fewer thank you, supervisor. There is no b. L. A. Report on this, and so lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public want to comment on item one . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer id li
I will be the moderator. Senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who put together this panel, which i think is on a key issue. It is talked about a lot, but there arent that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. As i mentioned for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions. And on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of these institutions, and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. Arises then,that does that make the institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions and partly take over responsibility for them . Another key issue is the one on fragile states. They seem to be continuously bogged down in poverty, lack of education, etc. Although, we have spent decades on development aid, peacekeeping, etc. From the institutions such as world bank
Now, welcome to another week and senator mcconnell his legislative graveyard. Does anyone know how monday bills the senate is scheduled to vote on this big . Any guesses. While it is zero. Every day the leader mcconnell is that the republicans failed to allow us on bipartisan bills, there are hurting the working people in this country. There is no good reason why President Trump cant be working with democrats right now. On important bipartisan legislation. When it comes to mind is what happened this week, background checks. President trump, after el paso, were going to do something on background checks he said. We have to do it. Well, he just sent an abandoned those efforts. Not doing anything on gun violence. Instead having the department of justice continue to work on bipartisan gun proposals, gun safety proposals, President Trump since his attorney general globetrotting. Chasing conspiracy theories that undermine our intelligence agencies. Instead of working with congress on a plan