Lawmakers have two days before they are slated to recess for the memorial weekend, and the legislative docket is full trade, renewing the patriot act and the highway bill as well. Look for coverage of those debates on cspan2. We will begin with 2016 and Hillary Clinton in iowa yesterday. She held an impromptu News Conference after not fielding questions from the press for nearly a month. Republicans and journalists are criticizing the campaigns strategy. Should Hillary Clinton answer more questions from the media . Host you can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cs pan, an email us as well, journal cspan. Org. We will begin with nprs website. Until tuesday, it had been almost a month since hillary answered questions from the press. After taking questions from iowans in cedar rapids where she spoke about Small Business the former secretary of state answered six questions from reporters and took an awkwardly timed one about whether she will answer questions from the media in the
Public speakers questions from the board. Commissioner wynns. Lets clarify the new years not wants day will not be moved new year so the public knows that. Question commissioners next year were back to observing the wants day a National Holiday yes. Thank you very much no further comments roll call vote. Ms. Sonata. Mr. Chin ms. Fewer mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell ms. Mendozamcdonnell and ms. Wynns and dr. Murase its a 6 is. The committee may be seated on february 8th so review the applicants id like to call on simmons for the report and the reading of the recommendations from last weeks move. Thank you commissioner president murase so all the members of the board youre aware we have to our appetite to the Election Commission resigned and we filled the vacancy for the last 5 year term we posted the position and received 3 playgrounds or letters of intent inadequately and also all of you received the information in a document that looked like this though if you werent a member of the c
For being here. It seems like a week or two when you think back on how compresed it has been. But a lot of good work came from it. I want to thank those that testified today and those that testified before you, submitted comments and participated in the audience. It has been helpful in us framing what will be the final recommendations we present to the president next week. I am not going to go anything about how it will happen. Ron did a good job of that. Soon you will be introduced to the other taskforce members. I am chuck ramsey and i am a cochair along with Lori Robinson and i think we have made a good team over the past few months. I am currently the police chief in philadelphia. Seven years i have served in that capacity. Prior to that where was the police chief in washington for almost nine. I started in chicago in 1968. I have been around for a while and seen a lot of changing in policing over the years. Very dynamic profession and this is a period of time when we have challeng
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Thank you so much, dr. Goff. Our next witness is jim mcdonald who is the sheriff for l. A. County. Welcome. Thank you very much very honored to be here today. Thank you for allowing me to address you today. Nearly three months ago, i was sworn is as l. A. Countys elected sheriff. The first person in over a century elected from outside of the Sheriffs Department. I took command of a Law Enforcement agency facing many challenges. I also took command of an agency flown below the radar for years, not always acknowledged for the cutting edge work and expertise. I speak to you today as both a new sheriff with an agenda driven by a need for a change as well as somebody who has become fiercely proud of the Organization Im now privileged to lead. The Los Angeles Sheriffs Department is the largest Sheriffs Department in the country and the second largest policing agency in the nation. We serve a county spanning over 4,000 square miles with a population of over 10 million people. We also run the