[inaudible conversations] good morning. The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome you all to our second bubble confirmation hearing of this anon girls feet. I would like to start by thanking senator korn and for being here to speak on behalf of our nominee is. Always good to have you. Our fellow committee member, senator mention from West Virginia is prepared to also offer introductory remarks for a nominee. Governor perry, i would like to extend a warm welcome to you and to your family. Know that i appreciate your desire to serve, your willingness to become our next secretary of energy. Ive enjoyed the meeting that we had together, learning more about your leadership as governor of the state of texas, including your accomplishments in the area of energy and environment. Im going to withhold this morning and a reference to text size versus alaska size. Weve had that discussion. But in all seriousness, we know that you are seeking to leave the department of energy at an inter
Mr. Clerk, can you call item no. 1. Item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required onsite open space requirements, exclude certain features from the Floor Area Ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria Manalo Draves park. Thank you very much. With the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, were going to entertain a motion to continue this item until march 20th. But before that, colleagues, if no questions, i would open up for Public Comment. Anyone wishing for comment on item 1, seeing none, Public Comment is closed [ gavel ]. Supervisor tang. Ly make the motion to continue to march 20th. Yes. 2017. Motion by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisorpisckin taken without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call item no. 2 please. Item no. 2, ordinance amending the commerce and industry element of
Gentfying city and we must be willing to to enact sensible legislation on a national and locallevel and ask that you pass them unanimously. Thank you. I will call up a couple other names. [ reading speakers names ] name is scott weaver and im from the San Francisco tenants unit, the calle vent veinticuatro district and to stabilize the displacement of latino businesses and residents and preserve cal veinticuatro as center for [hraoeupblt ]or commerce and enhance the unique natures a special place for San Franciscos residents and tourists. This is really the first piece of legislation that has come before you specifically related to this particular area. Im also asking that you honor the process that has been undertaken over the last three years to create this special use district, which is actually the first step in a multipronged approach to reach the goal of stabilization on calle veinticuatro. Probably half a dozen community meetings, participation by oewd, which has been totally tr
Emergent treat, and i think in the more cochran strategy, first of all, we have all this state in this region, militias, revenge groups, sectarian groups, terroristic groups, criminal groups and so of course, libya talked about some groups we can say only in libya we have merely 300 militias. And when you go a little bit to this all this separatist groups dealing with all the terrorists, link it to all these terrorist groups and national organized crime. Pick in this time, on one hand, as the major role of terrorism and the terrorist groups, we have certainly daesh, as you see it, and is active in a lot of off can countries, in mali, bar ke barkina faso and others. We have a big bed of as my friend said, boko haram. We talk less about boko haram, but its one of the bad, very bad groups. And al shabab. The second point, when we focus on the terrorist groups in the moroccan approach, we never put transnational organized crime. We have in this region very important activity and what we le