Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item number one. Clerk prior to that, id like to make an announcement. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Documents referred to in presentations should be submitted to the clerk. Item number 1 is a hearing to propose the submitted ordinance to members of and candidates for the board of supervisors, the mayor, and candidates for mayor, the City Attorney, and candidates for City Attorney and the controlled committees of those officers and candidates. Chair ronen thank you so much. And i just wanted to note that we have quite a front row crowd in the audience. We have two former supervisors and a judge. We have former supervisor tom ammiano. We have the former chair of the Ethics Commission, tom renne. I will turn this over to supervisor mar. Supervisor mar thank you so much, chair, ronen, for allowing us to hold this informational hearing today, and im proud to be this sponsor on this dark money measure. Its earned the suppor
It has no excuses because the truth is paid, flowing to golf is nowhere nearly enough us President Joe Biden says he will start sending ad drops if he monetary data into gaza as a situation in this for it becomes more dia, by the day, the politicians from 12 countries cooled on their governments to stop selling weapons, israel slicing violations of International Law and got the task poles enclosed in rons parliamentary election. Its the 1st vote since nationwide protest in 2022. The we beginning garza with the military wing of thomas b cason brigades, say that 7 captives have been killed in is riley s strikes. Its not immediately clear when they died. The group says that is rarely a tax of now killed move and 70 captives as force around a 130. 00 people are still being held captive in gaza. All the announcement comes as israel faces global condemnation following the killing of thousands of palestinians waiting for food aid on thursday. At least a 115 people were killed. 760 were injure
A deal together on pensions thats the big sticking point. Here is the congressman. Optimism. Im optimism theyre going to get it done. Theyre coming back to talk tonight. There was a proposal. They really went back to executive , willie went back to his executive board. They did tweaking. Theyre coming back representing again. The key is talk. They got to talk, you know. I would like to get it done rush hour. Hope they get it done by next rush how far. Reporter we have video also of Union Members heading into the Sheraton Hotel here in center city and going up to the negotiating room. By the way, we want to tell you the congressman was talking about willie brown the head, the president of the transport Workers Union local here who took a concept deal if you will back to his executive board to tweak it. So both sides are still moving at this late hour. Ba, to you. We got a whole bunch of people dave kinchen hoping they can move in a positive direct. Thousands of people across our area ar
Sort of timing which has become standard in modern confirmation process. Indeed, in american history, only one attempt to push through september or october confirmation was the failed campaign to approve fortiss no president , 1968. Mr. I cannot believe anyone would want to repeat that experience in todays climate. Moreover, of the five justices confirmed in the summer of an election year, all five were nominated for vacancies that had a reason before the summer had began. August justice griers confirmation was for a vacancy in the court that was more than two years old. As was the july confirmation of Samuel Miller in 1862. Tus mr. President , more relatives with the situation we could be facing in 1992 is this statistic. Six Supreme Court vacancies have a tiered in a summer or a fall appeared in the summer or a fall of a president ial election year. And never, not once has the Senate Confirmed the nominee for these vacancies before the november election. In four of these six cases, 1
Differently than the preceding ones. President , the pressure and tension on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make a restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination, even it was desirable, a practical impossibility. That we face my immediate question, can our Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process so rectified discord and bitterness be repaired and it president ial Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us that this is extremely unlikely. Bitter our nations most and heated confirmation fights have come in president ial Election Years. A confirmation fight over roger tommys tawnys confirmation in 1836, the senate refusal to confirm for nominations for president tyler in 1844, the single vote projections of rejection nominees badger and black by lameduck president s fillmore in the canon in the mid19th century. Approval ofow justices lamarr and fuller in 1888. These are just some examples of these fights in the 19th centur