The notice of meeting a paragraph headed meeting decorum. It reads as follows the Ethics Commission encourages and promotes integrity in government by education and example and is committed to treating all Staff Members of the public and colleagues with courtesy respect objectivity and fairness. Members of the public who attend Commission Meetings are also expected to behave responsibly in respectfully. Persons who engage in namecalling, shouting, interruption or other distracting behavior may be asked to leave. The following behavior or activities are discouraged inside the hearing room. Applause or vocal expression in support or opposition eating or drinking profanity and physical aggression in accord with the board of supervisors walls of order 1. 3. 1 signs regardless of content or message is strictly prohibited. This prohibition does not apply to clothing which includes signage and to clothing, messages displayed on clothing, pins hats or buttons. If the chairman is unable to obta
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Holiday. Thats one of the issues. Recently the dollar has been going up and yen down. Thats pressuring the markets. Investors looking for safety in gold this morning. Gold prices up, take a look with a gain on the session of 2 and a half percent. We are following, of course, the latest developments and the race for the white house. New hampshire christiesy, former hewlettpackard ceo Carly Fiorina sus paining campaigns yesterday. What that means for the republican field coming up. The stop story today is Global Market selloff underway. Read arrows across the board. U. S. Stock market futures point to go tripledigit loss when trading began this morning. As we showed you, oil one of the cull pits, the nasdaq down 80 points and oil prices pushing below 27 a barrel with a decline of two and a half percent. On a day like this, kevin kelly, what do you want to the with the portfolio . Kevin you dont have to go much. Theres not a lot of conviction in central bankers and thats the problem. They
President bushs nominees, including a large number of District Courts and courts of appeals, and it was actually confirming letting the Senate Confirm nominations right up through september of an Election Year. No, if there were then that did not go through that it was for other reasons. He set, really, a record. Now, contrast that to what happened when george w. Bush was in the last two years of his presidency. I was chairman. So there could be no question on fairness, i put through 68 of his nominees. The republicans have about only 16 of president obamas in the last two years of his presidency, as opposed to the democrats allowing 68 of republican president s. Use any standard you want, republican president s were treated more fairly. Host your republican colleagues would disagree. Senator biden said they should not go forward with a nomination in 1992. Nothing happened in 1992 sen. Leahy no. Host now they are calling it the biden rule. Sen. Leahy yeah, we actually they raised that
Leahy, democrat of vermont. Thanks very much for being with us. Sen. Leahy happy to be here. Host and joining us with the questioning is John Bresnahan. He is the Congressional Bureau chief for politico. And david herszenhorn, who is New York Times congressional reporter. Thank you for being with us. Senator, i want to begin with the crs report that said in 1992, the chair of the Judiciary Committee, your colleague, joe biden, now Vice President , had blocked the nomination of 32 George Herbert walker bush federal judicial nominations that year. Is that accurate . Sen. Leahy no, that is not accurate. In fact, he did 65 or 70 of president bushs nominees, including a large number of District Courts and courts of appeals, and it was actually confirming letting the Senate Confirm nominations right up through september of an Election Year. No, if there were then that did not go through that it was for other reasons. He set, really, a record. Now, contrast that to what happened when george w