Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the regular meeting march 28, 2016 of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. Commissioner andrews, here. Commissioner hayon, here. Commissioner keane, here. We have a visitor. Commissioner hur. Let me say we welcome you back and particularly in the view the fact well cover the wistal blow rr regulations we passed at the last meeting and i see you didnt bring your plaque that you stethly took away in february. It wasnt given to me but it is reviding in my office. Welcome. I will ask for Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda and believe madam assesser is here to make a few words thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Executive director pelm. We were in the crowd wondering about commissioner hurs name tag. Glad to hear you have one. Today i want to come here because today is commissioner hurs last day with the Ethics Commission and would prefer to find a way to extend his term but i want to express my gratitude
70 nine republicans joined 187 democrats to pass the deal. Times washington candidates sharpened their attacks and blasted the media. That is where we will begin. Your takeaways from last nights gop debate. Republicans, 202 7488001. , andrats, 202 7488000 independence, 202 7488002. You can also tweet us http twitter. Com cspanwj, or facebook or send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Politico you a takeaway. They say the moderated debate was sloppy, but offered the greatest clarity to date about the direction of the race. Marking the emergence of marco rubio and ted cruz as upper tier candidates, along with donald trump and ben carson. It will be remembered as the night the jeb bush 2016 death ch began. You can suffer public doubts of your donors, brave the indignity a face staff salary, or plant about the news of the cool things you could be doing if you were relieved of the burden of having to rescue the free world from your partys right wing, but you cannot do those things and lay a
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from north dakota. A senator i ask the quorum call be vitiated. Mr. Hoeven thank you, mr. President. I rise today to make the case for lifting the 40yearold ban on exporting crude oil. It will benefit not only my home state of north dakota but our nation and our allies in a host of different ways. He thatsie worked hard to include legislation repealing the ban in the yearend Legislation Congress now has under consideration. Importantly, this is mustpass legislation, meaning that it will be very hard for the president to veto the oil exporl export ban. Taken together, the reasons for lifting the Oil Export Ban are very powerful. Doing so would encourage more Domestic Production. It would increase the Global Supply of crude oil, reducing the cost at the pump for our consumers, particularly over the long term. It will help grow our economy and create goodpaying jobs for our citizens. And the last reason is vital the important as
Thank you everybody, and thank you so much for being here here and for that introduction as well. This is not going to be a late discussion by any stretch but youll final it worthwhile. Ill speak for a while and then engage in questions and answers with you in the audience. This is a like i said headquartersy subject, crucially important for this nation as we head into the 2016 elects. And that is the mean by which business business bs have moved to steer the american political process their way, and by and large, by no means entirely but by and large, theyre succeeding. In its entirety and complexity, this is a story far, far bigger than any one book can hold. It includes such forces as the Koch Brothers and their farreaching networks that are as we speak raising enormous amounts of money to influence the president ial and congressional races and they have the a huge network of donors and also includes a whole swarm of super pacs and dark money groups that are forming alongside pretty
Aroundrecommend that that might overshadow tomorrow. Guest this is something john bennett will have to address on camera. Hes put out statements supporting Steve Scalise who spoke to a racist group and he acknowledged in 2002 also majority leader kevin mccarthy, republican from california has also supported scalise. Scullys has said he regrets talking to that group back then that he wasnt sure he was talking to that group at one point blames staff on it. He has been able to weather the storm because while the have been a democrat whether the calls for him to step aside as the leader, republicans have not. Anytime you get into this type of controversy as long as your team, members of the kindle call for you to step aside, then youre probably going to survive. At the same time it is something reporters will be asking about this week. Host the headline track issues of lacking the republican, the first one in the caucus so that she would not publicly defending scalise. Up and democrats hav