He published a series about three years after 911. The series was specifically on the fire department. It thought to talk about the decisions that happen that day and why folks went into the building. The firefighters had a level of casualties beyond the police department. He was a kid. People that loved him. We were the people that hated him. I came to regard the structure of individual life and the tragedy. It does not matter how other people commemorate that. How they observe that has nothing to do whether i have some level of empathy. Those are two simple things. I can talk about hypocrisy up one side and down the other. It does not improve me. So many good questions and hear. People are asking about your sources of information and how you write. This question brings this full circle to where you started. Which comes first, when you sit down to write, political intention or artistic intention . Or are they one and the same . Artistic intention, always. Okay, i think we will leave i
President of the United States use them as a political bargaining chip to force congress to comply with his domestic agenda. The bottom line for me is that our troops deserve than that and thats the reason i support this bipartisan budget act of 2014. It increases it stops the cuts in defense. It increases the money going to our troops, and it prevents them from being used as a bargaining chip in the future because it sets the military budget for fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2017 so that that is decided they cant be used as leverage for some other agenda. I think that is the sort of stability and predictability they need and they deserve. And i think the great question, madam speaker, is if not this, then what . We know that this budget agreement at least comes close to meeting what the president has asked for on defense and comes close to the congressional budget within 5 billion. Thats not enough money to repair the damage that has been done over the past five years, but its in t
United states and sets a path to a responsible appropriations process this year and next. Since the beginning of this years appropriations process, democrats have called for relief fl damaging austerity budget level caps so congress can invest in our nations future. Unfortunately the majoritys budget resolution and appropriation bills would have strangled Economic Growth and not met our nations need with cuts to pell grants that help families Pay College Tuition and Law Enforcement grants, for example. The list goes on and on, from the start of the appropriations process, i urged my majority colleagues to negotiate reasonable spending caps that protect our economy and national priorities. Im pleased these talks finally happened and resulted in this bipartisan package that provides an additional 40 billion for defense, 40 billion for nondefense over two years. These investments are critical. Upon its passage, i look forward to working together in a similarly responsible manner to reach
And to my left is supervisor kim and mrs. Want to recognize we have a guest with with us our friend and colleague supervisor campos our clerk mr. Victor young id like to recognize Jennifer Lowe and jim smith our techs helping us to broadcast in Committee Meeting i also would like to ask the clerk to make any announcements at this time. Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the september 29, 2015, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much mr. Clerk, call item one of the amending the public works code for the flood management code to have a minor code for the Public Works Commission grant funds are exemption from payment of rightofway assessment fee subsidies. Wow. Thats a mouth full supervisor campos would you like to make a announcement. Thank you to supervisor wiener and supervisor kim for hearing this i represent district 9
Chair nuru, aye. Chair harper, aye. Thats four ayes and item 17 is approved and directors that concludes your agenda for today. Is that it . We are adjourned. Thank you. meeting adjourned . Good morning. Today is september 9, 2015. Welcome to the rules committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is john avalos, chair of the committee and to my right is katy tang and to my left is president london breed who is here in place of supervisor cohen. Our clerk today is alisa somera and the meeting is brought by sfgtv. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . S yes, please silent all cell phones and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the september 22 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. First could we have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. So moved. And seconded by supervisor breed and take that without objection and item 1. Item 1 is a motion of reappointment to have bryant tan for the Successor Agency commiss E