Set t expire this friday at midnight, senators also approd a oneweek faa extension until may 17th to give the house mor time to take up the longterm measure. Here is the chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce science and transportation committee, senators Maria Cantwell and ted cruz speaking on the floor after final passage. The house of representatives should quickly take it up and t pass it and send to the president s desk for signature. This legislation is a strong bipartisan that includes hundreds of priorities for senators and representatives both republican and democrat. This bill gives the faa the safety tools it needs at a critical time to help bring new Aerospace Technologies to market. I want to thank the staff that spent countless hours hemmerring out this legislation. This was no easy task. As i stated earlier, this bipartisan product was result of many, many months of hard work, late nights, there were many times that it appeared that the bill was not going to mak
Thats our job, is to take votes, to try to make legislation better and to offer improvements to it, and that means amendments. Look, i understand in the house of representatives things operate a little bit differently. Youve got 435 people over tlchlt its a lot harder to have that. This is why weve always bragged about our status as the worlds greatest deliberative legislative body. On paper we are. Historically we certainly have been. Today we are not. Were kidding ourselves, were delusional if we want and expect the American People to believe otherwise. Heres the food news the good news, we still are that entity on paper, as it is envisioned, as its created, as its established and outlined by the constitution. We still are that entity, with our own rules, our own precedence, and our own customs. But alas, the best rules, the best constitutional provisions will amount to dead letter if we ourselves refuse to exercise our own rights and our prerogatives. The muscle of legislative proce
Next applicant is ms. Darcy brown sounds like . Please come forward. Welcome. Good afternoon supervisors my name is darcy brown, the interim executive director of San Francisco beautiful. I will be brief. San francisco beautiful as you may or may not know is dedicated to the preservation of our neighborhoods and was instrumental in the creation of the graffiti Advisory Board in 2005 as well as in 2012, the First International conference to address graffiti, and best practices and cleanup. I personally have worked for or work with the county of San Francisco for the last 15 years and i am a native san franciscan. I am proud to be the interim executive director of San Francisco beautiful that is been around since 1947. Supervisor avalos thank you for your work. I dont have any questions. So happy to go on to the next person. I will be right back. Good afternoon supervisors unintelligible , the Vice President of Public Policy for the San Francisco chamber of commerce, asking for my second
As a teacher i have been quite honest that we have been looking on in horror how our city has been completely decimated of the workingclass people by certain members of city hall and i hold you responsible some of you not all of you and in particular our mayor, i have to say quite honestly. We have been completely horrorfied about that. Is that any time . Stop the luxury development. Stop the building of the luxury developments. Prop a with 650 units makes us compete with the rest of the community for very few housing opportunities. This is not a solution. Im really concerned that google is mentioned as part of the solution as a partner in the solution. Thank you. You can finish your sentence. Okay. Just so we understand im the last person on my block not to be evicted. I pay 45 income in rent. These assistance plans were geting are never going to be effective for me. 1 million homes are out of reach. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors and commissioners. Like graham, i want to put a
Please turn off an electronic devices. Any documents can be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor avalos item number one. Consider the mayors appointment to the children youth and families oversight Advisory Committee. Please come forward and welcome. Thank you for your interest in the oversight committee, we want to talk about your interest in your experience in working with children from families. Im linda martin jordan, currently employed by unintelligible been in the district since 2005, began in the Elementary School working at diablo and malcom x. I have been at unintelligible high school since 2007. Decreasing the truancy rate. It was extremely high. Since 2009 i have been appointed to special project working with africanamerican families and in that capacity i have been able to develop ways for families to be involved and participating in voicing their opinions about what is going on in the School District and in particular in mission. I work with various Community Based organizat