Tell her story. Kathleen dealt, the author of Theodore Roosevelt, a strenuous life. And he is the officers of Edith Roosevelt. The 1900 election, resident it president make cleaning and brought and the roosevelt family as Vice President , but does not last very long because an assassin has other things in mind for president mckenzie. So tell the story of the transition, please, that brings the roosevelt in that very momentous occasion and the white house. Its dramatic because data roosevelt is climbing a mountain many heres the news that mckinley was shot, he rushes down the mountain and comes to buffalo, it looks like mckinley is going to survive, but then blood poisoning sets in and comes to washington. It takes over a nation and its a national tragedy, it really has to come to the presidency because of an assassination, but he really shores america and he turns out to be a very successful president. This is a snapshot of how much experience he brings. A lot of experience behind him
Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and a secret service answer questions from the House Homeland Security committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security use of a facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting to examine department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The government use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, finger prints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics includes dna, voice pattern and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen forum of Biometric Technology as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the
Obviously anything you have in writing, you can enter for the record. We welcome you, we congratulate you and miss granger for bringing all of this together and all of the appropriators, and we will begin with you. I thank you for your congratulations but you have a great team. I will accept the congratulations on behalf of all of my colleagues and all their staff who brought us to this day. I know you are all eager to support this great product. Mr. Chairman those raise funding for Critical National priorities. I am particularly proud we have fully funded a fair and accurate to0 census, provided money states to secure their elections, and appropriated 25 million for gun violence prevention research. These are just a few of the highlights of these bills and our cardinals will provide details on many more examples of investments that will strengthen our nation. Of critical importance, the bill limits the administrations deviateto redirect or from congressionally directed spending levels
Is the best way for the port to consider. And they should show us the nuance and gray areas but we will look at that. But i dont think were going to have a big philosophical discussion of maritime versus other but it will be nuances. I would hope that. But when i look at the criteria i dont see anything that ponies to maritime. Points to maritime. So all evaluation criteria will get points. The reality is they may impute it. But it is not a requirement from the pointing perspective. On page 12 of the staff report, we outline the scoring criteria with more detail than we saw on the slides. And if you look at 1b and 1e under quality of Design Development submittal, 1b talks about Performance Trust objectives which includes maritime and 1e calls out this balance that commissioner makras is pointing out. I agree it doesnt talk about how they are weighted but maritime is called out. So how many people are going to be on the panel. At least four. And its in the waterfront plan or include jus
Could you call the roll. [ roll call ]. Clerk we have quorum. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 2, chairs report. Thank you. Colleagues, this month we had the pleasure of receiving a delegation from the California State Transportation Agency led by the new secretary of transportation, david kim, and members of his team responsible for safety planning and innovative mobility. They oversee the Transportation Commission and our state d. Ot. I want to thank our executive director and her team for organizing the round table as well as the sfmta acting director and the mtc Deputy Director for joining the meeting which i stayed for the entire time. The medium of the day was state and local partnerships and we had much to discuss, beginning with the storied history of Infrastructure Projects that followed the earthquake that took place 30 years ago last week. It not only damaged the bridge but also frees and other structures in San Francisco. We were allowed to rebuild the embarcadoro s