This is nothing this is something we should work on, and the work on this predated me coming to treasury and this has been a long time, and as i mentioned earlier, we may come back to congress and suggest that you pass legislation. I would ask you, this is not on your 2021 calendar. This should be on your december calendar. I agree. I look forward to working with you. I need to know whether you need legislation. I need to know what you need and we need to make sure that are 2 billion of outstanding debt where people kbts determine what interest is supposed to be paid, and i want to move on because i do chair the asia subcommittee for another week, and we focused on china. China could end up with 1. 5 billion of world bank loans. This is under discussion now. Chinas income has exceeded the level where they should be eligible for these loans and the Chinese Government has enough money to put a million uighurs behind bars and to build a military complex that destabilizes the world so it s
Najaf is so important to shows around the world. For the First Time Since a military offensive began in Northern Syria a week ago Government Forces have advancing to opposition territory the fighting has displaced one hundred fifty thousand people from their homes the region is seeing its heaviest strikes in months and relief agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis is a Syrian Opposition is last major stronghold frances president has expressed his concern and is calling for a u. N. Backed political resolution as ring in a harder whos following developments for us from beirut in neighboring lebanon the fiercest bombardment in syria in months whats the latest youre hearing from your sources on the ground. More civilian casualties more than eighty civilians many of them women and children have been killed in the past week or so the casualty toll only increasing this is the relentless Bombing Campaign russian and syrian heiress. Strikes dozens of airstrikes on a daily basis like you
If we can move on to item number 3, an action item. Thank you president follansbee. Agenda item 3, the resolution allowing teleconferencing meetings under the government code, this is an action item. So, weve had a chance to review this resolution. Im not sure if youre going to project it, but i wasnt planning on it. Would you like me to . It is pretty straightforward. Every 30 days we have to update our resolve to allow teleconferencing. If theres any discussion from Board Members . This is commissioner scott. I move we accept the resolution. I second. Thank you. So moved and seconded. With that, well open up for Public Comment. Thank you president follansbee. The Public Comment remote viewing access is going to be displayed and ill read it. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Each speaker is allowed three minutes unless the board president deems new time limits. As a reminder, a caller may ask questions of the policy body but theres no obligation to engage with t
Commissioner hao. Present. Commissioner scott . Present. Commissioner zvanski will be joining in a moment. With that present follansbee, we have a quorum. If we can move on to item number 3, an action item. Thank you president follansbee. Agenda item 3, the resolution allowing teleconferencing meetings under the government code, this is an action item. So, weve had a chance to review this resolution. Im not sure if youre going to project it, but i wasnt planning on it. Would you like me to . It is pretty straightforward. Every 30 days we have to update our resolve to allow teleconferencing. If theres any discussion from Board Members . This is commissioner scott. I move we accept the resolution. I second. Thank you. So moved and seconded. With that, well open up for Public Comment. Thank you president follansbee. The Public Comment remote viewing access is going to be displayed and ill read it. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Each speaker is allowed three minut
Weeks ive been talking about president ial power. Weve been talking about the way Foreign Policy is formed, where were talking about domestic policy and some of the tools president s have. This week, were going to talk about some of the pitfalls of being president and weve hinted this along the way because weve been talking about the ways that president s are kind of really hemmed in, in terms of their abilities to do their job. And so one way that obviously creates Serious Problems for them to be able to act is when they are confronted with scandals that sometimes of their undo oh doing and sometimes that are that are kind of relation to whats going on in politics. So this week were spent a lot of time talking again about limitations on the presidency and this gets to our big theme about the way that the is really limited by these institutional designs right on purpose. Theyre supposed to be limited in how act and this is a story about the way that these political circumstances can so