Us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years with whats been going on. I thought i was numb to a lot of the everymorning upsets. But today, i was mad. And i decided to do something about it. And thats why im speaking today. Please vote with your heart and not with your pocketbook. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is candice fault. Im a resident of our fine city of San Francisco. And im also one of the coleaders of the San Francisco chapter of citizens climate lobby. I would like to thank all of you for the tim
That say, you know, i cant because i want another opportunity to do it. Now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i dont have the class. And i dont want to say please i need your support to everybody to culminate together. Thats what i see, working with them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im a 2121 member, chapter president , San Francisco general first. I want to say that the staffing in Public Health needs to be fixed. Its outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, its terrible. People are calling in sick more, their productivity is going down. We are losing money, because things arent getting done properly because you dont have enough people to fix that problem. But im really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldnt get a house in San Francisco. He couldnt get a loan. We ended up in bay leaf city.
Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in
Eight. Good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is allison, im the 112th president of the National Press club take on the investigations associated press. You have a program and we invite you to listen or watch or follow along on twitter using and pc live. What are cspan and public radio audience, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public. Ad any reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. I like to begin by introducing our had table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left, robert, president of the public news office and the number of the npc headliners. Is a former president of the National Press club. M we have eleanor, a Political Columnist with the daily read. A National Reporter at the washington post. Wesley is Michael Deputy communications director. And alex, a political reporter nbc news. Skipping over the podium, to my right is donna, president media strat
The Homeland Security secretary testified before the Security Committee on the 2025 budget request and the hearing entered before the house delivered two impeachment articles against him to the senate in both of those were later dismissed. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the committee may recess at any point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for the committee will come to order and without objection the committee may recess at inany point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for joining the committee to discuss the budget that you and the president have put forth for the department of Homeland Security and on march 1 the department celebrated its 21st anniversary. I want to thank the Public Servants throughout dhs to dedicate their lives to securing the homeland in this work is vital that the safety of the nation and the security. When you took the oath of office, you swore to support and defend the constitution o