The hearing will come back to order. And for the outstanding work you have done, thank you this has to be one of the hardest jobs in government to be the impartial watchdog and with those Government Agencies as important as department of justice and fbi i want you to know how much we appreciate your work and your teams work likewise it is important even though we are critical of the leadership of the fbi during the last administration the way they mishandled this counterintelligence investigation and the colleagues need to know that we are there for them and support them in the faithful discharge of their responsibilities. I served that there is no more ardent supporter. And i believe that general hayden when he wrote his book had it right it is called playing to the edge not over the line but up to the edge so that also makes it important for us to root out the illegality and the exercise of those that are given to the Intelligence Community. So let me ask you about that. Because i ca
That growth and enforce policies that will do nothing to stop Climate Change. What would staying in the agreement lead to . The Heritage Foundation modeled the policies that would be required to meet the Obama Administrations paris commitments and found that by 2035, there would be an overall loss of nearly 400,000 jobs, half of which would be in manufacturing. An average of total income loss of more than 20,000 for a family of four. And an aggregate g. D. P. Loss of over 2. 5 trillion and an increase in Household Electricity expenditures by 13 and 20 . My amendment would allow the United States to stay out of the unrealistic and overbearing agreement. I urge members to vote yes on this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. I yield to the Ranking Member. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from kentucky is recognized. Mr. Rogers i thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of his amendment. The Paris Agreement is an unworkable, unrealistic policy solution
You may submit Public Comment in writing either the following ways. Email them to myself. The rules Committee Clerk at victor. You and g at sfgovtv. Org if you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. You may also send your written comment via us mail to our office at one. Doctor Carlton B Goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco, california 94102. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of may 21st, 2024, unless otherwise stated. That completes my initial announcements. Thank you and i would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor Sherman Walton from this meeting. Yes, on the motion to excuse, vice chair walton, supervisor Preston Preston, i supervisor safai safai chair. Ronan i ronan i the motion passes without objection. Motion pass
Committee meeting. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Im joined by committee, temporary member dean preston. And we shall be joined by supervisor ahsha safai shortly. Our clerk is victor young, and i would like to thank matthew ignored sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. When your item of interest comes up and Public Comment is called, please line up to speak. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in writing either the following ways. Email them to myself. The rules Committee Clerk at victor. You and g at sfgovtv. Org if you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. You may also send your written comment via us mail to our office at one. Doctor Carlton B Goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco, california 94102. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices documents to
Point out we still need prosecutors to connect donald trump to the actual actions that are taking place here. Donald trump did not say set up this llc. Its important to remember that Michael Cohens testimony has to be supported at some point to where did donald trump instruct you to do this specifically. Its time for us to hand it over. Thank you all for being with us. We appreciate all of you. Thats going to do it for us this hour. Andrea mitchell and katy tur will pick things up after a quick break. Ill see you back at 1 00 eastern time. Keep it here. Lots going on. Good day, everyone. The star witness takes the stand. Now the critical figure in the hush money case. Michael cohen, once Donald Trumps loyal attack dog, is now facetoface with his former boss for the first time in months. Cohen is the lynch pin of the prosecutions case. They argue cohen acted at trumps direction in an attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election. The defenses counter, once a liar, always a liar. Pain