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The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues, if i could. We have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. Senator corker in the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, ive been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. So please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because hen the process continues with being arrested, its fairly unpleasant, id hate to see you go through that. Secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. What weve talked about doing is adjourning the hearing at about seven minutes to 6 00, everybody rushing down and voting on the tail end of the first vote and the second vote, therell be no spoking before the second vote. Then if we could hustle bam. I know general mattis has a meeting hed like to attend and others want to complete ....
Clara county specifically when we did one of our peers and we had people at hss look at it again could correct me if im wrong but they want to the new period of collective bargaining adjustably increased with a offered. It stayed fairly stable for a while. Our understanding is gone up in the hope it will continue to go up. So theyre just being more right now. It was more of we need to is that correct . That is correct. But they also formalize the county plan could Santa Clara County employees could elect to be part of the Santa Clara County health plan. I think its called valley health. Yes. The county was subsidizing it. The county stop subsidizing it. Yes sir i will make sure im clear. Some counties like la offers an account like 50 different plans and some are like five. These are not weighted. These are not weighted averages based on how many people actually elect ....
We do rely heavily on information from our state and local counterparts. In many instances, we have excellent reporting from those counterparts. In some instances it is not as robust as we need. And anything that could be done to improve that would be useful. Certainly you could consider legislation. We also have been working directly, speaking directly with those localities to encourage them to improve their reporting to the current system. One final question, madam attorney general. Congressman deutsche made remps to this. This challenging definition of engaged in the business of dealing firearms. Even the atf has said that this very vague standard frustrates prosecution, it allows people who sell guns to avoid the requirements of background checks and some have suggested that you could issue a regulation that would provide greater clarity and define that. We recognize legislation is also possible. But will you agree to at least look at whether or not you have the ability to issue cl ....
With coming before a committee, either in an open session, or a closed session. It needs to be done by nonpartisan stuff, and the fbi, particularly the Supreme CourtJustice Nominee would have been done. I think we need to have the hearing. Just absolutely stunned at why we are so opposed to letting the fbi do what the fbi has done for decades, and that his background checks on nominees. It is not unusual at all. Sandra we go live to peter doocy in washington. What is the latest word . Will she or wont she . Sandra, now dr. Fords attorney is saying that she doesnt want to come forward if the only people testifying our her and a judge kavanaugh. The latest letter from them says in part that the committees plan to move forward, only have two witnesses, it is not a fair or good faith investigation. There are multiple witnesses whose names have appeared publicly and should be inc ....