Members of the public that wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. The next order of business is item three, report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reportable actions. The next order of business is item four, matters of unfinished business. There were no matters of unfinished business. The next order of business is item five. Mares of new business consisting of con sent and regular agenda. First, the Consent Agenda 5a, approval of minutes, regular meeting of january 16, 2018. Madame chair . Madame secretary, do you have any speaker cards for these items . I have one. Ace washington. We have a month in the year, i think theyre still shortchanged as they give us the shortest month of the year. What do you think about that . Thats not to say what this agency, dont take it personally, please. But i want yall to hear me. I wish i could get on my knees. I might have to do tha
The 60s. Today could be close, 57 or 58. Another nice day is on the way. It will be colder next week. This weekend looks good. 29 in philadelphia. Cape may, 38. Much colder to the northwest as is the case this time of the career. Reading and allentown, 23. Poconos, 27, even though the temperatures are chilly, the wind speeds are light. Were not dealing with harsh windchills. Satellite and radar up and down the mid atlantic from richmond into new york city and boston. Well see lots of sunshine once the sun rises. Well increase the clouds later in the day and bring us wet weather later tonight and into the tomorrow. Today is definitely the better of the two weekend days. Sunny and mild and dry, 57 degrees. 1 00 p. M. , 52 already at that point. 4 00 p. M. , 57 and by 7 00 p. M. , 53 degrees, again, just a beautiful start to the weekend. When i come back in just a few minutes ill talk about the rain on the way tomorrow, well time it out for future tracker 6, ill talk about a little light
Item two announcements. A, the next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on march 6, 2018 at 1 00 p. M. At city hall room 416. Please be advised that the ring of and use of cell phone, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic device. C, announcement of time allotment for Public Comments. Please be advised that the member of public has three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public that wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. The next order of business is item three, report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting, if any. There
Of the 12 people hurt, four remain in the hospital. In critical condition. And the others seriously injured, were told during the press conference, as you just heard, authorities called yesterdays assault the worst terror attack in new york city since september 11th. Sarah . Investigators swarmed a home in new jersey today. Where they believe the suspect was living with his wife and three children, fbi agents were seen leaving with several bags of agents. Theyre always focusing on a mosque next to the home. That had been under surveillance twins 2005 for possibly planning terrorist attacks but never linked to criminal activity im starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program. Im going to ask congress to immediately initiate to work get rid of this terror attack, the president saying the blame falls on democrats. At issue are diversity immigration lotteries that allow the alleged attackers, saipov into the United States. The president pinned the program on chuck schu
I appreciate members participation during yesterdays igs session. I was glad to hear everys initial thoughts. However, a number of issues were raised yesterday that in my view warrant some additional responses. First at characterization of the bill as a massive tax cut for the rich that particular claim was repeated by almost every minority member of this committee. The problem with that claim is that its just not true. The joint committee on taxation a nonpartisan congressional scorekeeper has concluded not only does the bill maintain the current level of progressivity in the tax code but the largest tax cuts in terms of percentage of income will go to middle income earners. I understand that the districtsal analysis is inconvenient for the democrats who are committed to the narrative that republicans intend to give the socalled rich a huge tax cut. But jcts analysis shouldnt be ignored altogether. Secondly, there was the repeated claim supposedly placed on jct analysis that the bill