Keith dayton, to be u. S. Diplomat to ukraine. Several members pressed mr. Dayton on his willingness to report back to the committee of any knowledge of russian interference. If confirmed, he waited replace marie yovanovich, who was removed from her position last year. The nominees today are representative to the general assembly, the second one, to be deputy chief executive officer corporation,e Lieutenant General keith dayton be ambassador to Ukraine Special Political Affairs at the u. N. And alternative representative to the general assembly. Our nominees they have distinguished individuals. Senatorcotton and romney will be introducing mr. Wong, and we are glad to represent have former ed rice with us today. Suspend my Opening Statement and ask the Ranking Member to do the same until after introductions are made by our distinguished guests. With that, mr. Romney, member of this committee, we will start with your interaction of mr. Alex ron, so senator romney . And legal policy direc
We have done a lot with disaster assistance. We have done a lot in the last five years or so with wounded warriors. It began to go the other or action. It has been a great privilege to see kids get some help, or people get some help. We are catching you and the couple days before the end of session. A light legislative day. What is a typical day like for you here in the house . Representative macarthur long. [laughter] you know, there is a mix of being atduties like hearings or briefings. There are Relationship Building i will spend time with other members and try to get to know them and them me. There is getting my mind around voting on, and while it is hard to get deeply involved in every issue, i simply will not vote on an issue without knowing why i am voting the way i have voting, even suspension, which means the rules of been suspended because it is an easy bill to pass. Even those, i have a need to understand what i am voting on. So, i will spend some time on that. There are pol
Some other nominees, so today we will consider three nominations and i want to thank my colleagues for helping working through the nominations in an appropriate fashion to allow us to take the steps forward today. Any comments you would like to make . No, mr. Chairman. We are trying to get confirmed em bas duirs to make your job a little bit easier, i hope you appreciate the fact that chairman corker are moving through nominations as quick as possible and one of the things to do if confirmed to get nominations a little bit sooner. In any respect, we are supportive of the three nominee that is we have here today and the list that we are going to take up and strongly urge our colleagues in regards to governorbran governor branstead. I dont think anybody misunderstood why he had been governor for 23 areas. Certainly i was able to answer questions in a way that it related to people. Im going to read the names of the nominees and at the appropriate time we will have a boat. Honorable branst
The religious and Community Leaders that are here impart together today thank you all the city agencies, thank our immigrant Rights Commission our human Rights Commission, want to thank so many people that came together with our priorities and our office and all of our friends of our immigrant Community Today is a day we stand together as one city of people clapping. i also want to note and im very thankful to a lot of the organizations legal, social, immigrant oriented and religious oriented and particularly those members of our muslim and Arab Community in San Francisco and the bay area for being worked out brave for being worked out selfless mcnair city our city as well. clapping. today, we be participating in a historic signing summer off a nonare corporation with identify based registry ordinance thats a mouth full of words but basically, were saying we are not going to approve a registry in their city or in this country. clapping. is all of supervisors and i know commissioner cop
Will join shortly. The Committee Clerk is steve stamose and the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to it public online and of course the staff are gym smith and jessie larsson. Mr. Clerk, you have announcements . There are no announcements. Okay. Um, could you please call item number 1. Item 1, roll call. Peskin, present. Safai, present. Yee, present. We have quorum. Alright. Please call item number 2. Approve the minutes of december 15, 2017 meeting. This is action item. Okay. Any comments . I have no comment. I was not on the Vision Committee at the time but i have read the minutes and in so far as commissioner safai was not on there either i will not abstain as i usually do so we can get them passed and subject to Public Comment and move the minutes. Any other comments . Seeing none, any Public Comment on the item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Is there a motion . So moved. Any objectio