Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the on ordering the previous question on House Resolution yeas and nays he are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. Numberrk house calendar 74, House Resolution 866, esolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 2339, to amend the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act with respect to the sale and marketing of Tobacco Products for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 224. 189. Ays are the previous question is ordered. Th
This crisis. This Opioid Crisis that has taken hold starting in Rural America and you do such a great job of telling the story maybe i could begin by asking you why the title dope sick. What is dope sick mean . Its kind of an inyourface title. We need a reality check on how bad this issue is gotten. I think a lot of our leaders and a lot of people in our country still dont have. Dope sick is the word that her number number from users. It is the word they use to describe the very painful withdrawal when they cant get the opioids that they are now addicted to. Its like the worst flu times a hundred. His diarrhea, vomiting, nauseating restless leg and somebody early in the book says, at the end of the journey, you are not doing drugs to get high, you just doing it not to be dope sick. I was in importance concept. The people and get. Says not only to get that but try to not get sick. In an ironic way. Right you started out this journey as a reporter in virginia. You discovered that there w
Commissioner president loftus id like to call roll is commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner mazzuco commissioner dejesus commissioner wong commissioner melara ask excused commissioner president loftus we have quorum also with us the intern chief of Police Toney Chaplin and joyce hicks. Okay. Good evening and welcome to the wednesday, november 2, 2016, Police Commission meeting im going to make changes to the agenda given the length of the agenda a long closed session handling discipline matters one and 2 to our meeting next week and go ahead and start with general Public Comment. So Public Comment will be two minutes given the length of the agenda and the anticipated number of speeches. Item 3 the public is welcome to address the commission on items not on tonights agenda but within the jurisdiction of the commission. With respect to agenda items, please direct your questions to the commission as a whole and not to individua
The Richmond District on 20th and geary the reason he decided to run for the board of supervisors a few years ago i saw one of my neighbors hit by a tar car with no traffic signal it should have had a traffic signal and no traffic signal there today, we still have one dozen drshgsz on geary without a traffic signal i think that is irresponsible on behalf of our elected officials not to make safety a priority another issue in the district that i feel needs to be addressed is crime it has gotten oversee over the 40 years in the district you see more graffiti on the streets, we see litter on the sidewalk and items left on the curve maintenance for infrastructure as deratted our parks are not maintenance and roads and sidewalks what will i do as your supervisor i will reprioritize the issues weve discussed and make at translated a priority and make sure we have Traffic Signals on all blocks if the geary tunnel to ocean beach and timed so traffic can move across geary and pedestrian can cro
[gavel] good morning and welcome to a special meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for today thursday september 29. I am the chair of the committee. Supervisor aaron peskin. Joined to my right vice chair norman yee and to my left president london breed and were joined by david campos. Our clerk is erica major. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. Items acted upon today anybody r will be on the eakt 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you read the first and only item for todays meeting . Yes. Item 1 is ordinance amending the administrative code to create the neighborhood crime unit in the mrs. And activated with the controller certifies that the department is at full staffing level mandated in the charter. Thank you supervisor yee is the sponsor of this ordinance. The floor is yours supervisor. Thank you c