malma and he suggested i bring it up and that the board sr. that amendment. thank you. >> based on what the appellant has asked, i have a question now for the deputy city attorney, while many of us find what the appellant has asked to be quite sympathetic, under the law that we've passed is that what is in front of us from a jurisdictional standpoint is that we can only consider reductions or adjustments or waivers of the fee if we find that there hasn't been a nexus between the impact of the dwomment in the amount of the fee charged. i'm not sure whether we have discretion beyond that. if i could ask that question to the city attorney? >> john from the city attorney's office, yes, that's correct. the matter before the board today is just the waiver or reduction based on the standard that you indicated. er i think the appellant was making a general request to the board of supervisors that if a board member were interested in sponsoring legislation that would make an amendment to the fee deferral provisions to allow for a later time, that that is something tha

board of governors. an active investigation into allegations of unethical behavior by mr. tomlinson led the senate panel to delay for months. he was never confirmed. later that same year president bush nominated roland na sr*e to u.n. ambassador to the netherlands. at the time he was being investigated by regulators in 30 states for predatory lending. then foreign relations committee chairman republican senator richard lugar consented to a request by democrats that the october -- that october to delay voting on the nominee because of the investigations. senator joseph biden spoke out in favor of the delay, as did senator paul sarbanes who cited -- quote -- "long-standing precedent for delaying the vote until the nominee was 'clear.' he was voted out of investigation, but he was not confirmed by the full senate until the following february, seven months after he was nominated when his company agreed to end the investigations by settling the cases against him. my friend, president obama, who nominated mr. mayorkas, was a member of the foreign relations committee at that time. then he seemed to agree that nominees facing investigation should not receive a vote. a 2006 l.a. times story on mr. narles nominatio