>>james bell: >>larry bush: yes, vigorously. >>chair ambrose: so yes, the motion then would be that we will authorize the executive director to submit the budget in compliance with the mayor's office request for 7.5 percent across-the-board. provided however that the commission strongly objects to a reduction in the ethics commission's resources and further provided that we will work to seek additional outside resources to supplement our funding. but communicate what everybody has been talking about in terms of the resolution. and if so, can i have a second to that motion and then can you call the role, mister moderator?is that a second, commissioner lee? thank you and can you call the roll please. >>ronaldcontreraz: a motion has been made and seconded, i will now call the role .[roll call vote] quick's. >>ronald contreraz: that's five votes in the affirmative and zero votes of those, the motion is approved . >>chair ambrose: i'm going to ask for another motion to delegate to the chair and to commissioner chiu to finalize a lett

>>larry bush: we are all tired.had questions about whether or not this program encompasses two kinds of violations which i think are significant that i don't know if they're under a fixed staff, one is independent expenditurecommittees except prohibited contributions . that's an issue that comes up where people are not allowed to give contributions but they get money to an independent expenditure committee that is dedicated to a candidate. is that contemplated in the fixed penalty or without the outside that? >>chair ambrose:make it more clear what illegal activity you are referring to so i understand . >>james bell: they give money to an independent committee stating its purpose is to elect that candidate. but unless someone is going through the records, and determining that some of the donors are prohibited from making contributions, it escapes attention. and there have been no enforcement actions on that basis since this law into effect so i'm thinking that it may be that if you have a fixed penalty thing we will

>>larry bush: ifit's commissioners is a serious issue . >>chair ambrose:did i hear somewhere out there the point that , i'm not sure delarosa's informationprovoked some of the commissioners who'd been on the commission for 24 years or more , did i hear board members suggest that their return limits for commissioners or did i just dream that anyone here that ? go ahead, commissioner busch if you have another question or comment. >>larry bush:that was where i was going at the moment . i think the controller's office has done again another excellent job of getting this information and showing us our roadmap of where to go . >>chair ambrose: i had a few questions if i can interject. first, the recommendation that all departments have written policies precluding what i would call ex parte communications from proposed bettors or proposers on contract or opportunities or leases before the commission, when you presented this matter to the board of supervisors hearing, did any ofthe supervisors say they were going to introduce legislation along tho

>>larry bush: we are all tired.had questions about whether or not this program encompasses two kinds of violations which i think are significant that i don't know if they're under a fixed staff, one is independent expenditurecommittees except prohibited contributions . that's an issue that comes up where people are not allowed to give contributions but they get money to an independent expenditure committee that is dedicated to a candidate. is that contemplated in the fixed penalty or without the outside that? >>chair ambrose:make it more clear what illegal activity you are referring to so i understand . >>james bell: they give money to an independent committee stating its purpose is to elect that candidate. but unless someone is going through the records, and determining that some of the donors are prohibited from making contributions, it escapes attention. and there have been no enforcement actions on that basis since this law into effect so i'm thinking that it may be that if you have a fixed penalty thing we will

>>larry bush: we are all tired. i had questions about whether or not this program encompasses two kinds of violations which i think are significant that i don't know if they're under a fixed staff, one is independent expenditurecommittees except prohibited contributions . that's an issue that comes up where people are not allowed to give contributions but they get money to an independent expenditure committee that is dedicated to a candidate. is that contemplated in the fixed penalty or without the outside that? >>chair ambrose:make it more clear what illegal activity you are referring to so i understand . >>james bell: they give money to an independent committee stating its purpose is to elect that candidate. but unless someone is going through the records, and determining that some of the donors are prohibited from making contributions, it escapes attention. and there have been no enforcement actions on that basis since this law into effect so i'm thinking that it may be that if you have a fixed penalty thing we w

>>larry bush: ifit's commissioners is a serious issue .>>chair ambrose:did i hear somewhere out there the point that , i'm not sure delarosa's informationprovoked some of the commissioners who'd been on the commission for 24 years or more , did i hear board members suggest that their return limits for commissioners or did i just dream that anyone here that ? go ahead, commissioner busch if you have another question or comment. >>larry bush:that was where i was going at the moment . i think the controller's office has done again another excellent job of getting this information and showing us our roadmap of where to go . >>chair ambrose: i had a few questions if i can interject. first, the recommendation that all departments have written policies precluding what i would call ex parte communications from proposed bettors or proposers on contract or opportunities or leases before the commission, when you presented this matter to the board of supervisors hearing, did any ofthe supervisors say they were going to introduce legislation along thos

the department of justice, i worked at the department of justice in the bush administration working for tremendous men, larryes comey, chris wray and robert mueller. and the justice department needs to be able to do its work. they are the people's justice department and they need to be the attorneys general, the attorney general for the people of the united states, not the private attorney for the president of the united states. so, i'm happy to hear him say that. and you know, as a child of a law enforcement officer, my dad was a new york city police officer for 30 years, my grandfather as well. it's also refreshing to hear him talk about community policing and police officers wanting to be a support to communities. we need to give them the tools to be able to do that, not to continue to make them military operations but to make them support and protect the communities in which they work, whether that's through education, whether that's through programming. you know, i am in favor of ion na presley's bill to get rid of qualified immunity, which has really been a blanket under which police officers can opera

larry summers. i would like to quote from the bush administration, they are all supportive of the $1 trillion stimulus the way. and we should also be clear. those facts are not accurate. this is mainly, predominantly pandemic related. the unemployment, direct payments. that is just not accurate. opening schools, direct payments. we can go one by one. the total amount for his stance is 350 billion, of which 160 billion is police, fire, which by the way, trump and mcconnell approved. >> sandra: it is never good when somebody starts off and debate, "you are a friend of mine, but." it does appear that a major roadblock to the wish list, including the federal minimum wage of $15. i mean, the ap reporting that the effort on that front is facing unexpected roadblocks from biden himself. >> just so we are clear, you and i spoke all during the election. i have always been for a living wage. i believe that the minimum wage is too low, but it has to be much more based on geography then it does just -- >> sandra: let's have that discussion and not talk about it being a federal minimum wage because we have to go b

larry: the "wall street journal" editorial today blamed texas in part, too much reliance on wind, too much reliance on those juicy tax credits that came around w. bushar more? >> we should. we have to make, we have to take away the regula la story regime that we're currently operating under and make it more efficient and more inexpensive to build, larry. it's a great form of energy, and it happens to be carbon-free. larry: greatme stuff. former energy secretary dan brouillette, thank you very much. all right, folks, up next, west stvirginia senator joe manchin s now the deciding vote, apparently, for president biden's progressive-left agenda. so what are people saying? we're going to go out there and find out. find out. more (sam) gamers! he who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. take fuzzywuzzy28. blamin' losses on a laggy network. only one or two. verizon 5g ultra wideband is here, the fastest 5g in the world, with ultra... low... lag! stop blaming the network and start becoming the best gamers in the ga-- that escalated quickly. (sam) 5g ultra wideband, now in parts of many cities. this is 5g built right. only from veriz

bush administration and the trump administration it was used for tax t cuts. in that scenario it's priced over a 10-year period of time. i till think had we not had covid, larry that would have made what was our trillion and a half static potentially be positive, ifnt not at least neutral. being used for things like cutting expenses, balanceed budgets, i think we've got to be very careful this using this as a spending tool. again, my view is i believe in the congressional process. i'd prefer to see general spending be done on a normal basis. larry: got it. last question. secretary yellen is appointing a so-called climate czar at the treasury department. you didn't have one. i'm not questioning her right to do that, and i'm not questioning her appointee, sarah bloom raskin, who was a deputy treasury secretary, very qualified. but this is, this theme of, you know, climate change policy seems to be affecting the entire biden administration. and i just wondered what you thought about that. are we getting ready for carbon tax increases? for big bank regulatory issues, stress test on climate, no loans to energy companies? how do you see this? this is a novelty for