mrs. solomon and the other speakers in the room. otherwise, let's go to our queue. madam chair. we are checking to see if there are callers in the queue. madam chair. there are no further callers. okay. item number two is closed agenda item number six, which is update discussion and possible action regarding the march 2024 ethics commission ballot measure, focus on gifts, training and other city ethics laws. this was a continue item from the last meeting and our acting policy and legislative affairs manager, mr. michael canning, is here to give us a very, very brief update. and any actions that we may need to take today. thank you, chair lee. just a brief update that since the last meeting, staff solicited feedback from commissioners and made revisions to the draft and attachment one. based on that feedback. as with the previous version, the city attorney's office has also reviewed the attached version and confirmed it does not raise political activity concerns and as was recommended last month, staff recommends the commission vote to formally authorize the chair to submit a bal

mr. solomon, do you have anything to add to that? >> i thought mr. squires gave a very nice summary of a basic concept and how it applies in the engineering area. i would have there has been similar empirical work showing this match affects in law and on law students eventually passing the bar exam but there has been for the work conducted by eleanor barber showing that it affects minority students ability to obtain graduate degrees and go on to careers in academia but finally, i would have there is nothing that is unique about mismatch effects to the racial context when peter are sitting at two and his colleagues at duke university were setting this match they -- also tended to drift away from science and engineering, because they tended to come in with lower average academic credentials than their peers. this isn't about race, this is about differences in preparation affecting your likelihood of success in a particular curriculum. >> thank you very much for adding that about the legacy admissions. i think that's useful. mr. zell come talk about how

mr. morris, we don't know. meanwhile, john solomon reporting that no one, not even joe biden's brother, jim, seemed to know why this individual and others were potentially giving hunter so much money, but now, of course, house investigators, they would like to know more. they have now requested an interview from the attorney who they say may have bank rolled hunter's lifetime for years, so is this going to have any implications for hunter's tax case or joe biden him. here with the very latest, an investigative reporter, editor and chief, john solomon, i know this guy's name keeps coming up and di read your investigative piece, and they seem to be claiming on their end that somehow kevin morris, if, in fact, he was giving money to hunter biden that, in fact, he's a victim in all of this, and a victim of harassment, a victim of docking, which should never happen so i'm trying to understand, has the oversight committee verified that money was specifically given, have they traced the bank records, for example? >> well, one of the most imp

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solomon, just the news.com. than monday just tk you. thi >> here with more on all of this, house oversight committee chairmane ov james co. mr.chairman, i know a lot o of people have been pushingll you and pressuring you torlier. to call or subpoena these witnesses earlier. >> now, you hau had and an initt yesterday. that list has now expanded to how maneoply people that you have subpoenaed. >> well, we have well, almoste u ten people subpoenaed. we've requested interviewses with another ten, and we still have a few more to go. so at the the end of the day, going to be asking around exo dozen people that have a great deal of knowledge about just exactly what thee pe bidens were doing and who the people were that were wiring the money from the foreign countries to the bidens. we're going to be talkin be tal to every one of them and trying to connect the dots with the evidence we've already accumulated, which is primarily bank records. well, let's talk about thel shell corporations. let's talk about you'vcorporate identified ten biden family members, if you include president joer inclue biden, the benefited financially with dea