going to stop details are still sketchy but here's the chairman of the national development and reform commission. you know when it's on we will protect and boost the system of investment for foreign companies we will ensure the legal protection of intellectual property belonging to foreign investors you know administrative measures will be taken for forced technology transfer this should provide a more powerful and comprehensive legal guarantee that once legislation is passed will fully comply. so is change really on the way with me to discuss this is a must count he's an economic analyst from the mcconnell institute of china studies here but then welcome back is this the big breakthrough we've been waiting for i think we're going to have to wait and see about for implementation china has quite generous laws in other respects but they're not always implemented or not always followed and when have to wait for that the law does look good in certain senses what we've seen so far is a is a draft which will be discussed for home friday in an attempt potentially put into law monday and the law has sev

dispute details are still sketchy but here's the chairman of the national develop development and reform commission. speaking wednesday. shooting the way is on to do we will protect and boost the system of investment for foreign companies we will ensure the legal protection of intellectual property belonging to foreign investors the e.u. sheens no administrative measures will be taken for a forced technology transfer this should provide a more powerful and comprehensive legal guarantee that once legislation is passed will fully comply so opted out. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the organization for economic cooperation and development has cut its global growth forecast for the coming two years the group warned the trade disputes and uncertainty over brags that would hit world commerce and businesses the o.e.c.d. is predicting three point three percent global growth this year all by three point four percent next year. for more nissan boss carlos goannas left prison after being granted bail of almost nine million dollars goannas charged with underreporting his salary f

the european commission says it will wait until it's only presents its reform program next month before taking action against what it calls rome's excessive economic imbalances commission says high government debt and weak productivity risk for all the e.u. members commissioners rejected italy's draft twenty nine thousand budget in october rome's populist coalition government wants to finance election promises with new debts. italy's fashion industry is the world's undisputed number one it brings in some seventy billion euros every year and the eyes of the world are on events like milan fashion week. but these days italy's getting attention of a less welcome kind. the european commission isn't looking at trendy clothes but serious economic problems. a message to interleave is also familiar that these are quite strong that it must take steps to improve the quality of food for the finances increase the efficiency of its public administration and also of justice system and hence its business environment and strengthen its legal market as well as the financial system the biggest problem for

currently the commission that co-chair is the political reform and civility commission. washington, ngs in other parts of country. we have former members of senators, ambassadors, eople from grassroots, political reform groups. spectrums. we issued this and have get mendations on how to through this environment. host: we are coming off the in est government shutdown a tory and stpeuldeficits over trillion dollars and tracking a showdown over separation of a potential override of the president's veto, yet in you are rt you say optimistic about keeping partisanship or at least the of minimizing partisanship. optimistic? guest: we have been through these trends before where things hand and voters bring it back. what has really happened the evolvedyears is we have starting with the voters in where entary behavior they vote for the party versus the person. if you go back 30 to 40 years whose parties on a basis other than philosophy. philosophical of alignment and when members come to congress as voters are voting not person, they vote the party line if you will. the inority pa

commission. fort the gold standard redistricting reform? versus an commission algorithm. is there some other thing that might create fairness? mr. schwarzenegger: i'm sure there are many ways. in californiaucky and very fortunate. it just shows the great job that they have done in writing this initiative. it is so complex. it is kind of will improve. there was independent auditing 60, 20the pick independence and they gave it to the legislative leaders and the majority and minority leaders. this is how it went through the process. they had to pick the rest of the six. now, we have five democrats, five republicans and five independence. it has been so well done. for someone who wants the redistricting model as close as ours. job.did a really great in michigan, they did not going in that direction, but they went close to that direction. as long as we get that power away from the politicians and give it to ordinary people that are in the interest of the people instead of politicians, i think we are on a good role now. i think that california has that other states are now inte

governor schwarzenegger, you mentioned the california citizens commission and at that moment, is it the gold standard for redistricting reform? why go with a citizens commission versus an algorithm? the are talking about technology being so good, or some other thing that might create fairness. surechwarzenegger: i am that there are many things that would work. very tell you, we were lucky in california, and i think it shows you the great job but common cause has done, because the way they selected this group, it was so complex. but kind of bullet-proof. first, it was people that signed up to become part of the commission, then there was an independent auditing panel that picked 60, 20 from the democrats come attorney from the republicans, 20 from the independents. then, they give it to the legislative leaders, minority and majority leaders to take two of each away, and they went through that process until they narrowed it down to eight. rest eight had to pick the of the six. now you have five democrats, five republicans, and for independence. independents. and in the decisions they way they drew the districts has been so wel

we won not only the redistricting reform and an independent commission, but also open prime ears. so that has had a tremendous impact on -- primaries. so that has had a tremendous impact on california. and the republicans are very angry. first, it was the democrats and the republicans that were very angry. nancy pelosi spent $4 million against us to redistricting reform. and she was -- was telling everyone, don't go there, this is just a power grab of snitsle. he just wants to do for the republicans and stuff like that. that was the opinion. but then when it was all done, and we had now an independent commission, and common cause, of course, was very helpful in throwing the initiative and all that, kathy, thank you very much for being here, common cause. so they drew the district lines and so what happens was the first election after it passed was 2012. what happened, four republicans lost their seats. and four democrats gained seats. the following election, in 2014, one republican lost their seat, and then one democrat gained the seat. and then 2016 it was even. and in 2018 seven

reform and for fairness. so i urge you to reappoint her to the police commission. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. next speaker, please? >> good morning. th thanthank you for allowing me to speak. i'm here to speak on behalf of cindy alias. i'm the assistant manager at glide's harm reduction programs. i met cindy when we were working together on the lead program. as a result of the work that we did together, i found that she is a passionate and tireless advocate for the city's most vulnerable citizens, the homeless, people of color, people who are drug-involved. she has been a great ally with glide, and particularly with the harm reduction team. she understands and shares the compassion that is at the heart of harm reduction, and that is very important to the citizens that she serves. she has always gone above and beyond in her support for social justice for the poor, the disenfranchised, and for people of color. she has always gone above and beyond in her support for glide's mission of inclusivity and compassion for all. and i have come to believe, in my work with cindy, that she is a social just

thank you thank you and now the president of the commission shanklin ladies and gentlemen since that they have to reform that the position of the twenty seven members of the commission has been united and unequivocal we have worked tirelessly to negotiate to be told that we. have done everything we could to help get it over the finishing line we were asked for clarifications in december we gave them we were are sure. we gave them i was asked for the reassurances last month that will notably with regard to the backstop i gave them. and so i have to well come to of today the twenty seven leaders indorsed the legal. funding clarification for truancy is the prime minister. who disclosed this computes to pull back to reason no more than we can do if. we. did agreement will be adopted photos of come. the middle minister quickly got leave to simply put could lose even fewer to be called the. sort of the next new deal. the producer you were listening to just a moment ago at the european commission president drunk or younger or he was speaking in english years now over to french and right before him was the euro

commission. that is noted in our d.r. staff report that under the pending d.r. reform guideline, it would not have been fwrouth brought to the commission. the commission did hear as a discretionary review and considered the tree issues raised and in their motion or not taking d.r. and approving the project, they noted the issues that were raised by the appellant and found no changes were needed to address the appellant's issues regarding the tree. that was something that the planning commission did consider and did actually note in their discretionary review action memo. i did review the arborist's report provided by the permit holder, while i am not an arborist as you know, i don't read it the same way the appellant does, quite simply. that is all i can say. i am available for any questions. thank you. >> thank you. mr. duffy? no? is there any public comment on this item? okay. no public comment, so commissioners, the mater is submitted. >> commissioners? >> after watching the video of last week's hearing as well as being present for this hearing, i think the bar for

bill, including checking to public campaign-finance reform, objecting to some of the restructuring that would happen at the federal elections commission. there are number of things he doesn't like. he's concerned about disclosing donors and saying that impinge is on free speech. so even know the trump administration said it would be feasible today, i don't think is going to make it at far -- as far as trump's desk. >> you can read her reporting on twitter. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks so much for having me. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, president of the institute for free speech, david keating, will discuss a bill by house democrats to reform campaign finance law. in california democratic congressman mike thompson will talk about gun violence prevention legislation in congress. then the latest report on , alzheimer's in the united states including the prevalence, deaths and cost of care with chief program officer of the alzheimer's association, joanne pike. be sure to watch washington journal. live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. j

i believe the ethics commission has a duty to reform the city government, to create a balanced government by allowing the public form of government so that our social problems can solve effectively by a balanced party like republican, libertyarrian, and independent. but san francisco has one party, democrats, who are paid by superpacs. i am here to ask you to stop corruption for the last many meetings that i have been coming in here. for years, san francisco has been controlled and bought. it's about time for you, ethics commission, to stop corruption and fraud. you were elected to stop public elected official corruption. and for the last many years, california has been controlled solely by many of the party, democrats. san francisco is about balanced governments and decent parties. i urge you to do something so our government can be reformed and run a government by the people, but not by the few elite and who bought super pac and paid for the electoral office to be in office. >> chair chiu: thank you. >> and to be the correction, because you obviously do it on purpose, i've never said th

biggest economy is failing to get its debt under control the commission says that rome has effectively stopped every meaningful economic reform. pension reforms have been practically reversed by the populist left right government and the growth will be tiny with just zero point two percent projected for this year low productivity highest structural unemployment and the ticking time bombs in the vaults of italian banks are doing nothing to brighten the outlook. with annual revenues of nearly seventy billion euros italian fashion industry is the global number one. that's why over the past few days during milan fashion week the eyes of the fashion world were on the latest collections on the catwalk. but when the european commission looks at italy these days it doesn't see trendy clothes but serious economic problems message to interleave is also familiar with the disease quite strong that it must take steps to improve the quality of its public finances increase the efficiency of this but we can use ration and also of justice system and hence its business environment and strengthen its labor market as well as the financial system

currently the commission that co-chair is the political reform and civility commission. ington, ngs in other parts of country. we have former members of senators, ambassadors, eople from grassroots, political reform groups. spectrums. we issued this and have get mendations on how to through this environment. host: we are coming off the in est government shutdown a tory and stpeuldeficits over trillion dollars and tracking a showdown over separation of a potential override of the president's veto, yet in you are rt you say optimistic about keeping partisanship or at least the of minimizing partisanship. optimistic? guest: we have been through these trends before where things hand and voters bring it back. what has really happened the evolvedyears is we have starting with the voters in where entary behavior they vote for the party versus the person. if you go back 30 to 40 years whose parties on a basis other than philosophy. philosophical of alignment and when members come to congress as voters are voting not person, they vote the party line if you will. the inority party

reform should not stop here. we will seek to remove board members across state government when they have conflicts of interest and we will look to sunset and consolidate boards and commissions where there is overlap and duplication. this is common sense reform. my budget will prioritize funding to continue performance audits of the top 12 agencies and we will recall the 30 million given to the health department after the agency misrepresented there financial standings for the legislature. we will reimagine state government so our customers, oklahoma tax payers are the primary focus. this is why i place a special emphasis on my administration on the digital transformation of state agencies. today i call for the legislature to fund a 20 million-dollar grant programs to where agencies can apply to receive funds to bring their services into the 21st century and make government more customer centered and efficient. imagine digital driver's licenses that are real id compliant and imagine titles available electronically and one site to obtain occupational licenses and one site to pay taxes. it is time to get it done. it is time to improve our government d plus ranking in digital t

commission. he was a political reform consultant and since june 2014 where he was familiar with political reform act and worked on lobbyist program, helped state agency develop conflict interest code. he's jumping in and hit the ground running. we're delighted to have him experience as well. i think you know that jeff zumwalt is our new senior investigative analyst. he's been with the commission for about year and a half i believe. he has been doing lots of work in a number of complex issue areas for investigation and enforce amount program. jeff also assumed responsibility senior investigative analyst on february 25th. he was a detective with the police department at virginia tech. he also had worked on major public embezzlement investigations. amy lee, she couldn't be here. she had a parent teacher concentrate today. you know her as auditor with the commission. she went through the hiring process and is more new principle program manager for audits. we're excited having her help us develop that program to the next level. we have lot of work to do. lobbying audits as well as campaign audits. yo

discuss a number of topics including migration and asylum reform but crucially they formally rejected a new blacklist drawn up by the european commission last month which would have added to an existing list of states which is seen not to be doing enough to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism and some of the new names on that list included saudi arabia and since then the saudi king has written to leaders expressing his worries over that potential move the americans have voiced their concerns and now unanimously e.u. governments have said they're not going to support the new list they say it's because it wasn't done in the right way but there has been a lot of pressure a lot of lobbying behind the scenes of course there are commercial interests for many use states in terms of weapons sales to saudi arabia the e.u. justice commissioner self in the last few hours has hit back saying that they the you governments have talked the talk after the things like the palomar papers scandal after terrorist attacks in europe about getting tough on these problems and they need to start taking measures which have teeth as she put it

that i am leading, the restoring integrity to americans elections act, which would reform the federal election commission, enable it to weed out campaign finance abuse, and hold those who skirt the rules accountable. it includes the honest ads act, my bipartisan bill -- could i have 30 more seconds? the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. kilmer: thank you. i appreciate it. it includes the honest ads act, my bipartisan bill that would shine a light on the murky world of online political advertising. by requiring digital ads to meet the same disclosure requirements as print or broadcast ads. americans deserve to know who's paying for political ads that thee see online. they deserve to know the nation's election watchdog is back on the beat. they deserve to have their voices heard in congress, again. that's why this bill is important. that's why i urge my colleagues to support this bill. and i yield back. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from -- the gentleman from illinois. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to now recognize my good friend from ken

they commissioned a blue-ribbon panel on juvenile justice reform. in a statement she said, well that has been talk of shutting down juvenile hall, it is important that before we make any decisions we look at the system as a whole. it is critical that we bring everyone to the table, that we do the work, and that we have answers as we make changes to the system. >>> the criminal case against the men charged in the warehouse fire is set to go to trial, the judge rejected the defense motion to dismiss the case against the owners. the two men face 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the fire in oakland back in december 2016. defense attorneys unsuccessfully argued that potential evidence was dumped or destroyed when debris from the warehouse was cleared. >>> get ready to pay more to cross the golden gate bridge. how much you can pay, and when you will see the changes happen, coming up. >>> the second day of ncaa tournament, later in sports. who most likely busted the racket. >>> young boy is hit by an suv while riding his scooter to

and then it allows the commission to overrule the nonpartisan staff, if necessary. we need reform at the f.e.c. this amendment is part of it. i credit the gentleman for offering it and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from california's time has expired. the gentleman from minnesota. mr. phillips: i have no additional speakers, mr. chair, at this time. and i'm prepared to close. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. phillips: oh. i want to thank representative sarbanes for his tireless work in bringing this important legislation to the floor. and to chairman mcgovern for making my amendment in order. and with that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chair. again, i have a problem with the underlying bill and the f.e.c. issue. you know, it's not that hard to be bipartisan when we send bulk mail in the house. it may take a little longer, it may be a little more difficult. but you know what, bipartisanship works. there's a reason for i

commission who issued which has issued another warning to get their act together with reforms.turkey as well where more and more million as having to sell the villas after the currency crisis wealthy arabs are snapping them up because they come with. some much more a bit later thanks i'll be back at the top of the next hour thanks for being with us. for three. four journalists to discuss the topic of. a summit between donald trump. brokendown meters failed to strike a deal for trading concessions on the. the sanctions for concrete denuclearization measures so what next find out hundred. sixty minutes. every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the. ricotta is in germany to learn german why not learn with them simple online on your mobile and free shop w z e learning course nikos fake german meetings see. top. picks and really begin to. really know their stuff. groups with because boning stephanie. kennedy checked with musicians from around the world to. make grooves every week on t.w. . book players. table. stage control. in the

commission study what went wrong. is there anything we can learn? any reforms that should be imposed? what happened to the studies of three mile island and what recommendations were made? afterlker: a short time the accident, president carter formed a commission to study the effects and the accident. it was chaired by the president of dartmouth college. undertook a major investigation of the causes and effects of the accident and reported to president carter that november. the commission was appointed in april and submitted its final report in november. sponsored its own investigation, which was headed by a prominent attorney. did extensive investigations of the causes and consequences of the accident. and reported to the nrc. both of these reports were published. both of them have thousands of pages of supporting documentation and material. what they concluded was there has been a lot of foulups by the nrc, the nuclear industry, and others. they proved conclusively that no one was well-prepared for an accident such as occurred at three mile island. they made a series of recommendation

that i am leading, the restoring integrity to americans elections act, which would reform the federal election commission, enable it to weed out campaign finance abuse, and hold those who skirt the rules accountable. it includes the honest ads act, my bipartisan bill -- could i have 30 more seconds? the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. kilmer: thank you. i appreciate it. it includes the honest ads act, my bipartisan bill that would shine a light on the murky world of online political advertising. by requiring digital ads to meet the same disclosure requirements as print or broadcast ads. americans deserve to know who's paying for political ads that thee see online. they deserve to know the nation's election watchdog is back on the beat. they deserve to have their voices heard in congress, again. that's why this bill is important. that's why i urge my colleagues to support this bill. and i yield back. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from -- the gentleman from illinois. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to now recognize my good friend from ken

homeless coordinating board meeting more recently, and the police commission requested sfpd to work with the coalition and community reformers on reforming 311 and 911 triage. no progress has been made. [please stand by] >> i think jeff mentioned something like 27 of thesen campment resolution teams had occurred. these do somewhat follow these strategies, but as you've seen out of the huge numbers presented here, that is not the norm. that is a unique set of circumstances where they're following those guidelines, so i'll turn it over to jennie now. >> clerk, do you have the other handout to do the -- we'll just do the same thing where we manually put the presentation on the thing because the -- something in the computer isn't working. supervisor mandelman asked us to present on safe camping, sometimes referred to as sanctioned encampments. we figured the best way to do it is three different threads where we look at what's the best terms in removing encampmen encampments and sanctioned encampments. when we're looking at humane approaches to encampments, we can talk about it as two tales. we have a great model that i wanted to

reforms proven to work. automatic voter registration , small donor matching, redistricting commissions, early voting. it is fitting this is the very first produced in the congress today. i will focus on title eight ethics reform for the federal officers and employees. the response of the guard rails over a number of years are a strong first step to restore accountable and ethical government. we have long assumed all presidential administrations would follow long-standing ethics practices and ideals not required by law. for example, following precedent over the last 40 some years to publicly release tax returns and voluntary comply with conflict of interest laws that apply to other executive branch employees by divesting from potentially conflicting assets to keep them in a blind trust. striving to avoid the appearance of improper undue influence in -- in the formation of policy. striving to fully enforce ethics laws. firstly, these commonsense practices the presidents for both parties on for decades can no longer be taken for granted. this means new laws are needed to compel a commitment for ethics an

year reform agenda that the that the military government put in place and that the next government of the government for the next twenty years have to stick to and there is an independent commission which is also appointed by the military which is going to keep a close eye on that. talent has been waiting for the snow a long time as you said before it's been postponed again and again house fair and free of an election country actually hope for. these elections might be free but they're definitely not fair just keep in mind the framework that i that i just laid out that that's one thing and then another thing the political parties that are running for seats in in this election they haven't been allowed to campaign until mid december of last year while the military government has been nonstop touring the country handing out money advertising their political platform and on top of that the military dictator has a t.v. show every friday that has to be aired on every t.v. channel in the country it's mandatory so you can see that the playing field is not level in these elections at all nicole thank you. and some of the other stories making news around the world. britain's sunday times

creating jobs, not destroying them, and to reform our institutions so that more workers have an ownership stake in their sweat equity. we will appoint a new commission on california's workforce & future of work. we will bring together leaders from labor and business - both the public and private sectors. their assignment is to come up with new ideas to expand worker opportunity without extinguishing innovation or flexibility. california is proud to be home to technology companies determined to change the world. but companies that make billions of dollars collecting, curating and monetizing our personal data have a duty to protect it. consumers have a right to know and control how their data is being used. i applaud this legislature for passing the first-in-the-nation digital privacy law last year. >> [ applause ] >>but california's consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data. and so i've asked my team to develop a proposal for a new data dividend for californians, because we recognize that your data has value and it belongs to you. now, we've covered a lot of ground today, but there is so much more that deser

constitutional reform of some college or some kind of some god or a biblical blow finish what they're not finish i don't want to do that anymore. minister in november the human rights commission of the council of europe wrote to the senate and the congress of deputies pressing for serious amendments to the so-called law on citizens' safety i know that your government promised meaningful changes to this law. but you haven't delivered them have you i mean video in this. concert and he was not complaining at all and he said that this pain is usually considered it i mean that they didn't want them performing according with human rights law. so there was no course is a little you didn't read the letter was sent to you but they had an interview with that they went with them and. i don't think there is criticism about the functioning of the spanish review but you didn't you didn't change the law did you you promised meaningful changes to you haven't i don't know exactly what you're talking about but the general terms their consideration the. concert will make about the spain system are very good what the commissioner wrote was in his letter i find it disturbing that according to the

the msd commission which outlined a series of recommendations to approve -- improve security at florida schools. i support the recommendations and i ask that you enact them into law. these reforms are a testament to the tenacity, courage and character of the families of the parkland victims. the hard work of those like hunter pollock, who i believe is here with us today, and many others have already helped save lives and has made our state even stronger. they should be commended for their efforts. [ applause ] i've gotten to know a number of families and one thing that's stuck with me is something i've heard a number of them say, that this was the most preventable school shooting maybe in history. when i took office many of the parkland families felt there had not been any accountability at the school district or at the sheriff's office for the string of failures that culminated in the massacre so i acted by successful petitioning for a statewide grand jury that will investigate school security fall lures in broward county as well as other districts. i also suspended scott israel as the sheriff of broward and replaced him with gregory tony. this suspension will come before the