The extent of the crisis cannot be overstated. Six months, over 3m people in the United States have been diagnosed with covid19 and more than 140,000 americans have died. Sadly these numbers will only continue to increase as new covid19 cases are searching all across the nation. I is possible. They also appreciate the chance to bring some ten i ten unseat e Trump Administrations work speed effort. This transparency will be crucial to secure the american Peoples Trust that the vaccine will be made available only once it is proven to be safe and effective. Congress has already taken actions to support these efforts. This spring, congress provided the Vaccine Development and manufacturing of birds and other medical countermeasures. Then two months ago the house passed the heroes act, the comprehensive legislation to strengthen the nations ability to fight the pandemic like altering the Strategic National stockpile and increase funding for Research Development and manufacturing vaccines an
I see the red box. Good morning and welcome to the county Transportation Authority meemeeting. Could you please call the role. role call . We have a quorum. Can we have our next item, please. May i make an announcement about Public Comment . Yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987 and enter access code 2858465 as seen on the screen and follow the system prompts. Once you join, you can listen to the meeting as a participant. Dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practises are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 2, Citizens Advisory Committee report and this is a
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming a public calling comment number. Its available by phone calling the number on your screen, th entering the i. D. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial star followed by 3 to be added to the queue. Turn down your televisi
Get to your thoughts in just a minute. Golda, a Technology Reporter with axios, joining us on the phone to talk about this hearing that will be taking place at noon eastern time on cspan3, on our website cspan. Org, and you can listen on the go with our free cspan radio app. Committee iswhat holding this hearing and why . Is the House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee. They are holding this hearing because they have been having an investigation of the Digital Markets and Big Tech Companies in the past few years and this is a culmination of that investigation. Host why are they investigating these companies . Guest they are investigating these Big Tech Companies, apple, amazon, google, and facebook, because amongst the democrats and some republicans, these there is a feeling that these companies are too big, take up too much of the economy, gobble up competition by acquiring Smaller Companies, and amazons case by both selling products and being a platform, and in apples case ru
Help contain the largest Public Health crisis the nation has faced in over a century. The extent of the crisis cannot be overstated. Six months, over 3m people in the United States have been diagnosed with covid19 and more than 140,000 americans have died. Sadly these numbers will only continue to increase as new covid19 cases are searching all across the nation. I is possible. They also appreciate the chance to bring some ten i ten unseat e Trump Administrations work speed effort. This transparency will be crucial to secure the american Peoples Trust that the vaccine will be made available only once it is proven to be safe and effective. Congress has already taken actions to support these efforts. This spring, congress provided the Vaccine Development and manufacturing of birds and other medical countermeasures. Then two months ago the house passed the heroes act, the comprehensive legislation to strengthen the nations ability to fight the pandemic like altering the Strategic National