Kissli. President yee all right. Good afternoon and welcome to the august 11, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I hope my supervisors had a full week off last week and was able to get some rest. As you know, were going to be doing a lot of work in august. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, who record the meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board are participating to the same extent as if they were present in their chamber. The board knows that the Novel Coronavirus has made participation is more acute. Your w
Kissli. President yee all right. Good afternoon and welcome to the august 11, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I hope my supervisors had a full week off last week and was able to get some rest. As you know, were going to be doing a lot of work in august. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, who record the meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board are participating to the same extent as if they were present in their chamber. The board knows that the Novel Coronavirus has made participation is more acute. Your w
Of the outofcontrol spending we saw in 2008 and 2009 with Bank Bailouts and stimulus bills. We were upset with the outofcontrol growth of government. Instarted doing tea parties february of 2009. On aprile on tax day 15, 2009. We didar in september, the taxpayer march in d. C. We have had wins and losses. When we look at spending right now in washington, we are concerned. We think it is time to stop the spending we are seeing right now. Holidaypayroll tax which i understand is off the table. I think it would be the right thing to do. Work to help get americans back to work so that they are able to provide for their families. Host the Washington Post headline, u. S. Budget deficit shattered onemonth record in june as spending outpaced revenue by 864 billion. A huge spending increase led to the deficit. The deficit has breached 2. 7 trillion. Do you hold the president responsible . Guest what we are seeing now is largely because of the unprecedented pandemic and the response to the pande
Youre watching live campaig youre watching live campaig were live from wilmington, delaware, where joe biden is expected to speak. Hell be talking about his plans to reopen the economy as the pandemic continues. Looks like theyre running just a little bit behind. This is live coverage on cspan3. Delegate to the 2020 rnc convention. Remind the viewers why you started the tea party delegates. Im an alternate, i wanted to be clear about that. We saw the out of control spending with Bank Bailouts and stimulus bills in 2009. We were upset with the out of control growth of government, and we did one again on tax day and april 15th of 2009, and later that year in september, we did the taxpayer march in d. C. Weve had wins and losses. When we look at the spending in washington, were very concerned about that. We think its time to stop the spending were seeing right now. Im all for a payroll tax holiday, which i understand is off the table. But i still think its the right thing to do. And work
Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl