Dublin. And they have been a little slower than the rest. Reporter but today is their day, reggie. They can now sit out here at this table at this restaurant and have a meal. How does that sound . Alameda county is slowly reopening. And you can also go inside a store and shop here in Alameda County, no more curbside pickup. Stores must cut their customers in half. The number of customers, not literally their customers. They will only be allowed to let in half of their capacity. So people can properly distance from each other. And also allow religious services with 100 people in attendance. And outdoor workouts can reopen and dog parks also are reopening. And alameda just now entering phase two of reopenig. And Health Officials say they had a surge of covid19 cases that forced them to slow down on reopening, but Officials Say hospitalizations have stabilized over the next two weeks. They are emphasizing that we arent out of the woods yet. This pandemic is not over, we need to be careful
Sunday night at 9 p. M. Eastern on after words. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im kelly mccutcheon, president of the Public Policy foundation, like to welcome everyone to our february leadership breakfast. Most importantly, id like to welcome our elected officials that are here today. We appreciate your service. We have got a great event lined up for you today on an issue thats very near and dear to our heart, and its a key part of something we feel very strongly about, economic opportunity. And to introduce our speaker, i want to bring up our Vice President , anita dodd. [applause] good morning. Im a little shorter and closer to the mic, so i hope you can hear me a little better. Id like to to welcome dick or or carpenter today, but i dick carpenter today, but i want to tell you how much we have worked over the years with the institute for justice. I think their motto is we sue government [laughter] and that sounds pretty good to me. But dick is, dick is coauthor of bottlethe
Public policy foundation and i would like to welcome everyone to your breakfast. We have a great event lined up on an issue that is near and dear to our hearts and a key part of something we feel strongly about and that is coming activity. I want to bring up our Vice President , anita dos. [applause] good morning. I am a little shorter and closer to the mic so i hope you can hear me a little better. I would like to welcome dick carpenter today but i want to tell you how much we have worked with the institute of justice over the years. I think otheir motto is we sue government. But dick is coauthorer of bottleneckers. Dont miss your opportunity to get a copy. It is excellent and shocking. Bottleneck is gaining the government for power and private profit. He is director of Strategic Research for the institute for justice where he worked with staff and attorneys to define, implement, and manage social Science Research related to the institutes mission. He is an experienced researcher. He
Im kelly mccutchen, president of the foundation and i would like to welcome everyone to our february breakfast. Most importantly i would like to welcome our elected officials here today. We appreciate your service. We have a great event lined up today on issues that are near and dear to our hearts and its a key part of something we feel strongly about as Economic Opportunity and to introduce our speaker i will bring about Vice President , anita dodd. [applause]. Good morning. Im a little shorter and closer to the microphone, so i hope you can hear me a little better. I would like to welcome dick carpenter today, but i want to tell you first have much we have worked over the years with the institute for justice. I think about it with we sue government that sounds pretty good to me, but dick is a coauthor of bottleneckers. Dont miss your opportunity to get a copy. Its excellent and shocking. Bottleneckers gaming the government for power and private profit hes also director of Strategic R
Bills werent getting passed; and those that did get passed were frequently drafted behind closed doors with republicans and many rankandfile democrats shut out of the process, which of course means that the American Peoples voices were shut out of the process. When republicans duke control, we know when republicans took control, we knew that getting things working again had to be our first priority. We opened up debate so senators from both parties could make their voices heard. We started drafting legislation in committee again so that bills were the result of discussion and compromise instead of being dictated by Democrat Party leaders. And we got the Senate Passing real substantial legislation again a bawrkts appropriations a balanced budget, Appropriations Bills, the first major energy bill since the bush administration, the first Significant Education reform since 2002. Mr. President , im particularly proud of two bills that the committee i chair the Commerce Committee worked on a