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Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order, welcome to the june 29, 2020, meeting. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. And with me is vicechair, Catherine Stefani and supervisor gordon mar. And our clerk today is victor young and id like to thank sfgovtv terror staffin for stas meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members are participating in the meeting today remotely. Each member will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the stream. And each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And the opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 1 408 4189388. And, again, that is 1 408 4189388. And the meeting i. D. Is 146 661
[inaudible conversations] id like to call this hearing to order. This hearing will be a little bit different. It is perhaps the first congressional hearing held during the extenuating circumstances of the pandemic. We have a sparse crowd and expanded bias the committees hearings to the guidelines put forth by the rules committee and attending physician. Id like to thank our members and staff for their patience and understanding as we work through the logistics in holding this hearing a part of the eversight of Intelligence Community. Members will be joining us on a rotating basis throughout the morning. And again this afternoon, as we move to a closed session. Their absence now is not a reflection of the importance they place on this matter. We have asked members to watch as much of the hearings as they can from their offices, only coming into the hearing room to ask questions. Id also like to thank the press corps for your accommodation of the restrictions were facing as we seek to fu
Slowing Global Growth. There were a couple of officials felt it was a close call. Besides casey, president esther george, and bostons rosengren, appears those two were only dissenters. They were in favor of a rate cut last meeting. Several thought cutting rate would better align the fed fund rate with the yield curve. Officials saw trade tensions easing somewhat last meeting, they still view trade tensions, slowing Global Growth as prominent risks to the outlook. They are monitoring those carefully. They expect to continue to weighing on manufacturing, Business Investment. Theyre watching to see whether that spills into the job market and whether that can hurt consumer spending. Speaking of the job market. There was robust discussion on that. Officials were talking about whether the pace and slowdown of the job market is a sort of a natural occurrence that could relate to full employment or whether it is because there is a loss in momentum. Also on a note, very interestingly, fed Offic
Hearing for President Bidens hearing to hold for secretary analysis in the security department. Youre watching live coverage on cspan 3. All right, everyone could take their seats. I call this hearing to order and welcome mr. With wenstein, great to see you, welcome, mrs. Elizabeth and her daughters, grateful for her service. Understand your daughter ellie at Berkeley Law School ask watching remotely and i would ask, ken, that you give us evidentiary proof that she did tune in for these couple hours and hopefully if watching now, appropriately embarrassed so well see in the aftermath. Before we begin formally though, i want to commend you on your excellent judgment as evidenced by your both attending uva and living in the common wealth. Well question your choice of law school though, but congratulations on your nomination to serve as the under secretary for intelligence and analysis or ina at the department of Homeland Security, this position sits at a critical juncture between the ana