Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. He has been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, he borders with the great state of ohio, lake erie and in minnesota, we border on lake superior. Id like to thank all members of our subcommittee for all contributions and especially the way in which continue our tradition of nonpartisan work, to Work Together on issues that affect Indian Country. Im also grateful for the leadership
Office. And creating a task force that they said would reimagine public safety. Councilmember taylor said there would be a 15member Task Force Made of nominees that come from each district of oakland. Theyre also open to having youth members be a part of the team. Next week they will vote on this task force. Before these items were decided, Public Comments stretched on for nearly three hours. Defund the opd by an additional 1. 4 million this year and form a task force which must be led by the most impacted Community Members . I was really appalled. Defund opd was the main message from speakers. Those exact words were graffitied on mayor schaafs house overnight. Police are calling it an act of vandalism. This statement, this attack designed to intimidate the mayor and strike fear into her family will not stop her from advocating for the policies she believes are in the best longterm interests of her beloved home town. We will keep you updated on the other items that were discussed at th
We are going to call the legislative branch of the Committee Fiscal Year 2021, subcommittee mark up to order. Welcome to our subcommittees markup. I very much appreciate the hard work and attitude of all the subCommittee Members and particularly the contributions and cooperation of our Ranking Member, mr. Butler. Thank you for being so great to work with. There are lots of needs and good causes within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee. We have tried to take care of the highest priorities throughout the bill with the amounts available to us. Fundamentally, and the bill provides increases to support staffing and other resources needed by congress to do its job well, to maintain and build analytic capacity in the legislative branch. For example, the bill provides a 25 Million Dollar increase for the members representational allowance, which covers staff, District Office space and other necessities. I also believe this funding is sufficient to address our new normal as members move to h
Oon, b the breezes will win out keeping us below average, 61 at the coast, 76 around the bay, 82 inland. And enjoy a comfortable evening mainly in the 50s and 60s. A look at the weekend coming up. The battle over whether california schools should physically reopen could be headed to court. Education just one of the things were focused here on abc 7. The governor decided that schools have to remain closed if the county has been on the states watch list for two consecutive weeks or more. Amy hollyfield is live with this new lawsuit who says it shouldnt be up to the state. Amy. Reporter yeah, they want to see it go through the courts. The lawsuit says that the governor is playing politics with this decision and that children belong in school. According to this lawsuit, the plaintiffs believe that this order to stay at home will disproportionately hurt children of low income families, students of color and students wheith disabilities but says that all children will suffer from Distance Le
Preparations committee worked on 2021 spending today, earlier they debated interior and Environmental Department spending which included several amendments, your congresswoman chairs the committee. Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. And before we begin, they require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. Been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, it borders with the great state of ohio, lake erie and in minnesota, we border on lake superior. Id like to thank all members of our subcommittee f