The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
Ashley . Hi. Were waiting for okay. Great. I want to thank you, commissioners, for having us . My name is ashley scarborough, and im working in primary care central . Its my pleasure to represent a large and Interdisciplinary Group and working to include lgbt in the group, so thank you . For this initiative, its really more than Data Collection . It offers an opportunity for staff to align with our values and moving towards True North Equity creating culture change and ultimately providing more inclusive care for the lgbtq population. I want to recognize the longer term efforts in the department for gender equity Data Collection . And just the staff advocating for this data and advocating for this community so aligning with that over the last few years has also been structural policy incentives and mandates that have been elevating the priority of Data Collection, including local ordinances authored by scott wiener, state legislative bills, and payforperformance dollars, part of the pr
After your review. Any comments, commissioner . I would move that on page 10, under comments on section six, i would just add that the statement that i have there would seem to sound like ucsf is the only other provider for the Cardiovascular Surgery, and thats not correct. I think my question was who were the other providers, and i think we heard that cpnc and kaiser. I will go back to the recording and clarify that. It sounds odd. Thank you for the clarification, commissioner. Other comments from commissioners . Motion to adopt . So moved. Second . Is there a second . Second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Thank you, everyone. Item three is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, brian colfax, director of health with the directors report for august 6. So the big news is we are at the go live. We went live at 2 00 a. M. On saturday, august 3 . So far, all systems are running well, and i just really want to thank the incredible team. Literally hundreds of peopl
Any comments, commissioner . I would move that on page 10, under comments on section six, i would just add that the statement that i have there would seem to sound like ucsf is the only other provider for the Cardiovascular Surgery, and thats not correct. I think my question was who were the other providers, and i think we heard that cpnc and kaiser. I will go back to the recording and clarify that. It sounds odd. Thank you for the clarification, commissioner. Other comments from commissioners . Motion to adopt . So moved. Second . Is there a second . Second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Thank you, everyone. Item three is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, brian colfax, director of health with the directors report for august 6. So the big news is we are at the go live. We went live at 2 00 a. M. On saturday, august 3 . So far, all systems are running well, and i just really want to thank the incredible team. Literally hundreds of people, thousands of hou
All right. This hearing will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing. The future of electricity delivery, modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but i have read history about what it was like when we first started building the electric grid over a century ago now. I dont think we could have imagined the technologies that we would use to power or homes and businesses and hospitals and everything today. And i think the challenge is different, you know, back then the real challenge was just extending power itself throughout every corner of our society, and there was a challenge which was that those providing power knew they could make money in the cities in well Populated Areas in places with a lot of business and commercial opportunities, but it was not as p