The republican nomination for his old senate seat. Last night, he conceded to former football coach Tommy Tuberville. Here is his concession speech. Good evening. You for yournk support over the years. We fought a good fight in this race and we have taken our case to the people of alabama and the people of alabama have spoken. They want a new leader, a freshfaced in washington. I think we are going to have that. I love this state, it has been an honor beyond words for me to serve it. I grew up in the country, a little house of 1000 square feet, no central air, my dad had a country store. He struggled to take care of us through that process and managed to get out of it is shirt. I worked construction two summers, sold dictionaries, did other things to work my way through college. Great day, i find myself in politics, studying the issues. My wife and i met at college and got involved in republican politics. It has been an adventure for me. Tommy to congratulate tuberville. He ran a reall
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. As we begin our final day of consideration of the fy21 spending bills, id like to thank you all for your kind words and well wishes and ask you, please, to indulge me in just a few more reflections. I came to congress in 1989, one of just 31 women in the house and senate and to this committee in 1993 alongside only six other women under the 64member panel. This body is better for the 100 women serving in the 116th congress and for the many women in the room today. Its my honor to address the full committee for my final time as the first woman chair. You know, its ironic [applaus [applause] thank you. Its ironic that back in 1993 i had to choose between serving on appropriations or ways and means. I was fortunate to be given that choice. And today, we markup my final appropriation bills in the ways and Means Committee room. I chose appropriations because i believed it was the best place to give more people a better chance at a better l
Economic Recovery Task force of which both ben and i are members and im also the policy lead and i have support from dylan on staff and Ben Van Houten as a colead in providing support for the entertainment policy working group within the economic Recovery Task force. I have much more to tell you. So strap in, im sorry, a lot has happened. But weve also been working with the industry and fostered goodwill during the pandemic. So we worked on this dear s. X. Campaign and a lot of you took part in. So thank you for that. And then, finally, we have been exploring legal pathways to safely allow Outdoor Entertainment activities to start again under the health order. So i will keep you apprised of that effort. But were essentially proposing possible entertainment pathways within the shared spaces program. Essentially activating outdoor property potentially suspending certain portions of police code within this emergency to allow for an expansion of what your premises would be considered as to
Simply based on the long delays that the public has been observing with the work with public works. But we should have an update soon i would imagine. But, yeah, the timeframe i think that theyre reevaluating right now. Theres been many of our smaller projects, however, that were not allowed to proceed during shelterinplace and like neighborhood and traffic on main and the required work by actual work crews working together, they were deemed nonessential. Okay, thank you. Okay. Commissioner safai. Commissioner safai thank you, chair peskin and thank you mr. Tumlin. So i understand the fiscal outlook. Can you talk a little bit more about what some of your adjustments would be if and when and hopefully the cares act passes and theres additional moneys that come down to the transportation agencies, because i know that you have to present the situation based on the funding scenarios that we have. But i also know that the state and the federal government are going to do everything they can
Distancing that led to a serious outbreak of covid in california prisons. San quentin and marin county have 1100 active cases including 800 in the past two weeks. That outbreak was precipitated by a transfer of more than 100 prisoners from chino and almost a quarter of them tested positive once they arrived at san quentin. Now the transfer of inmates from san quentin to a prison has triggered an outbreak there. The facility houses inmate wild Fire Fighting teams. We are now at a point of crisis. And Crisis Management must step in. Reporter the plan for san quentin Going Forward is tense will be used for clinics and some housing. They will set up a field hospitalen seton medical ce in daly city. Another part of the problem has been a lack of testing. At first there were enough tests available, one refung to be screened. Back to you. To the weather and a live look outside across the bay. We see a cooldown. Here is meteorologist mary lee. Good afternoon to you, len. Temperatures are coole