After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
Since 2019, rates have gone up essentially double more than 100 or about 100 since 2019 22 just last year alone, pg and e literally is bringing a lot of families to tears. How can you justify this . Yeah, i think its really important. Number one, that our customers know that we know our most current increases are based on some catch up cost recoveries. That was necessary work to make our system safe. We see a path forward where prices can start to fall, and that will be driven by modernizing the methods of our work and rethinking mandates that exist in the state. A 31 of our bill is driven by state mandates. I think its time to rethink some of those. As someone just at home watching right now, pg and e made more than 2 billion in profits last year where is that money going. 2 billion in the system right back into the system. And i would like to think that profits is not a bad word for a utility. So a financially healthy pg and e actually enables lower costs for customers, reinvesting p
Thousands of families in the bay area. Im talking about our sky high pg and e rates. Theyre nearly doubled since 2019, and to make matters worse, those rates continue to rise. Tonight we get some answers directly from the top. Roger mathai sat down for a rare and exclusive interview with the ceo of pg and e. She is the ceo of one of the most Controversial Companies in the bay area, and in many ways, patty poppy is on damage control. What do you think the perception of pg and e is . Oh, we know that the perception has been challenged. You know, i think the company is on a path to rebuild trust with the people that we serve. Since taking over pg and e in 2021, just two years after the utility filed for bankruptcy, poppy has dealt with wildfires, government regulations and accusations of mismanaged payment. But perhaps the biggest damage has been to its ratepayers. Bay area families feeling the pinch of a multibillion Dollar Company repeatedly raising rates. Since 2019, rates have gone up
Thousands of families in the bay area. Im talking about our sky high pg and e rates. Theyre nearly doubled since 2019, and to make matters worse, those rates continue to rise. Tonight we get some answers directly from the top. Roger mathai sat down for a rare and exclusive interview with the ceo of pg and e. She is the ceo of one of the most Controversial Companies in the bay area, and in many ways, patty poppy is on damage control. What do you think the perception of pg and e is . Oh, we know that the perception has been challenged. You know, i think the company is on a path to rebuild trust with the people that we serve. Since taking over pg and e in 2021, just two years after the utility filed for bankruptcy, poppy has dealt with wildfires, government regulations and accusations of mismanaged payment. But perhaps the biggest damage has been to its ratepayers. Bay area families feeling the pinch of a multibillion Dollar Company repeatedly raising rates. Since 2019, rates have gone up