Our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be alarmed if that happens. The focus of todays hearing is googles Online Advertising business. Whether its a monopolyist and whether it might have engaged in any conduct that harms competition and harms consumers. But before we go into that, i want to say just a few things about antitrust policy more broadly. Ive been a member of the subcommittee ever since 2011 when
I will tell you about some of the stocks benefiting from all of this. Well revisit iposs that were launched in great fanfare last week. How they are holding up today. Well be monitoring what make as bear Market Correction as you know. Many market averages themselves are at or close to corrections from highs. Some of them reached a little more than a few weeks ago. So as stuart was pointing out some perspective is in order here. A lot of this has to do with, well a lot of things. Not only renewed spike in cases were seeing in the likes of the United Kingdom and france. In fact the uk theyre revisiting another possibility of another lockdown. That is what is going on in israel, they are in their second lockdown and theyre not very happy about it. Then we have cases here. Four states in the United States that have 15,000 or more deaths recorded. California joining the likes of new york and new jersey and texas. So were monitoring that. But the numbers here are actually stablizing even as
Meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. As some of you may be aware, we lost quorum at the last Police Commission meeting due to technical difficulties beyond our control. So at that time, we had completed the chiefs report, the d. P. A. Directors report, and line item 1 before we had to adjourn. Were going to pick up tonight where we left off, so its going to be the president ial report, commission report, and Public Comment. We want to make sure the public has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. So thats how were going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. Commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. Clerk yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk you
Ms. Pelosi good morning, everyone. We gather at a very sad time for our country. In another day or so, we will go past the 200,000 mark of those who have died from the coronavirus. Millions of people infected. It didnt have to be that way. We extend our sympathy and our condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones, the families who have suffered from the infection and are still dealing with that. This virus has also had an impact on the economy of our country. And it is very clear that until this is said by the chairman of the fed yesterday, the economy will come back when we have a solution of a cure to the coronavirus. We cant fully come back until then. The solution is as plain as the nose on your face. And the mask used to cover. Science, science, science has provided us with a path for a long time now. Those recommendations are contained in legislation that passed overwhelmingly in a bipartisan way in the congress. Our first bill on march 4 was about testing, testing
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