Its my pleasure to welcome you all this morning to the second Congressional District hosted by the Kurdish Regional chamber of congress. In recognition of the importance of events like this to our democracy, we thought it appropriate to take a moment to recite the pledge of allegiance. Please join me. [ reciting pledge] thank you. We take seriously our responsibility to promote civic engagement. Our student leaders and employees have been working hard this year and both colleges earn gold standing in the all in democracy challenge sponsored by the Nonpartisan Group situation. They had the highest student voting rate in the country. We want to acknowledge there are Student Ambassadors here today. I want to take a moment, we had elected leaders, nice to see you. Thank you. Its my pleasure to introduce the moderator, president of the Dakota County Regional Chamber of congress. Good morning. Thank you. Those wristbands you are wearing, i was hoping the college would open up the brewery aft
Everyone that this is the second most expensive house race in the nation right now. What is driving that is super pac funding, and that super pac funding from for Tyler Kistner is coming from big oil and big pharma. We read this quote for you, this is what big pharma said they would do if i voted for the Inflation Reduction Act. Medicare price negotiations, if i voted to make them compete they said those members that that vote for these bills will not get a free pass. We will do everything we can to hold them accountable. Tyler kistner and his funding from super pacs is an attempt to hold me accountable. I will never stop standing up to big pharma in sitting against and standing up for my constituents. Small business is the heartbeat of our local communities, with the looming recession, what opportunities and plans will you work for to ensure hours small are Small Businesses can thrive . Rep. Craig it is somebodys american dream. 92 of the businesses in this district are Small Business
The permanent subcommittee on investigations will come to order. Today the subcommittee continues our bipartisan work investigating conditions in prisons, jails, and Detention Centers across the United States. I think the Ranking Member for his cooperation. In july we released findings of corruption, abuse and misconduct in the federal prison system and questioned the now former director of the federal bureau of prisons. Today after a 10 month bipartisan investigation we can reveal that despite a clear charge from congress to determine who is dying in prisons and jails across the country, where they are dying and why they are dying that abutment of justice is failing to do so. This failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis ongoing behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed that last year alone, according to gao analysis the department of justice failed to identify at least 990 deaths in custody, nearly one thousand uncounted deaths and the
The subcommittee will come to order. Today the subcommittee continues our bipartisan work investigating prisons and jails across United States. In july, we found corruption and abuse in the Justice System and questioned former director of the bureau of prisons. Despite a clear charge from congress, to determine who is dying and jails across the country, where they are dying and why they are dying. The Department Justice is failing to do so. This failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis on behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed that last year alone according to gao analysis our request that the department of justice failed to reveal nearly 1000 deaths across the country. The true number is likely much higher. We will hear today from those whose loved ones died preventively while in custody. In both cases, sons and brothers died while they were pretrial detainees having been convicted of no crime. We will hear their grief and anger. Gri
Hartwigschulman . Here. Commissioner hartwigschulman is here. Ike kwon . Here. Commissioner kwon is here. Commissioner mogannam is here. Christopher simi . Present. Commissioner simi is here. With five members present, we do have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission. Due to the on going covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and the emergency orders of the governor and the mayor concerning social distancing and lifting the restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is being held, is being held Via Teleconference and streamed by sfgov tv. Those watching the live stream being be aware theres a brief time lag between the time lag and whats shown on sfgt tv. I would love to extend our thanks to sfgov tv services and Building Management for their assistance putting on this meeting. For members of the public wishing to make Public Comment on an item outside, from outside the hearing room, you