[cameras shuttering] [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. You look good. Today is to door our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge merrick and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. Today, not get it done but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had very emotional obamacare, charts of people with preexisting conditions. I went to give you my si
Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had
In enforcement. Two other comments real quickly. As far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. The Police Department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. This is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. We would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle Traffic Enforcement in some areas of the city. Getting a grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. Its a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. Next speaker. I am a School Crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the guards during our contract negotiations. We have been lobbying for more than a year since the mta informed the
The correlation is not causation, but the recent increases relate inversely to the declining number of officers in enforcement. Two other comments real quickly. As far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. The Police Department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. This is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. We would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle Traffic Enforcement in some areas of the city. Getting a grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. Its a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. Next speaker. I am a School Crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the
Vision zero Research Collaborative of backgrounds and expertise. With respect to emerging mobility, we have been working to create a standardized methodology to monitor injuries related to new modes of transportation through the trauma registry. Recently released our first sixmonth report looking particularly at escooter related collisions. These were shared as a part of the packet. I want to acknowledge our vision zero epidemiologist was critical in leading this work and is in our audience today. Because of the injury prevention Research Collaborative we had a Strong Foundation when escooter hit our streets last year to work with the hospital staff to develop methodology for tracking. We were the first in the country to do so who were eager to impairment something similar given the Public Safety concerns with respect to two new modes. There is a number of names that have advancer this including reporting the data including transparency and consistency with respect to definitions, and