[roll call] is commissioner safai present at this meeting . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you, madam secretary. Motion is awarded to vote whether to disclose discussions held in the San Francisco administrative code section 67. 1a. At this time i make a motion. Motion not disclosed. Ill second this. Moved and seconded. We will take Public Comment at this time. Madam secretary. Please open the phone lines. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 408 4189388. Access code 1467135208. Press pound and press pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to lineup to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Please state your name and make your comment. You will have the standard two minutes to provide your comments. Please let us know if there are any callers. Madam secretary, there are no callers. Thank you. Hear
And i ended up writing a column about it. It began a conversation with chris that was part of his effort to develop this book and the arguments in it. Want to ask chris to take us all on a journey he has been on. He has shared some with me over the years. The book starts with a really chilling account of what would happen in the first hours and days of a war with china. Maybe that is a good place to people whyaining to we have a problem when it comes to technology. Chris thank you, david. I appreciate your friendship and guidance throughout this whole process. It has been invaluable. With the timens is spent on the Senate Armed Services committee, the better part of a decade supporting the committee and senator mccain, looking closely at the u. S. Military, how we were investing money and werent investing money and ultimately, how we match up against emerging great power competitors, first and foremost china. The reason i wrote the book was a concern i had then add have now that we are
We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
To do here. I have always been reluctant to say this truly could be one of the most important things we as members of this committee do. The world is experiencing today and what the american and as is americas face is one of the most significant challenges that a lot of us will face in our lifetime. The bad news, the really bad news is that its entirely possible that it will happen again. I say this of course because the experts tell us that this virus that made the leap from one species to another can very easily happen again and if there are 2000 of these viruses out there you have no idea what they can do when they get into a human being. Thats what experts and scientists tell us have identified within their branch about 2000 different viruses. Having said that we need to look forward and i want to stress what im trying to do with this and what about all of us are trying to do, to look forward. There are a lot of hearings going on and a lot of hyperbowl going on and a lot of blame a
Including whats happening new york metropolitan area, for the first time in a long time the verge of Outdoor Dining, an alien concept, has been for the better part of ten weeks. Edward lawrence monitoring the development right now out of washington. Reporter Outdoor Dining, if it is not raining outside and also the heat, you have to deal with that, this was the last governors briefing in newark before the phase two opens, Governor Andrew Cuomo saying he will not do any more briefings, breaking the street of 111 in a row for the pandemic, he did indicate that all five boroughs in new york city are giving are on the way to the green light for the phase reopening on monday with Outdoor Dining, indoor shopping with office work with some restrictions. Listen. All regions of the state have lower infection rates in the state experts have gone over all the data and they will allow new york city to begin phase two on monday. But, covid is not over, we saw much more to do. We have to monitor the