And our nation as a whole. Next Congressional Panel looks at developing a National Paid Program House ways and Means Committee vote on how to pay with advocating a payroll tax on employers and employees. Congressman shares a committee. The committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome to our witnesses some who have traveled considerable distances to be here. Before we move toward scheduled Committee Business i want to take a moment to acknowledge the recent tragic passing of pamela, a valued member of staff with the joint committee for over 40 years. A reminder again of the considerable talent that exist sometimes outside of publicity. Pamela began her career as a joint committee on taxation in may of 1991 and applied her skill in many legislative issues with large and small. Her colleagues on the joint committee almost tireless and dedication to the joint committee and she accepted projects that were analytically difficult and often that of efficient. She was working on a leg
The hearing will come to order. Last congress this Committee Held two hearings examining the currency ecosystem. Those hearings we heard about some of the developments that have occurred and tha and and tr ijokerin the marketplace since e creation in 2008. The potential benefits of the Digital Currencies and the concerns about the value of stability, quality and illicit uses market manipulation and privacy. Since then facebook announced its intentions to launch the system into Digital Currency that will be governed by the association comprised of up to 100 financial and nonfinancial members including facebook digital wallet service. Facebook project generated renewed interest in Digital Currency and watching generally including how they interact with u. S. And International Regulatory potential benefits and challenges and concerns around issues like antiMoney Laundering in counterterrorism efforts including data privacy, Consumer Protections, commerce and Monetary Policy. David marcus
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16 people hurt and a city bus wrecked, some say it happened in an alltoofamiliar location. It was a massive water main break has eroded their confidence to live near this area. And today we take you to a bagel business betting on downtown. Good morning, thank you for starting your day with us, today is saturday, march 9th, im max darrow. We begin in the east bay where 16 people were hurt after a car crashed into an ac transit bus, it happened in oakland, the car was going out of control following a separate crash moments earlier. People who live near this intersection tell Andrea Nakano the street where it happened might be a big heart of the problem. This is the bus that was involved in the crash and it wasnt even directly involved in the crash, the collision happened a little bit up the road and one of the cars violently flew into the front of that bus. Daniel saw the crash and the aftermath, it happened in the peak of commute hours just before 5 00. Rosa helped us translate what he
procedure and test positive. well as concerning it is not reached the levels of hospitalizations that we ve seen in other surges. reporter: the good news, health leaders say widespread vaccinations and treatments are keeping the hospitalization numbers manageable. the bad news with such infectious new variants, they really can t say when we will come down from this current uptick. we are just continuing to see the continued high level of transmission in the community. reporter: both santa clara and san mateo counties say they are not considering a return to mask mandates right now. but they are both strongly urging the public to wear tight fitting face masks and public settings to help. all right, that was alyssa goard reporting. let s take a closer look at where we stand here in california. so right now our positive rate is at 15% and continues to trend up. for some context during the winter surge in january of this year we hit the peak at 22%. but last summer our