Good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, october 19th, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor peskin joined by Committee Member dean preston and soontobe joined by vicechair supervisor safai. Our court is miss erika major. Do you have any announcements, ms. Major . Due to the covid19 health emergency, and to protect Board Members the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through the conference and participate in the meeting to the same ex at the present time as if theres physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgot. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak
The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title. The clerk h. R. 8 37 a bill making continuing appropriations purposes. Nd for other. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from indiana, mr. Visclosky, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Mole nar, will each control 20 minutes molnar, will each control 20 minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from indiana. Mr. Visclosky i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 8337, currently under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Visclosky madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. Obviously we are here to consider a continuing resolution to allow the federal government , h. R. Tinue its operations 8337. At the outset of my remarks, do i want to thank the staff of the Appropriations Committee for all of their diligent work in some very difficult ne
We dont stand for it. These are not acts of peaceful protests but domestic terror. None of it justifies looting, burning or anything else. Regardless how angry you are, if you loot or barn you should be held accountable as anybody else. This cannot be tolerated across the board. Paul lets bring in our panel. Dan henninger. Kim strassel and jason riley. Jason, who won the battle of the political battle of kenosha . [laughter] jason it might be a little early to tell to give an answer on that. We will have to see the polls. President trump seems to think its a winning issue for him, he can in blame on the protests that we are seeing going on around the country. The democrats, i think one of the challenges is he has this happening on his watch and what he can do to address this if he is reelected that he cant do right now while hes president. At the same time, i think biden feels he wont be blamed for this, he is seen as the more call me figure. Hes looking at polls like those who say we
Watch quote washington journal 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Continues. Host we are joined next by former federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator craig fugate. Thank you for being with us on washington journal this morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host a number of items on our plate including the covid19 response. First, to the response to hurricane laura. The hurricane coming effectively the same week marking 15 years since hurricane katrina. What lessons do think fema and the federal government learned in terms of response to hurricanes in particular . Guest i think the biggest lesson was that we dont wait until we are asked to start getting ready. To be ana, there seem lot of confusion about the governor having to make requests and what femas role was going to be. Congress, after katrina launched substantial legislation. Governors are going to be is he dealing with this. The federal
Good to see you, melissa, live today from jacksonville, florida. Florida, the final stop on our swing state tour, out speaking to voters here in the Sunshine State the earlier today, all of this as President Trump prepares to formally accept the gop nomination later tonight back in washington. So a lot to do on a busy thursday. Fox Business Team coverage for you. Blake burman and gerri willis to start us off. Blake, you get to go fifth from the north lawn of the white house. Reporter and we have a little bit of news as it relates to no deal at all whatsoever for a phase four relief package because the chief of staff, mark meadows, and the House Speaker, nancy pelosi, spoke this afternoon, and pelosi has just put out a statement saying, essentially, that the talks once again went nowhere. This was the comment from the House Speaker a little while ago. Quote the conversation made clear that the white house continues to disregard the needs of the American People as the Coronavirus Crisis