Good morning, this hearing is called to order. The title of this hearing is congressional oversight in the face of executive branch and media suppression, and in particular case study of the crossfire hurricane, corrupt investigation. Ill add that. The hearing is actually quite a bit broader than that. But well certainly focus on that. I became chairman of this committee in january of 2015 and will complete my sixyear term at the end of this month. We can all be proud of the more than 100 piece of legislation we worked on together as a committee that became law. The other than more than 200 bills we passed out of committee, although not signed into law, can still serve as the basis for future legislation. Our committee and subcommittees also have broad oversight jurisdiction, and responsibilities that we have not ignored. We investigated and exposed problems within the Va Health Care system, human trafficking, National Security leaks, and systemic violations of the hatch act within the
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Warning that the county is very close to hitting this mark. Some businesses are especially concerned about that curfew bars like the sycamore in the mission say they depend on those late night customers for their bottom line. The workers there say if theyre forced to close at 10 oclock and set of their regular time at midnight. It will hurt even more. As jeremy. Our business is already down closing early or would it bring us even further down its terrible, however i get it its its a good thing i just wish people stan cider. Can be saved. It would have to go through this again. So under the curfew folks will still be able to do a central activities like walk your dog. Pick up takeout or do some Grocery Shopping as well. Now we have seen more than 3 million new cases in just the month of november alone about one quarter of all the u. S. Cases since the pandemic began more than 256,000 people have also died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in
Morning it although get outside enjoy the sun and well do so with the jacket on because we are still pretty chilly oakland as the warm spot across the bay. Youre actually sharing that with livermore 5556 degrees currently nevado holding on to the 30s along with the late how at 3938 degrees so some of us are starting to warm up others of us still pretty chilly. Nevado you just got an update. Youre now at 41 degrees so temperatures are on the rise actively, and well continue to boost into the 60s later today as far as traffic goes we had some bar issues earlier today, but i mean the bay bridge it doesnt get any better than that allows anybody home just because its so nice right exactly it looked like this all the time normally have the backup spilling all the way back through the maze and we have crashes and stalls. None of thats happening right now so its a great trip into San Francisco. We did start off this way by the way couple hours ago was stacked up from west grand but on fridays