Funding for the u. S. Postal service. Members of the House Rules Committee met on friday to consider the bill called the delivering for america act introduced by oversight and reform chair carolyn maloney. It provides 25 billion in funding to the Postal Service and returns Service Levels to those at the beginning of 2020. The rules committee voted to send this legislation to the house floor for debate. The rules committee will come to order. We are here today because this president has thrown our democracy further into chaos. We are just weeks away from early voting in some states. The Record Number of ballots are expected to be asked by mail. Are expected to be cast by mail. Sorting machines are disappearing. Delivery has been slowed. The postalle, service is still badly in need of Additional Resources. The house acted to provide more but nothinghs ago has been done. , this isy this clearly an assault on democracy. These actions call into question whether legal ballots will be counted
[inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody, todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant house rules some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Since some members are appearing in person let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. You will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when youre speaking in what is known in webex as active speaker view. At time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely i know you are all familiar with webex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webex set to
The committee. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Committee members will be in attendance and participate in the meeting as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Participate in Public Comment by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 14674 1467489988. Press pound, and pound again. You will hear discussion and be muted, in listening mode only. Press starthree to be entered into the queue. When prompted, speak slowly and clearly and turn down your t. V. Or computer. Or, in the alternative, you may email me at erica. Major sf. Org. We are joined by interpreters who are interpreting in c cantonese and spanish. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk, will you please call the roll. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Mr. Chair, would you like to make a motion to excuse supervisor fewer f
Bay area at this time. Take a look at the lightning strikes that are there. This is just a 10minute time frame here. And it continues to be active with hail reported in santa rosa earlier today, in addition to all of that thunderstorm activity that moved through early on. If i pull you way back, you can see where that moisture is coming from, but with the cloud cover in place today, we are actually a little cooler in many spots. Take a look at napa, down by 11 degrees, down by 9 in hayward. Temperatures right now low 60s to low 100s. 79 in oakland. Low 100s reported in livermore and brentwood. Thats where we continue with the advisories. The excessive heat warning is down along the San Francisco peninsula and the north bay and east bay. That entire orange there, that shaded area, along with santa cruz and monterey. When i come back, ill have a look at what we can expect as we move forward. Tomorrow morning, temperatures are expected to be relatively mild once gain before we heat it up
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