Have live members of congress who will speak. I thank you for joining us. We have another halfdozen senators and representatives with record remark we will play once we are done. This is the 20 eighth edition of the congressional pics and follows two days after the Congressional Budget Office, and 854 billion, the record was 234 billion in the 864 billion would be the sixthlargest annual deficit. Since the supposedly earmarked moratorium, members of congress have set a record for the amount of spending according to citizens against government waste cry to which we develop back in 1991 with the bipartisan congressional pork busters coalition. The amount spent was 15. 9 billion, a 3. 0 increase in fiscal year 2019. The numbers may adopt a little bit from 282, two to extend for, decrease of 2. 8 . Since this league in 1991, cagw has identified 111,417 earmarks costing taxpayers 375. 7 billion so yes, those little projects due at up over time. The increase in porkbarrel spending occurred b
While it is understandable that during this Unprecedented Health care and economic crisis, congress has decided to spend all this money, it is also a great opportunity for congress to undertake serious efforts to reduce wasteful spending. That effort should start with the elimination of earmarks. For the third year in a since the suppose it earmark moratorium, congress has set a record for earmarks according to the criteria we develop in 1991 with the bipartisan Congressional Court busters coalition. A 3. 1nouncement was percent increase over the 3. 3 billion in fiscal year 2019. Since fiscal year 1991, cagw has costinged earmarks taxpayers 375. 7 billion, so those little projects at up over time. The increase in spending occurred behind closed doors without taxpayers knowing what is going on. There are no names of legislators attached to each earmark and few details. We know in the agriculture appropriations act, theres 9 million for the Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regio
Were really not too far off that 25 , if we look at it 10 years from now. Thank you very much. Thank you, now were going to open this up for Public Comment. Every member of the public will have two minutes to speak. Yes, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1463082077. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. We currently have 20 people lined up to speak at this time. May we have the first caller . Yes, i will unmute the first caller. Thank you chair ronen and Committee Members. This is doug on behalf of Teamsters Joint Council 7. Were also members of the food chain workers alliance. I want to thank supervisor fewer for the shoutout and her leadership. I feel so proud when i think of how far we come since that fir
I think in terms of the Animal Welfare, that will be the most and were seeing anywhere between 50 to 60 cost increase to move over to nae products. And for us, its figuring out ways to creatively pass that along, whether it to be the cafe or increasing our prices through the cafe and, also, reducing meats. We have reducing meats and every monday is a meatless monday and normally, we would serve about 200 pounds of protein on a monday, but over the last, i would say, three months, we havent done meat on mondays and thats pretty significant. Thats about it. Im happy to answer my questions. Thank you very much. So we have elvis lavaera to speak about laguna honda. Yes. Im from the laguna honda hospital. So, yes, we currently serve 170 residents and offer a 28day cycle menu to the residents. What makes the hospital is unique is the population that we serve, the highly vulnerable population and the age group. A lot of our residents are here and their length of stay is two weeks to some have
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