Welcome to the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in dec
Trying to figure out. Did you guys get in trouble . They sent you down at the other end of the table. Everyone is together, but youre down at one end. Listen, were going to get started. The subcommittee hearing will come to order without objection, the chairs authorized to declare recess in the committee to any time. This briefing is an extension of several hearings we have had discussing Climate Change. And on the current Economic Impacts of global warming. Im going to differ in the Opening Statement for myself and i know when we spoke earlier, in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would be hopefully trying to do a hearing, in fact, this is a briefing, we do have time for your Opening Statements, so, what i would like to do is to afford each of you the opportunity to do so. So, let me introduce the four of you and then we will move to you, mr. Gomez. We have alfredo gomez, director of National Resources and government accountability, office dave, joness new director for en
Several hearings we had discussing Climate Change focusing on current, future and Economic Impacts. I will defer to the Opening Statement for myself. When we spoke earlier in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would hopefully do a hearing. We do have time for your Opening Statements. What i would like to do is afford each of you the opportunity to do so so let me introduce the four of you and move to you, mister gomez. We have j. Alfredo gomez, Government Accountability office come a dave jones, senior director for in my mental risk and Nature Conservancy, institute for Economic Freedom and the heritage foundation, doctor Michael Michael greenstone, Milton Friedman, from the university of chicago and Stephen Benjamin mayor of the city of columbia, South Carolina. With that, director gomez, you are recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here to discuss how to limit the federal governments exposure by better managing Cli
Welcome to the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in dec
Change the House Oversight subcommittee on the environment held its fifth hearing on Climate Change. Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing