Supervisor breed supervisor christensen supervisor farrell supervisor tang supervisor wiener kwhoopz supervisor yee we have quorum. Thank you. Well move on to item 2. Citizens Advisory Committee an information item. We have chris our cca chair wanted to report on a few items on the agenda item 4 the question is the cac question whether the sales of the airport would close the funds during Public Comment it was brought up the curre the current routes conflict with the code regarding the future railroad connections to the east bay those are the two items that came up this item passed item 7 the geary brt as often the case we on cac have questions on the corridor to which the cac staff addressed the concerns concerns as and do and the section of the item the cac question judge did san mateo and caltrain disagreement with the timing and San Francisco proposal to move the bayshore station to the north but south assured the mayors process was work with the brisbane to address the concerns th
Health care are much more than the 6 of the people, everyone was important, who would have to buy their insurance and the individual Health Insurance market. We are glad to have this discussion and its a subject on which both republicans and democrats have a lot of interest. To your advice. We are holding a hearing today to look at what can be done to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices to help prevent serious illnesses and reduce Health Care Costs. And i will each have an Opening Statement and then we will introduce the witnesses. Testimony,itnesses there will be five minutes of questions from the senators. I want to thank senator murray ar her leadership and being straightforward negotiating partner on our efforts to present to the senate a limited bipartisan bill to stabilize the andrance market during 2018 2019. She and i will go to the Senate Floor Today at 1 00 p. M. And make a brief statement. And put the text of the in the congressional record. The senators can
Will come to order. Without objection that shares authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. Let me say that we are to vote between 10 45 and 10 50. I will not make an Opening Statement but put my Opening Statement into the record. I will ask every other member to allow us to the witnesses so that they all are able to get their testimony in before we have to leave to go and vote. So without objection all Opening Statements will be placed into the record at this time. We have a very distinguished panel this morning, and i would beginning by swearing in our witnesses before introducing them. Would you all please rise and raise your right hand . [witnesses were sworn in] let the record show that all of the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. I will give an abbreviated introduction for all of the witnesses so that we can hear them and get to as many questions as possible. The first witness is Kenneth Blanco who is the acting assistant attorney general for the C