Present. John baptiste is not here but expected. Director lipkin. Why present. Why director syed. Here. Director tumlin. Here. Vice chair mandelman is not here but expected and chair gee. Present. We have quorum. Next item. Communication. We would like to note the process for members of the public to make comment members may comment during Public Comment in person or remote. Call in line is a courtesy and availability may be disrupted due to technical difficulties and in person will be taken first and remote taken after. The call in line is on the agenda and dialing instructions should be scrolling on the screen on sfgovtv. There are other communications . I want to say thank you to director shaw. Come on up. Thank you for your service on tjpa and all you criminalitied to the board and to Sales Force Transit Center and positioning the portal project for success. And wish you well on your next assignment the mtc committee. And we know where to find you. Questions and comments and though
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The Environmental Protection agency. I want to welcome also the epa chief Financial Officer who is joining the administrator. Administrator is here. We are seeing the impacts everywhere. Longer fire seasons and more intensity of those fires decreased snow packs and the impact of that on our rivers and irrigation waters. The more Severe Weather events of the Atmospheric River as weve heard so much about on the west coast this year to warmer algae infested leaks across the country to droughts and record a shattering heat waives. Every part of the world was is experiencing these impacts and the damage is staggering and is going to increase exponentially unless we act decisively. I believe that to me ats this moment we have to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel energy to renewable energy. And we have to tackle that crisis both from supplyside of fossil fuels as wells as the demand side. This is why i adamantly opposed the biden administrations approval of the fossil fuel projects o
Taxpayers and corporations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] are right. This joint hearing of the subcommittee on Government Operations and the federal workforce and healthcare and Financial Services committee will come to order. Welcome everyone. Without objection the chair may declare a recess at any time. Recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. First and foremost thank youst l for being here in this crazy but at times were in. Nevertheless, what were talking about is extremely important. The irs has been played really with dysfunction for decades. The dysfunction is across the board from data breaches complex, and didnt except to slow audits, backlogs, and really Terrific Customer Service got at least for my constituents. Despite years of congressional oversight and government watchdog warnings, not much has changed. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle believe that more money and more power is thee solution. In fact, the last year