I actually hate sitting up here. I feel so far away. Skid the staff if we can move the chair position down to the front row but they said theres no room for the benches so we couldnt reverse the order of the dias, another day, another room. Subcommittee on oversight and accountability will come to order. The purpose of thise hearing is to examine the state departments Climate Policy and the budget of the special president ial envoy for climates office. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. As we examine the state departments climate agenda and budget, we are joined today by former secretary of state john kerry. Thank you for being here today. First ever president ial enjoy forr climate. Mr. Kerry, youre sitting at a newly created position but from all the research that ive done in two years youve largely managed to avoid any real oversight or accountability in that position. Now my Community Cares about this as an issue. We sit on floridas east coast. We felt the consequence
Yes. It is going away for most of us. At the coast we remained with the clouds in place. And remain with Cool Conditions. Thats a great view. You can see the marine layer and into the city. And a blue sky above it. These clouds are Holding Close to the coast today. Mostly sunny elsewhere. 52 half moon bay. Upper 50s in oakland. Cool side in lovato mold auto. Temperatures are continuing to slide in a downward direction. 88 for antioch. 87 livermore. These areas are reaching 90 degrees and going above yesterday. Around the bay upper 60s in oakland to 70s in redwood city. If youre going to the beach bring the hottie. Its going to be cool with cloudy conditions and 61 in pacifica. Little change for the next couple of days. We also bring the possibility of fog along the coast for fireworks day. We begin with breaking news. A natural gas explosion near detroit michigan. A neighborhood in melvindale under evacuation. You can see the fiery blast on social media. 3000 residents forced out of th
We are going to have to protect ourselves against that too. We should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs. [cheers and applause] and lets finally import safe alternatives from other countries like canada and speed up approvals to get more generic drugs on the market. [cheers and applause] and it is long past time to allow medicare to negotiate for better prices for drugs and get the cost down for medicare recipients. [cheers and applause] and i believe we should cap the amount working families pay out of pocket every month for medicine. No one should ever have to chose between paying the rent and fill the prescription. [cheers and applause] so lets stand up for taxpayers, lets stand up for consumers and lets stand up for businesses that create most of the jobs in america. [cheers and applause] i take this personally because of my dads very Small Business. We need fair rules of the road so big corporations cant use their power to gain unfair advantage
These projects . We just cant fit them all. We looking comprehensively in prop a where we have slab resurfacing and dolores. It was one of the categories that had a financing because we advanced money to the department of public works. Were expecting to see the financing cost go down. Were happy to bring that back to you in january and february at the latest. What that means is that of course we need to look at the program and this money complimenting each other. We also need to look at prop k, as helping us fill some of the holes and in doing that, we need to make sure that we dont violate our own process with prioritization that maria having talking about. That prioritization is about readiness, it is about complete street, its about some of the other policy that you have given us among these projects. Were just talking a moment ago about the need to deal with safety, Bicycle Safety and so on. All of this is about transforming the city not just repaving what we have and making it bet
We will be working with the t. A. Staff and especially with the other agencies applied for obag funds in order to make sure were meeting all of those needs. Thanks. Thank you. Right now were over subscribed. What we will actually heard a lot of concerns that youve spoken about today. We are going to look at each the projects. Get better refined cost estimates. Look to see if there are other sources to still keep us on schedule that deliver the projects that we committed. And move forward on this entire package of projects. I think were going to try to do that in the next couple months and when this recommendation comes back, not only can we fund these projects, these are federal funds so its important that unlike second street, last time were able to soak up these funds, spend the money and deliver the projects and try to deliver all of them whatever shape or form. I go want to support for these projects. As we see every single day in San Francisco. I wanted to say quickly about the ap