Committee hearing is about two and a half hours. This hearing will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. The worlds population killing approximately 300 Million People in the 20th century alone. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio just started a third case worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Everyday vaccines are saving lives. There is no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. There is a wellfunded Disinformation Campaign targeting the public and weakening the publichealth law. School vaccination requirements have been commonplace in the u. S. Generations and exemptions were granted for legitimate political reasons. However in my home state of texas, the number of unvaccinated children who spiked since 2003 when they expanded the exemptions to include non medical reasons. The 57,000 last year we are seein
Inquiry, without objection the chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was infor
And then ill go into our presentation really quickly. But id like to assure you that through the transition period and we continue to be in this phase fsha has made great strides. As it relates to the severance of our staff, we have fully funded that severance payment. That severance payment is projected for the entire two phases. There are two phases in this process with the staff of about 5 million. And that cost will be fully funded by sfha. As it relates to the unfunded tension that has been mentioned sfha continues to work through its own Financial Resources to ensure that it is able to meet those obligations as well. And i believe that it will it gives a position to do so. As it relates to the shortfall numbers that were shared in the report at that time of 16 to 18 million, i would like to be able to say that at this point our projected shortfall is 9 to 10 million as a matter of fact for this coming calendar year because it runs on a calendar year as it relates to the voucher p
Welcome back. At this time i would like to introduce our second panel of witnesses. The first witness on our second panel is dr. Sharon watkins. Dr. Watkins is the director for the bureau of epidemiology in the state epidemiologist for the Pennsylvania Department of health. Shes also the president of the council of state and territorial epidemiologists. Dr. Watkins is responsible foror management and oversight of the bureau of epidemiology which includes the division of infectious disease, Environmental Health and community health. Dr. Watkins has led disease prevailed at outbreak response efforts include those with zika, hepatitis a. Dr. Watkinss has over 40 peerreviewed publications and over 20 years of experience in applied Public Health and epidemiology. Thank you for being here, dr. Watkins. Our secondgy witness is dr. Robin robinson. Dr. Robinson is currently Vice President of Scientific Affairs for renovacare incorporated. Director of development for wound healing. Previously se
Members of the public are reminded a individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to our executive assistant. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and the time is set by the president. Importantly according to board rules and pressures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. Number two, superintendents report. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. The San Francisco Unified School District is now providing childcare for the regular board meetings. [applause] its beginning right now. [laughter] and space is limited and well be provided on a firstcomefirst serve basis for children age 310. Childcare is provided from 6 00 to 9 00 in the Educational Placement Center waiting room located here on the first floor right outside this door and down the hall. If you have any questions, you can contact ms. Esther casco to the board of education at 415 2416493 and childcare is now provided. The Second Annua