Mister president i yield the floor. E madam president my home state of texas is a great place to do business. We pay taxes, Government Spending and revelations and irrational minimum in order to give people and businesses the freedom to pursue their dreams and prosper. Texas is consistently ranked on the list of the best state for business , best state to start a business and the best state for female entrepreneurs. According to the Small Business administration there are more than 2. 6 million Small Businesses throughout the state accounting for 99. 8 percent of all texas businesses. Those businesses employ half of our state workforce and account or a massive portion of our texas economy. To say theres Small Businesses are aneconomic force in texas would only paint half the picture. The big cities and small towns like these businesses play a Critical Role in our communities. The locally owned restaurants and bars and businesses that are part of our regular routine from the dry cleaner
At noon eastern lawmakers are expected to vote on his confirmation. And now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the fountain of wisdom, we cherish your presence and honor your name. Give our lawmakers the wisdom to live with honor, as they remember their accountability to history and you. Lord, remind them that you are glorified when they walk on the path of integrity, striving to please you in all they say and do. May their lives bring light to darkness, unity to division, and order to chaos. Grant that they will be living letters read by those who desire to believe that you continue to rule in our world. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic fo
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Governor to facilitate teleconferencing to reduce the risk of covid19 transmission at public meetings. Ordinarily, the brown act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. The executive order does require that we continue to notice meetings in advance. The department has met all of the applicable notice requirements. As noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this teleconference meeting via sf gov tv and may Public Comment by calling the published Public Comment phone number. I would like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching online, sfgovtv. The Commission Asks and thanks for your patience during these unprecedented times. Teleconferencing has never happened in our history. That being said, we respectfully ask the public to have patience and expect delays and gaps during the meeting, particularly during Public Comment. Were working diligently to learn and become familiar with this new system as this may be the way we conduct future Commission Meet
We have an update, we are looking at this low spots in the bay area, driving on highway 580 near the ultima pass. Right here at 205. We have been talking about how traffic is here, and we do have the crew driving on 580 coming through the pass. There are a lot of cars out here, i dont see stop and go traffic, but in the past few days there has been as the morning wears on, more traffic here and stop and go. You can see that we are driving pretty much at the limit. There is a lot of traffic. We are going to 85 southbound, where four people were killed in an overnight rack. 85 is slow. Chp is investigating the crash and, so, lets go to alyssa harrington, following this for us, we have more details on what has happened and which chp is saying. Alyssa . There were six people in the vehicle when it flipped, the driver was arrested on suspicion of dui. This is a vehicle that was traveling at a high rate of speed and it lost control for an unknown reason. There were six people that were in th