Chair fewer this is the november 18, 2020 rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by supervisors Shamann Walton and raphael mandelman. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number one. Clerk yes. Item one, retroactive hearing on updates related to the economic landscape f [inaudible] on march 1, 2021 through february 28, 2022. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4154550001, enter meeting i. D. 1467347302. Press pound, and pound again, and press star, three to enter the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have the department of Public Health. Colleagues, you may remember, we heard this item and continued it to today to get some more demographic information on our hiv and aids. These are the areas that we understood you were interested in hearing more abou
Just trying to get some fix on where we were and what we were about to do. I was trying to be slow and heavy so my anxiety would not get too high on me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my collar sweating, coming off the side of my face. I did not have to always ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and both of us looked at the calendar at the same time. We just started to walk towards the counter, without a single word. That is how it happened. And we took our seats. University of massachusetts hammers professor, Tracey Parker, joins us now on cspan and cspan 3 for a discussion about the lunch counter citizens of 1960. Tracey parker, who were the greensboro for and why did they decide to sit down at that woolworths lunch counter on that february day in 1960 . Thank you for having me. Those greensboro four were four young men who were just College Freshman at North Carolina and tea state university. The three of them had met and high school, and so they alre
Washington journal continues. Us as governor larry hogan, republican of maryland. Joining us is governor larry hogan, republican of maryland. Hes also the chair of the National Governors association. Governor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. We had 150,000 deaths and cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. Is it time for a National Strategy rather than governors coming up with their own strategies . Well it was probably a time for a National Strategy back in february or march. Ive been somewhat critical of the fact that early in the, i talk about this in my book, early in the pandemic, i thought it was important for the federal government to come up with more of a National Strategy on testing, on Contact Tracing, on a more coordinated, from the federal level, attack from this virus. Thats behind us now and the virus has spread across the country. Governors have been on the front lines out of necessity and taking actions that we think are necessary. Ob
Honorable michael pompeo. The honorable pete wilson. Christopher nixon cox and hugh hue it. applause good afternoon. Im Christopher Nixon cox grandson of president Richard Nixon. On behalf of my family and the Nixon Foundation, i want to welcome you to another important event here at the Richard Nixon library birthplace and museum, the birthplace which is right behind me here. Today, we are honored to have secretary of state mike pompeo to have chosen the Nixon Library to make a major speech about u. S. China relations. Like we do so often in the library, we are going to begin our program with a prayer. Would you please remain standing and welcome greg laurie, Senior Pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship big. applause let us all prayed together. Father, we are so thankful to live in this country of the United States of america. One thing we treasure so greatly is the freedom we have from you to pursue life, liberty and happiness. We have the freedom to speak our minds. The freedom to
We are going to call the legislative branch of the Committee Fiscal Year 2021, subcommittee mark up to order. Welcome to our subcommittees markup. I very much appreciate the hard work and attitude of all the subCommittee Members and particularly the contributions and cooperation of our Ranking Member, mr. Butler. Thank you for being so great to work with. There are lots of needs and good causes within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee. We have tried to take care of the highest priorities throughout the bill with the amounts available to us. Fundamentally, and the bill provides increases to support staffing and other resources needed by congress to do its job well, to maintain and build analytic capacity in the legislative branch. For example, the bill provides a 25 Million Dollar increase for the members representational allowance, which covers staff, District Office space and other necessities. I also believe this funding is sufficient to address our new normal as members move to h