29 years later and according to the u. S. D. A. Economic Research Service in 2918. 00 net farm income fell to a 12 year low at just over 59000000000. 00 with a median foreign income of negative 1216. 00 negative. Which is why 4 made keeps going strong. This year the festival was held at the alpine valley music theater in east tri wisconsin deep in the heart of dairy country farm aid showcase some of the most innovative family farmers from around tired nation Whiskey River now rather a. Farm a president of 34 years Country Music icon Willie Nelson opened the festival well 1st of all im glad to see you saw him. But there is. A lot of help is needed and were glad to be here. All for support what are those challenges well one is pricing take Dairy Farmers for instance according to the u. S. D. A. Foods 2015 the price of milk paid to farmers has not only been going down but its also unpredictable from month to month making it hard for farmers to absorb that extra cost farm aid presented 1.
Clerk silence all cellphones and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Chair fewer i wanted to everyone to know that we will need to recess this at 11 20 to 12 00 noon. So lets start. Madam clerk. Can you call item number 1. Clerk item one was to the call to order and recall call. Would you like me to call item two. Chair fewer yes. Clerk the approval of the lafco minutes from the november 15, 2019 regular meets. Chair fewer any questions or colleagues . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none, lets approve the minutes of the meeting. And we can take that without objection. Do ied i need a second. Thank you very much. And madam clerk, call item 3. Clerk the presentation and discussion on the cleanpowersf local Renewable Energy report. Chair fewer and we have barbara hale with us today. The general manager at the San Francisco p. O. C. And were here to present a draft of our clean powersf local Renewable Energy report. Ill go through a number of slides here and well review,
Trying to figure out. Did you guys get in trouble . They sent you down at the other end of the table. Everyone is together, but youre down at one end. Listen, were going to get started. The subcommittee hearing will come to order without objection, the chairs authorized to declare recess in the committee to any time. This briefing is an extension of several hearings we have had discussing Climate Change. And on the current Economic Impacts of global warming. Im going to differ in the Opening Statement for myself and i know when we spoke earlier, in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would be hopefully trying to do a hearing, in fact, this is a briefing, we do have time for your Opening Statements, so, what i would like to do is to afford each of you the opportunity to do so. So, let me introduce the four of you and then we will move to you, mr. Gomez. We have alfredo gomez, director of National Resources and government accountability, office dave, joness new director for en
Next, a look at the spread of disinformation on social media and other platforms. The subcommittee hearing included a representative from facebook and other tech experts. Testifying on ways to counter the problem. Good morning everyone. The subcommittee on Consumer Protection and commerce will now come to order. We will begin with member statements and i will begin by recognizing myself for five minutes. Good morning and thank you for joining us here today. Given what is going on in the world. esentative czajkowski owski we have seen life for americans transformed in many positive ways. The internet provides new opportunities for commerce, education, information and connecting people. However, along with these many new opportunities, we have seen new challenges as well. Stocking thee online marketplace using deceptive techniques to influence the consumers with deceptive designs to fool them into giving away present information, stealing their otherand engineering unfair practices. The
From the sfpuc two days ago which clearly shows that theres not an adequate planning process for integrated renewables in San Francisco. And a follow buildout plan like the one in sydney, australia. With respect, we have heard for the last 10 years or so from the sfpuc repeatedly, oh, the next report we put out is going to address your concerns. Weve been hearing that for 10 years. The sfpuc, for very good reasons again, i dont want to im not bashing on them, they have to behave as theyre behaving, theyre not the wheelhouse for a buildout plan. This is excellent information but we need to go beyond that. So i cant emphasize in Strong Enough terms that what we need to you do now that weve seen this report, which is not going to get us where we need to go, where the ipcc demands that we go within 10 years, to get 100 locally developed renewables. We must have the lafco direct the sciewptiv executive officere directive for proposals with the top item on the list is that consultants need t