Okay, i think we can start. Cochair madrid okay. This is the mayors disability Public Meeting for november 20, 2020 at s 1 p. M. My name is alex madrid. Thank you, alex. Im Deputy Director of m. O. D. And serving as clerk for this meeting. This is a virtual meeting. Its being broadcast to the public on sfgovtv. It is open caption and sign language interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds nine meetings and generally held on the third friday of the month. Please call the Mayors Office of disability at 415 5546789. Or by email, you can contact us at mod sfgov. Org with any m. D. C. Business. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, january 15, 2021 from 1 00 to 4 00 p. M. This will also be an Online Meeting and will be broadcast on sfgovtv. Thank you for joining us. Well now do roll call. And helen, joining the meeting. Sorry. Great. So ill go through the list . Can anybody hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Great, thank you. Please say present when i call your name. Alex madrid .
Of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the United States looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the International Discussions about the u. S. Could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the United States and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the Foreign Policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u. S. Was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. And i remember when i was at arge
On monday, the Supreme Court issued the stupid opinion which we talked about forgive you for calling that a compromise decision. Thats how i do it. Just imagine for a moment if during this period of a 44 split on the court, brown v. Board of education have come up. I cant help but think about that and in the context of other cases that are bound to have come up to the court during this period. Senator leahy, i am glad that you pointed out that we have some civics students seated behind us here today. I hope they are learning something, but think of the lesson that where we are at this moment in connection with this nomination teaching them is teaching them. These are matters that should be of critical importance to all of us on both sides of the aisle. The future really is at stake. These kinds of decisions that were issued on monday have real consequences. In brown v. Board of education, you had decisions in one part of the country that went one way, and in delaware in particular my f
Americans with disability act. The law passed in 1990 bands accommodation such as Office Buildings and restaurants to make their facilities accessible to people with limited mobility. The subcommittee on Civil Justice is holding a hearing on whether it changes to the law should be made to make it harder to sue for alleged violations of the law. Theyll hear from some members of kcongress. Theyll hear from a Business Owners and Interest Groups as well on a hearing that should get underway shortly. The house is getting underway. The final day of work for the week as they finish up work today on the military Construction Veterans Affairs bill. The senate gaveling in at 9 30 eastern about a half an hour from now and theyll continue work on their combined military construction Veterans Affair bill transportation and housing and that will include a vote this morning on zika funding 1. 1 billion is the proposal. Thats set for the house over on cspan. Constitution of Civil Justice will come to
Literate that knows how to move transportation in the system and city and we have qualified people to make the decisions thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names. is mr. Stewart here . Good afternoon. Im actually speaking on behalf of the john peck from the Gladstone Institute thats a resident transit rider and a mta board member were here today. State your name. Im wendy with the mission bay t m a to ask you to wave the 2 hundred and 50 days penalty per day for not meeting the Shuttle Pilot Program next the fox required in the format that is used by the transit parties their not Business Owner be able to convert it to the new format and they cant do so until january our inability to push the data to you in this new format is the only reason were innovate in compliance with the program the reporting is for one stop the caltrain the fin of 250 per day were here because your policy meeting isnt instill mid january our third over all expense is charpg Community Services l