do so as we call the item. the best practices are to call from a quiet location. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television, radio, or streaming device. alternatively, you may admit your written public comment and my e-mail address is john.carroll@sfgov.org. if you submit your public comment by e-mail, i will forward your public comment to the committee and add your comments to the official file for the item on which you are commenting. you may also send our comments to city hall by mail. and finally, mr. chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on july 13th, 2021, unless otherwise stateded by motion. chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. please call the first item. clerk: item number one is the accept and expend grant and amend the annual salary ordinance cal highway patrol for the cannabis tax fund grant program. to provide for the addition of one grant funded class 2403 forensic laboratory analyst and one granted class 2456 forensic toxicologist. memb
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the president s nominee for the next administrator for centers for medicare and medicaid services said all options should be considered to improve program quality and financial stability. seema verma testified in a three our confirmation hearing yesterday. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come order. i would like to welcome everyone to this morning s hearing. today we consider the nomination of seema verma to service administrator of the centers for medicaid, medicare and medicaid services. we are so happy to have you here and your family too. appreciate your willingness to meet at the agency on this article time. i see your family has joined you today to lend support so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and them as well. cms is the world s largest health insurer covering over one third of the us population through medicare and medicaid alone. it has a budget of over $1 trillion and processes over 1.2 billion a year for services provided to some of our natio
another grim record, another grim milestone for the sunshine state. nearly 100 of those victims were in miami-dade county. that s where things stand on this monday morning, august 3rd. with us we have contributor mike barnicle. white house reporter for associated press, jonathan lemire. host of kasie dc on msnbc, the great kasie hunt. and politics and journalism professor, politics editor and msnbc political contributor, jason johnson will join us in a moment. jonathan lemire, i want to start with you and then go to kasie and get her take on what s happening on capitol hill or what s not happening on capitol hill with the coronavirus outbreak and then i want to go to mike barnicle and you and i are going to pile on mike barnicle and ask him how he allowed the red sox pitching to get this bad. jonathan let s start with you first and talk about a piece you wrote for the associated press about donald trump and the campaign. something you ve been saying for some time. and that is
saw it, it was impossible to close their eyes. now you have george floyd, how many people around the country, millions of cell phones. it s changed the way people look at this. look at the millions of people marching around the world. the world. so my point is i think people are really realizing this is a battle for the soul of america. americans are good and virt virt virtue us people we have to work together wherever bigotry may appear but we ll make no moves by falsely labelling tens of millions of americans as racist or bigots we have to get everybody together and be in the same path. if we don t do that we ll have problems. but we ll do that. i think it ll go quickly and very easily. president trump and joe biden both speaking yesterday about combatting racism. it ll go very easily and very quickly? like the coronavirus? okay. we have a lot to talk about today but this is a guy who is badly out of step, even with his own republican party. the country. w