Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Thank you. Good evening everybody. And i want to thank the aarp for sponsoring this debate and the voters and people in the seventh district for giving me the opportunity to serve them in and congress over these number of years. Ive been there long enough so i was able to move up to the head of the Agricultural Committee and ive been chair man twice and probably the only person thats ever done that. Weve been able to do some good work. Weve kept the Committee Bipartisan which was important to me. We got the usmc a trade agreement done that people were concerned about. We made that happen and got a good democratic vote so i look forward to going back to congress and continuing the bipartisan work that ive done over the number of years. Michelle fischbach, one minute opening statement. Thank you very much to matt and aarp for putting this together tonight. Im Michelle Fischbach. I served in the Minnesota Senate and first female president of the senate and worked as Lieutenant Governor fo
Coverage of election 2020. This is the debate between the candidates for minnesotas seventh district congressional seat. My guests tonight are democrat peterson and republican, Michelle Fischbach. Based on the coin flip, peterson will go first. Thank you. Good evening everybody. And i want to thank the aarp for sponsoring this debate and the voters and people in the seventh district for giving me the opportunity to serve them in and congress over these number of years. Ive been there long enough so i was able to move up to the head of the Agricultural Committee and ive been chair man twice and probably the only person thats ever done that. Weve been able to do some good work. Weve kept the Committee Bipartisan which was important to me. We got the usmc a trade agreement done that people were concerned about. We made that happen and got a good democratic vote so i look forward to going back to congress and continuing the bipartisan work that ive done over the number of years. Michelle f
Leader Kevin Mccarthys briefing. You can watch live coverage of his news briefing also here on cspan 3. Joining us now on washington journal representative michael burgess. He is a republican of texas, serves on the Energy Subcommittee on health as the Ranking Member also serves on the rules committee. Representative burgess, thanks for your time today. Good morning, thanks for having me on. You also have the honor of being a medical doctor, so ill start there. From your view of medicine how would you address people who are concerned not only about in certain areas the United States rises in covid19 cases but at the same time reopenings and the starting of economies. How would you balance those two . Well, both are important stories, and people are correct to be concerned about numbers that appear to be going up. People are also concerned about the continuation for everyone having to stay closed in, shutin as the economy contracts the way it has. So at this point youre going to have to
From your view of medicine how do you address people were concerned not only in certain areas but rises in covid19 cases but at the same time reopening and the starting of economies. How do you balanceceom those tw. Those are important stories and people are correct to be concerned and numbers that appear to be going up. People are also concerned about the continuation of having to stay closed in, shutting as the economy contracts the way it has, at this point you will have to balance both and i think people are smarter about this disease than they were a few months ago, i think we all seen the benefits in the wisdom of social distancing, certainly i think of times in the past when i did not feel well but i went to work anyway, you cannot do that right now, if youre sick, stay home and if you suspect someone is sick, dont be around them. When remember back in march, the whole purpose of Closing Everything down was to save the Healthcare System from what appeared to be a coming surge of