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Subcommittee on social sushlg held a hearing on the impact of coronavirus on Social Security. Several raised concerns about a payroll tax cut which they said would reduce funding for the program. The subcommittee on Social Security will come to order. I want to welcome all of our witnesses and audience members. Thank you, everyone, for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member followed by testimony from our witnesses, and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. Well dispense of the practice observing givens rule and instead go in order of seniority for questioning. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will b ....
Simply based on the long delays that the public has been observing with the work with public works. But we should have an update soon i would imagine. But, yeah, the timeframe i think that theyre reevaluating right now. Theres been many of our smaller projects, however, that were not allowed to proceed during shelterinplace and like neighborhood and traffic on main and the required work by actual work crews working together, they were deemed nonessential. Okay, thank you. Okay. Commissioner safai. Commissioner safai thank you, chair peskin and thank you mr. Tumlin. So i understand the fiscal outlook. Can you talk a little bit more about what some of your adjustments would be if and when and hopefully the cares act passes and theres additional moneys that come down to the transportation agencies, because i know that you have to present the situation based on the funding scenarios that we have. But i also know that the state and the federal government are going to do everything they can ....
Thank you. Thank you, commissioner yee. Commissioner yee thank you. I wasnt too sure how this fits into the par tic particular ite. When you talk about congestion and the balance of people getting into vehicles and the lack of Public Transportation at this point. And probably the people on the west side see a lack of Public Transportation the most because its just not there. And i feel particularly in my district that its really lacking. Theres a few lines that are running and i want to thank m. T. A. For getting the 43 line back and running. Thats one of the few lines that we have now that go up on the hill a little bit. Theres no plans to bring back in some. And if you take the area around parkson, that when you cut off the line with the 57, youre pretty much like the desert there and so in rethinking and it seems that 57 and other lines like that are not in t ....