Judicial nominations. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Ee ternl god, we are grateful that you continue to rule the universe. We being a knowledge that though wrong seems so strong your purposes will be fulfilled. Lord, we praise you for your promise that in everything you continue to work for the good of those who love you. Mighty god, let your will be done lest our law makers bless our lawmakers. Listen to their prayers. Quench their thirst for your proence with your abiding love. May they not forget the many times you have helped them in the past. We pray in your gracious name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding of
What has motivated you to write this. Who is the intended audience and what purpose . I became interested in the leftward drift of the Democratic Party because it seems to me to be quite radical. Not just for the Democratic Party before the country. I had been a democrat in my College Years and shortly thereafter. I became more conservative over time before becoming a republican joining breitbart and so forth. Even then i have an empathy for the utopian thinking that left does. Im not a utopian myself but i do think that Many Democrats and they went to make the world better and what struck me about the direction of the Democratic Party is it is taking the party in such an extreme direction it risks falling over the cliff pulling the rest of the country with us. To see that leftwing government mismanaged the country and with the lessons of that experiment experience very prominent to guiding politics and i see the american left making some of the same mistakes whether identity politics
The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First, the usual administrative matters like the theater announcements we use to receive, we are getting used to those, we follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeantatarms consulted with all the right people, we are seated 6 feet apart, that means no room for public or the media here but the media is participating and we hope the public is as well. And the videoconference is a real change for the United States senate and a very welcome one because it makes it possible to attract witnesses who have busy schedules on the same day such as today, by video conference, you may remove your masks since were 6 feet apart. The sergeant at arms, press gallery, architect of the capital, capital police, committee staff, Evan Griffiths for their hard work to keep us safe. We will each have an Opening Statement and we turn to our witnesses we thank for being with us today, each witness we ask you summarize
Press star three. Its a little different than other meetings. This time you press star three. Ill remind you when we get to Public Comment each time. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is supervisor catherine. Supervisor stefani and were joined this morning by supervisor Shamann Walton perform our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Before we get started, id like to ask that anybody thats not a member of the committee to temporarily turn off your camera, so your picture is not displayed while were speaking on other items. Todays announcements. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room and legislate i have to turn my camera on. My apologies. [laughter] the board of Supervisors Committee room are closed. However, members will be participat
A look at the self declared police for you so. Im going to craft welcome to the program the u. N. Is warning that the coronavirus pandemic could force millions of children into work economic shutdowns have worsened extreme poverty in many countries now to put food on the table some families are turning to child labor which can be dangerous and exploitation of the Central African republic is a particularly dire example where most of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. Then we say living is old a week in this restaurant in benghazi because people of the Central African republic. That we and his mother fled the war in bunbury in 2017 he works here for 9 hours a day every day for a salary of just 350. 00 francey a faith thats a little less than a year a day after my father was killed my mother is very ill that. I go out to get money so we can buy medicine for my mother so we can treat her and so that we can buy food for us selves. According to the lookout enjoy bounced around