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Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
Economic Recovery Task force of which both ben and i are members and im also the policy lead and i have support from dylan on staff and Ben Van Houten as a colead in providing support for the entertainment policy working group within the economic Recovery Task force. I have much more to tell you. So strap in, im sorry, a lot has happened. But weve also been working with the industry and fostered goodwill during the pandemic. So we worked on this dear s. X. Campaign and a lot of you took part in. So thank you for that. And then, finally, we have been exploring legal pathways to safely allow Outdoor Entertainment activities to start again under the health order. So i will keep you apprised of that effort. But were essentially proposing possible entertainment pathways within the shared spaces program. Essentially activating outdoor property potentially suspending certain portions of police code within this emergency to allow for an expansion of what your premises would be considered as to
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