And hours long session on the critical measure that could pave the way for President Bidens 1. 9 trillion relief package. Jillian Griff Jenkins has a breakdown, you always win. Reporter more exciting than watching the super bowl you can watch your senate hard at work on votearama. Theyve been at this since 2 30 p. M. Yesterday. It is a timehonored tradition where the Minority Party forces the Majority Party to endure endless amendments putting senators on the record. Any senator can offer an amendment to the Budget Measure and so far 850 have been filed and as we have seen overnight more than 30 reached a roll call voice vote on the floor. Unclear when the ends. We are told maybe in an hour or so. We will keep you posted. Some amendments pass, others fail. When it did pass, senators todd young, proposal to block Illegal Immigrants from getting stimulus checks. It was adopted but 42 lawmakers voted against it and some of the issues which range from tax increases on Small Businesses to t
Im director crust call. Crystal. Welcome to todays program with former congresswoman katie hill. Her new book, shes arrived. She will be in conversation with [inaudible] if youd like to ask either of them a question during this programming you can do that in either the comment or chat section of the live stream that youre watching. The Commonwealth Club has temporarily suspended inperson events, but during this pandemic we are running full speed ahead with a full slate of programs. Most of these programs are free to the public, we do ask that you consider donating to help us continue our work. You can visit us at commonwealthclub. Org online to learn more, and you can also text the word donate to 4153294321 life during this program live during this program. Now, please join me in welcoming katie hill. Thanks. Im nina kim, and im the cohost of the live talk show forum, and today i get to be in conversation with katie hill. Katie served as u. S. Representative for californias 25th Congre
2014, alicia garzer wrote a Facebook Post that changed the world and created a movement, it read black people, i love you, i love us, all lives matter, black lives matter. That continues today. Tonight alicia garzer and Chris Jackson will discuss resistance and resilience and how they ground the work in the vision, every day people are powerful enough to end practices that are unfairly Holding Black people back and harming our country and we Champion Solutions that move us forward. In the last few weeks we held help 6 Million People take action for racial justice, both an important conversation. Chris jackson, one world editor in chief will kick us off. Thank you very much for being here with us. Cant imagine who i would rather be talking to tonight. Alicia garzer, one of our countrys most powerful who can speak particularly well at this moment. I want to thank color change for working with us on this project tonight and people who have been so active in getting it organized. To take a
And again, its at the early stages but i did see the announcement and would very much like that to be included in future updates. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Ok, Public Comment is closed and there is no action to be taken and so we can move on to the next item. Item 6, allocate 11,230,724 in sale tax funds and 1,043,89, 1,043,898 and double a Registration Fee fund with conditions. This is an action item. Miss leport. Good morning. Chair, are you able to see my slides . Yes, we are. Super. So the first of the three requests presented today is for the annual funding that the sale tax Program Provides to the paraprogram and weve been supporting this Program Since 2004 and there are a suite of services that mta offers as part of the Paratransit Program, most of which are still operating, of course, with declining ridership or lower ridership to the tune of 70 to 80 overall. Over the la
Difficulties that the city is having and im hoping that wed be able to try this out and we can review this as we go along to see if this is not the appropriate hypothesis so follow. Thank you vex. Thank you very much. Any other questions . Id like to note that dr. Hammer who several times weve called out to noted in the chat she is listening to the call, but shes away from the office for a while. Im not sure if shes on vacation or leave, but extends her apologies for not being able to respond, but is listening. We wish her well with what is going on. We can move on to the next item. Other business. Im going to put myself into any comments or questions, commissioners . If there is no other business, we can entertain a motion for adjournment. So moved. Second. All right. I will do roll call. Commissioner bernal . Yes. Commissioner chow . Yes. Commissioner christian . Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chung . Yes. Commissioner guillermo . Yes. And i would like to congratulate co