Good afternoon everyone. And welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. My name is sheri albers and this meeting is now in order. Today is friday, may 19, 2023. This is a inperson and virtual hybrid meeting. This meeting is broadcast to the public on sfgovtv, and it is open captioned and asl interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds 10 Public Meetings per year, and they are generally held on the third friday of the month. Please visit the mod website at www. Sf. Gov mod or call the mayor office of disability at 4155545678. For more information or email sorry. Mod sf. Gov, for any accommodations you may need. Our next regular meeting will be friday june 16, 2023. From 1 oclock to 4 oclock right here in this room, which is room 400 in San Francisco city hall. I dont know if i mentioned that is where we are at. It is also going to be hybrid meeting and broadcast on sfgovtv. We thank you for joining us and we are glad you are here. Okay, mary, could you please conduct the rol
Mark dayton announced he chose tina smith to fill senator al franken seat until the november election to complete the final two years of senator frankens term. We will likely hear remarks about senate designate tina smith on the floor of the senate today. Live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, thank you that our lifes pilgrimage is a process and discovery. Open our eyes today that we may see wonderful things in your precepts, gaining wisdom from your word. Help our lawmakers to strive to ensure that their thoughts, words, and deeds will please you. Today, we surrender to your providence, trusting you to order our steps. Lord, teach us to illuminate our world with the wisdom of your divine insights so that your will may be done on earth. Transform lifes deserts so that they blossom like roses. Bring Flowing Spr
Allies of every single american for an entire generation. Now, last night the people of alabama elected a new senator who represents washington. Republicans control the senate face a choice. Will they allow senatorelect doug jones to take a seat among his colleagues before a a final vote on their taxct plan . We actually know something about that kind of choice in my home state of massachusetts. On january 19, 2010, massachusetts elected a new senator to represent them here in washington. The result was just as shocking to democrats as last night result was to republicans. It also came when we were in the middle of another historically important policy debate here in washington,a healthcare. A lot of people thought the democrats should ram through the final version of their bill in congress before brown could be seated. Now, i could stand your and read you a quote after quote after quote from republicans who now control the senate talking about how unfair that would be. How corrupt tha
That share of votes i make. Host and the vote the federal Communications Commission negated the obama era net brutality rules governing Internet Service providers. In this edition of the committee getters we will look at arguments on each side of the issue at the potential effects moving forward. Brian fung of the washington post, in your late story this morning you write that this vote will allow internet providers to speed up service from websites they favor and block or slowed and others. Is it that, or is it the regulatory light touch that chairman pai talked about . Guest its both indepth the fcc just decide to rollback rules that were implemented as you said in 2015, and in doing so the fcc will return to a regulatory structure that they argue serves the internet well for decades and represents a light touch on industry. That same approach will potentially allow internet providers to speed up some websites, slowdown others. Even if they decide not to do that right away its concei
Underserved rural areas. People who have games would be able to also suffer into for them through investment opportunities. Other state helped wreck capital towards underserved areas to incentivize progress. The historical tax credit that one is a fascinating approach so that you can list the areas that struggle. You get the dollars flowing in the direction in a smart way. One thing we want to regret is that we focus on reform. We need to continue the discussion which is why i say the tax reform is not over and another thing while we are talking about that, we are saying to china, canada, mexico, this isnt going to happen we are not going to fall behind before we respond again we will do what it takes to keep our american competitors competitive keeping the code better for families and workers. Theres no question thats the argument i made earlier about locational Vocational Education and the whole notion of the new markets tax credit. There were opportunities with the block grant money