We are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This is the third virtual subCommittee Hearing and the ways and Means Committee. As with our previous hearings i want members to know that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantial debate, substantive debate, even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with the Ranking Member, mr. Smith, and his staff to ensure that the rights of all members are resected in these new virtual formats. Before i turn to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedural to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee willfi keep microphones needed to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for a fiveminute statement. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras
1, 1, 6, on highway one 28 as you just saw in that video we were here when the building collapsed before. Then you can still see flames and sparks and smoke has been happening for hours and told of this fire actually started yesterday so its going on 24 hours of burning. And firefighters are going to stay year making sure that it doesnt. All because that is the main concern making sure that that doesnt turn into even bigger fire now, lets talk about what this building is its a business. Its called leave now its an alternative Academic Program for people who want to take a gap year. Its run by Organization Called youth past passageways as property caught fire yesterday has been actively burning according to its website though the 2 year college increases includes traveling abroad, india and latin america, treats and internships with those academics. This is one of 206 structures that burn in the can kate fire does saying to see earlier i saw home those completely burned to the ground ve
union pacific railroad says the ml mo is that criminals kirk target that stopped at the unload in downtown la and they steal what is valuable and leav the rest, the boxes are from amazon, ups, fedex, and other companies. union pacific says they ve hire more security and taken several other steps to address this criminal activity. but if the miles and miles of tracks or any indication, the security has fallen a few steps short. here is the union pacific subcontractor. what we have behind us is a travesty. its lawlessness and it needs to be tougher on law and order out here in la. and basically across the 50 states. mainly right now in la. i ve been with this company for eight years and i ve never seen it like this in my entire eight years spread. mister rodriguez goes on to paint a wild west image of the bandits who attacked these trains saying if the criminals don t care if the train is
inequality that you re seeing in california and in other states over a year ago, we were anticipating over 54 billion dollar budget deficit. half of california s fair. we ve dedicated 100 billion dollar surplus and putting it back into communities, and helping small businesses in providing golden stimulus. is and what you will see tomorrow what this election outcome is the governor leading on this outcome, and how he s letting those communities get back, and how he s managed throughout the course of the pandemic but the quality is certainly what we re going to have to be dealing for a long time. i think the governor here is has his leadership on display on what he could do. right okay he the campaign manager for governor gavin newsom, they are tempting a recall the last day to vote tomorrow. if you are watching this and you live in california you could still. vote so go do that. thank you mister rodriguez. merging strategy among some