Congressional Budget Office testify before the Senate Subcommittee on physical response ability and Economic Growth. Thank you all for participating. I think it will be good. Im sorry we cannot have it in a more, what to say, a more kind of formal setting because it may have been better because im not sure if there is any hearing we have that was more important than this. Our Witnesses Today will be philip schlagel, director of the congressional Budget Office and jean todaro who is the comptroller general of the United States and head of the u. S. Government accountability office. With that i will make my Opening Statement and then turned to maggie, my Ranking Member, and then Ranking Member wyden for the entire committee has a statement he would like to make as well. Again, thank you all for being here and im grateful to all who are there during us by internet. Todays hearing will address the topic that was shied away from Syrian Refugees and when it comes to our health we make choice
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Turnoff their microphone. In fact, ill ask all to turnoff their microphones. Okay. Were getting feedback from someone playing back the sfgov delayed broadcast. Josey, if you can move your cursor to take away the floating menu bar. Okay. Welcome to the meeting of the Planning Commission on february 16, 2020. I will remind the public that on february 26, the mayor declared a state of emergency. As we a and then, she declared that we may hold meetings remotely. Some tips to keep in mind. We are learning that there are problems with the at t bridge conference line. It is extremely finicky and has a limited capacity, so as a result, were asking members of the public calling in through the 800 public line is to call in once essentially. Call in and follow the hearing. Every time someone calls in, hangs up, and calls back counts against the city. In the event that our at t bridge fails, we may be forced to recess and call back in. However, this should not take too long, about five minutes at