Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Let me start by saying that as i indicated yesterday, ill think it is extremely important here in the next couple of months not to have any earthshaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. I think a precipitous drawdown in either afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake. I have so said publicly yesterday. And i hope that is precisely where these discussions end up. It is hard not to be really excited about the two new vaccines. Senator blunt was very much involved in that part of the cares act. If you look at the effectiveness of the cares act, it has to be one of the most dramatic and effective pieces of legislation ever passed by congress. And i would remind everyone that it passed first in the Republican Senate and then was approved on a voice vote by the house. I am focusing on the next couple of months. We hope to get on with the appropriation. I believe the speaker would like to do that. I would like to do that. Hopefully that will be the view of the administration a
Private companies who have worked together in record te to get theseaccineso the point where hopefully we will be able to get them out to the American People andtart t good work, the hard work of ensuring that we are doing everything we can to beat this virus. We have our job and wt to do here in congress and our response ability and i think congress should pass the conavirus relief bill which hapassed the senate or should i say has drawn a majority of support not once but twice and it is a targeted bill and fiscally responsible bill that deals with schools and healthcare and the ppp program which benefits Small Businesses all across country and it could become law. The House Democrats and the democrats here in the senate for that matter seem insistent on clinging to this multitrillion dollar liberal wish list that she put out there even as their majority, democrat majority in house continues to shrink by the day. If nothing else, i think the market people were sending a message that t
Welcome to Washington Post live. This is a special live freak recording of my post opinion podcast. We have a lot to talk about with my guest today. She has been her states secretary of health. She has represented her state in congress. On today, she is said to be joe bidens Vice President ial short list. Governor grisham, welcome. Governor grisham i am delighted to be on your show. Nice to meet you and spend a little time with you. Jonathan likewise. Thank you for being here. I mentioned that you were the health secretary. You were a member of congress. They gave you incredible insight how to deal with the coronavirus early on. You declared a state wide Health Emergency on when there were march 11 only four cases in your state. What did you see that pushed you to move so quickly . Governor grisham two things, you know this virus is moving so it comes with travelers. We have commuters. We are a moving hub. We are still dealing with folks trapped on a cruise in california and i dealt wi
In a governor want to take but saving lives is a very easy go goal. My goal is to be unequivocally focused saving lives and protecting them. Good afternoon. Welcome to Washington Post live. This is also a special recording, a live recording my Public Opinion podcast. We have a lot to talk about my guest today, she has represented her state in congress and today shes said to be on joe bidens Vice President ial list, she is new mexico governor, michelle griffith. Welcome. Im delighted to be on your show. Nice to meet you and spend time with you. Likewise. Thank you for being here. I mentioned your the health secretary, a member of congress because they gave you incredible insight and how to deal with the coronavirus early on. You declared a state wide of emergency march 11 when there were only four cases in your state. What did you see that pushed you to move so quickly. Two things, you know this virus is moving so it comes with travelers. We are still dealing with folks trapped on a cru