Senate Health Education Labor Pensions Committee will please come to order. Today we are holding a hearing supporting needs of students under higher education during covid19 and safely returning to campus. We will have an Opening Statement and then we have witnesses. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each of five minutes for a round of questions. While we remain to have the hearing fully open to the public or media for inperson attendance, live video is available on our website and if you need of accommodations of closed captions, you can reach out to the committee or the offices of congressional accessibility surfaces. This pandemic has affected higher education and so many different ways. College and university of us have had to close services. Implement critical public health measures overall Spring Enrollment fell to 6. 9 million from 17 and a half million, marking a 600,000 decline. Meanwhile, this pandemic has disrupted students classrooms, challenged their
This meeting will come to order. This is the april 14, 2021 budget and appropriations committee meeting. Im matt haney, the chair of the committee, and im joined by President Walton and Supervisor Ronen and mar and we may be joined by Supervisor Safai. Our clerk is miss Linda Wong and i would like to thank those from sfgovtv for broadcasting the meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency, the legislative Chamber And Committee room are closed. However, the members will be participating in the meeting remotely. And this precaution is taken pursuant to the local state and orders and declarations and orders. They will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda, channel 26, 78, 89 and they are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak du
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killers could be stopped. illinois democratic governor joins me exclusively. plus, safe and legal? president biden signs an executive order on abortion rights but says the best options for frustrated americans are. vote, vote, vote, vote. will voters agree with him in november that republicans have overreached ? the governor of new hampshire will be here and unconventional war fair. the justice department says january 6th could have been more deadly. what will the committee reveal in its hearings this week? i ll ask ahead. hello. the state of our union is finding it difficult to relax this summer as we wrap up a holiday, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable. the divide over abortion rights, unease over the economy, an election lie that s getting more entrenched. but i want to start by talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting at a july 4th parade in highland park, illinois outside chicago. while
as we wrap up a holiday week, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable, the divide over abortion rights, the unease over the economy, an election lie getting more entrenched. we ll talk about all of that, but i want to start today talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting of the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois, outside of chicago. while shattered families are still grappling with all they lost in that senseless slaughter, cnn is learning more about the warning signs from the alleged shooter that despite illinois s red flag law did not prevent him from buying that semi-automatic rifle police say he used last week. the young man spent time at his father s highland park deli growing up, and police were often called to the home for domestic disturbances between the parents. in 2019 police came to briefly confiscate a collection of knives after the then 18-year-old threatened to, quote, kill everyone