Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
Everyone. Today, im joined by our Secretary Department of health and i also want to thank the president and Vice President and hhs for all of their hard work recently. Phone call with other governors with the Vice President. Talked about testing and supplies. They also are sending us a shipment of remdesivir. It is an antiviral medicine for our very worst cases. Supplies will be coming in later this month later this week. We appreciate them sending as a shipment we will be able to utilize. I wanted to test to touch base on smithfield. That is good for those who want to get back to work and for our producers and our state. I was able to talk with members of the workforce on two different occasions last week. It was a very good, thoughtful discussion. I appreciated them taking the time to be on the call. To thank the team at Lutheran Social Services and the services they provided. They were so professional and wonderful. We just want to thank them for being available to facilitate the co
Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
You have these people they commit you single offense many years ago since then i mean obviously from the just shows how your trust we have in i were in criminal Justice System. This is the weekly here on our to you welcome to our roundup of the days news along with the headlines that shape the week. Now its the final day of the Munich Security Conference on sunday russias foreign minister told europe that its time to change course arguing that moscows International Partners need to stop invoking the false phantom of a russian threat Sergey Lavrov used his address to call with the us with the details heres peter all over. So to get allow for all of the Russian Foreign minister he gave a very quick address to the Munich Security Conference he did say that when it came to improving relationships with europe as some european leaders have been speaking about iraq this years security conference there remained what mr laffer of called a crisis of confidence the course of confidence is being f