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
Its getting worse and daria false and im James Fletcher before we get to that coverage that its quickly update on weather and traffic with john and robin hopefully no hot spots, no hot spots here right we are hot spot free. But weve had problems out there theyre mostly out of the way well check in on the bridges and some east bay front lights, ok and we can finally see some changes in the forecast today, yeah got to get hot spot free and whether to because now were just all of the cool spots again. A few weeks left to windsor and mother natures like wow i better get some winter going for you guys looking out there at the golden gate bridge, definitely a stark difference from yesterday when it was Crystal Clear. This morning, a pretty grave you as low clouds hover across the bay area in general so it is a great start to the morning skies introduce some bits of brightness later on this morning that it will be some sunny skies later just wait a bit for it thats going help to keep temperat
90s. He will be serving up the first pitch tonight. I like that call by the way. Well done. He was a batboy for the oakland as and he is a big as fan and he will be there with all of as nation. And the as probably remember the wildcard game against the yankees so this era different season and different vibe and different players. Tickets Still Available . The tickets may still be available, while her game tonight expect a sellout crowd at the coliseum for this one and the team is opening up mount davis which means 56,000 fans on hand to watch sean minaya take the mound for the as, he spent the first five months of the regular season on the injured list but he has been lights out since returning september 1. It means a lot. In a it was a lot of work and it was crazy hard getting here but now here i am glad they continue to have faith in me and im thankful for the opportunity. It is going to be awesome. Minaya did not lose a home game of the month of september and the Tampa Bay Rays coun
hello, good to have you with us. the united states is lifting the requirement for international travellers to have a covid test within 2a hours of boarding their flights from this sunday. the need for testing will be re evaluated every three months and could be reinstated if a new variant emerges. the move ends one of the last restrictions related to the pandemic in the us, where a more than a million people have died from covid. our new york business correspondent michelle fleury told me more about this latest announcement. the timing of this cannot be better for americans getting ready for their summer holidays. it means if they want to leave the country and travel to europe, they don t have to worry about getting stranded abroad. that was certainly something that the airline industry had been lobbying the administration about, saying it was creating hesitancy amongst americans who were nervous that they would then be out of pocket if they got stuck overseas with a positive
Order. We are certainly pleased to have our Witnesses Today and to the members of the committee. We are going to all try to minimize the time we spend talk so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with instances that involves passengers even as recently as yesterday but one of the most rightly and purported instances was with chicago flight 9411 and lots of lessons to be learned and im sure we are going to hear what some of those Lessons Learned both with the airport and airline and the industry are today and looking at what happened to Sarah Cantwell and i along with mr. Nelson, senator nelson really sent an immediate letter in that letter said the last thing of paying Airline Customer should expect this to be physically taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent, the responses we got and really to out what went wrong and what are we going to do to be sure that doe