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Good morning. The cynic in me to help education letter pensions will please come to order. This is another bipartisan hearing which is what most of our hearings are which means senator murray and ive agreed on the subject and on the witnesses. In fact, i would say every member of this committee would probably agree on the subject and a witnesses today. Because this is hearing entitled implementation of the 21st century cures act, progress and the path forward for medical innovation to from dr. F...

[ is distinct conversations ]. And live here this morning on c spann span 3, a discussion about transparency and oversight at the food and Drug Administration. Well be hearing from dr. Scott gottlieb starting off the conference. Introductions under way. Efforts to pass and implement the food safety modernization act, focus on medical devices, especially the potential of using the unique device identifier to improve monitoring devices throughout the product lifecycle. We have successfully worked ...

Heartedly believe in this bill. Its a wonderful intersection of gender and class, which always go together. You know, it has been you know, the fight has been a long one and even now as the fight still goes on. I dont think we should think that, you know, that Lgbt Community members have, you know, have perfect safety everywhere they go. Just, you know, like just what happened in los angeles, you know, someone killed a transgender woman. So, i think its really great that were doing this bill and...

Subcommittee on health and subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on veteran homelessness. I want to apologize for being late. I had another obligation in my responsibility on the budget committee. My colleague, chair of the Health Subcommittee wont be able to make it so im going to preside. We have subcommittee brownlee and her capable leadership and my friend from texas and Ranking Member on the subcommittee for Economic Opportunity is joining me as well. We have our chairman joining us so thank...

Sponsors of the mayor, ronen, sheehy and cohen. Are you speaking on this one . Jeff, director of the department of homelessness, i welcome you to the mic. The floor is yours. I dont need to tell you or member of the public, were in the midst of a humanitarian crisis on our streets in San Francisco. We currently have approximately 7500 people experiencing homelessness on any given night, 4300 or 58 of the Homeless Population in San Francisco is literally unsheltered. The other the remaining popul...

Smith and maya hernandez. I guess as everyone was ploting to become the next mayor of San Francisco, i was secretly plotting to become our next chair of the Land Use Committee. So, im supervisor katie tang, your new Land Use Committee chair. Vice chair for life. [laughter] all right. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be sub...

Held a hearing on the growing problem of individuals buying illicit opioids over the internet and shipping them to the United States through the mail. The Opioid Crisis, sadly, continues to get worse, not better. Last month, the center for Disease Control reported that more than 63,000 americans died in 2016 from Drug Overdoses. Indications are that number increased in 2017. These Overdose Deaths are shocking. The number of deaths continue to grow. My own home state of ohio, we were told recentl...

Ridding protesters fought with police in the capital nairobi and were going to begin it was taken from his home in it all right those are the headlines stay with us and next its counting the cost. Aljazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone im still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. As im sick of this is counting the cost on ...

Andre yanku to be director of the u. S. Patent and trademark office, a confirmation vote scheduled for 5 30 eastern this afternoon. Later this week, a shortterm government funding bill to keep federal operations running past thursday is expected to come to the floor. We will have live coverage here on cspan2. O order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god our rock, we look to you for safety in a chaotic world. Were grateful that you hear our...

Vice chair for life. [laughter] all right. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items asked upon today will appear on the february 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. All right. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call the first item . Item number one, establishing the gary mason...