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Aid package in congress. The House Financial Services meeting is just over two hours. The i plan to continue the hearing if votes are called. Both of you have agreed to be here for two hours from the start of the hearing, and i thank you. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee anytime. The members and arresting those witnesses to the First Full Committee Hearing conducted by the committee on financial services. As the congress breaks new ground with these hearings, i want to ...

Meeting. Madame clerk, would you please call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer present. Han haney . Well return. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston well return. Ronen present. Safai. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Haney present. Safai okay. I received a message that supervisor preston is having trouble signing in. So we will make a note of that, mr. President. And the minute on which he arrives. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Please...

During these unprecedented and uncertain times, and thank you to the industry for your support and your continued support and for coming out with your questions and being certainly engaged in this process. So first i want to thank our esteemed guests today. We have treasury fiona mah. We have state senator scott weiner and Senior Advisor to the governor, nicole eliot, and i will briefly read their bios for you and then we are going to sort of jump into it. I know we have about an hour. I want to...

Announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, city employers and members of public, the board of spo ifs sortss legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee meeting will attend the meeting during 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 of this agenda. For both channel 2...

Present. We condition the presence of racism and not as individual acts of discrimination but as social force. One that has brought us to this particular point in history. Joining me now by skype is stanford establishment e ofessor of psychology st roberts professor roberts thank you for joining us. Ro thank you. Ssor roberts myself included would say we are not racist but you say onthe co use of the term racism is too narrow. How do you and other acemics define racism. We define racism as a sys...

Fanning even before the heat really ramps up. Were hot blooded that way, kari. Yeah, you always talk about it, but i think all of the talk prepares you for whats ahead. We are still going to have a beautiful, comfortable day. And its been super windy. Were still going to have the high winds coming through parts of the east bay as we get a live look at dublin. Temperatures start out in the mid to upper 50s and were going to see it warming up into the low 70s today. This will be another day where ...

The subcommittee meeting will come to order. I want to thank everybody for coming. Ive got a fairly short statement that i will read and then i will turn to senator coons. Were obviously convening under different circumstances than our previous meeting. Were following the guidance of the cdc and the office of attending physician, so were spaced further apart. Our staff is reduced, but were grateful for all of them. The general public is watching online rather than filling up the room. So our hea...

Technology is a major part of our lives. Its utility that we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible into the future, that we are efficient in a use of energy. It enables our society i think to be far more productive than our 20th century industrial age. We were looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected. And what our smart cities caucus does is it looks at four different areas of how communities are connected. One is connectivity. The other pr...

[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold ch...

Present. We condition the presence of racism and not as individual acts of discrimination but as social force. One that has brought to this particular point in history. Joining me now by skype is stanford establishment professor of psychology steve you for joing us. Roberts thank thank you. Professor roberts myself included would say we ciare not but you say the common use of the term racism is too narrow. How do you and other academics define racism. We define racism as a system of advantage ba...