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Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state and fed...

I want to make sure to note some important environment. Standing house and Committee Rules will continue to apply during the hearings. All members are reminded to adhere to the standing rules including the quorum. With that said im designated by the speaker the committee will operate in accordance with 965 under strict it guidance from the rules committee to respect the rights of all members who participate. House regulations require members to be visible throughout a video connection during the...

Because its better to expect them, anticipate them and do all in our power to prepare for them. Since we last heard the item and gave our responses to the civil grand jury on the recommendation, i authored an additional resolution on the topic that was enacted on november 27 of last year. Among other things, resolution 48419 urged the department of emergency management, sfpuc, the Fire Department to provide consolidated report to the board of supervisors on the state of the citys preparedness fo...

Been happening out there. We received word that officials are planning to close down a city jail in the middle of all of this. Well talk about the timing. Back here in the new york area, there are some in business who are now saying that new york city is among the worst places in this environment to do business. Well talk about why. Also talk about, when and how that might change. It is all coming up coast to coast on a wednesday. Edward lawrence starts us off on the aforementioned drug price wa...

Pictures of moscows moon rocket images that were to be among the soviet unions most closely guarded state secrets. And pictures of cars minots training for a moon landing in the socalled star city near moscow the soviet union was determined to beat the United States in the race to put a man on the moon a race that would cost russian and american lives. The russians had always set the pace but in the end they ultimately lost the 20th centurys most prestigious race. Opened in 1957 Baikonur Cosmodr...

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. As we begin our final day of consideration of the fy21 spending bills, id like to thank you all for your kind words and well wishes and ask you, please, to indulge me in just a few more reflections. I came to congress in 1989, one of just 31 women in the house and senate and to this committee in 1993 alongside only six other women under the 64member panel. This body is better for the 100 women serving in the 116th congress and for the many wome...

Published in scranton, pennsylvania. Always a tough coal mining economy there. Scranton, pennsylvania at 15 , but you know it is much higher. Normal, andre near willech will it directly address this American Labor economy. Sequentialespite the month on month improvement we have seen, we expect to see some elevated jobless claims again in around 90 minutes. One of the main things people are looking at is the continuing claims, which are expected to tick lower, a good thing, but not that much lowe...

Heres the markets performance this thursday morning. Not paying much attention to those jobless numbers. We are going to be down pretty much across the board. The dow industrials on the down side to the tune of 200. The s p down about 20. The nasdaq, not much of a loss there, down 12 points. Now, ive got some negatives to lay out for you. This may be a negative. Several states report big spikes in virus cases following their reopening. Its the second wave worry. Number two, medical authorities i...

One hundred thousand cases a day. New york expanding the list of states on quarantine list as well. Markets this morning the first day of the Third Quarter, futures indicating this morning we are going to see a decline at the start of trading to kick off Third Quarter. Dow futures down 109 points and s p futures down 9 and a quarter. Yesterday u. S. Markets closed strong Second Quarter in the green in hope of additional stimulus. S p 500 yesterday up 47 points at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Mark...

Two very distinguished attorney generals. This part of the series the Constitution Center is doing at the National Association of attorney generalg plated and it would likeo to thank these peope for helping us put together this program. Please remember to put your questions in the q a box has are talking. I will introduce them as we are moving along. And i know we are going to have a great discussion. We have to extraordinarily distinguished attorney generals. They will guide us but some questio...