The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to our first Budget Hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Congress Justice in science, and related agencies for this fiscal year, 2021. We have the honor of hearing from secretary of commerce, wilbur ross about the president s for the department of commerce. Welcome secretary ross for your appearance. We look forward to hearing from you this morning. As we, know the department of commerce executes a broad range of critical activities for our nation, things that are important to every american, things that are important to us as members of the senate, and issues that we care a lot about. Research and development, Cutting Edge Technology for predicting the weather, increasing trade and investment, recruiting businesses to our communities. The census has been an essential component of the departments business for the last several years. The president s request is eight billion dollars, 6. 7 billion below the fy 20 enacted level,
[gavel]. Clerk president hirsch. We are back in open session. You still have a quorum. President hirsch okay. Thank you. Next item. Clerk line item 10, vote to disclose any or all items in closed session. San francisco code 67. 12 a. President hirsch is there a motion not to disclose . Motion. Second. President hirsch all in favor . Opposed . Public comment. Okay. Next item. Clerk line item 11, adjournment. President hirsch okay. Do i have a motion . So moved. President hirsch do i have a second . Second. President hirsch thank you all. I view San Francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. I just love the city. I love everything about it. When im away from it, i miss it like a person. I grew up in San Francisco kind of all over the city. We had pretty much the run of the city cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would in the summer, wed all all the way down to aquatic park, and wed walk down to the library, to the kids center. In those days, the city was s
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, it has been two years now as they say in d. C. , the days are long, but the years are short and i can certainly agree with that. Its abouten quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and understanding of what we need to do. If i can get my slides up, please. Well, when we get our slides up, thats okay. So i am the 16th assistan
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county transportation forth. Our clerk is mr. Albertta kintania. Can you please call the role. role call we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any question on december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve said minutes. On that motion made and seconded, a role call, please. role call the item is approved. Next item. Item 3, election of chair and vice chair for the year 2020. This is an action item. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Is there a motion, commissioner xi. I would like to make a motion to nominate erin peskin. Seconded. Any other nominations . Nobody wants the job. Seeing none, we will close the nominations and on that motion made and seconded, can we do that same house, same call im sorry, commissioner furer. I meant to put my name on the next item. Same house, same call. Than
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for Sickle Cell Disease. Dr. Giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. Lead america to healthier lives. I want to thank Africa Worldwide for partnering on this. With that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Mr. Giroir thank you v