Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via 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 on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
A 3rd stage of vaccine trials here and russia argues for spawn it becomes one of the 1st in the country to get the shot. This morning and i got a call from the creamy stain i am an ideal candidate here this is your vaccine theres not much in there but it looks like a couple of drops out im ready. To International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 4 welcome to the program. Russian Opposition Leader of the of not only has been discharged from the hospital in berlin where he was being treated following an alleged poisoning doctors say they hope he will make a full recovery but the details heres peter all for. Alexina familys conversation is much improved in fact weve seen pictures from his Instagram Account and what cheese open about out of the hospital and in a park here in the german capital it says attached to the picture that hell be working with physiotherapists as he recovers from his stay in hospital we had seen videos previously of him walking about
Responsible for overseeing Nursing Homes to testify today. She was offered dates and times of her choice this month and next month. She was offered the opportunity to come in person or appear virtually from her desk. Administration, which seems more terrified of transparency and accountability then covid19, has declined to provide any witness with the courage to face the responsibility for the thousands of deaths that have occurred. These were send a crisis that existed long before covid19 occurred. We will learn from a nurse who took it on herself to purchase protective equipment with her own funds for her staff. Including preventing evictions and appropriate settings. Like sending nursing home residents to homeless shelters. Thousands of nursing home residents are being evicted across the country to homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings because there is a natural incentive for some homes to take more lucrative patients. We will get their perspective. Much of this crisis
Nursing homes. We are joining this hearing in progress. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. As one basis for work authorization. U. S. Cis has used deferred action in medical and humanitarian cases for decades. The idea is longstanding, and, in fact, customary. In one data set i received in 2011, nearly half of the cases i could identify involved serious medical conditions. And many of the cases involved more than one factor. For example, deferred action was granted to a 47yearold schizophrenic who overstayed his visa, was the son of a lawful perm resident, and had siblings who were u. S. Citizens. Over 100 of these cases involved people whose homes were destroyed by an earthquake in haiti. In another data set, a 578 cases obtained from u. S. Cis in 2013, 336 were based on medical issues. One case involved a mexican female who entered the United States without inspection and had two u. S. Citizen children. One of her children had down syndrome, and the other child had serious medic
Normal because members voted in eight separate groups to keep social distancing. Speaker nancy pelosi says the new funding should help more women and minorities, veterans, native americans and Rural Businesses along with hospitals. All of it in interest of Job Retention and first and foremost to address the key issue of health. However, Banking Industry groups say the 310 billion that was added to the paycheck protection act may already be spoken for. They say that money may go to businesses that were already in the pipeline. On wall street a rally faded after a report that gilly gets drug was ineffective as a treatment for covid19. The dow had been up 400 points and ended with a gain of 39 points the nasdaq was down a fraction and the s p lost a point. The Labor Department says another 4. 4 million americans filed for unemployment last week. The new claims bring the total u. S. Job losses to more than 26 million for the coronavirus shutdown. Here in california the four weeks total is