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Health director doctor grant colfax says that San Francisco will run out of icu beds in the coming weeks. Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area is around 24 . A number of Health Leaders across the bay area say they dont want to take any chances. So stay at home orders will also go into effect tonight for people who live in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California because those regions have already fallen below the 15 icu bed capacity in less than an hour the stay at home order will go into effect for 3 bay area counties. Those are San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. Today, restaurants and hair salons and east bay took advantage of a last minute rush of customers before they are fo ....
Is still being done. Todays talk is the eighth this calendar year and we have one more in november when we will hear from charles stuart, Political Science professor at m. I. T. , longtime friend and supporter of this center who will talk about his coauthored book about electing the senate and direct democracy before the 17th amendment. That ought to be a pretty good talk. I have been looking forward to hosting todays guests. Since i first saw her in action at last years policy history conference chairing a panel that included members and that will include a tax historian who is in the audience today. Thank you for attending, carl. And we will hear from carl soon. Molly is an associate professor of history at Washington University and received her ph. D. Degree from the university of michigan. She is the author of the highly regarded tax and spend, the welfare state ....
Learn about the history of women in congress. Of a second of a two part program we begin the story beginning in the 19 with Republican Congress one woman claire recluse. On the curator for the house of representatives. That means i take a care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork objects that document the houses rich heritage. And that was a risky on the horse historian of the house and my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data, and historicless, to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house which is very big Old Institution in a way that people can connect with it at a human level. So we do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense. A very large institution. Today, we ....
Good afternoon, everyone. When the senate last acted with regard to covid19 back in march and april, we had at that point added about 3 trillion to the national debt. We then, of course, ended up with a debt the size of our economy for the First Time Since world war ii which is, in and of itself, concerning. And so i said i thought we needed to push the pause button, again, to see the impact of the cares act and related acts passed during that period. See how we did when the economy began to reopen and take another look at what the country needed in july. Weve been we, meaning Senate Republicans and the administration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal with what we think an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be added to the economy at this time. We think it is a ....
Regard to covid19 back in march and april, we had at that point added about 3 trillion to the national debt. We then, of course, ended up with a debt the size of our economy for the First Time Since world war ii, which is in and of itself concerning. So i said, i felt we needed to push the pause button, begin to see the impact of the cares act and related acts during that period. To see how we did when the economy began to reopen and take another look at what the country needed in july. Weve been we meaning Senate Republicans and the administration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal with what we think is an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be added to the economy at this time. We think it is about a trillion dollars and weve allocated that in a way that we thi ....