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Good morning. This is the regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. This meeting will now come to order. Supervisor london breed will be the chair of this meeting and to my right is supervisor tang the vicechair and president david chiu. The Committee Clerk is eric and i would like to thank sfgovtv, mr. Jim smith, who will be facilitating sfgov on our behalf. Madame clerk, do you have any newms. Please make sure to science all electronic devices, completed speaker card and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the...

The vicechair and president david chiu. The Committee Clerk is eric and i would like to thank sfgovtv, mr. Jim smith, who will be facilitating sfgov on our behalf. Madame clerk, do you have any newms. Please make sure to science all electronic devices, completed speaker card and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 7th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Madame clerk we will have the individual civil grand jury reports. We will hold them individually and have Public Comment for each one. Can you please call...

The two remaining witnesses on the panels are noshow. They were invited, accepted the invitations and confirmed them of their attendance and we informed them the hearing will proceed so it is unfutunate they have chosen not to chose this official hearing. We will go ahead with the witnesses who did proceed. Thank you very much for coming down from rhode island for this hearing. Thank you. It as a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I am an associate professor at the Brown University center for health. I earned by doctorate from ha r hararharava harvard. Shortte...

Youre always welcome up here. Thank you. Gentleman from florida seek recognition. Yes, thank you. Gentlemans recognized. Mr. Chairman first. Thank you. And our presenters i perceive and believe that mr. Pallone and mr. Shuster are two good friends of mine here in congress. And im deeply appreciative of them all the time. Im hopeful of mr. Cramer getting to know you better. On this subject, i would echo the sentiments of my good friend. It does appear just listening to you, and this is the second time ive had that opportunity that you certainly do know your subject. And i, for one am appreciati...

And so basically, my opinion ill conclude that we dont need tar sands because of the Carbon Pollution that comes from it. We have our own sources of oil. Were using less oil because our cars are more efficient. The pipeline isnt going to help lower gas prices or enhance our Global Security or fight Climate Change. For all these reasons i oppose the bill and request that the committee grant an open rule allowing amendments to be offered, at a minimum. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate your consciousness, not only being here and taking time to be a witness today, but also it is good t...