homeland security committee and judiciary committee and rural committee and all of the committees, the rules that i have to say, has been the most civil. it seems like there is a concerted effort by my democratic colleagues, must be coming down from the leadership is my guess. that the whole purpose of this all of 2019 and into 2020 of the impeachment, was to criticize the president of the united states. it starts well with every, the people that they bring forward in the committees, and the accused customs and border protection officers, the child-abuse and negligent homicide, enemy, it is just over the top. and some people at home, including my husband state how can you sit through this. how can you sit through this and listen to this rhetoric over and over again. and you know sometimes it's truly hard. it have to admit it. and you may think i'm doing rhetoric but i am not being are saying outlandish things like i just heard. mr. raskin, i hope you see him if you don't that what you just dead, all of this rhetoric and complaining and criticizing the president, is exactly what we beli

committee. inbrings credentials that -- so many ways. congresswoman maxine waters, and congresswoman emelia velasquez, their two committees have the heart of so much of the matter of what we are talking about small businesses, which are such an important part of our economy. a member of financial services, but the combination of financial services and small businesses is very important. and the chair of the oversight committee, she is on this committee also, a member of the financial services committee. congressman bill foster, a scientist. he brings his eye shade oftality as his big picture the economy of our country as a scientist, and as a small businessperson. then congresswoman jamie raskin, long recognized as a professor of constitutional law, brings is historic perspective and entrepreneurial approach to taking our country in a new direction as we review the disparities that we are seeing now. in congressman andy kim, a freshman member of congress, he brings his national security a veryia

committee? entirely plausible for one to conclude this new select committee will simply turn into partisan witch-hunt aimed at damaging the president. time in the a future when it makes sense to stablish a commission like the 9/11 commission to review the covid-19 pandemic and the government response. actually support doing that at an appropriate time. to such a commission needs be truly bipartisan and devoted we can happened and what learn from it to improve overnment responses for the future. the select committee doesn't meet that test. later i reserve my time, today, the house will be voting on the paycheck protection health care enhancement act. this bipartisan bill is the next to the cares w-up act, which congress passed a few weeks ago. bill includes $310 billion for the paycheck protection program, a critical protecting small employees.and their also includes $75 billion for frontline of he the coronavirus pandemic and a further $25 billion for coronavirus testing. the paycheck protection

committee? entirely plausible for one to conclude this new select committee will simply turn into partisan witch-hunt aimed at damaging the president. time in the a future when it makes sense to stablish a commission like the 9/11 commission to review the covid-19 pandemic and the government response. actually support doing that at an appropriate time. to such a commission needs be truly bipartisan and devoted we can happened and what learn from it to improve overnment responses for the future. the select committee doesn't meet that test. later i reserve my time, today, the house will be voting on the paycheck protection health care enhancement act. this bipartisan bill is the next to the cares w-up act, which congress passed a few weeks ago. bill includes $310 billion for the paycheck protection program, a critical protecting small employees.and their also includes $75 billion for frontline of he the coronavirus pandemic and a further $25 billion for coronavirus testing. the paycheck protection

if you brought committees back and operating all the committees at once, an example of three committees, of work that needs to be done right now. if you have these committees come back, don't have to meet in their regular committee rooms. i think they are probably too small for social distancing. that's why you only bring a few back so they can use the chambers, the auditorium. whitey, vast areas. de, vast areas. if you look how we were able to vote last time, we did in a manner that worked well. alphabetical, you don't have to show up, you are able to get work done critical to the american public. staff is not there, only a select number of staff. we don't have all the members there, only the members in those committees would be working. if you brought everybody back today, which was unusual when i first heard the speaker and leader said, we are coming back on may 4, what were we going to vote on? where we just going to bring everyone back? that's why i want to look at a thoughtful way of doing it. bring committees back, you were, have the bills done, then tell people to come back. onc

the appropriations committee. they say, if the sun shines on anything, it is a matter of the energy and commerce committee. ,hey have a broad jurisdiction and i thank the gentleman for anyways.rship and so with that, i want to present mr. clyburn to talk about this important initiative. we are talking about distance learning. we are talking about telemedicine. we are talking about people buying things in a way they had , and yet it is not available to everyone. this is about fairness and equity in every way, access to care, access to credit, access to whatever opportunities come along in terms of testing --rapies or vaccines testing, therapies come over vaccines. pleasedt, i am lead -- to yield to the distinguished chair of the committee and democratic width of the house mr. clyburn -- whip of the house mr. clyburn. rep. clyburn: thank you for your leadership and guidance in this important issue. in spite of what attempt may have been made to the contrary, my vision for this great country is drawn from the pledge

monday through wednesday are just these committees, you select which committees. monday and friday is when you vote in the house. . members are not there the entire week. you are limited the number of staffers you can be in the building based on the size of your office so you have social distancing. that's the way you talk about with the medical community and others, the best way to go about doing it. then you continue to keep -- if you are social distancing, when you are walking the halls, you are wearing masks. i had spoken to the speaker. i know she wanted to do the proxy. before my conversation, these are the concerns i gave to the speaker and that's why she put the committee of six together to see if we can work through this. i have a real concern, if you go to proxies, i don't have the number right in front of me. but if you look at the number of people who came back, it was a pretty good number. the numbers who were missing were not that much higher than on average. on both sides. but we also found with proxies, one person could hold 200 proxies if they wan

i yield back. >> the gentleman from hawaii. >> madam sharon members of the committee as a former committee member i am grateful to share the profound impact of the covid-19 on small businesses. and 132,000 small businesses one for every 11 people. and also smaller than most states that employee and that small businesses employ a majority. and those that are found in hawaii and with international domestic travel and stay at home orders with to be at home the small businesses are hard-hit by covid-19 just weeks ago the unemployment rate was one of the lowest of two.6 percent. if they are not already closed that is a lifeline to them. especially important are the efforts of the immigrant and underweight communities are not left behind they were first impacted by the pandemic and the last to recover as we continue our efforts i urge this committee the unique needs and additional assistance. well programs provide temporary relief greater assistance will be needed to keep the small businesses and a very significant portion alive and tell the state can fully be open for business. continue to stan

we have an oversight committee. every single committee has oversight. i want them all working and the committees coming back together. the speaker tried to commit to me that this would be a bipartisan committee. i told her, i don't view it that way. i view it more as a political one. i don't see a lot of members voting for it on our side. and i told her i would wait before i would appoint anybody to it, to see who she appoints to it. if she is serious about making this a committee that works. but again, we've already put in three oversight committees beyond the oversight committee we have in congress, plus every single committee in congress has an oversight committee and i expect to all work together with that. reporter: [indiscernible] testing and tracing. contact tracing [indiscernible] contact tracing program. mayor mike bloomberg [indiscernible] contract -- contact tracing [indiscernible] mr. mccarthy: i think we should have contact tracing. but the problem here with the governor of michigan, she went against all norms. she literally gave it to a po

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thank you very much. >> at this time the committee is going to take a short break and the committee stands in recess. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] order as a small-busines small businef i am grateful to all of you for the important work that you do on behalf of the small businesses and in a couple of hours i will be voting to inject another $310 million into the exhausexhausted small-business f programs. i do so with serious reservations while the need is as real as it is urgent, the programprogram simply are not wg as intended. far too many small businesses in my district and throughout the country have been unable to access the ppp programs even as they face the prospect of having to close their doors for good. i'm afraid a program designed to support every business is benefiting those which need it the least at the expense of those that need it the most take bars, clubs for example. the quintessential community, small businesses without which no american town would be the same. same. they are shut down and shut out. the owner of the ba

and committee members. so in your packet you did see that the small business commission endorsed and is recommending approval for the extension. our office is working very closely with the department of building inspection, working with the small businesses, that are being required by their property owner to meet this compliance. and we do have a grant program that is available for them. this grant money is not general funded so there will not be any issues or concerns about that funding still being there to assist businesses who need to access it to achieve compliance. and i think that the last thing that i just want to keep reiterating is that as a city that prides itself on civil rights that this is an important initiative that we're undertaking to ensure the civil rights of individuals with disabilities are upheld. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. and if businesses want to get in touch with the office of small business about the grants that you just mentioned, how would they do that? >> they can do that

committee? entirely plausible for one to conclude this new select committee will simply turn into partisan witch-hunt aimed at damaging the president. time in the a future when it makes sense to stablish a commission like the 9/11 commission to review the covid-19 pandemic and the government response. actually support doing that at an appropriate time. to such a commission needs be truly bipartisan and devoted we can happened and what learn from it to improve overnment responses for the future. the select committee doesn't meet that test. later i reserve my time, today, the house will be voting on the paycheck protection health care enhancement act. this bipartisan bill is the next to the cares w-up act, which congress passed a few weeks ago. bill includes $310 billion for the paycheck protection program, a critical protecting small employees.and their also includes $75 billion for frontline of he the coronavirus pandemic and a further $25 billion for coronavirus testing. the paycheck protection

you see, this committee will be the only committee weighted politically. there will be seven democrats and five republicans. this committee was announced before they even told you the mission of what this committee should do. they even announced the chair of the committee. now, i respect the chair greatly, madam speaker. he has one of the best political minds i know. joe biden will tell you that. you see, our dear friend, congressman clyburn, he should be credited for getting joe biden the nomination. why he failed in all the other states, south carolina was critical -- while he failed in all the other states, south carolina was critical. he did poll v.i.x. very well in the endorse -- politics very well in the endorsement. he turned the tide in the democratic nom -- nomination. you'll have a nominee and a lot of that goes to jim clyburn and he deserves the credit for what he was able to politically accomplish. we don't question his political abilities, he's the majority whip, he knows how to gather votes, he knows how to make the political argument. but, m

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i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. i'm joined on this video conference with rules committee vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. our clerk today is victor young and i'd like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. do you have any announcements? >> yes. due to the covid-19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotedly as in the same extent as if they were physically comment. -- physically present. we are streaming numbers across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. commentses or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone, by calling 888-204-5984. access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. you will be lined up in the system in order you dial 1 and 0 while you are waiting t system will be silent. the system will notify you when

i just meant ongoing for the budget committee. we're keeping close watch on because of the budget deliberations in august about how quickly we're getting the reimbursements and an idea how we're replenishing the costs we're putting out. if we could have an update. and when you are submitting those requests for reimbursements, the amount of reimbursements. and then later on if we're receiving those reimbursements and reimbursements to date. >> sure, we'll definitely have that. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other comments or questions for the controller's office or the mayor's budget office? seeing none, this is open for public comment. any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 1 of the budget and appropriations committee? >> madame chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. operation, please let us know if there are any callers ready? >> madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. public comment is now closed

it's above what we already have our committee. -- with our committee. everything before seems to be bipartisan, this is not, so i don't know if they are going in a different direction. i watched what adam schiff has said. that's the only thing that would concern me. next question? next question comes from leeann caldwell from nbc news. >> can you guys hear me? speaker mccarthy: yes. >> thanks for having the call. a couple questions. the president seems open to a phase four, talk about infrastructure and hazard pay. out?oes that play with the $6 million unemployment number today, does that change her position on a phase four? $600 you support extending plus in unemployment insurance? can you talk about those dynamics bit? >> the number that concerns me greatly is the 6 million. i wonder if some of that could be a lesser number if they had not held up that bill. we could already be talking about having a stress call on how these trillions of dollars are going out, how it's helping small businesses key people employed and hire people back in. unfortunately

and committee members. so in your packet you did see that the small business commission endorsed and is recommending approval for the extension. our office is working very closely with the department of building inspection, working with the small businesses, that are being required by their property owner to meet this compliance. and we do have a grant program that is available for them. this grant money is not general funded so there will not be any issues or concerns about that funding still being there to assist businesses who need to access it to achieve compliance. and i think that the last thing that i just want to keep reiterating is that as a city that prides itself on civil rights that this is an important initiative that we're undertaking to ensure the civil rights of individuals with disabilities are upheld. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. and if businesses want to get in touch with the office of small business about the grants that you just mentioned, how would they do that? >> they can do that

the next room in here is the finance committee.have a very similar committee on our national council today. it is called the business finance and judiciary committee. they discuss many of the same topics that this committee of the council did during this time period. these are things that have been found within the walls of the council house or the floors of the council house when they were doing various archaeological excavations over the years. this is another interactive piece we have for students. we ask if they can identify some of the articles that are here in the case. so this room that we are in right now, this room served as the office of the principal chief and his assistants and the second chief. the desk you see here was one of the original desks that the principal chief used during the years 1878 to 1907. you will hear me say at a number of times, at least a couple of times during our tour. this is not just a restored historic building. this is also a fully functioning present-day government building. when our visitors

4, recommended as a committee report and item number 5, recommended as a committee 4, preston? >> aye. >> safai. >> aye. >> peskin. aye. >> you have threas three ayes. >> we will look forward to the files forthcoming. with that, can you read items 6 and 7 together? >> by amending the zoning map to change the use classification on certain parcels in the industrial redevelopment project from n1 and ndp and districts to change the height and roll classification of part and parcels. item number 7 is an ordinance in the industrial use district. (inaudible). >> members that wish to provide comment, should call into the number on the screen and press 1 and then 0 to speak. >> thank you, madam clerk. this is a banner day for district 10. supervisor walton, the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair peskin. i was going to make the same statement. the two ordinances being introduced are in response to the expiration of the bayview industrial triangle redevelopment plan which was first adevelopmente adopted in 0 and expire on june 30th of this year. this is a very, very small piece of land a

i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. i'm joined on this video conference with rules committee vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. our clerk today is victor young and i'd like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. do you have any announcements? >> yes. due to the covid-19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotedly as in the same extent as if they were physically comment. -- physically present. we are streaming numbers across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. commentses or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone, by calling 888-204-5984. access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. you will be lined up in the system in order you dial 1 and 0 while you are waiting t system will be silent. the system will notify you when

i just meant ongoing for the budget committee. we're keeping close watch on because of the budget deliberations in august about how quickly we're getting the reimbursements and an idea how we're replenishing the costs we're putting out. if we could have an update. and when you are submitting those requests for reimbursements, the amount of reimbursements. and then later on if we're receiving those reimbursements and reimbursements to date. >> sure, we'll definitely have that. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other comments or questions for the controller's office or the mayor's budget office? seeing none, this is open for public comment. any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 1 of the budget and appropriations committee? >> madame chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. operation, please let us know if there are any callers ready? >> madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. public comment is now closed

you see, this committee will be the only committee weighted politically. there will be seven democrats and five republicans. this committee was announced before they even told you the mission of what this committee should do. they even announced the chair of the committee. now, i respect the chair greatly, madam speaker. he has one of the best political minds i know. joe biden will tell you that. you see, our dear friend, congressman clyburn, he should be credited for getting joe biden the nomination. why he failed in all the other states, south carolina was critical -- while he failed in all the other states, south carolina was critical. he did poll v.i.x. very well in the endorse -- politics very well in the endorsement. he turned the tide in the democratic nom -- nomination. you'll have a nominee and a lot of that goes to jim clyburn and he deserves the credit for what he was able to politically accomplish. we don't question his political abilities, he's the majority whip, he knows how to gather votes, he knows how to make the political argument. but, m

and the chair of the small business committee, a champion. one of the first woman in congress to serve as a chair of a full committee and she brought all of that experience, knowledge and judgment and values to this legislation. it was really remarkable to see the two of them interact, two powerful women in congress making a tremendous difference. and what was important was, they took a giant step in loosening that hard grip of disparity of access to credit in our country. but they made something very special happen to try to have that crumble. and i think that's very important for the american people. representative pallone cannot be here but he and his staff were helpful with the hospital and testing parts of the bill. so you know that what the bill does, two weeks ago was proposed on a thursday, on the floor of the senate, that we would have legislation that 250, that was it, nothing else and that's it. , that wek and a half could do much more for small businesses. for60 billion set aside women, minorities, veterans, native-americans, rura

theave a similar committee, business finance committee.hese things have been found in the walls of the council house or the floors of the council house when they have been doing the various installations over the years. this is another interactive piece we have for students. we ask if they can identify some of the articles that are here in the case. so this room that we are in right now, this room served as the office of the principal assistants and second chief. the desk you see here was one of the ones that the principal chief used. you will hear me say it a number of times, at least a couple of times during our tour. this is not just a restored historic building. this is a functioning present-day government building. when our visitors come, and since we are a functioning webal government building, have the pictures of the leadership of our tribe. haveme goes on, we will new chiefs who hold those offices. we will update the photographs of the new chiefs who are in office. we also have a book here that has the chiefs that have served in o

as i said on this committee, this select committee is about the here and now. right now, we have to work together to get through this. as we do, we do not want to make more mistakes. when they. fauci say get the rebound, if this comes back in the fall or something, have hopefully some therapies, a vaccine or cure, later. i want to learn what are those lessons learned, what do we need to learn from what has happened before? let's go forward with what we are doing now, but hold everybody accountable for decisions that are made in the here and now as to how we go forward. the best way to do that is with, as michael and i discussed earlier, transparency and accountability. thank you. >> thank you. next we have paul cain from the washington post. your line is open. wrecks hi, madam speaker. thanks for doing this. -- >> high, that a speaker. thanks for doing this. madam speaker. thanks for doing this. detail explain in more what the clyburn select committee's powers would be, subpoena power and jurisdiction? with a be looking into how this all started, or are they ju

lydia velazquez, the chair of the subcommittee -- of the committee, rather, of s.b.a. what we are witnessing at this moment in history is how diversity makes a difference. how diversity makes a difference in the way that we understand how to have targets and include women, minorities, african-americans, latinos, et cetera, and oftentimes we are doing the work and it's not noticed because the issues of financial services are not that sexy. but i want to tell you this particular piece of legislation, this supplemental, this emergency bill really points out how diversity makes a difference. nancy pelosi is an extraordinary negotiator. she has gotten more out of the senate and out of the treasury than any person could ever do because she put her mind to it, she put the time in, and negotiated in the wee hours of the morning. lydia velazquez knows s.b.a. better than anybody in this congress and she was able to close some gaps and increase spending in ways that will benefit not only all people, but minorities. when you take a look at the supplemental appropriation we have do

again others right now as we speak the agriculture committee meeting. as some of our colleagues have said, we can't do snap? they turned down snap? food stamps at a time when america's hungry? we have our differences. but we are coming together on this particular bill. i'm proud of that. it is bipartisan. it is urgent. and let us get on with it so that we can get on to supporting our heroes in a way that is worthy of their sacrifice. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the hobble yorble speaker of the house -- honorable speaker of the house yields back. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself 30 seconds. i respectfully remember a different history. we are only one fund was out of money, those for our small businesses. the president asked for us to move quickly. it was blocked in the senate by those who said, there's no proof small businesses need this money. i remember the speaker herself saying, there is no data that shows small b

>> i think the request is for a committee report? >> that is correct. >> that would send it to the board tomorrow. >> and that would give the project sponsor -- i would like to give them some time, namely the next 24 hours to have those conversations. supervisor, i would like to make a motion to send this item as is without recommendation to the full board as a committee report. >> ok. >> on that motion, madam clerk, a role call, please. >> on the motion to refer without recommendation as a committee report, supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor searc safaye. >> aye. >> peskin. >> aye. >> you have three ayes. >> can you read 3, 4 and 5 together. >> to revise the central waterfront plant and industry element and the recreation and open-space element and transportation element. the urban design element and land use index to reflect the mixed use district. item number 4 is the planning code to establish the power station special use district and the appropriate finding. item number 5 is approving the development between the city and

the committee has not yet yet met.e'll get going to make sure there's integrity and honesty in the execution of these programs. >> the origins of the coronavirus, it says in part the covid-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified. the intelligence intelligence community emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began with contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident in a laboratory in would you r wuhan." should a committee look into the origins of the virus? >> our committee hasn't met so we haven't discussed that. seems ooze the intelligence come is focused on the question and brought back results on it. we're far more interested i think in making sure the people's money gets to its intended beneficiaries. we want to make sure it's the people who have the most need who are getting the small business money, unemployment insurance money and not people who have the most greed and people who are trying to po profiteer and rip off the system. we want to make sur