it does, madam chair. >> chair chan: thank you, madam clerk. call item 6. >> clerk: item number 6 is future agenda items. for those who wish to speak on this item press star 3 to be added to the queue. madam chair. >> chair chan: colleagues, i see that anyone has future agenda items that you're interested in and i want to just make sure that everyone is away that there's no august meeting and the next meeting will be september 17th, friday, september 17th. and anyone else would like to introduce future items -- agenda items? sorry about that. seeing no more, we do need to do public comments on this item as well, correct? >> clerk: yes, madam chair. checking to see if there's any callers in the queue, if you have not done so, press star, 3, to be added to the speaker line for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been un-muted. there are no callers in the public comment line, madam chair. >> chair chan: thank you, madam clerk. seeing no more public comment, public comments is closed. madam clerk,

beatty: madam chair, i yield back. chair waters: thank you very much. the gentleman from arkansas mr. hill, is recognized for five minutes. mr. hill: thank you, madam chair. once again secretary fudge, great to have you before the committee. again let me add to all my colleagues our congratulations for your service to your country as our h.u.d. secretary. i listened to the chairwoman talk about what might have been last summer in terms of getting the rental assistance money started sooner, but last summer the congress was faced with sort of an all or nothing play. we were going to pass the heroes act or have no discretion to target money that we really felt on a bipartisan basis needed to be targeted. so we went for days and days without starting the paycheck protection program back up. it expired on august 5 last year. and we could have gotten a targeted bipartisan release -- relief on rental assistance, but we didn't. it passed in december. and $25 billion of that money in the appropriations bill has been 100% allocated to the states. the $21 billion

thank you, madam chair, for having me here today. i look forward to taking your questions. >> thank you investment mr. cravens, you're now recognized for five minutes to give an oral testimony on your presentation. >> good afternoon, chair beatty, ranking member wagner and members of the committee. i'm don cravens jr. and serve as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the national urban league. on behalf of the entire urban league movement which consists of 91 affiliates in 36 states and the district of columbia, i thank you for convening this hearing. chair beatty, i would be remiss if i did not offer my condolences to you and your family for your recent loss. i want you to know you've been in the prayers and thousands of urban league the entire time. >> thank you. >> the national urban sleeping an historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment, equity and social justice. founded in 1910 as a result of great migration of african-americans to the north, the urban league collaborates at the natio

thank you madam chair for having me here today. i look forward to taking your question. >> you are now recognized for five minutes a given oral testimony on your presentation. >> good afternoon members of the committee. i serve as the executive vice president and the chief operating officer national urban league. on behalf of the entire urban league movement that consist of 91 affiliates and 36 states and the district of columbia i thank you for convening this. i would be remiss this i did not offer my condolences for you and your family with your recent loss. you have been in the prayers on the thoughts of the urban league the entire time. the national urban league is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment, equity and social justice. founded in 1910 as a result of the great migration of african-americans to the north, the urban league collaborates at the national and local levels with community leaders, policymakers and corporate partners to elevate the standards of living for african-americans as w

>> yes, madam chair. at this point in time i do have enough federal air marshals to cover our mission. our mission hasn't really changed since prior to 2019. our federal marshals are still providing in-flight security. as far as the amount of federal air marshals over the next few years i may need some support in hiring through attrition as large portion of our workforce entered on service right after 9/11 and will be coming up to the 20 year anniversary. but at this point in time i'm confident that it did have enough. >> thank you, mr. ondocin. my time has expired but i do have a cigarette of questions regarding air marshals and their well-being and the type of scheduling that takes place, but now i'd like to yield to the ranking member, mr. gimenez. >> thank you, madam chair. i appreciate that. i'm still -- what happens to passengers that are carrying firearms either in their person or in their carry-on bags? >> so immediately when tsa detects the firearm on the x-ray we will notify law enforcement. eve

i see that amount of time, so i yield back, madam. chair >> perfectly on time. and with that, the chair is going to recognize dr. bill foster, for five minutes of questioning. >> thank, you madam chair. it is a perfect example of the research and why this committee is committed on a bipartisan basis to doubling the budget across the full range of its missions. that's a small but important part. my question to everyone that wants to try it, what do you do with high performance plastics and how do you deal with plastics that have color? are the classes of high performance plastics, high temperature polymers and so on and, for which there really is not going to be a realistic recycling scenario, what fraction of the current of the potential market is this? should we just focus on generic plastics and acknowledge that there are some classes that are just going to be really tough? >> congressman, i don't mind taking a stab, at least at some aspect of it. these materials certainly have challenges associated with how to recycle them, but the contemporary research in thi

madam chair, my time has expired. chair plaskett: for the ranking member of the full committee, you get len yhency -- leniency in more ways than one. congresswoman kirkpatrick. mrs. kirkpatrick: thank you, chairwoman. i thank you for having this hearing. i have a multigenerational family of ranchers. we had an enormous ranch. and ranched cattle. it would always be there as a kid. it's interesting to me that times have changed. so anyway, my question is for mr. shannon. you know, livestock producers are serving local markets, often have a difficult time getting a market-ready product produced, requiring meat slaughtering and processing as well as aggregation of local meat products for sale at the wholesale market. so can you describe some of the challenges facing local meat producers and how that impacts business decisions? mr. shannon: yes. thank you for that question. one of the biggest things that we face at this time -- we've been using a usda inspected processor for many years and had a great working relationship.

. >> thank you, madam chair. chairman by a beatty, ranking member, wagner, and members of the subcommittee. thank you for having me today. i'm honored to be before you. b i'm the vp at the bank policy institute, a non-public partisan policy research and advocacy group. i appreciate the invitation to discuss the banking industry's effortsat to help reduce racial inequality. banks must be a part of the solution if there's to be real e improvements and outcomes for all communities, especially communities of color many of whom have been left behind economically.om today, however, our focus is on banks' efforts to reduce inequality in black communities and how they are leveraging business models, networks and resources to better serve them. i work directly with a group of executives responsible for thisr agenda at the banks and can n share that this has been a time of purposeful action. banks have decided strategies, agreed upon budgets, allocated resources and built teams to execute on this agenda.so investments have

madam chair, my time has expired. and i yield. chair maloney: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from maryland, mr. raskin, is recognized for five minutes. mr. raskin: thank you, madam chair. million miller, senator mcconnell said that american citizens attacked their own government. they used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of democratic business they did not like. the electoral college votes. do you agree with that? the statement this is a terrorist attack? mr. raskin: they used terrorism, fellow americans beat and bloodied their own police. they tried to hunt down the speaker of the house. they built gallows and chanted about murdering the vice president. they did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth because he lost an' lection. do you agree? secretary miller: i agree it was a an act of terrorism. mr. raskin: ok. madam chair, some of our distinguished colleagues, including my friend from louisiana, has been invoking the 74 million who voted for donald trump. here's what senate minority leader mcconnell had to

madame vice chair? >> do any of the commissioners have a question for staff or a matter they'd just like to bring up? >> no. >> seeing and hearing none, i don't have any questions or matters at this time. next item, please? madame secretary. >> the next order of business is item 10, close session and there are no closed session items. the next order of business is item 11, adjournment. madame vice chair? >> so may i have a motion for adjournment at 2:02? >> i make a motion to adjourn the meeting at 2:02 p.m. >> thank you, commissioner. i think that we'll get many seconds for that. thank you, everyone. the commission meeting of the date -- excuse me -- july 20, is closing at 2:02 p.m. thank you. >> thank you, everyone. >> : i apologize to keep you all waiting. i want to thank for joining us today. the board of supervisors, the department of emergency management director. we're here at one of the first sites that opened, to not only provide testing

thank you, madam chair. mr. gardener, we have all heard about the devastating impacts the packing plant fire and the covid-19 pandemic had on many cattle producers. can you describe your personal experience weathering these events? >> yes, sir, thank you, senator. you know, in this business, we all deal with risk all the time. so we work to -- to lay off risk with forward contracting hedging. i mean, placing cattle at different times. and i often talk about our management and our genetics and -- and the access to these places based on that quality, alone, gives us systems that allows us to -- to hit those target, at varying times. so, yes, that delayed it. that made a bottleneck. but our relationships with these people allowed us, through the pandemic, you know, i'll go back to a year ago right now. i mean, they were able to -- to take away all the discounts on our grid. and they incentivized us and helped us get through that -- many of the other processors were offering a base price of 95 and our base price was

ross: thank you, madam chair, and i yield back. hair stevens: thank you, and with that, we are going to recognize dr. connor lamb, congressman from the nice state of pennsylvania for five minutes of questioning. mr. lamb: thank you, madam chair. yes, we are nice. so nice in fact that on behalf of the whole state we would like to wish you a happy birthday today as well. to our witnesses, thank you for hanging on this long. dr. hillmyer, i kind of wanted to pick up where i think you were leaving off, which is, of course our jurisdiction on this committee really is to try to move forward the nation's research agenda and help answer kind of unanswered questions, particularly ones of a longer term nature that individual businesses might find problematic to enter on their own. so, would you mind just summarizing or commenting on the state of knowledge about where we're going in composting and the breakdown of so-called biodegradable recyclables and plastics, and maybe give me a little bit more specific insight into if there's two or three

thank you, madam chair. mr. tupper, help me understand a little bit here. you've heard some of your colleagues on the panel talk about the prices are being simply a function of supply and demand. i think i heard you say that the live stock producer in many cases generating a margin may be 1% and that packers were generating margins are 80%. i think that was, if i heard you right, if your opening remarks. so, if you've got a supply -- a food chain, a food chain that consists of a producer, maybe in our part of the country, it goes to a feeder, but to a processor, ultimately to a retailer and a consumer. the consumer, i think it's pointed out in record high prices and the producer is going out of business, which means that the profitability in the middle of that food chain is hardly evenly distributed at all. now, if there's a true market, supply chain, supply and demand regulating this, you would think that there would be some benefit that would accrue to the folks who are in that supply chain and maybe at the en

i sincerely look forward to today's testimony and thank you again, madam chair, for calling this hearing. i yield back. >> thank you, ranking member. the chair would request that other members submit their opening statements for the record so witnesses may begin their testimony and to ensure that there is ample time for questioning. i am pleased to welcome such a distinguished panel of witnesses to our hearing today. our witnesses bring to the hearing aite wide range of experience and expertise and i thank you for joining us. our first witness today is mr. dale brown he and his wife are the owners of saga farm located on eyend la of st. croix in the u.s. virgin islands. he raises goats, sheeps, and chickens, and farms a variety of organic produce. he is an advocate for locally sourced produce and meat and supports educational programs for young farmers, cooking with locally sourced food, and agri tourism. he cofounded the voirgein island's farmers cooperate with his wife. our next witness is perry cooper, the executive director the georgia organic peanut association. in addition to her w

thank you. >> thank you madame chair. [inaudible conversations]

. >> thank you, madam chair. over the past year we've seen the massive importance of research and development in vaccines and treatments. operation warp speed, one of the greatest public/private partnerships in american history resulted in the federal government partnering with private companies to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and manufacture covid-19 vaccines. the result, despite constant vilification by the democrats, was the fastest vaccine development in history with the first vaccine approved in less than 12 months from the first discovery of covid-19. since then, two more vaccines have been approved with two more awaiting approval by the fda. in addition, there have been numerous pharmaceutical treatments and medical devices innovated to treat covid-19. as a result of these vaccines and therapies, cases and fatalities have plummeted and our nation is on the road to recovery. the catalyst behind these innovations have been intellectual property protections here in the united states. amer

geissler, madame chair i see my time is about to expire. i yield back, thank you. >> thank you very much. mr. berra of california is now recognized. >> thank you, madame chairwoman and ranking member. obviously this is a hugely important issue for us in california. if i think about why i left the state of california from hiking in the back country as a boy scout when i was growing up to, you know, hiking the sierra nevadas and the feather river, et cetera, camping out there, a lot of those places are now scarred by forest fire. i'm going to ask a series of questions, and i'd ask the witnesses to keep their answers short so i can get through a number of these. i want to make sure i understand, you know, on the sensing side of this, you know, i've heard a number of the witnesses talk about how we just haven't allocated the satellite resources necessary because i don't think it's a technology issue. i think that we have infrared sensing devices. we have the ability to put satellites in space so they're constantly monitoring the areas 24/7. we h

. >> thank you, madam chair and manor secretary. i do want to do one little piece of housekeeping here. a lot of discussion about whether chair yelling ought to be sitting with you today. just to clear the air on that, she last appeared at this committee at the invitation of the chair with chair powell, i think i called her chair yelling but former chair yelling, secretary yellen was invited by chair powell to do a joint quarterly meeting and march. they're supposed to be back in june, they have not been back, she's not been back at the march meeting is when she made commitments about getting back to this committee so there is no intention of disrespect to anyone, i'm sure there's no intention of disrespect to anybody back in march when both secretary yellen entered chair powell were invited to a joint hearing on this. on to some of the issues we are talking about today, i have to tell you, i was a little taken aback when i think in response to my calling from california you mentioned that people can't -- i wrote this down, people ca

madam chair? >> chair melgar: thank you, madam clerk. so we have cindy cummerford who's with the department of the environment and we have charles sheehan from the department of the environment and [inaudible] from the department of the environment, as well, and we have several staff from the m.t.a. and the sfpuc for questions. so miss cummerford. >> thank you, supervisor melgar, and good afternoon, supervisor preston and supervisor peskin. my name is cindy cummerford with the department of the environment, and this is an ordinance amending the environment code to update the city's climate action goals, our planning process, and to establish department roles and responsibilities. so let me share my screen? give me one second, please. our timing is a little off, but the pause really allowed us to do a more robust engagement with the public, and it also allowed us to do some additional climate modelling, which i'll talk about in a little bit. so let me get this presentation. give me one more minute. it looks like it's loading. >> clerk: br

without madam chair i guess i'll let you back . >> thank you for that. i know i think we're on to a gentleman from florida. mister lawson. >> thank you very much man chair. i'd like to thank the ranking member for holding this hearing, it's a very important hearing and it's important to me because i have both urban and rural communities in my district. quite a few that have stepped snap benefits and it's been a major concernfor them . this is for all the women in the community that have categorical eligibility to support household that are struggling to put food on the table. throughout the pandemic, snap as the lifeline for many americans have shared access to health and food for many families. i'll go back to the first part of the question, i didn't explain how categorical eligibility can import councils that are struggling to putfood on the table ? >> representative lawson i'd like to take a stab at it and also concern for others. briefly i would say that absolutely categorical eligibility is going to give families more flexibility financially. frankly

madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. >> chair ambrose: thank you. public comment is closed and now call item from ascent calendar, items number 3, draft minutes from the regular meeting. if any member wants public comment, they should dial in now and if a commissioner objects, an item can be removed and considered separately. before i ask the commissioners, i don't know that i need to sever the draft minutes, but i did want to note first thank the executive director pelham for following through on our request and sending the letter to the mayor concerning follow-on to the investigative work and reporting back to us. but i know it was commissioner bell who really made the motion that we should take action in response to the item, even though i guess maybe technically i restated the motion before we voted. so it shows that i was the one who moved that the commission send the communication to the mayor. which i was just trying to restate the suggestion that commissioner bell -- i just want to make it clear that i think whate

>> thank you, madam chair. gill, i certainly applaud ibm's work to achieve incredible breakthroughs, with respect to advance semiconductors. as you are well aware, these -- these are tiny devices. just the size of -- of a fingernail, basically, that will literally shape the course of the 21st century by powering our cutting-edge technologies, like artificial intelligence and supercomputing. however, i think it's important for us to remember that againsted chips are just -- just one part of the story. there is an entire ecosystem of semiconductor technologies that our economy depends on. including what are called so-called legacy chips. and so, i -- i bring this up, in relation to the auto industry. where the chip shortage right now of these legacy chips is forcing productions' shutdowns. and this has had a devastating impact on -- on auto workers in michigan, as well as across the country. and i am afraid it could even become worse, in the coming months. but -- but i also want to be clear, as you know, this --

thank you and i yield back, madam chair. >> thank you mr. bacon. i will tell you yes, we do agree there's a a problem and are approaches may be different but with all due respect i have to believe that there's mobility in these programs. i will say it again, from being a welfare recipient and a s.n.a.p. recipients and now chair of this committee, so i guess i have to disagree that there is incentive here. >> many people have but thad to back witnesses -- that did say they have problems getting at. up. we know it's a common problem. >> i'm pleased to welcome such a distinguished panel of witnesses to our hearing today. our witnesses bring to hearing a wide range of experiences and expertise, and i thank you all for joining us today. i look forward to hearing from you. our first witness today is dr. bradley hardy. dr. hardy is an associate professor at the school of public affairs in the department of public administration and policy at american university in d.c. he is also a senior fellow in economic studies at the brookings institution, a research

. >> thank you for that question madame chair. it is fair to say that allf of those conditions is what we are experiencing. and there has been some frustration over the mask mandate so if it's on the checkpoints and the impact to have transpired. and with those typeses of behaviors. >> so for anybody on the checkpoint with those types of behaviors and we have tremendous support so we have a clear indication something that already exhibited violent behavior and they will not proceed through thepo checkpoint. >> i think your response from the tso but have those individuals been fined or charge for assaulting these policeal officers? what sort of penalties? and in general do you keep a record of the incidents at the checkpoint with regard to people you have to remove and what happened to them? >> so they are subject to a civil penalty so with a paycheck that could be a permanent ban depending on thebe severity. so a number of these of law enforcement we've had to tremendous support from those around the country to bring federal crimi

madam, chair. >> : thank you very much, madam clerk. please call item number one. >> : yes. item number one is an ordinance submitting the planning code submitting affordable housing special use district to facilitate the district of affordable housing at the site. map the new special use district and affirming appropriate findings. members who wish to provide public comment should call the number on the screen. if you have not done so. press star and three to line upto speak. >> : thank you very much. i would like to acknowledge and welcome president walton to our committee who introduced this piece of legislation. thank you so much. i will turn it over to you to share your remarks. >> : thank you so much. good afternoon colleagues. i'm going to keep this brief. this proposed map change, this addresses the foundation of a multi step process that will allow the homeless prenatal program to expand its services in the neighborhood including placing very low income families in homes they can afford. it includes affordable housing in the future expansion. currently house hadding

madam chair. >> supervisor melgar: thank you madam clerk. for this item, we again have ms. donovan, legislative aide to supervisor stefani's office. >> thank you chair melgar. thank you. i will be presenting on behalf of supervisor stefani the matter before you, the ordinance that would designate a more than 100 year old and very majestic canary island pine tree as a landmark tree. in june of last year, the tree was nominated for canary island pine located on her property. at the meeting, the urban forestry council found it meets the status. unfortunately i don't believe the department of environment was able to send to this hearing today but i am available for questions if there are any and i know there may be a caller or two on the line who could speak to the matter. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you madam chair. as with the two previous items and as a co-sponsor back in the day to then another supervisor landmark tree legislation, i would like to be added as a co-sponsor of this item. that's it. >> supervisor melgar: thank

higgins. >> thank you, madam chair.i am very sorry that all of america is paying attention and we've heard our colleagues feelings by actually showing up in person for oversight committee service. america faces an unprecedented labor shortage. massive challenges that cause our economic recovery to struggle because of the majority's decision to spend trillions of dollars in deficit spending, paying people to stay home. every bit from sea to shining sea that i've had a conversation with either in person, on the telephone and digital town halls through social media, through direct contact and interaction, meeting with large business organizations that represent the needs and interests of the nation and economic recovery on behalf of employers. the story is the same. we have an incredible challenge facing america today because our workforce is staying home. why are they staying home? because the democratic majority spent trillions of american dollars that we don't have to pay to stay home. and the democrats answer to that i