to provide that care and support to kids where they are. it is teachers and peers who are in a good position to identify that something may be changing with a child. that they may be struggling. having these services available, working with parents to connect these kids to the help they need is important. investing in that and make sure schools have those resources. often counselors are serving what will schools. how can those counselors help kids when they are doing with hundreds of them? they cannot get to know them. they cannot help them. this is about scaling up the number of professionals working in the school system as well as making sure more services are available. host: connecting our previous conversation about twitter to -- and social media to this conversation do not lookup party rights on twitter. social media is ruining the mental health are you and billionaires will not fix that. a much should they be on social media? what would you tell parents about moderating that use? guest: we need more research and data to know the impa

and increasing the capacity of providers and partners to provide culturaly services and provide more support for people to access vocational training and. am resources. our third finding while many of consumers needs are met, social such as nutritional needs social connectivity and mental health needs are not as well met. consumers needs nutrition and physical activity needs are well met. mental health needs are a concern peculiar low lbgtq plus and members. participation driven by the covid-19 pandemic have criminalityed a gap in services that meet the neateds of consumer who isment to connect socially and participates appreciate offerings that allow them to connect socially and desire these types of connections. >> i couple quotes from community participates the first is, from know individual in district 9. participated in a virtual forum. shared we can't leave the house for various reasons. no one to help us. we would like to be part of activities but it is difficult. why another participate from district 8 shared, zoom has a place >> connecting people with issues of isolation and

>> one of the principal tools we use for the 440,000 providers throughout the country is to provide themh reimbursement of the claims related to covid that really fun that you helped put in place $186 billion have helped us to provide substantial support from these that are suffering from the conditions and unfortunately. >> the problem is still there. >> . >> lady mind following up for the record quick. >> we need authorities and resources to continue. >> with respect to those that have addictions we've done treatment but only with recovery support them because it's never been done before a stranger in a strange land for what works and what doesn't work are you comfortable with the degree of flexibility? >> and with that success and data. >> use touch on something very important data and the evidence in normally at the federal level is the last to try to move in a direction to save the life but what we've done is a new strategy so for example sentinel strips some people say if you give access to a sentinel strip that determines if the drug you are about to take has fentanyl in which is

provide the services. this is the effort, through 988 to combine it all, to put the glue together to make it work for everyone under the rubric of a three digit phone number, instead of trying to remember a ten digit phone number. that's the first part! if someone decides to seek help, instead of going the wrong direction they get a voice that can support them right away. you make a really good rate point, we have to make sure the service follows through. that is where we want to work with the states, territories, and travel governments to make sure that that is available as well. it is a locally operated system. we are helping to glue it together. we will hope that you continue to support that. >> yes, thank you so much, mister secretary, for reminding us that 9-1-1 is a localized system but it is also a nationwide system. same thing with 988, it is a localized system. i want to thank you so much for the 300 plus million dollar rollout that we already engaged in. to make sure that we can, as best as possi

right providers to be providing care. this is a market based system that faith-based programs need to be in, and private providers. so i absolutely believe that the market sits where the market should be, and it should continue to sit in that place. at the same time, the financing, the economics of that market, are fundamentally broken they have been forever. the supply and demand don't match. and i don't see this as the government starting to inserted self in the delivery of services and how programs are run, or the experiences that children have, but rather to give parents more choices by providing financing support to a broken economic structure. in our system. and i think is pretty common. you see the federal government step in other industries where this that has been the case. and so i don't think it's unusual to ask the federal government to make an investment in an industry that by itself the supply and demand don't meet. >> thank you. >> and thank you, senator. i would agree with that. basically, states would lik

representative: can you provide details out all the groups you consulted with that can you provide which groups gave you recommendations that you incorporated? because when we look at the request from the teachers union, they sent you language because they were concerned your language might not make it easy enough for them to close schools. dr. fauci testified almost a year ago, schools should be open. there is strong science schools should be open. the unions wanted to close them. this is the changed language after they sent you this email, not where parent groups were able to give input that i have seen. they sent you this change. this is what your new document showed, literally almost verbatim language. i don't know if you put a footnote that they gave you the language, but who else was able to get this kind of guidance to you that you then took almost verbatim it changed your report? dr. walensky: we engaged with over 50 organizations and stakeholders. we take that feedback and we consider it and ultimately implement things that are consistent with our scientific underpinnings and ou

in the country providing childcare are the right providers to be providing care. this is a market-based system that the faith-based systems need to be in and private providers. so i absolutely believe that the market sits where the market should be and it should continue to sit in that place. at the same time, the financing have been forever the supply and demand don't match. i don't see this as the government starting to insert itself in the delivery of services and how programs are run or the experiences that children have but rather than give more choices by providing financing support to a broken economic structure, and i think it is pretty common you see the federal government to step in with other industries where that's been the case, so i don't think it is unusual to ask the federal government to make an investment in the industry that by itself the supply and demand don't need. spain again thank you, senator. i would agree. basically states would like to do their own thing. they are doing more in preschool but the money just isn't there. the federal gover

that reverses provider burnout and provider burnout is the number-one reason providers like myself will not treat these patients. many providers that have been certified and have an excellent number, because of these support services, they are not -- these support services they are not able to institute easily, it scared them off, and they back off treatment. representative: thank you. i yield back. chair: let me recognize the gentleman from florida, mr. buchanan. representative: thank you. i can't imagine anything more important than mental health, especially today. i thank all our witnesses. miss huskey, i want to ask you, all the stories were so powerful , i have a nephew who is struggling, semipro hockey player, got addicted on drugs and they have been battling, my sister, with him for 20 years. it has been an incredible struggle. it seems that once they get addicted, they go through that door, and if you don't get to them early, there is a good chance you lose most of them. what more can we do up front in terms of prevention? it seems whether it is the kids or anybody, if we catch

new capabilities we have not provided ukraine.ll of them are designed to help , as we talked about, in the fight there in right now and the fight they will be in in coming days and weeks in the eastern part of the country. the united states has committed more than 3.2 billion dollars in security assistance to ukraine since the beginning of the biden administration, including approximately $2.6 billion since the beginning, just since the beginning of the unprovoked invasion february 24. the united states also continues to work with allies and partners to identify and providing ukraine with additional capabilities that are not in our stocks, that we are not as able to get to them directly. we will continue to utilize all of the available tools at our disposal to support ukraine's armed forces in the face of russian aggression. with that we will go to questions. >> i wonder about the helicopters, are these the helicopters had in stock because they were going to go to afghanistan? sec. kirby: yeah. these 11 and i-17's had been earmark

[indiscernible] service provider organizations to select the site operations and a site provider for this building, and that process is not yet concluded, so that is to come, and that is how we will select the provider. i think the chronicle article yesterday highlighted some challenges that we face when it comes to permanent supportive housing. what [indiscernible] is sort of amenities in many of these buildings, and many of these were brought on as part of the permanent supportive housing stock 20 years ago, and certainly, great maintenance and care is a high priority. the properties that we are focused on acquiring, we are focused on having the amenities in these units that guests in our shelter system are asking for, right? private bathrooms, working elevators, high quality construction, location to transit, so these acquisitions are incredibly important to the stock and the resources that we have available. this is a different model, the acquisition approach. we're eager to bring on high quality buildings that we can maintain in our community in order to provide housing to our m

we have provided that humanitarian aid and will continue to provide that humanitarian assistance.t is helping to accumulate evidence to pursue war crimes against perpetrators of these atrocities, and we are involved in that come as we should become a with the international community. and we will continue to do exactly that. and we will provide the necessary equipment for ukrainians to defend themselves. the priority now is for the air defense systems, because we know russia is using the air to attack the ukrainian people. it will also be antitank, because they are still using tanks in ukraine itself. it will be conventional weapons and ammunition. all of that costs money and all of that needs to be funded so, the president made his request thursday, yesterday, with the amount you referred to, $20 billion for the military, over $30 billion totally. i know our committees will consider that and i am confident there will be strong, bipartisan support to provide necessary u.s. funds to meet these commitments. we want to make sure it is enough, we want to make sure it is in the right ar

we have provided immediate working cap over companies providing supplies to ukraine. we have now mobilized more than $3 billion to ukraine to support the continuation of essential government services. this was made possible -- and i want to thank our grant contributions from the united states, the united kingdom, norway, denmark, austria, latvia, lithuania, iceland, and guarantees from the united kingdom, netherlands, and sweden, and parallel financing from japan. these announcements were still being made today, and i know many other countries are also putting money directly into the support effort for ukraine. our mechanisms are providing rapid, targeted, and secure delivery of the support to ukraine in the challenging times. the priority should be to fill ukraine's current financing needs no may -- in a way that minimizes its future debt burden. so, grant contributions will be very important. our mdtf is one mechanism that can be utilized. i would also like to acknowledge complementary approaches, including the imf's administered account. the european union solidari

can we provide the training? our focus right now is to provide training where necessary on no systems that we are providing them and welcome get that tone in short order. they are in a knife fight. so taken large number of peoples out. i will had invite the chairman to comment on this, but again, this is a high threat air defense environment. and the a-10, we have to do the analysis to ensure that if you did that t could survive. i question whether or not it would survive in the current environment. . >> let had me ask you this. shouldn't we be using now the defense production act to produce more of the javelins, the stingers, all of the stocks thaterer we are using and diminishing and running low on and our allies as well. shouldn't we be amoying the defense production act? >> we are pushing hard to engage the industry to make sure that we move the production of these items as quickly as we can. that's not an easy task with at least one of the items. but we will move this in terms of additional production as fas

can you provide some of the outreach that they provided to my district? >> a lot of -- actually, only about a percentage or two below the mission, so we definitely are able to reach out to all the different neighborhoods, and as you said, the impact of covid affects every single neighborhood, east side, west side, north to south. >> supervisor safai: and are you able to provide which organizations provided that support to 941 -- >> i don't have that information before me, but i am happy to get that back before you. >> supervisor safai: second question was just to build on what chair ronen was asking. it sounds like you have additional funds to award. is that correct? and if there are, why are you holding back on moneys to provide rent relief support? why is that money not being distributed now? >> in that case, i was speaking to the chair, for example, about funds that may have been created through proposition c that we may have now but may come to us in the future. prop c will be our primary source moving forward because we have a one-time distribution o

many providers are setting up their own clinics. i bet there is a network of providers with a long covid clinic and they are sharing quest -- they are sharing experiences back and forth. i suspect that is going on, but i am not sure. so that question makes me want to talk to the clinic that i am aware of that is at the front end of this and see how they are sharing best practices. great question. now i have a question that i can ask somebody that i had not thought of. frances: i have to say as soon as this announcement went off, i saw people on twitter appreciating the hearing from you. also i heard negative comments. people saying long covid did not exist. there is a lot of gender bias in this. what does it mean to be a senator and a man who has got the symptoms, and what role do you believe you have in rectifying some of these beliefs? sen. kaine: it is actually the negative comments that you report is the reason i decided to talk about it. when i got covid, again, i got a mild case. we were out here working in the cares act. i ha

or newly providing the funds?ese organization already providing the funds these are additional dollars which is a combination of mayoral enhancement and allocation of funds from ohoc and funds from supervisor preston's rental assistance funds. those were the three sources that came together and just to confirm what supervisor ronen said the three organizations listed on the resolution came because they're overall total now exceeds $10 million. so supervisor ronen said, this gives us the authority to amend the grants up to that amount. it doesn't mandate we do so but does allow us the authority to do so and as supervisor ronen said, we are in the middle of reviewing the information that they provided to us working with our office and the controller's office and we're able to allocate as a said in the prior hearing up to $6 million to them if the review is completed and our fiscal team is satisfied and we would be able to amend that contract for up to that amount and we would not have to go back to the board because

and i think that's going to provide an opportunity to provide updated data very truly hope it reflects exactly the kind of data. >> thank you. like to acknowledge and thank the industry for their efforts to provide broadband service at affordable price will continue to upgrade expanded service prior to federal subsidies being enacted. the letter sent by my democratic colleagues on this committee and tia davidson urging to expand the scope of the program. requirements like open access rather than focus on the task at hand incentivize private investors to make sure all americans are connected. the scc broadband are crucial for agencies serving broadband funds especially $42.5 billion they'll be distributing to the states through its deep program. the scc is also actively awarding funds for the rural digital opportunities fund. chairwoman of march 2020 or testify before the senate the scc could radically improve broadband maps in three -- six months. providing 98 million dose to the scc to implement its activities in december of 2020. since you have been leading the scc it's been about tw

we could provide services or to those providers who stepped up. to do the distribution in a transparent way. we can't speak before office. but when we distribute a dollar you will know exactly how i got distributed. >> ie appreciate that. hhs did not request emergency funding for the safety net hospitals so can you speak to the priorities that are requested that the safety net hospitals. >> if you look at the original request that is much earlier this year it will include the funds available through the relief fund. that request was substantially more for a supplemental package. we would love to see dollars included to providese additional resources. we don't have a vote in the process it is you and your colleagues and in the senate to make ath decision in your wisdom you include funding for provider relief funds to provide those services that those hospitals and other providers have dispensed to uninsured populations who need that support. >> thank youen mr. secretary. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas for her five mi

as a small provider we have limited resources.i would expect this to be similar for other providers as well where we don't have the resources that larger providers have to participate in auctions on a larger scale as well as larger sizes of spectrum. so, for us having usable spectrum available, that has equipment we can roll out in those areas. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the chair now recognizes mr. carter for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i thank all of the witnesses for being here today. ms. brown, i want to start with you, if you will. during the pandemic americans relied on wi-fi for work, school and so many other things, in fact, i was reading a book the other day that said the average teenager was on the internet five hours a day more during the pandemic than they were before. it's unbelievable to me that is true and we're on the internet so much. what i wanted to ask you was unlicensed spectrum plays a role in enabling wi-fi technologies and under the last administration there was an unprecedented

the infrastructure law provides over $50 billion for the comprehensive list initiative and it provides an additional authorization of $700 million for lead reduction programs like voluntary testing and removal in childcare facilities. this will be a lot of work. it will be worth it to protect our future generations. with the recent guidance, i'm excited to see they are following through on congress intent to make this a small rural and tribal communities a priority of the water infrastructure funding. we will continue our oversight to ensure the states deliver on this vision. today we have annexed what lineup of witnesses to provide first-hand knowledge on how these programs work for communities and the improvements needed and how it will help them in the future. for permanent brain damage to costly service interruptions, our constituents are experiencing the arms that result from allowing wastewater systems to age into disrepair. now is the time to fix this in an efficient and equitable manner. i look forward to today's discussion on practices to ensure the success of the community's

and increasing the capacity of providers and partners to provide culturaly services and provide more support for people to access vocational training and. am resources. our third finding while many of consumers needs are met, social such as nutritional needs social connectivity and mental health needs are not as well met. consumers needs nutrition and physical activity needs are well met. mental health needs are a concern peculiar low lbgtq plus and members. participation driven by the covid-19 pandemic have criminalityed a gap in services that meet the neateds of consumer who isment to connect socially and participates appreciate offerings that allow them to connect socially and desire these types of connections. >> i couple quotes from community participates the first is, from know individual in district 9. participated in a virtual forum. shared we can't leave the house for various reasons. no one to help us. we would like to be part of activities but it is difficult. why another participate from district 8 shared, zoom has a place >> connecting people with issues of isolation and

provided epidemiological data and testimonies in court. while winning the lawsuit requires the expertise of health professionals, using the funding what it is designated to do requires a set of skills that d.p.h. just doesn't have. the settlement funding is required to reduce the amount of lead that came from paint, and that means construction, setting up isolated work areas, replacing leaded building components with new ones, replacing the doors, repainting. the city doesn't do this type of work, and nor can it do this type of work on private property. [indiscernible] homes efficiently while minimizing the risk to the city. s.f.e. had previous contracts with third party administrators, and s.f.e. has the experience in managing construction work in private residents, so it was natural for s.f.e. to be managing a contract for the third party administrator. and so hopefully, this brief historical presentation provides a better understanding in this is necessary. this leads us to the next slide, ryan. there are -- this looks complicated, but

we are providing about 90,000 vaccinations to date. i don't have the exact number of tests that we have done but it is very large as well. again, it is most of the most vulnerable populations in san francisco. if you have any questions for me, please feel free to ask. i do ask for your consideration for my appointment on the board. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: next we will move to the only seat where we actually have a new potential member and that is joseph woo for seat number 7. good morning. >> good morning. i am dr. joseph woo. i am a new applicant. in a role recommended by the san francisco rural medical society where i serve on the board. i have had many roles. i am currently director of the healthcare association and president of the all american medical group, both of which serve the medical community to san francisco health plan and blue cross. as i mentioned. i am an emergency physician by trade. i served a decade on quality improvement and physician advicement. i am advocate for underserved. i seek your appointment. i am

interfere with providing shelter. and i think that if it does, that says more about problems with the service being provided than it does about these rules. so i'm proud to support this, and i appreciate your leadership on it, president walton. and we'll conclude my remarks. and i look forward to hopefully sending this to the full board. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: not to take us off into a big -- i actually think that it is unquestionable that additional regulations slows the production of the thing that is being regulated. i think that -- i agree that you and i often agree that that is well worth doing, particularly in cases where a private actor is making money on something and the regulation that we are adding is protecting vulnerable people. i think -- i do look at these questions a little bit differently when we are talking about things that are being provided by government through public workers or through non-profits and i think that there too, whether it is requiring that we only buy produc

providers. and finally, the funding supports basic core activities that the public authority is required to carry out, as well as providing background check services as well as coordinating the activities of the ihss public authority governing body. so today i'm seeking your approval to move forward with the sole source contract. i'd be happy to answer any questions that you have. >> commissioner bittner: i have a comment. i wouldn't here today talking to if i didn't have them getting me up in the morning and getting me ready. because of the pandemic, needed prepared. we need to find innovative ways to reach people. >> thank you so much, commissioner bittner for your comments and thank you for serving on the ihss governing board. and i really appreciate your comments about how important the ihss service -- the program is. it really is a wonderful program that impacts, you know, so many san franciscans. and issues are real. we feel grateful we have wonderful partners at the public authority. they

i can provide more -- i can give this with centcom and we can provide more detail and information. >> yes please. because i understood that the d.o.d. now, as a matter of policy, has determined that they will no longer use burn pits as a way to dispose of waste. so if that's not the case, i just need to know that. and second, i would like to know all existing burn pits that are members of the military base exposed to today. because that would be a matter of great concern. >> all come up with centcom a. provide that information. by policy, by d.o.d. directive, we only well used to burn pits when it's a military operational necessity. everything, everything else, the cc-com the way he manages that base that will not be [inaudible] -- >> [inaudible] will operationally be necessary? >> can you repeat that question? >> have they already determined that the hundreds of burn pits that were used in the past were all operationally necessary? >> burn pits that were used in the past were used because when you establish a base camp in an immature theater and each service member in deployed force

the provider relief fund. we don't have a vote in that process. you and your colleagues make a decision. we hope in your wisdom you will include funding for the provider relief fund to provide services that those hospitals will suspend to the populations who need that support. >> thank you, i am out of time. i yield back. >> the gentlewoman yield back. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, miss fletcher, for her 5 minutes to question. >> thank you for coming today to discuss the president's fiscal year 2020 budget request for the department of health and human services. i have three issues i would like to raise with you in my time today. i'm thrilled that congress authorized the advanced research projects agency this year and recent advances in biomedical sciences or immunotherapy, highly effective covid 19 vaccine demonstrates the strength and success of the us medical care prize. such advances prevent an opportunity to revolutionize how we prevent treatment and cure rare diseases including cancer,

any weapons to not providing heavy weapons to not providing weapons that could be used for attack. now these lines no longer seem to exist. and he, he now said there are 2 categories of allies, those who are providing more weapons and those who may not be providing as many weapons. but i'm much more banking on that next step taken when it comes to sanctions. and this is all as we await for the european union to announce that 5th package. it was already talking about last week. but that clearly has become more a set of off after we saw those images of boucher. but the underlying message is, give us weapons, weapons, weapons, and frankly, you are too late to prevent more breaches from taking place as we are discovering more and more places where something 7, a piece of taken place. and so very important distinction that you point out there . i just want to emphasize that and, and maybe you can expand all that a little bit because is the problem logistics for germany, or is it willingness? because does it have the weapons, weapons, weapons that ukraine needs, but it doesn't have them

i'll provide that that information. by policy, by dod directive, we only will use burn pits when it's a military operational necessity. everything, everything else, the coco-con, the -- co-con, the way he or she manages that waste will not be managed by open burn pits finish. >> so have they determined that all past burn pits last 20 years were operationally necessary? >> you repeat that question? >> have they already determined that the hundreds of burn pits that were used in the past were all operationally necessary. >> burn pits that were used in the past were used because when you establish a base camp in an immature theater and each service member in the deployed force is generating ten pounds or more of waste every day and you have 300-3,000, that's a lot of daily waste. and we have to manage it somehow. and in an immature theater before you can install incinerators or contract to have it removed, burn pits were used. >> understood. and then my final question, which i think you answered, but what is the process th

it provides due process, it provides fairness, it ensures that homeless folks are treated fairly. and it exemplifies what we all believe in in san francisco and what we expect our city to do in terms of working with people in great need. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that was the last caller in the queue. mr. chair, that completes both queues of public commenters. >> thank you, mr. clerk and seeing no other members to comment on this item, public comment is now closed. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair preston, and thank you president walton, for your work on this legislation. i am not prepared to vote for this today. it is clearly well intentioned and i appreciate the spirit behind it. i am not sure that it makes sense to codify this policy. and i'm not sure that it makes sense to codify this policy by ordinance in the way that this -- that this proposal does as i understand it, and many folks have spoken to this today, our shelter grievance policy is a long-standing policy in our shelters going back to 1992. i have heard that it goes far beyond wh

provides short-term salary increases, provides the bodhi for us and the department of the interior to put 1000 firefighters into permanent managers and provides us the ability to increase investments in programs that focus on mental health, resilience and well-being. usda, in collaboration with partners at the interior and the office of personnel management, is working to implement these staffing conversion provisions. the infrastructure allows a significant step in the right direction in terms of wild land compensation and once again, i thank you for your work on that. but we needed to continue to work together to find a permanent solution to increasing our wildland firefighters pay and making other changes that ensure that we can continue to support firefighters and ensure that this is a career that others will pursue in the future. the emperor structure bill also made investments into wild -- the infrastructure bill made investments into wildlife. we have strong partnerships with the department of the defense to continue to use industrial technology to can duct and assess firefight

we provided them 500 rounds of ammunition for each one russian soldier that has invaded ukraine, we providednk the russians have sent in. those are weapons to defend ukraine. a no-fly zone, erin, would involve putting u.s. planes over the sky of ukraine and potentially getting in direct conflict between our planes and russian planes over that sky. it would require to defend our planes, going on bombing runs into russia itself to knock out anti-aircraft capabilities the russians have near the border. so, there is a big difference between u.s. soldiers, sailors, u.s. airmen shooting at russian planes, russian troops, bombing the russians and us providing the ukrainians with our nato allies the weapons they need to defend themselves. >> so i want to ask you about the historic day that you had in washington. obviously, change in topics here but the senate confirmed ketanji brown jackson. 53-47. she will be the first black woman to sit in the supreme court and we see her here with president biden as that vote actually happened. so, one thing we saw today, ron, was the senate public galleries. the

but the infrastructure bill did provide the need. in fact, it waves in epub -- waves neap up on federal lands. if you are capturing the gas you are reducing. i want to make sure the whole of government is working together. if you are working with the interior or they are seeking assistance, i think we can get to these goals that the white house and kevin cramer both have to get the courts off your back and do the right thing with the product that is more valuable. i almost did it in under five minutes. >> a for effort. >> thank you. >> grading on a curve. >>[laughter] >> i can assure you that on that topic the doe, the epa, we are all looking at all of the resources we have to ensure we are going in the same direction. >> next, you will be next in line. a center joining us on the web asked if he could go ahead of you. >> i love being on this curve. average is -- everyone's average is 6.5 minutes. so, the work done by the epa and the department of transportation in improving the fuel economy of the vehicles we drive, to reduce greenho

those who are saying we will provide ukraine with defensive weapons but we're not in a position to providesive weapons, they are hypocritical. this is simply unfair, unjustified approach. germany as you perfectly know has made a revolutionary step in changing its position from not agreeing to supply any weapons at all to allowing certain supplies and providing ukraine in particular with anti-tank weapons. however, of it's clear that james can do more given its reserves and capacity, and we are working with the german government on providing us with additional weapons. the issue that concerns me the most is the procedures and decision-making in berlin because while berlin has time, kyiv doesn't. >> minister, what do you think about the most recent sanctions proposals? >> well, i hope they will be applied in full. this is definitely a step forward. a week ago, the sanctions proposals were much weaker to say the least. we were very unhappy about it. we were working with partners in g7 and in the european union to ensure that sanction pressure is stepped up. we succeeded. but i cannot say that

thank you for the opportunity to provide with us today to be able to provide you with information that request. i'm like to address a couple of points. i came on board in 2018 as a proud american, not as a member as of the political party. i came on board after six years in practice to work on all sides of congress to make a difference. to work with taxpayers, tax practitioners to improve the tax in the united states and to improve the enforcement efforts, to improve technology. not only for, significantly for taxpayers and tax practitioners in members of grist, also the employees ready back on of the revenue service. our people give a lot. as we seen in the pandemic, those efforts have come home. fiscal 21 gross receipts for the internal revenue service was $4.1 trillion. it was approximately 90% of gross receipts of the united states of america. as a fully functional revenue service is important to the success of the country. we have been in the forefront of providing taxpayers. stir burning more than $1.5 trillion -- disturbing 1.5 trillion dollars during the -- distributing $1.5 tr

how we provide patient care, how we provide support. in order to address some of the challenges that existed before, we've made significant changes. we knew that there would be state and federal officials at laguna honda this week to pay very close attention to everything that we were doing and making recommendations in order to ensure that we are first and foremost protecting the patients. making sure that they are safe. making sure that no harm comes to them and also supporting and uplifting the staff. laguna honda is a special place and, in fact, during the visit, what was seen were a number of things that we know can be corrected. someone who may not have taken off their gloves in a timely manner. signage in a needs to be posted to ensure that people are away of what they're walking into. some things that in comparison to a couple months ago are things that are not only minor but can also be so we still have a long road ahead of us. there's still work to be done. but this pandemic has demonstrated not only to the city, but to the co