Good afternoon. I'd like to call to order the personal administration legislation committee for Monday September the 23rd of our federal lobbyists bring us up today on everything. Good afternoon. You've got Emily and John here from CJ Lake and apologies. Things are pretty slow in Washington. The House and Senate are both going into session today or this evening with the big focus of just passing a continuing resolution by the end of the week so that they can then adjourn and go campaign. I know last week when we talked to you all, the House was teaming up a six month extension or six month continuing resolution, I should say. We knew it wouldn't go anywhere. It ended up failing and I think 14 Republicans voted against it. So now they are focused on a three month continuing resolution, which is what the administration and the Senator Schumer had been asking for. And we all kind of felt like this is where it was coming. And so sure enough, they reached a bipartisan agreement over the weekend on a three month bill that would run through December 20th. It's a pretty clean continuing resolution, meaning they didn't attach a lot of extraneous items, but they did include an additional 231 million for the Secret Service and the wake of the second assassination attempt against former President Trump. The House is expected to vote on the bill on Wednesday, and then the Senate shortly thereafter. Again, it was put together with bipartisan consensus. So we expect, you know, the same probably House Republicans to vote against and most of House Democrats to support. So it should pass pretty overwhelmingly. And then again, on the Senate side as well. Again, we do not expect a government shutdown. As soon as they do that, they will head home to their districts and continue to campaign, you know, up until the elections. And as we said, they will return in November for a lame duck session to kind of take up all the bills that they haven't been able to take up thus far and hopefully end up wrapping up appropriations in December as well. So that is our report and we're happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Chair Carson. I did read through your notes earlier and gave a really detailed saga of the continuing resolution. Just out of curiosity, the 231 million for the Secret Service, have they been short staff? Is that why they need additional money? Or what is the additional funds going to do to help deal with the potential security issues that they've been facing. Yeah, I think staffing has been one of the concerns. And so it would go to that. I think I read somewhere that now, you know, the presidential candidates will have the same security levels as the current president and then the vice presidential candidate as well. So they are going to up both of their security. John, I'm not sure if you have anything additional there. No, I think that that's right. One of the issues that the Secret Services had over the past 10 or 15 years years that it takes a long time to train a secret service officer. It's not like hiring a police officer or a soldier. These are highly trained individuals that specialize in protection, which is significantly different than what your typical police officer are law officials responsible for. So the pipeline for a secret service officer to be detailed to the president or the vice president or any of the candidates just takes a really long time to get those folks in those jobs. You can't just click these people off the street. So some of the funding will be used to increase the training pipeline. But then like Emily said, for the immediate case right now is to beef up security for the President and the Vice President of the presidential candidates in 2024. This is of course in reaction to the assassination attempts on President Trump, a former President Trump earlier this year, but also the increased security presence that will be required for vice president Harris now and into the future. But the, I mean, this is something that the secret service has been requesting for many years. But again, it is a kind of a long tail issue that does require additional funding to train these people up to this level. Thank you. Is that it? Yes, okay. We have any public comment. I have no speakers for public comment. Okay. Any of you who joined our meeting remotely, if you want to identify yourself, please do so at this time. Hi, this is Hana Hamilton, interim policy director with Alameda County Social Services Agency. Good afternoon. This is Eileen Aing with Alameda County Health. Okay, with that we are adjourned. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Everyone have a good day. Thank you.