Into structured security. Later president ial envoy talks about President Trumps decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from syria and how it might impact u. S. National security. Treasury secretary steven minh mnuchin and housing sec. Ben carson on capitol hill to testify about access to a portal housing and finance reform option. Lawmakers heard testimony from the head of the federal Housing Finance agency and this hearing is under three hours. We will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled the end of Affordable Housing, a review of the Trump Administrations plan to change Housing Finance in america. Before i recognize myself members, today is [inaudible]s birthday come back if anyone wishes to sing happy birthday please save it until later. [laughter] we all thank you for that. Happy birthday. We now recognize myself performing its given soft Opening Statement. Good morning. Today we are here to
Well come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled the end of Affordable Housing, question mark. A review of the Trump Administrations plans to change Housing Finance in america. Before i recognize myself, members today its mr. Mchenrys birthday. If anyone wishes to sing happy birthday, please save it until later. Thank you. We all thank you for that, madam chair. Happy birthday. And i now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Good morning. Today were here to discuss the impact of the Trump Administrations Housing Finance reform plans. We are joined by treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, h. U. D. Secretary ben carson, and federal Housing Finance agency director. Welcome. Let me say up front that the Trump Administrations Housing Finance reform plan would be a disaster for our housing systems. The Trump Administration is threatening to end the conservatorship of the enterprise
That weve been doing coastal rescue drills. Thats consistent. We have our p. L. O. Go out and hand out materials, and we talked about that in the past because this is a heavily travelled area for visitors. And so we do a lot of handouts and fliers, and also, all of the companies that are on the coastal stations, theyve been doing constant drilling out there. So theyre doing rope rescue drills, theyre doing water drills im sorry lowangle drills, highangle drills, boat drills, everything that involves coastal drills. I can list them for you next time, if you like. I have some of the pictures in the slides that i gave you. I knew this was a little bit of a longer presentation, so i shortened it and took some of that out. Chairwoman no problem at all. Then. Lets see. At the chase center, are you going to have an afteraction report for that, you know, when you have the drill . We will. We will. We will have the take takeaways from it, for sure. Chairwoman i think all of the commissioners wo
Pictures in the slides that i gave you. I knew this was a little bit of a longer presentation, so i shortened it and took some of that out. Chairwoman no problem at all. Then. Lets see. At the chase center, are you going to have an afteraction report for that, you know, when you have the drill . We will. We will. We will have the take takeaways from it, for sure. Chairwoman i think all of the commissioners would be interested in seeing that, as well as areas of deficiencies, in order for everyone to be able to sleep well at night, atim any time there is poll when iparticularly for a lf the musical events. At sports events, i think they dont drink as much as they do for musical events. And things can go wrong for that reason. Egress and ingress can get a lit scary. I would like to see any concerns memorialized from m. T. A. , saying these are the things that we think really need to be addressed. And if you feel that you cannot do what it is that were asking you to do, then please tell u
Mr. Mcconnell good afternoon, everyone. Since were going into a work period, i thought id just kind of recap my take on the last few weeks. Bipartisan ndaa, which we think is extremely important. And obviously, you know, giving our democratic friends a vote on the udall amendment. Rather bizarre situation. Democratic leader found himself in. Most of his conference wanted to vote on it today. But, as you know, there are intervening events last night and tonight that created the scheduling problem for them. So, i decided id accommodate that. Not wildly enthusiastically greeted on my side. But well be voting for a period of Time Starting at some indeterminant moment in the morning. I know you all are anxious to find out when it starts. And when it ends. And i cant tell you with specificity right now but were trying to accommodate them. The main part on the udall amendment is none of our democratic friends would be supporting this if it were a democratic president. This clearly restricts a