Well Departments Department of aging Adult Services and the office of early care and education as you may know the mayors announced aid move forward with the budget establishing a new department of homelessness or Homeless Services which will move out the hsa division of Homelessness Department and we have sam dodge to present on the initial thoughts of of department of homelessness ill move into the department of health and department of aging Adult Services and early care and education interest as you may know Human Services agency broadly speaking we serve the low income single adults and families and seniors and children in San Francisco and through the various programs to promote the sufficiency amongst the population and the agencies that protects 9 vulnerability through the Child Welfare and protective services and Human Services as well. But for the latter fall under daasw rather than walk you through a lot of dollars and sort of the more detailed portions of our proposed budge
That started a series of 14 years of me advising and encouraging and supporting the Naval Academy. Through this time i had two more children who decided to apply at the Naval Academy but now i had children on active duty. And so many parents say that you need to write this all down until after my husbands company declared bankruptcy, he ended up working for an airline in afghanistan and i followed him and i taught for a year in afghanistan, had a unique perspective of being a mom who have had children to play to afghanistan and now i was there at the same time that the rebels decided to join the military not through the Naval Academy and now i have four children while serving i have been in a war zone and when i came back people were saying that you need to write this down and i thought, well, i will write it down for my family and so i did and a parent said no you need to do more than that with this and the result was the book be safe, love mom amilitary moms storiesof courage, comfor
On the homefront. Welcome to washington. Guest thank you so much for being here to talk with me about it. So, tell me a bit about your book. Guest i never intended to write a book. My oldest son headed off to the Naval Academy and at that time there were parents to communicate with each other and engage and just kind of connect so i began posting on that list and everything changed. My son had gone to a Peacetime Navy and within a few short hours everything changed. And so i began to write more. Ultimately i was asked to become a moderator and that started with me encouraging and supporting the navy Academy Parents through the time i have two more had two more children who decided to apply and attend the Naval Academy and so as the years went by not only did i have them i had that i have been on active duty and so they kept saying you need to write this all down in the book and as our life continued in its twists and turns, my husband after his airline declared bankruptcy he worked for
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or to change a vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays 26. And the motion to concur in the house amendment to the Senate Amendment to h. R. 3547 is agreed to. Under the previous order, the clerk will report ms. Mikulski i move to reconsider. I move to lay on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, the clerk will report h. Con. Res. 74. Under the previous order, the concurrent the clerk h. Con. Res. 74, concurrent resolution providing for a correction in the enrollment of h. R. 3547. The presiding officer under the previous order, the concurrent resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider considered made and laid upon the table. Mr. Grassley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley if im not bothering anybody else, id like to start. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. All senators please
The presiding officer are there any members wishing to vote or dhaing their vote . If not, on this can yeas are 99, the nays are zero. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having vote fed the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i wanted to spend a little bit of Time Offering a viewpoint different than the chairman of the committee on this bill. First of all, i want to say by context, my father and two brothers served in world war ii, my brothers during the vietnam era. There is no question we have an obligation to meet our commitments to those that have put their life and future on the line for this country. But it pains me that although weve increased spending 58 in the v. A. Program since 2009, which is fiscal 2010, what we have seen is a complete lack of oversight of whats happening. Let me give you an example. The v. A. Community in the Senate Committee in the Senate Last Year held