S. F. Housing authority units that i think are an incredibly big deal. Investments in our public infrastructure, continued our Public Safety hiring plan, and numerous other things and item that and priorities i think a number of us or most of us would agree have been tremendous. I do want to thank the mayors team in particular, kate howard, the mayors budget director and her entire staff and certainly Ben Rosenfield our controller who played such an integral role in our budget process, we wouldntible able to get this done. [speaker not understood] our work began in march as always, and met with departments, each of the members of the board of supervisors i know had copies locally in their own districts with mayor lee. We held an online town hall with members of the public. That went well, including our full day of Public Comment that we had here at the board of supervisors. And this year what we did for the first time is actually invited online Public Comment throughout our budget proc
Types of decisionses. And i do, however, want to just express a little bit of disappointment that, that seiu tenderloin, not necessarily call out the organization, but also but the nonprofit workers that really work for our city were not really represented in this particular budget. And i hope that there is something we can do in the future months to come to help rectify this error. Thank you. Supervisor campos. Thank you very much, mr. President. And let me just begin by saying that having gone through a number of budgets over the last few years that its never an easy task, especially given the various views that all of us have. And i want to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues who serve on the Budget Committee for all the work. I know its a very time consuming for them and for their staff, and i especially want to thank the chair of the Budget Committee, supervisor farrell, for two years in a row having a process that i think has really allowed everyone to, to have a say and
Constitution of our country. I believe our conferees should have an opportunity to go in there and do the right thing to protect the people of america through the funding of the department of Homeland Security and to do the right thing to defend the constitution of our country. By defeating this motion and Going Forward with the conference, we give the process a chance to work. And to work well in both of those regards. So i respect the people on the other side who think we should just give in. But i dont think we should just give in. Because i dont think the American People want us to just give in. I think the American People want us to do our work. To make sure we protect our country by appropriately funding the department of Homeland Security. But that we also defend our protect our country by defending the constitution of the United States. I believe the actions taken by the president are unconstitutional. A judge has stayed those actions because hes got some legal issues with them
Voting rights march in 1965. Then theyll turn to the Monetary Policy report from the fed. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan3. Will come to order. We have a quorum. The committee will briefly conduct an executive session to report s527 to award a congressional gold medal to the foot soldiers who anticipated in bloody sunday, turnaround tuesday of the final selma to montgomery Voting Rights march which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights act of 1965. Im pleased to serve as an original cosponsor of this bill. I thank the other members of this committee including the Ranking Member, whove also agreed to cosponsor this legislation. With that understand that there are no amendments and there are no objections. Mr. Chairman may i make im pleased we can mark up this important piece of legislation today. A bill with strong bipartisan support as chairman shelby said. It honors those americans who fought so hard for civil rights with the congressional gold medal. I want to thank s
That people will learn to live together in reconciliation and respect so that the terrors of war now raging in ukraine, syria, and threatening to spread will be no more. May your special blessings be upon the members of this assembly and the important often difficult work they do. Give them wisdom and charity that they might Work Together for the common good when issues on so many fronts present seemingly impossible roads to cooperation. May all that is done this day in the peoples house be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings, and announced to the house his approval there of. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Kildee. Mr. Kildee please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under goivib, thibty andus