Can i get everybodys attention please . All right. Welcome to the met club. Thank you for coming out on this rainy evening. Know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolute im not doing the introduction yet but dehighlighted to have dick morris here tonight. Thank you. Welcome to the met club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here. Thats pretty cool. So wave to the guys at cspan there. Just a couple of quick announcements. Our next event here at the club will be our first thursday say hello. The next event is first thursday, october 5th, and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman, adele, who she and her husband moved to washington, dc. Her husband, david, who is a very noted economist, is part of the the undersecretary of the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hi has been confirmed as an undersecretary of the treasury. He is going to be here that night, too so its a great opportunity to celebrate the
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The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized at any time and all members will skr five legislative days to submit to the chair for inclusion in the record. Entitled the future of housing in america oversight of the department of housing in urban development. I recognize myself for three and a half minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today we welcome the 17th sick 17the secretary secretary of the department of housing and urban development. Welcome, sir. At least in one respect he may be among the most qualified individuals to ever serve as hud secretary. Secretary carson was raised by a single mother who had a third grade education. He grew up in communities who grew up in boston. Not only does he understand poverty personally but he understands what it takes to escape it. He is passionate about helping others escape as well. He also understands that huds approach to eliminating poverty too often fails and thankfully he is committed to changing it. He
Please come to order. We have a vote at 11 45 but that should leave us an opportunity to hear from our witnesses and have good time for questions. I told our witnesses that i was delighted to be talking about something other than the individual Health Insurance market. And im really quite serious about that because we know that the larger issues in health care are much more than the 6 of the people, every one of whom is important, who have to buy their Health Insurance in the individual Health Insurance market. So were glad to have this discussion and a subject on which both republicans and democrats have a lot of interest and we look forward to your advice. Today were holding a hearing to look at what can be done to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices to help prevent serious illnesses and reduce Health Care Costs. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce the witnesses. After the witness testimony, senators will each have five mi
Everyone. From a quality to Racial Justice to immigrant rights, all of us. Every single day im part of a Historic Movement to reclaim the story of america from those who wish to roll back the clock on our progress. As we work across communities and identities with quality, please take a look at this video we created celebrating the voices fighting for fairness and justice for all. One year ago we addressed the nation in the midst of a heated election. An america that is diverse and bighearted. I am a proud american. We are blessed to raise our three sons where they are free to be themselves. We have gone from a presidency of progress into prejudice. We have seen attacks on transgender kids and troops. Countless efforts to move Health Care Away from millions of americans including those living with disabilities. The criminal justice reform. But also no presidency can silence our voices. We took for the streets. We filled airports. From coast to coast and countless main streets in betwee