[cheers] [crowd talking] all right. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for coming out tonight. We have a great turnout. We are honored to have everybody here. My name is ray meisner, president of the committee of 100. We welcome you to the virginia 10th Congressional District candidate forum. We are partnering with the league of women voters. This is dana gorn. [applause] we would like to think a bunch of people for making this happen. The program committee, with chair rebecca perkins. Vice chair phyllis griffith. We also want to thank councilman donald shoemaker for making this happen and getting us the space. Incredible. [applause] we thank cspan and abc 7 news and all the media that has come out today to get this out there to the constituents. So, with that i dont want to forget to mention that we thank all the contributions of our families and loved ones that have supported us in our effort to further serve the community here by putting on this event. I want to go over som generale
And was homeless. As he says now he said i tried to kill myself for 30 years slowly. He said it got so bad that people were throwing change at my feet in the streets. Finally door and decided turn his life around. He wrote down a list of 21 things he wanted to accomplish things like opening a bank account, cooking in his own kitchen. He moved from detroits two saint paul minnesota and once he got there he walked across town to a local nonprofit that he knew could help him and with their help and the help of the minnesota assistant counsel for veterans he got into housing and of Substance Abuse treatment program. Today doran has checked off all 21 items on that list. [applause] [applause] a little cooking in the kitchen paying his own rent and hugged his daughter who he had been separated from for 25 years. Like so many veterans doran continues to give back. He is working fulltime as a caseworker to help other veterans find and sustain housing of their own. He is dedicating his life to
Was that they got an opportunity to go to court. And thats referred to as constructive exhaustion of revenues. And the plaintiff has an absolute right to go to court after 20 working days. But its not clear that they have much other remedy. But anyway, judge brown, kettani Brown Jackson said that this case, the crew case basically stood for the proposition that once the agency had not responded in time you got to go to court. And that was it. Epic argued largely because they had won this on similar situations in 2006, that there was a presumption that the agency would violate by not responding on time and that gave them permission to continue the case process to have the case process. Jackson basically said well now that the crew case exists, the crew versus fcc fcc basically the only remedy you have is to go to court and hopefully you can get the court to be more and amenable to your argument but you dont get to force the agency to respond any more quickly. Basically under the process
Historic levels and since 2008 the program has brought more than 73,000 veterans out of homelessness. [applause] [applause] and im no mathematician but somebody did the numbers for me. [laughter] that means in the last few years more than 40 times as many veterans have been helped and during most of the programs entire history. The other Program Chris mentioned, the Supportive Services for veterans families the ssp have is a new program started by this administration three years ago to prevent lowincome veteran families from falling into homelessness and last year alone it served more than 60,000 veterans and their family members in next year we expect that number to grow to over 100,000. [applause] and as we all know these programs are making a significant difference even during difficult economic times. Veteran homelessness in america has dropped by 24 in just three years. So we are beginning to make some real important progress on this issue. But we know that we are nowhere near fin
Topic last month and outofcontrol wildfire was burning a half a mile away from the Nuclear Plant. Those of the people of california. Millions and millions of them. This is it. This plant is asking for a waiver so they dont have to deal with any type of emergency response. My concern about nrcs commitment to identifying and remedy safety problems is highlighted by my investigation into the installation of defective equipment. I learned that the nrc staff was preparing to allow the restart of one of the reactors before it had received a single answer to any of the technical safety questions it asked Southern California edison to submit. Continuing the pattern of doing everything that you are asked to do by the industry. This oversight investigation that i am conducting is important, not only to get to the bottom of this problem, but to avoid disastrous problems like this in the future. I am also concerned that whistleblowers at nrc fielded have no recourse but to Contact Congress to repo