Next a look at waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal Welfare Program temporary assistance for needy families. It provides cash assistance and other services to lowincome families with a focus on getting recipients back to work. Though it is suddenly find it is executed by the states. The house ways and means a subcommittee hearing is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Welcome to our subcommittee hearing. For the working welfare subcommittee. Where is all aware for money going from reclaiming tanf not assistance dollars to lift americans out of poverty. My name is downloaded and arrives in illinois 16th district of illinois. Much of central and northwest parts of the state. Recently republicans were able to secure a major victory with the fiscal responsibility act, which strengthen, which strengthen work requirements in the direct cash assistance portion of the temporary assistance for needy families program. Those changes followed our hearing
Federal leaders about the crime that has taken over oakland. Ctvs christinabusinesses, chri, heather, alex, we can tell you that le cheval was one of those businesses that took part in todays strike. This longtime vietnamese restaurant simply cant open for much longer. Theyre going to shut down the a contributing factor, and it was outside here, le cheval, earlier this morning that a Media Conference was held. Youll take a look at the video just to see how many people were outside here. This was the site of that Media Conference where one after another Business Owners stood at the podium to talk about their disappointment in the leadership that they say has allowed crime to get out of control. Theyre worried about the number of incidents they see at their stores and others see it on a daily basis. They say its the robberies, the car break ins, the assaults. They say some employees get hurt as well. They say that these restaurants and Convenience Stores cant really bear much bear the cr
To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation policy. Its valuable in our efforts to pass the act, which was the first longterm highway bill in a decade, and were going to continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations surface Transportation System still needs additional investments. Enacting a long Term Solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to insuring we can address those needs long into the future. Since passage of the f. A. S. T. Act, building a con
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Different ways. I dont know but just in the recent and maybe its just this time of year, but theres been a lot of calls related to pg e. So maybe its annual. Im not sure if its just this time of year that this happens. I dont know. But what are these outliers . Are we using this information and are we building the best budgets when it comes to budget time . Id like more information on the station 49 hander and how its reflected in our budget, and how its reflected in their budget, as well. I appreciate the job that you do, mr. Corso. I dont know how the city could possibly be in a deficit given the place in our economy is with our unemployment at 4. 1 . I can only imagine the problems were going to have when we hit that downturn, because winter is coming. Absolutely. Thank you for your comments, and you touched on a lot of things, so if im missing anything, please let me know. To answer your question, i dont think we can get out of being asked for reductions up front. I think those are