Next, a Senate Committee ooking at Affordable Housing and safety concerns. One of the issues deals with onsider car upon monoxide ctors in all in alln monoxide readers Affordable Housings. To his hearing will come order. Today the committee will receive testimony from leaders in the community on bipartisan opportunities, to expand access to fter for theable housing improve the safety conditions within current federally assisted housing, and to we might better target some of our existing Housing Resources to meet unaddressed needs. Welcome to our witnesses, and thank you for being here and be with us on discussion. Nt join us today are ivory mathews, director of tive the Housing Authority of columbia, South Carolina, mark yost, president and chief executive officer of the skyline champion corporation, and peggy bailey, Vice President for policy at the budget. Hearing ses of todays were focused on examining three bipartisan pieces of in particular that have been introduced in the congres
Against turkey. Now to live coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, rabbi evan hoffman, congress regation anshe sholom, new rochelle, new york. The chaplain o lord, grant them the wisdom to draft laws that best serve the interests of the American People. O lord, in a time of polarization an rank rouse dispute, we beseech thee to help our elected officials to maintain decorum, civility, commonality of purpose and a sense of shared american investment. Guide our representatives so that they might serve in the eyes of the citizenry as role models of reconciliation and cooperation. We pray that in a future time, the prophets words might be said in reference to this congress, restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Bless our nation with peace and prosperity, our citizens with health and happiness, and our National Institutions with strength and stability. May this
Bishop, for allowing me this time. Part of my amendment is in the en bloc and it deals with wastewater treatment. No person in america living in this country should be allowed to not have adequate plumbing. This is why ive introduced an amendment asking the usda to pry or oties our ongoing efforts to address failing septic systems in Rural Communities. Approximately 20 of americans are responsible for the installation and maintenance of their own sewage disposal systems, which isnt provided by their municipalities or their county government. At least 200,000 families live in homes that have a lack of sewage system altogether. We offer little assistance to people who live in unincorporated areas to have basic water and sewer. Rural communities across this country struggle with this issue. Just this week, i read lots and lots of articles that dealt with failure of those folks in Rural Communities to have adequate sewage systems. This amendment is a part of a multiyear effort to address t
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Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind