Testimony who heads the federal Housing Finance agency. This hearing will come to order. Room has been configured to maintain the recommended six that socialco distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. Some members will be here and arpresent. The witnesses were here in person and others will be coming in by videoconference. I remind everyone once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before youve are displayeyou are displayedon theg in remotely to minimize background noise please click on the mute button until it is your turn mun to speak or ask questi. If theres any Technology Issue as usual, we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I will remind all the fiveminute clock still applies. You should all have a box on your screen so those of you operating remotely will show the time that his remaining. After 30 seconds im going to try to remember to tap the gavel to rem
Have andy barr, maxine waters, matt gaines, ted and karen. Thank you, we are glad that youre here we will allow each of you to give testimony without objecting anything, if you make an order will be ended into the record. I miss waters, well have you first and the gentleman knows the green light is on. Thank you very much mr. Chairman. I would like to commend you and the rules Committee Members for allowing all of us to come before you to share with you our concerns and help shine a light on where we think we should be paying more attention. So, the testimony of have today will combine a number of the areas you talked about. Thank you. If you could do us a favor and tell us that section and the amendment number, it will enable us to follow you perhaps a bit more closely and that would be of help to the committee. Okay. Let me try and do that now. I think that you did venture transportation. Is that right . Yes. That we are doing today. Transportation and agriculture. Say that again . T
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Tillis. Welcome. Senator john kennedy, welcome. Chris van hollen. And senator katherine cortez. We appreciate all of you, and im sure i speak for all of the regular members of the committee that we welcome you and look forward to. To a lot of good work. Earlier members of the committee. [laughter] i was told by both sides to speak for myself. I look forward to working with all of us on the committee all members this year. I look forward to working with all of us on the committee all members this year. This committee has a long and distinguished history of tackling important issues and this congress has no exception. We have a significant list of issues that we will need to deal with and we will do that and i am confident we will continue the tradition in a strong and bipartisan manner. I look forward to working with my colleagues. Weve had a number of hearings already that we will be dealing with an and we will work to lead the committee through some very important territories during t
Great honor being with you. As they signpost to the nation the ideal of country over party. Trump very good man, very good man. But it is an ideal that is often difficult to achieve. President elect donald trump pledged to his supporters to rollback much of the work of the Obama Administration , just like obama did to his predecessor. Nats motorcade the president elect also traveled to the capitol to meet with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and an adversary from within the Republican Party speaker of the house paul ryan, who showed him where he will be inaugurated and discuss what they plan to do when that to make sure that we can get this country turned around and make America Great again. Lana zak standup close and with a republican majority in both houses of congress the president elect has greater power to make those changes when he takes the oath of office right here in january. Lana zak, abc news, the capitol. One of the things trump repeated while campaigning is that his