Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
Good morning. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is present, and the committee is meeting today in a legislative hearing to hear testimony on this is not a drill, educated related response and recovery in the wake of Natural Disaster. Pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear more from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. A small note this hearing was scheduled before we knew that this was going to be a short week. Votes will be called at 10 00, and members will go to vote. And mr. Allen has agreed to come back and continue the hearing so we can have here every witness testify. So i now recognize myself for making an Opening Statement. Today were here to examine the federal governments response to School Communities impacted by Natural Disasters and the diverse challenges our schools face on the road to recovery. We need to know what has gone right, what ha
Good morning. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is present, and the committee is meeting today in a legislative hearing to hear testimony on this is not a drill, educated related response and recovery in the wake of Natural Disaster. Pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear more from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. A small note this hearing was scheduled before we knew that this was going to be a short week. Votes will be called at 10 00, and members will go to vote. And mr. Allen has agreed to come back and continue the hearing so we can have here every witness testify. So i now recognize myself for making an Opening Statement. Today were here to examine the federal governments response to School Communities impacted by Natural Disasters and the diverse challenges our schools face on the road to recovery. We need to know what has gone right, what ha
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Table. I have here the Government Accountability Office Document that nations fiscal health. May 2023. Issued a couple weeks ago, this was issued to every leader in congress by the Executive Branch. The gao is one of the best of the entities our government has, what do they say. Why do we care. It says balance of current revenue, resolve in debt growing faster than the economy, thi this is unsustainable. The government never writes reports like this or speaks like this. It continues cbo, has stated high and rising federal debt is a fiscal crisis. Underlying conditions driving unsustainable fiscal outlook post, social challenges have not addressed. They are trying to say, the economy could collapse. Could collapse. They go on they are saying were not at war, The Ethe Econo Economics Balancedded 3 Out Of Last 4 years. For example, debt held by public, grew during economic expansion of june 2009 to february 2020, it did not grow during the economic expansion from March Of 1991 to march of