Good morning, everyone and welcome back as we returned from th good morning Everyone Welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue ournu workno in the Economic Opportunities subcommittee without objection the chair is authorized to call for recess at anyny time todays hearing is called reviewing the resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on an important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will discuss department of Agriculture Programs to identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans to provide nutrition assistance to those in need. Specifically todays hearing will focus on how veterans access nutrition resources and recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources and how congress can more effectivelyly support public and nonpublic agencies seeking to end veteran hunger this continues the subcommittees efforts to review economic factors that contribute to suicide which we now include homelessness
That is true for the speakers as well and the audience. So i will not use any time to repeat what the speakers would need for introduction, but they come from three important perspectives on the debate. This is obviously a law and policy conference. I think that we will discuss a little bit more law than we have discussed in other panels, and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad theme for the panel which is true for a lot of the immigration stuff since trump took over is some important issues having been sort of shuttled between and among three branchs of the government. In one way of the wall leaning from one branch of the government, and each branch of the government is putting the can in the other persons lap, and hoping that the can will stop there somewhere. Many of the cans have not stopped. So this is the chance to see where the cans are and where they will finally land. So i will begin talking to the panelists in more of a conversation topic, and so we can get into t
Last week. Overnight, in asia, japans nikkei topped 40,000 for the first time. Stronger corporate earnings and surge of chip stocks with Artificial Intelligence playing things up. The nikkei above 40,000. If you look back here in the United States, the treasury markets show yields are higher. Tenyear yielding 4. 2 . The price of bitcoin has been impossible to stop lately. You will see it is up another 3. 7 . Above 65,000. It will be a new high. Theoretically. We are watching crude prices inching up toward 80. The high end of the range. 79. 68. Opec plus countries delaying production. That means 2. 2 Million Barrels per day of cuts planned for the First Quarter of the year will continue into the next quarter. We will talk more about this and the implications with helima croft in the 8 00 hour. Congressional leaders released the details of the first six budget bills to keep the government funded. Democrats secured full funding of the special Food Assistance program for women, infants and
Is representative Virginia Foxx, republican of north carolina. Newsmakersa chair of educatid workforce committee. Soon scheduled for floor action. Thank you for being our guest. Let me introduced the two reporters who will ask questions. Both of them cover education beats for michelle of the wall street journal and michael of jalisco. Started, we are taking this on thursday, yesterday, betsy devos gave a well covered speech where she was highly critical of the bush and obama hynde, no child left he and essentially said it had no tangible results and is seen as the death knell of with in the Education Departments. Is your critique of the legislation as strong as hers . No tangible results . Foxx no child left behind had great motivation behind it. The title, make sure every child as long and as good of an education as you could possibly give him or her. But in the input phase by the bureaucrats, they put students and did anells enormous amount of testing. Example of good micromanaging a
Nutrition for street to order. Todays hearing marks this committees ninth hearing this year, dedicated to enlisting listen to our stakeholders around the country on out our Office Programs are currently working or need improvement as we work towards farm bill reauthorization during this congress. This includes taking a look at spending request for proposals for 39 programs in the farm bill that do not have budget baseline. And as i said each of these hearings are committee must be mindful of very tough budgetary environment that we have to face. While it is a principal duty of this committee to ensure the next farm bill provides our nations agriculture produces with the necessary tools and resources to feed a growing and hungry world, our responsibilities and the will of the is a you not stop there. It is also critical for next farm bill works to support Rural Businesses and cooperatives and Health Clinics and schools, Renewable Energy, and biobased product manufacturers manufacturers