Housing units. Senator mike crapo of idaho chairs the banking, housing and urban affairs committee. This hearing will come to order. Today, the committee will receive testimony from leaders in the Housing Community on bipartisan opportunities this congress to expand access to Affordable Housing, to improve the safety conditions within current federallyassisted housing, and to consider how we might better target some of our existing Housing Resources to meet unaddressed need. Welcome to our witnesses, and thank you for taking the time to be with us today for this important discussion. Joining us today are ivory mathews, interim executive director of 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 housing policy at the center on budget and policy priorities. For purposes of todays hearing, we are focused on examining three bipartisan pieces of legislation in parti
Fiscal rules. Many on this committee have suggested establishing longterm debt to gdp targets. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. At our hearing last week, there was talk about a revenue estimating committee. We dont even address how much revenue were going to have to work with. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. Most important, such targets could encourage congress to focus less on near term spending battles and more on longterm Fiscal Health of our country. Another area ive been concerned with is how we budget for disasters. I note that according to the witness testimony, since 2005, federal funding for Disaster Assistance has tototalled at let 450 billion. While we regularly appropriate funding for Femas Disaster Relief Fund as part of the annual appropriations process, according to the congressional are provided for supplemental appropria
Pursuant to House Resolution 445 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further onsideration of h. R. 3055. Will the gentlewoman from the district of columbia kindly take the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 3055 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, en were amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from minnesota, ms. Mccollum, have ow been disposed of. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will resume on those amendments printed in part b of house report 116119 on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order. Amendment 3 by mr. Rutherford of florida
Committee. This first portion is just under three hours. [inaudible conversations] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. As we all know very important both will be taking place, republicans of knickers will be meeting in their caucuses so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes, if thats okay with folks. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of Bristol Myers squibb, chris berner, we thank you for being here. Ceo merck robert davis, we thank you for being here. And the Seahawks Johnson johnson Joaquin Duato for being with us this morning. Thanks very much. There is a lot of discussion in our nation about how divided our people are on many issues. And that is absolutely true, but on one of the most important issues facing our country, the American People whether democrats, republicans come i
[inaudible conversations] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. As we all know very important both will be taking place, republicans of knickers will be meeting in their caucuses so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes, if thats okay with folks. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of Bristol Myers squibb, chris berner, we thank you for being here. Ceo merck robert davis, we thank you for being here. And the Seahawks Johnson johnson Joaquin Duato for being with us this morning. Thanks very much. There is a lot of discussion in our nation about how divided our people are on many issues. And that is absolutely true, but on one of the most important issues facing our country, the American People whether democrats, republicans come in the pesco conservatives, progresses could not be more u