I call this hearing to order. Good morning, one and all. Senator capito, good to see you. Thank you for helping us pull this hearing together, this important hearing. Let me discuss the Environmental Protection agencys Brownfields Program as we begin to work on the programs of reauthorization. For nearly three decades now, brownfields has proven to be an important source of Helpful Community forced to contend with. The Program Provides federal assistance for communities to clean up contain him unaided we most recently reauthorized appropriations for this program with a strong bipartisan support about five years ago. I think it was 2018. Its time now to review the state of the Brownfields Program and to examine what works well, to identify potential ways to update the program so it can best meet the evolving challenges that communities face. I like to say that everything i do, i know i can do better. That includes our oversight of this program and the way this program operates throughou
Senate committee on banking, housing, and urban order. Before we begin, i will probably embarrass her, but i will call her out, irene gray is working her last week as a stenographer in the United States senate. She has been here for 20 years and we thank her for quiet, effective, crucial work to preserve the hearings. Even when senator toomey and i dont say much of note, she still has to take it down. Just appreciate your good work for this country and your unsung hero as a unsung hero contracted civil servant. Thank you, thank you. This hearing is in a hybrid format. Four of our witnesses are joining us remotely before senator toomey and me. One or more members may attend through their offices. For millions of americans, the rent was due yesterday and for many the rent keeps going up and up and up. Two weeks ago we heard from witnesses about the soaring costs of housing and how it hurts families priced out of purchasing their first home and imperils the renters who are just one illnes
For the next hour, we bring you stories a few immigrants who have shared their experiences on both tv. We start with ishmael bayh who talks about his life as a child soldier in sierra leone and his experiences as an immigrant and United States. On my way to the United States i want to mention briefly about immigration is when i began, perhaps the first time in my life i began to question whether my own humanity was worthy as other people who lived in the western europe. I had never questioned that before in my life. This came about because of how to process integrating with absolute difficult to the point they dehumanize the person who is seeking emigration. When i went to get a visa, i was asked to produce two things. One of them was a Bank Statement that showed i had come in second was the documentation that showed i had ownership of property in sierra leone. Door had been going on in my country for over nine years at this point, eat, nine years. I try to explain to this interview fe
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As a how do you the soldiers destroyed my banana and coffee bean fields. They took all my livestock and destroyed all my buildings i lost everything. I mean. A small farmer from uganda is haunted by his familys violent a victim from their home. But first i thought that war had broken out then we had a white man wanted to grow coffee beans that. The man the customers are talking about lives in hamburg and is the owner of a coffee empire michael i know him and is the worlds leading importer of unroasted coffee beans. This is what happened when he set up a plantation in uganda. Weve come to move in southwestern uganda its a fertile region thats home to Small Farmers who grow bananas avocados pineapple and above all coffee beans. The climate is perfect for coffee which is why in the year two thousand and one the newman coffee group decided to establish a new plantation in the area. The ugandan government found the perfect site but the land was already occupied. Hunts fessler from switzerla