Second panel for todays hearing. Thank you very much for coming and giving your testimony. [inaudible conversations] our second Panel Includes mrt and chief executive officer, Labor Community Action Committee and the Regents Program Vice President local Initiative Support corporation, executive director for community housing. The advocate corporation. In the chief Program Officer the executive director of the house center. Speaker downtown of behalf of Domestic Violence Homeless Services coalition. And deborah door, president and chief executive or officer without objection your statements will be made part of the record into view will have five minutes to summarize your testimony. You a signal by tapping the gobble lightly when one minute remains. At that time i will ask you to wrap up so weto can be respectfl of both the witnesses and the committees in response. Mr. Watkins your reckoning for five minutes to give your oral testimony. Thank you. And i will not spend too much time tell
Mister mayor, we welcome you thank you for the opportunity you have afforded to me and other members of congress to visit with you recently while you help to get us to understand exactly what you are doing and what other assistance could be helpful with what you are attempting to do. You are now recognized for five minutes. Thank you chairwoman and thank you for your friendship and leadership and your presence is not the first time we have testified to gather add exhibition park whenever Maxine Waters is there i am there. This is the most important of all subjects coming before you im so grateful to be here. Thank you to representatives green and garcia for your perspective and my dear friend brad sherman thank you for being a part of this. I come before you as a parent, mayor, Foster Parent and volunteer and organizer and longterm activist talking about skid row when i was 14 i saw something that even predated my birth by a decades where we deposit social ills and trauma and the 14 ye
I need everyones help in the room for the sake of the common good. Take this device and silence it, please. That way we wont get any nycalls from our children or grandchildren taking us out of the meeting. So i want to welcome you this evening on behalf of the board of directors of the reformed institute of metropolitan washington. My name is larry goldman, im interim director of the institute. We are dedicated as an institute to the education of techurches and the community in the reformed tradition and enhancing theological discourse related to religious life and to the common good. I want to thank the session of National Presbyterian church for providing the venue for this evenings event. National is one of 10 sponsoring congregations of the reforminstitute and a fantastic place. Youll find the names of our other sponsoring communities in the brochure that you have at your seat and if you do not have one, please let us know, were going to get one to you. The reformed institute serve
Book. The National Book festival live saturday, august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. Forvery year, cspan awards fellowships to several middle and High School Teachers who have demonstrated innovative methods of incorporating cspan programs in their teaching. They joined cspans education Relations Team in washington, d. C. For four weeks in july to develop new teaching materials. They also help the lead cspans summer educators conference. One of our three 2019 teacher fellows is High School Teacher eleanor green of pacoima, california. Eleanor green has taught at bert corona high school. Tell us a little bit more about your school and your students. Eleanor i am really fortunate to be able to teach a population that is almost entirely firstgeneration american. Most of my students are emergent bilinguals coming into their english language skills. I get to work with students who want to learn. Immigrant children love learning. They see education as their way out. Their p
Representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , august 20, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable William Lacy Clay to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend michael wilker, Lutheran Church of the reformation, washington, d. C. The chaplain god, who spretched the spanningled stretched the spangeled, share inventive powers with you. Thank you for the delightful and awesome creation of which we are a part. Thank you, also, for the scientists of this nation, especially those who serve in our government. We are sorry for the times our lazyness, ignoran