Please raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Let the record reflect the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. Please take your seats, ladies. Thats a formality we have to engage in you. Why dont we begin. Heather, why dont we begin with you and move this way. Thank you. Chairman ryan, Ranking Member van holland, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Heather Reynolds and im president ceo of catholic chair tizz ft. Worth. Let me get right to my main point. Poverty is complex and often cyclical. Poor parents have poor children, and poor children often become poor parents. The cycle continues unless it is broken. Case management is the critical element in moving someone from government dependency to selfsufficiency. That is why we believe that Case Management has got to be an integral part of the conversation on how we re
And a discussion about mexico opening its oil and gas industry to foreign investment. At a House Budget Committee hearing advocates for the poor discussed what governments and charities are doing to raise people out of poverty and how they can be more economically selfsufficient. Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin chairs this two hour hearing. Committee will come to order. A number of our members on our side aisle will be a little late our conference is still ongoing but in the interest of time i want to get started. Welcome everybody. Good to see you. A great full capacity crowd. This is our fifth hearing on the war on poverty. Over the past year weve heard from a number of voice, policy voices, Community Groups and today well hear from people in the middle. People in the privatesector who work with the Public Sector. People who coordinate state programs with private charity. Were also going to hear from an especially important voice, miss tianna gainesturner. I was happy to meet tian
Well, we started in 2002. Initially, the girls, we were engaged in Child Rights Movement and we were meeting different women leaders. We were six or seven young girls and all of the age range was from 1416. So when we saw no women or girl leadership in a civil society, as well, some of the organizations that claim to work for womens rights, but there is no representation. Mostly, the women and girls were either the receptionist or the material level but not at the decisionmaking. So we started work with the young girls. First, we volunteered because all of us had no experience working in an organization working for womens rights. So we volunteered with other women who were already working on womens rights. We volunteered with them for a few years and then we started our own work and started to work empowering young women in the communities. Your organization is expanding from pakistan to afghanistan. A different set of issues, a different set of culture, a different set of challenges.
Information. 14 and above, theyre all fingerprinted. Those fingerprints are run against the databases here in the United States. So that if it was somebody a little bit older that had been deported or had been arrested or was involved in a gang. We need better cooperation, better communication with those other three countries to make sure the vast majority of what were seeing are not in that threat category, but we have to be very careful. Well, as has been reported and i dont have any personal knowledge of this, that the number of drug seizures on the border since this crisis has decreased because resources have been deployed to deal with the emergency of this crisis. Is that correct . The number of drug seizures has decreased in that particular sector, but a couple things. Actually having watched it pretty carefully for the five years i served as the president s drug policy adviser, those numbers fluctuate a lot. Now that we have two state where is you can grow your own marijuana, im
Mentioned in his introduction tonight, we decided on a search in late 2009 was followed by a europe pn commitment and also the europeans searched in libya 2011. He showed the europeans take the lead actually for the first time in the history of our land. And i have experience during my tenure as secretary general that we had more Political Consultations in the nato council then we had in the past. Also following the new strategic concept in which we declared that any ally can request consultations on any issue of adventurous spirit so we are caught a lot of consultations also on issues where we could have been the intention to intervene as the Nato Alliance but we have seen the North Atlantic Council essay for a for a very intensive transatlantic dialogue. So both of her speak about operations in the race week about the transatlantic dialogue, we have seen a closer cooperation developed during those five years and that is why i dont feel pain but im quite comfortable. Well come i apolo