[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone and welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue our work and Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to callec for recesst any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resourceson come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to
Work in the Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to calle for recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resources come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to veteran suicide which we note include homelessness and hunger. Our subcommittee works in a bipartisan way to str
Entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resources come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to veteran suicide which we note include homelessness and hunger. Our subcommittee works in a bipartisan way to strengthen education and job Training Programs so veterans can get a good job but, unfortunately, thats not always the outcome. Sometimes joble
The Texas Public Policy Foundation and serves as their chief National Initiatives officer. And here to talk about issues of immigration and Border Security, thank you for your time. Guest thank you for having me. And what approach does it take with integration related matters . Guest the Texas Public Policy Foundation is americas largest right of center state based policy think tank. We have about 100 employees mostly in texas but people all over the country including in washington, d. C. Do a lot of rea lot of papers. We testify before the texas legislatur the congress in washington, d. C. And insofar as immigration we are concerned about Border Security. We think it is a National Security threat and threat and health of texasness. The bord is not under control. Host how is it primarily funded . Guest we are funded through private contributions. Our■ bylaws prohibit any government funding which is unusual. A lot of think tanks take Government Funds but we have literally thousands an
From the heads of the cia about world threats and how they could impact the United States. Testimony over china, russia and the southern border along with tiktok. What do you think are the top threats facing the United States today and what would you like the federal government to do about it . 02, 202 7488001 for republicans and independents 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan and on x at cspanwj■. With the release of the worldwide threats report, you can find it online on the sena side, the annual threat assessment to the intelligence community. Here are some of the lines concerning possible threats and how they impact the u. S. China has a capability to directly compete andqjnq aer ort support beijing power. Russias ongoing aggression in ukraine. Local and regional powers are trying to gain and exert influence at the cost of neighbors. Regional and local is conflict from has israel in the Israeli Attack on gaza. Instability from east