Subcommittee on health and subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on veteran homelessness. I want to apologize for being late. I had another obligation in my responsibility on the budget committee. My colleague, chair of the Health Subcommittee wont be able to make it so im going to preside. We have subcommittee brownlee and her capable leadership and my friend from texas and Ranking Member on the subcommittee for Economic Opportunity is joining me as well. We have our chairman joining us so thank you, dr. Rowe, for coming. I want to begin by asking for unanimous consent for congressman mike kaufman, congressman scott peters and i guess thats it, to sit in on the dais and participate in todays hearing. I dont hear any objection. So ordered. Im going to cut through my remarks here and break from my customary reading of script and just say that this is a subject that is heartbreaking. And when you look at the statistics on veterans homelessness and the underlying issues that our veterans s
Subcommitt subcommittee. Represents from advocacy and Veterans Service groups testified as well as officials with the departments of veterans affair, labor and housing and urban development. Subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its my pleasure to welcome you to todays subcommittee, joint subcommittee on health and subcommittee on Economic Opportunity oversight hearing on veteran homelessness. Want to apologize first for being a little late. I had another obligation in my responsibility on the budget committee, and my colleague, brad wenstrupu chair of the health subcommittee, will not be able to make it, so im going to preside. We have the vha subcommittee chair Julie Brownley and her capable leadership. Thanks for being here. My friend from texas and Ranking Member on the subcommittee for Economic Opportunity is joining me as well. We have our chairman whos joining us. Thank you, dr. Roe, for coming. I want to begin also by asking for unan
U. S. It would help the u. S. Economy. You may agree or not, but i will but in our forced 45 minutes we want to talk about trade with other countries and if you think it is good for america. The numbers are on the screen. The International Trade administration has put out the to six looking at u. S. Trade policy in terms of dollars. The 2013, 2 . 7 billion in the imports and 2 billion in exports. A sharp increase from 2009, one of the goals of the administration being increased trade with other countries. When it comes to american views on trade, p Research Center has pew Research Center has tracked this topic. They come up with a headline for the chart saying americans are insurer trade benefits. Only 20 of those polled say it creates jobs. 17 said International Trade rages wag raises wages. And 28 said Foreign Companies are good thing. You may have your thoughts on International Trade if it is good for america or perhaps not. Here is how you can let your thoughts be known. The number
Is the changes in expenditures by divisions within the department you have the 14 and 17th century budget the current year budget and you have in the second column the number that which is adapted in the base budget when we did our two year budget last year and the third climate the proposed changes and the budget before you today and the last column the bottom line proposed budget will be so again about 1. 98 billion is the total as you can see as you can see the variances but division based on the initiative were assuming theres a lot buried in those numbers that is sometimes a little bit hard to pick out the true matt haney im happy to talk you to for example San Francisco General Hospital youll see a negative 1. 5 this is largely the result of this f x dollars being 3wuk9d in the past not budget Going Forward were ramping up staffing as we move into the new hospital theres a net decrease in the total expenditures but as you can see relating consistent with the few exemptions betwee
Providing for information over time on what that looks like ive got a come up of slides im not going to go into extreme detail this is one of the requests weve had if the commission is to give a little bit more of a sense of how the budget is changing by division and so weve got 3 slides one for combuchz one for revenue and a calculated fund support this is the changes in expenditures by divisions within the department you have the 14 and 17th century budget the current year budget and you have in the second column the number that which is adapted in the base budget when we did our two year budget last year and the third climate the proposed changes and the budget before you today and the last column the bottom line proposed budget will be so again about 1. 98 billion is the total as you can see as you can see the variances but division based on the initiative were assuming theres a lot buried in those numbers that is sometimes a little bit hard to pick out the true matt haney im happy