International hotel lease at the Old Post Office building in washington, d. C. We will hear from two officials from the General Services administration that oversees government building leases. This is about three hours. [indiscernible] without objection, so ordered. We are now going to proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all the good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing of the public buildings. One of the purposes of this is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring that theyre spending it with transparency and that brings up with todays hearing which is entitled the tenant in the Trump Administrations oversight and the International Hotel and you can tell from the title, we are going to be in investigating an unprecedented tuition and the houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel. Since President Trump has declined to confess from his businesses, hes essentially acting as both landlord and tenant. Before i was elected to congress i spent over three decades , Teaching College stu
The head of the General Services administration, robin carnahan, testified on the agencys oversight in federal spending. During the hearing, he addressed plans for the fbis new headquarters in the effective teleworking on Government Office space. The committee will come to order, want to welcome everyone here this morning. Without objection, the chairman declared a recess at any time. Good mor the committee of oversight w and accountability will come to order, i want to welcome everyone here this morning. Without objection, the chair might declare a recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to this hearing on the General Services administration. Gsa is intended to serve as the federal government supply closet, landlord, real estate agent, motor pool, and i. T. Support. Fortunately, gsa is falling short in executing its mission. Just look at the sudden announcement last week of the proposed fbi headquarters relocation. It appears that at the 11th hour, a political appointee was given
Is it with people that dont understand and i plead to these people to open their eyes, open their ears, all right . Bernie sanders has got the right idea. I dont want to hear about the republicans this and the republicans that. What we need to do is were america. We need to have health dr case for all. Its very important. We dont have healthcare for all. If you go in the hospital can we afford health care for all . Caller did you hear what i said, greta. If we dont have healthcare for all, the ones that dont have it, the hospital aint going to turn them away. Who pays for that, we all pay for it. Whats point in going through all this . And these drug companies, what hypocrites, putting 5,000 increase on the drugs. They ought to be shot. Well, i dont know if they ought to be shot. But hes got a good point in terms of the high cost and the rising cost. Its drowning a lot of people. Its very hard to overcome. When you talk about can we aforit . Right now people are taking money out of the
Generating 46 million in proceeds. Beyond our brick and mortar infrastructure is our Information Technology infrastructure in which the government and the Global Economy depends. Reliable i. T. Is vital to all of the services the government provides. However, many agencies are not able to effectively have i. T. Infrastructure, emission writ call systems due to large upfront Capital Investment needs and increasing share of costs that maintaining these older systems occupy in technology budgets. To address these issues, the budget includes requests to establish a 3. 1 billion Information Technology fund, which would be used to retire and modernize legacy and Information Technology systems to improve Cyber Security and the delivery of services as well as reduce costs. In closing, gsa has made significant progress in fulfilling our mission to delivery the best value and Real Estate Acquisition and Technology Services to government and the American People. The president s fy2017 request wil
Board of supervisors board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. You thank you very much also want to let people know the overflow room is located in the north white court. Item one an ordinance for the administrative code for the housing unit the certificate of preference holders and second to tenants evicted under the ellis act and create a affordable unit located. Thank you very much colleagues ill not repeat what i said last week when we heard this item it is criminally bold and important legislation for residents of San Francisco last week every single on the committee acknowledged our Affordable Housing lottery system as having serious challenges and flaws neighborhoods that will accept the development and housing when it comes time to fill the units residents are oftentimes excluded or just left at the wayside the quadriceps is deis it a fair statement, to communicated the africanamerican whom has been leading the leaving the city at an alarming rate so last week, we he