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
So that leads to my next question. Youre tracking that particular amount of money, if you will, and where its going, its going strictly to new infrastructure . To modernization . What is the plan there . Right. Well, currently today, if we exit a property, that money gets returned to the u. S. Treasury. Were not able to reinvest that. The infrastructure bill would change that. So thats why were very supportive of that. What we do save are the recurring savings, the maintenance. So we dont heat the buildings, we dont have to repair them if we get rid of them. That remains in our general what we call our nrn budgets, our recurring maintenance budgets. Do you think there will be a way to, in some way, get an idea of how its converted directly or indirectly to care or. Yes. Services. Yes. And what we would plan on diagnosis is reinvesting that money back into probably nrn or minor construction projects. Okay. We could track that. Thank you. Another question i have is one of the things that
He defended a, trip he took to europe that was deemed a violation of Administration Ethics policies i the inspector general. It was announced that his chief of staff would be leaving her post as a result of the matter. This is two hours and 15 minutes. The committee will come to order. Good morning and thank you all for being here to discuss fiscal year 2019 budget submission. This fiscal years budget almost 190. 6 billion dollars in funding, an increase of nearly 12 billion over last year. That is a huge number. It is even more striking when you compare the growth to overall federal spending. Graph in the budget presentation that illustrates this point. Since 2006, but the a budget is up 175 while overall fiscal spending increased by 54 and gdp grew only 40 . Given the aggressive expansion, i appreciate the secretaries testimony emphasizing the departments core objectives and Foundational Services that support those objectives. The Department Must stay focused on their core mission to
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
[inaudible conversations] all right, so before we have the doctor, up to give what will be great keynote remarks, i want to start the morning off with having a conversation with you about something that is near and dear to me as one of those two represents a Success Story of the great specialized care system, spinal cord injury does the system of care. Before i get to exactly what the topic is, i want to ask a couple questions. What are some of the reasons why one becomes a clinician . Why do you choose to become even. Raise your hand if its money. A bunch of millionaires in here. Social status. Everybody respects about her. Job security. You always have people focus on getting better. If you are a healer, youve got some job security and its probably a combination of all of those. But again, from perspective of the statement, im willing to bet somewhere on the list of what brought you into your discipline was compassion. What is compassion . A feeling of deep sympathy for another whose