We break away from this portion of washington journal to fill our longtime commitment to bring you live Senate Coverage. Follow this at cspan. Org, senate gasoline and next coming up shortly. Senator Tammy Baldwin will deliver the annual reading of washingtons farewell address. After that the senate will debate the nomination of Robert Malloy to be a district judge for the Virgin Islands with the vote to limit debate on the nomination is scheduled for later this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the center of our joy, make us your captives so that we may live liberated lives. Provide our senators with the spiritual, mental, social and physical revitalization they need just for today. May they place their trust in you and experience your profound peace. Grant that they will relinquish their worries to you, as they permit your perfect love to cast out every fear. Lord, show them your redemptive purposes in every problem they must so
Lawmakers also heard testimony from the head of the housing agency, this hearing is just under three and a half hours. Will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled, the end of Affordable Housing . A review of the Trump Administrations plans to change Housing Finance in america. Before i recognize myself, members, today is mr. Mchenrys birthday. [ applause ] if anyone wishes to sing happy birthday, please save it until later. Thank you. We all thank you for that, madame chair. Happy birthday. Thank you. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Good morning, today were here to discuss the impact of the Trump Administrations Housing Finance reform plans. We are joined by treasury secretary steven ma shun, ben carson, and mark calabrio welcome. Let me say up front the Trump Administrations housing reform plan would be a disaster for our housing systems. The Trump Adminis
This important discussion. Joining us today or i agree matthews, interim executive director of the Housing Authority of columbia, South Carolina. Mark, president and chief executive officer of the Skyline Champion Corporation and peggy bailey Vice President for housing policy at the center on budget and policy priority is for purposes of todays hearing they are focused on examining three bipartisan piece of legislation in particular that have been introduced in the 116th congress. S. 2160 the overt act was introduced in july by senator scott and menendez and has the support of five republicans and five democrats on the committee. S. 1804, the manufactured housing modernization act was introduced in june and has five bipartisan cosponsors including senator cortez, scott kramer and smith and hr 4300 of the fostering stable housing opportunities acthich has bipartisan interest in the senate and is moving quickly through the house of representatives on a strong partisan basis. The alert ac
This important discussion. Joining us today or i agree matthews, interim executive director of the Housing Authority of columbia, South Carolina. Mark, president and chief executive officer of the Skyline Champion Corporation and peggy bailey Vice President for housing policy at the center on budget and policy priority is for purposes of todays hearing they are focused on examining three bipartisan piece of legislation in particular that have been introduced in the 116th congress. S. 2160 the overt act was introduced in july by senator scott and menendez and has the support of five republicans and five democrats on the committee. S. 1804, the manufactured housing modernization act was introduced in june and has five bipartisan cosponsors including senator cortez, scott kramer and smith and hr 4300 of the fostering stable housing opportunities act which has bipartisan interest in the senate and is moving quickly through the house of representatives on a strong partisan basis. The alert