Provider. So nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts held a conference with his response in nebraska. This is an hour. Will thank you all very much for joining us here this afternoon. I am being joined by doctor anton who was a chief medical officer for the state of nebraska. Also jim burke, jim macey for the director for department of environment agency. We are here today to give an update in regard to our coronavirus and Public Health emergency we are having here in our state. We have several announcements, going to talk first and im going to turn it over to the doctor to talk about testing then amended turned over to timber cruising to talk about the steps were taking and finally jim macey will talk about our safe water supply. So, we have a number of things that i want to update you on. First of all, i want to remind people that this is something we need people to take seriously. Youve seen that to the steps weve taken your state, recently, obviously we had our directed Health Measure with
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 14, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020rk the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with the time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, recently hi the pleasure of kicking off the new year by
Recipients back to work. Though it is suddenly find it is executed by the states. The house ways and means a subcommittee hearing is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Welcome to our subcommittee hearing. For the working welfare subcommittee. Where is all aware for money going from reclaiming tanf not assistance dollars to lift americans out of poverty. My name is downloaded and arrives in illinois 16th district of illinois. Much of central and northwest parts of the state. Recently republicans were able to secure a major victory with the fiscal responsibility act, which strengthen, which strengthen work requirements in the direct cash assistance portion of the temporary assistance for needy families program. Those changes followed our hearing in march in this room highlighting loopholes in the current law that allowed states to game gain the work partn rate. This hearing will take the next debt by focusing on the other side of tanf which is no
Next a look at waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal Welfare Program temporary assistance for needy families. It provides cash assistance and other services to lowincome families with a focus on getting recipients back to work. Though it is suddenly find it is executed by the states. The house ways and means a subcommittee hearing is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Welcome to our subcommittee hearing. For the working welfare subcommittee. Where is all aware for money going from reclaiming tanf not assistance dollars to lift americans out of poverty. My name is downloaded and arrives in illinois 16th district of illinois. Much of central and northwest parts of the state. Recently republicans were able to secure a major victory with the fiscal responsibility act, which strengthen, which strengthen work requirements in the direct cash assistance portion of the temporary assistance for needy families program. Those changes followed our hearing
Largest homeless shelter. We learned city officials knew about it for a year but didnt take any action. We broke the story and we take a look at the next step for hundreds of families. The District Of Columbia should have addressed this issue sooner. It is not appropriate. Something occurred in 2014 that it could be dealt with in 2015. That is not appropriate. And we make no excuses about that. After two Young Children here at the d. C. General shelter tested positive for elevated lead levels, the mayor ordered a complete inspectionst building. Not only did that inspection uncover traces of lead throughout the facility, they found an inspection from 2014 had found seven rooms with dangerous lead levels. But nothing was done. We are notifying residents in the building of the results of our test. We will still continue to offer any resident or their child that wants it a test. Families were moved out of the rooms and the lead levels were remediated after they found out about them. Hundre