My advice to anyone that wants to compete this year is to find a topic that youre truly passionate about and pursue it as much as you can. This year were asking students to create a Short Documentary on the issue that you would like the president ial candidates to address during the 2020 campaign. Cspan will award 100,000 in total cash prizes. Plus a 5,000 grand price. Go get a camera, a microphone and go start filming and produce the best video that you can possibly produce. Visit studentcam. Org for more information today. Next, House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters holds a field hearing on combatting homelessness in the Los Angeles Metro area. And its impact on a national level. In this first portion, local government officials discuss the root causes of homelessness such as high rents, low wage growth, and a need for more government assistance. This runs 90 minutes. The committee on Financial Services will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized t
At 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv, cspan2. House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters held a field hearing on combating homelessness in the Los Angeles Metro area and its impact on a massive a national level. Officialsrnment participated in the hearing to discuss Affordable Housing. The committee on Financial Services will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Not on of the house were the Floor Committee are authorized to participate fully in the hearing and members of the local media may engage in audio and visual coverage of the proceedings. Any recording of todays proceedings are solely to educate, enlighten, and inform the consideration of legislative issues as well as developing an understanding and perspective of the house of representatives and its role in our government. Coverage may not be used for any partisan Political Campaign purpose or be made available for such purpose. Finally, i want to welcome hearing,udie
The committee on Financial Services will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Not on of the house were the Floor Committee are authorized to participate fully in the hearing and members of the local media may engage in audio and visual coverage of the proceedings. Any recording of todays proceedings are solely to educate, enlighten, and inform the consideration of legislative issues as well as developing an understanding and perspective of the house of representatives and its role in our government. Coverage may not be used for any partisan Political Campaign purpose or be made available for such purpose. Finally, i want to welcome hearing,udience to the which we will conduct under the rules of house of representatives. This is entitled examining the homelessness crisis in los angeles. I give myself five minutes to give an opening statement. Again, good morning to everyone. Welcome to the committee on Financial Services field hearing.
Congratulations to our founding state Municipal League winners. Lets give it up for them one more time. [applause] ernow several other speakers this morning help us recognize the Important Role that intergovernmental relationships play in the history of cities, towns and villages over the years. And her speakers this afternoon are going to die even deeper into the power of those started. We are going to kick things off here with a very important topic, a topic in which how leaders like us can develop and support Strong Mental Health resources and services for our own communities. The great news [applause] the great news is that we have partners in congress. We truly do have partners in congress on both sides of the aisle who are a ready to help us do the work through the Bipartisan Senate Mental Health caucus. And today it is my true conversation with one of the caucus cochairs, senator tina smith from the state ofm minnesota. [applause] senator schmitt was once chief of staff to the m
Morning because this was scheduled for 7 00 in the morning but good afternoon this is the National Press club by help to guide the Headliners Committee and on behalf of those 3,000 members and jetblue of 12 will go view here today. Before we get into introductions of our speakers i have not done this before i chair the Headliners Committee for the past couple years and i never really talked about the process with the news maker or a headliner and it seems like before the hurricanes and earthquakes the National Disaster was the hope your a crisis Opioid Crisis and we think it would be important this week while congress is dealing with the budget so how can you take on this disaster so how does this work . That was our sense when we started the process to the National Union of Health Care Workers because he wanted people who were dealing with Mental Health and somebody in congress that could talk about the other side of the korean because at the same time it wasnt that long ago we heard