This portion, local community and Homelessness Prevention advocates talked about the causes of homelessness in their area, and what they need. The audio issues in the start will go away shortly. Our second Panel Includes mr. Tim watkins, president and chief executive officer, watt Community Action committee, and mr. Joe foyer, the local support corporation, becky dennison, executive director Dennis Community housing, anthony hayes, speak up, advocate corporation for support of housing, erica hartman, and chief Program Officer Downtown Womens Center, and chancellor of alman corps, and executive director of the housing center. Alma vizcaino, downtown speaker of the violence against women and services center, and also, the chief and executive Community Leader of friends, and without objection, your written statements will be part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony, and i will give you a signal by tapping the gavel lightly when one minute remains
Second panel for todays hearing. Thank you very much for coming and giving your testimony. [inaudible conversations] our second Panel Includes mrt and chief executive officer, Labor Community Action Committee and the Regents Program Vice President local Initiative Support corporation, executive director for community housing. The advocate corporation. In the chief Program Officer the executive director of the house center. Speaker downtown of behalf of Domestic Violence Homeless Services coalition. And deborah door, president and chief executive or officer without objection your statements will be made part of the record into view will have five minutes to summarize your testimony. You a signal by tapping the gobble lightly when one minute remains. At that time i will ask you to wrap up so weto can be respectfl of both the witnesses and the committees in response. Mr. Watkins your reckoning for five minutes to give your oral testimony. Thank you. And i will not spend too much time tell
5. 7 billion in return for temporary protected status for the dreamers and for refugees in this country, as well as reopening the shutdown. The disruption keeps growing after the stand up over the president s border wall reaches day 30, yes, we are into the fifth week of the shutdown and we are honored on this very irregular program to have the Vice President of the United States, mike pence. Mr. Vice president , welcome, thank you for being with us. Vice president pence thank you, chris, good to be here. Chris so, we were going to have a piece from kevin corke explaining everything thats in this plan but im now just going to ask you, briefly, what did the president offer . Vice president pence with the president offered was a good faith compromise to address what is a genuine humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border and end the Government Shutdown and the senate leadership, senator mcconnell have agreed to bring this bill to the floor. On tuesday congress will begin its
Please take your seats. My understanding is we are live on cspan so behave yourselves. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early, im jane herman, president and ceo of the wilson and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put jim in charge. [applause] we have no institute, no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. Who knows how many friends, how much wisdom we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education, we crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegation and he took us all on a tour of the kremlin, priceless. Jim, your command of russia, history and culture shows up everyone here. Youve forgotten more than any of us knows. Lucky for us you wrote it all down and published it with the Wilson Center press. [laughter] every dear friend in the room today can back me up on just how impressive you are and there are many dear friends
It is going to be helpful and talk about the shading with the wrong thing that you cannot pressure on the youre already working class and i just in the meantime what more can be done to facilitate access and transparency . There is this statement from the National Community and then organizations like Human Rights Watch have documented over a 100 summary executions in killings in province is from gods need to to hell, man, to kandahar. So are they getting enough all those organizations getting enough access to be able to monitor what is happening in the country so that hes kind of properly documented . Honestly, i dont think so. Theyve been telling the based on journal local journalism journalists who have acknowledged the network to actually possibly give a reliable information on everything that is not inside the country. Theyve been cutting funding to extend support. But also theyve been telling just even really bad journalism, there is an unpleasant trends so that local journalism