Mayorkas appeared before the House Homeland Security committee to testify on President Bidens 2025 budget request. The secretary stressed the need for the house to pass the senates bipartisan bill as he faced criticism from republicans through his handling of the crisis at the southern border. The hearing ended shortly before the house delivered impeachment articles against the secretary to the senate. This is about three hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the committee may recess at any point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for joining the committees budget that you and President Biden put forth the department of Homeland Security. March 1 the department celebrated its 21st anniversary, and i want to thank the Public Servants throughout hhs that dedicate their lives to securing the homeland. This work is vital to the nations safety and security. Mr. Secretary, when you took the oath of office use for two, quote, suppor
The passage of the bill. House republicans are now in a meeting working on a way forward on the continuing resolution with shortterm federal spending set to run out on midnight on friday. They are meeting here in the capital and gaveling back in shortly for votes on a couple of measures debated earlier today. They are discussing their plans on the continuing resolution. Funding the government past friday night. Billy house of bloomberg tweets that the plan now is for the c. R. To run through january 19, but House Republicans are still talking about it with their leaders in a meeting. He says that fisa, the temporary externed for that is to be attached to this continuing resolution. Rank anne file members have been told. Well have live coverage of the house here momentarily. Going to gavel back in. Stay here live at the capitol on cspan. On cspan were live on capitol hill. Republican members of the house are meeting on the continuing resolution. The shortterm funding measure, the curren
Specially when theyre thrown at you. Bagel fight at bobs house. Got to feel for the colleagues, dave and steve, out in this today. And something we will have to get used to, because this weather pattern will be with us for awhile, so number today, yesterday was seven, today going to six, because it is colder. And it will be even colder tomorrow. Just so you know. It is National Fruit cake day if that cheers you up. Bus stop buddy bundled up for today. Most of the windchills in the teens, few in the single digits, and ya, thats a little bit of white showing up on radar this morning. Right now if philadelphia, cold 23 degrees, because of the breeze, at 6 miles an hour it feels like 16 out there this morning, thats what were talking about these windchills in the teens, sunrise time clock 21, we have to wait that long for sunrise, and yes, get used to it, high of 28 degrees, maybe just flurry or two today. Sunset time 4 43, yes, High Temperatures in the 20s, bob kelly, me . Ya. Good mornin
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
Victor makras with whom wed be nowhere. When the board of supervisors passed this fossil free sf was born. And it was born as me going alone to the retirement board and getting glared at. Luckily things changed shortly thereafter and its only continued to grow and grow and grow. As youve heard the retirement board has been recalcitrant to say the least. So i want to thank you supervisor avalos and peskin and the staff of the offices for getting us to this point. I dont really have anything to say besides this is an exceptionally common sense measure. We need to put the citys money where its mouth is and i guess to lee hepners point in terms of specifying the motion i want to provide an example of the retirement board and the commitments they make and the follow through. So one of the milestones was to divest from coal as a good first step. They have been forced to do that by the legislature. So they took a vote, i believe december 2015 to divest from coal. Staff would come back with an