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House subcommittee. On challenges facing his agency. Mr. Reeder says he expects the Multiemployer Program to become insolve vent by 2025. Absent changes in the law. A federal agency that ensures pensions of workers and retirees in the private sector defined Pension Plans. This is a 90 minute portion of the hearing due to technical difficulty. Present the subcommittee on Health Employment lay br and pension will come it order. Good morning, welcome. To todays subcommittee hearing on the financial...

Calling being present, the subcommittee on health labor and pensions will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays subcommittee hearing on the financial challenges facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and more importantly the impact to workers and retirees, George Miller was a proud liberal lion of this committee. While we very often disagreed, the years that i served with him on this committee, i admired his commitment to ensuring americans have the ability to retire with di...

Representatives of the Auto Industry and an Environmental Group testified. Good morning. The joint subcommittee will now come to order. The chair to recognize himself for fibers for an Opening Statement. Good morning. I would like to think i witnesses for with us this morning. Today we are here to discuss with stakeholders the corporate average fuel Economy Program, or cafe, at the national highway Transportation Safety administration, and the Greenhouse Gas emissions standards at the u. S. Envi...

Failed this country. The fact that their incompetence prevents them from coming together within their own ranks to pass a longterm spending bill, is wreaking havoc on American Families an in countless ways. As we look at continuing to run the government weeks at a time, as a posed to passing a longterm pending bill, from september to fund the government, is causing problems in our military, and troop atrios will do what general mattis said, and that is, to not hurt the military by funding the go...

Immigration is a passionate issue that affects the lives of people that involves the rule of law and nation of immigrants if we have strong opinions and all of us know that. We cant solve the nations borders or what to do about people brought here as children illegally through no fault ofau their own, that is our job and the job of the president of the United States, the senate, the congress. We tried before, we tried in 2007 and the fabled. We tried 2013 and passed a bill with 68 or 69 votes in...

The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. One of the most difficult and challenging situation any family faces is dealing with circumstances surr...

The city. If youre trying to get between sf and oakland theres an lter gnat. This is so workers can repair the old track. That means no service between west oakland and the station here in the city. The other option and its not much better but this is an alternative. Bart is offering what theyre referring to a lifeline bus service the agency could take one to two hours more than the train would. Theyre doing this for this weekend and the work that has to be done on the train tracks thats so exte...

Hard to get clean when you are living on the streets. The Supportive Housing with that model. Any of us can go home tonight and have a drink and is perfectly all right to do in our homes. Its an opportunity as well. We need to work with people where they are in the stabilizing and for housing so we have got that stability so people have a place for medication they have a place to put an appointment cards and keep track of time and a stable place where we can visit them. Our outreach workers cant...

Died in a florida nursing home that lacked air conditioning because the power had been knocked out. One press account described the facility as, quote, a death trap, end quote, because the elderly are particularly susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month, this photo of residents of an assisted living facility in texas, who were trapped in waist deep water went viral. As these recent disasters made clear, Older Americans are particularly vulnerable, before, during and even after a storm....

The committee will come to order. Good morning. Recently hurricanes harvey and irma left a path of destruction along the gulf coast of texas, across florida, and throughout the caribbean. Homes, businesses, and entire communities were destroyed and lives were lost. Days after irma, we learned the tragic news that eight seniors, ranging in age from 71 to 99, died in a florida nursing home that lacked air conditioning because the power had been knocked out. One press account described the facility...