Hello, everyone. Good morning. Its great to see a Beautiful Day and such a beautiful place in a very important time for many, many reasons. But we here today to talk about the challenges that the Defense Industry and our Government Faces as a result of the pressure from wall street. How does that Quarterly Earnings report affect the ability of our government to innovate and protect us . If the big question, its an important question with lots of ramifications for years to come. Here to discuss this and attack this problem, we have mr. Michael leskinen, executive director, aerospace and defense, jpmorgan. He is the wall street guy thats basically demanding all these things so you have some good insight for us. We have mr. Raj shah, managing director, diux. Hes part of the entity, 200 million from the government had out in Silicon Valley to go out and acquire new technologies and find the need is, coolest things on the horizon that can really help us. We had the secretary of the navy, ho
Have your back in terms of all people in our country, including people of color. This spending bill, it does just the opposite. I hope the members will understand the message that were sending to communities of color in this bill and rectify some of the problems. You have a chance to reject further institutionization of any quality and injustice and recognize how painful these cuts will be to people of color and women. Im going to give you my examples and my amendment shows what im talking about. The jackson Lee Butterfield amendment, this would increase funding by 16 million for the office of job corps. This amendment is fully offset with the department of Labor Administration funds. I offered a similar amendment in committee, and while that amendment failed, i believe that this amendment before us is not subject to point of order. Its critically important. You know that many minority youths and disadvantaged youth who have benefitted significantly from job corps will be locked out of
I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony and i would like to welcome the second panel of witnesses before the committee. First we have ms. Botts, executive director for agriculture and rule of element, position which she was named in 2013, she has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual sentors i would imagine. She pent ten years working in agriculture at federal level as policy staffer in the house of representatives. She grew up in a farm in kentucky. We see her ms and currently live on a small farm with husband and two children. We look forward to your testimony. General manager, kansas america, he is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career who has spent five decades has been focused to ensure all of kansas Rural Communities have access to affordable water. Critical
I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony. We welcome the second panel that is with us. Fir, we have mr. Ms. Botts, she is a executive director for the kentucky she was named in 2013, has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and World Development policy issues and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual senators i would imagine. Before returning to kentucky to work for kcard, she spent ten areas working on agriculture ask a policy staffer in the house of on representatives, grew up on a farm in kentucky and received a ms and bs in rural economics in kentucky and lives on a small farm right now, with her husband and two children, welcome to you, maam. We look forward to your testimony. Second witness is mr. Elmer general manager, Water Association and kansas america. He is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, id like to call the meeting to order. Good afternoon. Welcome this is the this is the regular meeting of the fullfledged Board Meeting for the sfers sfers to my left is vice chair brian and please rise and join me by placing our raise your hand over our hearted for the pledge of allegiance pledge of allegiance pledge of allegiance the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you mr. Clerk good afternoon call the roll that commissioner cohen commissioner bridges commissioner casciato commissioner driscoll commissioner makras is out of town not expected today and commissioner paskinjordan commissioner stansbury we have quorum can you call item 3. Closed session an action item thank you very much lets see go ahead to take Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ladies and gentlemen, were going to go into closed session and resume at the 2 30 thank you. All right. Good afterno