In the house today work on two veterans bills and recommendations for modernizing congress. You are watching live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend erin keys, capitol hill presbyterian, washington dis. The chaplain let us pray, god, we ask you blessing upon all those gathered here today and upon our nation as we along with countries all over the world face the anxiety and fear currently surrounding the coronavirus. Though much about how the situation will continue to unfold is unknown to us. We trust that it is known to you. From the beginning of time, your spirit has hovered over the chaos of our world bringing order and life so we pray that your spirit continues to do so now. We pray for the safety of all people and we pray for the wisdom of our leaders as they guide us through this time. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and anno
Order. ,etter late than never sorry, everybody. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The hearing is titled fostering the next generation of leaders setting members up for success. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Take the case, i will not five minutes, because we are doing Something Different today. This committee sometimes likes to shake things up. Today, we are looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our community. We figured the best way to showcase the next generation of leaders were to feature this committees freshmen members actively participating in the work of this committee. We have all benefited from their unique perspectives as freshmen members, and representative timmons always gets here early, and his enduring patience has not gone unnoticed. Today, i yield to representative scanlon and representative timmons today. We like to finish up any opening rema
Present. We have the minutes of the march 28 meeting for any additions or corrections or comments . I move the minutes second. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, nay. The item carries. Next is opportunity for general Public Comments. This a chance for people to talk to the commission about rings that are within our jurisdiction but dont have to be on the calendar for the i have one speaker car. Mr. Bowman, is it . Welcome. Mr. Pres. , commissioners, general manager, i am chris bowman. Im a neighborhood activists. Im speaking about the groundwater project which was addressed at the last meeting, and i know commissioner caen and peter had some questioning, which i thought was very much spot on. When the word came out that in the chronicle last february indeed the city was can be lending groundwater with hetch hetchy water for roughly 60 of the city, i was alarmed by a couple of things in the article. One, about the fact that nitrite
Commission about rings that are within our jurisdiction but dont have to be on the calendar for the i have one speaker car. Mr. Bowman, is it . Welcome. Mr. Pres. , commissioners, general manager, i am chris bowman. Im a neighborhood activists. Im speaking about the groundwater project which was addressed at the last meeting, and i know commissioner caen and peter had some questioning, which i thought was very much spot on. When the word came out that in the chronicle last february indeed the city was can be lending groundwater with hetch hetchy water for roughly 60 of the city, i was alarmed by a couple of things in the article. One, about the fact that nitrites above the state level were detected in some of the wells that will be feeding into the water system. Secondarily, the Economic Impact on certain industries, like beer and coffee [inaudible]. So i address the issue with the [inaudible] president of the coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods. We addressed it briefly at their
Him. We have got buildings named after him. Why dont we see what he said about default . And just know, when he was president , republicans and democrats raised the debt ceiling no less than 18 times, i say to my friend. 18 times we raised the debt ceiling because, yeah, we had a debt from prior bills and Ronald Reagan said send me a debt ceiling increase. Look what he says. He said the full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic Financial Markets and the value of the dollar. Ronald reagan, 1983. And thats when our economy was much smaller than it is today. So how does the party of Ronald Reagan now get us to this point where three days were about to default . I didnt hear one word out of them when they decided to put two wars on the credit card and a huge tax break for billiona