Come to order. I just want all members to know that our Witnesses Today have to leave at 5 00 p. M. The questions for the first panel on the hhs budget with secretary, and, welcome, mr. Secretary, will be limited to four minutes. The second panel on the minutesl case, but only 10 members will be able to ask questions during that round. I will have to be strict with the gavel, since the witnesses have a tight timeframe. I know that you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up. Every bit of it is, obviously, serious. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. Let me begin with mr. Secretary. I think that the confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of coordination to the Coronavirus Response is on full display. We all know that. Markets are reacting, i think, at least in some parts, to the lack o
The United States. A federal state utility collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for usc a, but one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking out of the degree of urgency. Always been urgent what i think myself that urgency is growing so thank you for coming we have an excellent panel here today. For our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Monitoring in todays session is our luck. Mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion in the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housingfinancing. He is consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. Hes experience at testifying before congress and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association and the Energy Progra
Achieve that balance in the budgets that you crafted, and in some cases, i think with appropriate balance between entitlement spending and discretionary spending. I think thats probably one of the committees chief concerns. I think the president is absolutely correct that we need to spend more on defense. I dont have any doubt about it at all, and i think hes absolutely correct as well that it needs to be done in a fiscally responsible way with offsetting reductions elsewhere in the budget. Where we would disagree, and i cut the administration considerable latitude because this had little time to craft a budget. Were operating off a skinny budget. We may see Something Different in may and may see Something Different in the years ahead, but my personal view, these are focused too tightly on nondefense discretionary offsets, particularly with respect to your agency. I take considerable pride in the fact, and i know my colleagues on both sides of the aisle do, that in the late 90s and ear
Achieve that balance in the budgets that you crafted, and in some cases, i think with appropriate balance between entitlement spending and discretionary spending. I think thats probably one of the committees chief concerns. I think the president is absolutely correct that we need to spend more on defense. I dont have any doubt about it at all, and i think hes absolutely correct as well that it needs to be done in a fiscally responsible way with offsetting reductions elsewhere in the budget. Where we would disagree, and i cut the administration considerable latitude because this had little time to craft a budget. Were operating off a skinny budget. We may see Something Different in may and may see Something Different in the years ahead, but my personal view, these are focused too tightly on nondefense discretionary offsets, particularly with respect to your agency. I take considerable pride in the fact, and i know my colleagues on both sides of the aisle do, that in the late 90s and ear
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