Washington journal. Weill take you le to that hearing on the Senate Banking committee. Live coverage. We will see you tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. Eastern. Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses f joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our effortso ena longterm reauthorization of the flood surance program and fip programs. It has been extend 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire rch 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectives and the challenge of potential solutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across th country. Soany issues, transportation, housing, eacof these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, floodi is the most costly Natural Disaster facg the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my stat landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people
Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our efforts to enact longterm reauthorization of the Flood Insurance program and fip programs. It has been extended 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire march 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectivesolutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across the country. Tion, housing, each of these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, flooding is the most costly Natural Disaster facing the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my state. Landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people want to admit it or not, Climate Change is only making it worse. It is making extreme weather events more frequent, less predictable and more extreme across the country. This month, streams
Chair mandelman. Present. Melgar. Present. Commissioner peskin. Present commissioner peskin. Commissioner walton. We have quoteum. You happening you have an announcement. We welcome your attendance in person and the chamber room 250 in city hall or channel 26 or 99 or stream it live at sfgov. Org. For those wish to make comment remote the best way to do so is dialing 4156550001 then access code 2594 799 0703. You will listen to the meeting in real time. When comment is called, press star 3 to be added to the queue. Dont press it again or you will be removed from the queue. When the system says your line is unmuted the operator will advise you are allowed 2 minutes when that is up we will move to the next caller. Calls taken in the order received. Best practices to speak slowly and turn down radios and televisions Public Comment will be taken first from members of the public in attendance in the chamber and after from the remote queue on the phone line. Thank you. Thanks. Before calling
Associations, and health care experts. The committee chaired by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. Not only is this unfair to working class and lower income americans, who cannot access a medical home when they need it, and we are losing over 60,000 people a year because they do not get to on time. But in addition to that, from a financial and costeffective perspective, what we have now is basically insane. We have a situation where people get sick, they do not go to the doctor, you know what happens when you dont go to the doctor and you are sick . You get sick or. Maybe you end up in an emergency room where the cost of primary care is ten times, or eight times more than it is if you walked into a Community Health center. If you cant afford prescription drugs, you get sticker, and you may end up in the hospital, and that will cost 100,000. So what we are talking about today is to, things my own personal view, and health care is a human right, and that we should emulate what g
Institutional differences. For the second part of the kthe c. E. O. Will interview the governor of oregon who has been out in front. They play such an Important Role to bring together governors for sraourplal challenges. I want to acknowledge the western governors so, who has been a partner and worked closely with governor cotechnique and other executives to develop solutions and Work Together on issues of critical importance to the western united states. Housing abe affordability is one of them. It is essentially to the health and wellbeing of so Many Americans but for a Team Families rental housing and Home Ownership is increasingly costly. The foremost issue is the shortage of approximately four million units. Some estimates have it at seven million so it is something challenge. Half of the renters are spending 30 or more on rent which is an all time high. Many in d. C. We feel it every day. Homelessness has risen sharply where repeat is rising in pew Research Indicates there are in