After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
Awesome. With that, well move into fiscal 2223ocoh Fund Annual Report and i believe ill turn it over to ivy. Ivy, if you would. We dont need to do roll call . Okay. Let me actuallyokay. So, good afternoon committee. As you know, we publish our fiscal year 2223 annual report yesterday, so im going to talk about how to navigate the site and some of the key take aways from the report we did. So, just to start, the Controllers Office is responsible for the administration of the our city our home oversight fund, and so as part of that responsibility we report on a few things, specifically the [indiscernible] and impact of the fund. Okay. So used to watching people up here. Okay. So, yeah, as i said, the Controllers Office is responsible for reporting on the use of the impact of the fund and so thats what is laid out here in the fiscal year 2223 annual report. Some of the key take aways are how the city budgeted and expanded the funds over a three year period, and we go into depth on expendi
Citizens are truly influenced. Get it straight from the source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are, because if the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Announcer assistant secretary of state for intelligence and Research Discusses Foreign Surveillance and intelligence gathering and its impact on u. S. Diplomacy abroad during an event hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. Section 702 allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of nonu. S. Section 702 allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of nonu. S. Persons located outside the United States. When it was reauthorized in 2017 congress concluded a sunset provision, and as a result of that these authorities are set to expire at the end of this year, unless Congress Reauthorizes its use. Todays discussion is going to highlight this one aspect of 702, which is the ways in w
On cspan2. The reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Femas perspective. All members will have five days for extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you for appearing today for the second hearing for the housing subcommittee for the 118th congress. Fema plays a vital road through the Disaster Recovery efforts and today well explore the National Flood Insurance Program which existed over 50 years and until recently has operated in the same manner and relied on the same outdated tools since its creation and i just applaud the progress that youre making as flooding in the United States is a significant and costly problem for coastal and inland residents. Unfortunately, theres only one provider for nearly all Flood Insurance and the governmentbacked program which sells in a 93 to 95 of all rest tension Flood Insurance in the country. Thats not just a bad idea from the perspective of