Hearings and please call item 1. Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committee has allocated a historic amount for the Art Collection and afford us to the opportunity to properly store the citys civic Art Collection and by many artists. This is where the documentation for the civic Art Collection is stored as well as any works that are coming through for conservation and care so i have our senior registrar here alice coming to answer questions and we appreciate youre considering this item. Thank you. Mr. Rose can we go to the report on i
Legislative work in taking up a bill today to reauthorize an Early Childhood Home Visiting program through 2022. Current funding expires at the end of the month and a vote on the measure expected later today. Also starting debate on a bill. Hat denies social [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] glad tiedings Pentecostal Church of mangham, louisiana. The chaplain thank you, mr. Speaker. May we pray. Our eternal god, may divine direction be upon the members of the peoples house. The osama bin ladenist pleaded for thy saving help among the nations. May the representatives from chicago to San Francisco from new york to new orleans, o god, be granted the wisdom of solomon and the strength of the great apostle paul. May the holy ghost bless this body. From Committee Rooms where compromise is made, to this very floor, may grace and peace
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Members of the committee i call this hearing on agriculture and forestry to order todays marks the ninth hearing this your dedicated to stakeholders all around the country country, programs are working as we work towards a formal. This includes taking look and spending requests and proposals and do not have day budget baseline. As i said the committee must be mindful of a very tough budgetary impairment that we have to face while it is a principal duty to ensure the next farm bill provides our producers with the necessary tools and resources to feed a growing and hungry world with the responsibilities dont stop there the farm bill needs to support businesses with schools. Said and that is what the farmers and ranchers call home. We had the opportunity to hear from a number of stakeholders. Into the witness is a apologize. Looking at the electric cooperative. And then with an affordable and Reliable Energy. And with the commodities. The roll Telec
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The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.