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Sen. Collins good afternoon. I welcome all of you, veterans, caregivers, and advocates, especially my former colleague, senator Elizabeth Dole, who is an extraordinary advocate for our military caregivers. Our military families, heroes in plain clothing, are serving in American Cities and towns every single day. The effects of military Service Often do not end with a tour of duty. For many veterans and their families, the journey sometimes extends for a lifetime. For some with both visible and i...

Called to order. Pursuant to notice on june 30, 2017 the committee needs to consider the nominations of clarion grady to be undersecretary of management at the department of Homeland Security and hammy carter to be special counsel office. Just a brief opening remark, i think as the hearing indicated a couple weeks ago, to highly qualified candidates, simply couldnt be more impressed with the people selected to fill those incredibly important positions. In terms of the folks we are going to be vo...

Ms. Castor thank you, mr. Chairman. I will place in the record a brief Opening Statement that i had for this markup. Im pleased to support both of these nominees. Mr. Johnson we are meeting to consider the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis for the u. S. Department of Homeland Security. And admiral to be assistant secretary of transportation administration, t. S. A. , u. S. Department of Homeland Security. These are two incredibly important positions, particularly at this point in time...

Leaders are not allowing lengthy debate. Later this week theyll take up a bill funding defense related programs, also for energy, water, legislative branch, v. A. , military construction. Votes later. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord our god, thank you for giving us another day. As they are returning to the capitol, please be with the members of this pe...

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Good afternoon it is now, 1 08 p. M. This is the regular meeting of of the 123ri789 the Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for tuesday, february 21, 2017, welcome to members of the public madam clerk male call the first item first order of business commissioner pimentel commissioner bustos commissioner singh commissioner moore madam rosales all members of the commission are present the next order of business announcements the next meeting will be held other 1 00 p. M. And...

Calling other congressmen i heard this st. Patricks that the horrifying that 51 percent of the individuals in bakersfield get their health care through medical or medicare and just to remind people medical is the ryan budget proposes a Voucher Program for medicare and it is amazing if there theyre voting republicans i wonder in the republicans that are supporting this said the rhetorical for their own constituents so thank you u h w fork doing this today and lets to the voters and the congressme...

Clerk male call the first item first order of business commissioner pimentel commissioner bustos commissioner singh commissioner moore madam rosales all members of the commission are present the next order of business announcements the next meeting will be held other 1 00 p. M. And b please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to address the commission unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that any member of the public any member o...

Period on any item. It is strongly recommended that any member of the public any member of the public wishes to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit it to the commission secretary. C announcements of time allotment for members of the public to address the commission unless the Commission Jurisdiction and not on todays calendar. Each speaker shall have up to three minutes to make shorter period. And submit the completed card to the Financing Authority secretary. The next orde...

[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made ...