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Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that because were seeing widening disparities in wealth and it is a time when the federal government is givin...

Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Public Housing waiting list because they want to convert. Then you have some thats just trying to say ...

Budget. No one in california in the legislature would be able to vote for this document because this is a madeup document with madeup numbers. It is one of the most fanciful things ive seen in all my years as an elected official and youll see through the markup how outrageous these numbers are. I yield back the balance of my time. Thank you mr. Chairman. I just want to thank all my colleagues on the democratic side for putting forward our critique of the republican budget and laying the ground work for the budget well friend present next week. I thank the ranking members and the other members....

Committee, but if theres anybody watching this on television they should run and get anybody whos 55 years or older to come and watch and listen. What they are planning to do is set up an exchange. Now, they dont like exchanges in the Affordable Care act. They went to the Supreme Court over that whole issue. They dont think its good enough for the ordinary folks in the country, but for seniors, theyre going to set up an exchange that they say will be carefully monitored for medicare plans. So it isnt good enough for the rest of the country but were going to take medicare away from the seniors,...

Into the overseas contingency account, which this Committee Said last year was against the budget process, was at abuse to the process. This is a lot of mealymouthed words to justify a run around the budget process area im glad the Senate Republicans in their budget today, they dont play these games. They take the president s level. They take the joint chiefss level. This is a lot of running around. It is going to undermine the integrity of this body. This doesnt send any message of certainty to our troops. In fact, it tells our troops their republican colleagues are totally uncertain and unde...