mr. garcia. mr. garcia: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: without objection, the gentleman from alabama, mr. strong, is recognized for one minute. mr. strong: thank you, mr. speaker. it is my great honor to introduce the senior pastor, dro offer the opening prayer of the united states house of representatives, 119th congress. dr. moore is my home pastor at mount zion baptist church. mount sigh zion was founded in 1855 in the community known as monrovia. located a couple miles north of red stone arsenal and research park. it has grown to over 2,500 members in the thriving huntsville, alabama, rocket city u.s.a. dr. moore is a humble and kind leader. our community is very blessed to have him lead our growing church. dr. moore is married to stephanie and they have four children, kevin james, david moses, liza grace, and may louise. dr. moore, welcome to

mr. garcia: mr. speaker, i -- ms. garcia: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. garcia: mr. speaker, let's be clear. why we have the consumer financial protection bureau. it's not some fancy agency, they just simply defend hardworking people. they are the consumers' watchdog. think about it. $21 billion back in people's pockets who were cheated by big banks and corporations. $360 million recovered for veterans who were the victims of fraud. and starting this year, americans will save $11 billion a year from bank overdraft fees. now the republicans are letting the president and elon musk burn it down. and for what? for the banks? for large corporations? for their billionaire buddies? you don't get to pander to working people while doing the banks' dirty work. we must protect the consumer financial protection bureau, we must protect the consumers' watchdog. we must

mr. garcia. mr. garcia votes no. mr. frost. mr. frost votes no. ms. lee. ms. lee votes no. mr. kazar. >> no on the motion to table our motion to have elon musk give this committee. >> mr. kazar votes no. ms. crockett. >> no on giving the american people the transparency that they deserve -- >> demagoguery again! >> ms. crockett votes no. ms. randle. ms. randle votes no. mr. subermuno votes no. ms. ansary votes no. mr. bell. mr. bell. ms. simon. ms. simon votes no. mr. min. >> mr. min votes no. ms. presley votes no. ms. to leave. >> i decided to put my residence before elon musk, and i vote no. >> mr. tlab votes no. >> how am i recorded? mr. chairman, how am i recorded? >> mr. timmons is not recorded. >> aye. >> how am i recorded? representative perry. representative perry votes aye. >> how is boebert recorded? >> not recorded. >> boebert votes aye. >> how is burlison recorded? >> mr. burlison is not recorded ? >> not recorded. >> aye. >> house mr. grothman? i will vote aye. >> mr. gosar is not recorded. mr. gosar votes aye. >> how is mr. donald's recorded? >> not recorded. mr.

mr. garcia. >> thank you. thank you for all our witnesses being here. i want to make something clear. i think we're all here to fight against the lies, corruption and attacks on social safety net. we should in no way be cooperating with house republicans who want to shut down the department of education and destroy medicare and medicaid. we should not stand by as the richest man on the planet gives himself and his companies huge tax cuts while the american people get absolutely nothing. now i find it ironic that our chairwoman, congresswoman greene is in charge of running this committee. in the last congress chairwoman greene literally showed a dick pick in her oversight congressional hearing so i thought i would bring one as well

mr. garcia. >> thank you. thank you for all our witnesses being here. i want to make something clear. i think we're all here to fight against the lies, corruption and attacks on social safety net. we should in no way be cooperating with house republicans who want to shut down the department of education and destroy medicare and medicaid. we should not stand by as the richest man on the planet gives himself and his companies huge tax cuts while the american people get absolutely nothing. now i find it ironic that our chairwoman, congresswoman greene is in charge of running this committee. in the last congress chairwoman greene literally showed a dick pick in her oversight congressional hearing so i thought i would bring one as well. now this, of course, we know is president elon musk. he is also the world's richest man. the biggest political donor in the last election. he has billions of dollars in conflicts of interest and we know that he is leading a power grab also abided by and encouraged by donald trump and of course the chairwoman congresswoman greene. i want to run through what

mr. garcia i think it was saying regulations are good and some of them are very good, and sitting there andyou not working for u us? have you not been put in this position by us? are you not reporting to us? so the whole thing seemed upside down. and i have to tell you, i walked out of there worried about what has government become? because clearly, mr. raskin is not working for us. he is not working for the american people. i do not know who he is working for, but it is not for us. >> will: what a powerful statement today, not just yesterday, thank you. i know you come from senegal and have seen the other way of doing businesses and i know why you protect so hardly saying it is difference between life and death, a deregulated free economy. thank you so much, magatte, for being with us peered thank you for joining us as we get to the heart of the matter from the he. now "the five." ♪ ♪ >> dana:

mr. garcia and others, because the fact of the matter is, this is not playing well around the country. people want the government to work better. they believe that mr. musk, one of the most extraordinary entrepreneurs in human history, who does not fail at just about anything. they want him to do this. most americans, they wanted trump. they elected him. and i just would hope that my democratic colleagues might change the strategy and perhaps actually work with republicans to identify waste and fraud and actually attack that, because then they would have some more credibility as it relates to the constitutional issues and the ones that are actually going to hurt human beings, including federal employees who are now being used as pawns. so that is how most americans feel. but democrats are not projecting that. and i'm deeply concerned about leadership right now. >> well, they would notably argue that they're trying to have some oversight. they would like to know what the functions that he is doing are. they want more transparency, and they don't like power being ceded to him with little,

mr. garcia from california. >> thank you mr. chairman. i wanted to start by thanking our witnesses for being here, thank you for hosting this hearing as well. i want to just start. it's a very simple question, you can see here an article from the washington post. if we could take one step back, could you mention how much elon musk's donate to republicans in the 2024 election? to republicans in the last election. >> to republicans overall i do not know, well over $250 million to the trump campaign. >> almost $300 million and in fact mr. musk was the singha startled owner in the last cycle, i'm not sure if you knew that are not. here is actually the article and headline from the washington post. he is $200 billion richer this year. now, we also know that justin a month, in the month after the election elon musk's wealth increased by $170 billion. it should also not be a surprise to anyone that elon musk himself holds $20 billion in contracts with the federal government. the truth is is that doge isn't really about efficiency or reform. what

mr. garcia. mr. garcia votes no. mr. frost. mr. frost votes no. ms. lee. ms. lee votes no. mr. kazar. >> no on the motion to table our motion to have elon musk give this committee. >> mr. kazar votes no. ms. crockett. >> no on giving the american people the transparency that they deserve -- >> demagoguery again! >> ms. crockett votes no. ms. randle. ms. randle votes no. mr. subermuno votes no. ms. ansary votes no. mr. bell. mr. bell. ms. simon. ms. simon votes no. mr. min. >> mr. min votes no. ms. presley votes no. ms. to leave. >> i decided to put my residence before elon musk, and i vote no. >> mr. tlab votes no. >> how am i recorded? mr. chairman, how am i recorded? >> mr. timmons is not recorded. >> aye. >> how am i recorded? representative perry. representative perry votes aye. >> how is boebert recorded? >> not recorded. >> boebert votes aye. >> how is burlison recorded? >> mr. burlison is not recorded ? >> not recorded. >> aye. >> house mr. grothman? i will vote aye. >> mr. gosar is not recorded. mr. gosar votes aye. >> how is mr. donald's recorded? >> not recorded. mr.

mr. garcia. rep. garcia: thank you to all witnesses for being here. i want to make something clear. i think we are all here to fight against the lies, corruptions, and attacks on our social safety net. we should in no way be cooperating with house republicans that want to shut down the department of education and destroy medicare and medicaid. we should not stand by as the richest man on the planet gives himself and his companies huge tax cuts while the american people get absolutely nothing. i find it ironic that our chairwoman congresswoman green is in charge of running i thought i would bring one as well. this of course we know is president elon musk. he is also the world's richest man. he was the biggest political donor in the last election. he has billions of dollars a conflict of interest and we know he is leading a power grab also abided by and encouraged by donald trump and the chairwoman. i want to read through what doge is actually going to do. it is a demolition plan that will run through our government. it is trying to abolish the department of education. that means ripp

mr. president. yeah, thank you, commissioner garcia. and i just want to say congratulations to the new chief. >> looking forward to working with you. >> you know, and i know it was a collaborative effort with the commission and the mayor, but i guess we got the right guy, you know, because we all land on the right guy and you're definitely one of the people we nominated because you knocked it out of the park in interviews you already knew that. right. and and also i want to thank commissioner nakajima for working with human resources, doing the interviews for setting it up. i mean he did a lot of work that that wasn't noticed collaborating with human resources and online and everything you know, planning the schedule it was kind of tough going through the holidays and so round of applause for commissioner and because you know he did a lot of work and i just want to make my agent and thank you and it worked out great and the mayor got his man and we got our chief and everybody's happy now and we can go forward. >> other than that, thank

garcia is recognized for 5 minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and chairman powell, thank you so much for being here today. it's always a pleasure visiting with you. i'm going to talk about a topic that both congressman gonzalez and representative presley brought up, which is something that i think does impact our federal economy, but i know certainly does impact my district in texas. i'm really concerned about president trump's mass deportations efforts and their impact on your dual mandate. i believe the last time you were in front of this committee, i asked you about the impact immigration had on monetary policy given last year's congressional budget office estimates. as a reminder, the report estimated that the labor force in 2033 will be larger by 5.2 million people, largely due to the immigration surge. since then, there have been more reports and research about the impact the economy, the immigration has on our economy, both in maximizing the employment and stability in our prices. for example, example, immigrants are fulfilling l

mr. duffy for your comments. >> hello. board of supervisors and madam clerk i'm a wonder a school garcia the director of the san francisco youth commission my apologies are commissioners cannot be here today due to school restraints. we're here today to thank you all for supporting teen dating violence awareness and prevention month. a special shout out to the author district nine supervisor jackie fielder and her legislative aide jen ferrigno for supporting the legislation through working out this legislation this year. one of the things that we've noticed and we'll hope to continue working with the board on is that there's a lot of issues regarding violence amongst youth. >> there's been cuts to legal aid for youth facing domestic violence. the department of education has vowed to gut title nine which affects our youth here greatly. we've already been seeing title nine shortfalls and so the commission will continue to work with our partners our asian woman shelter and black women revolt to advise the board of supervisors and the mayor on this issue. so thank you again for supporting teen violence awareness month and we hope

mr. clerk. and then today we have the department our direct executive director for the department of children, youth and their families. >> thank you chair chan and vice chair dorsey and supervisor and garcia my name is cherise dorsey smith. i am the acting director for the department of children, youth and families. no relation but maybe we should talk with the acting executive director for the department of children, youth and families. i'm here today to present on for a grant agreements and for your approval that the clerk has read and i do have a slide and august 2023 dcf issued a request for proposals for the 2429 funding cycle. the contracts are with the community youth center san francisco institute of familiar de la raza inc and richmond district neighborhood center and requires board approval as the not to exceed amount is over 10 million. i will not read each one of those. >> we are close to the finish line. i just want to let you all know hopefully you only see me one more time and after that you won't see us for a while. but i wanted to make note that do you see why i did contracts a little bit different during this funding cycle? they were done by result areas which this is wh