five californians, three of us here, myself, congresswoman gloria mccloud and congresswoman julia brownly, paul cook, who is not here and also dr. raul ruiz, i'm sorry, there's actually six of us i guess. i'd like to acknowledge the californians in the room. if you are here from california, please stand and let us know your presence. [ applause [ applause ] >> we make that trip back and forth between washington and california and we know what a journey you made and we appreciate that you've come all that way to let us know your agenda. it's a great honor to serve on this committee and do what we can. i represent the eighth largest veterans population in the country. i met with my veterans advisory council last week. they are doing tremendous work in my county to reach out to homeless veterans to find out where they are living along the santa ana river and in different encampments in the valley, just to get a count. and i'm fully aligned as i think all of us carefully aligned, with ending veterans homelessness. i have one question that i want to ask you commander, it's my understanding tha