with that, mr. chairi'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from rhode island, a distinguished member of the budget committee, mr. amo. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. amo: mr. speaker, i ask myself two questions on every vote, who does this benefit? who does this hurt? today the answers are clear. this republican budget resolution would benefit the richest 1%. who would it hurt? working class families working to make ends meet. it threatens third graders on my hometown of pawtucket who rely on the eligibility provision to eat school breakfast and lunch. it threatens the mom who needs postpartum care and it threatens those who need medicaid to stay connected to their loved ones as they age at home. all these ordinary americans would get hurt. for what? to pay for tax cuts for the rich. don't believe me? look at the numbers. the republican plan could slash $230 billion from snap and $880 billion from medicaid. two proposals which allow them to turn around and shovel $1.1 trillion in tax

mr. frost. now under the five minute rule with questions. the chairecognizes the gentle lady from wyoming for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. allowing for predatory service and practices in which foreign-born women come to the united states to give birth to u.s. citizens. once the children through 21 can sponsor their parents to become legal u.s. residents so the family can immigrate to america. the majority including china. because of advances in technology and the incorrect understanding of the 14th amendment, countries are now using international surrogacy programs to rent homes in america. mr. o'brien, there is a back-and-forth in u.s. policy regarding scrutiny and restrictions for birth tourism including two different policies issued in 2015 and 2020. where does our federal policy currently stand on this issue and is strong enough to prevent this practice of essentially renting wombs for surrogacy have anchor babies. >> the fact is immigration laws in the last administration. having no effect whatsoever. 300,000 estimate and citizens. t

mr. dodaro: thank you. >> the chair now recognizes himself for five minutes. mr. dodaro, but are the worst programs for improper payments over the last year? mr. dodaro: over the last year, it is medicare, medicaid, the earned income tax credit, supplement nutritional assistance program. >> kata care, medicaid, and snap. the 2025 high risk report, like the previous report, continues to paint an alarming picture of the extent of improper payments, those issues facing medicare and medicaid. i think we agree, and i know the american people agree, that we should not be giving payments improperly. last year, medicaid improperly paid about $50 billion. why do these programs continue to have such massive issues with improper payments year after year? because gao released a report that estimates between 233 billion and 521 billion, half a trillion, was lost annually due to fraud between 2018 and 2020 two, but medicare and medicaid in particular, 100 billion dollars in the last year. why is this happening? mr. dodaro: i think you have a need for better provider screening,

mr. clerk on the motion? yes, on that motion. vice chair sherril sherril i member madam high madam and i chair walton all right or deny that motion passes without objection. >> thank you so much mr. clerk . >> would you please call item number two? item number two is a hearing to consider appointing one member terms ending april 27th, 2026 to the century ordinance task force. >> we have one seat two applicants. thank you so much and i know last week we had one applicant i see we have two applicants and so what we will do is hear from both applicants you have two minutes if you want to say who you are tell us your credentials and we will start with honest charlie bracken for seat ten. thank you. good morning supervisors chair walton vice chair sherril president gentlemen, my name is honest charlie bodkin. i feel free to just call me by my middle name charlie by the way i'm honored to be considered for a seat on the sunshine ordinance task force. >> the seat ten is one of four seats allocated to members of the public who have demonstrated int

mr. chairman. chair scott: senator alsobrooks? sen. alsobrooks: thank you mr. chairman to ranking member warren for hosting today's hearing. i would like to begin with mr. pulte to say it is good to see you again and i enjoyed meeting with you and during our meeting you spoke about your efforts to remove flight -- to remove blight in detroit and talked about how partnerships between the governments and the nonprofit sector were working to make that happen. this is of interest to me because we are working similarly in baltimore. i wonder what you believe the federal government's role be in addressing urban blight and if so would you use your role at fhfa to address our shared interest in advancing the goal of revitalizing communities through blight. i very much enjoyed meeting with you. as it relates to blight removal, it is traditionally under the role of hud, so that would be my colleague, scott turner. having said that, i agree with you and i would bring that spirit that i did when i was doing the nonprofit blight removal to fhfa in terms of fannie mac and fr

ernst: thank you, mr. chair. good morning, mr. phelan. i want to start by welcoming you, saying thank you for stepping up for this position and to your family as well. thank you so much. now, we've talked about this but i've long been committed to cutting waste in washington, d.c. and even the areas that are very, very important to me like the department of defense, and the navy as well, they are no exception. so the department of the navy receives about 30% or a little more of the defense budget. but there's a lot of financial mismanagement and we have audit failures that are persisting. what reforms will you implement to ensure budget accountability and financial transparency throughout the department of the navy? mr. phelan: thank you for the question, senator ernst. i know that's a topic important to you and i appreciated the time we spent in your office. i think as i mentioned, you know, in the private sector, if you fail an you haddity, two things -- an audit, two things happen. you either go to jail or you get fired. and so i think

with that, i yield back. >> senator ernst. >> thank you mr. chair and thank you to the nominees for being here today, we truly do appreciate your service. congressman bishop, i'm going to start with you, sir. as chair and founder of the summit doge caucus i am very laser focused on making sure our government is responsive to our taxpayers in ensuring our federal workforce is actually serving the american people. today, i want to focus on taxpayer-funded union time. which requires federal agencies to pay employees for time spent working for their union, not the american people. the biden administration took several steps to hide the cost of taxpayer-funded union time from the american people including rolling back president trump's executive order to prevent union time abuses and increase agency oversight, pulling down annual report on the cost of taxpayer-funded union time off of opm's website, and hiding annual reports opm had previously published. meanwhile as part of my investigation into telework, i learned telework in hud employees were reporte

mr. chair. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i do find it fascinating that my friends on the other side of the aisle are very concerned all of a sudden about an administration ignoring supreme court decisions. mr. soure you and i brought supreme court case. the supreme court blocked me, that didn't stop me. so this lawlessness we have seen over the last four years all of a sudden democrat friends have found relegion. my colleagues on the other side say you're a threat to civil rights. the truth is you're one of the most fiercest advocates of civil rights on paper civil rights are supposed to mean protection from discrimination based on characterrist likes lake race characteristics. there's racism that exist -- it goes by a bunch of names, equity, drc, you can go on and on, but whatever you want to call it is wrong and has to stop. stop discriminating on the basis of race. that's one of the reasons i like you. i think unlike most quote, unquote major civil rights organizations today you oppose racial discrimination in a

mr. chairman. chair gimenez: thank you the gentleman from texas, i recognize the gentleman from arizona, mr. crane. mr. crane: thank you, mr. chairman, for holding this hearing today. i want to take a minute to talk really quickly about something that mrs. mciver brought up. she was talking about the influence that china had on elon musk. it's interesting i didn't hear mrs. mciver or any of her democrat colleagues raising these same concerns when we uncovered that the biden family received $27 million from foreign countries. and they tried the exact same thing with president trump in the last congress. the reason i think it's important to point this out is the interesting thing between elon musk and president biden is elon musk actually owns multinational businesses. spacex, tesla, neuro link, i think it's important we make that distinction. i do think this hearing is important today. when i look what sir walter raleigh said, he said for whoever commands the sea commands the trade. whoever commands the t

chair smith: thank you, mr. rosenbaum. >> tremon smith, ranking member sanchez, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. today i will address the importance of trade enforcement tools and resources, comprehensive china strategy, and maintaining an across-the-board enforcement agenda. this subcommittee has a track record of creating new enforcement tools, from the -- to the ground barking enforcement mechanism in usmca, which is helped to level the playing field for u.s. workers and combat unfair labor practices. enforcement tools must continue to evolve with the trade challenges facing manufacturers, partners, service providers, and workers. the level the playing field 2.0 act is the next front in combating china's attempts to get around trade remedies. we will enable our industries to counter china's tactics of moving production from one country to another and subsidizing producers in the trees. -- in third countries. this shows if we stand still in our trade and forc

chair greene: the gentlemen time has expired. mr. hedtler: apologies. i can't see the flashing lights. chair greene: we appreciate your testimony. now i recognize myself for five minutes of questions. i want to thank our witnesses today for testimony and the suggestions you have brought before this committee. i want to thank chairman cromer for this opportunity to chair the historic oversight subcommittee on doge. americans are shocked to learn $2.7 trillion of their hard earned tax dollars have been stolen or wasted in improper payments since 2003. you see, in the private sector, companies cannot continue to run if they keep employees that allow waste and abuse with their resources. but, that has continued for decades here in the federal government. mr. talcove new private sector companies have a lower rate of improper payments that the federal government? mr. talcove: -- than the federal government? mr. talcove: yes. the crime rate in the public sector is around 20%. in the private sector it is around 3%. it is really because tools used in the private

thank you madame chairman i yield the remaining time. >> thank you for the chair recognizes mr. minutes. >> thank you madame chair thank you in the ranking members. good to be on the subcommittee for think all of you for your testimony i'm'm sorry am running late i was just on the senate floor there is a lot going on today as you and my colleagues no. i am going at this with an open mind we are all over many years trying to understand these currencies in stable coin particular. i know the genius act has been proposed is one way forward on stable coins. mr. massad, just a couple of questions you may have tried this territory a little bit but if you could take it a little deeper dive. both in terms of the vetting of stable coin issuers under this proposal. whether it has a checks and safeguards that you think are necessary to protect consumers. in the other issue would be if for some reason one of the issuers were to go belly up and you had to resolve claims, my understanding as it is a bankruptcy type procedure as some of the procedures we currently have for people who need to cla

on the motion offered by vice chair chen that the resolution be recommended as amended by mr. chen i chen i remember my one moment i chair melgar i melgar i madam chair there are three eyes on that motion as well. >> thank you. >> that motion passes. okay now let's go to item number two agenda item number two is an ordinance amending the planning code to create an exception for certain distilleries, wineries and breweries to establish on sale liquor establishments in the bayview neighborhood commercial district subject to a conditional use authorization. the ordinance affirms the planning department secret determination and makes findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 121.1 and makes findings of public necessity, convenience and welfare pursuant to planning code section 302. >> this item is on our agenda as a potential committee report and it may be sent to the board meeting tomorrow. >> thank you so much mr. clerk. again. supervisor walton sorry it took us so long to get through the first item and the floor is you

>> thank you chair you know, i think mr. maynard's recommendation is one that the city should take seriously in terms of having a standardized process for assessing that. we do work very closely with the real estate division on a cost estimates of you know, to make sure that the property appraises and we certainly need to be mindful of what we pay for a property. but in terms of capital rehab, we we definitely do inspections and we look at what's going to be needed in advance. but as you mentioned, it's sometimes it's quite hard to determine what will be needed and having varying levels of expertise in that assessment can be hard. the mayor's office of housing and community development, which oversees much of the rehab of existing properties for affordable housing in our community you know they they are a partner in this and they've come in sort of after the purchase and has have been guiding us on the rehab and so i do think like involving them earlier on we could get ahead of this you know this is our last yeah home acquis

um, as i'm sure the interpretation of that is i yes, mr. chair, i just wanted to clarify that our recommendation only includes cultural district objective design standards so we it's very narrowly narrowly tailored to that specific so it doesn't actually cover the the plan areas as it says the cultural district designs. yes. okay. okay. thank you for the clarification. >> i wasn't clear on how those policies and those plans interacted with this uh, i am going to make a motion to approve with modifications or to recommend approval with modifications i can i a commissioner imperial you want to comment? >> yeah, i'd like to comment. thank you for bringing that up. commissioner braun in terms of the specific area plans that completely restrict on the vinyl windows, i wonder whether you supervisor melgar you know think about it in terms of those area plans since those are actually you know of course there was a committee a process order was a process that happened in that. so i would just advise to consider those area plans as well as part of the reco

with a positive recommendation vice chair dorsey and dorsey i remember engardio and engardio i church and i can i we have three eyes the motion passes and with that mr. clerk do we have any other items before us today? >> madam chair that concludes our business. >> the meeting is adjourned is this meeting will come to order. welcome to the february 13th 2025 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors public safety and neighborhood services committee. i'm supervisor matt dorsey, chair of this committee and i'm joined today by vice chair bilal mahmoud and supervisor danny sautter are always capable. kirk today is ms. monique creighton and together we'd like to express our gratitude to susie nose and the whole team at s.f. gov tv who are facilitating and broadcast the casting today's meeting. >> madam clerk do you have any announcements? yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called please line up to speak on your r

the chair of the republican study and committee congressman pfluger. welcome, mr. chairman.us what you learned about soros and the mentors of the radio stations? >> trey, thanks for having me. at the end of the day it's about making sure we don't have suppression and censorship of media that we act in a fair way and in is why congress is interested in september of last year and going to see soros purchase 200 radio stations and going for them and fast tracked by the biden administration with the fair trade issues and this flies in the face of that and and going for the republican study and the largest and oldest and most influential policy organization going on capitol hill and he explained to us why he was doing what he was doing and there's a long record throughout the last election season whether it was 60 minutes or saturday night live and doctor that shows you there was not fairness and the purchase of these 200 stations needs to be investigated and i'm so proud he's been standing in the gap for the last couple of years as loan conservative view and voice and we can get

mr. williams. >> madam chair, i'm madam chair.it does not appear we have any other callers but let me double check just to make sure i do not see any other hands raised other than the two that we've heard fellow commissioners. are there any comments, concerns for anything that's not on the agenda? >> i have due to the time. thank you chair. >> i just want to say it it is black history month. i'm back. >> my apologies. a point of order, madam chair. i think that was just public comment for non agenda items for the public not the commission. thank you. you're right. >> are we obligated to answer those? no. >> no question no, no. just to listen. thank you. i'll go ahead and call the next item madam chair i think it's five c which is the workshop on annual housing production report fiscal year 2023 dash 2020 for discussion and director koslowski thank you madam secretary and greetings members of the commission members of the public who are here. >> this is ozzie i's annual housing production report. it talks about the housing producti

. >> chair of the defense committee. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. i welcome the prime minister's statement and the warmth of his welcome and hugs for president zaleski, and his show leadership on defense and security matters on our continent as he hosted his sunday summit of leaders in london. can the prime minister assure the house that, in our pursuit for a just and lasting peace, that he will do his level best to convince president trump to provide security guarantees for ukraine? and that he will convince those nato allies not spending 2% on defense to step up to the plate and do much more? p.m. starmer: well, on both fronts, firstly, yes, of course, i am talking to president trump about security guarantees. that formed up a large part of our discussion thursday and our subsequent discussions. i think it is right that europe does the forward leaning on this, that we have to do more on security guarantees, but it does need a u.s. backing to those guarantees, and that is the very discussion i am having. on the question of spending, i think, across

chair. okay, nevermind. you have a parliamentary inquiry? >> lexi no. okay. i know or recognize the gentleman from california, mr.r five minutes. >> okay, thank you to our ranking member, our chairwoman. want to thank our witnesses for being here today. thank you all for joining us. this is obviouslyco the second hearing on doge and soreness elon musk and donald trump are working together to destroy our federal agencies. now, a lot has happened the last few weeks since doge's been out reading federal governments we care so much about for faa staff has been fired making r's our's airspace less safe veterans affairs staff have been fired risky services for our food safety health staff have been fired as we face the bird flu pandemic. all of her agencies have been thrown into chaos but he longed musk's e-mails demanding federal workers respond to what they're doing in the last week which he has now had to of course retract. now, we are here today to discuss elon's attack on foreign aid which has been severe. i want to bring again it's a pic of copresident elon musk who of course is leading doge and i brought this to

i wanted to answer one question chair two that you had relative to infrastructure and upgrade electric electricity upgrades at the facility would agree with mr. hilton in that you know the upgrades for front line would be fairly substantial require over 24mw of power which is a substation and in among itself we would have to do some upgrades to the facility even for the for the what we call easy to adapt smaller duty vehicles. but in regard to that schedule i had mentioned one of the comments i had made is we have extended the life of a number of vehicles and so our replacement schedule just like any other fleet at times is predicated on age and and trucks timing out so there may not be an operate we may have trucks that are only five years old that are smaller support vehicles that don't need to be replaced. so then we'd be spending money that you wouldn't otherwise spent because you want to you want to take advantage of the full life of those vehicles. in regards to some of the comments about capital recovery costs, i want to make it very clear that if there's a cost projection difference for example in a truck where we get a certain cost