ms. brown, would you please proceed. >> good morning. chairman neil, ranking member brady and distinguish numbers of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts this morning. my name is christina brown. on the caregiver and medical student and when i was 16 my life suddenly shifted in my mother at 43 years old lost the ability to walk due to multiple school owes us. she could no longer stand, eat or bathed without assistance. i became her primary caregiver and for six years provided ten hours of care each day. in spite of what many may think having a disability does not guarantee access to resources. because her mother has an income of 36000 from her divorce settlement and is younger than 65 and lacks a ten year implement history has been denied medicare, social security disability and medicaid despite its expansion. her private insurance company like most does not cover homecare for daily needs so i filled in the gaps. in high school i would wake up at 5:30 a.m. to help w

go see ms. brown in that area. this is one of the first times we have done something like this here. this cannot be the last. it is important to be consistent. the woman in the back who is going to do training opportunities and helping people with city employment opportunities, she is going to come here every other month. every other month to make sure that if someone is looking for a city job which provides good healthcare and benefits for retirement, let's make sure you have someone to work with you to help you understand the complicated city process to get one of those jobs. i have started opportunities for all, a program to provide paid internships for all high school students in san francisco because i wanted to make sure that our kids growing up in communities all over san francisco don't fall through the cracks. that is an amazing program which is really done a tremendous thing in opening up doors all over san francisco for so many city departments and also the private sector. we have to take it a step furth

ms. brown did not pay. i had to give her rent money when i was working and everything else. time, it wasn't because she was trying to punish me. she was trying to get me ready for the real world. she was trying to get me ready to take care of myself. ultimately, when you become adults, you're going to have the responsibility of taking care of yourself. ultimately as mayor, because of what happened in the past in this city and the loss of so many of my friends and family members, i want to make sure that we don't continue to make the same mistakes. i want you all to grow and to thrive in this city. i want you to be able to afford to live here when you become adults. that's my goal, the future of san francisco, and you all, all of you here, at burton, you all are the future of san francisco. so i just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all so much for just really being here and expressing interest in this incredible program. we came here because we wanted to bring the program directly to you. i also want to recognize jenny lam who is one of the members of the school b

and ms. brown, we didn't have much. we had that free food are coming in the white box and the government cheese. the macaroni and cheese and everything. and let me tell you, people would not knock on the door. and i'm like mama, we don't have that much. and she would give food to people, and she said so what, girl, you big enough. here, share. [laughter] let's share, let's come together, let's remember why the holidays are important. it's about community, it's about family, it's about love, and it's about being a blessing. so thank you all so much. let's get these turkeys handed out. [cheering] >> so thank you, everyone. just a few more thank yous before we get out of here. to our san francisco housing authority, we couldn't do this without you guys. thank you tonya. [applause] i also want to thank bill of our california poultry association that worked with foster farms to include an additional donation. and last but not least, our rec and park department for also helping the distribution of the 5,000 turkeys across the

. >> thank you ms. brown. there's a thing on the side. yeah. >> time's up. sorry. [laughter] >> thank you. >> we'll give you an extra 20 seconds for being technologically challenged >> thank you. the racial disparities are kind of the opposite of what we do expect. so normally one-third of participants are black and nine percent are latin while more than half are white. similar disparities exist for those referred to lead instead of those who are booked. recently published at the public defender's office. and i brought copies that push back on the city's representations to the board of supervisors that they were arresting mid- to high level drug dealers. the data showed they weren't. it revealed 93 percent of people in the operations were black or brown. we've heard that referrals to lead don't happen after 5:00 p.m. because of the parole don't work after 5 p.m. i think the data here prompts us to at least should prompt the commission to take a hard look at lead starting by sfpd to present on the topic focused on the racial disparities the number of participants co

brown: thank you. ms. mathews, we know that fewer than -- have access to vouchers the targeted to foster youth. how would a bill like this be used in your communities? ms. mathews: in our community, we partner with south carolina department of social services and many nonprofit organizations that house individual youth that are currently in foster care. and for many, many years, it is a constant struggle to help find housing resources for those families, because we don't have the dedicated resources available, like what will be approved in the bill that ms. peggy mentioned, and i think it is tremendously important to bill like this pass in law and for us to have the resources so that we can help those families, those youth transition, and stabilize their lives. housing is the first part of being able to stabilize their lives as they transition into adulthood, so we certainly support and it would be to mislead beneficial in our community. sen. brown: thank you. follow up with that, ms. bailey, in this way,

brownley's and after fervently arguing why it was so necessary to include it in ms. brown leah's bill, voted for ms. brownley's bill. cite that as evidence that there's some crocodile tears being crired -- cried here. i would like to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from the committee on health, ms. underwood. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. underwood: this past sunday, our office honored over 200 vietnam war period veterans at my district in illinois in a ceremony to show our appreciation. today, the day after veterans day, i'm proud to be on the house floor to continue our work on behalf of veterans. i would first like to thank representative brownley and my other colleague who was work sod hard to compile this important bill in the house. in addition to providing better access to resources and benefits offered by the v.a., the deborah sampson act contains several provisions to ensure that women veterans have equitable access to high quality, gender-specific health care. i'm proud my bill, the care for women veterans act is included in the d

ms. jan c. brown, national , am vets. kenneth, national commander, army and navy union, incorporated.n o'strausky. president, noncommissioned officers association. mr. bruce fewerbok. --ional vice chimeric commander of the american legion. mr. charles eggleston, national region one commander, military order of the purple heart. mr. dennis towbin, national commandant, marine corps league. mr. william d. roswoth. executive director, military chaplains association of the usa. mr. david zerflu. national president, paralyzed veterans of america. mr. george m. malone junior, national commander, legion of valor of the usa. mr. charles s. chamberlin, commander-in-chief, leader of -- military order of the world wars. mr. philip j. helinski. , the retiredident enlisted association. mr. brian thacker, congressional medal of honor society of the usa. mr. stephen butch whitehead, national commander, disabled american veterans. mr. dan mary, vice president of governor -- government relations, military officers association of america. ms. karen munoz, board chair, commissioned officers association o

ms. bette brown is the administrator of the, she joined the usda after 35 years with farm credit of the virginias where she most recently served as chief advocate for the agricultural industry and rural businesses. welcome, bette, we appreciate it. next we have mr. bruce lammers, the administrators of the rural housing service. mr. lammers has had more than 35 years of experience leading public, private partnerships at national committee oriented lending institutions including serving as a former ceo for a bank that was a national leader in government, guaranteed lending, thank you for joining us today. lastly, we have mr. chad rupe who is the administrator of the rural utility service. prior to coming to washington, mr. rupe served as the rural development state director of wyoming, big sky country from 217 to 219. before joining the department, mr. rupe spent more than 13 years in the banking industry specializing in commercial lending in wyoming. notably he began his service to our country in the united states army. so thank you for your service, mr. rupe. in the interests of time, we have ask

ms. matthews proceed. >> chairman crapo, ranking member brown, and members of the committee on banking, housing and urban affairs, thank you for the opportunity to testify during today's critically important hearing in support of the c.o. alerts act of 2019. my name is ivory matthews and i am the interim executive director of housing authority at the city of columbia, south carolina,, found in 1937 columbia housing currently provides housing assistance to over 6000 families. i am here today to support the co alerts legislation. the bill assures families living federally assisted housing are safe by requiring carbon monoxide alarms in section 202, section 811, public housing public housing, and section eight housing in accordance with the international fire code. i would like to begin this testimony by honoring kalvin witherspoon junior and derek caldwell roper who lost their lives as result of carbon monoxide poisoning on january 17, 2019, at the public housing community in columbia. our deepest sympathies are with their families, and we are here today in memory of these individuals. on january 18, 2019,

ms. matthews, would you like to make any comments? >> thank you senator brown's for the question.articularly have really support some of the tools that are already in existence like the extension of the rental assistance demonstration program. it's a very valuable tool that allows us to garner private and public partnerships to expand more waaffordable housing. we know that federally there isn't enough dollars that exist that will allow us to address all the deferred capital needs. but any of those legislations or bills on the table that will allow for more public-private partnerships to expand more affordable housing.>> thank you. my time is expired, thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> let me begin and also recognize under kay hagan who served the committee and the congress with great distinction and extraordinary Ãlet me also say i come at this from two perspectives in authorizer on this committee and appropriate on the ranking democrat on the transportation housing and urban development subcommittee appropriations. echoing senator brown's comments the president's budget he

ms. sherwood. >> mr. van meter. >> chairman, ranking member brown, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. my name is garth van meter and i'm the vice president of government affairs for smart approaches to marijuana, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to a public health approach to addiction and recovery. smplgts a.m. was founded by former congressman patrick kennedy, current editor of "the atlanta," david fromme and kevin sibet. we believe no one should be locked up or have the rest of their life ruined because they got caught with a joint but we should not create another new addiction for profit industry in the model of big tobacco. the fundamental question before us today is whether we want to promote and increase drug use during an addiction crisis or discourage drug use and help people find recovery and healing. by skipping ahead to a technicality over banking rules, marijuana industry is hoping to gain benefits of federal legalization without the debate over the public health effects. policy change around banking would have massive public healt

brown the tradition published by copper canyon pres press. new and selected poems published by university of pittsburgh press. ms.ublished by gray wolf press. carmen smith. published by gray wolf press. and arthur. site line. published by copper canyon press. the national book award for poetry goes to arthur. [applause] ♪ >> wow. i am amazed and grateful for this honor and recognition of my work. i have been writing for so many years and i want to take this opportunity for my fellow finalist to write these necessary and courageous poems. we need to tree now more than ever. [applause] poetry is the essential language to help us slow down and see clearly and feel deeply to envision what truly matters. and my wife who we have written problems alongside each other for years. thank you to my editor we joined copper canyon press so we been together 25 years. he is a visionary editor and his commitment and passion for poetry is amazing. john, alina, sally caldwell, and the rest of the staff from copper canyon press, thank you so much. >> well the national book award for nonfiction will be presented by a best-selling aut

of appropriations and echoing senator brown's comments that what they found was less than adequate with a 12 million-dollar cut including home in public housing. ms. matthews you have a lot of problems to survive on the budget. under the leadership of senator collins speak and vote on a bipartisan basis with a strong bipartisan bill and i think all of them for that. roughly $40 billion more indiscretion to go to affordable housing or homeless populations or community development opportunities. our environmental remediation and carbon monoxide there is another dangerous issue which is lead exposure in public housing and rental housing and we can get at that. we have made progress we hope we can get more resources. i went to commend my colleagues on the legislation they have submitted that is thoughtful and important and we need to move quickly but i would be remiss with the legislation that i just introduced with senator collins to extend permanently the authorization. since they had began planning and coordinating we have seen a reduction sense 2010 a reduction of these numbers of veterans homelessness. so i would just ask for your comments on th