timmins and i had a fantastic trip.nd i think it will bring a lot of fruit to bear, in terms of suggestions that we had. and have about modernizing and improving the way this place functions. by looking at other interesting parliament and legislative bodies. legislature is a tension between traditions that you have from the beginning of time. we met with parliament, which basically is from the beginning of time. then we come into existence, the eu much later. sort of on the -- and we learned a lot. what we learned was that we're not doing things too badly, but we can do a lot better. by taking some of their ideas and suggestions, and to your point, doctor, the rules package is the place you start. probably in 2020, for me, the three most important votes i've ever taken my career, and i've been doing this. it is between legislature and congress, it was the election of the speaker, the passage of the rules package, and the certification of the presidential election. those are the three votes i take, out of thousands of vo

timmins? mr. timmins votes no. mr. birch? miss greene? miss greene votes now. miss mcclain? miss mcclain votes now. miss boebert? miss val barber votes no. mr. fry? mr. fry votes now. miss luna? miss luna votes now. charlotte or edwards? mr. edwards votes now. mr. langworthy? mr. langworthy votes now. mr. burlison? mr. burlison votes now. charlotte mr. raskin? mister raskin votes i. miss norton? miss norton votes yes. mr. lynch? mr. lynch votes yes. mr. connally? mr. connally votes yes. mr. krishnamoorthi? charlotte a question mark the votes yes. mr. connor? mr. connor votes yes. chÂteauguay and to me? charlotte votes yes. miss acosta cortez? miss across the cortez but yes. miss porter? miss porter votes yes. miss bush? charlotte's bush votes yes. miss brown? miss brown votes yes. mr. gomez? charlotte mr. gomez votes yes. miss stansbury? chiraz mr. garcia? mr. garcia votes yes. mr. frosts? mr. frosts votes yes. miss ballot? miss ballor votes yes. honestly? to mislead votes yes. mr. saar? mr. gosar votes yes. miss crockett? charlotte to miss crockett but yes. mr. coleman? mr.

um at which point we went through some discussions and thank you to vice chair timmins. um and your stated purpose of we're gonna run to the wire. we put that on the back shelf, however, we haven't put on the back shelf the idea of, do we stay together. for years ago there were members of a smaller core hurt -- cohort. they came together two years ago um when we weren't sure that the select committee was going to be extended. it was a wonderful moment, i think for the entire cohort as we were then able to sit around a table um to gauge the closeness that we had and the trust that we had in each other and how we've grown. um and that only has increased over the last two years. and what happens for us is you've witnessed with the uh civility and collaboration working group that we had and the civic engagement working group. we not only pull members of the cohort to work on those issues to come up with recommendations for this committee, but we also pulled from other groups outside of the cohort, whether that's the bridging community or others who are extremely interested i

timmins for five minutes. >> takes chevy. i understand dhs emphasize process efficiency partnership with community groups and outside organizations over the last couple of years as a flow of illegal immigration reached historical proportions. cutting through the haze of technical terminology processing efficiencies religious book and a processing illegal aliens faster for release from custody where they are free to travel. chief chavez, would you agree a significant portion of illegal aliens encountered by border patrol agents in your sector of the last few months has boldly been released from dhs custody? >> in the rgv sector we have been able to process individuals and remove them. i think that we been able to remove them to other countries. rgv sector primarily encounters migrants from central america and these are from countries like el salvador, guatemala, honduras where getting many from nicaragua right now as well and mexico. >> what percent a police into interior? >> we haven't actually been releasing anyone here in a

timmins is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mister chairman, i appreciate you having this hearing. i live in south carolina. i represent spartanburg. we have major challenges in affordable housing. the city has grown so much, there's been so much and some people moving into the district. ransom gone through the roof. the same problems are happening all over the country. we have it twice as bad. we have very poor public transportation. llit has become a major issue in my district. like all of you, i agree that market forces are not going to solve the problem. the government has to do something and the question becomes what. is it to have somehow incentivize the developers to invest in affordable units? is it requiring them as some cities have done? is it creating a fund that will subsidize across the board using a general fund tax dollars? is it the restricting land to force developers to do it. there are all these different tools in the tool box. the question is how? my view on this is that it's a problem when different units are subsidizing others. if this is important to

timmins for five minutes. >> takes chevy. understand dhs emphasize process efficiency partnership with community groups and outside organizations over the last couple of years as a flow of illegal immigration reached historical proportions. cutting through the haze of technical terminology processing efficiencies religious book and a processing illegal aliens faster for release from custody where they are free to travel. chief chavez, would you agree a significant portion of illegal aliens encountered by border patrol agents in your sector of the last few months has boldly been released from dhs custody? >> in the rgv sector we have been able to process individuals and remove them. i think that we been able to remove them to other countries. rgv sector primarily encounters migrants from central america and these are from countries like el salvador, guatemala, honduras where getting many from nicaragua right now as well and mexico. >> what percent a police into interior? >> we haven't actually been releasing anyone here in a w