[applause] a big special round of applause for walden house, who has consistently been here helping us double time, triple time. thank you. we have a brand new service here today. we are going to be able to serve about 25 to 30 women, so if i could get a big round of applause for the department of public health being able to bring the service here today. [applause] this is my last project homeless connect, and i just wanted to give a big thanks to both the mayor, the department of public health for giving me the opportunity to be here, but more than anything, i want to say a really big thanks to all of you. what we are doing here is not only helping people who need a hand but creating a community that can be year to work together to help people who are in need. together, we are going to end homeless here in san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> there is another very special person here, home is my great pleasure to introduce to you. she works for the health department, but more importantly, she was on the 10- year planning council. she understands the value and need for mental health

she's taking care of traffic sitations before she goes to walden house. we can always give you resource cards but you as an individual have to want to do better before we can help you out. okay. thank you. [applause] >> i want to say that ron and antoine once they cornered me and i said, okay. what we did is we invite them to everything. we invite our police officers we also have other officers that are wonderful. we invite them to everything. ron and antoine are on the pta. so, we invite them to every good event and a lot of times we see them in bad situations also. we always invite them. we opened our doors to them and

she's taking care of traffic sitations before she goes to walden house. we can always give you resource cards but you as an individual have to want to do better before we can help you out. okay. thank you. [applause] >> i want to say that ron and antoine once they cornered me and i said, okay. what we did is we invite them to everything. we invite our police officers we also have other officers that are wonderful. we invite them to everything. ron and antoine are on the pta. so, we invite them to every good event and a lot of times we see them in bad situations also. we always invite them. we opened our doors to them and that was important and i think if you are looking for a ron and antoine the best thing to do is probably if you don't know your officers on the street and their personalities to call our captain and ask him or her if they know of someone you can work with. that's really important. and a lot of the stuff we do we also they wrote a grant for mayor's office of community justice. we actually, i worked with them we got a grant to educate

[applause] a big special round of applause for walden house, who has consistently been here helping us double

greg walden and members of the team with me here today have done a great job on focusing the house on fixing the problems here so the house can actually do the people's business openly and honestly, and i'm going to ask greg to talk both some of bsh about some of those issues in a moment. one of the changes i want to highlight is something i talked about in a speech this fall. today, the rules in congress are rigged to make it easy to increase spending and almost impossible to cut spending, and one change is that we're going to propose is implementing what we call cut goat. this says if you intend to create a new program, you must also terminate or reduce spending on existing government programs of equal or greater size in the same bill. there was a weekend in september where half of the 85 suspension bills on the floor that week would never have made it there if cut bill had not been in place. it's an idea that came from my friend and colleague and about to be the next senator from missouri, roy blunt. his point that he made to me was this. let's turn the activists for big government