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Excerpt from Homeless Veterans in Washington State: Field Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Memorial Affairs of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session; July 9, 1994 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at Clover Park High School, 11203 Gravely Lake Drive, Southwest, Tacoma, WA, at 9:15 a.m., the Honorable George E. Sangmeister, subcommittee chair, presiding. Members Present: Representatives Sangmeister and Kreidler. Full Committee Members Present: Representative Evans. Opening Statement Of Chairman Sangmeister Mr. Sangmeister. The subcommittee will come to order. As we're going to commence here, I would ask the first panel that's going to testify to take their positions up at the table. Mr. Beau Bergeron, Mr. Anthony Tony Fair, and Mr. Brad Ensley, if you would take your seats we will proceed. I want to welcome everyone here this morning. It's a pleasure to be here at the invitation of Congressman Kreidler. There's a tendency, when we're out on field hearings, that we always praise our colleagues to the nth degree, but I want to say with all the sincerity that having Mr. Kreidler on my subcommittee has been an experience that I have enjoyed. He is one of the most hard-working members of the subcommittee and, as your host, is in his first term. He's done well. He's always at the subcommittee hearings. He meets with me frequently on veterans problems that he has back in the district. That's why when he spoke to me about having a field hearing concerning our homeless veterans, I was very pleased to be able to do that. I also would like to take the opportunity to introduce Congressman Lane Evans, a colleague of mine from Illinois. Mr. Evans, of course, is Chairman of the Oversight Committee of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and has been an active member of the Speaker's Task Force on the Homeless and has worked diligently to advance the welfare of all veterans. Lane, thanks for taking the time to come out here and be with us. Homelessness, as you all know, is a national problem which we must continue to work to eliminate. It is troubling that so many of those who have worn the uniform and defended our freedom are among those who have no home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
