WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Budget Committee will hold a roundtable discussion to examine federal housing assistance programs at 2:30pm on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 608. Testifying will be Daniel Garcia-Diaz, Managing Director of the Financial Markets and Community Investment Team for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Dr. Edgar Olsen, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and Diane Yentel, President and Chief Executive Officer for the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

WHAT: 
Senate Budget Committee Roundtable to examine federal housing assistance programs

WHO:
Mr. Daniel Garcia-Diaz  
Managing Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment Team
U.S. Government Accountability Office 

Dr. Edgar Olsen  
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Virginia  

Ms. Diane Yentel
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Low Income Housing Coalition

WHERE:         
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 608

WHEN:          
2:30pm on Wednesday, September 16, 2020

All hearings are webcast live on Budget.Senate.Gov.

For this meeting, the Senate Budget Committee will follow guidelines developed in consultation with the Office of the Attending Physician (OAP), the Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the Senate Rules Committee to protect the health of Members, witnesses, staff and the public. This includes maintaining six-foot social distance spacing in the hearing room.

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Pursuant to guidance from the CDC and OAP, Senate office buildings are not open to the public other than official business visitors and credentialed press at this time. Accordingly, in-person visitors cannot be accommodated at this hearing. We encourage the public to utilize the Committee’s livestream of the hearing, available on the website at Budget.Senate.Gov.

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