Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program: Early Support, Lifelong Impact — hearing of 25 June 2026: transcript & video

Name: Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program: Early Support, Lifelong Impact
Uploaded: 2026-06-25T18:00:00+00:00
Duration: 160 s

00:00 - 00:32

Speaker 2

Thank the Ranking Member Davis for covering this hearing today. And I want to thank all the witnesses for being here, but obviously Ms. Wilson is from the Buckeye State, so most of my questions are going to be spent on you. And you know, in that description of having that person come over to the house and trying to clean up real quickly before they got there, and you know, that kind of reminds me when my wife's out and I've got the two kids at the house, I try to do the same thing every time she's gone. But I noticed from your testimony you went to Youngstown State, am I correct with that?

00:32 - 00:33

Yes, that's correct.

00:33 - 00:39

Speaker 1

Now are you from the Mahoning Valley originally or did you go to school there?

How did you wind up in Youngstown?

00:39 - 01:07

Speaker 3

So I actually am from Columbus, Ohio. I was going to go to Akron University. It was really hard to make that decision to go to Youngstown State University because I knew I would be leaving my siblings wherever I went. But I was talking to someone at my school from the I Know I Can organization and I did my FAFSA all the way wrong. And so she had helped me go through it and she's like, my son's going to Youngstown, have you considered that?

01:07 - 01:08

And I'm like, no.

01:08 - 01:30

Speaker 2

Well, the only reason I asked is I looked at your resume and one of our former colleagues, Bill Johnson, is the president of Youngstown State. So I sent him your resume. And I said, is there anything you want me to say because one of your graduates is testifying before the Ways and Means Committee? And he said, say go Guins.

01:31 - 01:33

Speaker 4

Yes. A proud penguin.

01:33 - 02:10

Speaker 2

That's right. And my time's a little bit and you're on the east side of Columbus. So for those of you who don't know Columbus, I always define myself as the member from Columbus who is not Joyce Beatty. Okay. And anybody who knows Joyce knows why I'm saying that.

Joyce and I have a very good relationship and I know you're one of her constituents and you're well represented by Joyce. But I just want to take a few minutes and I don't have a lot of time. But one of the things that I was looking through this and because your experience talking about, you know, coming from where you from the east side originally of town?

02:10 - 02:24

Wilson

I've lived all over Columbus. I believe that I was born maybe on the south side but I spent a lot of time on the north side and spent the rest of my teen years on the east side and in between that the west side.

02:24 - 02:39

Speaker 2

Okay, so you've been all over central Ohio. But so I just wanted to just kind of, you know, because I know there's going to be a lot of people in our region, you know, that are going to be watching this. And so can you kind of explain for others that maybe in the same