Donald trump blocked overtime benefits for millions of workers. [ Crowd Booing ] he opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage. As the president said, he appointed Union Busters to the national labor relations board. [ Crowd Booing ] and, dont forget, he supposed socalled right to work laws. I remember a time when republicans talked about things like freedom, they meant it. They would never turn their back on our allies. But thats not these guys. Trump and vance, when they talk about freedom, means government should have the freedom to invade every corner of our life. They talk about small government, small enough to be in your bedroom. Small enough to be in your exam room. Small enough to be in your library, telling you the things you should make decisions about. The Harriswalz Campaign spent the Labor Day Holiday speaking to Union Workers in Battleground States. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Jd Vance took The Day off from the Campaign Trail. We are now just a little over two months away
Our International Partners and all of our partners, information sharing underpins almost everything that we do. Information sharing enables vast networks of partners within our department across the federal interagency within state, local, territorial, tribal, nongovernmental, the private sector to act on their own and in concert with each other and other partners to effectively address challenges. No organization be it federal cabinet department, local police department, nongovernmental organization, a publicsector entity can take on these challenges alone, and so we must work in concert with each other and the sharing of information underpins all of that. The last five and i think its a very good one and we highlight it and report on the review itself is that the aging nature of our infrastructure does cause concern i think nationally about its resilience. And it is why when the president issued the president ial post attracted 21, we evolved our approach, our National Approach that
Looking at ways that the vsos can be help us understand how the veterans are perceiving our care and the timeliness of that care. I think theres a huge opportunity there. I agree. And you know, chairman miller, i think it might be good to have a hearing where we hear from the vsos about their suggestions about how to fix this problem. I yield back. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, miss kirk patrick. We do have one hearing that will be coming up in several weeks. It will be specifically geared towards the vsos. And its at that particular hearing we will invite the secretary to be here to hear their recommendations, as well. Mr. Reese. Empty custer, mr. Orourking . Mr. Waltz. Im sorry. Youre recognized for five minutes. Again, thank you both for being here and listening to the testimony. I appreciate it. Ive sat here almost in this exact same seat for seven and a half years and just like you with the vsos and the va as partners and advocates to get this right for veterans. But im
Discussion about this brand new book. And so i know you all know about this, but its a brand new book by Ryan Anderson and alexander de sanctus and so afterwards for those of you that are here in person. Feel free if we have copies of the book for sale. You can get them signed and you can actually talk to the authors well, but let me just very briefly. Introduce our panel and then ill hand it over to them first our moderator. This morning is Catherine Jean Lopez Catherine is a senior fellow at the National Review institute where she directs the center for religion culture and civil society. Shes also added to her large at National Review and has been on the Editorial Staff of National Review since 1997. So catherine i assume you must have started as a College Intern given that shes published widely in catholic and secular publications. It is also a nationally syndicated columnist with andrews mcneil universal. Shes the author of a year with the mystics visionary wisdom for daily living
Obviously. In fact, i cant imagine a better time for us to host this event than the one that we have this morning. I want to mention that were cohosting this with our friends at the National Review institute in the ethics ethics in Public Policy center. So thanks for joining us. So we are packed with a discussion about this brand new book. And so i know you all know about this, but its a brand new book by Ryan Anderson and alexander de sanctus and so afterwards for those of you that are here in person. Feel free if we have copies of the book for sale. You can get them signed and you can actually talk to the authors well, but let me just very briefly. Introduce our panel and then ill hand it over to them first our moderator. This morning is Catherine Jean Lopez Catherine is a senior fellow at the National Review institute where she directs the center for religion culture and civil society. Shes also added to her large at National Review and has been on the Editorial Staff of National Re