Representative mike conaway. Dressing the federal deficit, the u. S. Mexico canada trade the agreement and the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Representative conaway serves as Ranking Member of the Agriculture Committee. He announced in july that in jue seeking reelection. This runs about 45 minutes. Im going to make a few comments like iiformly do. And then it would be up to you to ask questions what it is you want to talk about. Your meeting at that point in time. We found out about the cspan coverage this morning. Apparently you kbup about new a earlier in a week. Fantastic. Im tickled to death they could find santa ana on the map. So its taped. Tha idea, i thithe idea is theye tape back unedited, unfiltered which is the way i like to to happen. Whoever is responsible for that for let us having access to the facility again. Its terrific. Ill talk about some things in d. C. And then get going. The only thing congress has to do year in and year out is fund the government. And
Of ways that it can have an impact, both on the hiring and employee side, as well as on the owner side. On the hiring side, setting standards for hiring contracts with vendors can set a high bar for companies that are receiving the Public Airways to live up to those sorts of standards on the structure that can impact the ownership side. Perverting competition. He surely set off structures that allow for small women and minor minor owned businesses to create compete in the auctions. You may not have all the ideas but we are interested in finding out what other ideas can be brought forward and celebrate the chamber recently reinstating the Advisory Committee on diversity and digital empowerment. Those are the sorts of things we love to see at the fcc where stakeholders can come together and come up with other tactics to promote diversity. Thank you chairman, my time is up. , we hear from senator blackburn. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here to talk about
Counted for over 50 percent of all did child fatalities the arned my masters degree. However the majority of farmers do not even graduate high school they drop out four times the national average. I am not alone for these are the same harrowing experiences i heard my parents and grandparents and also heard from other farmers throughout my career. Its experience approximate 3000 farm working children today each of them a life, person, part of our community. But would be even more heartbreaking as congress chooses to do nothing will be the same experience youre going to hear from children 20 years from now. Data clearly shows agriculture to the u. S. Child labor laws to the detriment of child farm workers which the majority are u. S. Citizens. The care act sponsored by representative cosponsored by many members of this committee will give children working agriculture the same workplace protection that every other working child is provided. The protect 12 yearolds from exploitation and re
Examine ways to improve safety conditions for youth would that that workon farms around americ. Today we are meeting to examine workplace detections for child farmworkers. Todays hearing represents the third in the series for spotlight workers that are all too often overlooked, neglected and exploited. The hearings have been invented to lift workers up and champion their causes. Each day hundreds of thousands many of whom come from low income migrant families risk their health and wellbeing while working on farms across the country. Child farmworkers should be able to rely on the basic workplace protections that are standard. Unfortunately, the nations labor law has left the child workers behind. While the fair standard laborers fact provides protections in the workforce, children working in the Agricultural Industry are either excluded from many of these protections were provided Legal Protections for example unlike other industries, child farmworkers can be assigned hazardous jobs fr
The House Agriculture Committee has moved to consideration of the farm bill proposed by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., after Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., ranking member on the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee,.