And Biden Administration acting labor secretary was on capitol hill to testify the departments goals and other topics including Vaccine Mandates child labor abuses and classification shes been serving and acting secretary since march after the resignation of marty walsh. Her nomination by president byington officially serve as secretary is still awarding confirmation by the u. S. Senate. This hearing is about three hours 40 minutes. [background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your
On false asylum claims. A lot of these people being taken advantage of. What is your office doing to prevent people who are not in this country legally from taking jobs away from American Workers, and b, making sure that their employers are obeying all the laws, particularly with regard to age . Secretary su thank you very much for that question, congressman. I think one of the things you might be referring to is recently a Division Found a large number of children working in exploitive child labor conditions. This was a company that had hired over 100 children, ages 1317, working, doing sanitation, cleaning work at the Meat Processing facilities. Mr. Grothman can i give you a followup . How many of these children were living with their parents . Secretary su i dont have a specific number on that. Many of these children were Migrant Children. As a result mr. Groth man do you like mr. Grothman do you look for that . Do you try to find the parents . Secretary su we look for child labor m
than a year, because the democratic unionist party, the biggest party which wants to keep northern ireland in the uk, is vetoing the formation of the power sharing coalition because of its concerns over brexit trade barriers with the rest of the uk. setting that aside, when you look back at the last 25 years, the change in northern ireland has been remarkable. the level of political balance has dramatically reduced to the extent that it is relatively rare now, so coming after a bitter sectarian conflict that lasted three decades, and cost the lives of three and half thousand people, it has been a very successful, peace process, most would say. the president biden is likely to again reflect on that, the fact that it was a peace process that benefits the whole island of ireland. most of ireland in northern ireland but the republic was touched by the conflict as well. so we can expect him to talk about that. with regard to the major conflict in the world today, ukraine, that has
climate change. the high court curbed carbon emissions at the time when scientists are sounding the alarm on the case of dploeshl warming. also today, president biden lashed out over their decision to overturn roe. he supports a filibuster carveout for congress to codify abortion rights. he said that at the nato summit in madrid, where he announced new aid for ukraine. we will discuss this a little later, first, new developments in the january 6th investigation. resources tell cnn that cassidy hutchinson, the former aide was contacted by someone in the former president s orbit to try to influence her testimony. those revelations so damming that the committee has now issued a subpoena for one of the central figures in the west wing, pat cipollone, the former top lawyer at the trump white house. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. do we know who was trying to influence tuesday s testimony? reporter: we do not, alisyn. you remember the end on tuesday after hutchin
[background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America