Has an amendment on the floor under consideration. Would the gentleman yield . The chair recognizes himself and is happy to yield. Thank you, mr. Chairman. After reviewing the bill, i believe that at least for the foreseeable future the 410,000 plus 10 escalator is probably sufficient. I would like to work with the chairman further on defining that so that the safeguards be in place once this bill becomes law but i would ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment. Without objection, it is withdrawn. And let me just say to the gentleman, id be happy to work with him. Its important that purpose of the legislation is to assure that american agriculture has the workers it needs to continue to thrive in the United States and not diminish because they can go elsewhere to find laborers and produce Agricultural Products elsewhere in the world so im happy to work with the gentleman in that regard. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you. Are there further amendments to hr 4902 . I have an amend
Flexibility on the payment must be linked to flexibility and other areas to be negotiated . We have been very clear the question of that financial settlement cannot be finally settled until we know what the future partnership will be. We will not sign up for a bill and then negotiate so it will be the case that once the negotiations have started will continue to be negotiation on issues. Since the brexit vote theres been a 96 drop in e. U. Nurses registering to work here. With vacancy of 86000 and rising, just how much bigger does it need to get before we stop using medics as a bargaining chip in to make sure that their doctors and nurses available. In my statement ive made a number of occasions that we value the contribution it have made we want them to stay. She talks about nurses and theres more nurses than there were in 2010 weve taken out the number of nurses who can be in training. The 52000 and training. Degree the progress achieved at the Council Meeting demonstrates logic on b
Into his job good we are recording an appearance in memphis and we will have that for you to watch later today. Members of congress away on the summer break are tweeting out summer activities. Daniel webster these to host the House Veteran Affairs chairman representative jeff miller to share an update on va care. Cap thear Mcmorris Rodgers says revisiting the mcdonalds where i work to pay for college. Experts tasked with tracking the spread of diseases like rabies. Pox in a 2 of americans was traced to prairie dogs. We investigate animals, emerging diseases in people often traced back to animals. Thate of these situations occurred in 2003, the first hint we had that something had gone terribly wrong, you can see in this picture up here, threeyearold girl who lived in wisconsin and she developed these very odd, very disturbing skin lesions. Ive too young to be vaccinated for smallpox. But there are many researchers as it is he who dedicated their Early Careers to eradicating this diseas
State to want to leave their union but do not know that they can, or when and how to do so, how many hundreds of thousands, or even millions of Union Members around the country want to do the same thing . Working with the association of tmerican educators we called i National Employee freedom week. That is this week. I am pleased to say that 81 organizations, which we have have to, in 45 states, come together with the sole purpose of letting people know that they have the ability to leave their union. You will hear from rebecca, robert, and jennifer and they stories aboutr trying to leave their unions. I want to tell you about the numbers that their stories represent. We decided to conduct a poll, a National Poll of Union Members asking if you could out out of your union without any penalty, would you do so . 454 Union Members across the country and over 28 said yes, i want to opt out of my union if i could do so without penalty. 14. 5 Union Members, so that is about 4 Million People w
I would ask everyone inhouse to make a courtesy check that your cell phones are off. We will post the program for your future reference. Youre always welcome to send your questions or comments. Hosting our discussion today is celine perth. Academic research focuses on the volatility in the developing world. Prior to joining us she was the assistant professor of economics at Amherst College of and a visiting Research Scholar at northeastern university. A masters degree in economics from rochester. Please join me in welcoming our speaker. [applause] thank you very much. It is good to see everyone here today. My colleague james, who really organized this event, apologizes he could not be here today. I am pleased to have the privilege of joining this panel to discuss unions and membership in unions. Labor unions are some of the largest political spenders in the United States. In the last midterm election, unions operated 10 of the 20 largest Political Action committees. They also made of t