Her name was ann marie duchon to come and testify about some of the challenges she had faced. Ann marie told us that she loves her job. She works at the university of massachusettsamherst, but since the day that she started, the day she started she made a lower salary than her male counterpart who is doing the exact same job. They had the same responsibilities and both of them had taken a pay cut to accept that job and they both graduated from the same university in the same year. Well, when ann marie found this out that he was making more than she was, even though they had the exact same resumes and qualifications and year of graduation, she went in and asked for a raise and she was told she couldnt have one. Well, she stayed on at that job and continued to work hard, and it wasnt until her husbands job was at risk that she started thinking about how much those lost wages meant to her and her family. She ran the numbers and she found out that over the years, she had missed out on more
Care of the many will rest upon the shoulders of the few. Give our senators this day the understanding, humility and faith to be ambassadors of reconciliation. Lord, help them to have no anxiety about anything as they trust you to empower them to do their best. Cleanse the inner fountains of their hearts from all that may defile them, sustaining them always with your mercy and grace. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Reid mr. President . The president pro tempore the majority leader. Mr. Reid i move to proceed to calendar number 368, which is the shaheenportman, Energy Efficiency legislation. The president pro tempore the clerk will report. The clerk motion to proceed to calendar number 368, s. 2262 a bill to promote Ener
Her school district, mrs. Stenglers students showed some of the highest rates of improvements on test scores. We lost a great teacher because of how expensive Postsecondary Education is. And not only that, even with her moms sacrifice joelle, who is only in her second year of college already has 12,000 in Student Loans and she estimates her total debt will be around 30,000 by the time she graduates. Again, that is even with her mom leaving the job she loves the job really as a society we would want her to be in and that she is so great at. Now, at the round tables i have around the state of minnesota i always hear about students working multiple jobs. Sometimes even putting in 40 hours a week while going to school full time. Now working at school is a good thing. Its not a bad thing. Not necessarily. Some work can help students manage their time, become more productive and of course help pay for college. But evidence shows that when a student starts to work more than 15 hours a week, i
Quorum call mr. Schumer i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer madam president , i rise today to discuss a topic of great importance to our countrys security, economy and social fabric and that is our broken immigration system. No one can dispute that our system is broken. We do not yet have sufficient resources on our border or in our interior to prevent ilLegal Immigration, and our Legal Immigration system takes far too long, has far too much bureaucratic red tape and does not sufficiently serve our economic needs. And in the meantime, our broken system has created millions of broken families. Many of these families are separated simply because of immigration status. All of these problems can be solved by passing Immigration Reform legislation. Immigration reform will jumpstart our economy, reduce our national debt, secure our country and heal these broken families. The truth is, weve heard excuse after excuse after
Make is that also critical to dealing with these set of enduring challenges is the continued economic and technological leadership of the United States, which as former secretary gates and others have said, is National Security imperative for us. Now i would like to talk a little bit about the relationship between intelligence and National Security. We always say its the first line of defense. This time going forward, we really do mean it. The benefits that it gives us is it informs our National Security policy. If youre the president and top advisers and trying to make sense of this wide array of challenges, intelligence is the first thing you need to have to understand the world in which youre dealing with. Then for our operators and war fighters, our intelligence capabilities enable what we call Intelligence Driven precision operation. When directed by the president , the Intelligence Community provides additional options in between diplomacy and the overt use of military force. The