I now call to order the committee on House Administration or purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the congressional work place on examining the funds to the Congressional Accountability Act. Figuring record will remain open for five legislative days until members submit any they wish to be included. A quorum is present or we may proceed. I ask for unanimous consent that the committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks, represented Jackie Speier and Bradley Byrne said on the dais and question our Witnesses Today. Without objection so ordered. At the outset with an call of our witnesses for taking time out of what i know are very busy schedules to be here. We are much appreciative of that. First and foremost, let me reiterate there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society. Especially in congress. One case of Sexual Harassment is one case to many. The speaker of the house, paul ryan, tasks the committee with heading up an extensive review on this issue
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To puerto rico one week after Hurricane Maria completely devastated the island, home to 3. 4 million american citizens, puerto rico is facing what its government calls a humanitarian crisis, no part of the island has power. No fresh water for days, this is a critical situation, a life or death situation, and in a desperate situation, every bit of help matters, a group of bipartisan lawmakers says waving the jones act would help speed up the delivery of food, fuel, medicine and Building Materials to puerto rico. But when pressed on this today, the president said hes worried about the shipping industry. In puerto rico, mr. President , why not lift the jones act. We have a lot of shippers and people in the shipping industry that dont want the jones act lefted. So the shippers dont want the law lifted and thats what holding the president back. Here are the facts, there is no cure all, but the president lifted the jones act last month after hurricanes harvey and irma, to help americans on t