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
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Still tapping drivers wallets. Were on top of it all. Welcome everyone. Im sandra smith in for neil cavuto. This is your world. New set of Swing State Polling showing inflation is still hitting home despite signs its coming down. We have fox coverage with peter dusy on the white house who has the edge and jeff at philadelphia and prices at the pump are putting drivers on edge and begin with peter. Busy day there peter. It is sandra. President biden needs to hope the up coming election need to be decided by voters with abortion access. Hes doing great on that set. On the issues that traditionally decide elections hes not doing nearly as well including handling the economy. Trump there has a 20 point advantage over biden in the new Wall Street Journal Poll and President Biden hoping to widen getting with Bernie Sanders. Bernie, you and i have been fighting if there 25 years. Finally we beat big pharma. Finally. Journal poll has trump with 20 point over immigration and Border Security and
[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
Issued the ultimatum to evacuate Northern Gaza immediately, wanting that increases your Israeli Military activity against hamas could be imminent. Tens of thousands of palestinians have been seen leaving their homes in gaza city, throughout friday, carrying what they could but most are deciding either not to evacuate or simply do not have the means to do so. Most say they have no safe to go either, and on top of that, hamas told them to stay in their homes. That with so many people suddenly streaming into southern gaza, the only place to actually leave gaza is the Border Crossing into egypt. Egypt says they have not closed it on their side, but the status is unclear due to israeli airstrikes on the gaza side. Israeli military says they carried out a limited rating to gaza on friday, primarily to seek out intelligence they said, on the estimated 150 hostages in gaza. An unknown number of the hostages are americans, and come on friday, joe bryden spoke with their families by video call.