The house floor. Watch live coverage of house rules, tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch online or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Next, former chicago mayor rahm emanuel and amazon Senior Vice President talk about Workforce Development issues. From the annual wall street journal ceo council meeting, this is 30 minutes. Rahm emanuel was the mayor of chicago between 2011 and 2019, also former white house chief of staff. They will be interviewed by my colleague who see at her editor live journalism as the wall street journal. Please welcome them. [applause] to do a couple of case studies and we have a short amount of time. Quickly, lets bring everybody up to speed. First, most people here, the headlines about the 700 mu dollars amazon plans to spend in the next few years. Give us a quick overview on how that works. 700 million, 100 thousand workers over the next six years. Its an aggregation of different upscaling programs. Our frontline workers, we give them a pro
Staff. Beths colletti is the Senior Vice President for worldwide Human Resources at amazon. They are going to be interviewed by nikki waller from the wall street journal. Please welcome them. [applause] we are going to do some case studies, and we have a short amount of time. Quickly, lets bring everybody up to speed. First, beth, everybody here caught the headlines about the 7 million amazon plans to spend to upscale workers. To us a quick overview. Facts,ou got the basic 700 million, 100,000 workers over the next six years. Aggregation of a series of different upscaling programs, starting with Fulfillment Center workers. Our frontline workers where we give them a program where they prepay even before they start their classes, 90 of tuition and books so that they can learn skills in things like medical things that will train them for jobs outside of amazon purity is a unique program because we realize that amazon may be one step in their career path. In addition, we have programs like
Took all of the medical research amendments and all of the democrats and republicans and said lets put everything in one amendment, susan went along with it and she said that she had the alzheimers amendment specifically. And we had 42 or 43 that had cosponsored amendments when it came to medical research. Now we were all together and that is the way this works in the way that you build the coalition. When you look at heart disease, alzheimers has got the largest footprint out there in the costs are the highest as i understand them of all of these. But the level of Research Dollars that the federal government spends is really a pathetic third or less of what you see going into similar rates. Im interested structurally what you think is happening in this field that has made it difficult to step those numbers up. Thats a good question. I am asked about it as long as i have been in the house and the than it how do you pick your research projects. And it is a deadly disease, it affects chi
What importable care act and the social contract, as you feel it between the government and Civil Society and those People Living with those disease, you have talked about research which may not help many of those within it. And as that come in discussion. If youre friends with a sick child that didnt have Health Insurance, you will never forget it as long as he lived. I was a student a few blocks from here brandnew wife and baby and no Health Insurance and my daughter had a problem and i said that i would leave the Law School Classes and wait to see who walked through the door. And i was hoping whoever came through the door was a competent medical professional and its a basic right that we should establish in america. It shouldnt just be this. When we get into this conversation about the role of government, thats where i come from. The Affordable Care act, most important thing ive ever cast. Down by 30 , the rate of growth of Health Care Costs is still an incline but planning just eno
He gave 2 billion to nih, which is more than 5 . Its 5 plus inflation. Pretty darn good, better than the house, but better than the president and he did it at the expense of a lot of other good things in the bill. Dont get me wrong. Im not happy with the way he approached it, but he was sensitized by the researchers in st. Louis. Washington university to the need for medical research. And i believe this crosses the spectrum. We have to reach the point where we take the research and innovation and say this is a special consideration of the United States and the future. Its not going to be to the same budget control rules as z other expenditures. Last night Steve Kornacki showed an interview about how you and he were gym buddies and turned marco rubio around on immigration and used the gym as a Hunting Ground to turn people over. Who are some of your targets that you might like to was Chuck Schumer lying . I go to the senate gym daily. He said that republicans go early and democrats go l