Policies in the u. S. This is about an hour. Here we go, folks. Im dave cook from the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is interior secretary sally jewell. This is her first visit with our group. We appreciate very much her making time in her schedule for this. Our guest was born in london, grew up in washington state, and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the university of washington. Right after graduation, she and her husband warren, a fellow engineer, started their career at mobil oil, then moved to commercial banking. She worked for 19 years. She joined the board of rei in 1996, became chief operating officer in 2000, and was named ceo in 2005. During her tenure at the company, rei tripled in size. She was sworn in as the 51st interior secretary in april of 2013, and thus ended the biographical portion of the program. Now on to breakfast mechanics. As always, were on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing of any kind while
The kept going back to wages are going to decrease if you become right to work, youll hurt the worker. We said, no, thats not true at all. We showed that wages increase at a higher rate when youre in a right to work state. The other thing we ran into was, Companies Want to move to right to work states because they want to pay people less. So that was interesting. So they were saying that, you know, Site Selectors, we know who they are, what they do, this is one of almost their standard questions is, are you a right to work state, are you not. And theres plenty of companies who have moved to states that they have specifically said were going here because this is a key component to it. So what we did is, we said businesses dont go to right to work states because they want to pay less, because again, the statistics dont back that up. Companies go to right to work states because theres more flexibility in the workplace, and because their workers can be more efficient. And again, we brought
Yes . Hi, russell, a law student. My question is to the government official. The issue is about conflict of law and the situation where some Tech Companies may find themselves when they have to comply with a foreign law to hand over data, but that would bring them into conflict with u. S. Laws that basically would make them liable for breaking u. S. Laws. How do you do this where Tech Companies are doing business globally and have to comply with multiple standards and laws . How does the doj address this iss issue, or what are your views . Its a really good question, and its a question companies are facing more and more every day. I guess the point i would make generally on that issue is thats much broader than really encryption or even going dark. Our companies today face those choice of law conflicts when theyre operating in a foreign jurisdiction. And so the Companies Work tlou those issues. Sometimes they have to do something specific to a company. It will depend on the specific la
Are wrote to the white house coverage of the president ial candidates continue saturday morning but the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention Live from manchester. Speakers include five presence of candidates test hillary clinton, bernie sanders, former governor of rhode island when can chafee, martin omalley, and harvard professor lawrence lessig. Saturday at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Cspans campaign 2016, taking you on the road to the white house. The secondhe will also talk abl for a convention of states to, as he sees it, rain in the growing power of the federal government. Then, Gerald Connolly on what is happening the syrian refugees. He is a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee. Andthen, the editor cofounder of the science and technology journal, joins us to talk about human cloning. Washington journal is live. Very morning on cspan you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Interior secretary sally jewell talks to reporte
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