Subcommittee meeting is 1 45. Id hilike to call the meetg to order. I would like to thank our witnesses. First of all, its early. One thing thats true about washington, d. C. Theres uncertainty around us. Because of other meetings scheduled and planned we asked for you to come early, and i do appreciate it. And it shows you in the interest of our colleagues, that theyre here this early. So thats great. No matter first of all, weve got folks from as far away as alaska and close as pennsylvania. No matter how many miles youve traveled to be with us, were grateful for the time and financial sacrifice youre making to share your expertise today. I want to mention that even though they did not send someone to present oral testimony, i appreciate the Environmental Protection agency providing us with written statement to include in our hearing record. I ask that unanimous consent, without object, ion so ordered. The agency has agreed to take written questions for our hearing. This is highly un
Counting ballots today. And we begin with political reporter theo keith who is in milwaukee. Theo, there were some delays with the recount this morning . The recount got off to a very slow start here. In fact the first ballots from the city of milwaukee werent counted for more than three hours. For the suburbs, it took even longer. Stein supporter objected to the election commissioners decision to only publicly test two of the Voting Machines being used in the recount. Commissioners came back and decided to test them all. One of them was broken and had to be fixed. But the objector, Mark Kowalski of greenfield, says it was theres nothing like a 100 percent quality check. If youre in a factory and theres a problem, sometimes you have to check everything 13 it was 2 30 5 and a half hours before the first suburban Milwaukee County votes hit the machines. Also commissioners have rejected about a halfdozen ballots that had been accepted on election day. The county clerk expects he will be a
On monday, the Supreme Court issued the stupid opinion which we talked about forgive you for calling that a compromise decision. Thats how i do it. Just imagine for a moment if during this period of a 44 split on the court, brown v. Board of education have come up. I cant help but think about that and in the context of other cases that are bound to have come up to the court during this period. Senator leahy, i am glad that you pointed out that we have some civics students seated behind us here today. I hope they are learning something, but think of the lesson that where we are at this moment in connection with this nomination teaching them is teaching them. These are matters that should be of critical importance to all of us on both sides of the aisle. The future really is at stake. These kinds of decisions that were issued on monday have real consequences. In brown v. Board of education, you had decisions in one part of the country that went one way, and in delaware in particular my f
The constitution of Civil Justice comes to order. The chair is authorized to declare recessed committee at anytime. Welcome to you gentlemen. Sorry for being a little late. We called this hearing today to examine hr3765, the a. D. A. Education reform act of 2015 and hr241, the access act of 2015, which are two common sense proposals that require plaintiffs to require defendants with written notice and opportunity to correct an alleged a. D. A. Violation voluntarily before they may file a lawsuit and force a Business Owner to incur legal costs. Overall purpose. When a. D. A. Was signed into law by george h. W. Bush, it was to provide the disabled with equal access. Its hailed as the most sweeping, nondiscrimination legislation of the act of 1964. Enterprising plaintiffs and their lawyers have abused the law by filing a flurry of a. D. A. Lawsuits aimed at churning out billable hours rather than improving access for the disabled as the a. D. A. Intended. These predatory lawsuits are poss
Americans with disability act. The law passed in 1990 bands accommodation such as Office Buildings and restaurants to make their facilities accessible to people with limited mobility. The subcommittee on Civil Justice is holding a hearing on whether it changes to the law should be made to make it harder to sue for alleged violations of the law. Theyll hear from some members of kcongress. Theyll hear from a Business Owners and Interest Groups as well on a hearing that should get underway shortly. The house is getting underway. The final day of work for the week as they finish up work today on the military Construction Veterans Affairs bill. The senate gaveling in at 9 30 eastern about a half an hour from now and theyll continue work on their combined military construction Veterans Affair bill transportation and housing and that will include a vote this morning on zika funding 1. 1 billion is the proposal. Thats set for the house over on cspan. Constitution of Civil Justice will come to