Are doing. Their tax bill is such a mess in terms of not helping the middle class, in terms of the deficit that they are just tying themselves in a knot. Its like yogi bear all over again. There again raising, sorry they are cutting taxes on the wealthy and taking Health Care Away from millions in raising the premiums on millions of others all to help reduce taxes on the rich. Does that sound familiar . Well it does to us because thats why the Health Care Bill failed and that is why their tax bill is going to fail as well. Its a backdoor attempt to get trumpcare back. The American People dont want trumpcare just like they dont want this bill which focuses its tax cuts on the wealthy and raises the taxes of 13 million middleclass americans in 2019 and 20 million americans by 2026. To take away Peoples Health care and raise their premiums, to lower the top rate is what President Trump suggested is so against what the American People want and again they are just headed for failure. To lis
Held a hearing to examine congresses internal Sexual Harassment policy Committee Member Jackie Speier spoke. This is an hour and 40 minutes. For purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The hearing record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. A quorum is present so we may proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this important issue to the forefront and for tasking this committee to undertake a comprehensive review. Todays hearing is a criti
Committee on housing demonstration for the purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The hearing will remain open for five legislative days so that members may submit any material they wish to be included. Legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. A quorum is present so we may proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this important issue to the forefront and for tasking this committee to undertake a comprehensive review. Todays hearing is a critical part of the review pro
Proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this important issue to the forefront and for tasking this committee to undertake a comprehensive review. Todays hearing is a critical part of the review process. First and foremost, let me say that there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society. And especially in congress. This is an extremely important topic and it will take all of us working together to effectively address the issue. I believe as members of congress, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. A gender that demonstrates we are
Maintaining an effective cyber tourity posture is important remain vigilant. Too often when we hear about the importance of Cyber Security we are left without concrete steps to take to ensure our positions position against emerging threats. One of the goals today is to learn about tangible measures the government can take to its i. T. Systems to defend against new and emerging threats including novel and sophisticated rent somewhere threats. The specific focus will be the wannacry ran somewhere attack. It was last month in a worldwide attack that impacted nearly every country in the world. Although the concept of ransom ware is not new, the type of rent somewhere employed by wannacry was novel. It made people pay to get access to documents. It signaled a new type of wo rming. It would spread more rapidly with each new infection. In light of the method of attack, Cyber Security experts including those we will hear from today have expressed concerns that the virus is only a preview of a