The committee will now come to order. Good morning to everyone. The purpose of this hearing is to examine how state policies , like those in missouri, are impacting residents access to comprehensive Reproductive Health care services, including abortion. Without objections, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. For audience purposes, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in todays hearings. With that, i will recognize myself to give an opening statement. I would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the First Full Committee Hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman Elijah Cummings passed away. Chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. And he was a fierce champion for womens access to health care. Across the country, extreme forces and State Governments are taking dracon
Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Two Human Resource executives and author of three books on workplace topics testify and answer questions from committee members. The hearing is about 90 minutes. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. In is cultivating diversity, improving retention with Congressional Staff. I recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. My apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats the backbone of this institution, the Congressional Staff that work here. I think i speak for all of us and those yet to come when i say we couldnt do our jobs without teams of people that work for us. Anytime i get a compliment where someone says nice job on this or that, my response is always i have a good team and i feel lucky for that. Theyre dedicated Public Servants that a
House will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 14, 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable Carlos Curbelo to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Roskam for five minutes. Mr. Roskam 00 thank you mr. Roskam thank you, mr. Speaker. Ladies and gentlemen of the house, we ought not bet against ukraine and we ought not bet against georgi
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