Priorities including overtime rules, training and apreniveship programs, collective bargaining rights, retirement programs and accessibility of other employment benefits. The House Education Committee held this hearing last month. The quorum being present, the committee on education and the workforce will come to order. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hearing. The committee is honored to welcome our distinguished guest, secretary alexander acosta. Secretary acosta has been at the helm of the department of labor since april and were grateful he could join us to testify for the First Time Since his confirmation. Mr. Secretary, welcome to the committee. We look forward to your testimony. Which we are sorry did not arrive earlier. And discussing the department of labors policies and priorities under the new administration. The department of labor is on the front line of the issues facing workers and job creators. It sets policies that have a widespread impact on our nations e
Atlanta today. Nbc 10s drew smith is live at Philadelphia International airport with more on how this power outage is having a major impact even in philadelphia. This time of year were looking at the sky and hoping that snow wont mess up the plans and did not expect a major power outage to impact thousands of flights around the country. Power outage causes pandemonium so im not in the pandemonium stage yet. Passengers reading up on the bad news when they talk about when they can lead philadelphia after a power loss at atlantas airport that puts the transit hub in the dark. It is a hunk airport so theres no and out of there now. Its closed. We really want to get out of here so i dont want to stay other in atlanta. Delta is the maine carrier to atlanta and already had to cancel several Outgoing Flights other at phl. Passengers say the airline is not putting people up at hotels so they are scrambling avoiding to spend time in the terminal. I have to call some friends to pick me up. Georgi
Three times a semester and six times a year if you would like to be informed of future events there is a signup sheet over there put your name and email in and we will we had have a pretty good ones. These three we have some great stuff plant. Tonights forum is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and also hopefully state your name. We then do a write up of all of the forms. And the last announcement as it is cosponsored by radius another group here i am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different three than we initially thought would be here. Because jeff how he calls me up at a little bit past five. Fortunately it is a brilliant journalist and his in his own right. Let me introduce to everyone. The author of the new book know it all. And i will also be a hashtag tonight and then i think moving forward. We Work Together a decade and a half ago i had known him ever since he is a great guy and a b
Semester, these three duke with some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also to nights for him being filled by cspan, so during the question part of the forum, if you would go up to one of the microphones and also hopefully state your name and your question, another reason why we ask you to stitching is because we didnt do a write up of all of the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our website which is comp forum. Edu, and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius, which is another group at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different story than we initially thought would be here because jeff, he called me up a little past by because his daughter was puking, and as a aa father of two young kids myself i said please stay home. And so fortunately christina couch who writes a lot about technology and works with the forum is a bright journalist in her own right has agr
It does nothing to address daca or Border Security. We need to focus on making the laws that do with those two issues not making a point. The. I dont think either of them will get large bipartisan support. Finding 60 votes for something that meets the needs of both sides and can deal with the dreamers and Border Security is not easy we all know that immigration has brought with peril but this is the closest that we have calm and everybody has to make a really final effort in our Democratic Caucus we want to do two things, protect the dreamers and get 60 votes. Its not an easy needle to thread, but we are making good headway. Just this morning the number of democrats, a good number of democrats in different groups were engaged in talks with our colleagues on the other side. From what im told they came fairly close and are going to continue to meet in the course of the day. We continue to believe that a narrow proposal has the best chance of passing the senate and the best chance of bein