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
Indulgence. It had nothing to do with discrimination. It had to do with a new policy. And it is true that i did rule and put a selfexecuting rule in that did answer the question desire of the committee to handle this issue, and i did it accordingly. I thank the gentleman. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, it appears that no one is going to be able to tell me what the schedule is for the week to come. I will tell you thats unfortunate. I hope there is a schedule for the week to come. Because theres a lot to be done. We havent done we havent finalized zika. We passed a bill here which we think was inadequate. We havent dealt with flint. We need to pass puerto rico restructuring. I think theyve made some progress on that. I congratulate the speaker. And the leader for facilitating that progress. We dont have a Voting Rights bill scheduled. We need to do that. There are a number of other serious pieces of legislation this house needs to consider. Were going to go out next week
Be gained on that, and they are ready they say they are ready to abide by the new rules about the environment, trade agreements, intellectual property, and as far as the u. S. Economy is concerned, the administration would say to your question, well, the only way to move forward and get better paying jobs and to pay down the debt is to grow the u. S. Economy and to do that through trade, and Bernie Sanders and some other people say no, either the trade agreements have to be renegotiated or negotiated in a more beneficial way for the u. S. Were we should perhaps protect parts of our economy to have some sectors that we simply protect the terrorists. Host let me conclude with this point, i we had a good pivot point with regards to the u. S. And vietnam . I we had a better point in five years or 10 years ago . Guest absolutely. Relations have improved pneumatically. It is not just economic driven. It is largely driven by this what china is of doing in the South China Sea and whether china
After president obama signed the executive order thomas we go to the senate on the heinous dust paycheck fairness act. It did not get the 60 votes it needed to move forward. Politico has a few more details before the vote. Democratic senators took to the floor to talk about the measure. Have required equal wages for similar jobs. The remarks were about an hour. Like madam president. I rise today to speak on paycheck fairness. On tomorrow in the United States senate. During the next hour, 11 women 11 Democratic Women will be coming to the floor to speak. I ask but im not going to introduce each one. We want to get right to the issue rather than flowerily talk about each other; we want to talk about the need for paycheck fairness. So i ask unanimous consent that each woman speak up to five minutes each. The presidinthe presiding offict objection. Ms. Mikulski but im the leadoff speaker, and, madam president , i want to be very clear. Why are we on the senate floor . We believe that women
So its slightly different Business Model in terms of the way southern libya is operating. Clearly, the displacement of groups across borders is very challenging [inaudible] [inaudible] just to follow up. When the International Community decided to force gadhafi out of power, overturn that government, did they, did the International Community, the u. S. , not foresee this outcome given the fact that the Libyan Government really had no reach, much reach beyond tripoli . I think it would be hard from the outside given the state of our relationship that pertained then with libya to understand how devoid libya was of institutions to be able to recover after gadhafis departure. So my sense is that the amount of Information Available as far as the ability of libyan institutions to continue without gadhafi, i think that that was underestimated in terms of the ability to proceed forward without very personalistic style of power. So i think some of this was certainly foreseeable ask was foreseen