Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i
20,660 a year to 50,440. The Senate Small Business Committee Held a hearing on the new labor rules. Senator david vitter chairs this hour 10 minute hearing. Good morning, everybody, and thanks for joining us today for the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing to examine the obama administrations proposal to more than double the current salary threshold under the fair labor standard acts overtime exemption for administrative, executive, and professional employees. Were going to hear from a Diverse Panel of experts and stakeholders on the impact this proposed rule would have an Small Businesses and organizations around the country. And i want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today. In previous hearings, this committee has focused on the need for Regulatory Reform in light of how federal agencies often issue new rules and regulations that cause extreme undue burden on Small Businesses. As one of the most controversial labor regulations pushed by the obam
In 1989 to 80 during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In recent years, significant disaster aid was provided outside the fema Disaster Assistance programs. These charts show how aid programs outside fema have grown. In fact, for Hurricane Sandy, there was less fema assistance from the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. We found these additional disaster aid programs dont have the same requirements and restrictions as the fema assistance. Fema assistance is tied to actual disaster damage and is for individuals, governmental entities or certain nonprofits performing governmentlike functions. Fema only spends money on eligible items for eligible applicants, no matter how much money fema receives. Fema mitigation funds must be used on cost and official projects to ensure the federal investment is a wise one. Fema makes every effort to get money in the hands of applicants as fast as possible to enable rapid recovery from disaster impacts. From the sandy
Appreciate it. We thank you both for your expertise and knowledge to share it with us. And with that, the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The House Oversight committee is holding a hearing on how the Obama Administration is sought to win support for the Nuclear Agreement its coming after New York Times profile of Deputy National security advisor ben rose, in which he talked about efforts to over change. Todays hearing is entitled the Iran Nuclear Deal. We take this up and deal with the situation as we get going and there are three the article, a aspiring article who became a goo rue. Talking about how the white house would not this is from senator mark kirk and the senator john and without objection i would like to enter these three into the record. Its one of three countries that are still on the state sponsors of terrorism. And i think its important that we have some clarity. There are some issues that are outstanding. Its one of the most important policy initi
Tonight here on cspan beginning at 8 00 eastern. Night at 8 00 eastern, highlights from the Democratic Convention with the first lady, michelle obama. President obama and Hillary Clinton saturday at 8 00 p. M. Sunday, highlights from the Republican Convention 10 30 a. M. Eastern with senator ted cruz, mike pence and donald trump as well. Ricky in maryland. Republican line. Go ahead. Caller good afternoon. I thinking because donald trump doesnt really want to win. 1998 that he would run as a republican because he believes republicans are done. He said he could lie to them and they would believe everything he says. Last week and this week, you cannot compare the tapered that is disappointing. Last week and this week, you cannot compare the two. That is disappointing. I dont know whats going on. People have to be careful. This guy will put the country back to looking like a third world country. The speech by donald trump and the speech by Hillary Clinton sidebyside, these were clouds of t