Discrimination is still in issue. You can read the full results at cspan. Org. Up next, the acting director of u. S. Citizenship and immigration cuccinelli spoke to reporters at an event hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Good morning, i am linda feldman. Actingst today is ken, director of the u. S. Bureau and Immigration Services. This is his first appearance at a monitor breakfasts. Welcome. Now a bit of background. He was born in edison, new jersey and grew up in virginia where he graduated fromuva and earned a law degree from george mason university. In 2002, he won a special election to this eight senate from fairfax county. In 2009 he was a let it attorney general for the commonwealth of virginia. Mr. Cuccinellis time as attorney general and him a reputation as a staunch conservative, which he parlayed for a bid for the governorship. He has remained in politics serving as head of the Senate Conservative fund super pac, and as an advisor to ted cruz. In june, President Trump
As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Good morning, its monday, october seventh, 2019. The house and senate are on recess but if peter and inquiry continues this week with hearings in the house intelligence and Foreign Affairs committee. President trump is set to hold to bring Major Campaign rallies this week in minnesota and louisiana. And this morning we will begin by asking for your thoughts about what it means for the country to go through the president ial impeachment. What lessons should be learned from the efforts to impeach residents in and clinton. Phone lines set up differently this morning. If you lived through the nixon impeachment, you can call in at 202 7488000. If you lived through the clinton impeachment, 202 7488001. All others can call in at 202 7488002. You can send us a text message this morning. If you do so, please include your name and where you are from. Thats 202 7488002 th
Solicitor during the george h. W. Bush administration. He was asked about safety, the minimum wage and protections for lgbtq workers among other topics. Good morning. Good morning. Should. Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia to serve as United States secretary of of labor. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome secretary chao, secretary, good to see you, and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. There are so many of them i will the scalias are especially productive family, apparently, so it wont come any of your allotted time for your statement, and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings are a not necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more
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Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen