This committee on the work force will come to order. Welcome to todays hearing. The committees honored to welcome our distinguished guests, 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 conformation. 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 labors on the front line of the issues facing workers and job creators and it sets policies that have a widespread impact on our nations economy, Retirement Security and more. Where had they relate to health care, retirement planning, or employee wages and benefits, its the responsibility of this committee to insure these policies are in the best interest of workers, employers and taxpayers. Ive said it before but ill say it again n
Bargaining rights, retire savings programs, and Employer Health insurance coverage, Family Planning services and contraception. A a quorum quorum is present. The committee is order 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 and it sets policies that have a widespread impact on the nations economy, employment growth, Retirement Security and more. Whether they relate to healthcare, Worker Protections reeker timer planning, Work Force Development or employee wages and benefits, its the responsibility of thi
Does the Administration Support the threshold set by the Obama Administration and supported by worker advocates, or does it support the business communitys position . Congressman, thank you for the question, and let me note at the outset, when we talk about the overtime rule, we tend to talk about it in the context of salary thresholds, but if you look at the law passed by this congress, this congress did not say whether or not you are exempt or not exempt, whether or not youre subject to overtime or not is set by a salary level. But it set a very different test. And so, the salary level is, in essence, a shorthand way of getting to the law. Now, a federal court looked at this, and the federal court said that the way the 47,000 was set and that level was not in accordance with the law. And so, its not simply do we support and you chose not to contest or appeal that decision. And you do believe that you have the authority to set the salary threshold, is that correct . And so, i was sayi
Conversation. At some point i asked him how do you deem your enemies . How do you classify your enemies . You always talk about your enemies, rivals, competitors. And he said there are two categories of foes. There are foes and traitors. Foes are those with whom you fight the war, against whom fight the war and then conclude armicist and then peace and then you divide what you conquer and then you start the war again. They are foes. And we look and see. Because these are people who were inside and then struck you from behind. I have no murzy for them. Mercy from behind. I said where am i . He said you are just an enemy. Whos barack obama . Translator i know he is a rival. He is a competitor. He is an enemy. And any american president is a rival in this black and white picture. He is a foe. One can fight if you look where there is so much tension over ukraine and sharp nationalistic turn in russian politics and sharp isolation of russia from the international community. Do you feel that
The technical means. The telephone bills, pictures video, records listening devices, they were everything is proven by the material and the elements that people who were arrested were those who killed and reported to president putin. The second level is for the organizers so there were perpetrators and organizers. The investigation delivered defined the people who this is also was proven by technical conversations filming and checking the bills but the organizers some managed to leave the country and some have immunity as the legislators of the russian government. And this is a complicated job because this moment the political element these people very close to the who publicly defends them and protects them both for the president and in the eyes of the public. Despite that the organizers were declared a search for the organizers and for those who are not legislators. Regarding i value such a person because if he did not exist in the case of when there was terrorist there was not there