Come back to and knowing that i had a Supportive Office again made all the difference so this kind of flexibility it critical. Im also a single mom with a kid in college. Ive been raising him for the last 20 years so i started out working part time and ive always worked parliament and had a lot of flexibility. Im a child of the 60s so ive had the ability to be there and watch him grow up and still he work a professional line of work. So thats kind of the introduction. I dont a usually talk about myself and thats where this legislation came from. You have with you im sorry theres legislation already on the book. In 1998, 15 years ago San Francisco adopted the human rights treaty for womens and girls that San Francisco has funded and adopted. Part of the legislation actually calls for paid leave which we did in 2003 by giving paid leave to parents with when they have a child and this legislation specifically mentions family to where possible fund the Work Life Balance. Part of what were
Quorum call mrs. Murray mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray mr. President , i come to the floor today to introduce the military and veteran Caregiver Services improvement act. Mr. President , this is a bill that will make really critical improvements to how we support our why i am and injured veterans our ill and injured veterans and their caregivers. And i am especially pleased to be joined by our former colleague, senator Elizabeth Dole, who has come here on the floor and has been such a tremendous and invaluable person in working to bring these caregiver issues to national attention. And i really appreciate her being here and being such a champion on this and a leader. She has brought people from all over the country together to make a difference for our caregivers and for our veterans. We also have many of the very caregi
Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , two weeks ago, the New York Times accomplished an article on Congressional Democrats plan for the rest of the year. It boiled down to one thing campaigning. Thats right, eight months out from the election, democrats in congress have given up on legislating. Instead, theyre going to spend the next eight months focused on show votes which will and i quote from the story be timed to coincide with campaignstyle trips by president obama. End quote. While these he votes wail focus on quote pocketbook issues democrats hope will appeal to voarkts, the votes arent designed to accomplish anything. The democrats concede, the times goes on to say that making new laws is not the point. Rather, theyre trying to force republicans to vote against them, end quote, thats
Part of our seed a outreach weve department the guidelines for city departments to do a gender analysis of their policies. And when we did the first 6 which we in in 1999 and 2000 we had a reoccurring theme that say Family Friendly balance. Like the juvenile Station Department had male officers who were concerned about childcare and did you want probation had a program and it saved them money theyve been doing this for 10 years been tell commuting. One of the themes was Work Life Balance. So to understand battery what this meant we conducted a study and 41 city and county departments responded to that study. Here its on our website id be happy to give you a copy. Before we got started on that study it was a different environment. The city had a structured 8 to 5 you kind of view. We actually lost one of our best analysis people she had a child and left. We were also met with tremendous resistance from the City Attorneys Office to do this study. That was pre911 when tell culminating wha
Had a reoccurring theme that say Family Friendly balance. Like the juvenile Station Department had male officers who were concerned about childcare and did you want probation had a program and it saved them money theyve been doing this for 10 years been tell commuting. One of the themes was Work Life Balance. So to understand battery what this meant we conducted a study and 41 city and county departments responded to that study. Here its on our website id be happy to give you a copy. Before we got started on that study it was a different environment. The city had a structured 8 to 5 you kind of view. We actually lost one of our best analysis people she had a child and left. We were also met with tremendous resistance from the City Attorneys Office to do this study. That was pre911 when tell culminating what is a dirty word. In particular one of the things we found is those are the benefits. There werent a lot of people that were using it. There was a stigma. This was the response from