[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
[background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America
Social security was much closer to going bankrupt and then it is today. The reason we have it today is the work the commission did, the surplus that was piled up in the intervening years until finally the baby boomer generation began to retire and are drying it down pretty rapidly. An opportunity to do that again, if we could reform Something Like that, we prevented this for three consecutive congresses by this president could be the person who saves Social Security, put it on firm footing and it would be done in a bipartisan way. My friend on the other side of the aisle are always concerned this means cutting but look what Ronald Reagan did with that commission was to bowe neil and Ronald Reagan the next year won reelection with 49 states and to bowe neil remained speaker of the house, you can do this in a bipartisan way as long as you are protecting the program because it is a popular program. The way they did it is gradually raised the age, i was 34, told me youre going to retire at
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Daughter. And. , gets ready for a blast of summer heat the weekend warmup and when we can see rain. Your news starts now. And we begin with that developing story in howard county. Tonight an allout manhunt for a prisoner who escaped from a van outside a Mental Hospital in jess up this morning. Im Sarah Simmons in for tony. Im shawn yancy. The prisoners name is david watson. He was serving a sentence of more than 100 years for attempting to Murder Police officers. Fox5 laurean is live in jessup tonight with the latest on this manhunt, la lauren. Sarah, shawn, its been more than twelve hours antesearch continues tonight. Police still operating under the possibility that david watson is somewhere here in this area outside the clifton tea perkins hospital. Look that 28yearold. Tattoos drop on his eye and new photos of tattoos on his body and world evil on the back of neck and on right arm watson his last name and left arm the number 187 which is slang for murder code and then the word cinn