Joey jones and greg gutfeld. It is 5:00 right here in new york city. Ththis is the five nearly 40 dae of silence leading up to 20inuts six total minutes of air time. In an interview last night for vice president harriirtimeviewsa running mate, tim walz, they sat down with cnnll for their first big media interview since replacing biden on the democratic ticketervieet. Harris claimed her values have not changed this when she was presses haved. D why she has done an about face on some major voter issues like fracking. Take a listen. Do you still want to ban fracking? no. And i made that clear on the debate stage 2020 thatwo i would not ban frackingno as vice president. I did not ban fracking. As president, i will not ban king, as inot ba back in 2024. Eo and i ve not changed that position, nor will i going forward. Change t or wii kept my word anp my word. What made you change that positio n at the time? well, let s be clear. My value let ss have not changec well,king harris, is fracking
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Of your words and you can pause when answering questions so that we capture your complete response. Thank you very much and ms. Barnes, youre now recognized for five minutes. Ms. Bans, yrnes, you may have t unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted. Okay. Chairman pappas, chairwoman brownley, Ranking Member bergman, chairman takano, members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss gaos work for Sexual Harassment at the department of veteran affairs. I will talk about statements from my june report released last week. The protection board estimated that 22 of va employees experience some form of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va has several methods to address such Sexual Harassment complaints. But we found that the agency was falling short in a number of areas. Including one, its complaint structure, collection of incidents on Sexual Harassment and actions taken, and, three, provision in
Remember that year . I know you know but for those who dont that was the introduction of the iphone. Literally it changed the way we use devices with those multimedia functions and it enabled and opened up several doors of opportunity for us to have this conversation today. But on a regulatory front which is more in line with your question in that 1980s the fcc launched its first cell phone spectrum ban and through a series of those decisions, based on that we are now seen and that marked the global, mobile revolution. Of course, revolution often happen in different phases at different stages. So now in terms of mobile revolution or evolution we are talking about the sixth phase in some ways but not in all communities and thats another topic for another time but the fifth wave or evolution when it comes to mobile phones. What we saw around the third wave or so is these devices becoming smaller, more nimble, less expensive and more ubiquitous so you have the pop up of a lot of these ver
Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic north have been thrown into detention camps where they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced sterilization. These atrocities are horrific, and the congress has acted to hold perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the uighur human rights policy act. We must not stop there. The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form of abuse. Forced labor, an abuse of human rights, which also has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide