Gavel back in. Take you live to the floor, and today work on a number of bills including legislation that would redefine the term joint employer to ensure that franchises and temp agencies are not held liable for the working conditions of employees. Also today, several bills on veterans medical care. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] cappingscappings. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offer bird the guest chaplain, chaplain michael j. Halliard, south texas veteran system, san antonio, texas. The chaplain merciful and loving god, source of life and constant guide to your people, we ask your blessings on our esteemed representatives as they continue to help govern a course for our nation and its citizens. In these days of disrepute and impropriety, keep them steadfast in their deliberations. Inspire them
Chaired a hearing. Senator rounds good morning. The subcommittee on superfund Waste Management oversight is meeting today to conduct a hearing entitled oversight of the u. S. Environmental protection agencys Superfund Program. We will hear testimony from witnesses with involvement in cleaning up superfund sites. They will discuss their expenses in working with the epa, state government, and local committees to clean up these sites as well as offer suggestions on how cleanups can be completed quicker and more efficiently while best utilizing taxpayer dollars. Since 1980, the comprehensive environmental sponsor of an Liability Act has been a cornerstone of our hazard Waste Management program. Superfund was enacted by congress to give the federal Government Authority to clean up contaminated and Hazardous Waste sites and is fun to oil spills and natural disasters. The program created a trust fund that is dedicated to cleaning up site and gives the agency to work with and responsible parti
Enough to run 10 miles. I could not do it, props for sure. One of the days you may want to stay longer in bed or good day to watch our newscast all morning long because we are under the gun for rain. The it is here. The it will continue throughout the morning and into the afternoon and pretty much entire week remains unsettled as we kick off the month of may. Let check out the temperature. 49 degrees. Light rain in the city with the overcast skies every where, light wind out of the east at 59 miles an hour. That keeps us cool. We will be stuck in the 50s. Storm scan three just lit up in green all across the region and it the is not a heavy rain but enough to slow things down and just that steady light nuisance rain all morning long. We may get a break from time to time throughout the afternoon but overall it is a rainy day. Steady rain during Morning Hours and may taper off to showers later today. Overall amount a half inch to threequarters of an inch through tonight. Watch out the for
Jumping around trying to stay warm. Many people have shed the out are garments which was keeping them dry. That was the big issue how to stay dry before the race. So they have, punchos, some people wore trash bags, putting tape on their sneakers trying to make sure that their feet do not get wet in all of this rain. Now, it is all going to start. They have taken off those clothes. A lot of them have water repellants hats on because key is not to get over heated as you run those 10 miles. Again, they will be running all the way down broad street 10 miles to the navy yard, lots of detours, along the race route, and the race will begin any minute now, 10,000 runners, they all have race bins with a race bibs with the special chip to allow them to determine their time during this race. Now all of them have their bibs on. People have thrown their clothes to the side. As you can see they are jumping around in anticipation. We have had cheers earlier. Lots of different teams. People running in
Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria hoff is at the Conference Center in olde city, the conference where organizers tell us the potential for profits really is sky high. Reporter even from up close, this appears like any other tech conference because, well, it is. This is an industry like any other industry that wants to operate in the open, that wants to operate with transparency. Reporter Medicinal Marijuana professionals melt in olde city for philadelphias first ever cannabis business conference with the focus on innovation. We provide equipment and solutions lighting. Werlighting. We allow patients to look at existing studies done on cannabis so they can understand how they can engage in that conversation with their doctor. Reporter this is two of more than a Dozen Companies represented today. All have been banking on expanding into pennsylvania and as of april 17th have now pulled the trigger. Marijuana is a tricky industry. Take what happened in new york for example. What happened