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
And the workforce will come to order. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hearing. The committee is honored 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. It sets policies that have a widespread impact on our nations economy, employment growth, Retirement Security, and more. Whether they relate to health care, worker protections, retirement planning, Workforce Development, or employee wages and benefits, its the responsibility of this committee to am sure these policies are in the best interest of
Is so stunningly unpopular is that the president talks consistently during the campaign about repeal of Affordable Care act that wouldnt cause anyone to lose insurance. Promises were made over and over again that more people would be ensured after this process was finished than under the Affordable Care act. They confirmed again yesterday that 22 Million People across this country would lose their healthcare. It is with those getting their insurance through other means. There is a recent article in the atlantic which says how the gops Health Care Bill would Effect People ensured through work. It is fewer people would sign up and fewer would offer coverage. Millions of people would lose employer sponsored healthcare according to estimates. And so given the promises that were made by many of my colleagues and by the president himself i guess i have a Pretty Simple question for you. Do you think that the purpose of the outcome of health cancare reform should be to ensure more or less amer
What is being called the iiic summit which includes leaders from Central Europe the baltic states. He is expected to meet with the president s of poland and croatia. Then he goes to germany for the g 20 summit where he is expected to have his first facetoface meeting with russian president vladimir putin. Other leaders attending the g 20 include chancellor Angela Merkel of germany, president of china and Prime Minister of japan. Now labor secretary Alexander Acosta testifies about the president s budget request for his department. Missouri senator roy blunt, chairs the Senate Subcommittee hearing. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, education and related agencies will come to order. First of all good morning secretary acosta. Were glad youre here and appearing before this committee today to discuss your departments fiscal year 2018 budget request. As you know, the budget is significantly challenged in terms of the cuts in your department. I think the propo
[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co