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
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Spkr. Pelosi good afternoon everyone. On behalf of the u. S. House of representatives, indeed the congress of the United States, i think the Spanish Government for its leadership in combating the Climate Crisis. Now prime just minister president sanchez convention the u. N. On Climate Change here in spain. Build aaid we must Global Economy this prosperous, fair come a ecological and socially just peered we complete their grade. I also want to commend the government of chile, president cop 25 foridt of leadership in putting together the conference of the parties 25. It is exciting for us to be here. Copsome it is the first meeting. My first one was called earth summit in 1992 in rio, brazil. We had certain goals than. Clearly we have not met them. We will meet the goals of this ,. In august i 25 was honored to represent in france with the g7 has a parliament where we focus on parliament committed to the oceans. I am so pleased that this cop 25 has this blue ocean priority. Lead thisivil
The secretary madam speaker. Im directed by the president of the United States to deliver to the house of representatives messages in writing. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postponefurther proceedings to suspend the rules on which the the yeas and nays are ordered or votes objected to. The house will resume proceedings on the postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Takano i move the house suspend the rules and pass h. R. 4625 as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title the clerk a bill to amend title 38, United States code, to require that educational institutions abide by certain principles as a condition of approval for purposes of the Educational Assistance programs of the department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. Takano, and the gentleman from tennessee
Vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by fiveminute votes on adoption of the conference report if ordered, and suspending the rules and passing h. R. 4323. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 191. The nays are 236. The motion is not adopted. The question is on adoption of the conference report. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Neal i ask for the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electron