House of two bills dealing with Sexual Harassment in congress. Heres some of the debate. Gentleman is recognized. Mr. Harper mr. Speaker, a little more than three months ago you tasked the committee on the House Administration with a great responsibility to undertake a comprehensive review of the training, policies, and mechanisms to guard against Sexual Harassment in the Congressional Workplace. I believe that the legislation were considering today, h. R. 4924, the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 reform act, and immediately following that the House Resolution together respond to this great task. At the outset id like to thank the speaker of the house, paul ryan, for his leadership on this issue and the trust he placed on our committee to conduct this important review. Id also like to thank and work done the on the committee on the committee on House Administration, thrick the Ranking Member, mr. Brady, he has been a great friend and colleague over o the last decade and i appr
Just process and congress and would require members to repay claims. His tuesdays 50 minute here is tuesdays 50 minute debate. Three months ago you tasked the committee on the House Administration with a great responsibility to undertake a comprehensive review of the training, policies, and mechanisms to guard against Sexual Harassment in the Congressional Workplace. I believe that the legislation were considering today, h. R. 4924, the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 reform act, and immediately following that the House Resolution together respond to this great task. At the outset id like to thank the speaker of the house, paul ryan, for his leadership on this issue and the trust he placed on our committee to conduct this important review. Id also like to thank and work done the on the committee on the committee on House Administration, thrick the Ranking Member, mr. Brady, he has been a great friend and colleague over o the last decade and i appreciate being able to work clos
In the workplace. I believe the legislation we are considering today, the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 reform act and immediately find to. Mmediately following that i would like to thank speaker putting trust in us to conduct this review. I would like to take time to appreciate the work done by our conference chair Cathy Mcmorris rodgers. I would also like to thank every member of the committee on House Administration, particularly mr. Brady who has been a great friend and colleague over the last decade and i appreciate being able to work closely with them on this. This reflects the dedication and commitment of a Bipartisan Group of members including andesentative burns representative do each others. I also want to thank representatives disantos and chris smith for the work theyve done on this bill. There is no place for Sexual Harassment or any type of house oft in the u. S. Representatives. It is no secret the culture on capitol hill is unique. While there are hundreds of
Federal government and related agency until march 23rd, live house the floor of the here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. Bless the members of the Minority Party as they prepare may her these next days, they with those who accompany them, travel safely and meet in peace. Bless also the Majority Party as they may to their those return constituencies, give them hearts and ears to listen. To listen well to all those whom they represent. May the work that needs to be done to their presently result progress toward addressing the needs of the nation to the benefit of all. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and lrry glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journ
Well also join the conversation on the issues in the campaign with the panel of political on ultants, live coverage span 3. Representative Debbie Wasserman schultze. Thank you for being with us. Youre welcome. How much of this convention have you been watching so far here in cleveland . Well, i thinf it. Enough to see how divisive and feminist the rhetoric has been divisive and venomous the rhetoric has been. Enough to see how uncomfortable speaker ryan was, so much so that he was really unable to wholeheartedly embrace or support donald trump, or even speak his name more than twice during his remarks. You can see throughout the whole tenor of the convention that they are really training all of their messaging against Hillary Clinton, and really doing nothing to lay out their own vision. Was the theme of make america work again, and they laid absolutely no policy out on how they would create jobs or anything to continue to move the economy forward. That will be in stark contrast to wha