Make a statement in parliament. Making a splash the swimmers braving winter waters to help scientists in the battle against dementia. Good afternoon. The Welsh Government has announced is its introducing a Short National lockdown. What theyre calling a firebreak will begin at six oclock on friday evening and will run until the 9th of november. People in wales will be asked to stay at home and all nonessential retail will close. Pubs, bars and restaurants will be restricted to Takeaway Service only and households cannot mix in any location. The first minister Mark Drakeford said the objective was to break the chain of infection. Our wales correspondent tomos morgan has the details. As autumn turns to winter, theres a sense of deja vu in wales today as the prospect of another National Lockdown becomes a reality. We know that, if we do not act now, it will continue to accelerate and there is a very real risk that our nhs would be overwhelmed. Over the weekend, the cabinet of the Welsh Gov
Allow their employees to be able to help out as poll workers on election day and then to have sufficient training. Your report also talked about importance of access the information in languages other than english, including outlets in other languages, outreach to nonenglish media outlets, bilingual poll workers. I know weve made some effort in minnesota with voters with asian and Pacific Islander groups, and why our efforts so important . Want to stress, that the broader theme that the commission struck, and i think its well within its charge, is improving the Voter Experience for language minority voters to go to the polls and to find that theres nobody there to help them who can speak the language successfully. It is simply not consistent with our been the kind of experience to all of our voters, that all of our voters deserve. And as we pointed out, there is support by federal law, this congress has tendered to these voters and the statutes that provide for this protection are not
Galleries that are watching their behavior adequately, they stay on even long after theyve become ineffective and not noteworthy to the court anymore. There are all these dangers of how you keep that focus and how you keep that task properly done. Make the case for why you all should be the oversight in the context of those dangers. I think we have not suggested that we should be the oversight for the because i know some have suggested that we be the body to appoint the members, a pool of special advocates or appoint a special advocate. We intentionally did not recommend that in part because we have an oversight function of the im sorry, i misunderstood. I thought that was your suggestion. No. We recommend that the court choose from private attorneys to act as special advocate and then there be reporting as to when the court exercised its jurisdiction to bring those parties in. How do you avoid the pet lawyer or the synicure effects in that circumstance . We thought long and hard about
Now a Senate Panel Examines the federal Highway Trust Fund which is expected to run out of money in august of this year. Chamber of commerce ceo Thomas Donohue told congress to gradually increase the gas tax to cover the shortage. Aflcio president Richard Trumka testified at this hour and 45 minute Public Works Committee hearing. Good morning everybody. Its so good to see you all here. This is such an important issue that we are discussing today. We are focusing on the maintaining federal funding for transportation, maintaining federal funding. That is what is at stake here for transportation. Ensuring the longterm solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and averting a major crisis later this year. We will hear from our witnesses who are National Leaders representing businesses, states and workers who build, maintain and utilize our Transportation System. I am so pleased to once again welcome tom donohue from the u. S. Chamber and richard sub one from the aflcio. I at least feel when they a
Difference. We know that its been woefully lacking information concerning criminal records. Only eight states that really supply the vast majority of information in that system. So i think that alone is going to make a jay or difference. You are talking about the administrative part. The president talked about the fact that its going to be up to the people. What can you do in your own community . What do you do now . On a personal level, certainly communicating back home in philadelphia what the president has laid out. Just yesterday as you may know, i talked about a set of principles the sandy hook premises we will be following in philadelphia trying to change and influence corporate behavior and business practices, gun manufacturers, distribute toirs and retail ters. This will be a topic of conversation at the u. S. Conference of mayors. So mayors from all across america, small, medium and large cities will be joining this effort to move forward with regard to what the president has