Cspan. Org and listen ton the free cspan radio app. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. Cspan was created for americas Television Companies brought to you by our cable and satellite providers. Ashington journal. Our national right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and start by reminding our viewers what right to work laws and what the foundation does. Guest our right to work law protects every workers right to join the union but would not contemplate workers being fired from their jobs for dues or fees to a organization, the labor union. 28 states have right to work laws on the books. One, missouri is being contested at this point and probably will wind up on the ballot in 2018. Over the past five years, six new states passed right to work laws and again, its very simple and protects a workers right to join or not join a labor union as a condition of employment. Host you mentioned right to work laws state a map on your website showing those states with right to work laws on the books. W
Ok, here we go, folks. Here he go. Here we go. Thank you for coming. I am david cook. Our guest today is richard trumka. This is his ninth visit with our group. We appreciate this prelabor day tradition. He followed his father and grandfather into the mines. He worked his way to Penn State University and earned a law degree. In 1982, at age 33, he was elected president of the line workers of america, the youngest person in history to hold that position. He served three terms as president. In 1995, he ran to be secretarytreasurer and became the youngest person to hold that job, one he held for 15 years. He was elected as president in september 2009 and we elected in 2013. Last year, he became a grandfather. Thus ends the biographical portion of the program. Now onto the breakfast mechanics. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging. No filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give us time to listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when this session end
This hearing will come to order. Good afternoon. I welcome all of you veterans, caregivers and advocates, especially my former colleague , senator Elizabeth Dole who has been an extranet advocate for military caregivers. Our military families, heroes in plain clothing are serving in americas cities and communities every single day. The effects of military service do not end with a tour of duty. For many veterans and their family, the journey sometimes extends for a lifetime. For some with both visible and invisible scars, the transition home is not easy. Recovery to can take decades. Along the way, mothers, fathers, wives, and other family members and friends step in to serve. Today we will focus on those who care for americans veterans. In the United States there are 5. 5 million military caregivers. These family members and loved ones provide care on a constant and routine basis to our veterans. They are often vital in assisting veterans to make the transition all the way home. Milit
[inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Good afternoon. I welcome all of you veterans, caregivers and advocates, especially my former colleague , senator Elizabeth Dole who has been an extranet advocate for military caregivers. Our military families, heroes in plain clothing are serving in americas cities and communities every single day. The effects of military service do not end with a tour of duty. For many veterans and their family, the journey sometimes extends for a lifetime. For some with both visible and invisible scars, the transition home is not easy. Recovery to can take decades. Along the way, mothers, fathers, wives, and other family members and friends step in to serve. Today we will focus on those who care for americans veterans. In the United States there are 5. 5 million military caregivers. These family members and loved ones provide care on a constant and routine basis to our veterans. They are often vital in assisting veterans to make the transiti
Well try to make this as reasonably short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So, people wonder what are we doing, what are we trying to accomplish . In january, the Intelligence Community unanimously said that the russians through their Intelligence Services tried to interfere in the 2016 american president ial election, that it was the russians who hacked podestas emails, it was the russians who broke into the Democratic National committee and was russians who helped empower wikileaks. No evidence that the russians changed voting tallies, how people were influenced by what happened, only they know and god knows, but i think every american should be concerned about what the russians did. From my point of view, theres no doubt in my mind it was the russians involved in all the things i just described. Not some 400 pound guy sitting on a bed or any other country. Russia is up to no good when it comes to democracies all over the world. Dismembering the ukraine, the b