Committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a vereces of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing is convened regarding the administration ee administrations attack on the aca. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. We are hear today because of on march 25th, 2019, the Trump Administration filed a two sentence letter with the United States court of appeals with the fifth circuit reversing its own previous position in the case of texas versus United States and asserting for the first time that it would not defend any portion of the Affordable Care act in the court. If the Trump Administrations position prevails and the entire aca is struck down, there will be catastrophic implications for millions of americans in the entire United States Health Care System. Ive often said that voting for the Affordable Care act was the most important vote of my career. And let me tell you why. When Congress Passed the aca in
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
Priorities including overtime rules, training and apreniveship programs, collective bargaining rights, retirement programs and accessibility of other employment benefits. The House Education Committee held this hearing last month. The quorum being present, the committee on education 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 e
So why isnt it easier to finance these huge need for infrastructure and that someone unless countries. What is the seem to be a kind of chronic i would not useecular stagnation but the difficulty in getting the firms that actually exist to do their work. And anything and anything else you want to say. Thank you. Thank you for a very inspirational talk. I do think you know, when the music changes and you have a different dance i have different dances that come out of this dance around infrastructure spending. The reserve has shown that we had a long time for the public capitol stock essentially infrastructure has come down as a percent of gdp in low income countries, Something Like 40 percentage points, 20 25 years . So it is not a shortterm phenomenon that Infrastructure Investment i think it has been a longterm phenomena. We have tried to rely for a long time on the private sector, private business to deliver the infrastructure and i think now what we are realizing what is really impo
Action once they heard this video existed. Theyre just sitting back and hoping that the truth never came out. Reporter yeah, come back live, josh doesnt want to go back to school. Mom said shed worry about sending him at all. Except for the first day this happened with the assistant principal nobody from the school board has reached out to her. I did email state police to ask them why this could was charged with offensive touching. I asked if they even saw the video we just showed youd before they decided on the charges, still waiting to hear back from state police. Were live in camden, delaware. Several new discoveries tonight. Police are trying to nail down whether anyone else was with Stephen Paddock. Garage records show when his car left the garage, someone used his key card. A Chicago Hotel manager says paddock became forceful and demanded a room with a view of the lalapalooza festival last august. The windows from which Stephen Paddock opened fire on thousands of concert goers ar