Speaking with our cspan viewers this evening. Thank you for having me. Thank you for your calls and comments on how the government should regulate ecigarettes. We appreciate the input and the calls. Zp coming up on cspan president obama announces plans to move immigration resources to handle the influx of unaccompanied minors at the border. And then the Supreme Court oral rgument in the case of burwell v. Lobby, and later president obama introduces his nominee to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary. On the next washington journal a look at the Supreme Courts ruling on the contraception mandate in the federal Health Care Law. Our guests are ed whelan from the ethics and Public Policy from and Elizabeth Wydra the hobby center. And crate whitlock on the yearlong investigation of the safety of american drone use. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Tuesday, iraqs ambassador to the u. S. Speaks about
Forces are active inside Eastern Ukraine and russian financing is very active inside Eastern Ukraine. Thank you all. President obama is going to announce his pick to head the Veterans Affairs department, replacing eric shinseki, who resigned last month. Will be Robert Mcdonald, a former executive at Procter Gamble. We will be live here on cspan with the announcement expected in about a half an hour from now at 4 30 eastern. Burnish Prime Minister David Cameron reported to the house of commons today about his meetings last week with European Union leaders. The eu is set to elect its next resident of the commission in july. They have decided to nominate a person Prime Minister cameron have has opposed. This is about one hour. We will show you as much as much as we can before the president s announcement. I would like to make a statement on the European Council. Let me briefly report back on two other points. First, the council began in april with a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniv
As you can see, were live outside of the u. S. Supreme court where the high court is expected to hand down decisions into key cases. One deals with the case involving the craft store chain, hobby lobby, at a Furniture Store in pennsylvania. They are in opposition to certain types of contraception for their employees because it violates their religious beliefs. Hobby lobby say they have a number of factors in their favor. They cite the tone of the oral argument that took place in march and the Court Decision last week, finding that the president overstepped his bounds when he made recess appointments. Key Court Decision being released today is when dealing with the requirements of Company Employees who are not members of unions to pay union dues. Home healthcare workers fill it is unfair for them to collect fees from workers who are not union members. Aey feel that they negotiate contract for all employees, so they should share the cost. These are live pictures outside of the Supreme Co
Should be applied uniformly across all employers. Heres, respectfully, why i dont think that that works, which is i think the question whenever there are exemptions in the statute is to ask yourself, do the exemptions undermine the compelling interest that the government asserts. Theres nothing inconsistent with an interest in prohibiting employment discrimination to say were going to focus on the people who actually employ the most people and therefore can engage in the most discrimination. Its quite a different matter, and i dont think anybody would think that congress would pass a title vii that said, hey, as long as you have a preexisting discriminatory policy, youre allowed to keep it. That doesnt seem like it would be consistent. Counsel, your attorney, one of the attorneys below, on behalf of your clients admitted that the grandfathered policies werent going to be around very long because any change to an existing policy and he said these changes happen on a yearly basis. And we
Democrats. It includes west and northwest suburbs such as schomberg, bloomingdale, elgin, streamwood and a small portion of chicago. A couple of quick notes before we begin tonight. We are being streamed live on our web site wttw. Com and you can join a live chat. Give a question for the candidates you can ask if there and note the format tonight. Tonight. This is not a formal debate part of the candidates will not give opening or closing statements. Their answers will not beat timed and they will not necessarily be asked the same questions. I will use fairness as my guide to move the discussion along and we asked the candidates to stay on topic and not give campaign speeches. Now joining us us tonight seated in the order that they appear on the ballot are Tammy Duckworth, democrat who is the former director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and former United States assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs. Ms. Duckworth previously ran for conversate 2006 and she also serve