On their own comprehensive pfas action plan. And we must listen to science rather than regulating new devices and dreams out of existence. Heres the bottom line. We cannot ignore the benefits that some pfas chemicals have given to humankind. I strongly urge the adoption of the balderson amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields. The gentleman from ohio is ecognized. I thank my friend for his words. Madam chair, i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Tonko i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from ohio is recognized. Thank you, madam chair. I am prepared to close. The chair the gentleman is recognized to close. Thank you. Madam chair, my closing statement would be the administration has demonstrated that one of its Top Priorities is the research and necessary regulation of pfas. Its ongoing commitment to Public Safety is
The issue of Water Infrastructure financing and Safe Drinking Water was the focus of the hearing of a senate and private and public works subcommittee. An arkansas resident talk to lawmakers about his families struggle getting access to Safe Drinking Water and the help he received from erode government assistance program. He was joined by local officials to brief members of the nations Water Systems. This is about one hour and a half. I called the suing of the subcommittee on fisheries and wildlife, fisheries water and wildlife to order we hear today to discuss the innovative financing and funding to address americas deficient Water Infrastructure. The purpose of this hearing is simple. Today we will be discussing americas approach towards Drinking Water and wastewater investment come wasteWater Infrastructure investment. Many members of this committee including myself often reference the American Society of Civil Engineers, a sce, infrastructue report card. Currently the a sce great a
And this is literally how political scientists think about war. This isnt really how it works. We dont really think that since cyberspace with her ever serious. We dont look them square in the face like this. And for those of you that dont know this is and we dont square off in the face and in fact we dont do good battles like fun battles in cyberspace. We hit below the belt. We do just enough to be irritating but not enough to trigger what we consider an act of war. And this is really telling so how do we figure out when all of these below the belt issues are coming out. It would be really nice if we had Something Like a dark mark from harry potter that told us when our networks were insecure, that all of our data would pop up on the screen. You are owned. The dark lord is coming. But we dont have any of this stuff. Its really hard to enforce our rights claims in cyberspace. This is where i think immanuel kant, is to the rescue. And we think about cyberspace and think about rights cla
Treatment. That has to be against the law. It doesnt matter whether the employer knows it too absolute certainty. Absolutely. In that situation what is relevant is the employers intent. If the employer intends to discriminate on the basis of religion, that is a title vii violation. But whats going on here is that the employer seeks to apply a religion neutral dress code. It makes religious practice the refusal to accommodate religious practice is itself a violation. And that was done deliberately, was it not . So that religious practices would have to be accommodated. Yes, your honor. Two points in response. First we are not contending that religious practices do not have to be accommodated. But what we are contending is that an employer did not intentionally discriminate on the basis of a religious practice by enforcing a religion neutral dress code. What the statute does is to say that if you are wearing a headscarf for religious reasons, that the neutral policy really doesnt matter
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 417. The nays are four. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the question on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 274. The nays are 138. There are three present not voting. The journal is approved. T