Today in a legislative hearing to hear testimony on h. R. 2694 the pregnant workers fairness act. I note for the subcommittee that ms. Bass of georgia and mr. Cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in todays hearing. Members who sit on the subcommittee and our present shall have First Priority to ask questions followed by members who sit on the full committee and only after all Committee Members who are present have gone show members who are not on the committee asked questions. Pursuant to Committee Rule seven Opening Statements are limited the chair the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from her witnesses in her and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions that i recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. As a a mom and a policymaker hih know how important it is to havo Economic Security. Unfortunately our current laws aree inadequate in many pregnant workers are placed on unpaid leave or forcedd out of work whn they only need a
Marissa mayer is she was hired to be a coder at google. She was hired to be someone who literally makes the programs. Her first big project was supposed to be like googles first ad delivery system, you know . Google makes billions and billions of dollars off of ads, and she was going to make the first one. And it was taking her months and monthses and months to do. Google went out and hired someone named jeff dean and this sort of shocked the industry because jeff dean is a superstar. Hes really known for being one of the best coders on the planet. And he did the project that meyer had been work on in a matter of weeks. And mayer, you know, to her credit sort of looked at this and said is, you know, she loved working at google and she said im not going to make my mark at this company by being a coder. Is so she said what else can i do. So she sort of threw herself at whatever problems the company had. You know she actually got involved in pr and marketing and all sorts of strange thing
As well as the 80th anniversary of Social Security. In july, the white house conference on aging held a forum on the role and support for caregivers in the United States and Financial Planning and saving for retirement. The white house has held this conference each decade since the 1960s to address ways to improve the quality of life for Older Americans. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. From the smiles that im seeing on your faces here, you share the awe that this day presents. We are privileged. We are a privileged few who are not only at the white house, the very center of the planning and strategy for the planning of our nations future but we are also those who have been chosen to focus our knowledge and our experience on the challenging that longevity has presented itself in our nations future. That is quite a dramatic challenge, you all are aware of that. But im convinced that we are all up to the task before us that we have today. I served as a delegate to the 196
Presents. We are privileged, we are a privileged few, who are not only at the white house, the very center of the planning strategically for our nations future, but we are also, those who have been chosen, to focus our knowledge and our experience on the challenges that longevity has presented itself am our nations future. That is quite a dramatic challenge, you all are aware of that. But im convinced that we are all up to the task before us that we have today. I served as a dell fwat to the 1961 white house conference. [ applause ]. Egate to the 1961 white house conference. [ applause ]. Thats why thats why im hanging on to the rails. [ laughter ] there are over 3,000 delegates at that time. We werent privileged to be in the white house. We were serving is the white house. We were divided into 13 specific sectional areas and a we had great discussions. As a matter of fact, although the convictions were strong, maybe thats not the word, i should say they were passionate, but delegates
And nothing to do with it when its not. We will showers and gusty winds to go along with that. Lets see whats happening now. Temperatures in the upper 40s, low 50s as you step out the door. For the kids heading out to the bus stop this morning, you dont need the umbrella until later today. We will start to see spotty showers. It is all about the cool weather and the patchy fog. Cloudy skies. Only a few peeks of sun. It is coming up in a few minutes. Has the crash cleared from the peninsula . Highway 101 cleared over in belmont. Easy drive. As the commute starts to build heading across the san mateo bridge. Heres the south bay. Move over here. East bay travel times. 680 down to pleasanton. This should be yellow. The color went away. South through hayward. 238 to highway 92. A look at the south bay. Thats your typical pattern. Wednesday, a lighter flow of traffic. Were right time. Thats the activity by east ridge. Thats right. A developing story were following out of the south bay. Sever