A quorum is present and i know for the subcommittee and from florida and michigan and texas and tennessee michiga michigan, kentucky, wisconsi michigan, kentucky, wisconsin,. Pennsylvania, mr. Johnson of south dakota and pennsylvania they all have committed to participate in todays hearing that the questions will only come after the subcommittee of workforce protections on both sides of the aisle are present either in person or via remote participation due to House Resolution 965 and the accompanying regulations and had an opportunity to question the witnesses the subcommittee is meeting today for a hearing on examining the federal governments actions to protect workers from covid19 both in the hearing room and for those members participating remotely you will be kept muted as a general rule to avoid any unnecessary background noise members will be responsible for and muting themselves when they are recognized to speak or when they seek recognition a rollcall is not necessary to establ
Can prevent employees from joining together to file classaction muskets against the company. The court will decide if such contracts violate section seven of the National Labor relations act. This oral argument is just over one hour. This courts cases provide a well tried path for resolving such claims. Because of the clarity that faa lamotte yield in the face of a contrary congressional demand and the tie goes to arbitration. Applying this principle to section seven, the result is clear that the faa should not yield. Is that a concession that this is a concerted action . I dont know that it is a concession. That premiseted for the opinion of the court. I think he would say the concerted activity protected by section seven at most gets them to the threshold of the courthouse. But section seven is directed to. He workplace it protects the right to name a place to decide if they want to initiate action. That is not an issue here as i understand it. Dont object to arbitration, but what we
The Bush Administration pursued a policy of detainee mistreatment that since has been acknowledged to include torture of detainees. And the process that got the United States of america into a place where it was torturing detainees was a Legal Process that was full of mistakes and failures by the office of Legal Counsel at the department of justice by mr. Bybee, by mr. Mr. Hugh and by following them mr. Bradbury. Lets start with just a word on the office of Legal Counsel. Within the department of justice, the office of Legal Counsel is seen as being the best of the best. The department of justice prides itself on attracting and training and perfecting the skills of the best lawyers in america. And as a United States attorney, i had the privilege of serving with a lot of absolutely spectacularly skilled lawyers and trial advocates just in the small rhode island u. S. Attorneys office and of working with others from the department of justice. And i have just a very, very high opinion of
Socialist city Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant. Then we speak to one of the lawyers leading the charge against trumps muslim ban. If you look at it and say, how in the world can he be trying to tie this to national barring when he is children from coming in to be reunited with their parents . Their parents are already living here, who are United States is distance and lawful permanent residents . Amy we will speak with matt adams. He is fighting an order from the department of justice that instructs his group to cease and desist from assisting unrepresented immigrants facing deportation. And the department of energy has declared a state of emergency at the Hanford Nuclear site here in Washington State. Storingfter a tunnel Radioactive Material collapsed, forcing hundreds of workers to take cover in place to avoid potential exposure. The excavator here that throughout the day will place scoop full after scoop full of soil into the collapsed portion of the tunnel, which is approximat
Argues this could be trump at his most dangerous. Her book in progress is titled, strongmen from mussolini to trump. We will also get response from socialist city Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant. Then we speak to one of the lawyers leading the charge against trumpps muslim ban. If you look at it and say, how in the world can he be trying to tie this to national barring when he is children from coming in to be reunited with their parents . Their parents are already living here, who are United States is distance and lawful permanent residents . Amy we will speak with matt adams. He is fighting an order from the department of justice that instructs his group to cease and desist from assisting unrepresented immigrants facing deportation. And the department of energy has declared a state of emergency at the Hanford Nuclear site here in Washington State. Storingfter a tunnel radidioactive material collapse, forcrcing hundreds of workererso tatake cover in place to avoid potential exposur