House, six years as mrs. Obamas chief of staff during the entire eight years, i also ran the White House Council on women and girls. And so theres a special place in my heart for women in the white house, where women in history or women as leaders our country, and how important it is to tell that story wherever it is and bring out that rich history. I was struck last night by the photo of the first steak dinner that we saw and how it was just a bunch of men gathered in the blue there and how things are now, but how we should uncover the stories because there were clearly women behind all those men standing in that picture as. There are women throughout history and through what were doing. And so that how we will the panel that we will have this morning to discuss this. And so let me introduce our panels. We have as our moderator, greta bronner, who is a host for cspan and executive producer for the affairs programing, joining her on stage on our panel. Be Amy Bracewell superintend of t
We might be looking for temporary funding for the Childrens Health insurance, may be a permit reauthorization. Funding for veterans, the veterans trace but program. And where from 2 4000000000 that addon to the cr. Democrats are pushing for dreamers are given temporary work permits for Illegal Immigrants were brought here for children. The current Expiration Date of government funding now that lawmakers gave two more weeks of government funding and move on friday. So congress clears an aversive shutdown for now, your article just before that article passed on thursday the leadership met with President Trump, what came out of that . That was a hard reset. A week earlier there had been an organized meeting between the white house and the big four, that is House Minority leader nancy posey. And Chuck Schumer in the senate. Theyre supposed to have a meeting earlier. President trump tweeted that he didnt see a deal as a result they canceled the parents. The recent meeting and getting everyb
The Judiciary Committee look on the order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing. I will begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for your first time in front of this committee, and thank you for your service to our country and your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that, at the very least, the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regarding the fbis impartiality first came to light under the Obama Administration su
Grateful nation we would like to thank them and commend them for their bravery. This attack underscores the need for congress to work with the president on Immigration Reforms that enhance our National Security and public safety. We must protect our borders we must ensure the individuals entering our country are not coming to do harm to our people and we must move to a meritbased system of immigration. Additionally, this attack comes as our Coalition Continues to make great gains against isis. Still, there is more work to be done on the ground in the shrinking isiscontrolled areas and the president s plan to annihilate isis is moving forward. We must also destroy the evil ideology that is behind isis and attacks like today. This ideology has no borders but it must be eradicated. The president has successfully rallied the world behind his cause, we will not stop until it is accomplished. With that, ill take your questions. Francesca. Reporter thank you. Wanted to ask you about the women
The workplace and other public spaces. This hmay be an issue that the committee will decide to look at more closely and more detail in this incredibly useful session today will help inform the inquiry as we take it forward. I can first start by thanking our witnesses on behalf of the committee for taking time out to be here and i know the preparation required to be here is significant. Thank you. The usual practice is that we have questions from committee members. Weve got a lot of ground to cover. I heigmight use my chairs abil to move things on if need be. Just before we start with the first set of questions, could you say your name and the organization you represent starting with claire. Im a professor of law at durham university. Im scarlet harris from the tuc. Im mark hamilton. Im michael conroy. Our first questions are from eddie. Good morning. When she visited the uk this 2014, the u. N. Special reporter on violence against women said the u. K. Had a boys club, sexist culture. D