Chain was paying this person effectively 1. 69 an hour because they were providing a 5. 60 hourly tip credit which was calculated to include a meal that they would throw in. Thats 1. 69 an hour. They claimed to satisfy the federal minimum wage of 7. 25 when you add the two together but in reality she absolutely was not making 5 and 60 cents an hour. They figure and tips and the fact that employer have the nerve to make her work 20 of her time on nontip work in the kitchen. 1. 69 an hour in america, 2015. This is an honest person working hard to make ends meet and i dont care who you are, theres something fundamentally wrong with that. We have a system that would take advantage of someone like her following the rules working hard only to make that person more wealthy. There is story after story of that happening in our country. While this may seem i can say that there is hope and it starts here. We are in a unique historic moment in the Progressive Movement. For the first time the donor
Background checks to make sure that they are able to handle a gun. We think there opportunities for awareness and education, not that it is mandatory, an opportunity for people to know how to handle weapons. We think there needs to be better education in our schools, big effort we have in our Education System is to make sure we dont have bullying that goes on. Violence starts at a younger age when we see bullying that is uncontained. Teaching goodteaching good values and good principles is a very significant part of the issue. It is not necessary, just new rules and regulations. My wife, the 1st lady, as a conference every year called up the families. Families of all kinds can come in and be taught parenting skills. Skills. If we teach our children is good values and good principles to reduce crime late and violence. Thats where i would start. The shortterm and longterm. Creating some some kind of a law prohibiting the procuring weapons. You were in the news recently when a federal jud
And unauthorized billing. This agency saved consumers nearly 3. 5 billion in fees and interest since its creation two years ago. We need to strengthen enforcement of these laws not weaken enforcement. Incredibly powerful Success Story of how enforcement can actually make a difference in peoples lives. By the way, this image is what you get if you google banker. That is that is not a shot from our office. So, i mentioned we tested a few other messages in this research. You can find all of this online at sensiblesafeguards. Org. But the piece together the negative consequences, the positive solutions, and then the reasons for it give us this message triangle. A couple other, you know, one of the other Success Stories was about product safety inspections, keeping millions of defective products out of the u. S. Market. I think it was 8. 2 million in 6 mo months. Very powerful. I want to underline the message at the bottom. The need case, the reason to do it Small Business and entrepreneurs
Particularly at sections 101 and 102, which deal with residency slots, the use of provisions of regulations that we feel strongly that these would be a positive aspect to allow us to develop more residencesy programs in va to have the potential to recruit residents from those programs to provide care for veterans. I think also looking at section 300, which deals with additional provisions that put Network Directors and Medical Center directors under title 38 and allow us to be more competitive as we recruit in all localities and address complexity challenges that are facing a number of our locations, these are all going to be very positive actions that will help us i think be competitive in the Health Care Market today. Im going to join as a cosponsor of this measure. I think it is absolutely vital and i thank to thank senator tester for his leadership. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator rounds, followed by senator tester. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I just wanted to followup also on senato
Clustering of states in the world where there wasnt a single democracy. And now according to Freedom House i think correctly judged there is a democracy in tunisia tunisia. Its transitional. It has elements of fertility. Things we should be concerned about. We shouldnt take it for granted and thats precisely my point. If i were an american policymaker i would be saying okay whats the economic agenda for embracing and lifting up this economy, for strengthening the state, for partnering with the Civil Society and political institutions. Youve got to start somewhere. This country is crucially important in an outsized way i think to the future of democracy and freedom throughout the world. The final thing is you know i really do believe and i think my colleagues agree we are really still in a very early days here in terms of the process of the struggle for, to use one of the arabic words, corona dignity throughout the region and this isnt going away. There are many historical events that a