I think it is our job as government to minimize that possibility and to bring out into some light was going on. If senator booker doesnt know that this is happening to him, he does now. And he doesnt like it. Nailed mccaskill really something that could not be responded to. So we will continue on this track. I think it is serious and i think that it is the dark underside of American Life in which people make a lot of money and cause a lot of people to thereforen more and have even lower selfesteem, which is not the america we want. This hearing is adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] on the next washington journal, the likelihood of places life afghanistan, syria, and iran becoming military hotspots in 2014. After that, Richard Norton smith talks about president obama second term in office and how other second term president s fared in the past. We will also look at your comments. Washington journal
The top news story of the year peter and your emails of the year. And your emails and tweets. Earlier this month, a makeover spoke aboutum a women in congress and why they believe there should be more. Held by politico, this is half an hour. Good morning, im a senior political reporter and i am delighted to be joined to my colleague who is our senior washington correspondent and an esteemed group of women who example five the topic of our conversation, the peacemakers. With us this morning we have a democratic congresswoman from hawaii, democratic senator from minnesota, a republican congresswoman from florida and a republican from missouri. Do not forget to tweet questions and comments using women inrule. Thank you for joining us for this conversation. We want to start the conversation with you senator, there has been talk about how ,omen in the senate get along bipartisan, they have dinners. How well do you know these women . We are really good friends. When people talk about how, in
Has there been an effort to have it translate to the other chamber and what kinds of chamber and what kinds of we are having it in the freshmen class. This weekreat dinner with the freshmen members from the democrat side of the aisle and the republicans. You how many bottles of wine we went through. And what we talked about was coming together, to get things done. Women are born networkers. Were born communicators. Multitaskers. Were solutionoriented. And i think there are lots of opportunities for us to come together and make things happen. Hats why i came to congress im somewhat discouraged with be level of dysfunction, to honest. And to the extent that we can be moving the change in ball forward, advancing things ,n behalf of our constituents and the country. Thats what we want to be a part of. Oldtimer, ive been here longer than many of you alive. En been we used to get along, used to women ate bipartisan dinners far more often than the etc. Of marge, so if they are still going on,
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[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] we already introduced our panel and we could not a greater number of leaders on these issues than we have here today. Each one of them is leading the charge in businesses and advocacy to make a huge difference and i just want to thank them for their decades of work. I want to start with joe. He is our chief executive officer from deloitte. I have admired what deloitte has done in terms of empowerment for women and knowing how important women in the workforce are and leading the charge in Corporate America to do extraordinary things. Research has repeatedly shown that one of the top concerns that women have is equal pay. Can you talk about the steps you have taken at deloitte to address this issue and why it matters to you . Why do you think it is a priority and why bother . Sure. First, thank you for having us. At the firm, we have 60,000 people. Half of them are women. So f