[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to our witnesses, several of whom have traveled the considerable distances to be here today for this important hearing on paid family and medical leave. Before we move to our scheduled committee business, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the recent tragic passing of pamela moomau, a valued member staff of the staff of the joint committee on taxation for over 28 years. A reminder, again, of the considerable talent that exists sometimes outside of the glare of publicity. Pamela began her career at the joint committee on taxation in may of 1991, and over the years applied her skill on many legislative issues, both large and small. Her colleagues on the joint committee on taxation have said that pam was tireless in her dedication to the work of the joint committee, and that she readily accepted projects that were analytically difficult and often data deficient. She was in her office cheerfully worki
speech when it happens. and andrzej duda bringing the president to the capital amid the ongoing war next to his country. and as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, ki proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. this is hours after vladimir putin delivered his own state of the union, state of the nation speech trying to blame the u.s. somehow for the war in ukraine and you remember of course, it is russia who invaded country a year ago today. and russia would suspend their participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty as it is known, and russia is already not in compliance and the question is what this means going forward and will russia perhaps break the limit on nuclear warheads set by that treaty, and we begin in warsaw where president biden is going to speak. phil mattingly is there, and cnn national correspondent is there in hkharkiv, and this is not to be a response to putin s speech, and what is the president s mess
dominican. the clerk tried to take back the chips, the woman became enraged and got her boyfriend. and the boyfriend austin simon had a long history of violent crime, spent at least three years in prison for assault. most recent parole expired last may. simon had no apparent job but he was wearing a $300 designer t-shirt and a gold earring. he was extremely angry, furious. simon threw him into a wall and leaned down and screamed in his face. when the older man stood up, simon grabbed him by the neck. here s a local news account describing what happened next. surveillance video shows 37-year-old austin simon push the clerk behind the bodega counter and then stand over him. moments later, a struggle ensues and the two wrestle in the clerk stabbed simon multiple times. these have late friday night in the convenience store off west 140th street. police were called prayer and assault in progress, found simon with two stab wounds in his chest and when his next. tucker: that was
A people. He will sign up at noon today and the author of revolution, you can have your book signed. It has been such a pleasure. [applause] now more of the 2023 library of Congress National book festival. Joining us here on the set, his book radical sawyers lawyers are destroying americas community. What is a rogue prosecutor . We have defined the prosecutor as not just any one of the 23 on across the country we may disagree with but somebody who is specifically funded by Political Action committees or those in that orbit so there are about 75 in the country. When i mean funded, i mean 60, 70, 80 of the money they raise came directly from those so a narrow subset. A couple things you look at in your book include larry krasner, if the voters didnt want them in office, they wouldnt be in office. Thats right. This is a movement that started in 2016 and commenced people they need to reform and reimagined criminal Justice System and we are all for criminal Justice Reform but what happened