Of your words and you can pause when answering questions so that we capture your complete response. Thank you very much and ms. Barnes, youre now recognized for five minutes. Ms. Bans, yrnes, you may have t unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted. Okay. Chairman pappas, chairwoman brownley, Ranking Member bergman, chairman takano, members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss gaos work for Sexual Harassment at the department of veteran affairs. I will talk about statements from my june report released last week. The protection board estimated that 22 of va employees experience some form of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va has several methods to address such Sexual Harassment complaints. But we found that the agency was falling short in a number of areas. Including one, its complaint structure, collection of incidents on Sexual Harassment and actions taken, and, three, provision in
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The speaker the house will be in order. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, madam speaker. And now mr. Speaker. By rejoining the Paris Agreement, President Biden has promised the world the u. S. Will retake its position in the fight against Climate Change and be true to its word to meet our commitments to reduce Greenhouse Gases and now it falls to us, it falls to congress to prof. The president right. Prove the president right. Despite the confused, disingenuous and false rhetoric around the Paris Agreement, in reality, it is catalyzing, measur
Welcome to the september 23, 2020, meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. Commission also present is deputy City Attorney brad russi who will provide the board with any needed legal advice this evening. Im julie rosenberg, the boards executive director. We will also be joined by a representative from the City Department that will be presenting before the board this evening. Scott sanchez, deputy Zoning Administrator for the Planning Department. The board requests that you turnoff or silence all phones and Electronic Devices so they will be disturb the proceedings. Appellants are given seven minutes each to present their case, and people affiliated with these parties must give comments during these sevenminute periods. Members of the public have three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. Our clerk will give you a warning 30 seconds before your time is up. If you have questions about the probable cause, please email board staff. To enable public participation, sfgovtv is
Cofounder of the robert h. Jackson center we are thrilled to have this opportunity to commemorate one of Justice Jacksons foremost opinions, if not his number one, West Virginia v. Barnett. We have history with individuals we will be interviewing. To kind of recap back in 2002, i believe, i tracked down marie and Lillian Barnett and had a chance down in the charleston area. I didnt know you knew what was happening but all of a sudden this guy with a camcorder tracked you down, went to a kingdom hall and had a chance to chat. You were gracious enough to put up with me. Some of the interviews you just saw in 2006, we had a chance to bring the barnett sisters here and together with our friends at cspan filmed a presentation with professor barrett that Robert Jackson biographer and bennett bossski, the law clerk for justice stone during the barnett case. That was really cool. And a few years ago i had the privilege, together with phil donahue you saw clips on, to meet judith and to intervi