Lawmakers walk through their starting legislative session. We will bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunities to serve other people in their need, to share together in respect and affection
To the capital, Senate Democrats work for American Workers rather than corporations and lobbyists. News part of the democratic economic general agenda they called a better deal. This is 20 minutes. Good morning. Thank you for being hit today. We believe in an america where people who work hard every day need to know that someone has there back in a global economy. If you are working in a factory or in a farm or on your phone, you should have confidence that our country works for you and the trade law works for you. You should have the confidence that we are exporting our products and out not our jobs. That is not the reality for a majority of americans. For too many American Workers and small businesses, the rules are rigged against them and that has to change. Many people are working harder and longer than ever but their jobs pay less in a race down to the lowest wage and another time in the world. To raises allow you your family and have a good life. That is why we are here today, of
Stops in virginia yesterday and an event scheduled in New Hampshire for tomorrow. Hurricane sandy is also causing some trouble with early voting. The lines stretched around some polling places ahead of the storm on saturday. Look at the line there. Fox 5s maureen umeh sat down with mark plotkin to talk about more on this. Reporter fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin joins us now to talk more about the impact of sandy on voting. I didnt know i was going to be the weather man. Early voting being compromised because of this. How will this affect the race . You know that governor romney canceled a trip to virginia beach. That is a very pivotal area that republicans thought they would immediate to do well in and any visit there delayed or postponed obviously hurts a candidate. He is going to ohio. So is president obama. In terms of the eastern coast, North Carolina really is going to go romney. I dont think it will be affected but the only real state is virginia. That one will be affected
Something i was working on when i was at collaborative that was necessary innovative is not an act worthy ever continuation we must find ways to insure that people are supported you must be willing to reexamine the regulations that in times of crisis protects the vulnerable that legislation not only protects the Housing Stock but sending a message to those who seek to personally gain the jig is up the mission stands behind those changes and considering you have at me as a cory think things will change thank you. Thank you next, i have tim. clapping. hi, everyone thank you for being here and thank you to supervisor Peskin Office for leading this charge of it and i just want to say especially in these times in San Francisco is committing ourselves to be a skaurng city if you make laws you have to update them we are going to keep the laws as is for example, if you believe in the alternative that those hotels will build more units if they rent them out you can look at the hearing what will
Public education we need it for everyone and in that light we mentioned how the survey and had so many responses 11 hundred responses what can San Francisco Unified School District do to help keep you as an employee in the district out of that ill not mention a i will mention a couple of negatives nothing ive returned i had enough and another person said this is one of the worst district in california im wearing a tshirt San Francisco 210 east statements are on the fast side ill hope in light of what williams talked about well be constructive how to come up with better pay for San Francisco and our students . Another one of the statements what can the district do to help me to stay here value me as an employee period that value can come with heir pay most definitely address that like crazy but is a babblsabbat please consider what we have said tonight. Good evening commissioner Vice President walton im carolyn the u a sf for paraprofessionals and a special paul rivera k through 8 there