Benefits the people. Amy guatemalans celebrate in the street as the president Otto Perez Molina is jailed on corruption charges one day after he resigns from office. We will go to Guatemala City for the latest and speak to nobel peace laureate Rigoberto Menchu and journalist allan nairn. Then to chicago. A group of Chicago Public school parents, grandmothers, and education activists are entering the 19th day of a Hunger Strike. We will go to chicago to find out why. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In guatemala, expresident Otto Perez Molina has been jailed on charges of corruption only hours after he bowed to massive popular protest and resigned. In court thursday, prosecutors played wiretapped conversations they say show perez molina was part of customsfraud ring that pilfered tens of millions of dollars from the state treasury. Vice president Alejandro Maldonado has been sworn in as interim presiden
Benefits the people. Amy guatemalans celebrate in the street as the president Otto Perez Molina is jailed on corruption charges one day after he resigns from office. We will go to Guatemala City for the latest and speak to nobel peace laureate Rigoberto Menchu and journalist allan nairn. Then to chicago. A group of Chicago Public school parents, grandmothers, and education activists are entering the 19th day of a Hunger Strike. We will go to chicago to find out why. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In guatemala, expresident Otto Perez Molina has been jailed on charges of corruption only hours after he bowed to massive popular protest and resigned. In court thursday, prosecutors played wiretapped conversations they say show perez molina was part of customsfraud ring that pilfered tens of millions of dollars from the state treasury. Vice president Alejandro Maldonado has been sworn in as interim presiden
September. Mr. President , before we finish our business and senators return for the work period at home, i want everyone to know about whats going to happen when we come back. Following the august recess, were going to convene on september 8 and were going to be here for one week, two weeks, and two days. Thats it. September 23 is our target date to adjourn until after the election. I hope we can do that. This leaves us no more than as ive indicated two weeks and two days. Thats not a lot of time for the workload that we have to do. We need to pass appropriations measures to keep the government from shutting down. We need to pass temporary extension of the internet tax freedom act. We need to do something about, as i just mentioned, about exim bank. We have to do the Defense Authorization bill which is extremely important for the fighting men and women of this country. We are going to address the udall constitutional amendment on Campaign Finance reform. And were going to reconsider a
Narcotic on the market. And weve seen an increase in use just by the statistics that were presented by some of the panelists today. But are you adapting the department of transportation regulations or advisories to where we see the most risk . Weve got faa, federal railroad administration. National highway safety. Tell me if there have been any changes in directives in the last 24 months. There have not been any changes to our random testing rates but many of our employees are interstate. So if a pilot flies in and out of denver doesnt mean he or she lives anywhere near denver. Many of our employees throughout the different modes of transportation are not purely in one state. They operate across states. Again, i think we need to be preemptive in d. O. T. In protecting people. I had dinner the other night with a friend from florida. And asked him what he was going to do for a vacation. He says were putting it off a little and were going to go skiing. He said this is just in conversation
Have you changed any of those requirements . No, sir, we have not. Weve maintained under the regulations the the same old, same old. But see, thats my point. I think were you have to go to risk base when you are doing most of these approaches to try to ensure safety. And preemployment is one. Weve done that in the past. Were doing that. Now we have a new situation with much more of this available narcotic on the market. And weve seen an increase in use just by the statistics that were presented by some of the panelists today. But are you adapting the department of transportation regulations or advisories to where we see the most risk . Weve got faa, federal railroad administration. National highway safety. Tell me if there have been any changes in directives in the last 24 months. There have not been any changes to our random testing rates but many of our employees are interstate. So if a pilot flies in and out of denver doesnt mean he or she lives anywhere near denver. Many of our emp