Record as she answered questions. It included Vaccine Mandates, apprenticeships, and child labor abuses. [background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time the committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary su, i want to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. When you would not appear in may we honor your request to appear in june. Using a day, june 7, that was offered by your staff and to which you agreed. We have been more than accommodating to establish a mutual date for this hearing. So why is it that on late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a
Dedicated staff here at George Washington university, to our media partners, cbs news and sirius xm, at our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in in a seriy the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agree to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two mccready is the genesis of the senate project came from to make u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but look for Common Ground. You will be hearing from store tom daschle in just a moment, with more on the relationship and what it meant for the senate as ann institution and for our country and all of us. I also had the privilege of calamity with senators kennedy and hats during my time as education secretary during the g
Is a two island countries separated by 3 miles of water. It was the island but got a full eye of the hurricane. Hurricane. Her mouth was 375 miles wide when it arrived. There were 62 square miles and its smaller than washington, d. C. , so you could imagine dusting of 220 miles an hour as a category five hurricane plus. It devastated everything. At the end of the passage there wasnt a single building left standing that was structurally sound and all of them were dangerous to enter. The only reason we didnt have more than one fatality on the island is because people heeded the government forming and had gone into a shelter, which fortunately was Strong Enough to sustain them during the night. We lost one life, a small boy,s toddler who was in his guardians armguardians arms as running to the shelter having left her house too late because as you know, people like to remain until the last moment but the wind literally sucked the child out of her hands, tossed him into the air and the next
States and cuba. The Trump Administration announced a series of regulatory changes designed to partially roll back the Obama Administrations strategy of maximizing engagement with the people of cuba. A few months from now cuba will undergo a historic leadership transition while reckoning with a more abundant economy, demographic challenges, and a relationship with the United States that is rapidly deteriorating as a result of President Trumps policy changes and still unresolved sonic attacks against u. S. Diplomats. In fact, the diplomatic drawdown in havana had a a direct impacn this event as a suspension of these the services in. Havana prevented us from bringing a speaker from cuba to purchase but in todays discussion. Nonetheless, to help us make sense of alle thats happened n recent months and assess what the future might bring for cuba and the unitedte states, cuba u. Relations, where privileged welcome to the dialogue three distinguished friends and colleagues with decades of ex
The end of the Trump Presidency . President trump has suggested he secretly recorded his conversations with comey. We will look at the fall of president Richard Nixon, whose secret tapes led to his resignation, and we will speak with former congresswoman elizabeth holtzman, the young number to several the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach net send. We look at Jeff Sessionss collation on the war on drugs. Going for, i have an hard our prprosecutors to charge and pure the most serious offense is i believe the law requires the most serious readily provable offense. Amy massive Hunger Strike enters its 28th day. We will speak to the son of strike leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been imprisoned in israeli jails for over 15 years. He has been called the palestinian nelslson mandela. My father come along with 1700 palestitinian political prisoners, start of the Hunger Strike for freedom and dignity in demand of humanitarian Living Conditions in prison. Amy all of that and more,