Beaten, worked up. Guest thanks for the kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book, i think about it as having three major parts after you sort of introduced the situation now, you do a really good job of talking about three stories about how workers struggle and built the middle class by organizing and bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding policy changes. And then you go through a lot of thhard times is what i call the reagan era that we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States who attacked workers a lot in their unions and then you telling the hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways and make some policy recommendations. A lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations i hope we get into that because you paid quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done to restore the voice of power and workers in this country
harris: she is a doctor and we have time to find out. [laughter] okay come americans are getting crushed as inflation hits its highest level in 40 years. now, they are turning to a last resort. long lines are back at food banks around the nation. in these images are so importunate. working americans finding it harder and harder to see their families now relying on handouts for the very first time. food banks are struggling to keep up with soaring demand, especially since federal programs are giving less food to distribute. and with the price of gasoline nationwide surging to $5 in june, it is harder than ever to make ends meet. it s come down a little bit smooth but the pressure point on our pocketbooks is high. and local charities come as you can see the largest food bank in houston is now handing out 600,000 pounds of food every day, that is up from 50,500,000. before we get lara trump s thoughts on all of this come i want to pause the show for a moment to tell you how yo
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Almighty god, thank you for giving us another day. In your presence, dark nights of challenges are dispelled by the dawn of your love and you know our needs before we express them. Thank you for daily providing our lawmakers with guidance and strength. E pause to thank you for the courage and Sacrificial Service for our Capitol Police. Forgive us when we take their daily Courageous Service for granted. Forgive us, also, when we seem to forget that words matter and can become seeds that will bring a bitter harvest. Bring speedy healing to our brother Steve Scalise and all those injured in yesterdays shooting. Bring peace and solace to all those affected by yesterdays tragedy. Today, use the members of this peoples house as part of your peace, bringing unity from division, light from darkness, from m sadness and hope despair. Dear god, continue to bless america
This week on q a, a discussion with High School Students attending the 54th annual United State Senate youth progr program. The students talked about their participation in the program and their plans for the future. Cspan give me your name and where you are from. Brooke hanes from indiana. Cspan what are we doing here . Today we will talk about our experiences we had over the week, visiting many places in the nations capitol and listening to our leaders. Your name, sir . I am alex young and also from indiana. What are you been doing this week . We have been talking to quest speakers from different departments in the burr and Supreme Court. But the most important part was interacting with the delegates from washington, d. C. , japan and south korea. Whether it was talking about politics or what we had for breakfast was probably the best part of the weekend. Cspan any disagreements . For sure. But whether it is our favorite fruit, you know . I like pineapple but lots dont. Disenzyme dis
Also. With the rebalance of asiapacific theater i am having a bit of trouble understanding the new air force plan which would move for air force kc135 tankers from joint harbor had come to the mainland. Given the space and time to my keeping the tankers for deployed in hawaii would make the most sense. Would you like to share some of your perspective on this . Well, i have not yet seen no formal proposal by the air force. As you know, the proposal would have to come through me further my comments. The decision to move any forces that are cocom to pay, or under my command would have to be would have to be authorized by secretary hegel. There will be a dialogue about this. I dont think there will be a lot of perspectives as we look at it. I believe those four airplanes are a result of a braque initiative. What i understand is that there are some maintenance deficiencies that as we look at across service efficiencies that are being forced on us by the that we are being driven to because o