[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
This is just over two hours and 20 minutes. Let me call this hearing to order. We are here to examine the implementation of the drinking and wastewater portions of the bipartisan infrastructure law, this is helping to deliver clean Drinking Water to millions of households and schools across our country. Before we do that, let me say how grateful i am to both panels for joining us today, including representatives of Drinking Water and large utilities. We are appreciative of the assistant administrator who leads epas office of water. The love our guests. We want to remember this day. Yesterday, the Biden Administration took a major step in addressing the presence of toxic forever chemicals in our Drinking Water. This announcement was some 20 years in the making, and issue we are dealing with in 48 states. I want to commend the administrator, assistant administrator and all of epa for proposing a thoughtful, sciencebased National Drinking standard. Its a critical step to protecting Drinki
And Biden Administration acting labor secretary was on capitol hill to testify the departments goals and other topics including Vaccine Mandates child labor abuses and classification shes been serving and acting secretary since march after the resignation of marty walsh. Her nomination by president byington officially serve as secretary is still awarding confirmation by the u. S. Senate. This hearing is about three hours 40 minutes. [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. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like 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. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your
[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. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like 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. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America