Where theres quite enough to divide people that we should cherish a language and emotion that unite us all. Jacqueline kennedys 1,000 days as lady were identified as fashion icon, young mother and advocate for the arts. As television came to age, it was ultimately the tragic um manages of president ken that cemented her in the public mind. Jacqueline kennedy this sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans first ladies. Sunday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. The House Republican conference will meet thursday to choose their nominee for the next speaker of the house. We get an update from a capitol hill reporter. Danielle new houser writes that the House Freedom caucus backed webster for the speaker. Daniel neuhauser with us. Why did the Freedom Caucus endorse webster for speaker. He is the former speak are of the house and he prides himself on having, in his words, reformed the process of how bills were passed in the house there. And hes been going door to door caucu
In san francisco, california. Mr. Rubin specializes in class action and appellate litigation representing workers. We thank the four of you for coming, some of you long distances today. We ask that you keep your testimony to about five minutes. That will leave more time for the senators to have a conversation with you and ask questions. Why dont we start with you, ms. Stokeland . Good morning. Chairman alexander, Ranking Member murray and members of the committee. My name is ciara stokeland. Im the owner and operator of mode, a designer complex that i founded. I currently live in grand forks, north dakota, with my husband and our two children harrison and isabella, which are watching todays events at their schools, fifth and sixth grade. Thank you very much for the invitation to be up here before this committee today to share my story of Small Business ownership and discuss the concerns of local Business Owners everywhere regarding the nlrb decision to change the joint employer standar
Law the way it was before the lrb decision. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and we will introduce the panel of witnesses and thank you each of you for coming and after which each senator will have five minutes of questions. Last week i met a man named aslum kind, hes an immigrant from pakistan who started out as a dishwasher at churchs chicken and who today has become a very successful owner of churchs chicken franchises. He talked about achieving the American Dream. He said it was possible because of our nations, quote, Free Enterprise entrepreneurial spirit unquote. On august 27 the nlrb released a decision that threatens to steal that American Dream from owners of the nations 785,000 franchise businesses and millions of contractors. It threatens to destroy that Free Enterprise entrepreneurial spirit. The labor boards new joint employer standard will make big businesses bigger and make the middleclass smaller by discouraging Larger Companies from franchising
Your time has expired. Im sorry. I could go on, but. 30 seconds. I would say a that the nel website will provide you the information as to why certain studies werent selected. If you get us specific information, doctor, we will be able to provide specific answers to specific studies. Mr. Allen for four minutes. Yes. Ill just follow up on that question. As far as nel was concerned, you know, the as far as the dietary guidelines, Advisory Committee did not use nel for more than 70 of their research questions. Why is the why was the nel not used in this in these guidelines . For certain issues like food pattern analysis that they needed to do to understand what we are eating, an issue that has been brought up a number of times in this hearing, that is not information that would be available there. And they need to turn to other sources to understand what is it actually americans are eating. The sources for that are different. There are some other issues. If thats not where the source of i