Scary and threatened with his knife. The flash flood catastrophe in the south. 20 inches of rain leaving townse under forcing children to be rescued from day care. Now millions across the country facing the biggest heat wave of the summer. Roker will have the latest. Lz fighting aheimers disease. New research and what could be a major factor and some simple things you cano to preventt. And 50 years after the apollo 11 launch,hy we are all still moon struck. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. And good evening, everyone. We start with breaking news tonight. The house of representatives voted tonight to officially condemn President Trump for his racist tweets. Several republicans joining democrats in ving for the resolution. The vote forced members to take a public position on thees prents demeaning call for a grou of liberal Congress Women toheo back and fix tlaces they came from. All of the women are of color and most born in the u. S. But the vote unlikely to shame mr
Discipline v. A. Employee. Is that one of the inherent problems at the Veterans Administration . Rep. Roe when we met with dr. Scholz after he was sworn in, and by the way elected 1000. I had breakfast with him and accountability was the first thing that came out of his a mouth his mouth. We looked at and accountability bill to allow the v. A. To more quickly determine it for performing for performing employees. Many of them in my hometown, we have a major the a medical center. They are Close Friends of mine. They are dedicated veterans. A poor performing employee hurts them. We want to give the secretary the tools and we passed and accountability bill out of the house already, which shortens the length of time it takes to discipline a poor performing employee while still allowing them their due process rights. It might slow down but its still about two months. It is not like where you may be terminated today. It is still a couple months process, even this expedited process we are look
Discipline v. A. Employee. Is that one of the inherent problems at the Veterans Administration . Rep. Roe when we met with dr. Scholz after he was sworn in, and by the way elected 1000. I had breakfast with him and accountability was the first thing that came out of his a mouth his mouth. We looked at and accountability bill to allow the v. A. To more quickly determine it for performing for performing employees. Many of them in my hometown, we have a major the a medical center. They are Close Friends of mine. They are dedicated veterans. A poor performing employee hurts them. We want to give the secretary the tools and we passed and accountability bill out of the house already, which shortens the length of time it takes to discipline a poor performing employee while still allowing them their due process rights. It might slow down but its still about two months. It is not like where you may be terminated today. It is still a couple months process, even this expedited process we are look
We met with dr. Shelton after he was sworn in, and elected and voted on the senate 1000, which was amazing in todays climate. Accountability like that was the first thing that came out of his mouth. So we had looked at and accountability will to be able to allow the v. A. To more quickly terminate poor performing employees. Most of the employees, i know many of them, we have a major center. They are dedicated to taking care of veterans. A poor performing employee hurts them and what they are doing. We just want to give the secretary the tools, and we passed an accountability bill out of the house already, which shortens the length of time it takes to discipline a poor performing employee while still allowing them their due process. And when i say slow down, it is still about two months. It is not like where you may be terminated today. It is still a couple months process even with this expedited method that we are looking at. And senator rubio is going to be carrying a companion bill o
Were going to win with calls, his impact on the high court, and the looming political battle over his successor. This is washington journal for sunday morning, february 14. Our phone lines are open at 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. If youre an independent, 2027488002. Join us on social media on facebook and twitter. Good sunday morning to you. Thank you very much for being with us. As we look at the life and legacy of Justice Scalia, he was talked about last night in the cbs debates, and this is a story this morning, front page of the New York Times, Justice Antonin Scalia is dead at the age of 79. He passed away of Natural Causes while on a vacation in texas. He was a leader of conservative intellectual renaissance in three decades on the Supreme Court, was found dead saturday at a resort in west texas. He was 79 years old. And this from the hill newspaper, a sharp partisan battle opened saturday over whether president obama should nominate a successor so the la