and labor it will come to order. we ll come, i know that and decorum is present. i know we are meeting today to hear testimony on age our 260 94, pregnant workers farm and act. i note, for the subcommittee, that mr. mcbath and, mr. cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in today s hearing. members who sit on the subcommittee and our president should have a force priority to, followed by members that only after all committee members can ask questions. pursuant to committee rule seven, opening statements are limited to the chair and ranking member, this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide for all members of adequate it time to ask questions. i recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. as a mom and a policy maker, i know how important it is to protect the economic security of pregnant women and working families. unfortunately, our current laws are inadequate and many pregnant workers are placed on unpaid leave or forced out o
the committee on education and labor it will come to order. we ll come, i know that and decorum is present. i know we are meeting today to hear testimony on age our 260 94, pregnant workers farm and act. i note, for the subcommittee, that mr. mcbath and, mr. cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in today s hearing. members who sit on the subcommittee and our president should have a force priority to, followed by members that only after all committee members can ask questions. pursuant to committee rule seven, opening statements are limited to the chair and ranking member, this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide for all members of adequate it time to ask questions. i recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. as a mom and a policy maker, i know how important it is to protect the economic security of pregnant women and working families. unfortunately, our current laws are inadequate and many pregnant workers are placed on u
questions, followed by members who sit only after all committee members who are present have gone shall members who are not on the committee on education and labor ask questions. pursuant to committee rule seven c, opening statements are limited to the chair and ranking member. this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions. i recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. as a mom and policymaker, i know how important it is to protect the economic security of pregnant women and working families. unfortunately, our current laws are inadequate and many pregnant workers are placed on unpaid leave, or forced out of work, when they only need a simple accommodation to stay on the job during pregnancy. today, we are holding a legislative hearing on hr 2694, the pregnant workers fairness act. reason will accommodations that will allow them to stay in the workplace. i would like to thank our witnesses for
the committee on education and labor will come to order. welcome everyone. a quorum is present. the committee is meeting today in a legislative hearing to hear testimony on hr 2694, the pregnant workers fairness act. i note for the subcommittee that ms. mcbath of georgia, ms. underwood of illinois and mr. cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in today s hearing. members who sit on the subcommittee and are present shall have first priority task questions, followed by members who sit only after all committee members who are present have gone shall members who are not on the committee on education and labor ask questions. pursuant to committee rule seven c, opening statements are limited to the chair and ranking member. this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions. i recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. as a mom and policymaker, i know how important it is to protect the econom
up in the mountains, there it is, nine below. everything continues to come down out of the north into arizona. we ve lost a lot of that breeze we ve had so the napa airport is much colder than it was yesterday. looking north, we could still see 20s as well. we will see some 20s here. everything continues to drop down from the north. hopefully things are quiet on a tuesday morning. everything except one thing. that would be on the east shore freeway. we will talk about a crash of the richmond parkway. this is blocking lanes here. it is so light that there is not a lot of slow traffic but some lanes are blocked and the fire department and medics are on their way. one report says they are in the lanes so we are trying to figure out what s going on but if you re driving from hercules towards richmond, this is you. give yourself a few extra minutes. let s talk about the super commute. a little bit slow before the past. no major issues there. interstate 880 looks good. we have