The committee will come to order. Good morning to everyone and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that, i will now recognize myself for my Opening Statement. I am honored to be convening todays hearing. My very first as chairwoman. As we continue to mourn the loss of our dear friend and colleague, chairman elijah cummings. And as i sit here today in his chair, i am mindful of his Lifelong Mission to seek not only Common Ground but higher ground. With that in mind, i am very pleased to hold todays hearing on an issue we have been fighting for, for many years. The need for comprehensive paid, family, and medical leave. It is an important its important for people to understand the Current Situation in our country. Right now, we are one of only two nations in the world that does not provide our workers with any form of paid family or medical leave. The United States and papua new guinea. I remember when i was pregnant with my f
[inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible] Committee Welcomes order. Good morning to everyone and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess on a committee at any time. Withthat i will now recognize myself from my Opening Statements. I am honored to be convening todays hearing. My very first as chairwoman of the committee on oversight and reform as we continue to mourn the loss of our dear friend and colleague chairman Elijah Cummings and as i sit here today and as chair i am mindful of his Lifelong Mission to seek not only Common Ground but higher ground. With that in mind i am very pleased to hold todays hearing on an issue we have been fighting for for many years. The need for comprehensive paid family andmedical leave. It is important for people to understand the Current Situation in our country. Right now we are one of only two nations in the world that do not provide our workers with any form of paid family or medical leave. The United States and pound gi
Near wilson burg and near san bu weez and snow south of silver cliff this morning. 40 in leadville and 63 in Grand Junction and looking at our hour by hour forecast, fairly mild and we get warmer and jump back to the upper 70s with a chance of afternoon and evening moment. This morning no crashes on the highway. Look at the volume we have at 4 30 this morning. A lot of cars on the roadways. Here we are across the denver metro area. A couple closures like mississippi as you get to the east of santa fe closed to broadway for this week as they continue to do road work there. Its south of i25. I would just avoid that. Family friend tells us her friend was taken into custody by police. Officers were called to a home around 5 15 yesterday even and found a woman dead. An autopsy is set for today and police will not release anymore information until after that is complete. The family friend says the man is a pastor at the scammers taking advantage of Community Support for a badly injured deput
Job for a wildcat strike. Even their own union didnt know about it. Port authority quickly stopped all trucks from going inside and issued this statement. We strongly urge the ila members to return to work immediately and resolve their differences after they return. A spokesperson for the international Longshoremans Association tells Eyewitness News, those who went on strike say they are upset with the water Front Commission of new york harbor, an outside agency put in place to deal with corruption. At issue, interference in their collective bargaining agreement. Drug testing, hiring, calling it all a culture of harassment. We shot this cell phone video of roadblocks at the front entrance and throughout the facility. Trucks turned away. The main road to all of the terminals, corbin street, virtually empty. Now, sources say that after the strike started this morning, those employees were, rather all employees were sent home for the day. Sources are telling us that report live at port ne