Author of three books about workplace topics. They testified at a hearing by the house modernization of congress committee. This is an hour and a half. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving contention among Congressional Staff. I recognize muscle fibers to give an opening statement. One of the ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. [laughing] my apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution, and thats the Congressional Staff that is you. I think i speak for all of us on the dice and those yet to come, when i say we could do our jobs without the teams the people who work for us. Anytime i get a compliment since is nice job on this or that, my response is always, ive got a really good team and i feel lucky fo
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington, where President Trump has been defending his Executive Order preventing travellers from seven mainly muslim countries and all refugees from entering the United States. He says America Needs borders and extreme vetting now. The president faces fierce criticism, both internationally and within the United States, over his ban. Its been a weekend of angry demonstrations and legal challenges in the states. Our correspondent, nick bryant, reports from new york. Chant no ban, no wall new york for all. New york has always been the great gateway into america and demonstrators gathered in a highly emblematic setting, under the gaze of the statue of liberty, that welcoming symbol for new arrivals. But today we have seen large gatherings across the country. The fractious Mood Reminiscent of the 1960s. Protest is becoming a permanent feature of the Trump Presidency and atjfk airport last night, the demonstrations lasted deep into the early
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm In Washington, where President Trump has been defending his Executive Order preventing travellers from seven mainly muslim countries and all refugees from entering the United States. He says America Needs borders and extreme vetting now. The president faces fierce criticism, both internationally and within the United States, over his ban. Its been a weekend of angry demonstrations and legal challenges in the states. Our correspondent, nick bryant, reports from new york. Chant no ban, no wall new york for all. New york has always been the great gateway into america and demonstrators gathered in a highly emblematic setting, under the gaze of the statue of liberty, that welcoming symbol for new arrivals. But today we have seen large gatherings across the country. The fractious Mood Reminiscent of the 1960s. Protest is becoming a permanent feature of the Trump Presidency and atjfk airport last night, the demonstrations lasted deep into the early
We did that last week. Again, the more we look into it, the more we find people in powerful and influential places saying things that just dont square with the fact. Its about a u. N. Treaty that failed to be ratified by the senate. A treaty that was meant to encourage more countries to be more like the u. S. On equal rights of the disabled. If other countries adopted better treatment of their disabled, americans who visited or lived in other countries would also benefit. 125 countries ratified the treaty. It was supported by george bush, signed by the current president , and has support from both sides of the aisle like john mccain and bob dole. He was wheeled onto the senate floor, you can see, for the vote he hoped to see the treaty ratified. Instead after pressure from special interest groups, 38 republicans vowing to support the treaty voted no. One was the Home School Legal Defense association. The hslda, the powerful lobby group around the country whose leader youre about to mee
A dramatic break with precedent. Democratic senator Sherrod Brown joins me coming up. Plus, jury duty, four president ial candidates are forced off the campaign trail just two weeks before iowans vote. Between you and me, i would prefer to be in iowa. The impact of the Senate Impeachment trial on the first contest of 2020. Hello, im Brianna Keeler in washington, where the state of our union is bracing for a fight. We begin with the first look of what a senate trial of president donald zwrchlt trump will look like, last night the managers filed a legal brief urging senators to remember their place in history and remove the president from conduct for the framers worst nightmare, arguing he put his own political risks ahead of the country and for the first time, the president s legal team laid out their initial strategy full of attacks on House Democrats accusing them of quote a brazen and unlawful af tempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and denying the charges in the articl