senator frank church who is investigating irregular layerties in the cia and fbi. this is in 1975 and 1976. there are major hearings held here for that. parts vrt executive branch are operating without congressional oversight and that you need to have regular committee investigations. we don t see it as dramatically as what the church committee was doing at that time. after that, in 1983, the hard building opens up. because the staff is happening at a very rapid pace. as late as the mid 1960s, there were less than a thousand employees. they were paid in cash. they stood in line to get an envelope full of cash. the legislative branch didn t feel it could trust the executive branch as much. before that, they would be relying on executive agencies and now they needed their own staff to evaluate what was happening. and so they increased the size of the senate house staff considerably and the senate staff went about a thousand to close to 7,000. and so eventually they built the he
hall and this is having an impact on the traffic this afternoon and police say there have been some issues not skirmishes. we ll follow that of course and try to get back to sara. absolutely. this is happening in other cities across the country. the portion of people protesting for a higher minimum wage, many are adults and they support a family that are getting by on $9, $10, $11. $15 an hour is the wage they say they need to keep their family together. it s not just single focus on restaurants it s airports too. we are following breaking news in german town, where a woman in her 80s was shot and killd this afternoon. trish hartman is there learning more about the victims reporter: police are on the scene in german town, we ll show you the scene there. the white gated door 437 is where police are saying this happened. the crime scene unit came a couple of minutes ago and many family members are here talking to police. family members broke down outside of the victim s
protesting for a higher minimum wayne. they headed down to broad street and city hall and circled back to broad and arch. we spoke with some of them along the route. i feel like temple and the entire community don t respect us and the people around us. when you come to temple there is this whole environment of us versus them with the locals and the students. we are fed up. i m out here supporting everybody that is out here fighting for $15. we worked at mcdonald s for almost four years and i m making the same amount for four years, i need better for my son and for my family. right now he is home with my mom as we come back here live, there is a really large police presence here. they are blocking off the streets and quite a bit of traffic in the area as well. this area just gridlocked at the moment. we are live in center city, i m sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. thank you. philadelphia police are investigating a shooting death today of an 83-year-o
hillary clinton and bernie sanders attacked the issues and each other tonight. it is thursday night, and the big story on action news tonight is the battle of brooklyn. clinton and sanders taking part in the first debate in five weeks, but they hardly seem to be out of practice. with questions tuned to the recent controversy of the campaign, and major issues of income and equality, the gun lobby, fossil fuel industry and america s security in the world, the debate was informative, but also contentious. i am sure a lot of people are very surprised to learn that you supported raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. now wait a minute, wait a minute that s just not accurate. i joined on the debate with senator sanders excuse me oh, boy. sanders asked about his campaign trail comments about clinton s qualifications to be president. does second clinton have the experience and intelligence to be a president? of course she does. but i do question but i do que
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