Connected to the platform, make sure youre muted and use your phone to immediately call the committees i. T. Director whose number was provided in advance. Should the Chair Experience technical difficulty and need to step away another Majority Member is authorized to assume the gavel in the chairs absence. In order to ensure the committees five Minute Rule is adhered to staff will keep track of time using the committees timer which and will show a blinking light when time is up. As i indicated previously, we will skip the Roll Call so that the secretary can make his hard stop at the appointed time. Opening statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member and i recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. Today were meeting to discuss the department of Educations Budget Request for fiscal 2022 and examine the departments priorities to examine Secretary Cardona, welcome to the committee on Education And Labor and thank you for being with us today. Today we w
reenstated. we ll have the latest coming up. and a new definition of the phrase offensive lines. a star football coach is out amid revelations of miss only nisic and homophobic language that he casually and frequently put in writing. welcome to meet the press daily. i m chuck tot. the questions are simple. what kind of message is a winning winning message? how do you sway the folks not in your corner? because those are the voters that democrats need to hold on to congress and republicans need to take it back. it is the uncomfortable middle that s feeling left out of both parties right now. democrats are staking the political future on the success or failure of the agenda in congress. this morning nancy pelosi seemed to try to nod towards the more moderate wing of her party agreeing with them that the best way to get president biden s agenda unstuck in congress is to do less but do it well and do it longer as opposed to do what progressives wanted which is try a lot o
abortion returns part of a blockbuster term that could result in a gusting of roe v. wade. and the case is in kentucky. and an appeals court has already ruled had it is unconstitutional. both of these cases could provide tea leaves on how the court will ultimately rule on what has been the law of the land since 1973. joining us as we start the hour, pete williams and nyu law professor melissa murray. and also wendy murphy is back with us. she is a former state prosecutor and new england law boston professor. so pete, let s start with the case before the court today, the kentucky case. and your reporting that the supreme court appears inclined to allow kentucky s republican attorney general to step into defend their controversial abortion law. so this is a procedural issue, but what is the greater significance here? the greater significance is whether states can do this sort of thing. i don t think that it goes much beyond that. the word abortion was mention the just once to
meet the press daily. and our coverage continues with geoff bennett right now. it is good to be with you. i m geoff bennett. and it is a critical day on multiple fronts in the battle over abortion rights. the justice department is against stepping in, urging courts to rein-state the suspension of that texas law that bans nearly all abortions across the state. the appeal is to a lower court, but the message to the supreme court is unmistakable, quote, if texas scheme is permissible, no constitutional right is safe from state sanctioned sabotage of this kind before in effect, the doj saying to those conservative justices, the way texas found to get around abortion rulings could be used for instance by progressive states to enact bans on gun rights for instance. and as we await that ruling, a
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