[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
West virginia, new york, and california. As always, we will take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, october 12. Welcome to washington journal as Congress Continues its recess over this long holiday weekend, we continue to track house and Senate Members at town hall meetings. The number of town halls is up this year, due to the increase in freshman lawmakers. Lawmakers of course are spending lots of time on local issues as well. Thesion is when question is, when lawmakers return to washington next week, can they balance impeachment legislating . Can they do both at the same time . Participateyou will tak in this program, we will take your calls over whether lawmakers can balance impeachment and legislating. Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independence, 202 7488002 is your number. Several other ways to take part in the conversation, you can send us a te
Was upgraded to a turnpike in the 1830s everybody wanted to have access because it meant you were connected. You were part of the economy not only the regional to national economy. The merchant on main street and lexington couldnt have been selling tea without the road. There is a much greater appreciation for the role of the road in peoples lives established homes and businesses and who are able to conduct business because of the road. Again, the idea is to take infrastructure in the road for granted. For more information on book tv presented lexington and the other cities visited by the vehicles go to cspan. Org. Publisher adam and mark argued that americas intellectual habits are in decline. In audible conversations can we begin to . Welcome everybody. May i be heard . [inaudible conversations] have though everybody. Link back i like a captive audience but this feels like a captive panel. Welcome, everybody and thank you for coming. Am i over amplified . Welcome to the Panel Discuss
It went out of nowhere with a shock. We waited for mike to get back and my comment was i never been through this and dont know the right answer. That was, and i spoke to a lot of attorneys and legal scholars who said mikes calls was one of the more brilliant legal calls they are aware of representing me as his client. So we said no. Next day, the hearing is scheduled for is 11 oclock. I will touch on the judge never being on time. I did the math after calculating irritatingly and putting in my Court Journal he was late on average 40 minutes for trial whether that is in the morning, after break or lunch, it added up to 40 minutes on average and i think i am giving him the benefit of the doubt. I thought a federal judge wouldnt know better. We were there on time and we were properly ready to do your best. I didnt expect to hear back from mike until much later. While we were staying at the place we were at there was a slow drain in the sink the whole time. It irritated me but i could not
Education policy and the need for better schools and health care for students. She also criticized president trumps decision to end the daca program. Speaking at the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon. Im pat host, im the americas aviation reporter for james, and im also on the board of governors here at the National Press club. Our sorry about that. Welcome to the National Press club. Our guest today is Lily Eskelsen garcia, the president of the National Education association. I would like to welcome our public radio and cspan audiences, and i want to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclive, thats npclive. For our public radio and cspan audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id ask each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your