Its max kaiser this is the kaiser report twas the night before christmas and all over the world people were mining back on seeking individual sovereignty a new poem i just wrote what do you think stacey is not made that oh thats lovely i said Merry Christmas in spanish i know that from Jose Feliciano i see youre still wearing your colombian necktie. Now you know i sort i cant think of 2 different ways really hopefully it wont be a colombian act by the end of the show that would be quite bloody yes exactly but where in argentina were going to be heading to Rio De Janeiro those will be our next episodes from there as you see were in the Southern Hemisphere where we all it took us decades of my life to learn that its warm down here during the cold christmas up north so from now on i am going to be where its warm christmas much better than that cold sand its nice and warm down here so were going to look back at 2019 and you know what were the big themes what we got right what we got wrong
[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
For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Strategies a former npc president and a cochair of the nbc Headliners Team which organizes these
To listen, watch, and follow along on twitter at the Hashtag Hashtag npc live for our cspan. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Str
Test. Test. Test. A checkpoin we increase the population in this world is through childbirth and that there is a need for a woman to be able to take time off and, god help her if she has a child who is sick. And so after the birth of the killed continuously having to care for that child, that could be the father, the mother, a samesex couple, all of the issues that goes with caring with a sick child, we as a sophisticated, major force of democracy in this world should not be one of the last to say that every person working and trying to provide for the family, regardless of their income, do not have access to paid family leave. I want to ask a question, how many workers across the country currently have access to paid family or medical leave benefits. 19 of workers have access to paid family leave. And how current is that . That is from march of this year. March of this year, the big, amazing fix all pay cut happened, did that did that have a major increase on providing this benefit to