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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this full Committee Nomination hearing will come to order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations the key transportation positions within our jurisdiction. Nominees before us today are eric soskin, the nominee to be Inspector General for the department of transportation. Robert primus who is been nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sarah feinberg, nominated to be director of the amtrak board of direc...

Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the easter...

The heroes and congress from Freedom Caucus in the conservative caucus, my good friend up in d. C. Still fighting the fight that were still on china today and im kind of going to go one by one, we have three panels of four u. S. Congressman, were honored to have all of you here today and lets just start off with brian from texas and brian im going to lead off, the other brothers from congress who can hear this in the back room, hello brothers back there and sisters, i hear you in the back room. ...

19th. 19th news. Org is the upside. A first time guest, welcome to washington journal. Guest thank you so much for having me. I am so happy to be here. Host thank you for watching. We look forward to hearing about your new organization. Tell us about the 19th. How did it get started . What is the mission . Just the 19th began before the iowa caucuses. The idea was born about four years ago right after the 2016 elections. Had anraham shaw election where we saw in juice issues of gender on full di...

Apple were virtually on capitol hill for hearing on big tech and at the trust. Thats our discussion this week on the communicators. Joining us is cerebellar who is with the American Economic liberties project. Shes the executive director, and former congresswoman Barbara Comstock two is now a Senior Advisor at Baker Donelson. Sarah miller, the question i always ask quite a bit at the hearing was his big tech too big . What is your answer to that . Guest i think the obvious answer to that is abso...

But is important for children and families. He ended with a threat. May cut off funding if not open. And just yesterday, he said, quote, my view is the schools should open. He this thing is going away. It will go away like things go away and my view is that schools should be open. The president views the decision about how to reopen schools as a political dispute about his own reelection. And to paraphrase his press secretary, he is refusing to let science stand in the way. I fundamentally disag...

Others but spreading throughout the country and with it has come the spread of economic pain and economic harm. So covid19 is not on standby and neither is economic pain and follow that his cause. For here in the United States senate, the republican leader, the majority leader has said go home and be on standby. Mr. President , that is not leadership at any time, it certainly is not the kind of leadership that the American People need and should expect during a Global Pandemic and recession era ...

Right, i think the obvious answer to that is absolutely. The members of the subcommittee, both the democrats and a number of the republicans really focused in on the power of these corporations over the way we communicate and the way we engage. That was the dominant theme of the hearing. They also got into the god of how these businesses work and how they use their dominance and how theyre engaged in predatory behavior and how they are hurting other businesses, small, medium and everyday familie...

Offenders. In addition these lines can go to help subsidize it costs for enforcement area directly into victim services. No fines were levied. Schools cannot truly be held accountable. Secondly, Congress Must compel the department of education to continually release a list of school with complaints. They may be deprived of affirmation surrounding their own complaints. The university was under investigation when i was raped there were still under investigation and i still did not know. Had i know...

In its continuing efforts to improve the organ donation and transplant system and promote health equity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the...