Discusses impeachment efforts and the supply complain. Her recentalus on piece on asylumseekers at th u. S. Mexico border. Host good morning and welcome to washington journal for wednesday, october 2, 2019. We would like to hearrom republicans only this first hour. Republican callers only to hear your thoughts on the impeachment inquiry on President Trump. Do you still support him . How do you think he is responding . We will also look at the latest polls on how other republicans are feeling. Republicans only. 2027488000 if you live in the eastern and central time zones. 2027488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. You can send us a text. That is 2027488003. Make sure you put your name on there, where you are texting from. cspanwjs how you send a tweet and we are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. At the start of the program yesterday, we looked at polls. More specifically on republican support, the impeachment and job support numbers. Lets look at this Monmouth University poll
Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Two Human Resource executives and author of three books on workplace topics testify and answer questions from committee members. The hearing is about 90 minutes. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. In is cultivating diversity, improving retention with Congressional Staff. I recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. My apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats the backbone of this institution, the Congressional Staff that work here. I think i speak for all of us and those yet to come when i say we couldnt do our jobs without teams of people that work for us. Anytime i get a compliment where someone says nice job on this or that, my response is always i have a good team and i feel lucky for that. Theyre dedicated Public Servants that a
Are here. This has been a great morning. You heard from the boss here and hes all in and this is a joint venture. We have a great panel here so i want to keep moving. What i heard the president say was a lot of focus on what i call the two ps, promoting access in the retirement space and the president has been taking action on that. He directed us to take more action to help facilitate that. The Treasury Department has already taken action on that and the my ra space is dana grady here by the way . Oh, youre way in the back. She is a Small Business owner who encouraged her employees to participate to help strengthen their retirement securities so she has a lot of participants. Thank you for being a great spokesperson for this. I appreciate your help and im glad that its working. Were going to talk more about Financial Security today and we have a fantastic panel of folks that are going to be talking and giving their views. We have a number of questions and i got a few questions on twit
Can you hear me . Can you hear me in the back okay . Good morning, im tom perez. Its an honor to be here. I see a bunch of serial activists in the audience so i know im in the right place. So thank you again to our members of congress who are here. Thank you to our other leaders who are here. This has been a great morning, and you heard from the boss here. And hes all in. And this is a joint venture. We have a great panel here. So i want to keep moving. You know, when i heard the president say there was a lot of focus on what i call the two ps, promoting access in the retirement space, and the president has been taking action on that. Hes directed us to take more action to facilitate that. The Treasury Department has already taken action on that. And the my ra space kl is diana grady here, by the way . Oh, youre in the way back. Wow. You got the uecker seat there. Okay. Diana is a Small Business owner who encouraged her employees to participate to help strengthen their retirement secur