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Waj is out. Azmat khan is in. Workplace and education, you discovered on social media there is a fundamental issue that people would like to dispose with, when it comes to the office space. The holy grail is the meeting. Alex, alex and mark, very common refrain that were hearing. Its also very difficult to row place because its so engrained in work culture. Something we can dig into today to come up with alternatives to replace. More productive and shorter meetings would be amazing. Or eliminate...

Waj is out. Azmat khan is in. Workplace and education, you discovered on social media there is a fundamental issue that people would like to dispose with, when it comes to the office space. The holy grail is the meeting. Alex, alex and mark, very common refrain that were hearing. Its also very difficult to row place because its so engrained in work culture. Something we can dig into today to come up with alternatives to replace. More productive and shorter meetings would be amazing. Or eliminate...

Today. Be it medicare, tricare, private insurance, fehpb for those federal employees and when they dropped that they would immediately go into the va system for two years. I want to ask you to stop and think about that for just a second. To a veteran on medicare, theyre going to drop their medicare, go into the va for two years . And then pay the penalty to get back into part b medicare . For an employee who has private insurance, theyre going to drop their insurance and leave their spouse uncov...

The presiding officer are there think senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 95, the nays are 0. And the nomination is confirmed. There will be now two minutes equally divided prior to the vote on the crawford nomination. Mr. Leahy madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Leahy is this the crawford nomination . The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Leahy leahy strongly suppoy both senators from vermont. And i might...

Has helped us confront common threats that bring terrorists to justice. But there is obviously room for us to be able to do more. When terrorist attacks took 400 indian lives in 2013 alone, we know that the threat of terrorism remains too real and far too hy for indy ats people. Confronting terrorism requires our continued partnership and continued vigilance and it also means leading with our values. Indy and the United States are two nations that have worked hard to overcome our own divisions s...

Is causing big concerns for napa residents who thought they had a handle on all of this. It moved 2 inches in the last 8 days. Hes measuring and recording the size of gap like this caused by shift in the ground. These crack appear following the naib napa quake process commonly referred to as after slip. It is slowing down a lot now but it will keep moving over the next few weeks and months probably be a few more inches of slip. Ground he having up all along here where this was nice and flat. Rep...

Welcome to the fifth in our series of working family forum clapping were very honored you can join us today and thank you to senator lenos to his staff and to be in this lovely building and for the executive board for the retirement im pleased the mayor and commissioner hur is here and we have several members of Congress London bremember cor englander and thank you. We have other lady thats the could owner of the Nicholas Company recognized by president obama on their Workplace Flexibility thank...

Nancy pelosi and Dianne Feinstein and congresswoman spear joins us in making sure were strong and we have a strong fight for our san franciscans and here in San Francisco and washington, d. C. So joining with Others Congress members honda and hoffman and spear and nancy pelosi were going to move forward and advance workers rights and equality for all of us in San Francisco and across the country i know theres a lot of work ahead i remain committed for all residents i commend you and people in th...

Encourage everyone to add our voice to the National Discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the ash tag followup. Please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. We also have a story sharing wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how families need to be supported. Im honored to introduce mayor ed lee hes the 403 reading mayor and the first asianamerican mayor i was elected in 2011 and has a lon...

And so over the course of the last couple of months we have traveled all over the country from orlando, florida, from san francisco, to seattle, boston, new york, my hometown of chicago, virginia. We have talked to workers and Business Leaders and Union Leaders and academics and deans and stakeholders from around the country all helping us figure out what we do to change that paradigm and reflected in this room and watching us online are all of you who have contributed to the agenda for today an...