Before Prime Ministers question time i wish to make a short statement about the virtual participation in d bates. Idea occurred to you and the house authorities was the primacy will note with virtual participation of the house itself, all positions being made by motions moved by the league of the house. The house of Commons Service will be more than happy to facilitate a virtual participation with the house department. I would be more than happy to accept. The relevant motion, not for me and the house parties. That is beyond the way. I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, i shall have further meetings. Thank you, mister speaker. During this pandemic my constituency of northwest cambridge i have seen a number of instances of ordinary citizens doing extraordinary work helping the elderly and the vulnerable and that has been repeated across the country in every constituency giving true meaning to the words community spirit. What my right honorable friend take this opportun
A significant drop in new Coronavirus Infection to me breaks a piece and province. And business groups in canada want the government to stop a protest which is shut down the Railway System over a controversial pipeline. Nowhere is safe for civilians in the province that was the message at the United Nations as the Security Council met for a briefing on syria the u. N. Says almost a 1000000 people have fled since the start of december thats the biggest displacement in the nearly 9 years long conflict there being squeezed into ever smaller areas that turkeys border under her rendition conditions the uns humanitarian chief told the council at least 100 civilians have been killed so far this month in and ground strikes 35. 00 of those victims with children the presence of turkish soldiers is complicating the fighting it live and neighboring provinces along with russia was sponsoring a cease fire and the u. N. Special envoy is calling on them to find a way to deescalate the situation mike h
Supreme court arguments, next week, he will argue his 40th case at Supreme Court. He says the acting listener general of the u. S. And president obama, paul and patricia pounders of the security lock. Hes a partner. He played himself in an episode of past cards. Theres an even more littleknown fact, he can come up with lyrics on demand. Now hes been a remarkable book, making the case of the impeachment of donald trump. He will be joined by michael, president of the center. Hes a lawyer and writer, expert on the tote presidency and american democracy. Michael served in the Clinton White house from 93 to 99. Working for the last american president who faced impeachment. Will make time for your questions tonight. You should have cards and pencils on your seat. We will make time for as many questions as we can. [applause] good evening everybody. Welcome to this important conversation, a critical issue, a critical moment in our countrys history. We are being listened to, thats good. [laught
Author of three books about workplace topics. They testified at a hearing by the house modernization of congress committee. This is an hour and a half. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving contention among Congressional Staff. I recognize muscle fibers to give an opening statement. One of the ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. [laughing] my apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution, and thats the Congressional Staff that is you. I think i speak for all of us on the dice and those yet to come, when i say we could do our jobs without the teams the people who work for us. Anytime i get a compliment since is nice job on this or that, my response is always, ive got a really good team and i feel lucky fo
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, and good morning. Thank you to the Rancho Mirage writers festival for having us here for you all the audience for being here. Kassidy had the chance to be on the stage and answer questions from ari melber and our idea here and idea was to really do a little bit more of the side and the personal journey of you and who you are and this extraordinary extraordinary and what was pretty brutal coming of age story in washington, dc, the cautionary tale but ultimately inspirational one, i think, and i know this has been inspiring for me as i so we all know the public came to know through your testimony before the House Select Committee to investigate the january six attack on the united capitol. But it wasnt until about a year after that testify that you were able to to begin writing story and to telling your your full story publicly. And so id like to start from the beginning. Youre a jersey girl, jersey strong. Tell tell me. Audience about growing up in