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Became forever enshrineded in first all-female space walk and it included a call with president trump. for a space geek like me it's an awesome thing. it's been a long journey for women in space. at the start of the space program nasa actually thought women would be better astronaut candidates than men. they were lighter, smaller and required less oxygen, but when space flight turned into a space race with russia, it was thought, men better handle the task. as you can imagine, there were other hair brained impediments for women. yes, some scientists wondered how women would handle menstruating...

Leave. studies show that fathers build better relationships with their children, they help more with child care, they help more with house work. when they take time off in the beginning of a child's life. and it also puts to rest the myth that child care is just mothers' responsibilities. that it should be shared by both men and women. so men and women and children benefit when they all have paid family leave available. >> those who have access to it, what do they need to do? if fathers have access to four months' leave or two weeks' leave, whatever the number swb is it important for everybody...

Made better with the help of chairman benny thompson. it's an accountability bill, a homeland security improvement act bill. that will be marked up today as well. and hopefully we'll be voting on important pieces of legislation next week so we can increase the standards, it's not about resources. el paso, texas, a community with zero federal resources to address the humanitarian needs of migrants, we have done a far better job than the federal government with almost unlimited resources. so we're hoping that the democratic party, the house work, the standards and care that we believe in will ma...

Policymakers been paying attention 20 years ago to the rising mortality of middle-aged, white, working-class americans, which is caused in part by the opioid epidemic, they might have acted on it sooner. that might not help gdp, but it would help human well-being. there's also the genuine progress indicator, a version of which is used in a number of u.s. states as well as japan and finland. it includes gdp but incorporates house work, volunteer work and national assets like wetlands. then it subtracts for a number of indicators like pollution, crime, and underemployment. this chart maps gdp an...

Compromise. a $1.3 billion democratic wish list that includes zero money for a border barrier is a nonstarter. notice he says barrier, not wall, and will not be a legitimate answer to this impasse. what is mark meadows attempting to accomplish? is this really to make the process more complicated than it is. >> it seems that way. look, there was a deal. the white house signaled that it was going to support that deal. it passed the senate by voice vote. paul ryan, who is still in charge, i know that everybody wants to lay the blame at the feet of nancy pelosi, but paul ryan is still technically ...