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Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself...

Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. To serve as United States secretary of labor. Let me say before i begin my pening statement that we welcome secretary chao. Good to see you and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so well well it wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement nd i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily...

This is just over two hours. I would like to call the hearing to order. First off, i would like to recognize the chairman of the committee for a segment. Thank you. I want to thank the senator for chairing the hearing today. Sen. Casey serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. They have both been real leaders on this subject. Senator burr was the original i will call it the all hazards preparedness act. In 2006. The law helps protect us from the full range of Public Health threats. In 2013, senators berger and senator burr and senator casey led the committee. Many members of the co...

Toward the south where it says or looks like rain it is snowing in this area too. That snow seeing some accumulating snow in parts of the region too. Weve got a lot more moisture making its way in here. Temperatures at the surface are o warm for that to stick on the roadways but aloft, thats why were seeing some of that snow and sleet, thats why we have a Winter Weather advisory continuing until noon tomorrow. Well see a changeover back to snow even in the d. C. Metro area. Much more about that coming up later. But take a look at this. The weather app, you know you can download it anytime. Dou...

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) tried to cut through all the political revisionism and -- in some notable GOP cases -- contortionism around IVF and its legality