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| Rep. Ryan: "You know, I think all that rhetoric maybe nice but what we're trying to do here is run the government, and has been stated several times, when the Republicans were in charge, they put bills together and got them passed. And now all of a sudden they take a stand here like this has never happened, I think is a tad bit disingenuous. But we have to ask ourselves now that everyone is bringing the troops in here, what are the troops fighting for? They're not fighting for a defense bill. They're not fighting for a VA bill. They're fighting for our country. And what is our country? Our country is a country that makes investments into its own people. They're fighting for America because it's a great place to live. |
The bill extends TAA job training and health benefits to service workers who lose their jobs due to global trade and covers more manufacturing workers. It dramatically improves TAA health care benefits and strengthens job training benefits so that workers have a real opportunity to strengthen their skills for good-paying jobs.
Full text of the letter:
Dear Mr. Fielding:The White House is withholding hundreds of pages of documents about the activities of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff on the grounds that these documents involve internal White House deliberations. Unless the President is prepared to assert executive privilege over these documents, they should be turned over to the Oversight Committee without further delay.
Watch the hearing replayed on C Span 3.
Subcommittee Chair Nita Lowey gave opening remarks:
"Good afternoon. We're gathered here this afternoon on a subject of very great concern to America's families. As we approach the holiday season, with Halloween tomorrow, and Thanksgiving around the corner, and shopping for Christmas toys going on probably as we speak, we want to make sure that we are doing the best possible job to protect America's children."Twenty million imported toys, manufactured overseas, were recalled this summer. Twenty million toys. Some of these toys contained nearly 200 times the legal limit for lead. Two hundred times...