ms. chavez-deremer: hypothetical. sen. alsobrooks: is not hypothetical. ms. chavez-deremer: unless we determine what those are, it's hard for me to comment on that. ms. chavez-deremer: it to let -- it is a yes or no question. do you believe -- sen. alsobrooks: it is a yes or no question. do you believe public sector jobs are low productivity jobs? ms. chavez-deremer: no. sen. alsobrooks: i yield. >> our senator from a little hun two weeks ago. >> i had not even thought about that issue for about three minutes, chairman. but i am serving lunch today to the junior senator from pennsylvania. sen. marshall: and you are wearing philadelphia colors. >> guilty as charged. welcome, congresswoman. thank you for being here today. i'm grateful for president trump nominating you. when he did this it was a shout out to the hard-working men and women across the country based on your resume, the work you have done. you have been committed to hard-working men and women across the country, union or nonunion workers, people that president trump supports. we want them to be succ

ms. chavez-deremer: yes. sen. baldwin: more broadly, do you commit to spending funding as congress appropriates it? ms. chavez-deremer: as i mentioned earlier, as a former member of congress, i highly respect the appropriations process and the role of congress. thank you. sen. baldwin: the nation's nurse's face challenging working conditions and they are to frequently exacerbated by i instancs of workable place violence. i appreciate that you said you really take that issue seriously. now, the department of labor plans to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking in june of this year for the workplace violence in health care rulemaking. do you commit to getting this proposed rule issued by june of this year and finalized in a very timely way? ms. chavez-deremer: i can commit to working with you on the issue because it is an important one. if confirmed, i will look at every rule as it moves forward. until then, i have not even seen specifically on the role but i commit to working with you. sen. baldwin: we have been wai

ms. chavez-deremer: absolutely. sen. alsobrooks: in any mail sent out across the government through opm a.g. bondi: i do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. mr. patel:that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. a.g. bondi: against all enemy, foreign and domestic. mr. patel: against all enemy, foreign and domestic. a.g. bondi: that i will hold true faith and allegiance to the same, that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. mr. patel: without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i am about to enter. so help me god. [cheers and applause] mr. patel: wow, wow, wow. first and foremost, we were just with president trump and i just want to thank him. i know he's not here in the room right now. but what a ride we have been on. what a courageous warrior and leader he has been and the faith and trust he has put in me to lead the

ms. chavez-deremer: thank you. x live to the health and human services department headquarters in washington, d.c. where chris van hollen of medicare and others are protesting the trump administration's attempt to cut the administration workforce and funding. sen. van hollen: these are the people fighting the viruses that threaten the american people. they are fighting the bird flu that is starting to be out of control across the country. -- rep. raskin: but fascism is a virus too. fascism is a virus too. the people out here fighting in subfreezing temperatures are the antibodies. we are the antibodies. my friends, they are rarely a day keeps the fascist away. we are going to spread these rallies, not just all over washington, d.c., in front of the federal departments and agencies being attacked, not just all over the state capitals where people have been meeting, but all over america. you will build up massive herd immunity to the fascists in america. that is what we are going to do. >> people in the street. rep.

ms. chavez-deremer in our meeting yesterday. appreciate you taking the time to come visit and share your views across a variety of issues. i would like to talk a little bit today, i know everyone in this hearing is talked about how they care about the american worker on how we make the world better for them. one of the ways we do that we do more made in america which is no know is very important presidenm trump. another way we can consider this in terms of earning power of the american worker is the impact illegal immigration has had on undermining their ability to earn higher wages. i am just interested in your opinion whether or not you think the influx of billions of people into this country who many of them are here illegally is undermining the earning power of the american worker? >> certainly be want to protect the american worker and made in america is important to the president of the united states. i could not be more proud to support the america first agenda for exactly that reason. we certainly want to make sure that