I would agree. Thank you. Mr. Emerson, mr. Emerson, dhs was created as a maid merger of 22 agencies following the 911 attack. Today dhs is tasked with protecting our borders and airspace. However they have made dhs funding the object of political gain fullness. What other challenges of managing the Department Tasks with such a array of responsibilities. That can have an effect on morale. Anything you all can do to help us in that area. It wasnt the entire government going through that. It was dhs and thats hard for employees who work hard every day to protect this country, as you are were pointing out our employees do an amazing job. They have a lot of work that they deal with and their jobs are difficult but they come to work every day and give 110 . Hopefully our colleagues are listening to your concerns and the points that you raise today. Government wide federal Employee Engagement has declined 4 from 2011 to 2014. There are number that have sustained or increased that level during
The secretary of dhs just came by and had a meeting with mr. Connolly and i and has laid out a number a number of steps on where he is wanting to address this particular concern for employee morale. I think all of the witnesses for being here today and i look forward to a working relationship where we can Work Together to make sure that we have improved numbers but more importantly improved improve satisfaction among our federal workforce. With that i would recognize member connolly from virginia. And i your commitment is quite sincere. You want to collaborate to make things better. Thats an important. To be emphasized. You and i most certainly will collaborate and try to accomplish that. It is easy to complain or highlight problems. It is a lot more difficult to try to address them. Them. As you said mr. Chairman the secretary of Homeland Security cares enough about this topic to come and see you and me prior to this hearing, and hearing, and i would ask unanimous consent that the let
The secretary of dhs just came by and had a meeting with mr. Connolly and i and has laid out a number a number of steps on where he is wanting to address this particular concern for employee morale. I think all of the witnesses for being here today and i look forward to a working relationship where we can Work Together to make sure that we have improved numbers but more importantly improved improve satisfaction among our federal workforce. With that i would recognize member connolly from virginia. And i your commitment is quite sincere. You want to collaborate to make things better. Thats an important. To be emphasized. You and i most certainly will collaborate and try to accomplish that. It is easy to complain or highlight problems. It is a lot more difficult to try to address them. Them. As you said mr. Chairman the secretary of Homeland Security cares enough about this topic to come and see you and me prior to this hearing, and hearing, and i would ask unanimous consent that the let
Successful program we also want to do. I would add we are doing a lot of research in this area to predict better responses to opioid use because thats very, very critical. That gets back to the notion of an informed conversation between a clinician and a veteran, family and so forth. Right. One final question. We were just talking about the Health Workforce at the va. One of the things that ive certainly observed in rural medicine, for example, if you receive your training there, perhaps if you were born and raised in a rural environment, youre likely to make a commitment in your career to remaining there. I think the same is very much true with regard to the va. In the va reform law passed last year i authored a provision that included an increase by 1,500 over five years the number of gme residency positions. It is my understanding in this first year of implementation, 204 new resident positions were added. I would like for you to give me a status update on the programs implementatio
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