Common occurrence for commissioners, pandemic or no pandemic. I have been muddling through that, and in terms of the work of the agency its been a really important and really fascinating time. We switched to all telework pretty quickly and i will say relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by, but even though the technological work got up and running very quickly, at least for me personally, i found it incredibly challenging to be juggling the responsibilities of the job and fulltime parenting. This baby here is my fourth so i have three kids home fulltime and needed fulltime attention, and a job that need fulltime attention. Even with an incredibly supportive partner that was in normalcy challenging. My first reaction to your question is really to think about the logistics, and i know if that was true for me, it was maybe doubly true for our staff across the agency just like it is for people working from home across the country whether they have small children in th
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Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
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