Mr. Perry thank you, madam chair. H. R. 6276, the use it act of 2023, is commonsense and reasonable space occupancy standards to get federal employees back into the office or the agency will have to lose, unused space. As a recent Government Accountability Office Review of how agencies were actually using their headquarter space here in washington, d. C. , found that 17 of 24 agencies, t g. A. O. Re that g. A. O. Reviewed used 25 or less of their space. 17 of 24. 25 or less of their one agency even admitted that if 100 of their employees showed up, every single one of them showed up, they boo sti only usf their own building. Even more troubling is some agencies were using only 9 , they cant even make double digits, of their space, 9 . And to be clear, were not just paying for space to sit empty. But throughout the whole time were paying for utilities and services such as heating, cooling, lighting. Regular power, maintenance, security for the entire space that no one is in. Empty Feder
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New concerns at the southern boerd after nbc learns a suspected isis member entered the u. S. And liverd lived freel nearly two years. A graduation six decades in the making. A 100yearold vietnam vet finally gets his College Diploma. Its thursday, may 2nd. Early today starts right now. Sgla glad you are up early with me. Im Frances River eaa. Activists are trying to get universities to divest from israe israel. A tent city currently, lapd antiriot forces are deployed on campus in an explosive situation that we are following closely this morning. Lets turn to nbcs Gadi Schwartz live in los angeles with the latest. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, frances. Actually, right now were hearing screams of do not en engage. It looks like theres some kind of altercation between counter protesters and people that are here in support of the sol darts encampment thats just down the way. This is one of the first skirmishes that weve seen. Weve seen a few counter protesters kind of checking
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