Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Host i woke up on december 10, 2016, picked up the New York Times, and saw the headline, im prejudiced, he said. Then we kept talking. I want to show you the video and then ask you to explain the whole thing. Good morning. I was hoping your guest could help me change my mind about some things. I am a white male, and i am prejudiced. The reason it is is something not that i was taught but something i learned. When i open up the papers, i get discouraged with what young black males are doing to each other and the crime rates. I understand they live in an environment with a lot of drugs. You have to get money for drugs. Its a deep issue that goes beyond that. I have these different fears. I dont want my fears to come true. I try to avoid that. I come off as being prejudiced. I dont like being forced to like people. I like being led to like people through example. What can i do to change, to be a better american . Heather thank you so much for being honest and opening up this conversation,
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America we should all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy. And something that weve been thinking a lot about lately is actually the root of our name. Demos is the greek word for the people which is the root word of democracy. And right now in this country it feels like figuring out who exactly belongs in our demos and the people of our nation is this nations highest calling. Brian i woke up on december the 10th, 2016, picked up the New York Times, in their opinion section saw the headline, im prejudiced, he said, then we kept talking. And i want to show you the video because it started here at cspan some time before that and then ask you to explain the whole thing. Yes. Good morning. I was hoping that your guest can help me change my mind about some things. Im a white male and i am prejudiced. And the reason it is is something i wasnt taught but its kind of something that i learned. When i open up the papers, i get very discouraged at what young black
A the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. In is cultivating diversity, improving retention with Congressional Staff. I recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. My apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats the backbone of this institution, the Congressional Staff that work here. I think i speak for all of us and those yet to come when i say we couldnt do our jobs without teams of people that work for us. Anytime i get a compliment where someone says nice job on this or that, my response is always i have a good team and i feel lucky for that. Theyre dedicated Public Servants that are here because they want to do meaningful work. They often choose careers on the hill and in the district offices, despite long hours, occasional lack of job s