Getting Senior Leadership bonuses and the same interest we put in attaching ourselves to highprofile projects is what the same amount of attention that needs to go to veterans. So i encourage you guys if nothing else, please make sure that we move to a system that has more data integrity. Require the people who come here and sit on these panels to sign off on the information they turn into congress. This way when they come back, they cant say that report was done by somebody else. Thats the only way. Hold them accountable and do it in public and while the cameras are on. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Committee come to order. And that includes the former senator from connecticut, who is sitting in the audience behind senator markey. Chris, nice to see you. I think all of us were forward thinking until you and eddie showed up. It will be a close call now. See if we cant get it through. Try to get it done. Senator markey, i dont know what kind of time frame youre on. If you can give
Employee initiative. It was an employee setting up the work. Do it according to these ways. Its amazing how to compress as they felt and this is my last question. If that panel an anomaly or do you think thats a fair representation . Congressman i would refrain it does to me that would feel like if i made a comment like that would feel like i was being disingenuous about the real feelings that they have and i wont do that to my employees. Im out there not to say that i would say thats fairly typical. Just so you know from my perspective that they expressed concerns were fairly typical of what i hear out there whether they have spoken about whistleblowing or inviting in conversation. I yield back. Mr. Jolly for five minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman. General hickey thank you for your service and incredible career and i appreciate your clear dedication to your comments tonight. I have a soft spot for the kc135 so i thank you for your career with that as well. Tonight you find yourself repr
Im delighted to be here today to talk with all of you about the most Critical Issues we face as a nation. That is the battle for talent. Governor fallin, thank you for your leadership on the ngas initiative on workforce and education and congratulations on the progress you will have made in oklahoma. With your dashboard, you are providing a powerful example of how states can address the disconnect between supply and demand. With ok job match come youre helping show states how to improve the way job seekers are matched to jobs based on skills and competency, not just on job descriptions and resumes. It is leadingedge. I would like to recognize colorado as well for doing a great job with the blueprint that ties together agencies businesses, education and workforce development. That kind of approach will be crucial to attacking the workforce challenges ahead and t is exciting to see the progress being made. I want to wish you a bit further today on the topic of talent and workforce develo
More, could emerge with a cabinet nomination. Ill keep my day job. The president elect is in another day of backtoback meet, hours after publicly preempting his own announcement for defense secretary. Cnn Jessica Snyder is there. I couldnt help but notice a d next to one of those senators. A lot of people voek issing on this invitation of trumps to democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp . Hailing from north dakota. Up for reelection in 2018 but will be here at trump tower today. We caught up with her yesterday. She was somewhat in the dark exactly what this meeting by entail but did say she is open to the possibility of discussing a position in the trump administration. Possible positions might include interior secretary or energy secretary. Of course, heitkamp coming from the very red state of north dakota. A state donald trump won big and, of course, Democratic Senators like Heitkamp Donald trump will be looking towards to pass his agenda, but, of course, if heitkamp were to take up a pos