Officials from the Veterans Affairs Department Office of information and technology spoke about workforce recruitment and retention, Cyber Security concerns and modernization efforts while testifying on the president 2025 budget request. This is about 1. 5 hours. I would like to call this hearing to order. Once again, testimony was delivered late, only three hours before the hearing. I have mentioned this before. I am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. Ee. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses wi
Can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we will examine the biden administrations budget requests for t
The hospital but in idaho, there is no place else that she can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we w
According to new numbers from visit california tourists spend a total of 37 billion in the bay area. Compared to 39 bill kron in 2019. The months ahead could be crucial to get us over that pandemic hump. In a promising sign, thousands of people are in town for the annual rsa tech conference we caught up with one of them, a professional hacker. With over 40,000 people from 130 countries present, the rnc conference continues the massive cybersecurity gathering here at the center in San Francisco. Now, i spoke with attendees and they are happy to see that this conference is still in the bay area. It is one of the largest and prestigious security conferences globally. This year rsa conference brings together the boldest and brightest in cybersecurity. That includes the tech speaker and founder. Kc is a professional hacker that created the company bug crowd ensuring election systems and Aviation Systems are hack proof. What we do is we take, you know, all of the people that Hack Computers i
Were extremely ready. 100 by 2030, battery, electrici vehicle and fully carbon neutral. But i didnt get to see bentleys new electric car. Not even a prototype. Everything about the car is really hush hush, including the price. What price will it start out . The electric. Were not given the prices yet. But there will be a whole range of cars five models. If you take our current position, they sourced 170,000 now and we top out at about 300 for the base cars. And its probably going to be similar to that, plus maybe i five to 10 . The majority of your customers overseas where they dont necessarily have the same rules coming in for Electric Vehicles. Yes, 86 of our revenue comes from overseas. I most of the cities where we operate, including in europe, they have restrictions, if not bans. So even though every country hasnt banned them, many cities are restricting use. And because our cars used every day, customers know and because our cars usedi every day, customers know that its advantage