Welcome, everybody. Thanks for being here. This is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs and subcommittee. Modernizing moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid pandemic. We should have something good come out of the pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, whats already been learned, what gaps are still there and what to do to better improve the process. A decade was telework legislation and enhancement act of 2010 set the baseline standard for federal agencies to follow the telework. Over the last ten years, loosing advances in technology, expectations an increase in Cyber Security threats. So many changes in the world makes sense to take a close look at the current policies and strategies in the federal workplace. Its acting as a magnifying glass for improvement. In july with a panel of private industry witnesses during the hearing, we gathered valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support Remote Workforce and we are able to dra
I thought this happened. Good afternoon everybody i want to welcome everyone to the finance Committee Oversight hearing the fda foreign drug manufacturing inspection process. And the taxpayers whether medicare or medicaid and second and the jurisdiction under trade with the responsibility that only Quality Pharmaceuticals that responsibility is heightened now that we are living through the covid pandemic whether were in the midst of a pandemic the supplychain and starting june of last year on this issue to secretary as are in the commissioner. I ask a series of questions related to manufacturing facilities overseas to file dosages for drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients and throughout the day also with the fda managing its inspection regime that says the fda does conduct some unannounced inspections on the frequency but the gao and 2019 that they estimated they generally provided 12 weeks of notice before the inspection for them to do their jobs and 12 weeks common sense tells me ther
Portion of the event they spoke with google Senior Vice President can walker and joined Lieutenant General shanahan. applause i hope everyone had a good lunch or finished a great launch, im joined with to Close Friends of mine and im probably the only person who can say this in the entire world, i work with and for both of them so i want to make sure i disclose my conflict of interest to start with, so general shanahan went to michigan, and entered the service of our country in 1984 he has been promoted again zillion times and in charge of whole bunch of operational activities and eventually we needed somebody operationally to implement ei in the entire d. O. D. And he was the Perfect Choice so i have worked with him in my role as chairman, can walk was a federal prosecutor law an order federal prosecutor who then chose to come to Silicon Valley, worked at ebay and then we snacked and maybe 15 years ago, every day together and during that time not only did he sell out our Legal Functio
Google Senior Vice President kent walker and joined Artificial Intelligence director general john shanahan. An excellent lunch. I enjoyed with two Close Friends of mine and im probably the only person who can say this in the entire world i work with and for both of them so i want to make sure i disclose my conflict of interest to start with. Enter at the service of the country in 1984 hes been promoted and was in charge of a wholthe whole bunch of intellige activities and operational activities and eventually we needed somebody operationally to implement ai in the entirety of the view was the perfect choice. Kent walker is a federal prosecutor law and order federal prosecutor who then chose to come to Silicon Valley and work that ebay for a while and maybe 15 years ago during that time not only did he set up the Legal Function but is now in charge of Global Policy and all those sort of things together. What but i thought we should dos simply start and have you make some comments about
Which, you know, we give this course currently. You can also asked for identification. Was just curious, was there something new thing we need to be aware of. As our constant updates when theres changes to what is required in the inspections and that sort of thing . I mean, the state does implement new changes. If it is something big, whether the city will often with micro kitchen is gnosis. That is something that is being discussed at a public forum. That gets a broadcast that way. In terms of, you know, there arent changes to the food safety signs. You would be notified if something major was coming up. Thank you. I want to echo commissioner zouzounis, and thank you for working together to come up with such an elegant solution. This really seems like winner winner chicken dinner, in terms of being easy to both the public and the Business Owners. I will echo her comments as well. Anyway we can help you, we are certainly happy to do whatever we can on our end. It seems like a really we