Prejudice, the small contractors but it is going to be good for the city. And it is going to reward, the good contractors, and the many good contractors, large and small, and who do good work for the city. And so, i do and i just scribe these amendments in the beginning i would ask that the committee would adopt them and to forward this item with the positive recommendation. Supervisor yee . Thank you. First of all, i also want to thank the public for coming out. And thank you for supervisor weiner for putting this forward and i am happy to as you mentioned join you as a cosponsor. On this and i think were right this is really the much of this will be on the shoulder of city staff to figure out the languages so that that is going to be effective when were talking about the subcontractors i felt like in the contractor can continues to keep on using the same bad subcontractors will be reflective how youll rate them for me advertised im not looking for the city to go after a after a contr
Who can keep taxpayer Information Safe. If you are a top notch tech expert, you already are taking a pay cut to work in Public Service compared to what youd earn at firms in oregon or california. Now, without what is called streamlined Critical Pay Authority, it can take four to six months to bring a new hire on board at the irs. So i want to be clear as we go to questions, taxpayer information is under assault every single day. But the irs does not have the Legal Authority it needs from the congress to build a Cybersecurity Team that can beat back the crooks. Already theres been an exodus of high ranking irs tech staff. The director of cybersecurity operations left a month ago. The terms for the remaining employees working under this Authority Continue to expire, including for one of our witnesses chief technology officer. Come 2017, there are not going to be any left. So today, instead of rehashing the past and just beating up on one agency or one firm, to me, the priority ought to b
We are live on capitol hill this morning where irs commissioner John Koskinen is set to testify on cybersecurity. Hell be appearing before the Senate Finance committee. Live coverage here on cspan 3. We expect it to start in just a few minutes. Again, waiting for the start of testimony from irs commissioner John Koskinen this morning. Hell be talking about cybersecurity and how the irs protects the information of taxpayers. This is taking place before the Senate Finance committee. Just a couple moments away. While we wait for this to get started, elsewhere on capitol hill today, visits continue for Supreme Court Justice Nominee Merrick Garland. Hes meeting with 14 senators today, seven democrats, six republicans and one independent. So far, he has had meetings with 21 senators, 18 democrats, 3 republicans. Oneonone meetings with senators to take place in their offices today. Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley was up first and they started at about the 7 45 today. There was
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