Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. We also have the newly created the opm and the dod have a shared responsibility to make sure we stop moving the organizational boxes around as we transition, we need to talk about the efficiency and make sure at the end of the day we are protecting and securing the United States of america. Theres a tremendous amount of people that are working on these issues. We will have additional hearings and discuss that. I personally believe and i would like to draw this out, attracting and retaining the pr
Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. We also have the newly created the opm and the dod have a shared responsibility to make sure we stop moving the organizational boxes around as we transition, we need to talk about the efficiency and make sure at the end of the day we are protecting and securing the United States of america. Theres a tremendous amount of people that are working on these issues. We will have additional hearings and discuss that. I personally believe and i would like to draw this out, attracting and retaining the pr
Efficiency of federal employee background checks. The Oversight Reform Committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employees personal information. This hearing is about 2. 5 hours. Committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Appreciate you all being here. We have very important hearing. We have a number of members that im sure will be here, but it will be late. There is the National Prayer breakfast and getting across town at this point of the day is a difficult task. Nevertheless, glad to have you here and look forward to this important hearing. Two years ago, the office of Personnel Management suffered one of the most damaging data breaches in the history of the federal government. This went on for some time and we still, there are still Additional Details that need to be learned. But the counterintelligence value of the data that was stolen will last
Welcome, everyone to the Mayors Disability Council meeting here in room 400, city hall. February 19, 2016. We appreciate you being here with us today. We are going to get started with the agenda and cochair supanich will read the welcome and introduction. Thank you. Thank you, good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday february 19, 2016, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs or other mobile devices at grove, van ness and mccallister street ramps. The carlton b entrance is provided via chairlift. Our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciate. We welcome publics participation during Publi
[speaking in native tongue] translator and we want to turn this into a highvalue added alliance that is ready for the future. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, congress is on a weeklong columbus day break. Legislative business resumes tuesday. She was Hillary Clintons deputy chief of staff at the state department and is now working on this comes president ial campaign. After the meeting the benghazi committees top democrat spoke with reporters. Congressman mccarthy making clear what this is all about. We then of course have the handpicked member of the republican staff. To affirm what mr. Mccarthy had already stated we then have congressman hannah to reaffirm all of it. But even if we wanted to put words to the side, the question becomes, we have been asked to not listen to the words of mccarthy, not listen to words of discussed , and not listen to the words of hannah the look at the actions of the committee. We have a situation where is cle