I would agree. Thank you. Mr. Emerson, mr. Emerson, dhs was created as a maid merger of 22 agencies following the 911 attack. Today dhs is tasked with protecting our borders and airspace. However they have made dhs funding the object of political gain fullness. What other challenges of managing the Department Tasks with such a array of responsibilities. That can have an effect on morale. Anything you all can do to help us in that area. It wasnt the entire government going through that. It was dhs and thats hard for employees who work hard every day to protect this country, as you are were pointing out our employees do an amazing job. They have a lot of work that they deal with and their jobs are difficult but they come to work every day and give 110 . Hopefully our colleagues are listening to your concerns and the points that you raise today. Government wide federal Employee Engagement has declined 4 from 2011 to 2014. There are number that have sustained or increased that level during
The secretary of dhs just came by and had a meeting with mr. Connolly and i and has laid out a number a number of steps on where he is wanting to address this particular concern for employee morale. I think all of the witnesses for being here today and i look forward to a working relationship where we can Work Together to make sure that we have improved numbers but more importantly improved improve satisfaction among our federal workforce. With that i would recognize member connolly from virginia. And i your commitment is quite sincere. You want to collaborate to make things better. Thats an important. To be emphasized. You and i most certainly will collaborate and try to accomplish that. It is easy to complain or highlight problems. It is a lot more difficult to try to address them. Them. As you said mr. Chairman the secretary of Homeland Security cares enough about this topic to come and see you and me prior to this hearing, and hearing, and i would ask unanimous consent that the let
I am not going to use my limited budgets on folks who refuse to work. [laughter] [applause] forget that. What is important for the future is which one of us speaks no Space Command that is me. As as the media keeps reminding us, neither one of us beach spanish. Spanish content starting now. Your on. [laughter] [speaking in native tongue] jose cuervo. Dude, thats not spanish, thats canadian. [laughter] all right. All right. In brigade lysias. The macarena. Mentos, the fresh maker. Dont cry for me, argentina. Enough of that. Lets get back to ted cruz. An open senate seat in texas yeah,. Yeah, but that campaign did not have the best launch. The website did not work. Even republicans said that it was a bad idea. He is obama care. That is why it is about time for texas to turn blue seriously. Seriously. Texas is so read that they approved a textbook that has moses as a founding father. Moses is someone to look up to. He only believes in ten laws. And the only reason he has name recognition
Choice and the history of entertainment at the dinner. Heres a bit of that conversation. For awhile they used to do musicalabilities, and believe it or not a juggling act at some point. That was a long time ago. But since the association started having come eedians come and serve as the entertainer shell be the fourth woman to have done that. I dont know its always a latenight white guy. Which is great. Those guys are funny. But its really important to have different perspectives represented at a podium like that and i just think shes funny. And i think shes shes sharp and cutting and i think shell bring it down to size a little bit. Thats part of the fun. Watch our live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner, starting at 6 30 p. M. Eastern saturday on our companion network cspan. In 2014 the department of Homeland Security was rated the worst federal agency to work for, with nasa being the best. Thats from a recent survey by the office of Personnel Management. The survey us
We are committed to our professions future through programs just like this and we fight for a free press worldwide. For more information about the club visit our website, press. Org. To donate to programs offered through our clubs, Journalism Institute visit press. Org institute. On behalf of members worldwide i want to welcome you to todays luncheon. Id like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter. Use the hashtag npc lunch. Remember, the public attends our lunches applause is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. Ill ask as many questions as time permits. Our head table includes working people who are members of the National Press club. From the right will watson. A former newspaper editor and 20year National Press club member. Larry holdren, patrick host. Captain sydney dawson u. S. Air force, aid to the superintendent and a guest of the speaker. Donald linewein. Gene tie. Thank you so much. Lieutenant cassiem. Gra m. Grane