We do immediate feet back and do that consistently. Workforce readiness and performance and workforce accountability. We changed that. Its no longer based upon how long the lines are. Thats a separate issue. We deal with that at the management level. For the frontline workforce, i want you to know they will focus on the mission and support them with the best possible training and train them on the equipment and how it operates and gave them hands on understanding of what the limitations were. There is a fuller interest that i will provide. The gentlemen from tennessee for five minutes. Can you me how many tsa employees make 100,000 or more a year . I will have to get that number. Can you make a rough guess . I dont really know. I will have to get it for the record. Do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i restricted the number of bonuses we do. It was a significantly smaller number based on performance and not special act awards. Have yo
General roth for his support. I greatly value the oversight that his office provides to improve our agency and i have been working closely with him during my tenure. My Leadership Perspective is shaped by more than three decades of National Service in crisis leadership. Throughout my career i have emphasized professional integrity and duty to mission as foundational elements of service for myself and for the dedicated Civil Servants and military members i have been entrusted to lead. Since taking the oath of office on july 4th of last year i have traveled throughout the country and throughout the world to meet with employees at all levels of our agency. Ive been impressed by their patriotism and their sense of duty. These are servants who every day perform demanding tasks under difficult circumstances, and i deeply respect and appreciate their work. They have risen to the challenge of service to a mission and have taken an oath of office and loyalty as a condition of employment. Their
By the florida restaurant association. Hi, everyone. Im greg. And vanessa. Were excited to be with you today to share with all of you the 35th Anniversary Edition of a Central Florida holiday tradition, the florida citrus parade. This event was first held in 1980 and held by florida citrus sports. The floats youll be seeing are decorated with oranges, grapefruits and tangerines green here in the sunshine state. We have a great lineup including the edible floats, marching bands from all over the nations, football v. I. P. S and a few surprises. Greg, we have around 50,000 of our closest friends with us today lining the parade route. The third member of our team, a man that loves to have a good time, orlando native and comedian, rod z is there in the and i love being in the middle of the action. Its great being back home in Central Florida. Its greater being part of this wonderful parade. You know were going to have fun, right, guys . [cheers applause] all right, rod. I have no doubt abo
Or new it was robust. weve got to make sure that our request is just that its significant, its robust, and its representative of the fact that our citizens have been paying taxes for years. Theyve been paying federal taxes year after year. Its time for the federal government to respond in kind. Benjamins eyes are on a 300 Million Dollar pot of money, known as a Community Development block grant, thats written into the federal budget for Disaster Relief for the areas affected by hurricane joaquin, the storm that fed the flood with moisture. Hes hoping some of that money can be used to fix the columbia canal, which benjamin calls the biggest project in the state and fund the 140 million thatll likely be needed to restore about 2,600 properties of low and moderateincome families. Were going to be vigilant. Were not going to slow down. Were not going to stop. As for the pot of 300 Million Dollars worth of federal funds, theres no word divvied up, but congressman clyburn told us in a statem
Supporters of the military. In this country, in fact, they are essentially a group of people who are about as american as you can get. What we learned about this sort of culture of poverty in the cities, we learn that segregation matters. Segregation matters. There is a long history of how america has treated them. Look at the early civil rights leaders, segregation was a problem. Martin luther king was referring to the need for integration. About the same time there was this group going against the culture, there is also a reaction the idea of segregation as problematic. Coming from the black leadership. And the same set of forces, in fact, they come from the rise of black pride. To learn and so on. What it did, as well as the most decorated sociologist tried to point out, it brings segregation off the table. Let me tell you, it is a problem. To succeed in america, you need not just book knowledge, not the knowledge you learn in school, but cultural and social capital. Whom you know i