These televisions providers give you a front row seat to democracy. Next, the Social Security administration is commissioner Martin Omalley testifies and addresses delays and weight times for beneficiaries and modernization efforts in this is his first appearance since becoming commissioner and the hearing is about two hours. Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with good morning, everybody. The special committee on aging will come to order and the title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with disabilities, the status of Social Security today. Today, we will hear from the Social Security administration commissioner, Martin Omalley. We are grateful you are here. The commissioner was confirmed in december of last year. I dont think i have to remind anybody in this room or listening how important this program called Social Securitys. It will serve over 68 million am
Federal employees. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor jon lands, Fellowship Baptist Church, vienna, west virginia. The chaplain lord god, i thank you for your hand of providence that has guided our nation and protected us over these past 241 years. Were thankful for those who have gone before us and paid the price for our freedom from tyranny. In recognizing your blessing in our history, we now ask for your continued favor and grace. We ask that youll protect those who even now place themselves in harms way to preserve the liberty of our land. I especially thank you for these dedicated men and women who gather today to do our nations business. We pray for all in authority, that we may live in peace. We ask you to lead this congress, to follow your instruction given to the prophet mica. To do justly. To love mercy. And to walk humbly with you. These things we pray in jesus name. Amep. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined
Automated systems to notify supervisors when the end of an individuals probationary period is imminent. Agencies have these systems. They just need to use them. My amendment requires supervisors to be net fi notified as a series of regular intervals in advance of the expiration of a probationary period. Notifications occur at one year, six months, and three months before the scheduled completion of a probationary period. This will remind supervisors of their responsibilities to observe employees and provide feedback throughout the probationary period. It will also remind supervisors to decide whether the employee is fit for federal service. I urge members to support this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. Does any member seek time for opposition . The chair for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Connolly i have no speakers on this side. I do rise in opposition to the amendment. The chair the gentleman is r
That was unfortunate. And anybody who thinks that the heat wasnt raised was saying that there was not going to be a deal i think is incorrect. But thats not why i asked for the one minute. What i asked for the one minute is, colleagues, the American People are relying on us to come together and to agree on things they know are very important to them and their families and their communities and their country. Let us not accuse one another back and forth of bad faith and lets lower the heat and lets try to get that work done. Well, the gentleman wouldnt yield to me but im glad to yield to him. Mr. Mccarthy oh mr. Hoyer my friend, the majority leader. Mr. Mccarthy my friend is correct in a lot but i will explain understand one thing. In this job and when we run and were passionate about our beliefs, my parents always told me if you cant handle the heat you probably shouldnt run but the one thing that should happen, if we want to come to a conclusion, just as you and i and my good friend s
Federal officials in the center for Transgender Equality much of the hearing focused on how the tsa treats transgender and disabled travelers college homeland hearing. The Senate Committee is meeting to examine the efforts to engage with the traveling public and when it is positive, successful for most americans tsa is in Homeland Security component they regularly interact with. By screening over 2 million passengers per day tsa Center Acting with a diverse array tss had certainly look at issues and other times it just operations to improve effectiveness tsa has struggled to communicate with the public. Back of Stakeholder Engagement has led to confusion among travelers, airports and the tsa all personnel. This new procedure called enhance accessible screening was met with some confusion as travelers to not understand the reasoning behind the new procedures. Rises and falls in the agencys ability to consistently apply among the system. Identifying and understanding public needs and eff