Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
The storm caused horrific damage in upended peoples lives but through perseverance hard work and unyielding oversight of the federal Disaster Response apparatus we built back at her. As a resident of the community affected by hurricane laura assessing damage to their homes they can rest assured that the community will hold a federal Emergency Management agency and its federal partners accountable by making sure they provide to help communities need to get back on their feet. A key lesson from Hurricane Katrina is that the initial response was hampered by the inept leadership of an inexperienced unqualified president ial Campaign Donor who had been appointed to head fema, the nations emergency manager. The hurricanes served as an important reminder that federal agencies should be led to experience people committed to the mission especially in times of crisis. Today the country is in crisis again and leadership for stalling the nations response. A Global Pandemic has crippled the nation.
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There have been 10 serious patients on that cruise ship. For now, lets get a check from the markets and see whats happening across asia. Heres our cross as it reporter. To, thes you did allude mood is optimistic, China Mainland and hong kong. The who said overnight despite we saw yesterday was not necessarily reflective of a larger surge in cases. Yes, we did today get 5000 new cases reported, but much less than the 15,000 yesterday. You can see the csi 300 climbing. S p futures have turned higher after closing lower in the United States. And the nikkei is falling down 6 10 of 1 . And really weighing on though he nikkei is nissan. Its a smaller weight, but its the worst performing stock, having the worst space, falling the lowest level since 2009. This came after an Earnings Report that cut its profit forecast for the second time and slashed its dividends. Back to you guys. Haidi we are getting some of the updates from japan. The Health Minister speaking to reporters, saying they are s
Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] about 20 minutes left in this discussion. A reminder, you can find it online at cspan. Org wj. The house gaveling back in. We take you now to the floor. He house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. The hat purpose does gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Takano madam speaker, i suspend the house rules and pass h. R. 4920. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 4920, a bill to amentitle 38, United States an , to provide for exception to certain Small Business contracting equirements applicable to the department of Veterans Affairs procurement of certain goods and Services Covered under the Ability One Program, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempe pursuant to the rule, the california, mr. Takano, and the gentleman from will each bost, control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman