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Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. Well, good morning, everyone. And welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies hearing on accountability and oversight of the federal communications commission. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been serve months since we had you before us and i know that you have all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. But despite that passage of time, many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carriers selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me that even after more than a year had passed, we still couldnt tell whether this practice had stopped. Couldnt say whether the impacted individuals had been notified. Couldnt tell us if members of congress and Law Enforcement had their locations sold or tracked. In june of this
Identify speeding taxi drivers, speeding. And were developing a program to coach and retrain drivers to improve safety outcomes. Were also updating on vehicle camera requirements, and we do Service Audits out in the field. So we have Enforcement Team go out in the field and, test the dispatch services, request a ramp taxi test Response Rates, look for customer service. So thats an ongoing program. The point i want to emphasize on this slide is that we, imbue our work with a culture of care. And i know thats important to that, to the board. Its very important to us as well. So, how we support each other internally and then how we serve the public is critical to how we function. And, its part of everything we do. We the certificate on the right in the slide shows, its a certificate that we actually handed out to every staff member honoring each person for their years of service. And, at the end of handing out all of the certificates and announcing each persons years of service, we had th
Open. Plus signs of a resilient consumer. Amex beats expectations, record revenue for the sixth straight quarter. And transports continue to be in focus. Theyre on pace for what would be the fifth straight weekly loss for that group. Csx reporting a mixed quarter on weaker rail demand. Knight swift saying freight demand remains steady. Lets get to that tenyear hitting 5 , as we said, late yesterday. This is what the chair had to say about bonds and rates. Are we seeing the longer run bonds . Increases in rates . Are we seeing those come through in Financial Conditions in a persistent way, and i think if you look at Financial Condition indexes, the answer, so far, would be yes, you are. Persistence, it will be a matter of just seeing whether or not but certainly, if you look at Financial Conditions indexes, theyre showing tightening, and its a lot because of longer rates. He did say a few months of disinflationary data is just the beginning, sara, of whats going to be needed. What did y
Officials from the Social Security administration, National Archives and state department testified about federal services backlogs due to the covid19 pandemic. Modernization efforts and staffing issues. The House Oversight and accountability subcommittee hearing is about three hours. The subcommittee on Government Operations and federal workforce will come to order and we will welcome everybody to this board hearing. Without objection the chair may declare recess at any time. I recognize myself forthe purpose of making an open statement. Before we go to the floor id like to if i can acknowledge that even formal settings like this we recognize that its important to remember we are all people. And we have families and understand that some of the people who do Business Today have been visited by some hard luck in their life with a loved one and without saying anything in particular. Perhaps many of us more than one or two are affected and its my wishes for them and their family in these