Willis testifies about changes to the u. S. Postal service and hes addressing the rise and assault postal workers. Oversight accountability subcommittee hearing is the first congressional appearance two years just over three hours. Good morning, the subcommittee on federal work will come to order and i would like to welcome everybody to this important meeting. May declare a recess at any time. We also have a number of members seeking to be weighed on todays hearing without objection, ms. Mays from South Carolina will committee on oversight accountability today. Also we have the gentleman from South Carolina and the Commerce Committee has asked to be part of this as well as the gentleman from california. The subcommittee of questioning todays hearing. Thank you. I recognize myself for making an Opening Statement let me welcome postmaster general, sometime last week we were preparing testimony and operational needs of the day and i found postmaster general im very thankful for the opport
Willis testifies about changes to the u. S. Postal service and hes addressing the rise and assault postal workers. Oversight accountability subcommittee hearing is the first congressional appearance two years just over three hours. Good morning, the subcommittee on federal work will come to order and i would like to welcome everybody to this important meeting. May declare a recess at any time. We also have a number of members seeking to be weighed on todays hearing without objection, ms. Mays from South Carolina will committee on oversight accountability today. Also we have the gentleman from South Carolina and the Commerce Committee has asked to be part of this as well as the gentleman from california. The subcommittee of questioning todays hearing. Thank you. I recognize myself for making an Opening Statement let me welcome postmaster general, sometime last week we were preparing testimony and operational needs of the day and i found postmaster general im very thankful for the opport
Then lastly, we all know that research that the money we invest in our young kids is basically pays humongous dividends at the end of the day. The last person that gave Public Comments asked a question, did you get to hear that . I think you have answers for that, would you like to address the issue of how do you monitor this business of these programs . Interview thank you supervisor. Again director of the office early care and education and in response to the question what committees are oversight do we have for this work of oec generally and im pleased to say we have a ninemember Citizens Advisory Committee seated half by the mayor and half by the board of supervisors of qualified parents and practitioners to help advise our work and provide accountability and Program Improvements for the City Investments and Early Childhood to make sure that theyre working as well as they can for both parents and programs. They meet by monthly and where data informed and also advise outside of meet
Due just have more kids when you have the teacher, like some afternoon programs in the past depending on the structure you could have 30, 50 kids it doesnt matter and so that could lower the cost and just charge the parents more. Right, followup on the question, first it has to do with the ratio of the number of educators to children and talk about quality, thats a really important component of quality to have the right level of supervision and support at a health and safety measure and also the level support to facilitate learning to be september 11th. We support the handful very small number of facilities that have infant toddler care and i believe it to be two and we support that work and theyre primarily a preschool provider given the way they organize the history but they do support infant and toddler care toddlers and some of their classrooms and theyre part of our system and they receive city funding and they are also great contribute ors and that question about quality in addit
, the National Constitution Center Hosted a discussion on how the bill of rights applies to todays debates on freedom of speech, the right to privacy and other issues. Speakers include the constitution center, also, the American Enterprise institute, and also the Aspen Institute. Welcome to the greatest assembly of the defenders of freedom ever. We have peter goettler, arthur brooks, Walter Isaacson, neera tanden, and Anthony Romero of the aclu. A big round of applause. [applause] jeffrey the National Constitution center is indeed a convening space of the greatest thinkers on freedom and called its usual liberties. It is impossible to imagine more distinguished, engaged of a group than the one you have today. I will plunge in. We have on the side of the stage a beautiful document. There are many documents here at the National Constitution center. I hope you are able to see the gallery as he came in the copy of the bill of rights and the declaration of independence. This is a very speci