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
965. Accordingly, am joined by members here as well as approximately ten members on a remote platform. Thats outstanding and i want to thank everyone for joining us. Before we turn to todays important topic, want to remind the members of a few procedures to help us navigate this arrangement here. [inaudible]. For those participating virtually, to eliminate background noise. [inaudible]. So we will pause for one moment. Members are responsible for using themselves and getting themselv or when recognized for the five minutes. Membs here in the hearing room alsoeminded to keep your microphones. When you are not recognized. Second, a members participating virtually, you must have amazon at allimes. If you need step away from the proceedings, please leave your cameras on. Rather than logging out. And 30, we will dispense wh our practices of observing the gibbons role and go in order of seniority for questioning. Alternating between the minority and majority beginning with members of the ove
Busy day here dc. The report is that the white house is now looking into how soon it can release the whistleblower complaint, but they say it will be done as soon as legally possible. No exact date on that. For what happened today, House Speaker nancy pelosi has been slow rolling the impeachment efforts for years, but today she threw her weight behind her fellow democrats, who are in favor of the impeachment efforts, as more and more members of the caucus joined those efforts. The president must be held accountable, no one is above the law. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing a formal impeachment inquiry after meeting with fellow democrats this afternoon. To make the actions taken to date by thpresident have seriously violated the constitution, especially when the president says article 2 says i can do whatever i want. Calls for impeachment have been growing in recent days. Following a government whistleblower complaint detailing a questionable phone call between President Trump and
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