Its critical that we allow telework to minimize the number of people in federal buildings. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today. Thank you. At this time i want to proceed with testimony from our witnesses. Let me do a quick introduction of the four of them. Joining us remotely is Michelle Rosenberg and the Strategic Issues team where she is on capital issues and she served for over 20 years on gaos tenured team. Shes been recognized with Health Care Team awards including two Meritorious Service awards and shell be testifying first and joining us remotely. Mr. Keith waington is with the u. S. Department of troilgz. Has been with the Department Since 1991 and in hiscurrent position he provides leadership and oversight in the areas of Human Resources, security, audit relations, acquitions and gras and transportation and facilities and space management. Maybe you can lead nasa for us next since we need a new director for nasa since yo
Learned and what to better improve the process. Its been a decade since the last significant piece of the telework legislation, the telework enhancement act of 2010 and it set the baseline standards for them to follow with telework and over the last ten years, weve seen great advances in technology and workforce expectations and the increase in cybersecurity threats. So many changes in the world it makes sense to take a close look at the telework policies and strategies than the federal workforce. The current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information to what theyve done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with how they recalibrate the telework strategies and policies. During that hearing we gained insight into what the current private workforce is demanding. This, coupled with the environmental challenges we now face will help us create remote wo
What will be watch . We will watch wage growth. Good morning, this is bloomberg surveillance. Guy johnson is with us. There is a really dramatic photo of a helicopter dropping down on a cruise ship. What is the mood in the london weekend . Guy the mood is everyone is trying to figure who has what. We dont have enough test kits. Knowledge as to wether or not this is spreading quickly, slowly, how we people have it. It does not exist right now. Tom i believe it would be called unknownunknown. Screens tothree data start things off. With our first word news, here is viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the coronavirus. Almost 100,000 coronavirus cases have been diagnosed globally. The majority in china. Beijing reporting the number of new cases and deaths are falling. The u. S. Outbreak is getting larger. There have been more than 130 cases reported and at least 11 desperate there is a key to wether the Central Banks cut rates again. This from robert kaplan. He is looking at how fast the
Has not moved to you is off the table we have a great new deal. Also coming up at the worlds most wanted terrorist is dead and us President Trump can take credit for it happening on his watch but the president s thoughts they seem stuck in a different time with a different president he was a sick kid to pray. And now hes dead hes dead hes dead as a doornail. And he didnt die bravely there i will tell you that. He should have been killed years ago. And the president should have gotten them. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the british Prime Minister Boris Johnson crashing not out of the European Union but rather crashing into reality ever since he became Prime Minister back in july Boris Johnson has promised to deliver the un deliverable to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union beginning october 31st no if or buts well that promise has become the butt of many jokes johnson was hoping to capitalize on his P
Trump has been accused of meddling in British Affairs of backing Boris Johnson during the leadership race or earlier on in the year of openly supporting breakfasted and of dialing the prospects over a very large us trade deal in the face of british m. P. s providing the u. K. Leaves the European Union one person he was very clear about though it was the opposition labor leader Jeremy Corbyn who we said would be bad for the country if he becomes Prime Minister he also denied accusations coming from corbin and his that labor party that the United States wants to buy into britains revered National Health service or though it was later pointed out that donald trump when he was over here in the u. K. In june gave a press conference in which he said that the n. H. S. Would possibly be part of any deal with the us Going Forward something trump also said he hoped to see would be some kind of pact between the brics it party and Johnsons Conservative Party we know that johnson is confident that