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
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Election of our lifetime. Were glad to be here with you all and we will all take the pledge of allegiance tonight with maybe a little more awareness of whats going on in the world. I will ask everyone to place their hands over their heart so we can say the pledge. [pledge of allegiance]. Thank you, and as always, if i could ask for the commissioners to mute their microphones. If you would like to be heard, just put your name in the chat box. Members of the public who are dialing in, i would ask you to please mute any background noise so that we can hear you and there is no feedback. The dial in number is [indiscernible] 0001, access code 146424 [indiscernible]. You will have two minutes for Public Comment. Please call the roll. [roll call]. You have quorum. [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. Thank you. Im getting a lot of feedback, so im going to ask everyone again to please mute your microphones. Please call the first line item. Line item one [indiscernible] meeting of september 16 [indis
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The 2020 president ial election. Joe biden flips georgia blue for the first time in 28 years, getting him 306 electoral votes. Well have the latest on the white house lawsuits still trying to change the results. League of her own. She started as an intern and is now the most powerful woman in baseball. Details on how king ng became the first female general manager . Any of the four major sports leagues. And the next chapter. As the pandemic rages on, architects and designers are already looking toward the future. But first we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opene opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is a rheed alert, all hands on deck. The coronavirus is now surging in every single state. The death toll could hit 440,000 by march 1st. Hopefully whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be. I guess time will tell. President trump spoke to the public for the first time in more than a week while still not acknowledging joe bidens victory. It wou