Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Remotely. R by webex, appearing members are in person, let me remind everyone that pursuant to the house attending physician and guidance come all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. I am dropping mine only to speak. Members who were not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking in what is actives webex speaker view. A timer is directly in front of you. Remotely,s appearing let me remind everybody that first, you will be able to siege person speaking during the hearing whether they are in person or remote as long as you have your webex set to active speaker view. If you have any questions, Contact Committee staff. They will try to be helpful. A timer thatve should be visible on your screen when you are in the active speaker with thumbnail view. Members who wish to pen the
Decertify the deal. Continue to watch this hearing online at cspan. Org. Here on cspan taking you live to the u. S. House. They gavel in for legislative work, beginning work on debate rules for fridays bill dealing with whistleblower protections. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend molly fraser, fwig harbor United Methodist church, gig harbor, washington. The chaplain god of many names we give thanks for many opportunities to serve and remind us we are servants of our country, our people, and the land. Let us not forget the blessings you have given us so we might use our power and influence to oorder the country in ways that allow each and every person to find life and liberty and to pursue happiness. Become, perhaps we come, perhaps already weary from an onslaught of emails, texts, fen calls, and meetings where people make demands on how we vote and assumptions on every decision we put forward.
Your cable or satellite provider. Congressman will herd, republican from texas and he is chair of the Information Technology subcommittee. Hes a former Cyber Security analyst and a former cia agent and in our guest this week on the communicators. Congressman heard that you have a bill that has passed the house that deals with Information Technology in the federal government. What is it . Its called the modernizing Government Technology act and what it does is its quite simple. If a cio and the federal government saves money by doing Something Like transitioning to the cloud they are able to use the money they saved for up to three years in a working capital fund. Why is that important . Why should we care . The federal government is spending 90 billion a year on producing it and good and services and 70 of that is on old i dated legacy systems. Its outrageous. We need to be using taxpayer dollars wiser. By being able to have a cio to introduce technology to go from the two guys in a ga
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