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
Check out this video from a San Francisco restaurant. The woman in red there is grandma doris campos. She flips over a table to defend herself against a customer who threw a container of Hand Sanitizer at camposs daughter and grandson. Yep, grandma in action. The woman felt her order was taking too long. Thankfully, no one was hurt. A company is now selling the first blood test to diagnose alzheimers disease. The test is designed for people over 60 who are experiencing symptoms of dementia. Its considerably cheaper than the 5,000 brain scan normally used to detect alzheimers which is often not covered by insurance. The blood test is currently being sold without fda approval. Turning now to the race for a vaccine for covid19 and that cdc meeting today that will determine who gets the vaccine first. I spoke earlier with dr. Maldonado. Who will be participating in that meeting today. Dr. Maldonado, heres one dilemma surrounding distribution of the covid vaccines. California is getting 326
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
Strain. A major win for farmers in nigeria a dutch court orders the local branch of shell to pay compensation just caused by oil spills. More protests and scuffles near indias capital as farmers demonstrate against new government laws they say will hurt them could benefit corporate farms and with all your sports after 14 days of quarantine the worlds top tennis stars are back on course in australia and fans were allowed into new. So the European Union is expected to give astra zeneca covert 1000 Vaccine Limited emergency approval in the next up thats despite a growing dispute between the block and the company about a supply shortage at the e. U. Was expecting at least 80000000 doses by the end of march but a week ago actually cut its supply blaming manufacturing issues the president says the vaccine maker is failing to meet its contractual obligations also far the e. U. Has approved to covert 1000 vaccines but there is growing criticism that the rollout is just too slow but there is mo
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re