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
Started to work towards, it represented a fundamental threat toward the american way life. So he dedicated himself to preventing roosevelt from being able to enact. It contentious president ial transitions, sunday daytoday pm eastern on cspans q a. Next, remarks from mark travis, the former Deputy Director of the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on what led to his decision to step down after the 2020 election. He also spoke about combatting disinformation domestically and abroad and Election Security during the 2020 election. Held by the aspen institute, this is about 40 minutes. Thank you so much for having me be here, and im very excited to interview matt travis, someone ive wanted to talk to a lot about cybersecurity. And weve got a lot to talk about, welcome, matt. Thank you for being here. Thanks for the invitation. I like your a spinal tap thing behind you. Its relegated to the basement since my kids are at home learning. It gets a nine on room rates are. Lets beg
Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th
And responsibility commitment needs to be kept and contracts are binding advance Purchase Agreement needs to be respect today we have developed a system that will allow us to know whether vaccines are being exported from the e. U. This increase transparency will also come with the responsibility for the e. U. To authorize with no Member States these vaccine exports us drug from johnson and johnson is the latest Pharmaceutical Company expected to apply for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in the u. S. Next week they said single dose job appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing coronavirus the dutch court of appeals has ruled that Oil Giant Shell was paid compensation to a group of nigerian farms cuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 or spills. Memos military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last years election it says it was fraudulent and sense that shes governing party won a majority of s
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