Conservatives, elected to conserve what is great about our country. We cannot survive as the left denigrate our history and pull down our monuments. We must not be afraid as we were in batley, we must not be afraid to get involved where a teacher was driven into hiding by islamist thugs or when the very worst crimes were committed, when young girls were groomed and raped four years in rotherham and rochdale, and nothing happened for years. Rochdale, and nothing happened foryears. Nothing rochdale, and nothing happened for years. Nothing happened because those in charge were scared of being called racists, and then the system hid behind the human Rights Act and failed to deport the child abusers and allowed them to walk the streets where their victims live. Well, enough. I am where their victims live. Well, enough. Iam not where their victims live. Well, enough. I am not afraid. This stealthy poisoning of our society needs to stop. The Liberal Democrats are not going to defend our count
The Secret Services protective methodologies work and they are sound, and We Saw that yesterday. But the way we are positioned right now in this dynamic threat environment, it has given me guidance to say, you know what, we need to look at what our protective methodology is. We need to get out of a reactive model and get to a readiness model. The Acting Director of the Secret Service calling for changes to the agency following sundays apparent Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump. Well bring you the very latest in that investigation. Meanwhile, the former president and his Running Mate are blaming the rhetoric from democrats for the latest attempt on his life. But its their lies about haitian migrants in springfield, ohio, that are having a real impact on that community as threats of violence continue to Shutdown Schools there. Well get into all of that straight ahead. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, september 17th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting yo
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
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
Modernizing the teleworking moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid19 pandemic. We should have some good come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, what gaps are still there, and what better we can do for this process. Its been a decade since the last telework legislation. The telework enhancement act of it set the baseline standards 2010. For them to follow with telework and over the last 10 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. Current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass for telework policy improvement. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with ho