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members and witnesses please keep your cameras on at all times, even if you need to step away for a moment. and members cannot, under the rules, participate in two remote proceedings at the same time. at this time i d like to ask that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and have anything be made part of the record without objection hearing on that is in order. today s hearing continues the oversight committee on the house of representatives related to the january 6th, 2021 insurrectionist attack on the capitol. specifically we ll hear from our witnesses about efforts to reform the u.s. capitol police force. i continue to believe that congress must establish a commission focused specifically on the january 6th insurrection. today the house is voting to do just that. unfortunately just since our hearing last week we see additionally why it s important. last week kevin mccarthy said i don t think anybody is questioning the leg ....
speaking, to limit background noise. members will need to unmute themselves to be recognized or questioning witnesses. i want to remind my colleagues to please keep your cameras on at all times, even if you need to step away, please do not leave the meeting or turn the camera off. remind everyone that the regulations remote proceedings, we cannot participate in more than one committee proceeding at the same time. i d like to note that tomorrow marks 100 days from the horrific insurrection attacks on the united states capitol january 6th. among the other steps taken the committee has assisted and monitored two important reviews which were undertaken at the same time. first, russel honore with experienced and other former military leaders to assess capitol security. second and at the same time, immediately after the attack, u.s. capitol police inspector general bolton satisfied his team s ongoing work for a review of the department performance related to the attack, inclu ....
now around 275 charged, plus the tens of millions of dollars needed to repair the capitol. our nation s soldiers struggling. tonight, our cbs news reporting: families who say they can t feed their kids. we are military and we are struggling. o donnell: and, we visit the food bank that serves 1,500 military families. how you can help. the boss meets the judge. bruce springsteen admits to taking tequila shots with fans, and then getting on his motorcycle. the news on the charges tonight. meet this 105-year-old who beat covid. the secrets to her longevity. why a college dropout gave $20 million to the school he couldn t afford to attend. and, superheroes and their sidekicks. how these injured animals are helping children through thapy. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin tonight with breaking news and another po ....
getting started. there s so much work currently under way and a bunch of new projects to get off the ground and i m really looking forward to hearing from our witnesses today about the great work they ve done and have planned. i also want to hear about how the committee can support your work and any modernization ideas that you have that we haven t already thrown at you. this is a little tricky in a virtual format but we re going to try to use the committee rules we adopted last year to give us more flexibility in the q&a portion of the hearing. our goal is to encourage thoughtful discussion in the civil exchange of opinions and ideas. in accordance with clause 2-j of house rule 11, we ll allow up to 30 minutes of extended questioning per witness and, without objection, time won t be segregated between witnesses, which will allow extended back and forth exchanges between members and witnesses. vice timmons and i will manage the time to make sure all members can particip ....
staffing and committee voting systems. congress can be a tough place to get things done but we ve proven it s possible. to date the committee s passed a total of 142 recommendations to make congress more efficient and effective, over 60% of the 97 recommendations passed in the 116th congress have been implemented or have seen meaningful action toward implementation. kism kism 24 have mr. kilmer: 24 have been fully implemented. that s a tremendous accomplishment and we re just getting started. there s so much work currently under way and a bunch of new projects to get off the ground and i m really looking forward to hearing from our witnesses today about the great work they ve done and have planned. i also want to hear about how the committee can support your work and any modernization ideas that you have that we haven t already thrown at you. this is a little tricky in a virtual format but we re going to try to use the committee rules we adopted last year to give us ....