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
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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
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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