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
Welcome, everybody. Thanks for being here. This is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs and subcommittee. Modernizing moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid pandemic. We should have something good come out of the pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, whats already been learned, what gaps are still there and what to do to better improve the process. A decade was telework legislation and enhancement act of 2010 set the baseline standard for federal agencies to follow the telework. Over the last ten years, loosing advances in technology, expectations an increase in Cyber Security threats. So many changes in the world makes sense to take a close look at the current policies and strategies in the federal workplace. Its acting as a magnifying glass for improvement. In july with a panel of private industry witnesses during the hearing, we gathered valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support Remote Workforce and we are able to dra
Of freedom and democracy in American Foreign policy will feature general hr mcmasters who served in the military for 34 years and held the position of the 20 sixth assistant to the president for National Security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. He will talk about his new book battlegrounds the fight to defend the free world, with doctor michael crow, the sixteenth president of Arizona State university. Mccain Institute Trustee and a dear friend of the family. We are honored to host mcmaster for what is an important and timely discussion on us foreign policy. You can begin. Glad to see everybody here. What i want to do first is say the book is a fantastic piece of work, got many little tags on it. I want to spend some time relative to a set of core ideas you put out in this book some that are fantastic in the sense that they are concepts we should be using in the articulation of our thinking about foreignpolicy and National Defense policy and so for
White americans. Unfortunately, this information about distrust and medical systems like a significant role on these outcomes. Last monday, had the pleasure speaking with the doctor, an emergency physician visiting professor of health, policy and management and the George Washington University Institute school of Public Health. The doctor previously served as the Health Commissioner for the city of baltimore. She led the nations oldest operating Health Department to fight the Opioid Epidemic and print child health and treat racism as a Public Health issue. The doctor has been a leading voice call for policies and practices during this coronavirus pandemic. On monday we spoken with about the impact of covid19 on communities of color in the u. S. [silence]. I believe we have video to play here. Thank you doctor for joining us. I would like to start off by asking you but the current data but the disparities in the covid19 rates. In the outcomes people of of color around the United States.
Yes i can understand wire you writing about it now hasnt happened jet. Im learning about the things we can write about now. I deliberately took a step back. Im not writing as things unfold. Im not about this or that misstep by this so that government. Im not talking that level at all. What i am doing is standing back and saying okay, why pandemic why now. That is something i could do. Youve been reading my work, you know, i like many other people been writing about this for years. Weve been saying this is going to happen. These are the viruses we need to worry about. This is what we need to do. It is already so obvious those predictions were back on. And we havent done a lot of things we need to do. This was kind of the moment to repeat all of that stuff. At a time when people can really understand it. Therefore the message might really come home to the right people. I think that point out emphasizes how strongly am how political leaders have been represented to them previously for pre