Special edition of nbc bay area news. Im janelle wang. Im raj mathai. Democracy is in action and were documenting it every step of the way. This begins our nonstop coverage on this Election Night and were prepared to be here into the wee hours. Here is what is happening right now. The polls remain open until 8 00 p. M. Here in california, but across the country the polls will start closing in about an hour. We dont know which direction things will go tonight, but we do know it could be the highest voter turnout in the history of u. S. President ial elections. Here is a live look now at the white house. The president is inside. Tonight he is watching the results with his family and aides in the residence and oval office. Hes also hosting a party for his closest supporters at the white house, about 250 people on the guest list. Now, earlier today the president stopped by his Campaign Headquarters in virginia. He thanked staffers and reflected on this race. He also said he had not thought
Next, look at efforts to modernize Information Technology across government agencies. The House Oversight subcommittee hearing includes the chief Information Officers from the Government Accountability office, the office of personnel management, white house budget the education department. This is about 2. 5 hours. 5, 4, 3, 2, one. [gavel] welcome, everybody to the Sub Committee on government operations. And our hearing. Pursuant togin, house rules, most members today webex, remotely. Some members are appearing in person, or at least this member is, let me remind you that all individuals attending the hearing in person must wear a face mask. I am dropping mine only to speak. Maskrs not wearing a face will not be recognized. Let me also make some reminders for those appearing in person. You will only see witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you. In activeare speaking speaker view. A timer is visible in front of you. Remotely,attending let me remind everybody about poi
Modernize Information Technology across government agencies. Hearinge subcommittee is from the Personnel Management , the one Budget Office and the education department. This is about 2. 5 hours. 2, one. [gavel] welcome, everybody to the Sub Committee on government operations. And our hearing. Pursuant togin, house rules, most members today webex, remotely. Some members are appearing in person, or at least this member is, let me remind you that all individuals attending the hearing in person must wear a face mask. I am dropping mine only to speak. Maskrs not wearing a face will not be recognized. Let me also make some reminders for those appearing in person. You will only see witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you. In activeare speaking speaker view. A timer is visible in front of you. Remotely,attending let me remind everybody about points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing whether they are in person or remote as long as you ha
Exacerbated by the pandemic. Individuals, especially in that situation, they depend on facetoface contact with someone in Social Security or at least someone they can talk to. And i dont know if youve ever tried to call the 800 number, but if you have, youre going to be on hold for a very long time. I think having more resources as you just pointed out, as shaun mentioned would go a long way. I have made recommendations that Social Security make an effort to partner with some nonprofits in the area to help in advising those who want to claim ssi, how to navigate the system and i think thats worth exploring. I hope Social Security will take that up as well. Congressman mr. Ferguson is recognized. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for your leadership. I think we all agree the worse thing that any of us could do is not to act on this issue. If you want to see real harm done to americans, lets not do anything and see what happens. I would like to commend both of you for your leadership in
Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an