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
Learned and what to better improve the process. Its been a decade since the last significant piece of the telework legislation, the telework enhancement act of 2010 and it set the baseline standards for them to follow with telework and over the last ten 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. The current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information to what theyve done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with how they recalibrate the telework strategies and policies. During that hearing we gained insight into what the current private workforce is demanding. This, coupled with the environmental challenges we now face will help us create remote wo
Pleasure to introduce three of americas leading trademark scholars, joining us today to understand the arguments you have just heard. Rebecca is the stanchion professor of the First Harvard Amendment Law school, file filing the brief of trademark scholars in the booking. Com case. Margaret duncan filed a brief in the in support of the respondents in booking. Com and she is the adjunct professor out of the Chicago School of law and she filed a brief on behalf of the intellectual Property Law Association of chicago, where she is vice chair of the amicus committee. Karin is the legal director of the Electronic Frontier foundation, filing a brief in support of the petitioner in booking. Com. Corinne,margaret, thank you to all of you for joining. Thank you. Wonderful. Lets begin with you. Congratulations, your brief was. Ited several times before delving into the but dots in the brief, tell us what this case was about. What were the main legal arguments on both sides . What are the stakes i
Board chairman, fred ryan. [applause] good evening everyone. I name is don hi bush and i had the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. If you would in honor of our men and women in uniform who protect our freedoms around the world please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, please be seated. Before we get started i would like to take a moment to recognize some special guests we have with us this evening and i will begin with our board of trustees. We have with us governor pete wilson and his terrific wife, gail. [applause] from North Carolina mr. Bennett sutton. [applause] former congressman retired but just as busy as ever alton [inaudible] and his wife janet. [applause] so now on to tonights pro