You can take your seats. We want to take advantage ofg to the opportunity to give the secretary some time for the give and take and the dialog that we are going to embrace here for the next couple ofhink hours. I think we can proceed on the first issue so that we can get so, firs to the chairman, it is of no controversy. Mor so, first, let me call the waysa and Means Committee to order, before turning to our hearing thise morning, the committees aint budget for fiscal year 1974. 2021 in accordance with the congressional budget act, of 1974 in house rules for f, you will find a copy of the letter ininbr front of them, you will receiveubmit it in advance of todays notice the. Thank you for working with me on refl able to wholcan submit a conse document that reflects the a priorities of the ways and n means community. They will consider as open for amendment r at any point, and if there are no amendments i will now recognize mr. Thompson for the purpose of offering a motion. Imat i move t
You can take your seats. We want to take advantage ofg to the opportunity to give the secretary some time for the give and take and the dialog that we are going to embrace here for the next couple ofhink hours. I think we can proceed on the first issue so that we can get so, firs to the chairman, it is of no controversy. Mor so, first, let me call the waysa and Means Committee to order, before turning to our hearing thise morning, the committees aint budget for fiscal year 1974. 2021 in accordance with the congressional budget act, of 1974 in house rules for f, you will find a copy of the letter ininbr front of them, you will receiveubmit it in advance of todays notice the. Thank you for working with me on refl able to wholcan submit a conse document that reflects the a priorities of the ways and n means community. They will consider as open for amendment r at any point, and if there are no amendments i will now recognize mr. Thompson for the purpose of offering a motion. Imat i move t
Officials from the Social Security administration, National Archives and state department testified about federal services backlogs due to the covid19 pandemic. Modernization efforts and staffing issues. The House Oversight and accountability subcommittee hearing is about three hours. The subcommittee on Government Operations and federal workforce will come to order and we will welcome everybody to this board hearing. Without objection the chair may declare recess at any time. I recognize myself forthe purpose of making an open statement. Before we go to the floor id like to if i can acknowledge that even formal settings like this we recognize that its important to remember we are all people. And we have families and understand that some of the people who do Business Today have been visited by some hard luck in their life with a loved one and without saying anything in particular. Perhaps many of us more than one or two are affected and its my wishes for them and their family in these
Officials from the Social Security administration, National Archives and state department testified about federal services backlogs due to the covid19 pandemic. Modernization efforts and staffing issues. The House Oversight and accountability subcommittee hearing is about three hours. The subcommittee on Government Operations and federal workforce will come to order and we will welcome everybody to this board hearing. Without objection the chair may declare recess at any time. I recognize myself forthe purpose of making an open statement. Before we go to the floor id like to if i can acknowledge that even formal settings like this we recognize that its important to remember we are all people. And we have families and understand that some of the people who do Business Today have been visited by some hard luck in their life with a loved one and without saying anything in particular. Perhaps many of us more than one or two are affected and its my wishes for them and their family in these
Representatives from the Social Security administration, the National Archives and state department highlighting the pileup, including increase in demand for passports. The subcommittee on Government Operations and federal workforce will come to order and we will welcome everybody good afternoon. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the adderall workforce will come to order and we would welcome everybody to this important hearing. The chair made it clear, recess any time. I recognize myself for the purpose of making an open statement. Before we go too far, i would like to, if i can, acknowledge that even formal settings like this, we recognize that it is important to remember that we are all people and that we have families. I understand that some of the people have been visited by some hard luck in their life with a loved one and i wanted to, without saying anything in particular to let those no perhaps many of us may be affected but that it is my wishes for them and their fa