The secretary of dhs just came by and had a meeting with mr. Connolly and i and has laid out a number a number of steps on where he is wanting to address this particular concern for employee morale. I think all of the witnesses for being here today and i look forward to a working relationship where we can Work Together to make sure that we have improved numbers but more importantly improved improve satisfaction among our federal workforce. With that i would recognize member connolly from virginia. And i your commitment is quite sincere. You want to collaborate to make things better. Thats an important. To be emphasized. You and i most certainly will collaborate and try to accomplish that. It is easy to complain or highlight problems. It is a lot more difficult to try to address them. Them. As you said mr. Chairman the secretary of Homeland Security cares enough about this topic to come and see you and me prior to this hearing, and hearing, and i would ask unanimous consent that the let
The secretary of dhs just came by and had a meeting with mr. Connolly and i and has laid out a number a number of steps on where he is wanting to address this particular concern for employee morale. I think all of the witnesses for being here today and i look forward to a working relationship where we can Work Together to make sure that we have improved numbers but more importantly improved improve satisfaction among our federal workforce. With that i would recognize member connolly from virginia. And i your commitment is quite sincere. You want to collaborate to make things better. Thats an important. To be emphasized. You and i most certainly will collaborate and try to accomplish that. It is easy to complain or highlight problems. It is a lot more difficult to try to address them. Them. As you said mr. Chairman the secretary of Homeland Security cares enough about this topic to come and see you and me prior to this hearing, and hearing, and i would ask unanimous consent that the let
Choice and the history of entertainment at the dinner. Heres a bit of that conversation. For awhile they used to do musicalabilities, and believe it or not a juggling act at some point. That was a long time ago. But since the association started having come eedians come and serve as the entertainer shell be the fourth woman to have done that. I dont know its always a latenight white guy. Which is great. Those guys are funny. But its really important to have different perspectives represented at a podium like that and i just think shes funny. And i think shes shes sharp and cutting and i think shell bring it down to size a little bit. Thats part of the fun. Watch our live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner, starting at 6 30 p. M. Eastern saturday on our companion network cspan. In 2014 the department of Homeland Security was rated the worst federal agency to work for, with nasa being the best. Thats from a recent survey by the office of Personnel Management. The survey us
These villages. So if you have a small hall tank in your home, you can truck water to the home and fill the tank, and you can have faucets and you can have a shower and you can have some water in the home in that respect. But as it turns out, that model doesnt deliver a lot of water into the home. And so what weve learned is that homes that have honey buckets that have basically no system other than a central Watering Point where you go fill up buckets, they deliver about 1. 5 gallons of water per person per day. If you have a small hall system, they deliver about 2. 5 gallons of water per person per day. Now, the w. H. O. Recommends a minimum of 13 to 15 gallons per person per day of water. If you look at what the use is in the United States in general, we generally use about 50 gallons per person per day. So our villages in alaska are doing extreme, extreme water rationing, and we know that this isnt just true for alaska. There are other areas in the arctic, some of our other neighbo
And may never get it. So what do we do . Well, one of the interim steps that we had taken was to develop small hall Water Systems into these villages. So if you have a small hall tank in your home, you can truck water to the home and fill the tank, and you can have faucets and you can have a shower and you can have some water in the home in that respect. But as it turns out, that model doesnt deliver a lot of water into the home. And so what weve learned is that homes that have honey buckets that have basically no system other than a central Watering Point where you go fill up buckets, they deliver about 1. 5 gallons of water per person per day. If you have a small hall system, they deliver about 2. 5 gallons of water per person per day. Now, the w. H. O. Recommends a minimum of 13 to 15 gallons per person per day of water. If you look at what the use is in the United States in general, we generally use about 50 gallons per person per day. So our villages in alaska are doing extreme, e