A wide range of influential groups ranging from Greenpeace International to the u. S. Air force. His career is very interesting a way to like to go into. National security adviser to the New York Times, military analyst for nbc news, his the author and coauthor of 11 bucks and many articles for prestigious newspapers and journals. He is not want to shy away from controversy. Drones are definitely controversial right now. Every time you turn on the news theyre talking about drones and regulations. In writing this introduction i went online and twitter feed subjects were quite interesting. Post such as International Police agencies, countering growing threats of ieds, another says, arent marked air force 757 makes Emergency Landing in des moines. This is what conspiracies are made of. However the one that was posted yesterday was that hes going to be here at our bookstore and we are very cited to be on his list of tweets. Without further do please him a welcome william. [applause]. Thank
Committee we rely on is something called nancy which is the National Counselor for local portability and they have made a recommendation for the contract for the entity that will provide that particular service. That is an item that got a lot of press over the last few weeks and that is one of the items on the agenda. You probably guessed i will talk about that as much other than to say we have a recommendation and we will vote on that at the march meeting are there concerns this would go a foreign head quartered company ericson . These are some of the things that have been looked out by not just the fcc, but you probably know there are a number of eyes on this particular item. You know rest assured all of the protocols and input we would have to consider those things have been done and we will have the capacity ability to make a decision based on all of that that has been cleared. That part has been done and we will be able to make a clean decision in a couple weeks. And one last ques
Inaccurate information, even though you were going into the office. Correct. Thank you. Miss rivers, thank you for your testimony. I think every member of this committee offers an apology and certainly our commitment well work with the people in the agencies to try and create law create legislation that will prevent this from happening to another american. So, thank you again for your testimony. Youre dismissed. Thank you. Our next witness will be sean bruin. He joins us today from the Social Security administration where he serves as a Senior Adviser for audit in the office of budget finance quality. Mr. Bruin. Thank you chairman johnson, members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to discuss steps to strengthen the integrity of federal payments. I am senior advicer to the Deputy Commissioner for budget finance quality and management at the Social Security administration. My remarks will focus on our collection of death informationits accuracy, and how we share it with other a
That circumstance happen to them. Usually we learn of the occurrence by the individual reporting it directly to us. We advise the individual that we can correct that if they visit our office. As miss rivers identified. We request that an individual bring several proofs of identity with them, including state issued form of idsty, birth certificate if they have one so that we can correct the record. And when the individual leaves our office, we issue them a letter indicating there was an error and that its been corrected. The name may be removed from the death master file, but the effects continue to linger, correct . Can you describe what happens there with credit agencies and banks and Credit Card Companies . Sure. Well, the Social Security administration shares the public death master file as miss davis indicated. That does not include state data still around 84 million reports with the department of commerce. Commercial entities can procure that record, that database from the departm
Texas republican Governor Greg Abbott basically pleading with people there to wear a mask. Nbcs Morgan Chesky is in dallas for us. Morgan, hospital beds across that state filling up. What are you hearing specifically from hospital workers about the situation there and if theyre prepared for this to get worse . Reporter craig, what were hearing is frankly a lot of frustration. Nearly every major urban area in texas has become a hot spot in its own right, and almost every statistic that should be trending downward at this point in time continues to tick on up. You mentioned those cases in texas. We know here in dallas, 74 of the icu beds are currently occupied. It really depends on what hospital you go to here on how theyre doing resourcewise. We know one of the hardest areas hit in the state is particularly in south texas. I had a chance to speak with a hospital down in edinburg, 25 miles north of the mexican border. Right now they have construction crews building additional beds and wi