Record as she answered questions. It included Vaccine Mandates, apprenticeships, and child labor abuses. [background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time the committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary su, i want to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. When you would not appear in may we honor your request to appear in june. Using a day, june 7, that was offered by your staff and to which you agreed. We have been more than accommodating to establish a mutual date for this hearing. So why is it that on late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. Senior evp clark, here at the u. S. Chamber and im delighted to welcome you here today. When you have my job, you get to be in this room and say a lot. Ntence but actually mean it today. More than usual. Not because youre so charming started my career at the American Trucking association and you just dont really get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at time, so thank you so much for being here. Hank you to our partners and sponsors. Thank you to ed mortimer and his alented team for putting this together. Ed leads our infrastructure efforts and were lucky to have him. Chamber is a founding sponsor of iweek. Is that a thing . All right. Sponsor of ding iweek and were really proud to bipartisan the Steering Committee and have been proud to see how this meeting grown in reach and and programmatic activity every year. Ou all know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn. Challenge and de has to be a nationw
Chip. We take a look at why the president ial bet on arizona is not as fresh as it may seem. But first, to the lead. The epicenter for the International Debate on Donald Trumps immigration policy is here in San Francisco. The case took on increased business importance as 120 Companies Including Tech Companies from apple, facebook, google filed a legal brief condemning it. Leaders from the tech sector were among the first and most outspoken critics on the executive order on immigration. Why . Perhaps it is because many of the companies that define tech today would not exist without immigrants . Here is a quick recap. Caroline now my colleague cory johnson caught up with the founder of joyus and former advisor to twitter. If you look at the history of some of the most famous Tech Companies we just saw it and there is a lot in terms of the data historically, but today in Silicon Valley over 58 of the highly skilled workers here are immigrants. When you step back and look at our labor pool
Chip. We take a look at why the president ial bet on arizona is not as fresh as it may seem. But first, to the lead. The epicenter for the International Debate on Donald Trumps immigration policy is here in San Francisco. The case took on increased business importance as 120 Companies Including Tech Companies from apple, facebook, google filed a legal brief condemning it. Leaders from the tech sector were among the first and most outspoken critics on the executive order on immigration. Why . Perhaps it is because many of the companies that define tech today would not exist without immigrants . Here is a quick recap. Caroline now my colleague cory johnson caught up with the founder of joyus and former advisor to twitter. If you look at the history of some of the most famous Tech Companies we just saw it and there is a lot in terms of the data historically, but today in Silicon Valley over 58 of the highly skilled workers here are immigrants. When you step back and look at our labor pool
Cybersecurity as an issue so i hope this report and the work we are doing at the National Initiative for cybersecurity education will raise awareness urgency run workforce as part of risk management. Specifically to your question about the quantity and quality of what education is producing for Cybersecurity Workforce, we recognize that as a concern, a challenge and an opportunity that the nice program is built a Strategic Plan that identifies a few goals but one is focused on nurturing a diverse learning community. The first thing i would say if they traditional pipeline most of us are familiar with students going through k12 schools and universities have been to the employer is not the only pathway to give you any cybersecurity. Its an important pathway and a longterm pathway that we want to invest in and improve upon but there are other pathways including the fact a lot of cybersecurity professionals could change jobs midcareer and already have a bachelors degree in the field like p