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
Successful program we also want to do. I would add we are doing a lot of research in this area to predict better responses to opioid use because thats very, very critical. That gets back to the notion of an informed conversation between a clinician and a veteran, family and so forth. Right. One final question. We were just talking about the Health Workforce at the va. One of the things that ive certainly observed in rural medicine, for example, if you receive your training there, perhaps if you were born and raised in a rural environment, youre likely to make a commitment in your career to remaining there. I think the same is very much true with regard to the va. In the va reform law passed last year i authored a provision that included an increase by 1,500 over five years the number of gme residency positions. It is my understanding in this first year of implementation, 204 new resident positions were added. I would like for you to give me a status update on the programs implementatio
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