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Of your words and you can pause when answering questions so that we capture your complete response. Thank you very much and ms. Barnes, youre now recognized for five minutes. Ms. Bans, yrnes, you may have t unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted. Okay. Chairman pappas, chairwoman brownley, Ranking Member bergman, chairman takano, members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss gaos work for Sexual Harassment at the department of veteran affairs. I will talk about statements from my june report released last week. The protection board estimated that 22 of va employees experience some form of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va has several methods to address such Sexual Harassment complaints. But we found that the agency was falling short in a number of areas. Including one, its complaint structure, collection of incidents on Sexual Harassment and actions taken, and, three, provision in
Technical support you can resolve your issues immediately. Under a member unable to be on the committee and subcommittee policy that members remotely remain would not recommend like turning microphone on and off during an in person hearing. Background noise interview member to speak. You unmute your microphone and pause a couple of seconds before speaking so we can hear everything you say. If you wish to be recognize, raise your hand using the race hand function unmute your microphone and asked to be recognized. In order to ensure everything is captured on the lifestream, i asked members pause for two or three beginning to speak. If you wish to have a document inserted into the record, ask for unanimous consent and have your staff email the document to Veterans Affairs during mal male. Gov. Well be putting the repository. Keep in mind you will need to refresh page as it does not automatically update members will rest in order of seniority questioning witnesses today. This will make it
Oklahoma congresswoman kendra horn held a town hall meeting with constituents at the northwest Oklahoma City library. She took questions on the cost of Prescription Drugs, health care reform, border security, investment in Public Education and the impeachment inquiry. Color guard, post your colors. Color guard, honor your colors. Please join she in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Color guard, retreat. Color guard, dismissed. Audience, be seated. Thank you very much. Can we give our girl scouts a warm round of applause . [ applause ] so these young women are senior girl scouts which means they are in high school and they represent a few different troops that are working on learning how to interact with the world, to travel, to they do a lot of Different Things, but to explore the world and then to support younger girls, brin
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the november 8, 2019 Public Safety and Member Services committee. Im chair of the committee. To my right is our vice chair and our clerk is john carroll and i want to thank jason goldhammer for staffing our meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements. Yes, please ensure youve silenced cell phones and your completed speaker cards to be included as a part of the file shall be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Could you please call our first item . An ordinance amending the police code to require the cannabis retailers permitted events, hold cannabis business permitted issued by the city and that permits identify the retailers selling cannabis goods and affirm that said retailers hold the goods and only retailers will sell such goods at cannabis goods and that they commit to specific actions to support the equity goals as a commitment of permanent issuance and an application for a