Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Two Human Resource executives and author of three books on workplace topics testify and answer questions from committee members. The hearing is about 90 minutes. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. In is cultivating diversity, improving retention with Congressional Staff. I recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. My apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats the backbone of this institution, the Congressional Staff that work here. I think i speak for all of us and those yet to come when i say we couldnt do our jobs without teams of people that work for us. Anytime i get a compliment where someone says nice job on this or that, my response is always i have a good team and i feel lucky for that. Theyre dedicated Public Servants that a
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Southern mexico. The parents of the missing students continue to hold out hope that their loved ones are still alive. We will go to guerrero and mexico city for the latest. U. S. , attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch. If i have the honor of being confirmed by the senate, i will wake up every morning with the protection of the American People my first thought. As Senate Democrats consider putting off her confirmation hearing to the shock of many until next year am a when the republicans are in control. We will speak to her former law school classmate, kimberle crenshaw, of the africanamerican policy forum. We will also talk about crenshaws campaign to include girls and women of color in president obamas my brothers keeper initiative. Interesting meeting led by Valerie Jarrett yesterday. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Death toll from the Ebola Outbreak in west africa has topped 5000 with another 14,000 stricken with ebola. The W
Southern state of guerrero by police and a drug gang. The testers set ablaze the Guerrero State Congress in southern mexico. The parents of the missing students continue to hold out hope that their loved ones are still alive. We will go to guerrero and mexico city for the latest. U. S. , attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch. If i have the honor of being confirmed by the senate, i will wake up every morning with the protection of the American People my first thought. As Senate Democrats consider putting off her confirmation hearing to the shock of many until next year am a when the republicans are in control. We will speak to her former law school classmate, kimberle crenshaw, of the africanamerican policy forum. We will also talk about crenshaws campaign to include girls and women of color in president obamas my brothers keeper initiative. Interesting meeting led by Valerie Jarrett yesterday. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Deat