Welcome and thank you for being here this is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs for the subcommittee modernizing the federal telework moving forward using the Lessons Learned during the pandemic something good to come out of this pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain it has been a decade since the last significant piece of telework legislation the act of 2010 set the baseline standard for agencies to follow over the last ten years weve seen great advances in Technology Workforce expectations in the increase of cybersecurity threats and to take a little policies and strategies for the federal workforce acting as a magnifying gap on dash this Committee Held a hearing in july during the hearing we could gather Vital Information and also able to draw Lessons Learned of the federal workforce the strategy and policy and during the hearing we also gain some insight of the diet workforce is demanding with the environmental challenges we now face to create remote work policies
3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going
We begin with sweeping changes proposed for the next president ial debate. The move comes after wednesdays chaotic faceoff between President Trump and joe biden. We have more from washington. How could the next debate in two weeks look different . Reporter namecalling and personal attacks drowned out some of the issues voters were looking to hear the economy, coronavirus, and race bringing to question the structure of the debates and possible changes. President trump and democratic president ial nominee joe biden returned to the campaign trail a day after their contentious first date. Last night i did what the corrupt media has refused to do. T held joe biden accountable for his 47 years of lies. I describe it as a president doing everything he could to avoid talking about the issues. Reporter more than 73 Million People tuned in to watch on tuesday night. The two candidates had several sharp exchanges, but the debate was notable for how frequently the president interrupted his opponen
Right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god . Postmaster dejoy i do. As postmastered general, and you spend more than 35 years developing and managing a successful nationwide Logistics Company as chairman and ceo of new breeze logistics. Beginning in 2014, mr. Dejoy served as the ceo of Xpo Logistics and after his retirement in 2015 he joined the companys board of directors where he served until 2018. Mr. Dejoy. Postmaster dejoy good morning chairman, Ranking Member pierce and members of the committee. Thank chairman johnson for calling this hearing. Proud to be with you on behalf of the women and men of the United States Postal Service the on june 15 i became 75th postmaster general. I did so because i believe the Postal Service placed plays a positive role in the lives of the American Public and lives of the nation. I also welcome the opportunity to lead this organization because i believe theres an opportunity for the Posta
Reelection campaign. I have known jason for years, covered him. He has been an advisor to many campaigns, including President Trumps 2016 campaign and has also worked with ted cruz and others. Jason, thanks for being here. You for beingank here, and thank you for the invitation. Bob it is monday. I just got off the phone about the schedule. A convention is all about trying to win the election, but it is also about, perhaps, reaching out to new voters, more voters. It will President Trump do and say this week to do just that . Jason well, i am really excited about a lot of the new voices and new faces that you will see. The theme is the Great American story, and we will go through and talk about the human stories, how people have been helped by the policies of this administration in the first four years, how President Trump once to lead the nation forward in the next four years. Ants toident trump w lead the nation forward in the next four years. There has been a lot of talk about joe b