when she debates mary norton. a radio debate, but clearly they know they are going to be photographed. mary norton is wearing her fantastic fur santa claus coat. and edith noures rogers is in widow's weed. still officially mourning her husband. but it is politically savvy. she is always very good at that. this is a leaflet from her first general election. in here she says over and over again, things like, always on the job. reelect mrs. rogers. inside it says some wonderful stuff. "knows the ropes, gives prompt, efficient service." she talks were about what she has done for veterans. she is still mrs. john jacob rogers. this is the primary season in september. she is very much -- very wise in the ways of doing this. later, after she has been reelected a few times, she often is photographed doing things that will be visually interesting and also very much related to the issues important to her. here she and other members of congress are testing out a really riding lawnmower-looking tank. right outside the capitol.

mary norton was one of them. she was constantly urging women to be involved in politics, to be involved outside the home, even when the war ended she feared that might contract again and women would kind of be forced back into a domesticated role. one of the prominent people who serves in the 1940s is helen douglas. we have a picture of her here from that time period. douglas was well known to constituents. she represented a district in that encompassed a part of los angeles, california. she was known nationally. she was a star of the stage. she was married to melvin douglas, the actor, and she became involved in california politics and was a progressive and began to speak a lot on behalf of democratic candidates. she won election to the house for a couple of terms in the 1940s. she wasn't really a legislator, per se. she wasn't introducing a lot of bills. she wasn't a legislative entrepreneur. but she was a spokesperson for progressivist issues. she would often come on to the floor and talk about improving housi

norton: thank you, leader hoyer. i came here today to focus on one thing, and that is the bill that will be discussed monday, called delivering for america act, that would keep the postal service from making the changes the new leadership has already embarked upon -- thank you -- on level of service until january 1, 2020. leader hoyer announces that the postal service has already agreed. rep. hoyer: minutes ago. norton: minutes ago, he says, to postpone any changes in post office operations and levels of service until january 1, 2020. that is exactly what our bill says. i was not going to talk about any other part of the act except course, itt that, of takes time to get an act passed. now it looks like what we are seeing all over the country is is producing the desired effect, to keep the post office from leaving an indelible scar that would keep mail ballots perhaps from being counted. bear in mind that the united states held a successful election in the middle of a civil war. surely we can do that again. but the ex

eleanor holmes norton. i'm delighted to be with her.h reflection but a lot of tears and a lot of reflection on the history of what we're making today. what i would say is that so many women have tried to climb that mountaintop that dr. martin luther king spoke of in the early 1800s during the truth, tried to move into the suffragette movement. we know madam c.j walker, tried to be a businesswoman. madam jordan, fanny lou. today it is evident there is an affirmation of not only black women, but women of southeast asia, women of color that they have finally reached a status where they are affirmed in this nation as equal partners, and this mountain that we have all been trying to climb, kamala has taken us to the mountaintop. it's an enormously important moment and it's based upon her own history and talent as she led such a large department in the a.g.'s office. 4,800 staff, $700 million budget. it is now affirmed that women can lead. >> congresswoman norton, i guess the same question to you. a couple of weeks past congressman john lewis

. >> eleanor norton, the congresswoman who represents washington, d.c. >> thank you, leader hoyer. i am here today to focus on one thing, that is the bill that will be discussed monday, called delivering for america act, would keep the postal service from making the changes the new -- haship is already already embarked upon. until january 1, 2020. announces that the postal service has already , minutes ago, he says, to postpone any changes in post office operations and levels of service until january 1, 2020. that is exactly what our bill says. i was not going to talk about any part of the act except that it takes time to get an act passed. it looks like what we are seeing all over the country is producing the desired to keep leaving anfice from undoubtably scar -- and out of all-star -- undoubtable scar. ae united states held successful election in the middle of a civil war. surely, we can do that again. but the experience from the believe weead us to were headed and may still be headed for a pandemonium of results in the new november elections that may leave lasting uncertainty.

here's philip norton.emperature has been rising here, but so has the coronavirus infection rate. in preston, once again, the only places to meet friends and family from different households are in parks like this, after a spike among young people. today, we did have plans to go to a restaurant in town, but obviously we aren't allowed to now, with the new restrictions. so here we are, having our socially distanced gathering instead. it's kind ofjust annoying, from my point of view. we all had to change our plans for a few people that can't be bothered to wear a mask or keep away from others. the restrictions that came in overnight bring this city in line with measures in east lancashire, greater manchester and parts of west yorkshire, and already they've had an impact on some businesses. in this main room here, we would have had chairs on this side and that side. that would have been a table of six. this bar opened two years ago. it had a great start to the week, thanks to the "eat 0ut to help 0ut" initiati

norton? ms. norton? mr. lynch? norton: i am here, i am here! rep. connolly: great.ust speak up a little bit. sorry, i punch the wrong button. thank you and thank you for this annual hearing, it is very important to be brought up to date as you have allowed our witnesses to do. , the ciosng fitara have a significant role in the decision process of the management and site processes related to information technology. i would have thought they had a major role to play in an agency overall. i understand that i.t. is now based in the policy design and implementation. -- ms.estion is for harris. there are cios who don't report to agency heads. don't, they are likely to play that key role we spoke about. who doesn't and why don't all of them report? i think it was perhaps in your testimony or the testimony of one of you that one third do not report to the agency head and i would like to know why. minusrstand there is a and plus to see whether people are reporting but i don't understand how agencies determine what the committee has long said would be helpful. ms. harris: tha

i wante to thank my norton lear of the democratic leader, mr. schumer, for his remarks. there are not many of us around here in the senate today. it's pretty quiet. walk through the halls, virtually nobody around. that's what it was like last thursday afternoon. that's what it was like here in the senate

welcome, miss norton. norton. ms. norton, are you there? ms. norton? mr. lynch, are you there?>> i'm here. >> ok, great. sorry about that. eleanor, just speak up a little bit. >> i'm sorry. i punched the wrong button. thank you very much. thank you for this annual hearing. it is very important. what fitara says, i am quoting it now, cios have a significant role in the decision process of the management, government, and all the processes related to information technology. they have a major role to play in an agency overall. our is now baked into design and implementation. this question is for ms. harris. -- ceos that do not report to agency heads. if they don't, they are likely to play that key role -- who doesn't him and why why don'tsn't, and they report? the testimony of one of you mentioned one third do not report to the agency head. i would like to know why. people ared reporting, but i don't --erstand what the what determines what this committee has long said would be helpful. >> about one third of the do not haveos direct reporting mechanisms to the agency head. and that

. >> congress woman norton, i guess the same question to you, which is a couple weeks past congressmanof course. we're seeing racial inequalities in american society. you know, clearly in the forfront of people's minds. what does senator harris on the ticket mean to you? >> well, anderson, they have thrown out or at least biden threw out the old playbook where you look to balance the ticket for instant geographically from california, she's going to get that state anyway. so he wanted a new way to quote balance the history, the ticket. he wanted to make history. and that's what he has done. we've had white women on the ticket. we have never had an african american woman and he also needed to excite the ticket. we hear to blow the surface and hear the notion he's got a lot of support but the excitement is not yet there. i think this woman will bring excitement that the ticket needs. she went to howard university. i have to say representing the district of colombia, very special pride in that and also shows that biden is a very big man. he doesn't hold grudges because none of his opponent

i now recognize congresswoman norton, congresswoman norton by web "x." >> thank you very much, madam chair. the this hearing is very necessary to clarify matters that were left open when we talk the vote already on this bill. mr. dejoy, in your testimony you suggested that the coronavirus was having, and i'm quoting, a significant -- a significant issue in employee availability in many, many parts of the country. if that's the case, sir, i want to know why you would be reducing overtime. isn't overtime even more necessary to postal employees during this national emergency, during this pandemic with so many people at home and given what you already testified to about the significant issue in employee availability across the country? >> thank you. >> why wouldn't overtime be necessary to make up for all of that? >> thank you, ma'am. since i've been here we've spent $700 million in overtime. the overtime rate before my arrival was at 13% within the organization. it's still at 13%. as i said in my opening statement, this is a continued misinformation regarding what i did since i got here

you know i'd seen it norton. and right next to it everything else was cut next to get guys of the drunk tank. to see we have heard right through you know. they're all gone. past when the story. my mom might well my father killed himself when i was 5 so. then my step dad it was my dad because i didn't even know my dad really was. here he was a lumberjack up there and careless of them can stay out of tree follow. him cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground so you got parallel . he died i was in prison and he died. my mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. but 2. thank you lord for women friend says he holds near again and more love your brother. thank you for helping me. and i will get by another day i will get by another day because i will. if you had a magic wand waving giving everyone. in my family back. my girl knows. all that. you want to know i just looked at it. but it made me write down. everything. i did mean by that. i know you know i do it i know it. might you want to k

norton: yes. >> president sanchez: yes. thank you, that's five ayes. >> president sanchez: thank you. just for everybody's knowledge, commissioner moliga should be joining us soon and commissioner collins cannot make it today. section f. suggestion and vote on consent calendar severed for separate consideration. g, is special order of business. 20811so1, memorandum of understanding, with the united educators of san francisco regarding crisis distance learning. we need a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> president sanchez: superintendent matthews? >> superintendent matthews: tonight we have presenting the memorandum of understanding with united educators for your approval our chief of labor relations greg john. before he presents, as you said, i just wanted to thank all of the members of ue and their leadership and executive board under the direction of president susan solomon for their hard work and dedication through this time. and also the team from the districts who, as you mentioned earlier, spent many hours and includ

residents who live soh of trenton along silver hills road, box drive, and norton way are being told to leave immediately. emergency crews are asking evacuees to take sir francis boulevard. there is an evacuation center at the marine center near civic center. thank you for joining us come this special edition of kpix 5 . >> the lnu complex fires are burning more than 350 thousand acres across five counties, including marin, napa, and solano. it is 22% contained. there are signs of progress in the north bay tonight. some residents who were forced to evacuate can now return home. we are in sonoma county, where many are returning home to the unknown. >> reporter: will check points remain for safety reasons, some evacuation orders are getting lifted. some people are getting the go- ahead to go home. even with columns of smoke lingering, evacuation orders are lifting in parts of western sonoma county. people are heading home. jane grabbed her dogs and her carpentry gear. >> my chainsaws, my tools, that is it. i did not even bring clothes. >> reporter: she ran from the flames. she cannot wait

i wante to thank my norton lear of the democratic leader, mr. schumer, for his remarks. there are not many of us around here in the senate today. it's pretty quiet. walk through the halls, virtually nobody around. that's what it was like last thursday afternoon. that's what it was like here in the senate on friday, and again on saturday and again on sunday. and here we are again on monday, and this senate is virtually a ghost town. a few people here, but for the most part everybody was sent home by the majority leader, by senator mcconnell. he told senators go home until further notice. go home. we're going to put the senate on standby. no need to b be here doing the people's business. mr. president, the coronavirus is not on standby. the coronavirus is very much alive and well, and spreading throughout the country, more severe in some parts than others, but spreading throughout the country, and with it has, the spread of economic pain and economic harm. so covid-19 is not an standby and neither is the economic pain and fallout that it's caused. i here in the united stat

and therefore bringing those huge amounts of data in together to get it underlies in a way you're norton and if you look at it one of the things that identified terrorists moving in to carry out an attack was a particular pattern of their calls are moving through areas huge amounts of c.c.t.v. to have to be processed identify those those patterns human beings could have done it that was done by artificially artificial intelligence based machines that were providing a giving a flag up to a human being to make a decision to see whether that was part of normal activity or needed to be dealt with from a military or a security force perspective and the same thing happens all over the world as we get more and more sensors and we get more and more complexities in warfare it's important brought in in a way that a human being can digest it in small packets and to the human decision making cycle there are no pure autonomy weapon systems out there today that are filtered by any western country and scott why don't you think that might help because there are soldiers generals commanders who make dead

welcome, miss norton. miss norton, are you there? miss norton? mr. lynch, are you there? >> i'm here, i'm here. >> you are, they're great. sorry about that. just speak up a little bit. >> all right, i'm sorry. i punched the wrong button. >> there you go. >> thank you very much. mister chairman, i want to thank you for this annual hearing. it's very important to be brought up to date. fitara says, and i'm quoting it now, that cios have a significant role in the decision processes of the oversight process is related to information technology. i would've thought that they have a major role to play in an agency overall. understand that ip is now baked into policy design and implementation. this question is for miss harris. there are ceos that do not report to agency heads. of course if they don't, they are unlikely to play that key role that we spoke about. why don't all of them not report? i think it was perhaps in your testimony or the testimony of one of you, that one third do not report to the agency head. i would like to know why. i understand that there is a minus and a

here with me to discuss, democratic congresswoman eleanor holmes norton. thank you for joining us.t get to vote today because d.c. doesn't have state hood. minor set back. this is something you have been pushing for for a long time. let me ask you, what concerns are you hearing from constituents about the postal service now and what is your reaction to the president's campaign and rnc calling the push by democrats a conspiracy theory? >> well, first, let me be clear, i have a vote in committee, so i will be at that committee, and importantly so because what we heard at the senate committee from dejoy was, if i may say so simply untruthful. for example, i have seen a july memorandum where the postal service instructed postal employees to leave behind mail at the distribution center and to cut overtime. moreover, i have seen another memorandum where the new post master general, dejoy, has sidelined 23 of his top employees and centralized all authorities with himself. what cannot be doubted is what the post office itself has said. the post office has warned 46 states and the district

he's trying to undermine vote by mail and one person in particular whose concern is eleanor holmes norton. she's from the district of columbia. >> mr. dejoy did not tell the truth at the senate hearing yesterday. we know from a july 15 memorandum directing employees explicitly to leave mail behind and to significantly cut overtime. >> postmaster general louis dejoy appears before the house oversight committee a second hearing on capitol hill in four days. house is expected to pass the postal service bill shortly. a small number of republicans will vote yes including gop pennsylvania representative. >> i stand with the hard-working postal workers usps must be fully funded so that my constituents and millions across our nation can receive a high-quality and timely service that the post office has provided us. madam speaker i will vote in favor. white house chief of staff mark meadows is very concerned about fixing the postal service. >> we have politicized it to a point where i'm concerned that it may not be solvable just based on the rhetoric and in trying to make it more of a political pa

. >> i want to make it clear you are not business consumer, that would be norton life lock.ness to business. a lot of people say i want that service but that's not going to happen. >> new york city it's reo, it's their access as consumers are given access to business systems, right, not consumers to their own data in a bank, there is a growing area of awareness that some of what we'll do especially for consumers or i should say businesses that are engaged with their customers in a more complex on going relationship is going to get encompassed but it's about how to ensure that the right people are not just looki looking -- logging in but accessing the right information and not the wrong. that's tough and always moving. >> at the same time your company is different you go to the web page and what do you see in my humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together, bishop tutu, great man. >> so let's say we have a pretty high focus on values here, jim we felt like for a long time we can differentiate and established a nice leadership but we feel like it's how we tr

we have talk show hosts like graham norton or the michael parkinson's show but not this sort of world like, david letterman covering himself in rice crispies and being lowered into a giant bowl of milk, or stupid pet tricks, or, like, lip sync battles or whatever and i was, like, oh, i think i can do this. ( laughter ) and now we're in my garage talking about the impacts of a global pandemic and, you know, racial injustice in america. and so, ever since i started the show, i've always been very kind of-- first, i felt very grateful to be following your show, which we've talked about before, i feel very, very grateful to follow your show because i think you have an incredible insight and mouthpiece that i believe america looks to in this time, they look to the adult in the room. and, so, what i've realized is what i can do in this time is i can go, i have no idea what this is or what this means, but why don't we educate ourselves a bit more about this? >> stephen: uh-huh. >> and if anything, the greatest things that have come out these past few months is i've really enjoyed being open

s delete to congress, eleanor holmes norton. back in 1963, as part of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, she helped ornize transportation for the march on washington. >> just as in '63, the country says "we're not going to take that anymore." there must be equal treatment.yo i thinre hearing that same refrain when it comes to lice actions that take t lives of people needlessly. >> we do not want our freedom gradually. we want our freedom now. >> alcindor: on that august day was the late congressman john lewis, who died last month.>> oday, we think of john lewis as this iconic, monumental figure. at the march on washington, he was the young radical. >> alcindor: historian john meachem wrote a biography of lewis, published this week. >> the world view he brought to the racial and economic problems of injustice of his time i think is incredibly relevant to where we are now. not because it means everybody should wait. quite the opposite. it means freedom now. >> alcindor: and 57 years later, that messe is still being ech

norton: i thank my good friend, the chair of the committee, for recognizing me. even during this pandemic with most agencies down we had not heard complaints from the postal service until lieu de-- until louie dejoy was appointed post-master general. on the contrary, our pan -- the pandemic had not kept our mail from being faithfully delivered. almost immediate leif dejoy assumed office, pan moan yum broke out. for example in ward 8 in my district there was no mail for two weeks and the district and 46 states have been warned by the postal service itself that it cannot guarantee that all mail ballots will arrive in time to be counted. mr. dejoy did not tell the truth at the senate hearing yesterday. we know from a july 15 memorandum directing employees explicitly to leave mail behind d to significantly cut overtime, we know that from an august 7 postal service action that reassigned 23 top executives with decades of institutional knowledge of postal operations in order to centralize operations in mr. deinjury. --know and will bring out on before this -- this hear

another high point from the hearing i would say is the questioning of congresswoman norton when she askedtions on overtime. and he said that he would up to the election. this is very important to the workers that they -- be compensated for their overtime work to make sure all the ballots are processed in time. that was one -- >> one more question, yeah. >> go ahead. >> sorry to interrupt you, the satellite delay makes it a little tricky for the interviews. thank you for understanding. i want to ask you about the president and the rnc. you're talking about how serious and bipartisan this issue should be. and i think that many americans would agree with you on that. many would agree it is a partisan hearing yesterday and there was sort of this tone that was a partisan one. will you urge your colleagues to ratchet down the rhetoric or were you comfortable with that in. >> i would say it was just as partisan on the other side of the aisle, they were calling this a myth, a charade, a hoax, it is not a hoax, it is not a myth, it is not a charade. it is hurting real people. and when our constitu

norton early last month. and i think a lot of us already know this, but both oaf these men graduated from the msa program at the university of michigan. just a few blocks away from the bookstore, so i wanted to kind of share that tidbit for those who maybe aren't familiar with that. otherwise, i would appreciate it if you wouldn't mind putting your virtual zoom reactions together for tonight's first reader. harvey, thank you. >> all right. hey, miles. >> hey donovan, good to see you. >> yeah. your msa program was fiction, mine was poetry, which is probably why your book is longer than mine. and also we both teach nonfiction. it's really nice seeing you here in the zoom space. and i want to be clear to everyone that this is miles' event. he kindly is sharing the stage with me. it's actually, i'm going to get ahead of you with your reading and quote from your book when the anti-hero of the book,ing whom you're going to tell us about tonight, is getting crowned as king, and you write: somehow this man, this fabu

provided a good answer for that, and in fact, under questioning from congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, she asked him about a document, a reported usps document that had the phrase overtime will be eliminated. she asked where it came from he said, i don't know, i don't want to know, and suggested it came from some postal service middle manager. what dejoy has admitted to is instituting this policy that trucks leave on time. during the hearing, he wondered all aloud, he thought this would result in better service times, not worse service times. i talked to postal service drivers who said the reason it's falling apart is because of the cuts to overtime. whether dejoy expressly instituted it or not. i talked to a truck driver who has been driving at least on a couple occasions empty trucks because there were no workers to put the mail in the trucks. it took about three hours for this hearing to get to a question that i thought was really important. and ro khanna, the congressman from california, asked it. he said postmaster general dejoy, if you, as you said in your statements twice now,

i know you talked about this recently on "graham norton," but now people are lip synching to your sceneuld choose to do this >> someone sent that to me, and i could not believe it and it's this great kind of tik tok -- i didn't even know what it to call it. this tik tok strain, chain i didn't even know what it is. but it's on tik tok, and it takes one line that vice principal gupta, who i played in the film, and people seem to be just taking that one line, because my character is talking on the phone and instead of the phone, they use something else >> seth: yeah. >> it's freaking hilarious and it's actually a really good line to do something like that with >> seth: it's a really good line people are using - we'll show a clip of one, but people are using their pets. [ phone ringing >> gupta mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm. the queen is coming. >> seth: i went back and re-watched the line. it is, i hope you know, it's so perfectly delivered. i mean, do you ever look back? now that it's like - >> no. >> seth: becoming this viral moment, do you just think like, thank god i nailed that line with the pr

. >> i now recognize congresswoman norton. congresswoman norton by webx. >> thank you very much madame chair. this hearing is very necessary to clarify matters that were left open when we took the vote already on the bill. as mister dejoy, in your testimony you suggested that the coronavirus was having and i'm quoting, a significant issue in employee availability in many parts of the country. if that's the case sir, i want to know why you've been reducing overtime. his overtime even more necessary to postal employees during this national emergency, during this pandemic with so many people at home given what you've already testified about a significant issue in employee availability across the country and why would not more overtime be necessary to make up for allof that ? >> since i've been here we've spent hundred million dollars in overtime. overtime rate before my arrival was 13 percent and it still at 13 percent and as i said in my opening statement this is a continued misinformation regarding what i did inside gotten ther

whether storming the norton engine beaches in normandy, with his going on vietnam, whether a 911, that currently exist there is a painter, a war artist they called the artist in residence at still on staff or is it you're telling me, everyone else's racing with guns blazing, you are telling me that someone is running in with nothing but pencils and paintbrushes in their pockets? that's the craziest person in the whole world i've got to meet him and they said no, no. you need to meet her. her. i was like oh it's a woman. of course it's a woman. she's amazing, right? and i knew right there without even meeting her i knew nola. that was it and instantly i got her. it's a woman who can go out there and see things that no one else can see said brad after meeting you now know so much more about you. i rattled off a list of all these tics that i have and that i do that i don't even realize i do. i'm time but the obvious want but things was like wow see the world different than idea. the great graphic designer, we see a stop sign he sees the greatest representation of graphic design ever creat

the tweet says, a royal air force aircraft has been flown from raf brize norton to support border forcethat we learned that the home office had directly asked the ministry of defence for assistance, or what assistance they might be able to provide in terms of the borders and the number of crossings that we have been discussing for the last few days, during these calm seas and warm temperatures and large numbers of irregular migration coming across the channel in inflatable craft of one kind of another. we saw simon jones earlier seeing more migrants coming across. an raf aircraft being flown support border force operations. the governor of the lebanese capital beirut, says that more than two hundred people are now dead after tuesday's massive explosion. thousands are injured and many are still missing, as protests continue over the government's response to the crisis. meanwhile, the head of the world bank has told the bbc that ‘radically transparent‘ systems are needed to deliver financial aid for lebanon if the money pledged is to benefit the people directly. paul hawkins reports. 6 th

norton: i thank my good friend, the chair of the committee, for recognizing me. even during this pandemic with most agencies down we had not heard complaints from the postal service until lieu de-- until louie dejoy was appointed post-master general. on the contrary, our pan -- the pandemic had not kept our mail from being faithfully delivered. almost immediate leif dejoy assumed office, pan moan yum broke out. for example in ward 8 in my district there was no mail for two weeks and the district and 46 states have been warned by the postal service itself that it cannot guarantee that all mail ballots will arrive in time to be counted. mr. dejoy did not tell the truth at the senate hearing yesterday. we know from a july 15 memorandum directing employees explicitly to leave mail behind d to significantly cut overtime, we know that from an august 7 postal service action that reassigned 23 top executives with decades of institutional knowledge of postal operations in order to centralize operations in mr. deinjury. --know and will bring out on before this -- this hear

[laughter] >> richard norton smith president of the library i think he has read anymore biographies. >> this has been an amazingly profound evening hearing you talk when of the issues kids are not taught physics anymore i took civics in the eighth grade with a political junkie all my life but when i talk to people about the constitution a history and government major i am appalled at the total lack of knowledge and disinterestthth in the constitution. but if there taught basic civics in grade school the chances they will carry that responsibility as adults is slim. i like to hear your thoughts and what can we do to bring it back? >> make it required. truly. absolutely. it should be required.on with the military academy they all require that course so the graduates come away with the advantage that students in the regular universities won't necessarily have. we had to take a science course when i was in college the easiest science course was geology. >> they would call it rocks for jocks. int.[laughter] impressive. and i'll never forget. in many others went through the same course wou

and also, i would like to honor delegate norton. your line of questioning has exposed the fact that for those not keeping score back home, that virtually every living director of the census supports your view that the president has taken a unilateral and outrageous version of the 14th amendment, which is probably unconstitutional. you would think that a country as old and as distinguished as america would be able to reputab reputably count its own citizens and established by the director, count its own citizens and undocumented in each district. there are countless questions surrounding the census and an issue we're facing in my constitutional district is this... specialists will have their contracts terminated in september and the census will continue until october 31. so, i would like to find out from the previous census directors what effect this could have on the accuracy of the count when partnership specialist are terminated a month early, a a month before the census has ended. i do not know the impact of the decision on enume

i see vice president lopez and i see -- how about we start with commissioner norton and student delegate katia. >> ok. i didn't know you would call on me first. [ laughter ] >> hi, everybody. thank you to the staff and the superintendent for all of the incredible hard work in the last few weeks and months. the plan shows the amount of thought and the effort that went into it and i had a number of questions, the first question is just if you can give us a little bit of a download on why we're not positioning to move the date of schools back and what that would involve and why that to doesn't seem to be something that we're considering or moving forward. that's my first question. >> and so, the calendar, we negotiate that with our partners and this isn't something that we have considered. we know the start date would be 17th and we have basically geared ourselves towards that start date, working with our partners and working through the mou. a lot of the questions that you heard today we believe will be answered in the distant planning guide. and that hasn't been released yet because we're

. >> i now recognize congresswoman norton. >> thank you very much madam chair. this hearing is very necessary to clarify and left open when we the vote on the bill. mr. dejoy, before testimony, you suggested that the coronavirus with a significant issue in employee ability availability and if that is the case, i want to know why you reduce the overtime, is a overtime even more necessary to your employees during the national emergency during this pandemic with so many people at home and given you've already testified about the significant issue of employees availability across the country. >> thank you why is overtime necessary to make up for all of that? >> thank you ma'am. since i been here, we spent $700 million in overtime. the overtime rate for my arrival was set 13% with organization and still at 13%. as a sediment opening statement this is o a continued misinformation regarding what i did since i got there, i never put a limitation on overtime. >> that's a very important testimony in some states we see ten times the normal volume of mail and i would like t

. >> i now recognize congresswoman norton. congresswoman norton by webx. >> thank you very much madame chair. this hearing is very necessary to clarify matters that were left open when we took the vote already on the bill. as mister dejoy, in your testimony you suggested that the coronavirus was having and i'm quoting, a significant issue in employee availability in many parts of the country. if that's the case sir, i want to know why you've been reducing overtime. his overtime even more necessary to postal employees during this national emergency, during this pandemic with so many people at home given what you've already testified about a significant issue in employee availability across the country and why would not more overtime be necessary to make up for allof that ? >> since i've been here we've spent hundred million dollars in overtime. overtime rate before my arrival was 13 percent and it still at 13 percent and as i said in my opening statement this is a continued misinformation regarding what i did inside gotten ther

press conference with senator warner, senator van llen and six other members including eleanor holmes norton, one of the chairs. five minutes before we held that conference, the postmaster general said he was going to stop doing what he was doing. i guess it's because he thought, what i'm doing is great, everybody will support what i'm doing. or did he think, i got my hand caught in the cookie jar and i better stop? what do you think is the most rational determination that he issued this before he issued the release. that he thought it was fine, he could on defend it and why in heaven's name did he change his mind? why? because he knew what he did was wrong and read that briefing and service plummetted since he took the action and he was putting the mail, prescription drugs, social security checks, eterans' checks at risk. that seems to be the logical conclusion. and as the law says, if you act and you delay the mail, you commit a crime subject to five years in jail and a substantial fine. madam speaker, i want to thank you for your leadership. postmaster germ attempted to back down to set t