"That reporting structure is very critical to allowing them to carry out their responsibilities."
"I would have thought that they have a major role to play in an agency overall."
"I don't understand what determines or how agencies determine what this committee has long said would be helpful."
"Is pay a salient issue here in keeping people in the Federal--IT workers in the Federal work force?"
"Being able to change that culture so that the CIO does have that seat at the table is vitally critical."
"Thank you very much."
"I really don't understand the resistance to it, and believe that the committee could be helpful in either requiring, through legislation or through regulation, that the CIO be at the table."
"Why would an agency not want everybody in the room?"
"the Trump administration's attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the citizen count appears to me to be plainly unconstitutional."
"the apportionment of representatives shall be based on, quote, 'the actual enumeration of,' and here are the words, 'the whole number of persons.'"
"We didn't sign to pay for innovations. We signed--we didn't sign to pay for cost overruns and that is what is happening."