Some may consider it fitting, if not desirable, that a House subcommittee hearing focused on the reasons that federal government agencies, in a post-pandemic America, are still running behind and continuing to be tardy in delivering services started about a half hour late.
But the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce was finally called to order on June 21 to conduct its hearing titled, “Please Leave Your Message at the Tone: Addressing Post-Pandemic Backlogs at Federal Agencies.”
Testifying at the hearing were Rena Bitter, assistant secretary for consular affairs with the U.S. State Department; Scott Levins, director of the national personnel records center; and Chad Poist, deputy commissioner for budget, finance, and management with the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA). …