{"id":2109670,"date":"2023-11-28T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-senate-holds-hearing-on-confirmation-of-commissioner-for-social-security\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:19:16","slug":"watch-live-senate-holds-hearing-on-confirmation-of-commissioner-for-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-senate-holds-hearing-on-confirmation-of-commissioner-for-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Senate hearing on Social Security commissioner confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-live-senate-holds-hearing-on-confirmation-of-commissioner-for-social-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2109670&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing on Confirmation of Martin O&#8217;Malley to Lead Social Security Administration<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2062Senate Finance\u2062 Committee\u2062 is currently conducting a hearing to confirm \u2062the appointment of former Democratic Maryland Governor, Martin O&#8217;Malley, as the head of the Social Security Administration. This crucial position oversees one of the nation&#8217;s most \u2063significant social \u200bprograms, benefiting\u200d approximately 70 million individuals who rely on payments from various programs \u200dadministered by the SSA.<\/p>\n<h3>Prioritizing Customer Service \u2063and Reducing\u2062 Wait Times<\/h3>\n<p>During previous \u2063Senate committee hearings,\u200d O&#8217;Malley \u200cexpressed his\u2064 commitment to addressing the customer service crisis within\u2063 the administration and resolving the issue\u2063 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-michigan-demands-1200-for-china-documents\/\" title=\"University of Michigan Demands ,200 for China Documents\">long wait times<\/a>. With his experience as\u2063 the \u200bmayor of\u2063 Baltimore\u2064 and his two terms as the governor \u200cof Maryland, O&#8217;Malley \u2064brings\u2062 valuable \u2062leadership skills to this role.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Committee Chairman,\u2063 Senator Ron Wyden \u200b(D-OR), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nadler-dealt-considerable-blow-after-trying-to-paint-fbi-whistleblowers-as-corrupt\/\" title=\"Nadler's attempt to label FBI whistleblowers as corrupt backfires.\">ranking\u200c member<\/a>, Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), are expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-is-doing-the-nba-and-its-players-a-disservice\/\" title=\"Lebron James Is Doing The NBA And Its Players A Disservice\">deliver statements<\/a> at the \u2064hearing, which is scheduled to commence at 10 \u200ca.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The\u200c Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What measures does Martin \u2064O&#8217;Malley plan to implement in \u2063order to reduce long wait times and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-dept-claims-majority-of-87000-new-hires-will-provide-customer-service-raising-questions\/\" title=\"Treasury Dept. Claims Majority Of 87,000 New Hires Will Provide \u2018Customer Service,\u2019 Raising Questions\">improve customer service<\/a> within the Social Security Administration<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The Senate Finance Committee is currently\u200d holding a hearing to confirm the appointment of\u200b former\u2064 Democratic Maryland Governor, Martin O&#8217;Malley, as the head of the \u2064Social Security Administration\u2064 (SSA).\u2063 This position is of \u2064utmost \u2063importance as it \u200coversees one of the nation&#8217;s most significant social programs, benefiting \u2063approximately 70 million individuals who rely on\u2062 payments from\u2063 various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerberg-used-a-tax-exempt-foundation-to-help-biden-fix-the-2020-election\/\" title=\"Zuckerberg Used a Tax-Exempt Foundation to Help Biden Fix the 2020 Election\">programs administered<\/a> by the SSA.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key issues\u200d that\u2064 O&#8217;Malley\u200d has emphasized during previous Senate committee hearings is his commitment to addressing the customer service crisis within \u2064the administration and resolving the \u200bproblem of\u2064 long wait times. With \u200dhis\u2064 experience as the mayor of Baltimore and his two \u200dterms as the governor of Maryland, O&#8217;Malley brings valuable \u200bleadership skills to this role.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance \u2064Committee Chairman, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), and \u200branking member, Senator Mike\u200d Crapo (R-ID), are both expected to deliver statements at the hearing. This hearing is scheduled to commence at 10\u200d a.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this topic, you can read \u200dthe full article\u2062 on The\u200d Washington Examiner&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Finance Committee is conducting a hearing to confirm Martin O&#8217;Malley, former Democratic Maryland Governor, as the head of the Social Security Administration. President Biden nominated O&#8217;Malley in July to oversee this vital social program, benefiting approximately 70 million individuals receiving payments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2109671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}