Note a quorum is present. We we will hear testimony from e department of education implementation of borrowed eventual. Pursuant to commingle 7c statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member. I want to thank secretary devos of being with us today and thank her for a green to hold enough time in the schedule all of the members present to have amendments confinements of questions pursuant to house rules. Especially thankful because this cheer im exercise my prerogative to go last in question order so it she were to leave early i wouldnt get to ask questions. I want to thank you for agreeing to stay with us for the fulltime. I recognize myself enough for the purpose of making an opening statement. We are here to examine the department of educations implementation of the borrower defense rule. I want to thank you, madam secretary, for appearing before the committee to discuss this important issue. Borrower defense is a rule grounded in basic fairness. Student borrowers who are def
Administration. Way im the Vice President of the institute for Constitutional Government here at heritage. Silence cell phones please john on september the 23rd, President Trump delivered an important speech on religious freedom at the united nations. He said our founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous and Virtuous Society than the right to follow ones religious convictions. He added that too often people in positions of power preach diversity while silencing, shunning or censoring the faithful. True tolerance means respecting the right of all people to express their deeply held religious beliefs. How right he is. During the last administration, religious adherents felt besieged. While the Obama Administration was prepared to honor freedom of worship, freedom of religion was another matter. Obama Administration Officials preached that tolerating religious adherence was great. For a moment, they can find their way to houses of worship and did not
Dreamland the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then i will introduce the witness, then with her from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since his are only witness i suggested to him that if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that, but who will be plenty conversation back and forth from members of the committee. Mr. Quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearing but this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin is calling the worst manmade epidemic in history. The challenge this crisis present has captured the attention of a member of this committee. The research and writing has been acclaimed for the depth and breadth so this is what we call a bipartisan hearing, most of ours hour. One in which a a democrats and republicans agreed on the topic, its important, a
Street overnight. And president obama once again tries to help resolve a contract dispute between septa and the union. First we head over to meteorologist chris sowers who joins us with a look that rainy start to a weekend, boy, its a good day for couch and movie. Sounds good to me. I am liking that too. Theres a view of the Philadelphia International airport. Wet runways. Rain throughout the entire Delaware Valley this morning and patchy fog as well. It will be a slow go early on. Hopefully well get clearing late in the day and maybe even see a little sliver of sunshine before all said and done here. Stormtracker 6 liver double scan showing washing to do. We have a lot of rain over the area. Its on the lighter side. We see lighter shades of green. Every now and then darker shades. For the most part this is on the lighter side. Heaviest weather towards central pennsylvania in harrisburg area. North and west we go. Heres northwestern suburbs, reading, hamburg, lebanon, lancaster, everyb
Another Foreign Company runs into trouble in china. I am michelle macquarrie. The question is, does greece need another bailout and will europe come to the rescue . And also coming up in this hour. Tickets for the world cup are on sale but the repaired to spend big. And scoring big profits with exorbitant prices, forcing the government to intervene. We will look at nickel tourism around the world and why more people travel to get to medical treatment. First the latest national and world news headlines. The trial of the communist party chief is underway. He arrived at the courthouse last hour. His trial is being reported on by social media. More than 100 people are present including five of his relatives and 19 journalist. He faces charge or he charges of bribery and abuse of power. A sentence was handed down in the Bradley Manning espionage case erie it he committed the biggest leak of classified data. Well have an indepth analysis of the trial and sentencing with a panel of legal expe