Nation in front of his own interests because thats what jackson did for most of his presidency. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. The House Oversight Committee Held a hearing on a data breach in the Online Student loan application known as fafsa. Hackers used a flaw in the system to steal irs filing information on as many as 100,000 taxpayers. Irs and Education Department officials testified at this two and a half hour hearing. Good morning. The committee on oversight and government reform will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The chair notes the presence of our colleague congressman bobby scott from virginia. We appreciate his interest in this topic and welcome your participation today, sir. I ask unanimous consent that he be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing. Without objection, it will be so ordered. I would also like to ask unanimous consent to ent sbeer the record statements from the following organiza
Help them to whisper a prayer for your wisdom. Remind them that you desire that they set their affection on the things above that will live beyond time into eternity. May they not forget that you expect them to be accountable to you, seeking to be responsible stewards of their talents and abilities. Lord, fill them with your spirit so that they will mount up with wings like eagles, running without weariness and walking without fainting. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell last week the senate took Decisive Action to address the Opioid Epidemic by passing the comprehensive addiction and recovery act. Its an important accomplishment for the
Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream faculty that teach our students. We have clinical faculty that help train future physicians and residents and interns in our hospitals. We probably have on the order of 2,000 or so of teaching faculty. The total number of employees of the university is approaching 40,000. We have a very Large Health Care system, were a major provider of Health Health care in the state. If you put aside the Health Care System, we probably have two or three fold the number of employees providing all the Services Nec
Thanks so much, and thanks again to cspan for their focus on higher ed, its very important of course. Throughout 2014, cspan has brought you more than 130 candidate debates from across the country, in races that will determine control over the next congress, and this tuesday night, watch cspans live Election Night coverage, to see who wins, who loses and which party will control the house and senate. Our coverage begins at 8 00 p. M. Eastern with results and analysis, youll also see candidate victories and concession speeches in some of the most closely watched races around the country. Tonight and tomorrow morning we want to hear from you, with your calls, facebook comment s tweet. 2014 election coverage on cspan. Here are just a few of the comments we have recently steved from our viewers. Calling to comment on a debate that i saw between bruce fine and a man named john ewe, regarding the declaration of war and the war powers act. Quite interesting to watch the legal debate and it al
That congress agreed to do this and now we didnt leave any residual forces in iraq and its become a mess and now theyre going to say we can go back and do the war because well, it was under the other agreement. But that went away when they pulled everybody out so why wont they do at least a vote on syria and say, yes or no, you should go in or you shouldnt go in . I mean, because we get these residual forces from the other countrieses which is great and i do believe they do need to be we do need to protect our country and stop this big massacres but i find it disingenuous that they talk out of both sides of their mouth and they wont let congress say what their real thoughts are. Host okay. We have to leave it there. This conversation will continue on the washington journal but today were going to switch gears. Were going to go to the National Institute of health coming here. Talking to director Francis Collins and later joined by Patricia Grady of the National Institute for Nursing Res