Pensions committee the topics include School Choice, vouchers, Student Loan Debt and Education Program funding. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the hearing of the Health Education labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. This hearing today is to consider the nomination of betsy devos the United States secretary of education. Senator murray and i will make an Opening Statement. I will introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott a member of this committee senator lieberman a distinguished former member of this body who will make introductory remarks and following the nominees comments we will have a fiveminute round of questions. One note we have capital officers here today who will remove anyone who attempts to disrupt
Democrats challenge republicans today by, reading a letter that scott king rotate to congress in in 1986, ironically, they silenced Elizabeth Warren for doing the same thing. Sons and brothers mr. President senator impugned the motives of our colleague from alabama. Senator warren said senator sessions has used the power of his office to chill the exercise of his office. I call on the senator to rule mr. President . That is how senator warren started off the speech reading a letter from scott king in 1996 she wrote congress to ask them to oppose a nomination of Jeff Sessions. The federal bench would irreparably damage the work of her husband, dr. Martin luther king junior. Thats what this is about. She wrote a powerful letter about an important moment in history that directly involved Jeff Sessions and is directly relevant to the question of whether or not Jeff Sessions ought to be the attorney general of the United States. I dont know what image mcconnells intent was to silence her. I
Landing at 50. 79. Visa reporting a better than expected increase in earnings. Higher payments and the acquisition of visa europe helping results. Trading was choppy after the bell. Visas full year Growth Outlook was light of estimates. Stock lower by a quarter of a percent. Twitter planning job cuts that could be announced this week. The social network could terminate about 300 people. Thats the same percentage it cut last year when cofounder jack dorsey took over as choef. The news comes amidquestions about whats next for twitter. Bill miller was on Halftime Report yesterday. What twitters needs is an activist. I think an activist could make a difference there with respect to being on the board. That kind of thing. You have done a lot in your career. Maybe its time for that. No, not me. Twitter announcing it will change the release time of results to before the market opens on thursday. Originally it was scheduled to report after the bell on thursday. It wants to avoid conflicting wi
Racially integrated community on the south side, and i knew of the civil rights struggles. There is an idealized view of the Family Vacation. Families are not like that anymore. A Family Vacation now might be three generations. It might be having grandma along. As a grandma now, i hope that is true. It might be unmarried couple or a same sex couple. Now there are places they can go and not be turned away. Theres an interracial couple or a single mom with kids. I think its our idea of family have become more flexible. I hope and it seems to me that places are opening up. If you go on a vacation with your one child, to me, thats a Family Vacation. You are creating family time. You dont have to look like ours he and harriet to have a good Family Vacation. For more information on book tv recent visit and the mammy other destinations, go to cspan. Org cities tour. The use of the word manifesto, why. I liked it because its an attempt to write a clarion call. The attempt is to say, all these
Committee. They are proud member of that interagency effort to cordon a policy, research and communications on bullying topics. With the department of education , agriculture, defense, hhs and the interior, the federal trade commission and the White House Initiative on asianamericans and pacific islanders. We spearheaded that partnership stop bullying video challenge and the challenge initiative with the cartoon network. A special thanks to oj p for their tireless support in these efforts. Information on all of these resources and events is available at stop bullying. Gov. In addition to the Dear Colleague letter that was mentioned earlier, they collaborated with the Educational Opportunity section and the department of education to produce the bullying harassment and civilrights video. This video which focuses on the federal laws relating to bullying and harassment features messages from assistant attorney general for the office of Justice Program carol mason. Former education sec. Ar