A difference. I yield the floor. The note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call a senator madam chair . The presiding officer the senator from massachusetts. Mr. Cowan thank you, madam chair. I was the first in my family. The presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Cowan i would ask that the quorum call be voided. Mr. Markey i would ask that the quorum call be voided. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Markey madam president , i was the first in my family to go to college. I drive an Ice Cream Truck to work my way through Boston College as a commuter. I did the same thing to go to law school. I lived at home all the way through college and law school in order to be able to afford to go to college. And as a result, i had to take out federal loans, like so many millions of American Students have to do today. But heres the thing. If the owner of the Ice Cream Truck company that i worked for wanted to refinance the
Now, what can someone do who finds themselves many thousands of dollars in debt and doesnt want to be there . Well, theres still more education. Now, on the one hand thats helped people get even more and more in debt and get in bad places, but if youre a sociology major 60,000 in debt and you decide you really dont want to be there, well, theres the Colorado School of minds for you, and go mines for you, and go get a degree in mineral engineering, get out there in north dakota where the average salary has increased by 40 because of the oil and natural gas boom out there. So i think its a tough question. I dont think we should be in the business of forgiving student loan debt. I think theres a personal responsibility element there that is the orthodoxy. I agree with david that we shouldnt be forgiving it as a matter of public policy. But unfortunately, we already are. We have Public Service loan forgiveness, we have teacher loan forgiveness, we have a myriad of loan forgiveness programs
Out of control. And i guess that is the point i want to make about the idea of the debt. They made a little better but we are also involved in a larger bet about our own future and that is an important point that i want to emphasize about this. One is that that we are all engaged and we dont know what is being to happen and there are a lot of risks and uncertainties associated. Host we are all gambling with our future and dont know whats going to happen. Guest we are gambling on the future of the planet. Host thank you. It was a wonderful read and i think that what and for anybody about what is happening on these issues. Guest it was great talking with you. Slavery is not to our history. Slavery interrupted our history. With that being said reveley roughly 6,000 years ago to make excellence provided on the african continent now called each of thousand years for the greeks played into the university system. Said the european and global domination of portuguese which show african and kin
Portuguese exploit african kindness for their version of civilization. 14401865, nearly an unrecorded 1 hundred million peoples lives are lost or scattered from their homes abortion to do the bidding of the colonizers. According to herbert, in 1526 was the first landing of stolen africans on u. S. Soil by the spanish but they rebelled, joined the socalled indians, in 1619, the First Official group of enslaved africans reached jamestown, va. The of the british. 1865 the legal abolishment of chattel slavery happens in the united states. Shortly thereafter in the south and estimated 500 freedom schools, undergrounds african plays and of learning by 3 or actual buildings are created again to show the of premium stolen africans place in education. 1870, a Preparatory High School for public use, now called Dunbar High School, was formed. 1890, june fourth, fifth and sixth, the first mohawk conference on the negro question was convened with the question of if two and if so, how to educate the
Cnn newsroom starts right now. The Trump Administration has lost another key player. U. S. Health chief tom price resigned on friday. He was under fire for using private jets for official government business. When commercial flights would have been much cheaper for taxpayers. The resignation comes as the president is grappling with a huge Natural Disaster in puerto rico from hurricane maria. Sara murray has our report. Im not happy, okay . I can tell you, im not happy. Reporter President Trump said accepting the resignation of health and Human Services secretary tom price. The bombshell announcement coming after days of mounting controversy, over prices travel on private jets. At a cost estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Its not a question of confidence. I was disappointed because i didnt like it, cosmetically or otherwise. I was disappointed. You know, this is an administration that saves hundreds of millions of dollars on renegotiating things. So, i dont like to