With massachusetts representative Catherine Clark at a house appropriation subcommittee hearing on the 2017 Education Department budget. Now that hearing in its entirety. Good to have you here, madam secretary. Before we begin formally i want to recognize miss allard for the purposes of introduction. I would like to introduce tommy a former foster care youth for the congressional foster youth shadow day. Tommy is a resident of downey, california, in my district. His educational aspirations are to earn a masters in architecture and have a career in design i just want to thank him for coming to d. C. To help ensure that the our youth are involved in child welfare. His efforts to support the wellbeing, talent and educational aspirations of every child involved in foster care and tommy is the one with the blue around him. Why dont you stand up real quick. Yeah, stand up. There he is. Good morning, madam secretary. Its genuinely my pleasure to welcome you here to the subcommittee on labor h
Week to testify on the president s 2018 budget request for her department. The proposal would reduce funding for Public Schools while boosting federal support for private school vouchers. The hearing is two hours. Good to have you here, madam secretary. The forward begin to good to have you here, madam secretary. The forward begin to recognize for the purposes of an introduction. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I would like to introduce tommy diaz. [indiscernible] for the fifth annual foster youth shadow day. These are my 40th congressional district. His educational aspirations [indiscernible] i want to thank him for coming to d. C. To ensure the voices are heard [indiscernible] are involved in Child Welfare reform. Particularly efforts to support the wellbeing, talent and educational aspirations of every child involved in foster care. And tommy is the one with the blue around him. Why dont you stand up real quick . Yeah, stand up. [applause] there he is. Good morning, madam secretary. It is
Returned from a firm outing to prescott, arizona, which has the oldest rodeo on the fourth of july. Of course aware of the rumors that then judge oconnor was being considered for the Supreme Court, we asked her some questions. As you would expect, she was dismissive of the rumors and quickly turned in a conversation to another topic. As i drove that morning, i turned on the news. Just in time to hear president reagan say, she is truly a person for all seasons. I had missed the first part of his remarks and i had not heard him say who she was. During the rest of his remarks, he did not repeat the name. Only when i of course was pounding my steering will asking, who is it . Only when a reporter began speaking, i knew she was Sandra Day Oconnor. I reacted the way many women lawyers reacted, with great emotion. We hope the world for women and law had changed that day and it had Justice Oconnors impact on womens opportunities begin immediately. First, we immediately felt new energy and cons
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They have a free are looking for ideas but it is a broad incentive for colleges to counsel students how much they borrow. Right now the action makes the hard for colleges. So the federal government is a but for that unemployment ruled that is but this is the mandate applied to all colleges a and universities. They dont have to do principate but tennessee has 13 Community Colleges and two are dropping some of and broaden there he was. But what kind of a response did you get . To with that accreditation more than anything else just to give them more flexibility maybe that is true but i can tell you about a student aid and then i can tell about the regulation. To provide students and is there any advance on that . A good reaction the problem i have been authorized eight times since 1965 with the of wellmeaning senators and bureaucrats here is the clause is regulations and stack them up stack of up the stack was already as tall as i was it the new would double the stack that is why we need