A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
Good morning. Thank you all for joining us whether youre here with us in person and youre watching on our webcast or watching on c span. Im john valant at the Ground Center on education policy and were here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election. As you all know education doesnt always grab headlines and that is certainly the case this time around two and that being said, there are consequential issues and big policy ideas that are being talked about as part of these campaign and to help us make sense of whats going on we have a group of panelist with us today already, arne duncan served as secretary of education from 2009 to 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary and the department history. Hes a managing partner and a nonresidency and dr. John king served as the secretary of education from 2016 till 2017. And doctor king is the president and ceo of the education trust. To help guide our discussion we have alison klein, the assisting editor for education. Her c
As you all know education doesnt always grab headlines and that is certainly the case this time around two and that being said, there are consequential issues and big policy ideas that are being talked about as part of these campaign and to help us make sense of whats going on we have a group of panelist with us today already, arne duncan served as secretary of education from 2009 to 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary and the department history. Hes a managing partner and a nonresidency and dr. John king served as the secretary of education from 2016 till 2017. And doctor king is the president and ceo of the education trust. To help guide our discussion we have alison klein, the assisting editor for education. Her current beat is the workforce issues and for many years shes covered education, and policies in washington and beyond. With that i will welcome the three of you to our stage and headed over to allison. Up applause thanks for joining us im thanks for joining us im happ
John violent at the Ground Center on education policy and were here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election and as you all know education doesnt always grab headlines and that is certainly the case this time around two and that being said, there are consequential issues and big policy ideas that are being talked about as part of this campaign and to help us make sense of whats going on we have a group of panelist with us today already, done can served as secretary of education from 2009 to 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary and the department history. Hes a managing partner and a nonresidency and dr. John king was the secretary of education from 2016 till 2017. And doctor king is the president and ceo of the education funds. To help guide our discussion we have alison klein, the assisting editor for education. Her current b is the workforce issues and for many years shes covered education, paul six and policies in washington and beyond. With that i will welco
Hello weve got some lovely weather across southern parts of here a past the usual clear blue skies lots of warm sunshine little bit of cloud over towards the black sea one or 2 showers just tucked in here was up towards the northwest we got some really inclement weather rolling through an unusually deep area of low pressure very close to the British Isles bringing those strong winds heaviest rains now making its way across arland and scotland that will gradually push further north but sas tailless like another very a windy day there could well be some trees downed branches down leaves certainly a heavy on the trees at the moment and that could cause some problems over the next day or so what sunday doesnt look another very breezy day but not quite as intense on that wind 22 celsius there the high in london but again 21 in paris so messy weather there just around Southern France towards the house but across the south a more warm sunshine rolling through getting into the low thirtys once