The hearing focused on the departments implementation of the Student Loan Debt for forgiveness program. Its aimed at helping highly indebted students with loans that misrepresented graduate outcomes and potential salaries. Meeting on education and labor will come to order. I want to welcome everyone and note decorum is present. The oversight hearing from the department of educations implementation of the barr defense rule pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to chair and Ranking Members. This allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and provides all members time to ask questions. Id like to thank secretary betsy devos and thank her to hold enough time to allow all of the members present and have five minutes of questions pursuant to house rules. I am especially thankful pause in this chair i am exercising my prerogative to go last in the question order. So if she were to leave early, i wouldnt get to answer questions. I thank you for agreeing to stay with us the
Can actually provide ubiquitous access. Its a great mission. Host what are some of the companies you represent . Guest well, just this month i was able to spend time with alaska communications, flew down from there to western new mexico with western new mexico communications. Both focused on Rural Communities and extending next Generation Broadband Services to them. All the way up to companies that are national in scope and vision from at t and verizon and centurylink and consolidated, frontier, windstream. Its a consortium of companies that are very different, different Business Models but are bound together by a singular vision to get more broadband out to more americans and do so with smart policies. Host before we Start Talking about some of those policies, give us a sense of your background. Its a little bit eclectic, isnt it . Guest and ill take that as a compliment, thank you. I have been in the business of technology for a good part of my career, leading companies both in Silic
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With a rifle and a handgun and then opened fire. [ gunshots ]. Adam witnesses later describe the terrifying scene to us. I was next in line to bat, standing next to the batting cage when the first shot rang out. Second shot rang out within a couple of seconds. Pretty obvious at that point, we had a shooter, i could tell from my perspective, from somewhere behind the third base dugout. I kicked into marine mode, went to a low crawl, crawled behind the First Base Dugout along with a couple of others, not knowing which direction the shooter was moving. Adam the gunfire wounded representative scalise along with a congressional aide, a lobbyist and a Capitol Police officer. When backup Police Arrived a few minutes later, were told the gunbattle ensued. Heard a bunch of what appeared to be shots, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, seemed like return fire, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, 30 to 50 shots that i heard. Adam the gunman identifd as 66 James Hodgkinson was killed. Fortunately, paramedics were able
[ chatter] matthew olson, first of all welcome to all of you. Matthew olson is cofounder of iron that cyber security, previously serving as the National Security council center, where he reported to president obama on counterterrorism opportunities. Generalously served counsel and essay focusing on surveillance, law, and cyber security. Under the bush administration, he served as National Security division, doj. Mr. Olsen served as special counsel director of the fbi and special prosecutor for more than a decade. He is a graduate of the university of virginia and harvard law school. A robert m gates senior fellow for new american security, widely published in areas of surveillance,ity, counterterrorism, law, and policy. He was previously an attorney at International Law firm. He has worked on National Security policy at Rand Corporation and the 9 11 Public Discourse prompts it discourse profit. Klein served as a law clerk for Justice Scalia and is a graduate of Northwestern University