Subcommittee on Higher Education. The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to call recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitled fafsa fail, examining impacts to students, family and schools. There comes a time for students across america to apply for college. The free application for federal student aid, fafsa, is a critical tool. For many, fafsa is the only access to Postsecondary Education and opens doors and provides Financial Assistance to individuals seeking to pursue academic conditions with regards to their background. In 2020 legislators and policymakers sought to make the process even more accessible by passing the fafsa simplification act. With the financial burden of colleges each year, it was incredibly important the form ease the fafsa for families. The new law streamlines the long and complex application process and in some cases the students could see the number of questions on the form shrink from 818 from 103 on the previous fafsa applicat
Subcommittee on Higher Education. The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to call recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing the subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, titled tran26 examining the impacts of students, families and schools. When it comes the time for students across america to apply for college, the free application for federal student aid, fafsa, is a critical tool. For many, fafsa is the only access to post secondary education. It opens doors and provides assistance to individuals seeking to pursue academic ambitions, regardless of background. In 2020, legislators and policymakers sought to make the process even more accessible by passing the fafsa simplification act. With the financial burden of college growing every year, it was incredibly important to reform the fafsa process for families. The new law strea
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Our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately offerin
Our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately offerin