Accompanying regulations, members are required to leave the camera on the entire time they are in an official proceeding. Even if a step away from the camera. While roll call is unnecessary to establish a quorum and official proceedings conducted remotely, whenever there is an official proceeding with remote participation, the clerk will call the roll to make clear who is present at the start of the preceding. At this time i ask the clerk to call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] chairwoman, this concludes the roll call. Thank you very much. Pursuant to Committee Role 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself do for the purpose of making and opening statement. Today, as we know were examining how the covid19 pandemic is straining our Higher Education system and discussing what Cong
About 250 years that americas time could be up july 4th, the 2026. Yes if we learn from history if we learn nothing else than this is an expiration of eight empires and great nations. The average length is 250 years. Some last longer like the roman empire but they all follow the same pattern of decline and one of the characteristics was Massive National debt the United States is in 23 trillion and growing. Just to the interest alone is greater than the gdp of summations. President trump did not talk about cutting a single Government Program or decrease of the rate of spending this is the only nonpartisan thing that happens in this town you can always get agreement on the second contribution of the decline of great nations of empires is controlled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion. Meant to be assimilated to become fully american. And then the moral sense contributes to the decline of great nati
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
Technical issues i wanted to ask you about Stem Education you come from a science background Science Education what is your committee doing when it comes to Stem Education and what is congress doing or should be . I will start with committees. Passing two major pieces of legislation that was by bipartisan but stalled in the senate it is extraordinarily important that not only we spread the word but put in the instrument that women and minorities are told about the importance of stem courses and we see it every day. We dont have the people educated and trained we see a lack of the brainpower now because of immigration. H1b visa fewer and fewer students are coming from india and china we just saw recently for example that much of the brainpower has been imported last names are not johnson or jones or smith. The only way we can do that is to educate women and minorities in the stem fields. Even coined the phrase more recently called bluecollar stemware no amount of phds or graduate degree
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