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
Educationrelated agencies will come to order. Good morning to everybody, particularly good morning to secretary devos and thank you for appearing before the subcommittee today. Blount blount this is a defend. Budget to the president signed into law an appropriations bill that included 161 billion in discretionary funding for this subcommittee. While that was a billion dollars less than we had the year before, we were able to eliminate programs and prioritize programs in a allowed pell eturn yearround where students will begin this fall to have the opportunity to have a pell grant available to them year round. His year, the fiscal year 2018 budget requests proposes a ignificant funding decrease in laborh. H. S. , 24 billion below what we are spending in the current year in the agencies that are reflected in the work of this subcommittee. That is 15 cut below the bill we passed just last month or past the end of april. For the department of education, the proposal includes 59 billion whi
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education related agencies will come to order. Good morning to everybody, particularly good morning secretary devos for you and thank you for appearing before the subcommittee today. This is a difficult budget request to defend. Last month the president signed into law an appropriations bill that included 161 billion in discretionary funding for this subcommittee. While that was a billion dollars less than we had the year before, we were able to eliminate programs and prioritize programs in a way that allows us to do things like return to year round pell. First time in nine years where students who begin this fall will have the opportunity to have the pell grant available to them year round. This year, the fiscal year 2018 budget request proposes a significant funding decrease in labor, hhs, approximately 24 billion below what were spending in the current year in the agencies that reflected in the work of this subcomm
Defend. To just over a month ago, the Congress Overwhelmingly cast and the president signed into law an appropriations bill that included 100 61 billion in discretionary funding for this subcommittee. While that was a billion dollars less than we had the year before, we were able to eliminate programs and prioritize programs in a way that allows us to do things, like return the yearround pell, the first time in nine years where students who begin this fall will have the opportunity to have a pell grant available to them yearround. This year, fiscal year 2018 budget proposes a significant funding decrease and labor, hhs, approximately 24 billion below what we are spending in the current year in the agencies that are reflected in the work of this subcommittee. That is a 15 cut. It includes approximately 59 billion, which is a 9. 2 billion reduction. You not only get the start with a new look at the department of education, but also with a new look at what we should be doing. We are glad