it is two minutes after the hour of 11 in the east and even threatening these students with suspension if they did not stop. they are still going on. let s get to matt finn who s live with more on this. reporter: we are monitoring those ongoing protests in new york tonight. all this comes after columbia university s president testified before congress today about columbia s battle against anti-semitism. at the same time, anti-israel protesters demonstrated afterschool in a new york and that s happening live tonight. columbia s president testified before the house committee on education and the workforce today. you may recall the now infamous testimony from the presidents of harvard, mit and the university of pennsylvania back in december in which they could not say they would definitively punish students calling for the genocide of jews. the president of harvard and you pen later resigned. today columbia s president is being criticized for refusing to say whether the slocan from the
A Congressional committee has launched an investigation into Harvard University, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania after their campus leaders gave "unacceptable" testimony about antisemitism at a House hearing this week.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), the ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, have introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2023.
what he had to say. i believe the court decision to strike down my student debt programme was wrong. i will not stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic scale. so, we need to find a new way and we are moving as fast as we can. first, i am announcing today a new path consistent with today s ruling to provide student debt relief to provide student debt relief to as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible. democrats and republicans have been speaking out about today s court rulings. we ll get to the republicans in a moment, but first, we spoke earlier with democratic congressman bobby scott the ranking member of the house committee on education and the workforce. he explained how we got to this point with such widespread student debt in the us. states is to pay two thirds of the cost of a state college. now it is lesser than a one third. and the pell grant which