Im very excited to tell my daughter all about it. For those of you who have not followed, through the artimus, the American Government will send astronauts to the service of the moon, another man and woman to the moon, which is very exciting. Conduct new science, prepare for future trips to mars. Today only 12 humans have walked on the moon. That was half a century ago. The artimus provides the opportunity to add numbers to that, of course. Lunar exploration has brought the most recently detailed in fy21 omnibus spending bill, and certainly we support this effort and endeavor. Why dont we go to you first, darlene. Reporter thank you. Can you update us on the president s thinking on forgiving Student Loan Debt . There are groups who are pushing for the president to forgive all Student Loan Debt. Where does he stand on all that . Sure. The president has and continues to support cancelling 10,000 of federal Student Loan Debt per person as a response to the covid crisis. Hes calling on con
a criticism that, you know, the obama administration maybe didn t do enough to settle and explain and talk about their stimulus efforts and want to make sure that people around the country really know what s in the bill, know what s coming and the kind of impact it s having. there s a conversation that we ll watch how it plays outside of washington. do the additional benefits help people. they showed up at their briefing wearing masks and trying to make the case, the republican argument that the biden administration is not pushing aggressively enough there. you see follow the science, not the unions, the biden administration is pushing schools to open and a president can only do so much. local school districts make these decisions, mayors make them but the politics there and listen to the different perspectives from a top democrat and top republican on what this covid relief package is. the american rescue plan is transformative. it will comprehensively and compassiona
And instead we embraced, and instead we returned to the truth that our parents and grandparents understood that the more a person learns the more a person earns. [applause] that a stronger middle class that a strong arer middle class is not the consequence of Economic Growth a stronger middle class is the cause of Economic Growth. [applause] im not even sure our parents and grandparents, democrats and republicans alike even had a word for that type of economics. They called it common sense. [laughter] in other words, the more money that workers earn, the better customers businesses have, and the better our economy grows. So together we actually, we passed the living wage. We raised the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour. [applause] we made college we made college more affordable more more people and four years in a row without a pennys increase. We made our public schools, as tom mentioned the best in the country for five years in a row. We made it easier for people to vote and not harder.
The past few months, because compared to the republican field where you have a huge field of candidates, theres less happening with democrats and they want to get going. They want to see candidates, they want to talk to them, vet them, even if it is Hillary Clinton, and theyve met her before, they want her out here. And we are happy to have our viewers join the conversation as well. Phone lines are open. Republicans can call in. Democrats, independents. Take us to New Hampshire, a gathering of republicans scheduled for this weekend in New Hampshire, tell us whats going on. Absolutely. Friday and saturday nearly every republican president ial hopeful will go through New Hampshire for the state Party Leadership summit. At the crown plaza, which i hear is lovely. 19 speakers signed up for this. The only two not on the list ben carson and rick santorum. Every other person on the speaking list, all 19 of them republican president ial hopeful. Two solid days of speeches rick perry kicks it o
I dont think it is very helpful. Thank you, madam chair for holding this hearing. I want to say at the outset i have an honor flight coming in shortly. I have somebody from bangladesh here. I was clair of this committeehair of this committee a while back. I went to yemen and mr. Connolly is right, there have been problems there for years. But i would argue that they certainly have gotten worse under the administration and you know it was this administration that claimed that yemen was a Success Story and clearly it has been anything but that. When we were on our way over there, there was an a terrorist attack on a graduation at the military barracks and over 100 new soldiers were murdered by terrorists. So its been going on for a while. But the problems in yemen are just incredible. I think the thing that is particularly disturbing is the iranian involvement there and around the region. Its four or five capitals now in the region that are controlled by the iranians. So its a very dange