Also in the house today a vote to override the president s veto of legislation repealing a rule waiving tariffs on solar parts from china. Later, members will begin debate on classified sentinal and related watch live coverage of the house when lawmakers return at noon eastern time here on cspan. We continue our live coverage on capitol hill. Take you to a house education subcommittee hearing on the Biden Administrations student loan policies. We join this hearing in progress. His performance. Is delivering the service on time in a timely manner to 17 million american families, is that part of your performance criteria . Well, im very confident in mr. Cordrays ability to manage this transition. What congress has assigned us is substantial overhaul of the form, the formula, terminology. It will be substantially simpler for families and schools, but its a major transition not only for us in retiring major data systems im afraid my time has expired. 17 million families will have a lot of
Integrity and democracy. What we have seen is the intentional targeting and harassment of threats being directed at the professionals, at the Public Servants that we all rely upon. Who facilitate our democracy, who give voice to the voters. We did not plan when we finally did founded ceir to host events like this. But what has been clear since the november 2020 election, Election Officials in this country have been subjected to an endless onslaught of harassment, threats, abuse, designed to make their lives miserable. This is not because they did not do their jobs well, it is because they did do their jobs well. The 2020 election was the most secure, transparent and verified election in american history. That is objectively true. More paper ballots than ever before, more audits than ever before. More postelection litigation bet verified and confirmed the outcome. Despite this, we are suffering from this endless attack on democracy. We wanted to host this event to thank so many of you w
Integrity and democracy. What we have seen is the intentional targeting and harassment of threats being directed at the professionals, at the Public Servants that we all rely upon. Who facilitate our democracy, who give voice to the voters. We did not plan when we finally did founded ceir to host events like this. But what has been clear since the november 2020 election, Election Officials in this country have been subjected to an endless onslaught of harassment, threats, abuse, designed to make their lives miserable. This is not because they did not do their jobs well, it is because they did do their jobs well. The 2020 election was the most secure, transparent and verified election in american history. That is objectively true. More paper ballots than ever before, more audits than ever before. More postelection litigation bet verified and confirmed the outcome. Despite this, we are suffering from this endless attack on democracy. We wanted to host this event to thank so many of you w
[cheers and applause] good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, everyone. Madam secretary, four years ago i stood on this same spot and had the honor of introducing you to the men and women of the department of state. On that first day on, youve touched the lives of millions and millions of people around the world. Left a profoundly positive mark on American Foreign policy and youve done enormous good for all of us and for the country we serve. We will miss you deeply. [cheers and applause] but none of us will ever forget your extraordinary leadership and each of us will always be deeply proud to say that we served Hillary Clintons state department. [cheers and applause] and so now its my great honor to introduce one last time the 67th secretary of state of the United States of america, hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you. Oh, well. Just standing here looking out at all of you, the people i have been honored to serve and lead and work with over the last four yea
The president agreed to cut the spending by a significant amount. Now, would you like that negotiation had resulted from not having made that threat . Absolutely. But do you think it would have occurred . Theres the difference. I would never be one to advocate that congress should not increase the debt limit. They should. When this came up in the summer of 2011 i wrote that and they put that in the pages of the initial review. I was arguing against those who say lets look and creating a cash crunch. That is the wrong thing to do. Congress has the ability to decide what they want to attach to the legislation. That is appropriate for congress to attach spending cuts to that. If you give your teen kid a credit card and the kid blows through the credit limit. You dont stop paying the bill. You pay the bill. Those obligations have already incurred. You have on on by allegation to pay your bill. You dont let the kid keep the credit card and keep spending. You pay the past bills and you sit d