Those who also receive pell grants. Student loan payments are now due to restart in october after a three year pause due to the pandemic. Interest on federal Student Loans will start accruing i september. Also this afternoon, education secretary Miguel Cardona will discuss the supreme urt decision on student loan forgiveness and lgbtq rights during the wte house briefing. First reacon from the attorneys general who brought the case from missouri and nebraska. Thank you for joining us. Today is a really important day for america because the Supreme Courts decision put a stop to it really was a breathtaking attempt to grab power by the Biden Administration. This case is about 500 million of taxpayer money, but its about how we all decided to govern ourselves in this country. Since our founding nearly 250 years ago, it is congress thats part of our separation of powers principles, it is congress that has the powers of the purse. The Biden Administration tried to pass student cancellation
[background noises] [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess of committee at any time. Im before we begin secretary has informed us she has only two hours available for this hearing. So in the interest of time Ranking Member and i are remedying ourselves to very brief Opening Statements we are asking the secretary to do the same. Additionally we get as many members as possible a chance to ask questions. And in concurrence with the Ranking Member i ask unanimous consent to limit each members q and a to four minutes without objection. So ordered. Out also like to request unanimous consent to submit to statements for the record for bt the first is from chairman lucas who could not be with us here today. As you know he has had a terrible accident with a bowl, he is a rancher. And he is recuperating. We look forward to his return soon because his leadership is dearly missed. The second as a full Opening Statement from my
[background noises] [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess of committee at any time. Im before we begin secretary has informed us she has only two hours available for this hearing. So in the interest of time Ranking Member and i are remedying ourselves to very brief Opening Statements we are asking the secretary to do the same. Additionally we get as many members as possible a chance to ask questions. And in concurrence with the Ranking Member i ask unanimous consent to limit each members q and a to four minutes without objection. So ordered. Out also like to request unanimous consent to submit to statements for the record for bt the first is from chairman lucas who could not be with us here today. As you know he has had a terrible accident with a bowl, he is a rancher. And he is recuperating. We look forward to his return soon because his leadership is dearly missed. The second as a full Opening Statement from my
Is where the storm is coming in atlanta. First a check to david of the weather. We have been watching irma to continue to fall apart over the last couple of hours its still packing winds about 60 to 65 miles per hour, but it is continuing to pass out of the region and starting to weaken through the next couple of days. I want to talk about what weve been seeing with irma here were going to start off by talking about what the damage currently looks like you can see what the pictures looked like earlier, where we had strong winds as this came ashore into portions of florida with some very strong winds. Right now it is down to Tropical Storm force. It is expected to stay a Tropical Storm force level for at least the next couple of hours and then as we head through the next couple days, well continue to weaken into a tropical depression. One of the concerns weve had is whats happening in jacksonville easterly and southwesterly wind, so its packing the water up the st. Johns river and leadi
Houston area projects could compete, more than 82 million more than provided in the fiscal year 2016 act. Additionally the Committee Report directs the corps to consider the severity of risk of flood thoring frequency with which an area has experienced flooding when deciding how to allocate the funding provided. Because the amendment does not actually change funding levels and so does not upset the balance of priorities in this bill i will not oppose this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Jackson lee i thank mr. Simpson and ms. Kaptur, mr. Simpsn for recounting that information, and ms. Kaptur for the leadership shes given and the understanding of the plight were in. Flood control is critical to dams and harbors and most critical of all as infrastructure. That is what the Construction Funding will do. We understand that this now will give us the opportunity for long overdue projects t