Good morning. Today, were having a hearing on the Biden Administrations fiscal year 2025 budget request for the department of education. And then happy to welcome secretary cardona to her subcommittee once again. Mr. Secretary, looking forward to working in a bipartisan manner again this year with senator capito to help develop h hhs villa billick and pase come pass a senate, pass the senate be signed into law by the president. We did her last year but House Republicans insistence on partisan policy writers had to coding cuts that set our children young people up for success led to repeated shutdown, showdowns and crs. That culminated in passing final appropriation bills in march that we should a past months before. That can askance does nothing to help ensure our federal resources are used most effectively to serve the people we represent. It causes federal agencies to waste time and money instead of working to ensure every dollar we appropriate served our constituents. We cannot play
[inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, a very good morning. Welcome to your nations capitol, the subcommittee on Early Childhood and secondary information will come to order. And the chair is authorized to call a recess at anytime. The holocaust ended in 1945, the hate behind it has not. Antisemitism is repugnant in all its forms, but the topic of the hearing is troubling. Its hard to grasp that antisemitism has become in our k through 12 schools. And some of the young minds, who has conditioned them to attack the jewish people. The very need for this hearing is a travesty. The aftermath of october 7th has the ugliest ideas, once marginalized, and failed to stop it. Its not just antiisrael, its antiamerica, its antidemocracy. Three of our witnesses represent some of the Largest School districts in the nation where theres been some vile antisemitism in their districts. Just a few minutes ago we heard from communities, parents and even a teacher who said this is happening witho
The president founded Nyus Furman Center for urban policy which has become one of the nations leading Research Centers on housing. Welcome to the committee, president. Thank you. Our second witness is the president of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, new jersey. The next witness is the secretary and ceo of this society located in washington dc. The fine witness. The chancellor of ucla and los angeles, california. We thank you for being here today and look forward to your testimony. We will remind the witnesses that we have read your written statements which will. In full in the hearing record. Pursuant to Committee Rule 8d the Committee Practice i ask each limit your oral presentation to a fiveminute summary of the written statement. I also remind the witnesses to be aware of the responsibility to provide Accurate Information to the committee. I will first recognize this president for five minutes. Thank you. And also thank you to the representative for the kind introduction. I agr
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if i could invite everyone to take your seats. We are right on time, so it is a great pleasure to invite my dear friend Ellie Cohanim and her fellow panelists for our second panel, enriching the u. S. Is really alliance by combating antisemitism. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. So wonderful to be here with you. And before we start i really want to just take a moment and thank the Heritage Foundation for dr. Kevin roberts and for victoria coates, who for a while has been thinking about holding this important conversation about the u. S. Israel relationship. And we were talking this weekend and she said she believes its Divine Providence because who knew how important this conversation would be at this moment in time . So again so grateful to victoria coates, to the Heritage Foundation for having us today. I want to start with introducing my esteemed panel here who im so honored to be monitoring this conversation. On the right is r
To a 15 minute break ask you to reconvene at 2 30 p. M. Again thank you very much. [applause] [background noises] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if i can invite everyone to take your seats. We are right on time. It is a great pleasure to invite might dear friend and her fellow panelists for our second panel enriching the u. S. Israel alliance by combating antisemitism. [applause] good afternoon everyone. It t is so wonderful to be here with you. And before we start i really want to just take a moment and think the Heritage Foundation for victoria coates who, for a whileee has been thinking about holding this important conversation i about the u. S. israel relationship. We were talking this weekend she said she believed it was Divine Providence because who knew how important this conversation would be at this moment in time. So again, so grateful to victoria coast for the Heritage Foundation for having usg today. I want to start with introd