U. S. Student loan debt. Later, discussions about Cyber Security and business. Now a Senate Hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. Mark begich questioned officials representing the Forest Service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in Populated Areas. This hearing is an hour. Thank you so much for being here. Its a pleasure to have folks here. This is the subcommittee on Emergency Management intergovernment relations in the District Of Columbia. I apologize. I have a cold so im suffering through a cold. So i appreciate you being here. I want to thank the witnesses to be here especially on short notice to lend their expertise to our discussion. We are here to look at the problems that are serious and concerns to many states for a while now, and thats wildfires. This is a challenge that confronts communities of all towns, villages, cities, states and the federal government. As a former mayor myself i know firsthand how important
About so much, but on the ground for people right now who have already borrowed, clients like mine having the existing programs that work well, it is incredibly important. Hopefully a lot is going to happen in that area. The cfbp is the new sheriff in town. I will add that president obama said a lot on the campaign trail that he wanted to tie federal aid to colleges ability to keep costs down. We have not seen specifics on that. It will be interesting. Something to watch to see if he actually does that. We have seen some specifics from the prior version of that proposal. The students aid and fiscal responsibility act, which passed the house, but provisions were dropped from the bill. Eventually became the health care and education reconciliation act. Campus based funding the perkins loan, the grant, a federal work study tying it to a colleges success in keeping tuition from growing too quickly. Also their success enrolling pell grant recipients. The final proposal will be different, bu
You are a parent, use for educators and administrators, the number is please make sure you meet thae mute the tv when you call in. Hasg tag, cspan. Our facebook poll has been up for a number of hours. You can go to facebook. Com c span. Is College Worth going into debt . Lets go to new york and hear from marian wang. She is the education reporter for propublica joining us byvia skype. Thank you for having me. What got you interested in the area of student debt . There are record numbers for student debt. I began covering education. I got sucked into it. So much is happening in that space. There are hard Economic Times that is putting an extra crunch on students and families at a time and College Costs keep rising. We showed audiences the the conversation you participated in a couple of months ago. The scope of the issue and the size of the student debt that we are dealing with these days. The government issued more than a hundred billion dollars in Student Loans to families and grad st
Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation in our lewis fuller meant auditorium. And thank you for those who are joining us through the various networks today. If you will make sure your cell phones are turned off, we appreciate it as we begin. And if you wish to send in questions or comments, simply email us at speaker heritage. Org. Posting our discussion is a senior fellow for Public Diplomacy in our douglas and Sarah Allison center for foreign policy. She focuses on the government institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public and Foreign Countries as well as diplomacy. She is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and serves on the journalismolitical at Hanover College in indiana. Please join me in welcoming hello dale hila dale. [applause] thank you. Politics andssian 30 tricks that we have seen in full bloom in recent months, relating to specifically russias efforts to dominate and control parts of its former soviet empire. As we look at a highly unstable situa
Deserve our support, our respect, and our prayers. They e they demand the fullest response, diplomat exand economic. I think its wholly appropriate that these brave martyrs be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and everything that can be done along these lines should be done. I yold back. I tweeled two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Lavon. The gentleman is recognized. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him and the other leads of the for expeditiously bringing this resolution to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the exhilarating express expressions of support for democracy in china have inspired the world. The horrors we have witnessed in china in the last few days have shocked the world. Beijings brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators deserves our harshest condemnation and i believe will prove the undoing of this regime. I urge my colleagues, mr. Speaker, not to forget that this latest atrocity comes on the heels of a similar military suppression of dem