Senate committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Im usually on time and excuse me for being late. We reauthorize a Higher Education act. Today were looking at ways to simplify the free application for student aid or fafsa to make it easier for students to apply for federal Financial Aid. Well introduce the witnesses and after your testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. Senators may be coming and going because of the tax bill. Nearly four years ago in a hearing before this committee an unusual thing happened. Four witnesses from diverse back grntds agreed that almost all of the 108 questions on the free application for federal student aid or fafsa are unnecessary. The fafsa is the government form 20 million families fill out every year to qualify for it federal aid that helps nearly 20 Million Students attend universities. Weve spent a lot of time holding this to remind people of all it questions even though most people fill it out online. Th
Zero this is a news hour live from aljazeera is headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the evidence is undeniable the weapons might as well have had made in iran stickers on iran denies it but the u. S. Says it has proof tehran is supplying arms to who the rebels in yemen. A big. Missed opportunity the latest round of syria talks and with no progress negotiators that blaming each other for the failure also this hour the us pulls the plug our next neutrality well explain what this could mean for millions of Internet Users in america and chiles president ial candidates wrap up their campaigns just days ahead of a tight Runoff Election were live in santiago. Thank you for joining us the United States has presented what it calls undeniable evidence proving iran is violating u. N. Resolutions and supplying weapons to who the fight is in yemen the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley at an invitation only News Conference showed charred parts of what the pentagon says i
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper delivered his final state of the state address at the state capital in denver picky outline his legislative priorities including Economic Development, Broadband Internet access, transportation, infrastructure, Education Investment and environmental protection. This is about an hour. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] it is my pleasure and honor to present to you the honorable john hickenlooper, governor of the state of colorado and. [applause] always a lastminute change. Please, thank you. At a time when shouting seems to have replaced talking, and insults have replaced ideas, i want to start by honoring the men and women who join me in this chamber, and all those who have made it their lifes work to serve the people of colorado, driven by an abiding desire to serve and make our great state even greater. President grantham, speaker duran, members of the General Assembly, Lieutenant Governor lynne and her husband jim, justices of the colorado
Fda commissioner along with the assistant secretary of health and Human Services for preparedness and response, along with an official with the centers for Disease Control. Id like to call this hearing to order, the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. This morning were holding a hearing titled facing the 21st Century Public Health threats, our nations preparedness and response capabilities. Well hear from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the department of health and Human Services, the director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and the commissioner of the food and Drug Administration. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second will be noticed for tuesday, january 23rd. Senator murray and i each have an opening statement. Then im going to turn to senator alexander and senator casey for any opening remarks they might have. After that well in
Since the day i took office, we have added 1. 2 million private sector jobs, and a lot more than that, if you go from the time we actually got elected, november 8. Including 125,000 manufacturing jobs, and we just had another good month for manufacturing jobs. You probably also all that. We will keep this momentum going and to allow the economy to truly take off as it should, it is vital that we reduce the tax burden on our companies and on our workers. We pay the highest tax of any country in the world for businesses, and we cannot keep doing that. Last week, i repeated my principles for tax reform, first we must make the tax code as simple as possible. It is extremely complex. It is not fair and it is extremely hard to understand. So we want to make it as simple as possible. Second, we must provide tax relief for middleclass workers and families. Third, we must restore our Competitive Edge which would which we have lost. We are doing fine, but we lost the Competitive Edge, you see wh