Partnership like Velcro University and ever source academy, to not only ensure our local businesses have Skilled Workforce they need to thrive but also better prepare our students for success after graduation. Manchester proud, a coalition of business leaders, is putting together the First Ever Community based Strategic Plan for our School District to make sure we have strong Public Education that sets our students up for success. And this year, we were able to give our Public Schools the largest increase in funding in 14 years. [applause] manchester has always been a city of immigrants, and we are proud to celebrate our diversity. [applause] mayor, i have appointed more people from historically underrepresented communities on our city boards, emissions than ever before. And commissions than ever before. Office, theyear in five flags flew at city hall for the first time. [applause] as you can tell, i love manchester, and i am so pleased to welcome you all here. One of the great things
Appearance before Congressional Committee in his career. Here on cspan 3 we are going to take your calls and comments and cspan radio as well. Heres how to join the conversation. Democrats call 2027488920. Republicans 2027488921. For all others 2027488922. We plan to show the hearing as well, both hearings today, to reair the hearings in their entirety on the cspan network. If you missed any of the earlier testify, well have it for you much later this evening after the house gavels out. Lets go if you arefirst to joh francisco on our others line. John, san francisco, go ahead, youre on the air. Caller disappointing as everybody thought it was going to be, but i was wondering that it seemed someone should have asked if he report because his john, youre breaking up on us a little bit. Im going to let you go here and go to jackie in irvine, california, democrats line. Jackie in, irvine gor, go ahead caller thank you for taking my call. I am so proud to have the opportunity to participate
has become increasingly suburban. about half of democratic primary voters will come from just two counties in new hampshire. and they both are along the border. that s refined the mix of urban, but suburban voters. they live near the massachusetts border and might commute down to massachusetts for their employment and moved up to new hampshire for cost-of-living reasons. lower taxes, lower lower housing costs especially. and then he looked to the rest of the state, and rural new hampshire is not like the rest of rural america. we think of role is red. in urban is blue. in new hampshire, rural is sometimes blue and especially in bernie sanders backyard. in the connecticut river valley and western new hampshire. from the southwest corner up into grafton county were dartmouth colleges. that is actually an area where democrats in a general election typically find their margin of victory for a state wide race. so role is more recreational based in new hampshire. people come up to
next, democratic presidential candidate tulsi gabbard holding a campaign event at the vfw hall in somersworth, new hampshire. ahead of the state first in the nation primary on tuesday. [inaudible conversations] nice to meet you. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] good to know. thank you. the reasons why i stand with tulsi are numerous and would take more time that had introducer so i will start with what first jimmy choo tulsi in 2016 when i learned she was stepping down from her vice chair position at the dnc in the midst of a presidential primary. tulsi giving up this position of power and visibility showed me her integrity, conviction and backbone. any politician that was willing to put their career on the line in stand up to the dnc and hillary clinton was a candidate i knew was fighting for the voters and our democracy while demonstrating deep morals and courage. [applause] that you, tulsi. her compassion, empathy, commitment to work for all citizens, and her
state, a state that has changed over the last 15 to 20 years. why? one big reason is the state has become increasingly suburban. half will come from two counties in new hampshire along the massachusetts border. hillsboro and rocking ham, and that is where you find the mix of urban but suburban voters who live near the massachusetts border, might commute to massachusetts for their employment. they moved to new hampshire for cost-of-living reasons, lower taxes, lower housing costs especially. what is interesting is rural new hampshire is not like the rest of rural america. we tend to think that rural is red. in new hampshire, rural is sometimes blue. especially in bernie sanders backyard. in the connecticut river valley, in western new hampshire from the southwest corner of the state up into grafton county where dartmouth college is, that is actually an area where democrats in a general election typically find their margin of victory for a statewide race. rural is more recre