Thank you for being here to join us to talk about title 9 protections for students across our country. Leader pelosi, thank you for being here. You have been a tireless advocate on this issue throughout your career. And representative franco thank you for your leadership on the democratic working womens group. Youve led this group to confront tough and very important issues that weve been facing here and e certainly want to thank all of my colleagues as well. Under title 9 law schools are legally required to remedy hostile education environments. After years of reports from students that their schools are not responding appropriately to cases of Sexual Assault, the department made a push in the last few years to enforce this critical law. In recent days weve been shocked by comments by the department of education that seem to downplay this trauma of Sexual Assault and undo the progress weve made. Comments like this are disqualifying for me public official, but its appalling to hear thi