Reads given the price we pay for climate inaction the most costly thick we can do is to do nothing. Here are some of the remarks as she announced a plan today. As our seas rise, insurance premiums, property taxes and food prices. Temperatures could rise 10 degrees and seas by four feet. Climate change will continue to affect credit risk worldwide. This isnt just about disappearing polar bears and melting ice caps although i like polar bears and i know about ice caps. This is about protecting our health and our homes. This is about protecting local economies and it is about projecting jobs. The time to act is now. That is why president obama laid out a Climate Action plan to cut Carbon Pollution and build a more resilient nation and lead the world in the global fight against climate. You can watch the entire announcement at 9 15 eastern time on our companion network cspan or you can watch it any time online at cspan. Org. Also the Supreme Court through out a conviction beige based on th
There mccaskill posted second in a series of roundtable discussions aimed at combating Sexual Assault on College Campuses. College officials and victims advocates. This is just under two and a half hours. Thank you all for being here today. Assume senator tester and senator blumenthal will join us at some point today. They will have an opportunity for putting anything on the record it would like. I would like to start by welcoming the participants. This is the second round table in a series of three focusing on the complex and various issues that surround Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Two weeks ago we had a discussion on the clary at and the campus safe act. On thursday we will be holding the third roundtable discussion on something i am very concerned about, and that is the coordination, working collaboration between Law Enforcement and University Campuses in terms of holding perpetrators criminally accountable. I am holding these roundtables to bring together a Diverse Group of
Funded its post secondary institutions, not funding institutions that had served large proportions of mexican americans, including many of those along the south texas border. And deborah has written about this. In effect, identifying that south texas was an education desert. We see that that is still the case with one of the counties that nick hillman talked about. People in my own department actually teach students at that institution that nick hillman identified. We actually bring a program out to them. So that they can have access to doctoral education and policy studies. Even though i live in a metropolitan area, even though we are located in a metropolitan area, we have to reach out to them. We are held to the same standards, texas is one of the 25 states with performance funding. We are held to the same standards of needing outcomes as other universities like the university of texas at austin that served half as many lowincome students or fewer and we serve over twice as many lat
Protected on the nations campuses. We enforce a variety of statutes that have relevance to the issue of Sexual Assaults. One, of course, is title ix of the education amendments of 1972, which we enforce in conjunction with the department of education and other agencies that Fund Institutions of Higher Education. We also enforce title iv of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans, moamong other thing, sex discrimination in Public Schools and schools of Higher Education. In addition we address the violent control act and the state streets act. And those statutes allow us to take a holistic approach, because it gives us jurisdiction over sex discrimination by Law Enforcement agencies. And as senator tester knows, we worked very cooperatively with both the university of montana at missoula, and the Missoula Police department to enter into agreements to address the handling of Sexual Assault complaints by students and members of the Missoula Community using all of these statutes. And i thi
Federal money cannot chase the declines were experiencing so long. And that reorientation of the traditional bargain about the feds, the states, the institutions and families and philanthropy together paying for education is something that we need to improve. Fortunately, its been stabilizing in many states, and maybe we are moving in that positive direction. But the something that is overlooked, if we think about the danger side of an allocation that follows institutions that are effective in educating first generation underrepresented students, those who have who do, indeed, pose an educational challenge for institutions and whose graduation is the reason for our investing so much in student aid. We look at the negative side of who might lose. I would encourage us all to think about the Positive Side of having the information that would allow us to reinforce the resources and grow the resources to those institutions who have the kind of track record that many of you were talking abou