today s lecture is going to be on the history and the heritage of morgan state university. morgan state 81 is celebrating its sesqui kren 10 yell 150 years, in and originally started with nine students at the basement of the sharp street methodist episcopal church celebrating 150 years and has nearly 8,000 students. a history and leg gacy tied to historically black colleges and universities. they will celebrate their 150th anniversary and these university are morgan state university in baltimore, maryland, howard university in d.c. johnson c. smith in north carolina, barbara scotia in north carolina, talledega in alabama, st. augustine in north carolina, alabama state university in alabama, fayet fayetteville state university in north carolina and moore house college in georgia. in 1867, these nine historically black colleges and universities formed the largest concentration of any historically black colleges and universities established in any single year. in 1965, the hig
its sesqui kren 10 yell 150 years, in and originally started with nine students at the basement of the sharp street methodist episcopal church celebrating 150 years and has nearly 8,000 students. a history and leg gacy tied to historically black colleges and universities. they will celebrate their 150th anniversary and these university are morgan state university in baltimore, maryland, howard university in d.c. johnson c. smith in north carolina, barbara scotia in north carolina, talledega in alabama, st. augustine in north carolina, alabama state university in alabama, fayet fayetteville state university in north carolina and moore house college in georgia. in 1867, these nine historically black colleges and universities formed the largest concentration of any historically black colleges and universities established in any single year. in 1965, the higher education act of 1965 formally recognized 105 historically black colleges and universities, and so these 105hbcus are an
years, in and originally started with nine students at the basement of the sharp street methodist episcopal church celebrating 150 years and has nearly 8,000 students. a history and leg gacy tied to historically black colleges and universities. they will celebrate their 150th anniversary and these university are morgan state university in baltimore, maryland, howard university in d.c. johnson c. smith in north carolina, barbara scotia in north carolina, talledega in alabama, st. augustine in north carolina, alabama state university in alabama, fayet fayetteville state university in north carolina and moore house college in georgia. in 1867, these nine historically black colleges and universities formed the largest concentration of any historically black colleges and universities established in any single year. in 1965, the higher education act of 1965 formally recognized 105 historically black colleges and universities, and so these 105hbcus are an important legacy to the edu
and abuse. the hearing is about two hours. this hearing will come to order. good afternoon. i want to welcome our witnesses. i appreciate your thoughtful testimony and your willingness to spend some time with us here today. i ask consent for my written opening statement be entered in the record. this hearing really is what this committee s all about, particularly on the governmental affairs portion, but we have a mission statement that we developed last congress with my former ranking member and then my new ranking had a very good addition to it. the original one was to enhance the economic and national security of america and the senator suggested we add and promote efficient, more efficient, effective and accountable government and that s what the gao does and inspector generals do. we appreciate your work. i don t know how many times i ve said and others have said you re our favorite folks in government. you give us the information that really can make government more ef
financial scams that are targeting senior citizens. the committee looked at scams involving purported sweepstakes winning, robo calling and so-called grandparent scams. we ll hear from officials with the treasury department, the federal trade commission and victim of an irs impersonation scam. good afternoon. that was to wake all of you up. i m pleased to welcome both new and returning members to the committee and i m delighted that my good friend, senator casey, will be serving as the committee s new ranking member during this congress. i want to specifically welcome senator catherine cortez-masto from the great state of nevada to the committee. we look forward to having you join our work. and of course, it s wonderful to welcome back senator gillibrand who s been so committed to this issue. the issues that we have explored as well. speaking of senator gillibrand, i understand that her son, theo, is here today. he is doing a special class project so he got an excused absen