i have not finished yet. [laughter] tony: i m not done yet. mankind will have a surprise before i kick the bucket. [laughter] thank you all. thanks so much. tony: be positive. be positive. [laughter] alex: thank you so much, tony. wonderful, wonderful gentleman. [applause] you are watching american history tv, 40 eight hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter @cspan history for information on our upcoming schedule of history programs and to keep up with the latest history news. the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the congress with photos of every senate and house member bio, contact information, and twitter handles. plus, district maps, a foldout map of capitol hill, a look at congressional committees, the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. order your copy today. through the c-span store at c-span.org. during his first term as president, richard nixon had the unique opportunity to
of americans had a college degree. in 1965 when the higher education act passed for the first time about 10% had a college degree. and today it s 35%. so we ve made some progress and many would argue we have the best in the world. at least we have people lined up to go to them from other countries. and i believe that s become because quite by accident mainly the g.i. bill for veterans in 1944 that began to give money to students and allow them to choose any institution of their choice, we ve got lots of choice, lots of competition. 6,000 institutions. and that has created the best system of college and universities. think how different that is from the kind of marketplace we have in k through 12. i d like to mention quickly three things today i think we could do to improve things. then we ll talk about them. one, clear out the jungle of red tape that is regulating higher education. two is stop telling students that they can t afford college because most of them can. and three
accreditation. i didn t mention that. but that s a difficult one to figure out. and the challenge is really with all this incredible new stuff heading our way, technology. how do you allow for that to make its way into the higher education system? so those are some of the priorities. if you just to be clear, as you pointed out, somewhat distinctive in the current political climate, you and senator murray produced a draft that the committee i believe on the k to 12 issue rand paul and elizabeth warren both voted for it. listed issues on a small venn diagram. your goal is to draft again with senator murray. she suggested that to me at the begin oging of the year. i found it helpful to listen and took her advice. it was good advice. if it worked once, we re going to try it again. you also you mentioned you have the simplification legislation that is a good candidate to be in the overall bill. you ve already had legislation you also have legislation on simplifyi
fy might instead of giving a typical opening statement, i want to ask ms. clancy a couple of questions because i need to move on to another appointment. and i believe, dr. clancy, you ve been made aware that i m going to be asking a couple of questions, albeit a little out of order. and i want to talk specifically about bradley stone, that we know that he was seen by his va psychiatrist a week prior to his commission of multiple murders and subsequently dying of suicide. he was on many, many prescription drugs and had alerted va, as i understand it, to mental health and physical difficulties in the weeks leading up to the incident. but it appears that va said he showed no signs of suicidal or homicidal ideations. and i d like to know, how did va come to that conclusion when that the veteran was okay? and i say that in quotes, when he was reporting all of these feelings prior to the incident? in general people would come to that conclusion by asking the veteran a series of
later in 1965 to combat poverty rebuilding our cities and making housing more affordable by all. yet by every official measure, poverty and its consequences is as bad as 50 years ago. poverty rate today is essentially unchanged from when hud was founded. millions of more americans fall below the poverty mark, including an unbelievable one out of five children. this is shameful. hud says its mission is to build quality affordable homes for all and yet, according to inflation figures, the median price of new homes as doubled and median rents have gone up by more than one-third. in other words, it s not just the poor who find the cost of housing beyond their means, it s almost everyone. this is unacceptable. to make matters worse, to achieve this unenviable record, hud has spent 1.#ú dollars and is asking for a 9% budget increase. 1.6 trillion is more than $13,000 for every household in america, equivalent to the cost of feeding a family of four for an entire year. meanwhile, o