Specializing in beachfront property. I could do that. I was a young person and had more savings. What do you all in vision and being able to broaden opportunities envision in being able to broaden opportunities . Would anyone like to comment . I might take a shot. The g. I. Bill is an Education Program this time. You need to go back to what your colleagues did in 1944. The g. I. Bill accomplished a whole series of things, not the least of which is getting people to start a business. You couldnt have the business if it didnt say veteran something, often funded by Small Business loans going through the g. I. Bill. Those need to be resurrected. They need to look at some of the other aspects as well. Ask a couple things. There is a proposal that would require people to go through the g. I. Acquisition track. We think it is important they have the education and training opportunities. Another aspect is dod is gradually moving forward with getting licensing in fields they are getting that is
Dozens of sites across the country because they can use these real dollars to help scale them up. So those are the types of things we think are important, scaling takes on a couple different forms. Some people think about scale were going to take this model and mcdonalds it and were going to be in a million places, but sometimes scale is taking a model and sharing it, saying heres what works you take it and you run with it, the last thing i would say, though and this is interesting in the case of bam. Everybody loves bam the president loves bam, i love bam, we funded them. But theyre really before smart growth. After the president visited with those young people. Theyre getting dozens of calls a day from all over the world, bring bam here. And bam smartly said we need to sure up our model first make sure chicago is secure the funding is coming in, sometimes when you get famous people think youre set and stop writing checks. They had to focus on their first market. Now several years in,
Be again again. And thirdly, im going to also support my Agriculture Community because i like to eat. I want to make sure myo re farmers are taken care of. I appreciate you all being here. And closing up i ask unanimous consent that members have five days to extendo or remarks and include material. Without objection, so ordered. With that, this hearing is adjourned. Were going live now to capitol hill where vice admiral peter is testifying this morning at a science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Homeland Security assistant secretary and the Transportation Security Administration administrator. The hearing is scheduled to start at 10 15, being delayed due to votes in the senate. Well join the hearing as soon as it gets underway. Until then, an event with the ceo of United Airlines who joined forces to speak out against government owned airline in qatar. They alleged that the Airline Carriers are receiving unfair subsidies from their respective
And to others that have to be able to have 7 and 10 year money. A lot of people would like to see if they have safety that their capital can go to rebuild their cities in a really constructive way. Thats all in the works too. Theres some positive lessons learned, positive things on the ground. The Biggest Issue that isnt being addressed in my estimation by the administration and everyone else is do we have an intention al intentional jobs program that gets down to the ground to this concentrated poverty that really reconcentrated after the Great Recession in a major way, and really threatens our cities . You know this was not as much a race issue . You have an africanamerican mayor, prosecutor, et cetera. Its a poverty issue. And theres real anger. And it isnt just in baltimore its all over in different areas of concentrated poverty. We learned over the years that i think the biggest lesson is that if you simply stop and ask a young person what they would like to do for their community
Relations person, when he talked with reporters, in other words, he used a phony name when he talked with these reporters, and marketed himself. Here is audio of one of those calls. What is your position there . Im sort of handling pr because we get so much of it. Frankly, i mean, i could tell you off the record, off the record, i can tell you that he didnt care if he got bad pr until he got his divorce finished. What kind of comment is this coming from your agency . From donald . Well, its just that he really decided that he wasnt, you know, he didnt want to make a commitment. Our senior political reporter, manu raju is following the story. He has more from washington. Good morning, manu. Good morning, carol. This apparently was something pretty common for new york reporters and editors to hear in the early part of Donald Trumps career, according to the Washington Post report that oftentimes, these reporters or editors would get a phone call back that theyre working on an article abou