Accompanying regulations, members are required to leave the camera on the entire time they are in an official proceeding. Even if a step away from the camera. While roll call is unnecessary to establish a quorum and official proceedings conducted remotely, whenever there is an official proceeding with remote participation, the clerk will call the roll to make clear who is present at the start of the preceding. At this time i ask the clerk to call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] chairwoman, this concludes the roll call. Thank you very much. Pursuant to Committee Role 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself do for the purpose of making and opening statement. Today, as we know were examining how the covid19 pandemic is straining our Higher Education system and discussing what Cong
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And fought in the same Army Infantry unit. In our year of war, Daniel Bolger recounts their journeys from Middle America to vietnam at the right of the war and home again. As we observe the 50th anniversary of the war, we are privileged to hear from these two eyewitnesses. The author, daniel p. Bolger, served in the u. S. Army for 35 years, retiring as a lieutenant general. He commanded troops in afghanistan and iraq. Earning five bronze star medals. One for valor and the combat action badge. He is a contributing editor for Army Magazine and the author of eight other books. He currently teaches history at North Carolina state university. Chuck hagle has long served our country. He was the secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015, and before that a u. S. Senator from his home state nebraska. During the the vietnam war he served in combat and earned two purple hearts, the combat infantryman badge and the vietnamese cross of gallantry. After graduating from the university of nebraska at oma
School choice advocates discussing the same topic. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im Deputy Director of education policy studies. I am pleased to kick off todays event on the future of educational choice. Following jeb bushs remarks, i will have a brief conversation. Following that, my former join the will distinguished group of panelists. Thell let him introduce others. Event is being live streamed. It will be available at the end of the day. We also have our friends at cspan broadcasting. We appreciate their service. For those watching from home we jebbush aei. To posee who would like a question for later, we will be monitoring on twitter. This is National School choice week. About education savings accounts. And what our education savings accounts . They are a mechanism for educational choice in six states where parents can withdraw kids from schools and into accounts where parents can control and use those funds for restric
Good afternoon. I am pleased to kick off todays event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. Our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. I will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. Todays event a little housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. We also have our friends at cspan broadcasting, and we appreciate their service. For those watching at home and online, we have a for the event. It is jebbushataei. Will pose questions for later and monitoring on twitter. This is National School choice week, and in ideal way to wrap up the discussion is education savings accounts. I am aware some of you are wondering why we should care about education s