The committee will come back to order. I want to welcome everyone back to the hearing with secretary devos, but before we resume questioning, i needed to clarify a couple of things for the record. Virs, madam secretary, the oig report referenced by my colleague from connecticut, mr. Courtney, Loan Servicing, not only review records prior to the time as secretary, the oig did a review of records from january 2015 through september 2017. Which means that the oig did find fairly and accurately supervised Loan Services during your, while you were secretary, while im glad you checked something for services for their noncompliance, the record should reflect that this amount only represents less than 0. 1 of the 1. 7 billion budgeted for servicing. Given that 61 of the reports reviewed by the oig showed failures that would have expected a larger collection. Second, madam devorks you mentioned the importance of allowing federal work study to better align with students career goals but failed t
We will come to order. [ banging gavel ] the meeting on education and labor will come to order. I want to note that a quorum is present. The committee is meeting today to examine the policies and priorities of the United States department of education. Pursuant to rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chairman and Ranking Member, this allows to hear from our witness sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. I now recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Madam secretary, i want to begin by expressing the committees appreciation for your time today. The house rules require that each member is allotted full five minutes for questioning, and were grateful that youve allocated sufficient time to uphold that precedent. The department of education bears the tremendous responsibility of implementing and enforcing federal laws covering roughly 13,000 School Districts and more than 50 million Public School students. All of these student
We will come to order. I want to welcome everyone and note that a quorum is present. The committee is meeting to examine the department of 17,ation pursuant to rule Opening Statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member. This provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. Recognize ms. Dawson for the purpose of making an opening statement. Madam secretary, i want to begin by expressing the committees appreciation for your time today. House rules require that each member is allowed five minutes of questioning. We are grateful you have allocated sufficient time to uphold that president. Unfortunately, under the budget,ts fiscal 2020 it would be nearly impossible to meet that challenge at a time when access to education is synonymous with access to opportunity. The president s budget proposes a 12. 5 cut in the department of education. These cuts are spread across spot of that serve communities across the country. The budget for example weakens title 18, support for sch
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