Congress passed a law earlier this year that expands military veterans Education Programs. A house Veterans Affair xplt wanted to know how thats going. Witnesses from various va offices responsible for the administration of education benefits for former soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen talked about their efforts to implement the 2017 law and about an Information Technology snag that created confusion among students. This is an hour and 15 minutes. The subcommittee will come to order. I have to apologize in advance. I have to step out and have asked congressman to preside in my absence. So thank you for that. I want to thank everybody for joining us for todays hearing of the subcommittee on Economic Opportunity where we will begin our first oversight hearing on the implementation of hr 3218, the harry veterans assistance act of 2017 this bill was designed or signed into law on august 16th, 2017 and a great example of what congress can do with we put the American People and in this
And we are glad that they are here to do that for us. Lance has an incredible background. Not much experience with the military or think tanks or education and lance has all of them. Something notable that you might not of known is he is a speechwriter for gentleman here in california and does anyone remember the name george duke mason . He was also the writer for ed neese in the reagan administration. He has that and he is military experience and he is now the head policy person at tr i on the education track and delighted to welcome him back. [applause] thank you, erica, for that kind introduction and for welcoming back here to the Silicon Valley to the Biggest Group therapy session in the bay area and erica mentioned i started my career after law school and im a recovering lawyer so i started my career as a speechwriter and for those of you vaguely remember governor george i was the guy who gave the duke all that charisma. So i was a speechwriter for the governor and speechwriter fo
Coast is experiencing now with harvey and about to hit with another hurricane in the florida coast. First of all, on behalf of the committee, i want to express my sincere sorrow to everyone impacted by the storm. Harvey is one of the worst National Disasters the United States has ever faced and is still too early to tell the full extent of the devastations that has displaced thousands of people. Members of this committee on both sides of the aisle represent constituents experiencing loss and destruction from the storm and our thoughts and prayers are with these families as they begin to rebuild their lives from this national tragedy. During the storm and in the aftermath, epa continues to play a Critical Role in the federal response to harvey. While epa is still in the midst of initial response efforts, its work has only just begun. We look forward to monitoring the agencys response to the disaster and learn the full extent of the Environmental Impact and challenges that lie ahead. The
Foreign banks whose business supports the north korean regime. Whether directly or indirectly. By encompassing both the Economic Activity in north korea, these measures would represent the toughest financial sanctions yet directed at north korea. This means going after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals as well as north korean laborers abroad. In addition, the bill would incentivize greater by leveraging our vote at the International Financial institutions were certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. This bill puts those countries on notice. This proposed legislation has been informed by the committees ongoing work on north korea, as well as the un panel of experts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. Needless to say, north koreas sixth nuclear test on september 3, coupled with its repeated launching of intermediate and longrange Ballistic Missiles underlines that more must be done. As a result, the legislative draft will be looking at plays out a c
Account at all. Its uncontroverted because nobody says he turned the political stuff off for Guilford County. All they did is a cross check as a Guilford County to make sure it wasnt a retrogression problem with the Guilford County which is exactly what he should do by the way. But talk about theory similarities. It was Guilford County and it was greensboro and cromartie ii, and what this court said in giving that direct evidence relatively minimal rate was to say if you look at the rest of that email, the map drawer was very candid about taking race into account in drawing cd one and theres much less race involved in cd12 so it didnt predominate. The similarities could not be more dead on with this case. The most you can get out of Guilford County is that race was taken into account in some way that did not make it predominate, and this in evidence as in cromartie ii, that if you contrast the way the legislature proceeded with respect to cd one and cd 12, its virtually impossible to t