The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for pet projects such as new teacher prep pardonness, which are redone ant of existing programs. Families deserve a better way forward. We needed administration to work with congress to advance Lasting Solutions facing schools nationwide. Instead of supporting ourests to strengthen education, the administration is implementing a con via luted scheme that has waivers to waivers that makes the secretarie
Have. You can bring the wellvetted idea up the chain here. And that is valuable to know our power to be confidant in who we are and not shy way from that. So that is four barriers i think are important to go over to set the tone of some of the obsticals. As we look at leading at all levels that sets the context. How can we get young women and everybody to lead at all levels from student up to president to ceo or superintendent in my case. And i can the first tenant of this was talked about but i want to emphasis this. It is leading yourself. There is a lot of principles that go into that. Until we get the self down we will never be able to lead others or move up in an organization. Does anyone know the kung foo pa pana da . We happen there is poe who is a fat panda and he is trying to get in shape to fight the bad guys that are going to come in and destroy the valley. He doesnt like a warrior in any respect and people tell him you will never defeat the enemy. You are not the right size
331 of these counties are represented by republicans. And 18 are split between the two parties. From that impersistent poverty should matter to all of us, regardless of party, geography, or race and ethnicity. In early 2009 when we were putting to the the recovery act, i proposed language to require at least 10 of funds in Rural Development account to be directed to projects in these persistent poverty counties. This requirement was enacted in law. In light of the definition of persistent poverty counties having at least 20 poverty rates over 30 years, this position became known as the 102030 initiative. This provision bore dividends, as Economic Development projects proliferated in persistent poverty counties across the country. The recovery act funded a total of 4,655 projects in persistent poverty counties totalling 1. 7 billion. I saw firsthand the positive effects of these efforts in my congressional district. Projects were undertaken that would have otherwise gone lacking, and jo
Was always on hiring. Increasing hiring. And i think that there are some aspects of the Affordable Care act particularly higher up the income ladder that the and on businesses, that they are reluctant to hire to the extent that they might have given the uncertainty or the requirements in the program. And thats just very difficult for people who are on welfare programs trying to help low income people get into jobs. Because, sometimes those jobs are discretionary hires. You know they may not really need them or may not want to necessarily do it but they need to have an environment where theyre comfortable and happy and positive about hiring people of all kinds of skills. And i think that we dont have enough of that in the country, and thats part of the reason why people are not in. And frankly, particularly on men who have struggled in the labor force a significant increase in the minimum wage up to 10. 10 nationwide, regardless of the economic circumstances of a particular area, is not
Accurate way. Sometimes i found it was easier to do the things then to write about those things, but it was interesting. Story in a cover insight magazine, which is published by the washington times, and the cover story looks like this i want to show the audience, a couple of people you probably know pretty well. We talked about the fact that you were born in israel, 61 years ago, how about these two gentlemen when you look at here, mr. Peres and mr. Shamir, were they born in israel . No, they were not born in israel. What country did they come from from . Both of them are born in poland. What about some of the other people we know . He was born in israel. Golda mayor was born here, wasnt she . She was born in russia and came here. Does it matter at all . Yourave been there all of life, does it matter to you or others if you came from another country, whether or not you can be a part of the no. We live in a democracy and everyone might be elected. I dont think so. I dont think it makes