Democracy. But dissent must never lead to disorder, or denying the right of others the committee will reconvene and come to order following our recess. Ms. Fernandez, youre recognized for five minutes. Thank you so, madam chairwoman, and thank you so much secretary cardona for being here today for keeping the focus. I keep seeing you keeping the poe focus on the issue of education, because we know that education is both the foundation of our democracy, as well as the path for prosperity for our families. Now i wanted to give you the time to answer a bit about the question that came up earlier. You really werent given the time, or im sorry, the respect to be able to explain the authorities that you have under the Higher Education act, to forgive Student Loans. And that authority was given to the department through the Higher Education act. Would you like to take do a Quick Response to why you are acting in this with the guardian Student Loans and the authority youre doing it . Well, wer
Nothing or hear nothing the difficulty of tracing and stopping this kind of violation of rights is all the higher. Its extraordinarily difficult. When there are no internal processes we will get the not clear report on the audit. This morning on capitol hill education secretary Miguel Cardona is set to testify on College Campus protests. Hes appearing before the committee on his department policy. The committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to call recess at any time. Mr. Secretary, i was truly excited when your named secretary with your background. You know i have told you that. However, you have not lived up to your potential. The educational decline is not without warning. Upon your confirmation i issued a press release saying, the Teachers Union and leftwing special Interest Groups are keeping our schools closed despite the serious consequences for students academic success and Mental Health. Serious consequences may have been
Defense under text for personal re readiness and nuclear and defense programs. This is almost two hours. Good morning. Services Committee Meets today to consider the nominations of mark t esper to be secretary of the army, well key for under secretary of defense for readiness, kernan to be intelligence, and guy rod insurance for Nuclear Chemical and biological defense weapons. I would like to say that i have been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative in responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the Defense Authorization bill. I think that the most members were happy with the briefing that we received concerning the actions on the uss mccain and others. And so we are glad to begin this hearing. We thank all of you for joining us this morning. We welcome your family and friends with us today. As is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony, we invite you to introduce those who are jo
American Enterprise Fund bowman cutter. They support Economic Development and generating financial returns. This is nearly two hours. Okay. Lets get started. Im dan runde. Were going to have a conversation about whether or not we need to revisit the concept of u. S. Enterprise funds. U. S. Enterprise funds were launched in the early 1990s by george h. B. Bush, were country focussed where u. S. Government dollars funded investments in developing countries. It was an idea that was ahead of its time. And there were several dozen of these Enterprise Funds that were launched. Many of them were very successful. Some that had some hiccups. But most were broadly very successful. But you would ask yourself, well, why hasnt there is any number of Different Countries where you would say we ought to be applying this. Thankfully, in the obama administration, there were a number of countries where there was political will to apply this tool. And i think its a very valid and useful tool for our tool
Okay. Lets get started. Im dan runde. Were going to have a conversation about whether or not we need to revisit the concept of u. S. Enterprise funds. U. S. Enterprise funds were launched in the early 1990s by george h. B. Bush, were country focussed where u. S. Government dollars funded investments in developing countries. It was an idea that was ahead of its time. And there were several dozen of these Enterprise Funds that were launched. Many of them were very successful. Some that had some hiccups. But most were broadly very successful. But you would ask yourself, well, why hasnt there is any number of Different Countries where you would say we ought to be applying this. Thankfully, in the obama administration, there were a number of countries where there was political will to apply this tool. And i think its a very valid and useful tool for our tool kit in the United States. And so we have examples from tunisia and egypt that were going to talk about as well. Were going to talk a l