Thats why we are providing lower income students access to affordable internet so homework and just be homework. Cox alongith these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Families, all others welcome to dial in. What is the most important issue for veterans . Before we get to that, an update on the Midterm Election and where the balance of power stands. This morning, look at the u. S. House. Democrats have 192 seats. Republicans have 211. There are a number of how seats in the west that have yet to be called. That number will change. The balance of power in the senate has come down to three races. Arizona, nevada and georgia. We will continue to update you on election day throughout the program and throughout the weekend and into next week if it takes that long. Looks like it might. They could come town to the state of georgia, which is in a runoff in the election taking place on december 6. There has been a race called in oregon. The Associated Press head
Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , this senate is a place where we make friends we have our differences on policy but we really are a senate family. And its just not that way with democrats who work here in the senate. Its also with republicans. When we work together, which we do outside the view of most of the public, we work well together. And one of the troubling things for me, as im sure it is all of us, when someone who is a part of the family leaves, and especially it applies when you feel so close to the Family Member thats leaving. Today the democratic cloakroom, the nerve center of the senate, and the entire Senate Community say goodbye to a dedicated staffer, tequia delgado. We congratulate her on her role as Member Relations advisor for the white house. After graduating from Southern Illinois university in C
I had the opportunity to here that of the 32 billion of being spent on this, nearly 1 billion of that will be going to an individual that should not receive it. What you have instituted at the Community College to discourage and present waste fraud and abuse, could you expand upon that and could we reauthorize the student education act . Yes, one of the was and it permitted daily attendance process and we tide that process so that if a student is but a circle time right now, before that money will the process goes over to check to see that student has in fact started attending the class that the aid is going to be paying for. If they have not had an attendance record, the Financial Aid does not go through so we have closed the loophole between students eligible for class. And the students are fully aware of that . Yes, they are. And every semester him as you might imagine, we do have a faculty that does not record attendance and a student comes in wanting to know where their money is.
Also require students have taken azt in s. A. T. And have met scores. Such a policy would focus on the student most likely to succeed and give them an incentive to better prepare for college. She further encourage students to graduate, it should be linked to enrollment intensity. Students receive the maximum should expect to take 15 credit hours, not 12. This could be coupled with the well concept that it faces the words on a 12 month schedule rather than the academic year. Facesrrent program serious challenges that we can meet them with better data, financial planning, and soon accountability. Thank you. I think the first two witnesses for being so good about being on time. , i recognize you for five minutes. Thank you. I have three basic messages. The first is trend lightly. Balancedd is pursue a to any longterm funding gap in the third is to attempt the institutional aid in terms of college affordability. I am a maximum pell grant recipients. One of many Success Stories out there. T
Neil mitt romney was right. Here this week. Welcome, everybody. 128 million americans receive benefits in 2011. That is more than the entire population of japan. Our government is getting bigger and faster. Our government is up. Following this trajectory, it means half of americans receiving goodies, the folks of who put this study together means two out of every five americans receive some form of assistance from at least one federal government progm. Many of those same folks begs the obvious question. And why are they getting them and why are we paying for them . There are a lot fewer of us paying in than those taking out. And turns other payments to people like we know, maybe even us, and it is behind. It would be 70 of the entire federal government outlay. Outlayto people and what we have done in this report is went through the data using u. S. Census data. This is from the march supplement of 2011. And we have identified programs that send money to people. So if you get food stamp