Tragedy in las vegas on sunday night. This hatred deserves no place in our society. As the time to come together and heal. We must stand united rechecked this senseless violence. I also want to recognize the courageous First Responders, coast guard, national guard, fema, volunteers who continue to work and rebuild communities in my home state of texas, florida, puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. We pray that everyone affected can make a full recovery. Today, will review legislation told protector homeland is strengthening the security of our borders. American people are threatened by international terrorist. Human traffickers, drug smugglers transnational gangs like ms 13 to try to sneak into her country. Allowing this to continue as unacceptable. The southern borders 2000 miles long. We must do more to keep it secure. This markup will allow us to do that process. Including the construction of a wall thats practical and effective. He provides new cuttingedge technology and the p
Of biggest servicers accountable for breaking the rules, because they were more or less too big to fail. This has to stop. Past Performance Matters if the Department Grants another massive new contract to a company with a track record of harmling students and members of the military, or if the company is facing state ag and federal lawsuit investigations, then i think thats a serious problem. I know that you want real reform. That means holding these student loan servicers accountable. I know the companies have a lot of lobbyists right here on capitol hill, but the families and the students dont, and they need you. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, senator warren. Senator isaacson. Thank you for your great work, and thank you for calling in advance and asking what i would ask you so ud a week to prepare. Im married to an i. D. E. A. Teacher, worked with special education for years, always had a quarter with the 1 cap, because i believe that the iep ought to be
Literal rejoicing that we had achieved a consensus in a complex area that affected so many millions of americans families. And brought some stability to elementary and secondary education policies. So i am hopeful that after the regulations are finally done, that well still feel the same way. In that spirit, let me continue the conversation you and i were having. I only have five minutes. So i want to get in two or three questions. When we wrote the law, we envisioned that states would have time to plan for the transition to the law. Youve heard and weve heard some states say that your proposed regulation, a account doesnt permit a state to do this. Let me ask you if what im about to describe would be an appropriate timeline for a state in your view. That states would develop and implement their new accountability systems during the school year that begins in 2017 and 2018. Thats next year. That means theyd be collecting data in that year. Then in the following year, 201819, they would
I dont think so, except to show that he supports her. His popularity is going up, as you know. In North Carolina i think it is 50 or higher now. So i think it helps her to be safe with him and it certainly he continues to have a lot of supporters here, particularly minorities and democrats and if he can excite them for her, that will help her get them to turn out in six months. As far as legislators, do we know of anybody here as far as the delegation thats going to be part of this event or attending or local legislators there . Yeah, im sure a lot of some of the delegation will be here. But more importantly for North Carolina politics, the democratic gubernatorial candidate, roy cooper, will be there, as well as the democratic u. S. Senate candidate deborah ross. I dont think either one of them was with secretary clinton when she was in raleigh a couple weeks ago. Literally a couple weeks ago. You know, incidentally, donald trump is in raleigh, North Carolina tonight. So its sort of a
To execute the current Defense Strategy and specific chi unable to address the challenges that secretary carter outlined. The fiscal year 17 budget begins to address the most critical investments required to maintain our competitive advantage. To the extent possible, within the resources provided by the 2015 bipartisan budget act, it addresses the departments five challenges. It does so by balancing three major areas investment in highend capabilities, the capability and capacity to meet current operational demands, and the need to rebuild readiness after an extended period of war. In the years ahead, well need Adequate Funding levels and predictability to fully recover from over a decade of war and delayed modernization. A bow wave of procurement requirements in the future include the submarine replacement, continued cyber and space investments, and a longrange strike bomber. It will also be several years before we fully restore full Spectrum Readiness across the services and replenis