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Thank you, everyone, at least you are all here. I am lawrence mone, president of the Manhattan Institute and it is a pleasure for me to introduce loebsack jason riley, a regular columnist for the wall street journal and a commentator for fox news. In his new book false black power . Jason offers a critique of civil rights leaders and their prioritization of your political power which failed to produce significant results for africanamericans. Two leading black intellectuals, glenn lowry and john...

The committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I thank our panel of witnesses and our Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the implementation of the every Student Succeeds act, essa. Essa can be considereded a milestone for k12 policy because it was a monumental shift in the role and states and School Districts would have in the future of education and it sought to achieve two specific goals for k12 education and ...

The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a Natio...

The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a Natio...

Thigh fank you for coming to. Im an Education Research fellow here at the American Enterprise institute. Also those who are joining on live stream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today Charter Schools in the developing world. With a keynote from Liberian Education minister George Werner. We have a simple program. Were going to have a brief video. A pictures worth a thousand words. To root todays conversations about school unles in liberia. Then well turn it over to minister wern...

Anking committee. Its an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] committee on Housing Urban Affairs is called to order. Thanks to the two witnesses joining us. Home is more than four walls and a roof for the play and do their homework home as we plan for the future and build wealth. Home is millions of families during the middle class. Homes are an anchor in our lives for too many families are in the country home they can afford and build their life around feels out of reach. ...

Admiral howard president jackson, dean, faculty, students, thank you for this wonderful privilege that youve given me, this honorary degree. I will tell you, my fellow on arend this is pretty cool. It feels a lot like a superman cape. I want to know, does it stop bullets . [laughter] i could use that in my job. President jackson, fellow on i class of 2015 come its a sincere honor to join you on this extraordinary occasion. Today marks a triumphant milestone in your lives. Symbolically crossing t...

If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call us at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also send us your thoughts on twitter. You can leave a comment on our facebook page. This fight between president elect donald trump and the labor unions started after what appeared to be a victory last week. He had negotiated a deal with a factory in indiana to keep jobs from moving to mexico. That deal became controversial after these comments from a ...

Journal at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Announcer tomorrow night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, we will hear from some of the people hoping to become the next dnc chair, including state party chairs from South Carolina and New Hampshire and a minnesota congressman, keith ellison. My district is the fifth Congressional District of i first gotnd when there, our district was the lowest turnout district in the state. Today, it is the highest turnout state, district. 365 days he year, all over, young people, new amer...

South carolina governor tim scott. The hearing of the Pensions Committee will come to order to consider the nomination of betsy devos to be United States secretary of education. Openingmake an statement to introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott and senator lieberman. He will make introductory remarks. Following the nominees comments, we will have a fiveminute round of questions. One note, we have capital will removeay who anyone who attempts to disrupt the hearing. This is the First Com...