Other. These are things that we should caviat there is no snap of the figures and in every wikipedia articles fully informative. But by getting a cohort of people who are highly knowledgeable and good editors will start to see Higher Quality articles that go deeper into what a bill does. What the circumstances are now, how it would affect things and what the outcome would be. Just to be circular, we can say the Washington Post, and put a sentence in there about with the Washington Post said. There is a certain level of adding references on the newspaper level, and then the next that is to go to the scientific papers. We will try to find Academic Studies with support statements. That is the next level of quality as we go along. We are just about out of time. Thank you all for coming. If you work on the hill as a congressional staffer, you care about the wellbeing of our republic, hopefully this battle has encourage you to become more involved in wikipedia editing and improve the debate. Michelle is already on record as saying she will help you. Im sure that the jims will not mind helping as well. If you have any questions, we will stick around. Please join me in thanking our speakers. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] wikipedia becoming a more useful toll for members of congress and social media is something a lot of lawmakers have been using. If taking a look taking a look at several tweets during the recess. College democrats of america. The youth branch of the Democratic National committee. Republican senator Johnny Isakson tweets and about his tour of the Robins Air Force in about his tour of the Robins Air Force base. Al franken has this photo of himself at the Minnesota State fair. Had a fun time at the Minnesota Farmers Union booth. This august recess, several members of congress are also participating in town hall meetings. And Jared Huffman spoke at a recent forum in california. It focused largely on the issue of College Affordability and Early Childhood education. Good afternoon. I am honored to welcome you to the college of marin. Im the superintendent. [applause] we are truly honored to be hosting todays town hall meeting with Jared Huffman and nancy pelosi. Are joined today by [applause] esteemed board of trustees. Please stand. Please give a round of applause for our board of trustees. [applause] a varietyned today by of other leaders in education, both superintendents and there is a school board members. If youre in the audience, please stand so connect valid u. S. Well. So we can acknowledge you as well. [applause] it is my pleasure to entu to ou. Dana king was a familiar face in the bay area for 15 years as a fivetime Emmy Awardwinning broadcast journalist on the cbs five eyewitness news. Marina familiar face in county. She has spent many years volunteering onf of children and youth, working to make Early Childhood education available to all students. Marin the founder of kids. She is also a Founding Member of the marin strong start coalition. Secure a stable source of funding to ensure access to a quality to Quality Health care and academic support for all of marins children. She spent time volunteering every week at the Juvenile Justice Center with young men in a maximum security unit. Please welcome dana king. [applause]. Thank you very much it is so nice to be back in marin. It is sunny and warm over here. I heard a gasp when somebody said shes in oakland. What . . Do miss marin i was here for 50 years and it will always be my home. My children were raised here. Now they are grown. When they flew the coop, i did, too. It is not that far. Im just over the bridge. Oakland, we have great restaurants and incredible art. I will do a little pr for oakland. We have a very Important Program to discuss. Our agenda, to jumpstart the middle class. Shall we . Yes. [applause] we are incredibly fortunate today to have our esteemed representatives in from about thisto talk crucial congressional plan. Nancy pelosi. [applause] own congressman Jared Huffman. [applause] we are going to hear from congressman Health Ministers day moment. He will give us a thumbnail sketch of the jumpstart action plan. Congressman Jared Huffman the importance of preschool as well as the need for child care. Without which come many families to send their child to preschool. It is rare to have the power base at this table in front of you. Want tongs im sure you discuss, but we do want to stay on topic. We will go through the questions that make sure we do that. We will be passing congressman congressman hoffmans staff has paper and pencils. Shall we get started . I want to introduce congressman uffman. Jared huffman is a dad. He is a father of two children and he is married to a wonderful woman who is a Public School teacher. Public education is a paramount jared. Nce to he values it personally for his children and their future success. Was sworntive hoffman in as a member of the 113th 2013. Ss on january 3, he represents our second district. The district spans from the Golden Gate Bridge to the oregon border. Cover six counties, including all of marin. Congressman huffman is a member of the house budget committee. He has distinguished himself as a legislator who tackles complex Public Policy challenges. He works tirelessly and he gets results, often by forging bipartisan consensus on very difficult issues. You will read the news, right . Bipartisanship is hard to come by. Father, a husband, a member of our community and the leader in congress. I am very honored to call him my friend and your friend. And we welcome him now to the podium. [applause] thank you for that great introduction. Thanks for everything you have done for marin and the whole bay area as a broadcaster and a community leader. I know im not supposed to say dois, but we hope you will even more as a member of the Oakland City Council sent. City council soon. I want to thank the students and the guests and the dignitaries. Certainly the college of marin for hosting this important discussion today. I want to thank my colleague, nancy pelosi, for giving us some real quality time in a schedule that you would not just believe. As great as it is for me to be here at the college of marin today, honestly, i would rather be back in session in congress right now. Theuld rather be working on mountain of unfinished work that this congress should be doing right now. Many of us in the house of representatives urged speaker banner to Keep Congress in session to address a number of critical priorities, including passing something president obama has requested come a critical supplemental funding bill to address the humanitarian crisis we face at the border. The president has also requested critical supplemental funding to support federal agencies who are trying to fight wildfires throughout the west. We werere at it, if working like we should be in this congress, we could have the votes on bipartisan bills to raise the minimum wage and provide longterm unemployment assistance to job seekers. We could reauthorize the x port import bank to support americas small businesses. We could pass a bipartisan comprehensive Immigration Reform. We could bring up a bipartisan commonsense background check law so we could better protect our College Campuses and schools and communities from these acts of gun violence that have become all too common in our country. Since speaker banner declined our request to stay in session and work on those things come im still happy to make the most of this opportunity to be in the district. Boehner. R ive been working with firefighters on the front line and met with agricultural leaders. Today, i had the great opportunity to be with all of you here at the college of marin to talk about another critical priority. That is, ensuring highquality affordable education for everyone in america. Such an honor to have leader pelosi here. You will not find a more passionate advocate for education and for the middle class. She is the architect of this thing youll be hearing from, dle class jumpstart agenda. Ist she brings to it relevant to where we are at this time. We have the backtoschool energy here on the campus. Leader pelosi has been in congress a long time. She still manages to bring that backtoschool energy to her job every single day and all of her work on behalf of the middle class. Im so proud of her leadership. Three months ago, i had the honor of addressing the college of marin graduating class at their commencement here on campus. I was struck by two things. First thing, this palpable sense of pride and accomplishment and optimism that you get from the graduates and their families. If anybody wants to understand what education means to peoples lives, come to a Community College commencement and look around. You will get it instantly. The other thing that struck me with the graduates incredible personal stories. Stories of hard work, grit and determination. The college of marin takes pride in famous alumni like the great Robin Williams who tragically we lost last week. The college can and does and should take equal pride in the Diverse Group of graduates that i met a few months ago at the commencement. Including the mother of three kids who is living on public waystance while working her through school. This young mother, after several comingf hard work and through to get her credential at the college of marin will be entering uc berkeley in a few days to study sociology. There was a young man who came to america from taiwan at age 16 and did not speak and word of english and did not have his parents with them and he worked grades andget good lift himself up for education that he not only made it through college of marin, but he will be to studysan jose state mechanical engineering. There are stories all over this country about how education transforms lives, families and communities. When you think about it and i think about my own experience graduating college and law school with what i thought was significant stint that student debt, we absolutely just have to do much more. If we want a vibrant and help the economy and we want young people to keep reaching up and pursuing Higher Education and everything it can do for make we have to do more to sure graduates can enter the workforce without crippling levels of student debt. He read marin, we are fortunate to have some terrific new new partners working to help stints gain access to college and graduate without that kind of debt. Students gain access to college and graduate without that kind of debt. We need congress to do more. That is why im so happy to be here with leader pelosi to talk about our middle class jumpstart program. A 100 day plan for what we would do to turn the middle class around. It includes education and a big way. It is a straightforward list of priorities that i think everyone really should support. Tax breaks for creating jobs instead of shipping them overseas. A priority of building americas infrastructure, raising the minimum wage, giving america race, focusing on supporting throughd families paycheck fairness and critical to the plan is our education agenda. Affordable education to keep america number one. We think there is a lot to do to ofrove the bookends r. O. K. 12 education system. College affordability on one end and Early Childhood education on the other. Bookends of our k12 education system. Refinancehelp folks their loans. We are working to advance president obamas call for Early Childhood education. We know that children who dont attend preschool are often behind once they reach kindergarten. Many of them never catch up. That is not acceptable. We know that for many families, child care is an important prerequisite to preschool attendance. Affordable childcare is also a prerequisite for economic survival for a lot of working families. We have to include affordable childcare when we talk about our preschool initiatives. Consider the fact that even here in ring county, one of the most affluent counties in the United States, one out of every four children does not attend preschool. Only 32 of latino children attend preschool. By the third grade come 65 of economically disadvantaged children do not read at grade level here in marin county. We have a lot of work to do. It will take federal, state and local leadership to address these gaps and realize our Broader Vision of a highquality affordable education system. We have a terrific program here today. Im looking forward to hearing from the other speakers and i thank you all very much for joining us. [applause] thank you. The work you do helps to Lower Foundation and it starts with education. It starts with prek. When a child does not go to prek compared which held that does, the one that goes to prek is 18 months ahead. They never catch up. Im looking forward to seeing that bill signed and the work begun. We are talking about college right now. The affordability of it. Or sometimes the lack of affordability and how difficult it can sometimes be to keep a job and go to school and get good grades and eat well and have a life. I would like to bring to the college e and her she attended the college of marin. She transferred in order to save money and continue her education without having to take time off from college. In International Studies and currently serves as a student ambassador. As an ambassador, she focuses on helping students that are understand that better understand the true cost of college so they can make informed decisions. Better understand the true cost of college so they can make informed decisions. [applause] afternoon, everybody. Thank you all for being here. Im glad to share my story so other students will be more aware and can make better decisions about college. After high school, i first attended city college of San Francisco and then transferred to the Fashion Institute of technology. Not realizing how expensive it was going to be. That is where i learned the true cost of college. My parents could not afford to help me. I had to take out loans from the first year and then ended up iming back to california when realized how much debt i had already accumulated. Now attending the college of college of marin, i am working to stabilize my financial situation. Do your homework on Different College options. What you might qualify for in times in terms of Financial Aid. I do not regret my College Experience so far. At the same time, i wish i was not 22 years old with 15,000 in debt. The time and energy to research Different College options can really pay off. Moreill be able to make informed decisions that will make college less stressful and more enjoyable. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. 15,000 in debt. Economyrals into the because if the student comes up with a huge debt, they cant buy cars, they cant buy furniture, they can start their lives. We have to work on this. I want to bring to the stage, a young man who was originally from los angeles. He enrolled at the college of marin as a reentry student in 2010. During his time here come he was active in the Latino Student Union and served as associate student president. He spent much of his time advocating on behalf of students. He focused on creating projects that increase access to edg ucational opportunities. Porting Student Access success academically and financially. Icalajored in electr engineering and Computer Sciences and he transferred to uc berkeley this fall. [applause] , Chrisman Huffman leader pelosi, i want to thank you for being here today. My story is one that strays from a traditional path. I did not go to college straight out of high school. I never felt like college was for me. I went into looking for a job an electricalp in apprenticeship program. There was a component that had a night class. I gained the confidence and the strive to want to do more. That was the genesis and the spark that brought me to school. Was looking for how i would go about this, i wanted to look for a place that have smaller classes. I needed something that made sense for me and what made sense for me was coming to college. Smaller classes, personalized attention. And affordability. That was a huge factor for me. I did not have a lot of means to go to a universitys right out of college. University straight out of college. It was not easy. There was a lot of times where i had to think about the cost of education. There is books, supplies, housing, transportation, so many other things that happened through the course of your life. Fixing nat problem or Something Like that. An ac problem or Something Like that. I had to look like resources look for resources like the pell grant. My story does not differ from a lot of other students. There are students with similar sit