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The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for p...

Have. You can bring the wellvetted idea up the chain here. And that is valuable to know our power to be confidant in who we are and not shy way from that. So that is four barriers i think are important to go over to set the tone of some of the obsticals. As we look at leading at all levels that sets the context. How can we get young women and everybody to lead at all levels from student up to president to ceo or superintendent in my case. And i can the first tenant of this was talked about but i want to emphasis this. It is leading yourself. There is a lot of principles that go into that. Unti...

331 of these counties are represented by republicans. And 18 are split between the two parties. From that impersistent poverty should matter to all of us, regardless of party, geography, or race and ethnicity. In early 2009 when we were putting to the the recovery act, i proposed language to require at least 10 of funds in Rural Development account to be directed to projects in these persistent poverty counties. This requirement was enacted in law. In light of the definition of persistent poverty counties having at least 20 poverty rates over 30 years, this position became known as the 102030 ...

Was always on hiring. Increasing hiring. And i think that there are some aspects of the Affordable Care act particularly higher up the income ladder that the and on businesses, that they are reluctant to hire to the extent that they might have given the uncertainty or the requirements in the program. And thats just very difficult for people who are on welfare programs trying to help low income people get into jobs. Because, sometimes those jobs are discretionary hires. You know they may not really need them or may not want to necessarily do it but they need to have an environment where theyre ...

Accurate way. Sometimes i found it was easier to do the things then to write about those things, but it was interesting. Story in a cover insight magazine, which is published by the washington times, and the cover story looks like this i want to show the audience, a couple of people you probably know pretty well. We talked about the fact that you were born in israel, 61 years ago, how about these two gentlemen when you look at here, mr. Peres and mr. Shamir, were they born in israel . No, they were not born in israel. What country did they come from from . Both of them are born in poland. What...