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Note a quorum is present. We we will hear testimony from e department of education implementation of borrowed eventual. Pursuant to commingle 7c statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member. I want to thank secretary devos of being with us today and thank her for a green to hold enough time in the schedule all of the members present to have amendments confinements of questions pursuant to house rules. Especially thankful because this cheer im exercise my prerogative to go last in question order so it she were to leave early i wouldnt get to ask questions. I want to thank you for agreeing to stay with us for the fulltime. I recognize myself enough for the purpose of making an opening statement. We are here to examine the department of educations implementation of the borrower defense rule. I want to thank you, madam secretary, for appearing before the committee to discuss this important issue. Borrower defense is a rule g ....
Country. With us today we have mel martinez from j. P. Morgan chase. We have wes moore from the robin hood foundation. Jean case from the Case Foundation. And Jeffrey Rosen from the National Constitution center. Thank you all for being here today. Let me kick off the conversation with a question for the group. Lets follow up a bit on the conversation we were just having. Lets talk a little bit about trust among americans and our institution of th democracy domestically. How serious is this challenge right now and what do you see in terms of the challenges we face here domestically . Senator martinez . Mr. Martinez thank you. Im inspired from this morning and i hope we can add to it. I believe there is great skepticism in our country and i think we underestimate the impact on the power of what happened during the f ....
Event. A 30minute long good morning. I am the chief operating officer firm, aital management Family Office based in new york city. I also serve on a boarded north korea. An organization that helps North Koreans escape to freedom. This is in issue near to my heart. In 1947, my grandmother, then a 27yearold single mom and my mother, then a fiveyearold girl began a long, harrowing journey to escape north korea. Covering 200 miles over 21 days in moving about only in darkness to avoid contact with north Korean Police and soldiers. They miraculously arrived in seoul, korea. Overwhelmed it also overjoyed he and thankful. They donated all of the money in their position to a local church and started their lives over from the bottom. They faced many challenges that they were inspired they would have been inspired by the following wo ....
The story of real people and their real challenges. I describe whats gone wrong in their life, all we are doing about it now and what we can do better. Youll notice in the book there are many ideas that are bipartisan. They involve my collaboration with people of another party. Colleagues like chris coons of connecticut and cory booker in new jersey. Many of our policy proposals are part of it at all. Particularly when it comes to Higher Education. Youll read about how im working with mark warner to make Higher Education more affordable how im working with cory booker to provide more access to wifi and internet especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. These are important initiatives as well. They are not easy to put on a bumper sticker. They dont win a lot of elections but they are critical to the future of our country. So we still have time and space and we should deba ....