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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...

37 billion and created helped Small Businesses and created jobs. It also helps us pay down the federal deficit. It has generated over 1. 057 billion returned to the u. S. Treasury, so it has actually helped us pay down the federal debt. So my colleagues all of a sudden are having amnesia why they supported the exim bank or not coming forward to support it now need to remember what a vital tool this is to the u. S. Economy. Madam president . The presiding officer time has expired. Ms. Cantwell madam president , i ask unanimous consent for another 30 seconds. The presiding officer without object...

Hour. Mary trump will be here and others that will have a way of thinking about what we all went through last night that i am sure is better than anything that i have to say about it. I think we all felt shellshocked. I had to go on 40 minutes after it ended. You had to go on immediately, which i do not envy. I had nothing to say. I had zero, nothing to say. There were no words when the debate was over and it was a struggle for me to speak at all, even within the hour of the debate ending. And i think that it is i think the president s tactics are designed to do that. They are designed to flum...

Hospital beds. Hospital beds. Sick with coronavirus. It is a Record Number of hospitalizations since this pandemic began. That record coming on a day 132,000 americans testing positive for the virus. The seventh straight day of cases above 100,000. In a moment well take you to a city that is being called the new epicenter of the outbreak. All of this coming against the backdrop of a president ial transition, despite the best efforts of President Trump, yet to accept the results. It is more than the president s baseless legal fight which so far has featured all caps, tweets and lawsuits without...

Education. Live coverage here on cspan. Bad luck of following dr. Rice. [laughter] but i have an esteemed panel here to make sure that we have a robust conversation on education. Parents and policymakers across the country are concerned america is falling behind on education. A new poll came out today that says the number two issue as People Get Ready to go to the polls, some of them already voting in early voting, right, is about education. So, we are going to talk about that today and we are going to talk a lot about ideas and our first question really is what are the challenges facing educa...