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Witnesses today. Theres a lot of attendance today. Obviously a discussion that many people are interested in. We do have a series of four votes beginning in a halfhour so im going to be very strict with the time clock today in allowing five minutes to each senator and well be calling on people in order of arrival. So with that, ms. Jones, i wanted to start with you and thank you for sharing your story and being here today to testify. Your story actually really resonates with me. All of my brothers and sisters and i went to college on pell grants and Student Loans to finance our education and i...

I said we needed to temporarily extend that 3 4 of a penny. I have always said as governor i would not raise that sales tax. If you go to my website and look in my education plan, you will see why Fund Everything i have talked about. There is 1 billion out there that i have identified that is real and will form that without any increase in the sales tax. The only tax that would be increased is taking back a tax benefit that the Republican Legislature gave to people making hundreds of thousands of dollars who where equity owners and things like dental practices and medical practices and law pra...

Wondered making this film we saw the Auto Industry bailout and a bank bailout, are we heading into an era of bailouts for cities . More on this sunday at 8 00 on cspans q a. Cspan is asking middle and High School Students to send a message to the president in a short video. They will answer the question what is the most important issue the president should consider in 2014 . This is open to students grade 612. Go on line to student can. Org for more details. In North Carolina, a former republican mayor of charlotte and a democratic Lieutenant Governor are vying to become the next governor. The...

Loan debt. It announced a measure late in the week that democrats plan a student loan push in june. What are they proposing to do . This is a way to lower the Interest Rates on student loans. What is interesting about this you have to look at everything especially that the senate is doing this year as an electionyear push. Democrats found the student loan push helpful when they took recontrol of the senate. They have done it repeatedly. It is an issue not only with young people but with families who are being squeezed because of the higher cost of living and higher expenses. It gets a lot of a...

Involved because it is not just the right thing to do for veterans, but also the right thing to do for their budgets. Onent studies have shown chronically homeless person can cost communities between 30 50,000 per year in emergency room visits, medical bills, Law Enforcement for some individuals can be even higher. The cost to give someone a home the cost to give someone a home of their own is only about 20,000. This is on so many Different Levels and that is why i want to applaud everyone leading the way and i want to urge more leaders across the country to get involved as well. We have to ge...