Susan Davis

It is my hope that we can work together on a bipartisan basis to help scale up this model.

Today’s hearing is truly a unique opportunity for this committee to discuss best practices for strengthening government oversight, industry innovation, and educational alignment.

I am particularly eager to learn more about the Australian apprenticeship system, which incentivizes new apprenticeship opportunities in high-demand occupations while also prioritizing the recruitment of underserved groups.

I don't believe even the colleagues that lost those elections came back to ask for an appeal.

Nobody thinks that connecting voter systems to the internet is a good idea.

Paper and risk-limiting audits really are the gold standard of election security and will address the national emergency our Nation faces.

Voter-verified paper ballots are the solution that really address the risks and threats that our Nation faces.

But the reality is that it is highly, highly monitored.

Risk-limiting audits are really the gold standard of post-election audits.

Voter-verified paper ballots are the best way to ensure a voter's ballot is counted as cast.

We simply cannot be sure that our elections are free from outside interference unless we have an auditable paper trail that we can use to confirm reported election results.

I oppose this amendment striking the mandate for paper ballots, because striking the mandate would completely undermine the bill and the security that we are trying to achieve.

I think I was hearing that you are both interested in taking a look at that and seeing how can we improve that, and I appreciate that.

I know that you mentioned, Director, that CRS is the foremost resource for Members of Congress.

There has always been a policy of nonpartisanship, but now I think there seems to be a concern--maybe this is more in the Law Division--of one of neutrality.

I can tell you, by traveling around, we are kind of the envy of a number of other democratic bodies as well because of how well-performing and organized that is.

I am concerned about the Department's Fiscal Year 2020 budget proposal concerning a change to the community eligibility provision.

So we have to continue as we work to reauthorize the Higher Education Act committee to supporting these institutions that are really resource strapped but on the front lines of our effort to provide Americans with equal access to higher…

Congress really can't expect institutions to continue disproportionately serving vulnerable students while simultaneously fighting to receive the vital funding.

We need them for our future and we all have to buy into that notion.

It is important that we get it right so that all students can achieve a better life for them and their families.

We are certainly not all born into the same environment but that difference of initial circumstance should not mean that we shouldn't all have an equal opportunity to succeed.

We need to be striving, on both sides of the aisle, for new ideas that will increase opportunities for all American students, regardless of circumstance, and support their efforts to succeed and prosper.

HBCUs make up less than 3 percent of colleges and universities yet produce almost 20 percent of all Black graduates.

This is particularly true for low-income students and students of color whose educational and work force opportunities have historically been limited by intergenerational poverty and systemic racism.