Susan Davis

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

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.

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

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

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

Congress has a responsibility to strengthen and invest in institutions that are promoting economic mobility as we continue to work toward a reauthorization of key Federal higher education policy.

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.

Depriving the institutions that serve our most vulnerable college students of the resources made available to predominantly white 4 year universities is contrary to our values and the best interest as a Nation.

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.

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) were developed as part of a political and social movement to regain Tribal autonomy and to combat centuries of forced assimilation and destruction of Native communities.

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.

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…

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.

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

I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about the $380 million of HAVA funds that--I guess with the grant expenditure report, there were certainly a number of questions of whether that should have been spent more quickly.

I am going to support my colleague and my Ranking Member on the higher ed subcommittee because I think that there actually is a lot of excitement here about how we best develop programs, apprenticeship programs, that really are going to…

I was really happy to hear you talk about that, because, you know, we worked hard on that trying to make people understand how important that was for quality of life.

I think that we need to think out of the box about this.

I am honored to be here this evening and to have a chance to talk about my friend and my colleague, Ellen Tauscher. Ellen, as we are all hearing, was really a trailblazer. She was a trailblazer, a businesswoman. She was a single mom, a…

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