Jared Polis

Supporting privacy is paramount to our work, along with supporting education data research.

We need the research to tell us, you know, what works and what doesn't work, and, you know, redistribute to things that do work the things that don't.

In my district, many teachers feel they're required to do more and more year after year.

I wanted to give you the chance to either retract that, because it is illegal under the Plyler precedent to collect, no less include it in a State database, immigration.

First, we value accuracy on the committee.

Education research and student data privacy are topics important to my constituents and me.

Thank you, Chairman Rokita, for holding this hearing on this very important topic this morning.

I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett) and would just add, look, fire prevention, expediting water projects and hydropower, these are not partisan issues; and to prove that point, there are bipartisan bills sponsored by…

I have one more question on that. I am a member of the Education and the Workforce Committee, one of the three committees that had original jurisdiction over the Affordable Care Act. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett) is a member of…

Isn't that too short a period of time to even come up with a thoughtful amendment?

It absolutely is. Sometimes the American people in the back-and-forth say: Hey, why aren't Democrats participating in the healthcare debate? And the reason, as the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett) articulated, is we have never been…

Absolutely. I agree with the gentleman from Texas. This House and the institution of Congress, as a separate agency of government in Article I, section 1 of our Constitution has the responsibility to exercise oversight of the executive…

Frankly, I don't think that the government is driving this conversation at all.

I have introduced a number of pieces of legislation to provide additional protections, including the Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act, the Email Privacy Act, the Protecting Data at the Border Act.

The College Transparency Act gives them the needed information about where they are performing well and where they can make improvements.

We both believe that we are making that decision students and families should have access to as much accurate information as possible.

Last week Mr. Mitchell and myself introduced the College Transparency Act, which would provide very important data about how our institutions of higher education are performing.

One thing is certain; our data infrastructure has not evolved with the changing student demographics and it is simply not equipped to do so.

Bicameral College Act

To discuss our important proposal, I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from California (Ms. Eshoo).

To discuss our excellent proposal, I yield 4 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from California (Ms. Eshoo).

Congresswoman DeLauro's article from Cosmopolitan magazine, dated April 4, 2017, today, talks about how, over a lifetime, the 20 cents that women are missing every paycheck on a dollar earned by men adds up. In fact, the National Women's…

The evaluation is as it should be. Again, when infrastructure is laid, we want a reasonable ROI. It is like utility infrastructure or water infrastructure. I would never expect that the world's most valuable companies would be the pipes in…

We want to thank our witnesses, thank you, Mr. Chair. This is the second hearing we have had on the Corporation for National and Community Service in the same year...

Reclaiming my time, again, that simply confirms what our previous question would simply require, that before the bill is voted on we will simply know how much it costs and who it impacts. What could be more important than finding that out…