we have to allow her to take forces online, some that are free. take courses at night at her own pace. package that into a degree that allows her to go from being a receptionist making $12 to a parallel making $55,000 a year, that will change her life. that will change her children's life. i'm not saying the four-year degree won't matter, it will. it will continue to be a valid choice for millions of american. here is what we cannot afford to do any more. we can't graduate people with four-year degrees that do not lead to jobs that saddle them with student loan debt. i know about it, i owed over $100,000 myself. i was only able to pay them off with the proceeds of my book, "american son" now available in paperback. it's not a joke, i'm series, available in paperback. you are now paying my children's loans when you buy it. i propose that every student before they take out a student loan be informed by their college or university this is how much you can expect to make when you graduate from our school with that degree. you're free to pursue it, but

cbs is offering mostly online subscriptions and on and on. no doubt is this the issue. cable video doing ip and the consumer paying for bandwidth and we should look for ways to end power of the consumer to be able to pay for the programming they want to watch. so i think this is something our subcommittee should explore moving forward and i put that out there and yield back the balance. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for a question. >> thank you mr. chairman. and i want to thank the commission for their patients today and also for their testimony. mr. chairman there was an action in the tampa bay area that i represent in congress last april involving mr. humphries. it seemed that he had a jammer in his suv powerful enough to jam calls to 911. he'd been doing this for the last two years when a local telephone company reported interference the field agents in office quickly tracked him down and ended the significant threat to the safety of the folks in the area. it's my understanding your plan to close this office in a area as the emergency preparednes

and there are deans fellowships, knight chairs, new degrees, training in person and online. we funded hundreds literally hundreds of immediate experiments from prototypes from real-time news to open source community engagement platforms. we have turned mit's media lab and the pew research center to help us understand how people use information technology. we don't pretend to have a magic bullet. instead we work with the journalists who care about the present and the future. we funded news organizations whose missions day in and day out is to do outstanding journalism, like "texas tribune," propublica and the "voice of san diego." in the short term we've also given breathing space to 27 online news sites around the country by funding 15% of their annual budgets. they have to survive. we financed tech incubators at "the philadelphia inquirer" and "the boston globe." tools such as document cloud by staffers, and right now we're in the middle of a project to create a new open-source community platform with the "washington post," "the new york times" and mozilla. we're still expe

to come online in advance of the new safety regulations. what would you advise people to think about and get prepared for? >> well, with federal transit, and it's interesting because, you know, sarah and the fra have had a federal safety portfolio a long time. and as all of you no a great challenge for the federal transportation association is that map21 gave us significant regulatory authority. so we've been working very closely, afta has been a great

that we call, for example, boot camps, or online courses that have pioneered new ways to teach these skills in a fraction of the time and the cost. these new models have the potential to reach the underserved communities. to reach women, who are still underrepresented in this sector. minorities, who are still underrepresented in this sector. [applause] veterans, who we know can do the job. lower income workers might have the aptitude for these jobs, but they do not know that these jobs are within we each -- within reach. there will be tears of jobs in this sector, all of which are tech, but they are not all the same. we still have to place more engineers, work with companies and help local leaders to connect the job openings to the training programs and the jobs. if you are not already involved in this, you have got to get involved. your community needs this just like everyone else does. that is the first component. the second thing we are doing we have private-sector leaders supporting everything from scholarships the job management tools. companies like linkedin are going to use da

we're launching the select usa academy with on site training programs for investors, we're improving our online investment tools, helping companies identify state-based incentives so that they can decide where to invest. so for companies considering their investment here, i want to be as clear as possible. america is the best place in the world to do business. we've got the most skilled and productive workers. the best universities. the most innovative entrepreneurs in the world. with global leaders and pat ents, home not only to more r&d investment than any other country, but to nearly one-third of all r&d investment in the world. our access to global markets makes it easy to ship goods maid e made in the usa around the world. our commit 789ment to to the rule of law make america a dependable place to innovate and do business. and we're a country that always believes we can do better. a country that adapts and advances and accepts new standards for new times. it's one of the reasons why i put forth a budget for this coming fiscal year that refleblgts the realities of the new economy

just a reminder you'll be able to see it all later in our program schedule, and it's also available online at c-span.org. the u.s. senate returning after failing this morning to move forward with the human trafficking bill. they needed 60 votes the vote was 55-43. the majority leader mitch mcconnell, saying that he will file additional motions on moving forward with that bill, and in that vote this morning john barrasso at the meeting of senate democrats including amy klobuchar, senators lay my fine stein -- haily coons and blumenthal all voted against cloture today but voted for that bill in committee, so we're likely to see additional votes on that if not today, in the coming weeks. you're seeing on your screen reports that various news courses aaron -- reports aaron shock resigning from congress. now to the senate floor on c-span2. importance of international trade and the enforcement of international trade agreements. we talk a lot about international trade in this chamber and frame minute terms of opening new markets -- in terms of opening new markets with new trade agreements. but as

that we call, for example, coding boot camp -- or online courses that have pioneered new ways to teach tech skills in a fraction of the time and the costs. and these new models have the potential to reach underserved communities, to reach women, who are still underrepresented in in this sector and minorities, , who are still underrepresented in this sector, and veterans who we know can do the job; and lower-income workers, who might have the aptitude for tech jobs but they don't know that these jobs are within reach. understand, within the tech sector, there are going to be tiers of jobs, all of which are tech but they're not all the same. there's still going to be the place -- we still have to produce more engineers and advanced degrees in computer science at the upper tier, but there's all kinds of stuff that's being done within companies at different sectors that can create great careers for a long of people. and so what techhire is going to do is to help local leaders connect the job openings to the training programs to the jobs. and if you're not already involved in this, you've g

since the online facilitated sexual exploitation of children is an evolving and prioritized threat, help me understand your allocation to that area of investigations and how does the internet against crimes against children program fund fit into that? director comey: we have task forces that focus on this -- i'm going to forget the number, but it's more than my number of field offices. we have two in some places. we do this in every field office, we do an operation called operation cross country where we work with state and local partners, because it connects to the cyber stuff. a lot of the ways in which we find the people that are going to exploit kids are through the advertisements where we try to take down in a swoop a bunch of these people, rescue the kids and lock up -- i hate the word pimp because it sounds like a 1970's comedy thing. these are slavers. we lock up the slavers. and to try and send a powerful message. i'll have to get back to you on the second part of your question where the internet crimes against children fund fits in. representative: i'm glad you mentioned that o

this and his work is available online at thehill.com. thank you for being with us. >> transportation secretary anthony foxx called on congress to pass a long-term transportation funding bill. he participated in a one-on-one interview with the council on foreign relations on monday where he highlighted the 30 year plan to update u.s. transportation infrastructure. this is one hour. mr. slade: good evening. we are pleased to have the secretary of transportation, mr. anthony foxx, as part of our renewing america series, to discuss beyond traffic, and how the current state of our u.s. infrastructure is so very important to our u.s. competitiveness abroad. i guess you have been all given the housekeeping rules already. i guess i would add it is as important as ever to turn on -- turn off your phones or to vibrate, because it is on record and you would be on record as someone that failed to turn off their phone. so, mr. secretary, welcome to the council on foreign relations. secretary foxx: thank you. mr. slade: i have seen you speak on other

to come online in advance of the new safety regulations. what would you advise people to think about and get prepared for? >> well, with federal transit, and it's interesting because, you know, sarah and the fra have had a federal safety portfolio a long time. and as all of you no a great challenge for the federal transportation association is that map21 gave us significant regulatory authority. so we've been working very closely, afta has been a great partner in getting the message out. as we're starting with this new authority, a couple of thing, critical. first of all, throughout the d.o.t., safety is our number one priority. there can't be enough attention to this. but for transit, our challenge is also recognizing approaching safety, one size won't fit all in terms of a regulatory framework. that simply just won't happen. and so, we've been spending a lot of time, you know, explaining and building on what's going to be the centerpiece of our work which is a safety management system approach, an sms approach. used extensively in the avi

we had 60 days to work with dhs to get the program up online so that young people who know this country, know this is their only could country, grew up pledging allegiance to our flag want to contribute to our country, could come out of the shadows and get access to temporary status call deferred action and also be able to apply for work authorization. so since the program was launched in august of 2012, several hundred thousand -- about 650000, actually -- individuals have come forward and received daca. when we were doing the research on whether to do the program how to do the program its impact, we assumed about a million people might be qualified for the program. and we also understood that there would be people that would probably age into the program over time if it existed for several years, as it seems that it will. and so the fact that we've been able to actually bring 650,000 folks out of the shadows out of that one million to us is a success. obviously, the bigger, the bigger challenge is tackling immigration reform, and we all want to get to passage of comprehensive, meaning

and we have more like programming coming your way shortly. transportation secretary anthony foxx will be joined by epa chief gina mccarthy as they sit down for an interview with politico. that's due to start it a little less than 50 minutes at 11:45 a.m. eastern right here on c-span2. later on if the discussion on combating terrorism at the potomac institute for policy studies hosts. that's live at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span. some congressional news for you. house speaker john boehner traveling in jordan. you see him here meeting with singh abdulla from a statement issued -- king abdullah. king abdullah hosted a delegation for a luncheon. lawmakers also met with u.s. ambassador alice wells, jordan's foreign minister as well as senior embassy officials discussions focused on teenager trends in the region, the violence caused by iran's allies and proxies and the spreading of the terrorist threat. that is from a statement from speaker boehner's office. the delegation accompanying speaker to the middle east is made up of senior republican lawmakers

we have more live programming coming your way today. join us later for a discussion on combating terrorism, the potomac institute for policy studies hosts, and that's live at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> tonight, on the communicators, more from the international consumer electronics show as we look at new technology products. >> throughout your day if there's something you want to capture, just take it off your wrist and it will be very simple to take off your wrist and it will expand, and it will be as easy as gesturing. you'll just toss it, and it's completely autonomous. there's no remote required. it's smart enough to know that the direction you tossed and it the pressure of your touch. so if it's a gentle toes, it will stay close. if you throw it it will good farther away and it being compose a photo take a photo and come back, completely autonomously. >> the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >>> join us tonight for booktv in primetime. we'll kick things off at 83:00 p.m. eastern with senator john mccain and his

how does the internet crimes against children program fund fit into that? >> we have task forces that focus on this, i forget the number but more than my number of field offices so we have two in someplaces. we do this in every field office. we do operation i hope you heard of called "operation cross country." >> i have. great. >> it works with local partners to connect with the cyber stuff. a lot of ways we find people looking to exploit kids are through advertisements where we try to take down in a swoop bunch of these people, rescue the kids lock up i hate the word pimp, it sounds like some sort of '70s comedy thing. these are slavers. we lock up slavers to send a powerful message. i don't know the second part, i will have to get back to you on second part of question where the crimes against children fund fits. >> that "operation cross country" i think demand side a lot of work we've been trying to do even at a state level is changing the perception. we have been much more successful here federally. we are talking about young children who have been brou