CGA NEWS
(1-27-14)
To: CGA
From: A۰P۰L۰U Congressional and Governmental Affairs Staff
The House and Senate Farm Bill conference committee announced their conference report and statement of managers. The bill would authorize programs for five years at a cost of $950 billion. The House Rules Committee will meet to discuss the rules for the floor tonight with the House possibly taking up the bill on Wednesday.
In honor of the 100 anniversary of Cooperative Extension, CGA are invited to a reception on Capitol Hill from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. The invitation is attached. Please RSVP by February 26, 2014 to ECOP@APLU.org.
CGA are encouraged to extend the invitation to Senate and House members and relevant staff. Attendees will include Cooperative Extension Directors and Administrators, USDA senior administrators, representatives from the Council for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching (CARET) and others.
The Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) public symposium on the Administration’s proposed college ratings system, which had been scheduled for on January 22, was rescheduled to February 6 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. As you may recall this is related to President Obama’s Plan to Make College More Affordable: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class and specifically to investigate the technical methodology of developing a postsecondary institution ratings system as highlighted in the December 17 Federal Register notice, Request for Information to Gather Technical Expertise Pertaining to Data Elements, Metrics, Data Collection, Weighting, Scoring, and Presentation of a Postsecondary Institution Ratings System.
Christine Keller, APLU’s Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Executive Director of the Voluntary System of Accountability and Student Achievement Measure (SAM) will present at the symposium. The symposium is open to the public. Guests and attendees will have an opportunity to raise technical questions that will be shared with presenters during the symposium. Those interested in attending the symposium should use CollegeSymposium@seiservices.
Floor Activities
The House and Senate both reconvened this afternoon. The House will likely take up the conference report on the Farm bill on Wednesday. President Obama's State of the Union address will be held on Tuesday at 9 pm ET.
Legislative Activities
Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Hearing – “Keeping College Within Reach: Sharing Best Practices for Serving Low-income and First Generation Students”
10 am, 2175 Rayburn
House Judiciary Committee
Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Hearing – The Scope of Fair Use
2 pm, 2141 Rayburn
Executive Session – Consideration of nominations of several people including of Ted Mitchell, for Under Secretary of Education, Department of Education, Ericka Miller for Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, and France Cordova for Director, National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 am, 430 Dirksen
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