jared huffman is a dad. he is a father of two children and he is married to a wonderful woman who is a public school teacher. public education is a paramount jared.nce to he values it personally for his children and their future success. was sworntive hoffman in as a member of the 113th 2013.ss on january 3, he represents our second district. the district spans from the golden gate bridge to the oregon border. cover six counties, including all of marin. congressman huffman is a member of the house budget committee. he has distinguished himself as a legislator who tackles complex public policy challenges. he works tirelessly and he gets results, often by forging bipartisan consensus on very difficult issues. you will read the news, right? bipartisanship is hard to come by. father, a husband, a member of our community and the leader in congress. i am very honored to call him my friend and your friend. and we welcome him now to the podium. [applause] thank you for that great introduction. thanks for everything

represented jared huffman. [applause] and our very empathetic and compassionate leader, nancy pelosi, thank you so much. [applause] and our moderator dana king. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> on the next "washington attorney former deputy general william youmans talks about the role history of the justice department's civil rights division, how civil rights investigations are determined, and the division's role in the ferguson, missouri case. we begin our series on modern clinical campaign with a look at fundraising. our guests are the senior political strategist for the sheraton group, and joanna burgos, is strategist with ourmessage.inc. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. c-span, a look at how the health care law has been implemented in seven father -- southern states. speakers will include alice rivlin, as well as the heritage --ndati

representative jared huffman. [applause] and our very empathetic and compassionate leader nancy pelosi. thank you so much. [applause] >> and our moderator dana king. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> an update on a story about a suspected shooter at fort lee. fort lee has given the all clear. a female soldier apparently turning the gun on herself, firing only one shot. the shooter injured herself, but none others. the shooter has been taken to vcu medical center. her condition at this time is unknown. we will be keeping you updated on the c-span networks. and president obama has sent three emissaries to the funeral of michael brown, the african-american killed by a police officer two weeks ago. "thismccaskill said morning i will attend mike brown 's memorial service as a mother, not an elected official representative steven horsford said "solemn, somber mood. our country must do some soul-searching, live up to the american

jared huffman is really leading the way on that. >> the next question i have -- she mentioned she has $15,000 in and is the age of 22 working to pay it off. my first question is, are you worried about that, increasing the debt, and the crescent from from the question audience, student loans, what can you do to help former students whose student loans have faln

we are truly honored to be hosting today's town hall meeting with representative jared huffman along with democratic house leader, nancy pelosi. [applause] absolutely. joined today by our esteemed board of trustees, names]bevis -- [reads please give around the applause for the board of trustees. [applause] i also know that we are joined today by a variety of other leaders in education, both superintendents and various school board members. if you are in the audience, please stand so that we can acknowledge you as well. thank you. [applause] tois now my pleasure introduce you to the moderator of our town hall meeting. dana king was a familiar face in the bay area for 15 years as a five-time emmy me -- emmy award-winning broadcast journalist on the cbs five eyewitness news. and she has a familiar face in the rain county, where she lived for 17 years before her recent move to oakland. she has spent years volunteering on behalf of children and youths, working to make early childhood education accessible to all students. here's she is the founding government leadership chair of marin kids

congressional transparency using wikipedia followed by a joint town hall anding with nancy pelosi jared huffman. later a discussion about u.s. relations with northeast asia. the cato institute hosted a discussion about the potential for increasing congressional transparency using wikipedia. the speakers included people who post and edit wikipedia information. this is one hour. >> welcome. i'm the jerk are congressional affairs at the cato institute. he likes to point out that there are hits about bills in congress. the whole i wikipedia say that people that work with members and are largely not editing the website that a large segment of the american population used to get information about congress. what we have here is a huge manner in which government can deliver transparency. there is little history and legislation. this works and issues such as privacy, and telik indications, transparency, security. he was the jerk during of information on the -- he was the director of from racial policy. she is a legislative researcher at the cato institute. additionally, she is editing wikipedia since au