mr. hinojosa. pursuant to committee rule 7c, all members will be permitted to submit written statements to be included in the permanent hearing record. and without objection to, the hearing record will remain open for 14 days to allow such statements and other extraneous material referenced momentum hearing -- during the hearing to be submitted for the official hearing record. it's now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished witnesses. ms. dana scaduto is the general counsel at dickenson college in carlyle, pennsylvania. previously, she was in private practice in harrisburg, pennsylvania, where she chaired her firm's educational law practice and represented several pennsylvania private colleges including dickenson. ms. scaduto is an active member of the national association of college and university attorneys and a member of the legal services review panel of the national association of independent colleges and universities. dr. penny rue is vice president for campus life at wake forest universi

mr. hinojosa. it's my privilege to do so. let's take the example, there are a couple of examples i can give you. if you take the ocr guidance, in it, we are supposed to advise a victim of her rights to report. clare uses the language to advise the victim of her right not to report. is there a sbepded difference between those? and when you put those, you take that and you put it up against a state law where if you take clear ri an you have to advise an individual of her right not to report but there's a state law that mandates reporting of felonies by the institution, have we created a conflict between -- in executing on a plan that everyone wants the same outcome but we have this swirl of differences? and we are not quite sure how to comply with all of them. and in our best efforts to do so, if we err by reporting under the state law when we have cleary telling us to -- advise a victim of a right not to report, provide us with protection and support that if in our best efforts to comply we miss the mark, that we won't be held

mr. hinojosa.suant to committee rule 7c, all members will be permitted to submit written statements to be included in the permanent hearing record. without objection, the hearing record will remain open for 14 days to allow such statements and other extraneous material referenced during the hearing to be submitted for the official hearing record. it's now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished witnesses. miss dana skududo is the general counsel at dickinson college in pennsylvania. she chaired her firm's educational law practice and represented several pennsylvania private colleges, including dickinson. miss skaduto is a member of the college and university attorneys and a member of the legal services review panel of the national association of independent colleges and universities. dr. penny rue is vice president for campus life at wake forest university in winston-salem, north carolina. dr. rue is responsible for the well-being and safety of wake forest university students and their education

mr. hinojosa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. hinojosa: mr. speaker, i rise to strongly oppose this rule and support the motion to defeat the previous question. instead of bringing a bill to the floor that will go nowhere, we should instead be letting the house work its will and we should be voting to re-authorize the export-import bank. re-authorizing the export-import bank is an economic imperative. while some of my colleagues celebrate their misguided, ideologically driven agenda, hardworking americans are losing their jobs, and american businesses and exporters are being outgunned by larger export credit agencies which more than willing to provide financing to america's foreign competitors. the bank is an unbridled market-driven success story which has broad bipartisan support in both houses of this congress as well as support from the majority of americans. the bank supports hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs in this country. if we fail to act now, we are shutting off a lifetime for many of our small businesses and exp

mr. hinojosa. it's my privilege to do so. let's take the example, there are a couple of examples i can give you. if you take the ocr guidance, in it we are supposed to advise a victim of her rights to report. clear uses the language we have to advise the victim of her right not to report. is there an intended difference between those and you put that and put it up against the state law, where if you take cleary and you advise her of her right not to report and there's a state law madated to report a felony imposed against the institution have we created a conflict that everyone wants the same outcome, but we have the swirl of differences and we're not quite sure how to comply with all of them. and in our best efforts to do so, if we err by reporting under the state law when we have cleary telling us we have to report -- advise a victim of her right not to report, provide us with protection and support that if, in our best efforts to comply we missed the mark, that we won't be held accountable for penalties or agency action. t

mr. hinojosa. i want to thank all our witnesses, everyone who came here today. i especially want to thank our staff for the excellent work ton on p -- done on putting this hearing together. and in the interest of time, i did not acknowledge that dr. rue is from wake forest, which is in my district, and i'm very grateful to her and for that wonderful, wonderful institution that is there. i want to say that i deplore violence of any kind. i don't even watch any kind of movies with violence in them, because i cannot abide violence. and this is a very important issue. it's important to all of us. again, i have a grandson who went off to college this fall for the first time. so those of us in particular, again, who have children at colleges and universities, but every american, everybody on a college campus deserves to have a safe environment to learn. we want that for all of our students. and so i, i believe that today's hearing has brought forth some important information that will inform us as we go forward in the reauthorization of the higher education act, and a

mr. hinojosa. mr. hinojosa: i rise in opposition to house resolution 64 which disapproves of the plan of action negotiated by thep 5 plus 1. i participated in classified briefings and listened to the many details. this agreement may not be perfect but it's the most viable option we have in reducing iran's capability in acquiring a nuclear weapon. the agreement will silence nuclear breakout times, reduces the number of centrifuges and decreases iran's stockpiles. more importantly, the agreement allows the international atomic intelligence agency to seek compliance. if iran cheats, sanctions will be re-imposed. in every situation that involves the possibility of military force, i will always side with exploring and exhausting every possible avenue to a diplomat attic resolution. i support the agreement because it provides a solution rather than a worse-case scenario. in support of the 35 generals and admirals and 29 of the scientists confident we are on the right track, all of these distinguished leaders

mr. hinojosa. again, i want to thank our witnesses and everyone who came here today. i want to thank our staff for the next work on putting the hearing together in the interest of time i did not acknowledge that dr. rue is from wake forest in my district and i'm grateful to her. i want to say i deplore violence of any kind. i don't even watch any kind of movie with violent because i cannot abide violence. this is an important issue. it is important to all of us. again coming have a grandson to win off to college this fall for the first time. those of us who have children at colleges and universities that every american, everyone on a college campus deserves to have a safe environment to learn. we want that for all of our students. so i believe today's hearing has brought forth important information that will inform us as we go forward in the reauthorization of the higher education act and i appreciate again the witnesses, my colleagues who came and asked thoughtful questions everyone here to learn more about the issue. there've been no further business, the subcommitt

mr. hinojosa. mr. hinojosa: i rise in opposition to house resolution 64 which disapproves of the plan of action negotiated by thep 5 plus 1. i participated in classified briefings and listened to the many details. this agreement may not be perfect but it's the most viable option we have in reducing iran's capability in acquiring a nuclear weapon. the agreement will silence nuclear breakout times, reduces the number of centrifuges and decreases iran's stockpiles. more importantly, the agreement allows the international atomic intelligence agency to seek compliance. if iran cheats, sanctions will be re-imposed. in every situation that involves the possibility of military force, i will always side with exploring and exhausting every possible avenue to a diplomat attic resolution. i support the agreement because it provides a solution rather than a worse-case scenario. in support of the 35 generals and admirals and 29 of the scientists confident we are on the right track, all of these distinguished leaders